(Editor’s Preface: This was written two days ago and should be going up tomorrow so if you see any time anomalies on anything I may have written here, blame the TARDIS. — Nex)
In 1842, the city of Seattle was founded as an outpost for fur trappers, and anglo-saxon missionaries intent on converting the heathen natives from their lives of naked, sexy sin to the much less naked, much less sexy life of Christianity.
Fast forward a century and a half and Seattle is home to the annual Penny Arcade Expo — a convention that combines the technological fetishism of a Neal Stephenson wet dream with the sort of psuedo-socialist, hippie-commune sensibilities of a 1973 Grateful Dead tour. People have come from around the world to spend a weekend basking in the collective euphoria of being amongst their own, and the smell certainly attests to that fact.
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Original post by mrdestructoid@gmail.com (Destructoid.com) and software by Elliott Back
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