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August 26, 2010
Day One Perch
As Chris packs for Boston and we switch off the lights, the Idle Thumbs Podcast finishes up with a bunch of talk about video games, interspersed with loosely related distractions and stories. Thanks for listening!
Games Discussed: BioShock Infinite, Fallout 2, Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, BioShock 2: Minerva's Den, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect 2, Fruit Ninja, Imperial 2030
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August 9, 2010
The Silken Goku
Don the Silken Goku. Enthusiastically pore over our collection of galactic maps, carefully curated battle decks, and lushly rendered hexagonal tiles, while we try to tell you about game development, girls, and sports.
Games Discussed: Civilization V, BioShock 2: Minerva's Den, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Jagged Alliance, Metal Gear Acid 2, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Achievement Unlocked 2, 2010 FIFA World Cup, Mass Effect 2
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Idle Thumbs at PAX: The Meet-Up: The Write-Up: The Reckoning (updated)
Posted by Chris Remo, September 7, 2009
[Update: New pictures added below, thanks to forum member and attendee H. Helluva.]

During BlizzCon, Nick and I posted a spontaneous Twitter message offering to hang out with any Idle Thumbs readers attending the show. Having conceived the idea 98 minutes prior to the "event" itself, it was a decidedly informal affair -- three extremely friendly Thumbs showed up and we talked about Video Games. We did it again the following evening, to similar results.

The fact that anybody showed up at all made us consider attempting something more organized at the upcoming Penny Arcade Expo. We tossed around some location ideas and fairly arbitrarily came up with some plans.

Much credit and appreciation must also be given to developers Frozenbyte, Zombie Cow Studios, Riot Games, and Stardock, who hooked us up with, respectively, download codes for Trine, download codes for Time Gentlemen, Please!, beta codes for League of Legends, and 10% discount coupons for Impulse to give away during the meet.

But our plans were insufficient and we were characteristically unprepared. As it turned out, some 40 Thumbs showed up -- several times the number we had estimated based on RSVPs.
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