Three Moves Ahead 58: Phoning it In About Pax

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Video Games, Games, War, War Games, Strategy, Games & Hobbies, Strategy Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2010

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

With the post con exhaustion, panelists running around like crazy and Julian Murdoch fighting some sort of bug, it’s sort of a wonder we got a show together at all this week. Rob, Julian and I talk about why we loved PAX East. What makes a fan con different from a trade show? Is Microsoft Surface the future of board games? What strategy game was my surprise of the show? Probably one of our shortest and slowest shows, but we promise a stronger one next week. Listen to win a prize. My thoughts on PAX East Julian’s Thoughts Rob’s Thoughts

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.
0:06.0	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow.
0:08.0	And with me today are my Pax attending colleagues and panelists, freelance writer Julian Murdoch.
0:14.8	Hello, everyone.
0:16.2	Who was a speaker at, get a speaker badge at Pax East.
0:21.0	Which is way better than actually having a press badge, it turns out.
0:23.6	Way better than having a press badge.
0:25.8	And freelance writer Rob Zakni.
0:28.1	Good evening.
0:29.3	Who had a I am attending badge.
0:31.9	Yes.
0:33.7	Which is also better than a press badge.
0:36.2	What?
0:37.1	No.
0:37.8	I'm skeptical of that because in my case, the I am attending badge often meant that I did not attend things.
0:43.8	Well, but with the press badge, you actually were not eligible to enter any official event.
0:50.7	Like the contests and stuff.
0:52.2	Like, yeah, you couldn't actually enter contests. You couldn't actually enter contest you couldn't win anything
0:55.5	you couldn't join the omega knots if you had a press badge etc oh my god the omega thawn people
1:01.9	omega thorn people omega thorn but to get the omega not sticker or badge or whatever it was it was like
1:07.5	the golden ticket in will Wonka's factory.
1:14.7	Everybody wanted to be in that final round.
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