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PAX East Prank 2014: Kind of like the A-Team
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In 2008 we had Bad Horsing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC3v_Q1RAyE
In 2009 The Boo Flashmob:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-vm4CpzWpM
In 2010 Salmon Security:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgRwnjsQPII
In 2011 EAST Ninja Delivery Service:
In 2011 PRIME The Lando Society:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36048S0Qxn4
In 2012 EAST Aperture Safety:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN9snZXrpjk
In 2012 PRIME The Alphathon:
In 2013 EAST: Elections for The Arcadian Ambassador
In 2013 PRIME Mustache News:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6_AbT4HPcA
http://mustachenews.com
In 2014 EAST: ???
The PAX Prank community tradition is back and once again we need your help! We need able individuals to help organize and be involved in this year’s prank.
Before I continue please read the Prank Mission Statement:
The PAX Prank strives to be fun for everyone involved, be it the one(s) being pranked (henceforth known as “targets”) or the ones pranking (henceforth “pranksters”). The PAX Prank will never be something with malicious intent. It will strive to never embarrass targets (much). It will be mindful of people who want no part in it, will not push the issue, and will always respect the authority figures of Penny Arcade Inc., PAX, and Greater Seattle/Boston. The PAX prank will not cause any damage emotionally, physically, or financially to anyone, whether they are involved directly or indirectly.
As per tradition, this year's prank is being kept under wraps from the general public
. But we do need interested volunteers! If you would like to join our organization please complete our application provided below. Please do not respond if you cannot fit within the confines of the mission statement above or the criteria below.
Requirements:
You must not be opposed to Twitter, GroupME, and can potentially get SMS updates or potentially phone calls. We typically coordinate our various pranks via Twitter and GroupMe.
You must be over 18. Sorry folks.
You must be at least moderately outgoing. What we do will call a lot of attention to ourselves. We will probably be interacting with some of the celebrities that are at PAX as well. In other words, YOU WILL BE SEEN! If attention, social interaction, and having people probably laughing at you and/or wanting to praise you/shake your hand -- among other things -- upsets you, the prank may not be for you.*
*Note: If you would like to be involved in the creative aspects of the prank (content, design, etc) rather than the actual presentation please feel free to apply but specify that preference in your application. We’re always looking for help.
You must be willing and able to keep up with prank communications on the prank forums including participating in threads.
You must be able to keep a secret. There may be mass emails, Skype/tinychat calls, and other private conversations between now and then. We want to keep the reactions of our targets pure; surprise is the key here. Since we are getting more people in on the joke, the potential for leaks increases, so please don’t sign up if you know you are bad at keeping a secret.
You must be available either Thursday night or Friday morning before the show opens. This rule is a little more lenient. Most of us will be doing the Pre-PAX dinner, Pub Crawl, or the like, so specifics at this time are sketchy. This is for a last minute meeting to go over anything that might have come up, and give opportunities for a run through of the physical prank. It will be coordinated to fit everyone’s schedules as best we can, and we will do two meetings if needed, but if you can’t be there on either day for 15 to 30 minutes tops, don’t bother signing up.
So if you're ready to venture into a zone of danger, come join us for a colossus 2014 PAX East Prank!
http://bit.ly/E2014PrankApp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC3v_Q1RAyEIn 2009 The Boo Flashmob:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-vm4CpzWpMIn 2010 Salmon Security:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgRwnjsQPIIIn 2011 EAST Ninja Delivery Service:
In 2011 PRIME The Lando Society:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36048S0Qxn4In 2012 EAST Aperture Safety:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN9snZXrpjkIn 2012 PRIME The Alphathon:
In 2013 EAST: Elections for The Arcadian Ambassador
In 2013 PRIME Mustache News:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6_AbT4HPcAhttp://mustachenews.com
In 2014 EAST: ???
The PAX Prank community tradition is back and once again we need your help! We need able individuals to help organize and be involved in this year’s prank.
Before I continue please read the Prank Mission Statement:
The PAX Prank strives to be fun for everyone involved, be it the one(s) being pranked (henceforth known as “targets”) or the ones pranking (henceforth “pranksters”). The PAX Prank will never be something with malicious intent. It will strive to never embarrass targets (much). It will be mindful of people who want no part in it, will not push the issue, and will always respect the authority figures of Penny Arcade Inc., PAX, and Greater Seattle/Boston. The PAX prank will not cause any damage emotionally, physically, or financially to anyone, whether they are involved directly or indirectly.
As per tradition, this year's prank is being kept under wraps from the general public
. But we do need interested volunteers! If you would like to join our organization please complete our application provided below. Please do not respond if you cannot fit within the confines of the mission statement above or the criteria below.Requirements:
You must not be opposed to Twitter, GroupME, and can potentially get SMS updates or potentially phone calls. We typically coordinate our various pranks via Twitter and GroupMe.
You must be over 18. Sorry folks.
You must be at least moderately outgoing. What we do will call a lot of attention to ourselves. We will probably be interacting with some of the celebrities that are at PAX as well. In other words, YOU WILL BE SEEN! If attention, social interaction, and having people probably laughing at you and/or wanting to praise you/shake your hand -- among other things -- upsets you, the prank may not be for you.*
*Note: If you would like to be involved in the creative aspects of the prank (content, design, etc) rather than the actual presentation please feel free to apply but specify that preference in your application. We’re always looking for help.
You must be willing and able to keep up with prank communications on the prank forums including participating in threads.
You must be able to keep a secret. There may be mass emails, Skype/tinychat calls, and other private conversations between now and then. We want to keep the reactions of our targets pure; surprise is the key here. Since we are getting more people in on the joke, the potential for leaks increases, so please don’t sign up if you know you are bad at keeping a secret.
You must be available either Thursday night or Friday morning before the show opens. This rule is a little more lenient. Most of us will be doing the Pre-PAX dinner, Pub Crawl, or the like, so specifics at this time are sketchy. This is for a last minute meeting to go over anything that might have come up, and give opportunities for a run through of the physical prank. It will be coordinated to fit everyone’s schedules as best we can, and we will do two meetings if needed, but if you can’t be there on either day for 15 to 30 minutes tops, don’t bother signing up.
So if you're ready to venture into a zone of danger, come join us for a colossus 2014 PAX East Prank!
http://bit.ly/E2014PrankApp
Irresponsible Random Chatter - The IRC Webcast | Toasty Corp. Productions presents Video Games of 2010
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Always loving this stuff and excited to get in on it again.
We usually don't have any sort of a schedule until maybe 2-3 weeks prior to pax. We don't even try to come up with a schedule until the official pax schedule comes out.
We will have at least 1, usually no more than 3, *scheduled* things per day. These may involve going to a specific panel, or being in a specific line, or whatever. Those get scheduled based on the events in question, and totally independent of availability of people. Once those events are scheduled, people can look at their pax schedule and try to see if they want to do those things or not. Some do, some don't, and both are fine.
In addition to schedule things, there are two other types of things:
First, there's "general time frame" things. After we schedule the scheduled activities, we ask that everyone give their general availability for pax times. People should have had a chance to figure out their "pre-pax" pax plan and have a general idea of "here's a block of time where I could probably hang out for shenanigans." These times are not in stone, and we don't expect them to be. PAX is super fluid and we know that you may think you have a few hours "free" at some point, and then get caught up in something and end up not available. That's totally ok and expected. Anyhow, we try to see where people's free blocks line up and loosely plan on "engagement activities" for those time periods. These are things that can be done quickly, do not require any long time commitment, people can come and go during, and do not revolve whatsoever around the greater pax schedule.
Secondly, there's impromptu stuff. We use GroupME to communicate during pax, and it has been extremely effective. Sometimes we will see an opportunity to do a thing in a way/time/place we did not expect, and we'll send out messages saying "hey if anyone's around here, come on over let's do this thing." Also, sometimes people end up being more free than they expected and send out a "hey I'm not doing anything right now, want to do some of XYZ?"
We will usually have a playbook of sorts to work from for both of those scenarios.
The only thing I would stress as far as time commitment goes is that everyone should try to make at least one thing, whether it's scheduled or not. If someone is involved in the planning work up front, that's cool too. The main thing we ask is to not sign up and be 100% absent. We expect participation if you're getting involved, one way or another, but there's no specific requirement on time. If nobody in the group remembers anything about you, that's a bad sign
Irresponsible Random Chatter - The IRC Webcast | Toasty Corp. Productions presents Video Games of 2010
Really just excellent camera work there. You guys must have hired some pros.
and as a bonus, here's the edited (read: short) version of the elevator 14, which happened right before the first Q&A of East 2012
But seriously, scientist, ninja, sounds like fun! I am both a scientist and a ninja so I feel well qualified.