Good thing they didn't call it the "Fun and Games Festival."

Hello, internet!

I just got back from MAGFest (the Music and Games Festival in Alexandria, Virginia), and boy am I exhausted. Thankfully, I haven't come down with a case of ConCrud like everyone else seems to have done.

As for how the con itself was, well, it was fantastic. I'd never actually been to a con where I was genuinely interested in going to panels and shopping for swag. The number one reason I went was that a lot of folks from Channel Awesome were going to be there, and boy, were they... um... there.

I kid, they were namesakingly awesome. They all seemed excited to be there (except for one case, but we'll get to that), and they were all so happy to meet and speak with their fans. Let me break it down to everyone I met there:

Obscurus Lupa: Lupa is one of my favorite reviewers on the site. As she's pretty new, this was her first con with the Channal Awesome guys. You could tell, too, because she always looked surprised when anyone recognized her. She was really nice, but she always looked kind of lost, and we (my girlfriend - Elise, best friend - Greg, and I) kept accidentally bumping into her - so much so, that we were afraid she would think we were stalking her.

Luke Mochrie: Another person we seemed to be accidentally stalking. We met him the same time we met Lupa, which was outside a live riffing of Bloodrayne II with Spoony, Linkara, and JewWario (they were supposed to be riffing House of the Dead, and Spoony even had a script written out, but they didn't have it for him) at midnight. Elise got along with Luke very well, because he's in film school right now, and she took film classes in college.

Paw and Pushing Up Roses: These two are so, so nice. Like, they are the nicest people ever. We didn't get to talk to Paw much, but we caught up with Roses as she was filming Arc Impulse (an awesome video game music band) and got to talk to her a bit. And I guess I have to mention that her tattoos are even more awesome in real life.

Phelous: Phelous is definitely my favorite person on the TGWTG site. That said, he was very low-key at the con. Sometimes he didn't even seem to be having much fun, but other times he actually opened up and joked around. I think it probably has to do with shyness or something like that. He's still my favorite.

Linkara and Iron Liz: Again, really nice people. Liz seemed to stand back and let Linkara interact with most of the fans, which was probably a good idea. Linkara is very loud. Not in an obnoxious way, but in a hilarious way. You could tell where Linkara was no matter where you were in the con, because his voice just carried.

Spoony and Scarlet: Spoony seems to have been the spotlight of the Channel Awesome presence. He had three events all to himself (his standup was amazingly funny), and he was really great to his fans. Scarlet was filming most of the time, but she was really cool when we talked with her.

Angry Video Game Nerd: This was actually my second time meeting James Rolfe, the first being at VGXpo in Philadelphia. His panel mostly consisted of "what if" questions, and any personal questions were deftly evaded. Another person who is nothing like his on-screen persona.

Scott Ramsoomair: The artist and author of VGCats, Scott spent his panel answering silly meme-related questions and showing us a comic-in-progress to prove that he really was working on one.

Well, those were the "famous on the internet" people I met at MAGFest. We mostly went to their panels, but we also went to a Cooperative Storytelling in Tabletop RPGs panel which was really cool. The concerts we went to were mostly awesome, but a few just made me wish I were listening to the band on my iPod.

That's all I have to say for now! I'll upload some pictures of the stuff I got signed in a bit. Okay, latuhz!