PAXish

Aug 8, 2009 half past nine am

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.

Of course, confusing the toga wearing philosophers even more is that Hothead will be showing DeathSpank at PAX.  And when I say "showing", I really mean "showing", like in "actual" "game play".

To truly understand how all this effects PAX, I decided to enlist the help of the world's "top" "mathematicians".  I gave them all the universal constants and variables and they came up with this:

Think on that Philosphers.  Much like on the grade school playground, math wins again.

Other people's comments:

Posted by Karl on Aug 8, 2009 twenty five past eleven am

First!

I didn't know you speak German Ron. Where did you snitch that math? Did you cheat Math in grade school too?

Posted by PirateJenny on Aug 8, 2009 half past eleven am

Keynote on September 4th... that means DeathSpank will be released for Christmas?

Posted by One more thing... on Aug 8, 2009 twenty five to noon

Ron, will you be wearing blue jeans and a black turtleneck sweater?

Posted by Nacho on Aug 8, 2009 noon

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGO MGOMGOMGOMGOGMOMGOMGpenispenisOMGO MGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOGMOGMOGMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOGM

Posted by muntz on Aug 8, 2009 ten past noon

Ron I won't be able to come to PAX. Could you record it with your video camera and send it to me on a DVD?

Posted by Andreas Fuchs on Aug 8, 2009 ten past noon

Can't wait to see Deathspank gameplay! Also, good job on improving the german math paper (-:

Posted by Ron Gilbert on Aug 8, 2009 one pm

Germans have very good mathematicians...I was looking for the best.

Posted by MENSA on Aug 8, 2009 twenty past six pm

Nerd power!

Posted by Dawid van Straaten on Aug 22, 2009 quarter past three pm

Riemann, Godel, Weierstrass, Dedekind, Cantor, Hilbert, etc.

Posted by GregorV on Aug 8, 2009 ten to two pm

Wait, DeathSpank is going to be about stationary waves in cylindrical coordinates? SOLD!!!

Posted by dsfashdas on Aug 8, 2009 half past three pm

why ron? why? i hate maths!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by Hoffmann on Aug 8, 2009 five past four pm

I'm a Computer Science major and I can say that the course has scared me for life because I can actually understand some of that crazy math rubbish. I hate math

Posted by LenH on Aug 8, 2009 twenty five past five pm

stage fright -- If Mariah Carey can get through stage fright and a mental breakdown simply by getting a boob job, so you can you...

Posted by G on Aug 8, 2009 ten past ten pm

Goody

Posted by Greg on Aug 9, 2009 five past two am

I was going to annoy you about working on monkey island 5 but I'm not now.

Posted by Jubanka on Aug 9, 2009 five past three am

Does it say "Laserschwert" somewhere in there?

Posted by CleWeR on Aug 9, 2009 five to four am

I have to learn that till september. Seriously.

Posted by madhias on Aug 9, 2009 quarter to two pm

cool thing! until then i play "TRINE" a wonderful game! I love that jumpnrun-action-physics thing, i think the mathematics guy programmed that

Posted by Karl on Aug 9, 2009 five to eleven pm

Ron has kind of a special humour, bitter in a way, sometimes annoying, random and nerdy. But even he gets sweet when he talks about being nervous giving a speech. Proof there's a sweet spot inside the grumpy gamer after all.

Posted by Lennie Melvin on Aug 10, 2009 two am

Please stop, you are scaring me.

Posted by Karl on Aug 13, 2009 five to five am

BOOH!

Posted by Raphael on Aug 10, 2009 twenty five to nine am

Hey, I´m from Germany and thats a function about a cylinder and something with integral poles... btw. I hate math too :D.

kind regards from europe
Raphael

Posted by Mario on Aug 10, 2009 five to eleven am

errr... 2 + 2 = 5?

Posted by LenH on Aug 10, 2009 quarter past seven pm

...for extremely large values of 2.

Posted by MathMagic on Aug 11, 2009 half past eleven am

[2) + [2) = ~5?

Mac + π = apple pie?

Posted by thomas on Aug 10, 2009 twenty past noon

where? I cant find it.

Posted by Stevo on Aug 10, 2009 twenty five to five pm

That looks like actual math, not that Hollywood stuff.  Well, except the parts that say, "PAX", "DeathSpank", "Keynote" and "Actual Gameplay".

Any clue as to what your speech will be about?  I'd like to attend but the Schedule page on the PAX site seems a bit lacking...

Posted by Dawid van Straaten on Aug 25, 2009 twenty to four am

Obviously DeathSpank will have different fractal powers. Mandelbrot set of death, Julia set of death, and Fractal Pentagram of hell fire! Many more will be added with patch 1.075128.

Posted by Samuel Abram on Aug 10, 2009 quarter to six pm

Of course, confusing the toga wearing philosophers even more is that >>Hothead will be showing DeathSpank at PAX.  And when I say "showing", I >>really mean "showing", like in "actual" "game play".

Does this mean, Mr. Gilbert, that you will abandon Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episodes 3 & 4?

I mean, I know you can keep secrets, but I don't want you to take them to your grave. :(

Posted by hanky on Aug 21, 2009 twenty past eight am

Ron refusing to tell the Secret of Monkey Island is like the girl at the prom saying no to every guy.

Posted by Samuel Abram on Aug 24, 2009 half past seven pm

Notice that I said nothing about Monkey Island (though I did imply it by noting Ron Gilbert's CIA-like adeptness at keeping secrets, such as that thereof).

My point was that Mr. Gilbert seems to tend to abandon projects after the second iteration (See: Monkey Island, PA Adventures), hence his need to keep secrets in the first place.

Posted by Strange_Bundle on Aug 11, 2009 twenty past noon

Ignore the error part of the note I sent you earlier, Mr. Gilbert.  The latter part of the message still stands, though :)

Posted by petethepanda on Aug 12, 2009 twenty five past eight am

Man, I wish I could make it to PAX :(

Posted by James That Dashing Fellow on Aug 13, 2009 five to five am

Since when does math win on the grade school playground? I thought the bullies always win and the nerds with the glasses and the math books get wedgies.

Posted by Behold! on Aug 14, 2009 twenty past eleven pm

Ron is sometimes as annoying as Martin Prince when he refers to math.

Posted by KyleH on Aug 16, 2009 quarter past four am

The part I find the scariest is that the banner ads are advocating becoming a math teacher now. Or telling me to play math games. Is Deathspank going to have math in it? I hope not!

Posted by Tosus on Aug 18, 2009 half past eleven pm

Sigh.
Understood. Every. Word.
Of course, I happen to be a math major studying in Germany at a German university. These might as well have been notes stolen from my notebook. Well, with the exception of the Deathspank bits. From the looks of it, this is the proof of a theorem about Eigenfunctions in cylindrical coordinates, fairly basic analysis stuff. (Sigh Yes, believe it or not, this is basic. It just gets worse from there). There are a few definitions missing, so it's hard to be sure, but that's about the gist of it.

Posted by dark vader on Aug 20, 2009 ten to ten am

So Ron posted basic analysis math from the best mathematicians in Germany. Good thinking. I knew the math prof in an earlier post was just a high school teacher who was happy to get a picture taken of him.

Posted by obi on Aug 21, 2009 ten to six am

Then why did you choose math in the first place?

Posted by Dawid van Straaten on Aug 27, 2009 twenty five to nine am

I'm studying BSc Mathematics. I love maths. But that's not the point, the point that I wanted to make is that  he probably had to take mathematics courses to attain his computer science degree ;).

Posted by cos on Aug 19, 2009 quarter to one am

my girlfriend can do that

Posted by pen on Aug 19, 2009 twenty five to seven am

word.

Posted by nOnAmE on Aug 19, 2009 quarter past noon

Hell yeah! She certainly does!

Posted by cos on Aug 20, 2009 twenty five to six am

i know, she's wicked...

Posted by SeSan on Aug 19, 2009 five past nine am

Finally Deathspank !!!! 2010 Release date!?!!?!?!
Let's hope!!!

Posted by mehrdad on Aug 19, 2009 five pm

i love you Ron from Iran

Posted by mehrdad on Aug 19, 2009 twenty past five pm

hi from iran
when i was 15 i saw mi 2 in magazine and from that moment i loveing mi legend.i shame to say,i used pirate version of game because there was'nt any legal version of game to purchase in my city-country(?).
mi 1&2 is so great
you are my big brother.i love you

Posted by pong on Aug 20, 2009 twenty to six am

tell your leaders to play more MI and do less fighting.

Posted by pen on Aug 20, 2009 twenty to six am

Here's hoping Ron does a Janet Jackson on stage.

Posted by dewd on Aug 28, 2009 twenty five to five am

? Showing his nipples ?

Posted by grumpy philosopher on Aug 20, 2009 five to ten am

Not all philosophers wear Togas. Talking about stereotypes...

Posted by macg on Aug 21, 2009 quarter to six pm

i'm bored.

Posted by Dawid van Straaten on Aug 22, 2009 five past three pm

Ron have you seen District 9?

Posted by pummel on Aug 23, 2009 ten to four pm

I have seen it, and I think it's crap, all crap.

Posted by Raptor007 on Aug 26, 2009 quarter past three pm

Hopefully I'll get to see your keynote!  Unfortunately, the Call of Duty 4 tournament is also scheduled for the first part of Friday.

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Posted by Andres on Aug 29, 2009 ten am

Here is the video with English subtitles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdgJfHDS4YE

Posted by Bashar on Sep 5, 2009 twenty past eight pm

Where on earth did you find this formula? Is it really German related :)


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