So CK and I got in to see JewWario. We opted to stand in the back of the room because we're cool like that. They could only let so many people into the room, however, as the Fire Marshall is a douche. Zhu Zhu and Perry didn't make it in.

Because there is an exactly-calculated one-man difference between everybody getting out safely and everybody burning alive with no hope.

JewWario was actually really interesting. Once they got things rolling, he talked at length about how to get your consoles to play import games. The DS plays them natively no matter what region it is. The PS2 needs a top-loader installed. And other such tips. About halfway through the panel, I get a text from N1NJ4 saying "Smells awesome in there". I look around, and he's standing inside the room, on the other side of the doorway from me, laughing. When I looked back minutes later, he was gone.

JewWario took some questions. One in particular caught my interest. At first, it was about Takahashi's Challenge, but then he corrected himself to Takeshi's Challenge. And I remember thinking, "Takeshi? Surely he can't mean Beat Takeshi. Is there a Takeshi's Castle game?" Finally, the panel wrapped up and we waited at the back of the room for Lotus Prince. I got bored and wandered off to see where that fantastic music was coming from. Turns out, we were next door to the JamSpace. I watched a band play a little Mega Man music and went back to get the guys to join me, but they were all busy with blah.

Eventually, we're standing outside the room, and JewWario comes out with the Psychotaku. LP gets a picture with the two of them, and then I get one with the three of them. We hang out and talk for a bit, and then they must be on their way. I really like JewWario, and fully intend to check out his stuff, now. I've never seen anyone look so genuinely and completely interested in and pleased to be talking with his fans. He's a really nice guy and, adding that to his interesting and informative panel, suddenly commands my respect.

While we're here, I take another look at the sign by the JamSpace, and I realize... while I was in JewWario's panel... I MISSED BRENTALFLOSS!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

This is turning into a disaster. Ah, but here's hope! Jon St. John walks by. We ask him about the interview, and he tells us to meet him at the sitting area the next day around 4 PM, and he'll be sitting down and knocking out all of his interviews at the same time. Sounds like a plan.

From here, we visited the arcade areas for a bit, meeting back up with N1NJ4 in the process. We wind up picking up a Leninade from the dealer with the Mystery Box and do a MENERGY!!! review f it over in the sitting area. Todd shows up halfway through and we pull him in. Continuing from the previous episode, I've taken to making sure I'm not paying any attention to the camera or what's going on when I'm onscreen with CK. I like how that's going so far.

We sit around while N1NJ4 tries to drop M&Ms from the gigantic bag he'd bought that morning, into the empty Leninade bottle from high up. Then other weird little tricks, because that's what he is.

N1NJ4 and I explore the chest we noticed had appeared overnight near where we were sitting. We opened it up. Some boring shirt and T-shirt inside. If either of them had been MAGFest-related, I was ready to give up my new cheap, blue cap for it, hands-down. CK talks to somebody he seems to know. It was... somebody. Somebody important. I believe it was Stuttering Craig, but I don't quite recall. Then he winds up talking to this cute redhead and, well, you know. I have to go over and introduce myself.

I open with, "So? Who's your friend?" And CK meets that with sheer outrage. This is Lupa, from That Guy with the Glasses, and how dare you not know that?

I feel like everybody should know that the only things I've seen over there are every single 5 Second Movie and like two episodes of the Nostalgia Critic. S'it. I don't watch everything on the Internet. Hell, I haven't seen everything on this site. I get around the web pretty well, but damn guys. Chill.

We head back to the arcade and enter the Console Room. They're now checking our badges on the way in, but not giving us any hassle. A running joke has arisen, where we imply that these press passes can get us anything and into anywhere. Whenever somebody questions it, we simply reply with, "DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS?"

Combine that with "BWOOOOOOOOOOOAGH" and our constant repetition of the Inception theme, and you've got a weekend built on top of running jokes like a city built on top of rock 'n' roll. CK decided his time here would be best spent playing the piano in the corner. N1NJ4 and I left him to it and immediately made our way to the Rock Band stage, where we saw Borderlands characters rocking out. Oh, hell yes. We got a group shot of them. They had a Mordecai, Lilith, Tannis (the only woman I could love strictly for her personality), and a Psycho. With glowing blue eyes. All of them had exceptionally well-made costumes.

My hat is off.

Actually, there were apparently at least five of them, because N1NJ4 got a picture of Moxxi at some point, too.

We head back and grab CK to play Rock Band with us. He's playing piano with his new special buddy, but we manage to part the two of them. In the name of ROCK!

...In the name of Harman.

We wait a bit. I lean on the gigantic divider and it moves, causing my heart to go into overdrive, because I thought I had just knocked it over. This would surely break lost of machines and people. But, no. It was attached to the ceiling, and I had pushed the bottom out. I still nearly fell over, though.

We played while some other guy did vocals. Did a couple songs I have never heard by some bands I have never heard of. Then went around the divider to play the taiko drum game.

Once our turn came up, CK and I got up and were searching for a song to play. N1NJ4 smacked the button while we were over some girly J-pop song, so that's what we got stuck with. And you know what? I'm not ashamed to say we got entirely too into it. We were shaking our hips and dancing back and forth and bobbing our heads and showing off. N1NJ4 started recording a little over halfway through, but we got some of it (we got the part where I started doing bad). We turned around, and the people waiting gave us a round of applause.

PRIDE.

I've discovered that there IS an American console version of that game, on PS2. With a little drum to play on (not as fun as the gigantic arcade one, I'm sure, but it'll do). I am definitely picking this up when I can.

We checked out the concerts going on. Caught the last few songs of... well, we think it was Power Glove. In any case, the lead guy had on a shirt that said, "I'M FAT LET'S PARTY".

This is the greatest shirt that ever has, and ever will, be made. It will be mine. Oh yes, it will be mine.

They played a number of songs, but the best part was when the entire room decided to release a "BWOOOOOOOOAGH!!!" that ended a nanosecond before the song began, kicking straight into loud, rocking badassery. That, my friends, is how you begin a song.

Got out of there and bought a "Shirokiku Ramune Drink" for each of us. That soda with the marble in it. We walked around and wound up in the Video Room, watching what at the time I had assumed was Metal Gear Ben, because I had seen that on the schedule. Of course, having now watched all of Metal Gear Ben, I now know I was wrong - it was actually Project Snake: Low Budget Espionage. And it was most of the way through.

When we walked into the room, I picked an empty row and sidled into it and the guy working the projector kind of started look at me, so I asked if I was doing something wrong, because he looked like I was. Then my friends got my attention. I turned around, and they were sitting in the row behind me, and I didn't understand why. Then after forever, I finally noticed what had happened, here.

The row I was in was incredibly tiny. All of the seats had been pushed forward to make room for the row behind it. In the dark, this hadn't occurred to me at all. The only thing I was thinking was, get in and sit down so you're not in the way.

Because not being a pain in the ass to the people around me is a concern of mine. But I guess I'm just better than everyone like that.

Project Snake is a really good movie, and I suggest checking it out. It's $10 from their site and, once I have money again, I totally intend to make it a chief purchase.

Once that ended, we stuck around, as the next movie we were pretty sure was supposed to be Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy, which is apparently a very good fan movie. I downloaded their official torrent of it, and mean to watch it soon. We didn't get to then, because they instead played Postal.

Which, fair enough, and not saying a whole lot, is Uwe Boll's best movie. His part in the movie does actually somewhat make up for the rest of the travesties he has committed in the name of gaming.

We escape quickly (CK and I had just watched it at his house a month beforehand, so we were good for a year), and wander off to the piano area where we fling some Navy business cards at each other while we wait. Eventually we get hungry and go off to dig up some food. We consider our choices and wind up taking a shuttle over to LP's hotel and going to the Quizno's across the street. I have never been to Quizno's. I cannot tolerate those stupid goddamn rodent commercials. But when I find out $4 gets you a sub that's even longer than a foot, well hell, I'm on board! I order my sub, a nice Italian because for some reason I like that lately.

Then he sticks it in the oven. What? I didn't ask for it toasted. Who toasts an Italian sub? Okay, great, it's going through, I guess hell with it, not like that'll stop me from eating it.

Then I get it and I realize... this thing is really, really thin. It's longer than Subway, but there's still less to it than Subway. And much, much less on it. Quizno's sucks, and I think I'm going to continue not eating there.

At the very least, we finally got to pop open our goofy Japanese drinks. Let's see, you remove this, and you take this out, and you jam it down into here, aaaand... we're drinking it! Tastes fairly decent. Nothing special, but hey, it's Japanese, and the marble thing is pretty cool. CK didn't tell us until we were done drinking that the marble rests on the two things up further while you drink, so I was dodging the drink around the marble the whole time.

Because I'm stupid (but not stupid enough to enjoy Quizno's stupid commercials, you see).

Head over to the pizza place we were at the night before and meet Lotus. He finally got his pasta. Which came with a salad, which he didn't want. So I got a salad to fill the emptiness left by that skinny, worthless sub! Hooray! Life is good.

We head back to the shuttle, but then CK decides he's heading up with Lotus Prince to relax, so I go with them. N1NJ4 takes the shuttle, anyways, and we're back to three. Up in the room, we meet the final roommate, Andrew, and his friend. It turns out, Andrew picked up Takeshi's Challenge. In fact, it turns out Andrew was the one who asked the question about it at JewWario's panel earlier. Small world.

We watched the first few episodes of Game Center CX's game challenges starring Shinya Arino. Fantastic show. If you can find subtitled episodes, I highly recommend it. Then I start passing out for a minute and a minute there, until I decide we should go because I can't stay awake and Metroid Metal will be playing soon. So we wind up doing nothing. Which is starting to piss me off. Every time this weekend I've tried to get us moving, or suggested we walk more than ten feet before stopping because apparently we can't talk and walk, or simply start walking away in hopes that they'll follow me, they completely ignore me and stay exactly where they are. Earlier on, in the sitting area, they called me impatient for trying to go do stuff, rather than sit around for an hour missing everything we came to see.

So, naturally, we miss Metroid Metal. And THEN they decide we should leave. Andrew and his friend crank their music through the halls and we follow them to the lobby and wait for the shuttle while they head off to the store. And finally I just unloaded on CK all the aggravation that had been welling up because of everything you see in the paragraph above. Then the shuttle arrives, so I put this on hold for the moment. Then the doors open and...!

Out steps Zhu Zhu, Perry, and three people I haven't met. Zhu Zhu tells us they're going upstairs to get drunk, and we should totally come along.

Free booze and also Asian chicks? Why, I'm no longer angry! It's a miracle!

So the night goes on pretty weird. First, there's a lot of drinking. Zhu Zhu loves to drink, and hell, I figure I can match her 1:1. So every time she tells me to drink more, by crikey I do. And by the end of the night, she's not all that drunk, and I'm pretty dicked.

I'm also pretty sure that's not actually slang for that, but it is now because I just used it as such. That's how language works.

So basically, a really cute Chinese girl has just drank me under the table. At a video games convention.

PERFECT WOMAN!? Damn you, Perry. Just kidding, you're pretty cool. I wish you all the luck and hope you guys remain happy together

It's all good, though. Danielle, one of the new people added to the mix, is flirting with me! Yay! Life is good. Of course, her brother Richard is there, so that's not happenin'. Also, I found out later she has a boyfriend and flirting is just how her personality goes.

I have the most rotten luck when it comes to women, I swear.

Perry and, um. Somebody. Put in Cho Aniki and play that after Andrew and I think that same somebody get back from the store. This is the gayest game.

I must have it.

It's actually really good, though. It's crazy hard, and everything is made out of half-naked Asian guys, but it's pretty hilarious that way. All together, it somehow makes for a more positive experience than you would expect.

N1NJ4 texts me and tells me he's all alone in the dark. Which is his way of telling me that he's gone to the Video Room to watch Jon St. John riffing Uwe Boll's Alone in the Dark. But then he texts me and tells me that they're not showing that, now. Instead, they are showing Postal.

What the hell is going on with that Video Room?

So I coax him back to the hotel room (room 413 - pi!). He arrives with the giant bag of barbecue popcorn and the huge tin of butter cookies my dad sent along for me to get rid of. And we all eat more than our fill.

Dani and Richard want to head back to the convention to play a card game, and I agree to go, but then Zhu Zhu wants me to drink more, so I do that, and they decide to just play it here. It's called Munchkin or something, and I didn't play at all. I teamed up with Zhu Zhu because she knew what she was doing, and then I drunked off to the other bed to lie down for a bit and watch some more Cho Aniki while CK blows into a vuvuzela for a bit and then passes out in the corner against the table.

They manage to suddenly get further in the game than they've ever gotten, and I'm really paying attention, now. They need my support. I'm willing him to win. But then, something happens. N1NJ4 decides out of the blue that we have to leave. And we have to leave this very second. By which I mean, he's leaving this very second, and he doesn't care if we're with him or not. So CK wakes up and wants to stay, but I follow N1NJ4 because reasons. CK exits the room when we're halfway down the hall and decides to come with us, after all. We shuttle back, hop in the car, crank the tunes, and we're off.