PAX '08: PAX On A Plane
Good morning all! Woke up this morning in lovely Seattle, and despite what I have heard before about the weather here, it is surprisingly sunny today in the normally rainy city. As many of you may already have read, quite a number of the GayGamer writers are in Seattle this weekend for PAX and all the gaming goodness that it brings. Fruit Brute already mentioned yesterday the panels he'll be speaking in throughout the weekend. Apparently our own weekend writer Dawdle is here, so expect to see some posts from him at PAX over the weekend, and we also have a mysterious new writer here who will be revealing himself sometime in the next few days. As for myself, I'm here for a little R&R and also to try and be a social liason to the many GayGamers that are here for PAX. In fact I'm even meeting up with some of them for coffee today (this is Seattle, gotta have coffee) before the event opens, anyone is welcome to come. There's also a meetup happen at Six Arms on Saturday at 6:30, for anyone in the area.
Speaking of social, I've already had a little bit of a PAX experience just flying to Seattle last night. I was on the last Virgin Atlantic flight leaving from SFO heading to SEA, and I'm pretty sure that 25-50% of the flight were people flying to Seattle for PAX. I saw a number of DSes in the waiting area, and numerous gaming shirts. The best part is when some guys from Monterrey on the flight decided to use the 'in-flight chat' system on the Virgin planes to invite pretty much everyone on the plane to a big chat room. I joined the room to find that, lo and behold, they were going to PAX. It was fun to be chatting with people all heading to a common destination, even if the handset keyboards they have for chatting on the plane were impossible to type on easily. Even more PAX people in the baggage claim area after we got to Seattle. Looks like there will be a lot of people downtown today.
We'll try to keep you up to date with all the PAX goodies and I'll be sure to take plenty of pictures of all the GayGamers present (and anything else that may catch my eye). I'll be the tall, blond, white guy in a black GayGamer tee-shirt today so if you see me feel free to flag me down. Looking forward to meeting everyone and getting some hands-on time with some choice games.
PixelPoet
Posted to Hot Stuff, Miscellany on 29 August 2008
· Comments (6)
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Guy, Six Arms is a kinda crappy place for a meetup. They don't do well with large groups. Heck, they don't do well with small groups: the service is slower than you can imagine.
A better place would be the Victrola coffeeshop just up the block from Six Arms.
I'll be there all day Saturday with some friends. I'll be wearing my orange Space Invaders shirt from Threadless.
yea, six arms aint all that but the elite is right around the corner...got a nice lil upstairs den overlooking the street and its a very unpretentious gaybar, even my str8 guy friends like it...
never really posted on here before but i've been following gaygamer for quite a while...might be nice to come out and have a drink with you all and actually meet some gay folk i have something in common with...
yea, six arms aint all that but the elite is right around the corner...got a nice lil upstairs den overlooking the street and its a very unpretentious gaybar, even my str8 guy friends like it...
never really posted on here before but i've been following gaygamer for quite a while...might be nice to come out and have a drink with you all and actually meet some gay folk i have something in common with...
Actually Aladin, that's a good suggestion (the Elite). Besides I live a block from there in case we need to after-party. :-)
Anyway I'm heading back to the convention center to watch one of tonight's movies...
Also, visitors, bear in mind that Seattle is also currently hosting the gay world series so there's boys and parties all over the place this weekend. Enjoy!
well, i'm down to meet wherever as long as i can grab a beer :> been moving and reestablishing the homefront so i could use a lil relaxation and distraction...