We’re officially halfway through PAX West 2024, and as Popverse’s boots on the ground at the Seattle event, it’s time for my shameful confession: I… am not a gamer. Wait, I’m going somewhere with this.

It’s not that I’m anti-gaming or anything like that; I’m just not wired that way, for whatever reason. I get fascinated with the mythology and lore of everything, and then by the time it gets to the actual gameplay, one of two things happens to me: my eyes glaze over in some mix of confusion and inability to pay attention, or I try and I am exceptionally bad at whatever game I am playing. (I remain surprisingly proud of the fact that I once made a nine-year-old ragequit a co-player because I was that bad at the game.)

I share all of this