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I left the convention two days early so I'm back now. I'm still a lil messed up from the trip. a 12 hour drive turned into a 24 hour one because of CA and it's traffic/chain on tire restrictions. Seriously I want to kill those road worker peoples. The low dow it started raining in CA when I left. It never stopped raining the whole time. So I basically hydroplaned from San Jose through Sacramento to Reno. That's fine and all but the traffic was going at an average of 20 MPH on the free ways the WHOLE TIME. It was sick. So by the time I FINALLY got to the state boarder it was dark I had eaten a larger amount of gas than I had intended and it was still raining. Well I filled up about half a tank (because CA prices are a lot higher than Nevada prices) so I could for sure make it to Reno. Well going over the mountain there were all these Chains required flashing signs. Well I don't have chains so I just kept going on my merry lil way. Well finally I got to the area where it was "enforced" and it was the largest slowest moving traffic jam EVER. After hours I finally got the the front where they stopped me said "you don't have chains you can't go further." Well I asked where I could get chains and they said 5 miles back. 5 miles is HOURS away in that awful mess. But I went back remembering there were other workers in yellow jump suits with signs that said "chains on 20 bucks off 10". I assumed they were selling chains for 10 bucks and if they put them on for you 20 bucks. No, by the time I got back up there and asked to buy them I was very rudely told that that was the fee to put the chains on and off and you had to already buy the things. Then he told me that I wouldn't be needing them here anymore. I of course asked why and he said that they were moving the block ten miles up. I waited until the blockade started to move then I tore away around the fucktards. The roads were FINE. I wish I could have just explained to the hippy sons of bitches that I'm from UTAH. There is more snow in my apartment parking lot then ever touches the state of California in an entire year. I'd still call their "chains required" emergency RAIN. The one nice thing about the hours of inconveinence for stupidity was A) I felt like a bad ass by passing the blockade, B) it left the freeway basically "private" for a long long time which is cool in and of it's own right. But overall I was delayed something fierce. It was 11 PM before I even left CA. Which lead me to getting way way way tired on the trip home. I had to pull over not once not twice but three times for a quick sleep out of fear of death. And rest stops SCARE me. Oh well I survived and I'm now safe at home where I will never ever leave again... Wait no.
The Game Developer's Conference sucked balls this year. Not that it was bad on a whole it was just so so so so so so much worse than last year. The free stuff was significantly lessoned. The people I meet on a whole were way lamer and the expo had relatively unexciting booths. The Game Developer Choice Awards were given to WAY lesser deserving people (Not saying KOTOR didn't deserve game of the year I'm talking about the Penguin award and life time achievement award.) Especially life time achievement award was a let down. They gave it to someone who had only directly made ONE game and it was marble madness on the NES. Yeah that compares to the other life time achievement award winners such as Shigeru Miyamoto... ugh...
Not saying the whole experience was awful I actually overall had a really good time in CA. Especially with the people I was staying with. Without a doubt they were some of the kindest, funniest, coolest people I've EVER known. The expo also had some really really cool looking PS2 games on display. Singstar caught my eye especially as a two player Karaoke Revolution type game. Yeah, it sold me the second they were using the microphone. I got a lot of applications to various video game companies which was the main reason I went. But yeah overall the best part by far was the people I stayed with.
I hate it this year. I'm leaving two days early because it sucks to the suck suck. Although I'm staying with a friend of a friend named Lance who rocks big time. I'd rather hang out with him than go to the conference. Oh a Blizzard guy said their working on a secret project. Well DUH.
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