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Tonight on GeekNights, we bring you our coverage of PAX Prime 2011! We only discuss the things that made this particular PAX unique, so if you thirst for more general coverage of the things that tend not to change much from year to year, don't forget our previous shows on PAX Prime 2008 (part 1, part 2, part 3) PAX Prime 2009, PAX Prime 2010 (the con and the games), PAX East 2010, and PAX East 2011!
In the news, someone did something old in an uninspired way (but with a Kinect!) and Rock of Ages comes to Steam tonight! Also, don't forget the GeekNights Worst Webcomic Contest!
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Also, yeah, looks like it was animated by Terry Gilliam.
I also purchased Battle Line recently. I checked out a copy from the PAX TT library and played a game with Jeremy.
It was a pain to do but so worth it.
I suspected it for a while, but now I have proof: Scott is a fair-weather fan.
Regardless of how well my teams do, I'm still a fan of the same teams. It's just in New York we are self-hating, in that we will boo our own team when they suck. Other cities cheer for themselves no matter how shitty they are. St. Louis is notoriously nice in this regard. But even when we boo our own team, we will not abide other people booing our team. Only we are allowed to do that. Our shit sucks, but it's better than your shit!
Likewise, when we know our team can't win, we will instead gain pleasure from our rivals losing. New York Giants lost too many free agents and have too many injuries to do anything good this season unless there is some incredible luck. Not wearing their merch is a form of booing the bums that remain. That doesn't mean the season is a wash. Fuck the Eagles up the ass with a 2x4 with nails sticking out of it! Bunch of scumbags.
The definition of a fair weather fan is a fan who will not support his or her team if the team is losing, and will only show support if the team is winning. You refuse to wear a hoodie of your favorite team based on the fact that they are losing. You refuse to make your allegiance to the team known based on their lack of success. You refuse to support your team when they are losing. You are a fair-weather fan.
Now I have to go and try that on a emulator until I can make sure that it is truly true.
I bite my thumb at your declaring NES-Zelda-less folk non-gamers. My mom was crazy restrictive about video games so I started with Commodore 64, Atari and PC games until I bought a PS1, missing the NES-SNES systems outside of playing a lot of Sega Channel at a friend's house. I've tinkered with the first Zelda before but never played through. That said, I'm playing through it now.
I have, however, owned every Sega console ever at one point or another.