To hardcore PC gamers, the sixth floor of the Seattle Convention Center is currently a vast, luminous sea of infinite pleasure.
To hardcore PC gamers, the sixth floor of the Seattle Convention Center is currently a vast, luminous sea of infinite pleasure.
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Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:03AM a dark day said
a girl hasnt been seen in a 2 mile radius in 18 hours
Posted: Sep 5th 2009 8:51AM EngadgetSoFunny said
No no, there's one girl present. It's the guy right in the front of the picture playing by himself. You can see the sign on his screen.. You know, the one playing the cute children's-like game Plants Versus Zombies at a gaming convention surrounded by hundreds. Sure all the other people are playing together but I have no doubt he 's having fun playing children's games by himself :P
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Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:16PM Haggard said
Casual games on the PC have some of the biggest female user share out there (a lot of flash games online have 70%+). On the other hand, I don't think anyone who brings their gaming rig to a gaming convention could claim to be in that same demographic :P
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Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:04AM (Unverified) said
Non-PC gamers are peasants.
Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:04AM whookid said
Damn, that's a lot of extension cables.
Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:05AM (Unverified) said
That's some Hardcore Plants vs Zombie playing right there...
Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:05AM s ls said
I wish I had a nice PC so I could finally play L4D... one of these days it will happen
Posted: Sep 5th 2009 2:11AM sonicspike41 said
Have any spare cash? Acer released a nice laptop for $750 recently. It's a lot of money, sure, but it's a pretty good price for a gaming laptop with 8x blu-ray and hdmi.
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Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:08AM MachDelta said
Now, imagine a beowulf cluster of those!!
... oh, wait, wrong website.
... oh, wait, wrong website.
Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:10AM 66jzmstr said
There is no "Seattle Convention Center."
Washington State Convention Center, yahurd?!
'zallmsayin.
but all them computarz? that's what imtalmbout! c u thar tomorrow
Washington State Convention Center, yahurd?!
'zallmsayin.
but all them computarz? that's what imtalmbout! c u thar tomorrow
Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:15AM s ls said
Off Topic:
Stop complaining about the Dragon Age Origin ad on Joystiq, a few people act as if it's such a big deal. Go to IGN or GameSpot and then comeback here and tell me which is worst?
Last time I checked Joystiq doesn't charge for us for an Insider account or spam us with ads every time we click on an article.
/end rant
Stop complaining about the Dragon Age Origin ad on Joystiq, a few people act as if it's such a big deal. Go to IGN or GameSpot and then comeback here and tell me which is worst?
Last time I checked Joystiq doesn't charge for us for an Insider account or spam us with ads every time we click on an article.
/end rant
Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:19AM F1 Basu Gasu Bakuhatsu said
Wait, your telling me that a free sight read by millions of people world wide would place adds up to continue their existence?!! 0_0
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Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:32AM Hyperion45 said
what are you talking about? Wherever you go on Joystiq there is that ad on the right side of the screen, just staring back at me... watching... mocking. Little fucker creeps the shit out of me!
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Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:44AM TheDarkWayne said
yeah, this is way better than the asian lady with 4 eyes that "92 percent of Americans get wrong!" or the silhouettes dancing or the black lady screaming because they got lower rates on their mortgage
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Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:45AM Courtney said
I actually find them quite a bit less annoying than the ads that used to be at the top of the page, the ones that would extend down if your mouse got anywhere near them. Those ads actually got on my nerves (accidentally clicking on them when trying to go to a different tab because they would spring under my mouse) and interfered with my use of the site.
These ads, these ads are great in comparison.
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These ads, these ads are great in comparison.
Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:49AM TheDarkWayne said
lol, remember the hummingbird and ozzy ads? That shit was awful!
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Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:54AM Look At This Suit said
There's actually one ad that literally slows down my computer. It's horrible. the GoVacations one.
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Posted: Sep 5th 2009 3:49AM (Unverified) said
It's better than the bikini-clad "Meet singles in your area!" ones... makes joystiq pretty NSFW.
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Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:16AM F1 Basu Gasu Bakuhatsu said
Deep down you know Deadspace Girl is lurking amongst the virgins.
Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:22AM Marius said
I dont understand the mentality of most gamers, is it that hard to take care of your appearance
Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:36AM (Unverified) said
Are you aware that there are people in this world that have a severe medical condition which causes them to be that way? My mother for instance is one of those people. She is a truck driver that has bad knees and a bad back from driving the truck but you probably do not care about that case either. Oh well I am not one of those people WSA 6'4" 245lbs and I exercise every day. I would love to see you say something like to my mother in front of me. Probably never happen though you are probably just an internet tough guy. I doubt very seriously you would say that to someones face. Just my thought. What do you think. Oh I am sorry you probably do not have a brain. I on the other hand will be happy to buy you a plane ticket to come here and see if you have the nerve to say that to someone I know.
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Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:47AM TheDarkWayne said
Sorry about your mother IDUNNOLOL, but most people are fat because they eat too much and are lazy, and my mom's a dietitian. I dont even think he was referring to fat people, just some of them are very unkempt. Also, being "6ft 245 lbs" on the internet doesnt make you sound tough, you just sound like a dbag
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Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:49AM (Unverified) said
Woah, "dunnolol" talk about missing the point....
Try not taking things people say on the INTERNET so seriously.
Longhorn was just making the (pretty valid) observation that gamers tend to look like scruffmuffins... Their weight wasn't even mentioned once.
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Try not taking things people say on the INTERNET so seriously.
Longhorn was just making the (pretty valid) observation that gamers tend to look like scruffmuffins... Their weight wasn't even mentioned once.
Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:59AM RANDOM G Joystiq Troll Slayer said
That was directed at IDUNNOLOL, by the way.
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Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:36AM ArchiGamer said
I can foresee of what will become of that kid in the photo....not a good future....
Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:39AM Juicebot said
The amount of heat produced made some think they had reached the sixth level of hell.
Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:39AM aristokrat said
I guess no one's playing StarCraft 2 against each other there...
Posted: Sep 5th 2009 11:14AM aristokrat said
I guess I was too vague in my joke. That looks like one big lan party to me, and of course no one's actually playing SC2, even if it was playable.
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Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:47AM ybfelix said
Bah, any decent sized Internet cafe here in China would outstrip this.
So does pirated games on the machines though...
So does pirated games on the machines though...
Posted: Sep 8th 2009 3:26PM Tephlon said
Yeah. By no means am I trying to belittle PAX... cause it sounds like loads of fun... but how does a 400 computer LAN constitute 'one million billion'... even with extreme sarcasm? Quakecon gathers nearly 4000 pc's to their BYOC, and I know they aren't even the biggest LAN event.
Again, no hate... but 'one million billion?' It looks like a modest size lan with some extremely devoted PC gamers.
Nice job on the attempt at satire... but I feel it fell a bit short. But maybe I'm just a classic PC gamer that feels among those that have been discarded by the now overreaching Goliath that is the current gaming community... but it seemed like a weak attempt.
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Again, no hate... but 'one million billion?' It looks like a modest size lan with some extremely devoted PC gamers.
Nice job on the attempt at satire... but I feel it fell a bit short. But maybe I'm just a classic PC gamer that feels among those that have been discarded by the now overreaching Goliath that is the current gaming community... but it seemed like a weak attempt.
Posted: Sep 5th 2009 1:52AM (Unverified) said
I really can't understand the rationality behind this: leave your basement and computer games, go to PAX, then play computer games there.
