If there's enough interest for East, I'll add the event to Buttoneering.org.
It would be pretty awesome to just have an identical style site for the card trading
I thought about it, and even started one. I'd love it if Vanilla would add the ability for the forums to be an OAuth2 provider so I wouldn't need to be in the business of account creation.
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I just wanted to say I had a fantastic time Buttoneering!! It was my first year doing it and I think I'm addicted now. It was totally awesome getting to meet the people behind the buttons.
A few memorable encounters I thought it'd be cool to jot down:
-Everyone at PAX about BigRed's button. I couldn't go anywhere without the enormity of it being discussed.
-Komi was cool to meet. We discussed Buttoneering for a while and I believe this was his first time. I was relived to meet another first timer. Hope you got to trade a lot more after we met, Komi!
-Cronus, I wore your button upside-down all 3 days of PAX. It wasn't until I looked at it closely tonight that I realized, haha!
I think the two buttons that made me laugh the hardest are JobiwanKenobi's Dovah-Kleen "Shout it out!", and B:L's Kirbo Gooding Jr. buttons. Syrae's Batman button is another favorite.
Thanks to all the Buttoneers I met that made this such a great experience at PAX Prime 2012!
Now I only have a few hundred days to plan my next buttons. Yes, plural. I need to get a bonus button going in 2013. :D:D
Haha, wow, you just put the biggest smile on my face. It took me a minute to realize who you were until I looked up your button. That was definitely awesome, I don't remember you saying if it was your first time or not but you certainly didn't seem like it was.
It was awesome meeting you, and getting stopped as I was making a run for the bathroom lol.
I really only managed to trade like.. 5 buttons during PAX, the rest happened during the meetup on Sunday, but my most memorable moment is RichSoCash coming to my hotel to give me a set of his pins/magnets he made. I feel really bad that I didn't get to give him one of my buttons or meet him though, because my phone decided to turn off notification messages and I had no clue he was in the lobby waiting for me . He was awesome enough to hide them somewhere clever in the lobby and send me a picture via twitter though, and now they're proudly making my magnetic whiteboard useful.
RichSoCash, if you by chance still want a button from me, I'm totally willing to mail one to you. Let me know. o:
Komi on
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If there's enough interest for East, I'll add the event to Buttoneering.org.
It would be pretty awesome to just have an identical style site for the card trading
I thought about it, and even started one. I'd love it if Vanilla would add the ability for the forums to be an OAuth2 provider so I wouldn't need to be in the business of account creation.
PA-based authentication would be baller.
If buttoneering.org will be needed for PAX East, I'll be sure to get the iOS app ready in time. Next Prime we'll have the app and I will have a bonus button for those that present the iOS/Android app to me.
As usual, buttoneering was awesome. The Sunday meetup is always the perfect way to cap off PAX, such a crazy .5-1 hour.
See you all next year, and if anyone is at East I'm sure I'll have a button for that too! It just doesn't feel like a PAX without giving purebuttons some money.
If anyone wants my Bowie button and/or my bonus button, just send me a PM and we can work out a mail exchange. Using a small bubble envelope should be enough to protect a few buttons, while still being inexpensive to mail, and the second person can just re-use it with a fresh label and stamps.
as a first timer buttoneering was actually more fun than I' d thought - even without being overly pro-active about it (also wish I hadn't left my bag of buttons in the hotel room for the final meet up - turns out 50 or so isn't enough for that!)
oh and apologies to the person that I took both buttons from instead of one (when it wasn't directly offered) I was really tired and worn out by then, and the previous 3 or so people had offered both their buttons so I was kinda on auto-pilot - wasn't being a douche intentionally !
can't remember who it was off hand and I haven't gotten home yet so haven't unpacked and worked out which buttons I did / didn't get yet
I'm sorry I didn't get to play the Buttoneering game this year. I DID wear my vest covered in buttons from 2010, and I want to thank the exceptionally kind people who gave me their buttons anyway, so I could feel like I was playing. I promise, next year I'm throwing down big time. I'm going to make a button for every shield in Skyrim.
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Little Miss RachelGeek Chick Before Geek Was ChicIdahoan ExileRegistered Userregular
I had a great time with this whole thing! Though clearly next year I'm going to need to order more, at least if I end up with such a popular design. xD Ran out of my main button about halfway through the Sunday meetup, and that was no fun! At LEAST 150 next year, if not 200 (given my propensity for just handing them out to cool people even if they don't have buttons for me in trade). And despite my worries, I only ended up bringing 4 or 5 bonus home with me.
I may also, if folks missed out on the hotcakes "Geek Girls Turn Me On" button, make a 2nd small run of them for next year.
RichSoCash, if you by chance still want a button from me, I'm totally willing to mail one to you. Let me know. o:
Let's shoot for PAX East. Pretty confident I'll be making that trip.
Sounds great to me, ill be sure to bring them with then. Might even make another button for east, even though I hear buttoneering isn't a big thing at east like it is at prime.
-PAX Prime 2014-
[x]In awe that my 30 minute badge window prediction was pretty close to accurate.
[x]Badge (HOLYCRAPIGOTA4DAY!)
[x]Hotel
[ ]Airfare
[ ]Buttoneering Buttons
[ ]Challenge Coin
RichSoCash, if you by chance still want a button from me, I'm totally willing to mail one to you. Let me know. o:
Let's shoot for PAX East. Pretty confident I'll be making that trip.
Sounds great to me, ill be sure to bring them with then. Might even make another button for east, even though I hear buttoneering isn't a big thing at east like it is at prime.
East does trading cards instead of buttons. Watch the forums for the card trading thread to appear!
RichSoCash, if you by chance still want a button from me, I'm totally willing to mail one to you. Let me know. o:
Let's shoot for PAX East. Pretty confident I'll be making that trip.
Sounds great to me, ill be sure to bring them with then. Might even make another button for east, even though I hear buttoneering isn't a big thing at east like it is at prime.
East does trading cards instead of buttons. Watch the forums for the card trading thread to appear!
That's what I hear. o: I'm looking forward to seeing that thread appear so I can learn a bit about it.
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[x]In awe that my 30 minute badge window prediction was pretty close to accurate.
[x]Badge (HOLYCRAPIGOTA4DAY!)
[x]Hotel
[ ]Airfare
[ ]Buttoneering Buttons
[ ]Challenge Coin
Yeah...maybe next year I'll bring several different button boards to choose from. I barely got everything on the board last year, and given we had WAY more designs signed up, I bought a bigger one - but I guess not everyone made it to drop off a button, so the board looks a little empty. Ah, well.
My button didn't make it onto the board. I don't think I ever went into the Annex, always in table top free-play.
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i still have a crapton of buttons left this year. Last year i couldn't go 5 minutes without someone stopping me to ask for a button . . . this year hardly anyone stopped me and I rarely ever noticed anyone who had proper tradable buttons.
This was my first time going to PAX and I had an absolute blast. I think next time I will try to join the buttoneering because it looks like a great time but this year I didn't even know it existed! I just kept seeing people with loads of buttons (particularly the Big Red and David Bowie buttons) and thinking they looked pretty freaking cool.
I know this isn't the right spot for this exactly but I thought you might be able to help me out anyway.
I'm looking for someone who is willing to do a trade of theater buttons. I'm looking for Wolfman theater, and I'd be willing to trade Serpent (or any other random swag button) for it. I know there is a Swag thread, and I'll probably post there, but it seems like they're all looking for big fancy things like T-shirts. Let me know if anyone has an extra Wolfman theater button out there. I have some random swag and it's an important button to me, so I'd be willing to work something out!
This was my first time going to PAX and I had an absolute blast. I think next time I will try to join the buttoneering because it looks like a great time but this year I didn't even know it existed! I just kept seeing people with loads of buttons (particularly the Big Red and David Bowie buttons) and thinking they looked pretty freaking cool.
You just vindicated my button choice right there - my husband was all annoyed that Labyrinth and Jareth weren't "nerdy enough." FIE ON HIM, I say.
Covet, I you so much right now. Whoever's got the shiny Captain America shield buttons, you BETTER TAKE PART because I WANT ONE.
Covet, I you so much right now. Whoever's got the shiny Captain America shield buttons, you BETTER TAKE PART because I WANT ONE.
This. I need to see how many buttons I have left, I burned through so many this year and I had 150 each of a main and a bonus button!
I really liked the buttoneering by mail thing last year, so thanks so much for running it this year Covet! I'm going to try and figure that out this weekend
Alright guys. I finally got off my arse and came up with a plan for mail order buttoneering, so listen up!
Excellent! So the fact that I just now got off MY arse and looked at the forums for the first time since PAX means I haven't missed out on the mail button trade!
I probably won't get to the form for another day or two, but Pickett and I both have a fair number left (ordered 200, got 238 each), so we'll be sending some to you.
I have a ton of buttons left. There were just not that many that were able to swing by PC room this past year :-/ Looks like I will have to re-use the same button next year (If I can even go to PAX).
I could probably mail mine out, ill have to see how much it will cost.
Today's news post is rather hilarious and potentially a game changer for buttoneering:
The plan is to do tons of great PA pins but also pins for games and publishers. I’d love it if you could get an Assassins Creed pin at the Ubi booth during PAX or maybe sit in on a panel for the next Halo and walk out with a sweet pin. I really want pin trading to be big at future PAX shows!
Looks like future PAXes are gonna be shifting into overdrive for everyone addicted to buttons!
He wants pin trading to be big at "future" ones? Kinda a dick move to not even mention Butoneering after being given big displays of pins every year...
He wants pin trading to be big at "future" ones? Kinda a dick move to not even mention Butoneering after being given big displays of pins every year...
Yeah I'm not sure I'd say dick move, but definitely a little bit of an unintentional slap in the face. But they're pins, not buttons! It's different! /sarcasm...
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I thought about it, and even started one. I'd love it if Vanilla would add the ability for the forums to be an OAuth2 provider so I wouldn't need to be in the business of account creation.
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Haha, wow, you just put the biggest smile on my face. It took me a minute to realize who you were until I looked up your button. That was definitely awesome, I don't remember you saying if it was your first time or not but you certainly didn't seem like it was.
It was awesome meeting you, and getting stopped as I was making a run for the bathroom lol.
I really only managed to trade like.. 5 buttons during PAX, the rest happened during the meetup on Sunday, but my most memorable moment is RichSoCash coming to my hotel to give me a set of his pins/magnets he made. I feel really bad that I didn't get to give him one of my buttons or meet him though, because my phone decided to turn off notification messages and I had no clue he was in the lobby waiting for me
RichSoCash, if you by chance still want a button from me, I'm totally willing to mail one to you. Let me know. o:
[x]In awe that my 30 minute badge window prediction was pretty close to accurate.
[x]Badge (HOLYCRAPIGOTA4DAY!)
[x]Hotel
[ ]Airfare
[ ]Buttoneering Buttons
[ ]Challenge Coin
PA-based authentication would be baller.
If buttoneering.org will be needed for PAX East, I'll be sure to get the iOS app ready in time. Next Prime we'll have the app and I will have a bonus button for those that present the iOS/Android app to me.
See you all next year, and if anyone is at East I'm sure I'll have a button for that too! It just doesn't feel like a PAX without giving purebuttons some money.
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oh and apologies to the person that I took both buttons from instead of one (when it wasn't directly offered) I was really tired and worn out by then, and the previous 3 or so people had offered both their buttons so I was kinda on auto-pilot - wasn't being a douche intentionally !
can't remember who it was off hand and I haven't gotten home yet so haven't unpacked and worked out which buttons I did / didn't get yet
I may also, if folks missed out on the hotcakes "Geek Girls Turn Me On" button, make a 2nd small run of them for next year.
Sounds great to me, ill be sure to bring them with then. Might even make another button for east, even though I hear buttoneering isn't a big thing at east like it is at prime.
[x]In awe that my 30 minute badge window prediction was pretty close to accurate.
[x]Badge (HOLYCRAPIGOTA4DAY!)
[x]Hotel
[ ]Airfare
[ ]Buttoneering Buttons
[ ]Challenge Coin
East does trading cards instead of buttons. Watch the forums for the card trading thread to appear!
TWDT '13: Hufflepuff OotP
That's what I hear. o: I'm looking forward to seeing that thread appear so I can learn a bit about it.
[x]In awe that my 30 minute badge window prediction was pretty close to accurate.
[x]Badge (HOLYCRAPIGOTA4DAY!)
[x]Hotel
[ ]Airfare
[ ]Buttoneering Buttons
[ ]Challenge Coin
PAX Prime Attendee since 2006, BYOC Attendee 2008-2012, Buttoneer 2010-2014
https://www.pinnypals.com/pals/alegria
That's from my phone. I still haven't cleaned off my camera, so I might have a better one later.
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YAY! I can see my buttons! Gabe & Tycho have a thing of mine, that makes me feel oddly special. =D
Yeah...maybe next year I'll bring several different button boards to choose from. I barely got everything on the board last year, and given we had WAY more designs signed up, I bought a bigger one - but I guess not everyone made it to drop off a button, so the board looks a little empty. Ah, well.
PAX Prime Attendee since 2006, BYOC Attendee 2008-2012, Buttoneer 2010-2014
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This was my first time going to PAX and I had an absolute blast. I think next time I will try to join the buttoneering because it looks like a great time but this year I didn't even know it existed! I just kept seeing people with loads of buttons (particularly the Big Red and David Bowie buttons) and thinking they looked pretty freaking cool.
I know this isn't the right spot for this exactly but I thought you might be able to help me out anyway.
I'm looking for someone who is willing to do a trade of theater buttons. I'm looking for Wolfman theater, and I'd be willing to trade Serpent (or any other random swag button) for it. I know there is a Swag thread, and I'll probably post there, but it seems like they're all looking for big fancy things like T-shirts. Let me know if anyone has an extra Wolfman theater button out there. I have some random swag and it's an important button to me, so I'd be willing to work something out!
Thanks!
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You just vindicated my button choice right there - my husband was all annoyed that Labyrinth and Jareth weren't "nerdy enough." FIE ON HIM, I say.
Covet, I
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This. I need to see how many buttons I have left, I burned through so many this year and I had 150 each of a main and a bonus button!
I really liked the buttoneering by mail thing last year, so thanks so much for running it this year Covet! I'm going to try and figure that out this weekend
Excellent! So the fact that I just now got off MY arse and looked at the forums for the first time since PAX means I haven't missed out on the mail button trade!
I probably won't get to the form for another day or two, but Pickett and I both have a fair number left (ordered 200, got 238 each), so we'll be sending some to you.
I could probably mail mine out, ill have to see how much it will cost.
Fie on him indeed! Labyrinth is super nerdy! And super awesome! My name's Sarah so I was always a little gaga over that movie...
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Fill out the form before November 25.
Send me your buttons by November 30.
Buttons will be sorted and shipped by December 15.
I'm local. I can come pick them up if that's easier.
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I need to do this sooooooooon.
Looks like future PAXes are gonna be shifting into overdrive for everyone addicted to buttons!
Yeah I'm not sure I'd say dick move, but definitely a little bit of an unintentional slap in the face. But they're pins, not buttons! It's different! /sarcasm...