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badjay posted...

I got the westin, which makes such a huge difference for going to pax east it's insane. They sold out within 2 minutes of the tweet.

Ah okay. See the Westin is good but the Aloft and the Element are also like right across the street from the side entrance and I got the Aloft last year and it was so nice being able to hop from the floor to my room in the space of five minutes.

BUT, I didn't like that I had to go far afield to get decent access to good food, which is always a problem with the Seaport area. Staying at the Courtyard this year (which I've done a few years) and it is right near some great food, so if you're okay with the bus ride between there and the BCC, it's kind of a wash I think.

I somewhat agree, ever since covid it's been going down hill. I've gone every year except the one year I traveled to spain. You really feel the impact of the big leagues being gone like sony and microsoft.

See I wonder with restrictions being so relaxed at cons if they'll trickle back in but I worry the ship has sailed if they realize "well hey we can just do our own version of a Direct and won't have to haul people and merch garbage all the way down there so heck with cons these days".

Indie scene is still pretty good. The board game scene is still pretty good,

Yeah... pretty good.

and you don't really have to wait in line for much unless you desperately need to see it.

Thursday baby. Get so much done on that day because the place is like half full.

The panels have been trash. It's mostly social commentary about games, which is...FINE. But I like some of the more unique stuff.

I'm fine with the diversity panels; they're just the same ones every year. Also, I'm not really big into "how to stream, how to cosplay, how to build your brand, make your game".

Then again, I'm not all that into "hey we're the devs of this popular game" and it's just a marketing panel. And what does that leave, lol?

A good panel is hard to do (I say as I rev up for my third straight Mahjong panel at MAGFest)

I've always been meaning to ask you since you go every year. You got any awesome restaurant recs for boston to go out of the way for? I've got an awesome BBQ place that's super close to PAX that I'd highly recommend. If you got any for near by that works as well as far away too.

lol I read this after typing the food stuff.

I personally love going to Wagamama at the Prudential Center, and I always try to make a trip to Boston Burger Company on Boylston. Legit though I'm crap for "these are the REAL GOOD food places" because I'm such a basic bitch.