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PAX East 2020 with Jenna and Matt · Multiple Nerdgasm

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hello listeners and Welcome to our PX East 2020 wrap up episode my name is
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Matt and my name is Jenna we are a little bit delayed in this um because of
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the global pandemic yeah things got a little weird after packs well I bit
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before packs things got weird right I think they were a little bit weird to
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begin with uh just not uh to the magnitude that they are now because
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there were some um articles about uh criticizing people for still going ahead
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with packs yeah yeah a lot of companies pulled out so we didn't get to see uh
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Sony at all at packs they just didn't
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have any stuff there uh which was weird there was a lot of space on the floor I
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guess just because Sony wasn't there well I think a lot of other companies
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pulled out as well but yeah it did make it quite nice and um open to walk around
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on the floor yeah it's weird to look at it as a positive but it like in that
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sense yeah it was it was nice having uh having some nice big clear areas to to
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stand in I think a lot of attendance didn't go as well yeah it seemed really
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quiet especially on um Thursday and Friday I thought those days are
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historically quiet but they were pretty empty yeah this I mean I've never seen
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it at that quiet in fact I was kind of shocked on Thursday just at how quiet it
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was uh oh in Square Enix I think the they didn't have any of the Japanese
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team there they still had booths but no not the Japanese team it was all in all
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it was a little odd I guess just just because of all that and they had a lot
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of Crews going around wiping things down some more effectively than others every
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Booth had a giant thing of hand sanitizer that said something like
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people are gross or wash your damn hands yeah and we got uh people were giving
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out hand sanitizer I think they usually do it's just that I noticed more this
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time like like the the hand sanitizer with the company logo on it I'm sure
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they probably always have those it's just this time I was like oh yes I want
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that but we uh we did not get sick which is good no I think if anything it was
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cleaner and uh there was no PX plague this year yeah not that I'm aware of I
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think yeah normally we get like a cold or something afterwards but we've been
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fine which is good but yeah but things have been a little weird in the world in
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the weeks since but we hit out what was your favorite thing of packs my favorite
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thing probably was the Acquisitions Incorporated panel I just really like
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those okay and this was a particular good one cuz Mike I think does a really
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good job when he takes when he he runs you know when Jeremy Crawford or or back
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when it was Chris Perkins running it whenever they couldn't make it he'll
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sometimes take over and I think he kind of puts in a lot of
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effort and uh in particularly in this case I've never I've never seen a d and
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game live with quite the amount of stuff going on on this you know he had like a
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big display behind him with animations and things that he was controlling and
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and it was like I don't know it was really good A D and D live show possibly
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the best one I've seen I like when he does it because it's always a kind of a
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standalone episode of it um because I only really watch the ones that we go to
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live uh cuz it's just too much to keep up with otherwise so I like these ones
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because you can just jump in not know the characters or the story or anything
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and then it ends yes yeah cuz you're not really one to listen to D and D on in
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podcast form or anything like that right that doesn't well I just don't have the
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time yeah I barely have time to play it
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yeah true and and a D and D podcast I
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mean historically is 4 hours generally speaking right so yeah it's a big
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commitment so this one was an adaptation of the Mandalorian uh for D and D for
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their characters which I guess if you listen to this and you know what Pax is
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you probably I mean you would have heard us talk about it and you can look up the
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details of all that but I just think he did a really great job uh it was very
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funny it was [ __ ] hilarious actually and uh very entertaining I like the way
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that they play d& D I know that they're all Comedians and actors and everything
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but I like the uh they put a lot more effort into storytelling and even the
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way that Mike or Jeremy Crawford when they run it they're not just giving you
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endless things to fight so it's not just like oh and then another skeleton and
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then another one and then this and then uh if they feel like a fight is going on
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too long they'll just cut it and add some Exposition that somehow makes it
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end I like that yeah I think Chris Perkins used to do that all the time and
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that's when I first noticed that Chris Perkins is very good at it I think it
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just keeps the game from getting stale yeah totally and if you're not into just
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dice rolling then which I guess I'm not so much either than it it also for a
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live show it's way more entertaining to hear them kind of improv than it is to
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see them roll dice sorry but it still feels like they're playing D and D
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because I know I've played some games where it's like if it's not fighting
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heavy then you're just kind of talking to NPCs and there aren't other checks
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like roles to to perform checks I like the way that they have a good mix of it
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we'll just have to and by we I mean I will have to incorporate that into D and
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games so what was your favorite thing of the of the show well the thing that I
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looked forward to most was the super giant panel they actually had two so the
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first night Friday night they had a concert so I think they've only done
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this once or twice before four I think they did it in London and then at Pax
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West Prime yeah PAX Prime yeah yep well it was Darren Corb who is the composer
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for super giant games and Ashley Barrett who has been working with him at super
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giant since the beginning so the two of them have done all the music for the
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four games games that super giant has now put out Bastion transistor py and
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Hades and they're my favorite game company I love all the games they put
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out and the music is really well integrated into all of their games so
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the first night they did the orchestra and then the following day they had a
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panel with uh the two of them and Logan Cunningham who is the voice actor for
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super giant so it was really fun to see all that and to see the Music performed
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live and Corp is just such a nice guy and you could tell that he was having
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this Orchestra play his songs was like a profound moment for him yeah it seems
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like Darren's just a really sweet guy who's genuinely humble and kind of
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overwhelmed by his success I was really surprised actually because after the
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concert on the Friday night um they did a signing and previously I've U met him
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we I I've actually interviewed him a couple years ago and that uh I think you
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can find on our website yep in the past when I've met him we kind of just went
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right up to the booth and said hi and chatted with him um this time there was
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a line for hours like yes they shut the
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line down because they ran out of time because they needed to close the venue
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at midnight mhm um and then had to do an overflow the next day yeah it was crazy
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but the nice guy that he is he remembered us from years prior yeah he's
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honestly like he's so nice like mind-blowingly nice I'm not
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sure I would be as like P like and so patient like they were there for so long
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I would lose my mind I know and they were having technical difficulties too
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with the computers trying to sell their stuff like yeah yeah it's a little bit
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overwhelming but I feel like the whole team they they handled it really well
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they're so nice they're yeah they talked to each person that came through so that
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that was a really cool thing I'm glad we did that despite standing and waiting
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for so long it was just nice to oh yeah really happy for them like because as a
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company I'm I'm glad that that they can exist as a company and be successful
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because you know they kind of the opposite of your kind of AAA Studio
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almost like they just do what they love kind of thing it's not doesn't feel like
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commercial you know what I'm saying yeah and four games in they still have a very
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small core team um and I I like that but if uh if you've never played any of
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games I kind of recommend playing them in the that they were released but the
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newest one um is actually really fun and I've been playing it now it's not
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completed yet it's still in Early Access but I don't feel like that takes away
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anything from the game it still feels complete when you're playing it but it
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it it just means that every month or two they add new features which is pretty
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cool it's on Steam it is on Steam yeah yeah most of their games are PC um they
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have ported them over to Bastion and transistor are on the switch um Bastion
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is on on Xbox and I think they might at least the first two Bastion transistor
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are on PlayStation as well yeah they're also on uh iOS oh that's right Bas and
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transistor yeah they actually and they just released um if you have Bastion on
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I iOS already they the original version of it was made by some other company
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like it was ported by some company and apparently there were a lot of
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performance issues like super giant just released their own like build of it and
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it's runs much better and it's actual you know actually supports all the new
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devices properly and everything so and it's five bucks so you I
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mean yeah there I mean bastion's a pretty old game now but I played it
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again recently and I I still think it holds up oh cool I I mean I've never
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played all the way through it I played a bunch of it on the 360 back back you
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know I don't however long ago but I never finished it so I got to get my act
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together and do that yeah yep yeah uh as usual we went and saw all the
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penny I panels you know cuz we we love those guys the Q&A panels uh they're
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always funny and I feel like once again I'm sort of disappointed and feeling a
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bit old by how easy it is to get into those panels versus how difficult it was
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even just five six years ago you know what I mean yeah definitely yep I know
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for the guys who started at all yeah and uh I mean obviously they're still
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they're doing fine they're doing some good stuff and they've branched out
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they've got like twitch and and you know all their Associated things now and
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they're doing huge things with like d and d and everything so it's all it's
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all good the Q&A are always funny uh and this the themes are always weird and
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ridiculous I like this Gil but Sol thing that had going on this
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time I um I do really like how in their um make a strip panel now they hold so
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at every uh live show they'll draw um a hot dog fairy I'm not sure where that
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originated but that will be somewhere in the strip but um remember where that
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came from they've now started kind of holding it hostage and I think this started
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actually at one of the packs on plugs that we were at where um they said they
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would only draw it if if the donation amount for Child's Play got up to a
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certain amount usually around like $10,000 or something and it always does
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and it always makes it there by some very small incremental amount until
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suddenly it makes the jump that someone in the audience has just donated $5 to
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$10,000 so this year I think the Max like the minimum was set at
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20,000 and it kind of just all of a sudden jumped up there yeah I don't know
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who this mystery person is it's the same person every year
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or if it's you write in and let us know podcast mgm.com because this happens
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every time yeah damn we'll draw you a fairy yeah that's right I can't I can't
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draw but I'll do my best the clam Chow a fairy this time and then also a Boston
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cre oh my God it was disgusting Mike's really good at
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capturing what it is that's horrifying about the food like oh about everything
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did you see the pins they made this year of himself and Jerry oh my God yes like
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the the worst possible versions of them what what they what were they calling
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that I can't I'm not sure yeah yeah they're just horrific hilarious though I did like
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that tweet of Jerry's that said like my best friend in the entire world Drew
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this picture of me yeah Y and then the other panel that we
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went to was the gearbox panel yes which I'm glad we made it to this year last
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year we missed it because we thought nothing happens on Thursday let's skip
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that one day just go to work and uh they moved gearbox from the Sunday that it's
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always been on to the Thursday I'm not sure if that's just in a way to get more
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people there on one of the quieter days maybe H it didn't really work I guess if
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that was the plan um but it's great too late it's too late at that point yeah
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they didn't release that's what happened last year they didn't release the
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schedule until just about a week before and by that time there was no way I
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could get that day off of work uh so this time I kind of expected it and I
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planned for it the gatebox panel is almost like a rock concert these days
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it's a little like I don't know it's very like I mean I love it but it's very
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very showy you know what I mean it's not like you get these very dry panels about
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video games where someone gets up and talks about you know this is the new
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game and blah blah blah whereas gearbox is like no this is like a Vegas show or
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something yeah and I Randy yeah exactly I got to assume that's ry's influence
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cuz he's like a showman magician kind of kind of thing yep and there's always
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like a check under your chair or some kind of thing like that um yeah this
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year they gave away some golden keys for the games and then I believe some skins
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as well yeah we have G we should claim those I forgot about it we should we
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should do that M but they announced the new [ __ ] DLC oh my God it look so
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good my God they're killing it right now I think uh this video is now available
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online too so you can watch the trailer for it love guns and tentacles it is the
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marriage of way Wright and hammerlock and it looks like a lovecraftian
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nightmare it's so good yeah it's got like floating tentacle monsters and
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weird [ __ ] uh yeah I'm super excited oh Gage makes an appearance in it she's
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like The Wedding Planner I guess yeah yep yeah and they did like a live uh
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performance of the I guess the intro sequence I don't know if they're
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actually even going to make this but they all they acted out all the voice
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actors yeah uh the introduction to to the DLC so I I don't know if anything's
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going to come of that but it was all the voice actors yeah they acted it out and
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then um Eli Roth uh showed up yeah cuz he actually they announced he is
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directing um the Borderlands movie yeah I don't know how they're going to make a
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Borderlands movie but okay I'll watch it
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yeah just a lot of shooting I guess but
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Borderlands has a very particular visual style that I mean they I I guess it's
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early days but are they going to try and do that or are they going to just is it
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just going to look like a normal film or all right and what could the story be
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yeah exactly because Borderlands is kind of funny because it makes fun of the
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fact that it's a video game so I don't I don't know I'm just I'm not I mean maybe
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it'll be great probably it'll be entertaining at the in some form with
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even if it's terrible but I just I'm just confused about as long as it has
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boner farts in it then we're good yeah yeah yeah I'm interested to see it I
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mean Eli Roth I'm not a fan of all of his films but he does seem like a fun
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guy and I guess if anybody's going to make a Borderlands movie it might as
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well be someone who at least has a [ __ ] sense of humor I'm pretty
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excited I I'm a fan of most of his films so yeah Ian yeah like they didn't show
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anything they basically just said Hi here's Eli Roth he's going to do it and
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then he made a a joke that maybe is real or maybe not about getting all the
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cosplayers to come down so we can film them being killed and then that's about
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that's all we know about it at this point that yeah so most of our time this
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Pax was spent in the panels yes but we did go down to the floor a little bit we
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got to hang out with some of our friends from previous paxes mhm Robin Anthony
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from three flip Studios they've we talked about in the past they've made
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armed in gelatinous and now they actually handmade a bunch of arcade
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cabinets yes they are [ __ ] cool they've actually been traveling the
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country setting these up at various video arcade so if if you're into arcade
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gaming and you're in sure there's one in Chicago there's one down in Florida just
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check it out check your local arcade so you've got on there and take a couple
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friends check it out cuz it's [ __ ] awesome also bonus the arcade machines
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have cup holders yeah you were very excited by I am very excited about that
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I don't know why that how has it taken this long for that to I know this just
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seems like Common Sense especially like if you're serving drinks at your you
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know your uh your your arcade which a lot of them are these days cuz let's be
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honest I think more adults go to arcades these days than children so yeah cup
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holders people I just I just wish the pinball machines would had would have
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cup holders my one thing you don't have to block your field of vision with a
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with a well you can't put it on there it'll just slide off yeah cuz most
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arcade machines are angled so there's nowhere to put anything you have to put
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on the floor and then you knock it over so great job guys speaking from
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experience um but still a great fun game I love I love getting to play it every
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time we see them I like it's one of those games that even if you can play
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with a bunch of strangers and by the end of it you'll like love hate each other
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just because it's like it's it's a good party game we met Tom from Tiny mations
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he's the developer of a game called clang U the first clang I believe has
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been out for a while but he's he's currently working on clang 2 which he
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was showing at PAX East uh and cuz his Booth was pretty busy so he was kind
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enough to send us a a key to check it out and I've been playing it and it's
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[ __ ] cool it's like uh a rhythm game which I am traditionally not a huge fan
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of like you know like Guitar Hero and those kind of games I'm not super into
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but this one is different because it's more like a platformer that you have to
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control in time with the music you know what I'm saying okay so like you control
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the character on the screen and you have to like swipe click and hold in time
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with the music the indicators pop up on the screen and like it's fun I thought I
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was good at it because I was getting like 90% And then I saw uh in their
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Discord Channel you were on easy or something no there were people in there
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with like 100% And I was like ah [ __ ] oh so I guess I got to try harder but it's
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not out yet it's just in in beta and uh I think he's still working on it looking
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for some feedback but keep an eye out for that it's called clang 2 and it's
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it's got these really trippy visuals the music's really great it's like it's
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going to be cool cool so keep an eye out for that I had one more um video game
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that I wanted to talk about um it was by a Polish Studio Walkabout games and it
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was called liberated it is uh a comic book game so you all the um Exposition
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is kind of delivered by the panels of a comic book and then when it gets to a
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part with uh action you are playing within the panel yeah um so it's a cool
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original idea it is I think
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just the right amount of frustration and
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difficulty yeah um it was tough where it's it's tough but it wasn't so tough
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that you just want to rage quit it it's It's just tough enough that you're like
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oh I can get through this I can do it yeah I really liked that yeah he was
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saying that he he's a comic fan but he feels Like Comics uh you know on the way
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out yeah they're dying medium so he thought he could kind of merge uh video
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games Comics H that's a really good idea yeah and it's got a cool dystopian kind
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of film noiri detective setting yeah like kind of like a little cyber Punk
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but more ellian I guess mhm uh that is also not out yet but it
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is coming out soon I believe on Steam but look for that one liberated it was
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really the art that Drew me over to it yeah the banana was very uh very
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eye-catching and kind of up your up your
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alley so to speak they had a really big
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Animal Crossing Booth very fancy and there was lines around the block for
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Animal Crossing uh it's out now so possibly if you're interested in it
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you've already heard about it I mean it's Animal Crossing I don't
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know I mean you uh you arrive on an island and you owe that crafty raccoon a
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bunch of money and then you got to pay him back I mean it's yeah I don't I mean
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I've only played um New Leaf yes on 3DS yeah yeah and as
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much as addicted as we got to it I still it's a very frustrating game because I'm
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like I'm not even doing anything and I have to now check in with this stupid
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monkey that lives next door to me at exactly 300 p.m. and like and I have to
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get guilted for not having played it for 2 days straight and now they're all I
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can't believe you've left us yeah it's the first game that I've ever set an
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alarm at so that at work I could duck
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out to visit Cube my penguin neighbor uh otherwise he gets he was he just gets so
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upset if you miss your appointment you know uh see my think my first game that
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I had to set an alarm for was um
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Webkins Webkins where you yes I in um in college a few of my friends and I got
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pretty addicted to this stupid online game where where you actually had to go
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out and buy uh these little like stuffed animal things um that came with a code
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and then like actual physical actual physical like I still have some of them
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somewhere um actual physical little like Bean baggy stuffed animals that came
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with a code on their tag that you entered into your Webkins account um and
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then you would be able to play as that character like a little coward elephant
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or whatever it was and then um you had to create rooms and buy furniture and
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stuff but there was this guy who um sold
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different furniture or things for your rooms right um but he would say like you
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have to be here between 3:00 and 3:15 and then you can get this rare item
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it sounds like almost like it was ahead of its time because now you have like
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you know the Spyro games what you call that crap and um the Disney Infinity
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where you have you know you buy the characters and then you scan them in oh
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in the like amiibos you can play as a characters if you scan was in sounds
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like yep yeah but please if anybody anybody listening ever played Webkins
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let me know I'm not the only one we had like a whole work group of people and
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whoever was off that day would be like don't worry like we all had each other's
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passwords and we're like I got this for you don't worry that's so
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strange and we were far too old to be to
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be buying all these stuffed animals wa I look all the people playing Animal
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Crossing right now I would have said you know I I I I didn't know what animal
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crossing was until I played it on the 3DS and now I kind of get it but I I
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would not have picked how many grown ass [ __ ] people play that game had I not
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experienced it for myself cuz it is it looks like it's
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silly like a silly kids game and it kind of is but it's not it's [ __ ]
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addictive not only that its release was the same day as
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Doom which which I have been playing we actually got to play
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um it is out now but we did get to play
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the beginning of it um at an event at P
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yes so not at Pax itself Bethesda does an event next door every year PAX East
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is on at the uh Boston Convention Exhibition Center and right next door in
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the hotel is a comedy club called laugh and every year Bethesda well it's two
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years so far I think and hopefully it continues Bethesda hires the whole bar
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out and turns it into a Bethesda game convention of the own B it's called
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Bethesda game days and um they do their own like live podcasts they have a
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little uh Bethesda store and then demos of the upcoming games and you get uh
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free drinks two free drinks I believe and lunch and and lunch yeah and you you
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will have to line up probably for a few hours to get in because it gets really
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busy but honestly I think it's worth it oh it absolutely is it's like it's a
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cool little offshoot of packs that is
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not um very well marketed I think well we didn't know what it was last year and
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we were technically invited like I didn't know what the hell it was like so
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but luckily we found out now we can go every year cuz it's really great they
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were showing Doom Eternal and the wastelanders expansion for Fallout 76
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which turns Fallout 76 into an actual game that you can play
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finally so that'll be nice for those people who bought that well that's
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that's video games uh but Pax isn't just about video games uh even even if less
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so these days there is still a lot of tabletop stuff at at PAX East and
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honestly I kind of enjoy that a little more sometimes um we played some some
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cool [ __ ] yeah I think um we played quite a few games I think we should
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highlight a couple of them yep one that we got pretty into and played for a
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while I've never actually seen this before but it was called kocol and it is
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a very large board is this like some sort of traditional game or is this a
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new game that just feels traditional I don't know like it's it's kind of like
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shuffle board is yeah yeah so it's a a circle board um that's waxed it's like
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very smooth and you have these little discs and it's basically very similar to
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the rules of curling or shuffle board m where you alternate turns and you knock
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other players pucks off the board and try to get your own in the Inner Circle
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yeah and like you literally flick them and and send them scooting around the
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the board and it's like it's super fun yeah yeah I was very tempted to buy one
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but there I guess just because of the nature of the game they have to be
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crafted well for it to work and they're quite expensive right so they had a lot
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of boards there that were brought by Jeremy Tracy and you can find his boards
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at kenol gameb boards.com um they're beautiful and yes after playing it for
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an hour or so we were very very tempted to just buy one on the spot the ones
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that he brought there were all ones with very slight defects which you wouldn't
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even know until they were pointed out so he let everyone play on them and then at
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the end of the convention they were all sold off did he said he's not taking any
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of them home with him so they will be sold in one way or
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another mhm but yeah that's a great game and it's apparently there's like a
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league for it and everything now it's like a actual competition game I believe
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so I know probably more people have heard of it and we just sound we're
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Amazed by it everyone's like yeah crol of course but no that was fun yeah we
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played a game called draon that I had not seen before it's it's got like a a
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cool art style that that draw our attention I think and I think it's quite
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popular because they had a very successful Kickstarter and they had new
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expansions and whatnot you basically you play as a a dragon and you move around
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the board you know collecting resources gold trying to hoard gold and and
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Destroy Villages and you know outdo the other other dragons that we're playing
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it's a cool game it's like simple nice I got some really beautiful um high
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quality wood and metal game boards as well as the traditional you know the
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normal box copy you would get it's a cool game yeah yeah I enjoyed that one
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another board game we played was called uh Nexus infernum it was made by uh
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archon games who made the game escaton that we had previously played and
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purchased at um Pax unplugg I mostly like this company because of their art
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style it's very like gothy kind of
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Satanist yes they're all about demons and skulls yeah so every time I see that
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I'm like oh they have a new game oh it's evil as well yeah but they
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they're such nice people too yeah yeah that's why it's always I mean Satanist
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some of the nicest people people so I guess shouldn't be too surprised
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but but yeah they're all really lovely but yeah this game I you play as
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necromancers trying to summon skeletons to gain power that's that's how I that's
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how the plot seemed to me yep we had just played a little kind of demo of it
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so we didn't get the full scope of the game but it was very fun you move your
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skeletons between these portals and and collect dark energies and use that to to
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to buy cards that expands your powers it's it's uh it's cool and uh and the
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artwork is suitably uh it reminds me a lot of like Mike mola and the Hellboy
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kind of style mhm like not not it's not like the same but it's just I guess no
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it's it's that in tones of gray yes and I mean probably listeners you'll know
30:15
what I mean I just it just it reminds me of it like that in uh what's that game
30:20
um darkest dungeon that kind of style mhm all right I have one more honorable
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mention um which is maybe the booth that we spent the longest amount of time at
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and I thought was a really awesome addition to packs yes Dungeons and
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Dragons had a little booth for idle
30:39
Champions oh and all it was was a bunch
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of blank coloring book pages of characters and and a thing of
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crayons but I think it was very nice for something that is packs can get
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stressful there are a lot of people yeah it's very crowded it was very nice to
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just sit down for a little while and just color in a page and know I think I
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underestimated how how how relaxing coloring is going to how how um
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particular you were going to be about coloring in yours I I mean I'm not I
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think I did a a fine job I was inside most of the lines and but I had finished
31:23
mine and looked over and you were you didn't know you could shade the crayon I
31:28
was not aware that was a thing but uh and and see now I'm curious did yours
31:32
end up on their website because it [ __ ] well should have they had a lot
31:36
of them so yeah I know but like even when you when we because you had to hand
31:40
them in to get uh to get a a a a Beholder die like a six-sided die with a
31:45
Beholder on it they handed them in they looked at yours and they were like oh wow like
31:50
so yeah I take my coloring very seriously yeah yeah I learned I
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learned oh and I also want to give a sh out to the food trucks because getting
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food at packs is is a thing I generally and I think the food trucks situ The
32:06
Situation's gotten better like in my opinion there used to be a couple out
32:10
the front but now they have like a bunch at the back and then the variety and uh
32:14
they also they've got um a couple inside now as well I don't know I think in
32:20
general I think the food situation is better than it what has been in the past
32:24
to it seems like it to me anyway yeah and they had a vegan taco truck that
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that's what I'm saying yeah it's just so much more very inclusive yes oh and for
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the first time since one of the early paxes they had a bar open yeah they did
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they had a bar uh Voodoo Ranger had a bar on site in the convention center
32:43
they were limiting people and I guess they've had some issues in the past with
32:47
people getting a little too drunk um but they were limiting people I think to
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three beers a day I didn't point this out to them because I didn't want to do
32:55
that gu as he's telling me I was like I I see a way around this already their
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method of of limiting you they would give you a wristband you know whether
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there traditionally yeah you have to show your ID at the the gate kind of and
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they give you a wristband and then when you bought a beer they would just Mark
33:11
put a little Mark on The Wristband to say you've had one and then once you got
33:14
the three you w't allowed anymore I mean you take that off there's nothing yeah
33:18
there's nothing to stop you from leaving taking off the bracelet and then coming
33:22
back through and getting another one but hey maybe we're just Evil Geniuses and
33:26
no I hope you're not listening to this because well I guess the point was just that I
33:31
think he implied that they hadn't allowed it in the past because there had
33:35
been some sort of incident right like and I was like well first of all what
33:39
the what happened I'm I'm really curious I mean probably someone just got drunk
33:42
and was a pain in the ass mhm or several people possibly but and then also I'm
33:47
hoping that it worked out okay cuz that was nice it was nice to be able to just
33:50
stop in and have a beer mhm you know so hopefully people didn't abuse the
33:54
privilege it didn't seem like it no it didn't and I I think he would be ble to
33:58
tell the guy checking IDs at the door like if you were wasted already he's not
34:02
going to let you in but I guess PA would not be a good somebody being really
34:07
drunk at packs I could see that being a pain in the ass oh so yeah I can see why
34:11
they they were being careful about it so I'm hopefully it all worked out good be
34:16
too vo Ranger yeah they have good stuff good choice I'm glad it wasn't just you
34:20
know bud or something for $20 or whatever right like you would nor how it
34:26
usually is well and yeah I was going to say the prices were pretty reasonable as
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well I think it was I mean more than you pay a bar but you know outside but I
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think it was only like six or seven bucks a beer not the 10 or 15 they
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charge at the bloody Dunkin Donuts Center here
34:39
in for the bl light and the chorus yeah oh it's a big can I don't care still
34:45
trash still tastes like [ __ ] yeah so that was P I think uh is there anything
34:50
else you wanted to uh no I think I think that was it yeah big thanks to Penny
34:57
Arcade having us again um we like it's one of my favorite things to do is go to
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35:29
that we got to attend what could possibly be the final packs after the
35:34
entire world gets wiped out with Corona virus yes when we're no longer ever
35:39
again allowed to gather in large groups of people that's right they'll have to
35:42
do like a 10 and under uh at a time oh God what a
35:48
nightmare not age 10 10
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people