PAX Prime: An Extra Day In 2013, and Plans For Australia

PAX Prime, probably by far the largest ongoing event spawned by a web comic, is in progress right now in Seattle, with an attendance of 70,000 gamers (and a smaller number of dancing stormtroopers). Two big announcements about future PAX events were announced on Saturday. The first is that next year's event will be a four-day gathering rather than the thus-far usual three; the second is that, some time next year, PAX will make its first international foray, with an event in Australia — exact time and place to be determined.

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Re:Am I getting old?

[_KiTA_]

Never heard of it

We're all getting old.

Penny Arcade is a gamer webcomic, I believe the first gamer webcomic -- if not the first, then definitely the most successful.

E3 was an expo for Electronic Entertainment (games), but a few years back they decided to throw out the dirty hippies (gamers), which understandably pissed a large number of people off. On the other hand, it was completely out of control and the focus (a press event) was lost.

So, deciding that was quite absurd, the Penny Arcade guys decided to have their own Expo, and the timing was just right that all the people not allowed to go to E3, went to PAX. And it kind of exploded from there. PAX is now "the" place to get hype about your upcoming game / console / etc set up, especially among the actual consumers.

It's also a great place to trade Pokemon and Dragon Quest 9 maps.

Re:Am I getting old?

[Yvanhoe]

Huh ? Following Penny Arcade regularly, I didn't know about this controversy. Apparently some people have been offended by that joke :
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/8/11/

I... just don't understand how this kind of outrage works. How can someone construe the comic as saying that rape is fun or something to mock? They point out that most med-fan video games give us a disney-land version of a medieval universe where there is a lot of unacceptable things happening : slavery, murder, torture, violent monsters, snatched children, eternal damnation, violent battles, lost limbs and, yes rape. I just don't get it : the guy is a slave, chained, whipped all day long, can be killed when his master wants, can be tortured for fun, and the thing people focus on is... rape?

So yes, if you understood this as an endorsement of rape you clearly missed the point totally and it is fair to make fun of you in a non-offensive and totally tongue-in-cheek way.