Revellers in a photo booth waved Supersonics around, blowing hot air at pink wigs, pink balloons, pink confetti, and each other.
If it really were true that natural disasters led to growth, he said, "if you're in the middle of recession you just wander around blowing up buildings and that would be your path to prosperity".
In games, there's often a tension between the story and the bit everybody loves where you go around blowing stuff up, and they often struggle to reconcile that.
It's just that we weren't willing to become Marxists or Stalinists - although a lot of my friends did take that route and would go around blowing up small things here and there".
"If you're just swimming they don't care, but if you're goofing around, blowing bubbles and having fun, they totally want to come and check it out".
"I think he goes around blowing up mountains," I said, and I've been a rock blaster for over 20 years now.
You might even want to go out and get yourself a leather biker jacket and sunglasses, then wander around blowing stuff up.
Schmidt said that, in the new game, "you were going around blowing people up" and "your enemies have brackets on them showing their health and it's very bright and glowy and green".
Backed by DreamWorks with what must have been enough money to buy a small country, it features 23 lifelike dragons that stomp around, blow smoke and fly, all quite convincingly.
"He didn't go around blowing his own horn.
