{"id":4930,"date":"2011-09-21T17:53:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T00:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=4930"},"modified":"2011-09-21T19:12:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T02:12:11","slug":"pax-primer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/21\/pax-primer\/","title":{"rendered":"PAX Primer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I attended the 2011 Penny Arcade Expo. Last week I wrote a ridiculous amount of words about it. And today The Morning News published every single one of those words, in the form of <a href='http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/article\/pax-primer'>PAX Primer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I grateful to a lot of people for their help. First and foremost Anthony Yvarra, a.k.a. <a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Nerdgasm_AY'>Nerdgasm<\/a>, who gamely (ha) answered my questions about the fabulous life of an Omeganaut. Sarah Giffrow of <a href='http:\/\/www.sarahgiffrow.com\/'>SGC<\/a>, who generously allowed use of her beautiful and evocative photographs.  And Robert Khoo of Penny Arcade, who let me reprint some PA strips and then publicized the article by <a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/rkhoo\/status\/116535078967975936'>tweeting about it this morning<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>And a thank you to novelist Nicholson Baker as well. I had intended to write my report in the week following PAX, but kept putting it off; I may never have done so had I not read <a href='http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2010\/08\/09\/100809fa_fact_baker?currentPage=all'>Painkiller Deathstreak<\/a>, in which Baker plays video games for the first time in his life, mostly the first-person shooters recommended by his teenage son, and then simply describes them. It&#8217;s an amazing piece, and inspired me to knuckle down on my own longform chronicle of gaming. Do not read Baker&#8217;s article just before reading my essay, or just after reading my essay, or within a year of reading my essay before or after, but please read it.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I attended the 2011 Penny Arcade Expo. Last week I wrote a ridiculous amount of words about it. And today The Morning News published every single one of those words, in the form of PAX Primer. I grateful to a lot of people for their help. First and foremost Anthony Yvarra, a.k.a. Nerdgasm, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elsewhere","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4930"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4935,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions\/4935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}