It’s the eve of PAX, and the only creatures stirring are the set-up goblins telling us to get out and leave. The main stage is engaged in last minute calibration and important looking thin guys with high-powered badges are milling around eating Subway sandwiches.

“All I saw was confusion, and geeks,” said Marri, Quiksave correspondent, and my BFF.

They gave us “swag” for picking up our passes. Let me tell you what’s in these bags.

The Pax Swag Bag, with ads highlighted in bold:
• 2 PAX schedules
• 1 GameDeveloper quarterly magazine
• 1 Goozex brochure (some kind of web site)
• 2 PAX pins (pretty cool, I guess!)
• 1 ad for The MAW
• 1 ad for Sakura-Con 2009
• 1 ad for Champions Online (under the guise of an invitation to a party being held at a public library)
• 1 ad for CompuCom Excell Data (whatever that is)
• 1 Precipice demo (on CD)
• 1 PAX 10 Award Ballot thing
• 1 card with MK vs. DC on one side and TNA Impact! on the other
• 1 Fallout 3 pamphlet, regarding the PAX demo (and playable!!)
• 2 RESET Generation card, telling me I can play their free game
• 1 WOW 14 day trial
• 1 Twin Skies pamphlet
• 1 ad for Twitcher (’STFU n00b!!! I pwn ur FACE!!!1′)
• 1 SouthPeak catalogue (I’m gunna jack off to X-blades art tonight in the hotel room bathroom)

Guh, more shit. Who cares. I feel like I’m watching TV.

Our hotel room, by the way, is a cell. Two beds, a prison bed, no lights, shitty internet, no fridge. I don’t mean to be a bitch about it. We need drinks. PAX is back.