PAX Friday

[ironymaiden]

jumbled thoughts - ran around with mrdorbin after a lovely lunch at FareStart, later C caught up with us.

sentence of the day: "i wish i had my sonic screwdriver with me - this drink would probably fluoresce."

we need the Emissary. the website does not do it justice. this is truly beautiful handmade furniture, designed for my lifestyle. (C didn't get to the exhibit hall today, but when i showed him the Sultan on the website, his response was "we have good credit." now if we had a dedicated game room to go with it...)

played Beatles Rock Band. fun. it does (as rumored) feature the ability to do three-part vocal harmony.

bought stunning new dice (a d20 set and a fistful of matched d10s). they're gold with a touch of blue and red swirled into them. the effect is that they look like really good caramels. i want to bite them.

after ten years of casual searching, i finally found a vendor with a Ryo-Ohki backpack in stock. mine! (at some point there will be blogging about reducing the amount of stuffing to increase the usable storage space. it will be necessary.) this version has a bell collar. the guys behind us at the gay gamer panel were delighted.

really great content at the panel about embracing losing in game design. alas, the obviously smart and talented presenter had awful speaking skills. (he was reading his speech. as C said later, he wanted to get up and read it for him.) i hope there's some way to get his powerpoint deck. he had a bibliography slide that i'd like to poke through.

Comments

[e-bourne.livejournal.com]

Process, it's about process. There are several games I play that I completely suck at. I enjoy the games anyway because I enjoy the process of the games. Like I enjoy the process of knittting. The playing is enjoyable. Product isn't everything. Sometimes, it's nothing at all.

[varina8.livejournal.com]

Off-topic, are you going to Bumbershoot this year?

[pedantka.livejournal.com]

I am staring at that table and imagining how it could be tweaked to facilitate my own variety of geekiness.

[buhrger]

indeed, Emissary or Sultan would be a great idea. but you might need to add another room to the house.

pix of the new dice?

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

I envy the PAX attendance. I am, alas, still dealing with jetlag. (Up at 4:30 AM--bleh.) Probably just as well. In the wake of Japan, I'm not convinced I'd have any resistance to coolness at all.

Those gaming tables are truly astonishing. I want one and I'm not even really a roleplayer.

As for finding Teh Coolness, have I mentioned that I came home from Japan with a Cat Bus (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000KII068/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B000B965SG&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=00NGPCBG191P93Z05QQ4) for nowhere near this price (at a smaller size, which explains the differential)?

I can has linky?

[andrew-the-oga.livejournal.com]

You were at something. What was it? No. I won't gimf. Send me a link.

Awww, pleeeeze?

[buhrger]

http://www.paxsite.com/

Hoo ahh

[andrew-the-oga.livejournal.com]

Hoo ahh! Thanks.

Re: I can has linky?

[ironymaiden]

buhrger beat me to it. (sorry, it's a three day event so i've been away from the internets today.)

Wow!

[andrew-the-oga.livejournal.com]

That looks like a truckload of fun and fascination! More content and fewer celebrity STDs than the cons I used to go to, that's for sure!

Thanks. I think I'll plan a trip!

[buhrger]

I think I'll plan a trip!
who are you, and what have you done with the real OGA?