Tag: pax

Gabe of Penny Arcade, after rolling his eyes at the usual offscreen drama – and, having run a few VERY, VERY MUCH SMALLER* events myself, I can attest that there’s always offscreen drama – associated with this year’s PAX:

So that’s my response to our two completely fabricated “scandals” this year. I have to admit I’m surprised that these made it to the blogs but my killing and eating of a PAX attendee got no press.

Next time use salt: that’s always good for a freakout from that Mayor Bloomberg guy in NYC.

Moe Lane

*Seriously.  Several quantum levels smaller.  I’m not even sure why I’m even bringing them up for comparison (I do a lot of this via instinct, which I suspect is code for ‘completely random’).

…I can’t make myself be upset that the folks at PAX (Penny Arcade’s mega-gamer convention*) made a good-looking woman go and put on more clothing.  As the article notes, Penny Arcade has rules about ‘booth babes’ and ‘partial nudity’ at its flagship con; the cosplayer’s costume apparently broke the rules; and that’s pretty much it from my point of view**.

This apparently puts me in somewhat stark contrast to a lot of FARK Geek‘s comments section, but I kind of can live with that.  If only because a large section of them seem to want to rant about America’s hang-ups about sex… which is interesting, because I happen to know a bunch of social conservatives, and from what I can tell that sub-demographic largely does not obsess over the subject nearly as much as the people who want to bitch and moan about neo-Puritanism. Continue reading I’m officially old, now…