People often stop me on the street and say "Hey Ron!" and I say "I don't have any change...get job!" and then they say "We're not beggars, we just want to know why you're working so hard on DeathSpank?" and I say "We do it for you so you can play the best damn game ever!" and then I give them some pocket change so they can buy booze.

One of the things we've been working so hard on the last 2 months is dialog.  Over 6000 lines of the funniest crap you'll ever hear.  How do I know it's funny?  Because actors never study their lines.  They just come in to the studio and begin recording and quite often they will start laughing and we'll have to stop recording because it's the first time they've read it and it's funny.

I wanted to introduce you to a couple of the actors in DeathSpank and who better to start with than Michael Dobson who plays DeathSpank.  When we did auditions back in March I had no real idea what DeathSpank should sound like.  Michael was the first person to read for the part and he nailed it so perfectly that we just stopped looking.  He's top notch and when he's in the recording studio he becomes DeathSpank.  I can't imagine the game without him.

Second on the list is Brian Dobson (no relation to Michael Dobson...oh wait...my mistake, they're brothers).  Brian plays Eubrick the Retired with perfection (not to mention several other roles).  For those of you that saw the demos at PAX, we were showing one of the dialogs between DeathSpank and Eubrick.

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The PAXORIFFIC game show called PAX is finally over and it was PAXTASTIC, so let's go over all the PAXERY!

Now, if I was smarter, I'd divide this up into several posts to fool you into thinking I post a lot, but I'm not going to do that.  You're too smart for that and I respect that smartness.  Instead, I'll just break it up in to the different subjects, or "sections" as they are called in some countries.

First off...

The Keynote

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I don't know why I used exclamation points and the number one in that title.  It seemed like something all the cool kids on the internet are doing, so I guess I was just trying to be cool.  But I'll tell you something teh cool kids on the internet can't do, and that's make DeathSpank.

1up is starting a week of in-depth behind the scenes DeathSpank coverage.  It's rumored that Republicans and Democrats alike are putting their differences aside in the contentious health care debate and joining with president Obama in a week of unity and reading about DeathSpank.

1up will have a plethora of screen shots to show, but I've picked one of my favorites to post here, just for the premium subscribers to Grumpy Gamer.

This is a shot of DeathSpank making his way up these really high mountains with snow on the peaks called The Really High Mountains with Snow on the Peaks.

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Nothing I could write will be funnier than this video:

Monday's going to be a pretty awesome day on the internet thingy.  You know it's going to be awesome because I don't use the word awesome very awesome!  I mean often!  Often.  Often.  Often.

Philosophers around the world pretty much agree that PAX is about the most damn exciting show there is.  Much of the debate currently going on in the marbled halls and ivory towers of the intellectual elite is if me giving this years PAX keynote makes it more exciting or if I'll get up on stage and freeze from stage fright and you'll all stare at me for 45 minutes wondering if this is some some avant-garde performance piece.

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