PAX South took place this past weekend in San Antonio, and I dropped in on behalf of originalgamer.com to help out with Video Game Jeopardy! and play some games.

1. Rainy and cold on Friday. Did the weather follow the Penny-Arcade guys down here?
2. First time I’ve ever seen people scalping tickets at a con.
3. Weird con idea: Coat check-in
4. Found it hilarious that OG forgot his battery pack and his phone died. Seriously, dude?
5. Dafuq with all the Seahawks jerseys? I thought these were supposed to be nerds?
6. Nice line for Video Game Jeopardy, hope my voice holds up
7. Men’s room was out of soap, hopefully that means people are using it 
8. Actually, I didn’t use any. Sorry, guys, I was in a hurry
9. We’ve been doing Video Game Jeopardy for years and of course I goof up in front of our biggest audience by pulling up an answer when the contestant had it wrong
10. The guy won easily, no harm done there. *whew*
11. Despite all the Seahawks jerseys, ‘Cover Athletes’ was easily the most-hated Video Game Jeopardy! category
12. Somebody actually knew the obscure Atari 2600-related answer (Pele’s Soccer) Impressive.
13. The risk of picking random people for Video Game Jeopardy is that we may get folks that know little or know it all, we got two of the first and one of the second.
14. Had a case of mistaken identity after Video Game Jeopardy, hadn’t had that happen in a while.
15. Sorry, I have never worked at GameStop, though like many gamers, I’ve spent enough time at them for it to seem that way.
16. Thought someone was giving away bean bags until I realized it was a chill area.  Derp.
17. Saturday-If you don’t mind walking a few blocks there’s a $2.50 per day parking lot under the freeway at E. Houston St.
18. Forgot to bring my 3DS on Friday, not making that mistake again!
19. I always bring a box of Rice Krispies Treats in my backpack.  Just the thing to hold one over till the next meal.
20. Nerds love em too, which is good for sharing
21. Seriously.  Anime, comic, furry, video game, whatever-con. Nerds flip for Rice Krispies Treats.
22. Left my gloves at a friend’s house a few weeks ago, sure would have come in handy today!
23. Random guy came up and offered me a Saturday badge because he was looking for a guy ‘with a red shirt and a fist on it.’  Lucky for him I’m honest.
24. Weird thing: He apparently didn’t notice I was already wearing a badge.  Hope he found who he was looking for.
25. Saturday con day breakfast: Breakfast on a Bun with sausauge.  If you don’t know what that is, have breakfast at Whataburger the next time you see one.
26. Oh, they do have a coat check here.  Cool.
27. So one hall is to hold the line to get into the other one? I am a little disappoint.
28. Remember when arcades weren’t just fighting games? Pepperidge Farm remembers
29. Maybe its because I’ve been to E3 but my initial reaction to PAX was slightly underwhelmed
30. What was there was cool, but in terms of volume, other cons have more stuff.  Quality vs. quantity, I suppose.
31. Also, I’m also not a OMG HARDCORE GAMER so I’m not exactly the ‘target audience.’
32. Plenty of signal, no data, thanks Cricket/AT&T!
33. Crisis:  3DS battery light turns red OH NOES I’LL MISS ALL THE STREETPASSES
34. Nintendo: Y U NO USE USB?
35. Good idea: Arriving half an hour early for a panel. Bad idea: Standing in line for about a half-hour waiting to get in
36. I own an iPad mini, a Windows 8 tablet, a smartphone and still ended up using paper and pen to take my notes.  Yay for dead trees!
37. Weird moment: Sitting at the lower level of the Rivercenter food court eating, looking to my left, and seeing people’s feet.
38. They had shoes on, so it wasn’t that bad
39. Weirder moment: Seeing a Starbucks gift card next to said feet
40. Weirdest moment: Asking the owners of the feet if they had dropped it
41. The card wasn’t theirs and I was too honest to take it. Oh well!
42. Thought I saw the paleta man but it just a bicycle-rickshaw thing BOO
43. Scott Kurtz was the only celebrity I knew of, so I said hi, told him I enjoyed PvP and went on my merry way.
44. I probably weirded the dude out. Sorry man, couldn’t think of anything clever.
45. Booth observations:  No demo, no write up.
46. I also don’t think my editor is interested in Kickstarter projects.
47. Saw one booth that looked like a T-shirt company-cum-game developer…huh?
48. I tended to ignore booths that had ‘just another’ shooter/platformer/adventure game.  Yes, I’m jaded
49. No interest in mobile games, either. Sorry, guys /shrug
50. Loneliest booth was probably Gamechurch.com
51. Sitting across from an empty seat resting my feet and some gal just sits in it.  I guess being pretty means not having manners.
52. The next gal that showed up after Ms. Thing left asked if the seat was taken.  Go fig.
53. Not interested in swag, but Astronaut ice cream?  Yes, please!
54. I have no idea why they had Astronaut ice cream.
55. Rest time = Streetpass harvest time!
56. Losing weight is good. Having to constantly pull up my jeans is annoying, made me like a bleeping teenager
57. I referred to the jean-tugs as the ‘reverse Picard maneuver’
58. Lots of compliments on my ‘I can wreck it!’ shirt again, woo!
59. Realized after the fact that I overpacked and should have left my Bluetooth mouse/keyboard at home.
60. Observation from OG: There were no volunteers barking at attendees like at other cons
61. Wonder if it’s because the attendees seem to be a mite older here?
62. Regardless, perhaps other cons need to jazz up their marketing and call their volunteers something else to add prestige and respect to what is a very thankless job.  “Volunteer?”  Boring.  “Enforcers?”  Oooh.
63. Not sure what I’m going to do for Sunday.  I pretty much saw all the booths yesterday
64. Made darn sure to charge my 3DS last night
65. Also remembered to fill my water bottle before leaving the house this time.  Mmm, home water.
66. The weather was so nice I almost forgot my coat when I left
67. Now that the event is over, I can finally delete all those ‘PLEASE COME SEE OUR STUFF’ emails from devs.
68. Great, now they’re finding me on my Twitter
69. Obligatory work item: My legs should not be this sore after the fact, need a gig where I *don’t* sit on my tail all day
70. PAX South is probably the best fan-run gaming convention around and I can see why folks love it so.  Its not really my thing; if I go next year it’ll just be for a day.  Plenty of my friends had a blast, though!