{"id":350,"date":"2010-09-15T22:58:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T05:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=350"},"modified":"2010-09-15T23:07:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T06:07:01","slug":"pax-2010-day-1-evening-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"PAX 2010 – Day 1 – Evening Events"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Prior to going to PAX, it was suggested to me to try and get myself to some of the after parties that take place Friday and Saturday night.<\/p>\n

During the day on the expo floor, I found out about a couple of after parties that looked pretty good.\u00a0 The most interesting one was the Aion: Assault on Balaurea Launch Party featuring the Wonder Girls.\u00a0 Although, honestly, I had never heard of the game or the Wonder Girls.\u00a0 I also had the option of several evening panels and the ever popular PC freeplay area.<\/p>\n

First though, I had to eat.\u00a0 Seriously, I ate breakfast at my hotel (continental breakfast) and that’s it.\u00a0 The expo floor was just too crazy and I didn’t want to leave in fear that I would miss something.\u00a0 There was a cafeteria on site but the prices sucked and the line as Subway was nuts.<\/p>\n

In my swag bag there just happened to be a coupon for the Hard Rock Cafe giving the bearer 20% off their meal.\u00a0 I had eaten at the Hard Rock a few months earlier when I was in town with work and I knew the food was good, so that’s where I went.<\/p>\n

Amazingly, it wasn’t that busy (considering everyone at PAX had the same 20% off coupon).\u00a0 Anyway, I sat down and ordered a drink.\u00a0 While sitting there, I hear someone calling my name.\u00a0 Without realizing it, I was seated next to an acquaintance with whom I had bumped into early in the day on the expo floor.\u00a0 What are the odds?<\/p>\n

Well, I ended up eating with him and his crew and went with them to the PC freeplay area (they were already planning to go and they invited me along).<\/p>\n

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Photo by Angela Webber<\/p><\/div>\n

At first, we accidentally walked into the Console Freeplay area.\u00a0 I was like “ya, I guess this is kinda big” and everyone else was like “WTF, this doesn’t look right”.\u00a0 Upon closer inspection we realized that each seat had a console and it clicked that we went to the wrong room.<\/p>\n

We eventually found the PC Freeplay area and got in line.\u00a0 There were only a few people waiting, so we had to wait about 5 minutes.<\/p>\n

As they led us in, I was like “Holy ****, now this is a LAN party!”<\/p>\n

It’s actually a pretty amazing sight to behold.\u00a0 1000 computers (including BYOC) all networked together for some PC gaming goodness.<\/p>\n

We spent the first session playing Left 4 Dead 2.\u00a0 I had never played it before and it was really fun.\u00a0 I guess I’ve been missing out.\u00a0 Once your session is over, they come and tap your shoulder and kick you out.<\/p>\n

After waiting in line for a few minutes, we got back in and started up some Team Fortress 2.\u00a0 Sadly, this is yet another game that I had not played, and again it was pretty fun, though I didn’t like it as much as L4D2.<\/p>\n

By the end of this session it was almost midnight and I had to get to my car (the parking garage closed at midnight).\u00a0 So I headed out, grabbed by car and drove to my hotel (Damn my cheap ass for picking a hotel so far away!).<\/p>\n

ComputerAbuser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prior to going to PAX, it was suggested to me to try and get myself to some of the after parties that take place Friday and Saturday night.<\/p>\n

During the day on the expo floor, I found out about a couple of after parties that looked pretty good. The most interesting one was the Aion: Assault on Balaurea Launch Party featuring the Wonder Girls. Although, honestly, I had never heard of the game or the Wonder Girls. I also had the option of several evening panels and the ever popular PC freeplay area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[5,11,13],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-random","tag-events","tag-pax-2010","tag-video-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11UM6-5E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}