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This swag you speak of...
Condor
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I was wondering what kind of free stuff should I expect at PAX? Pens and pencils, tshirts and demos, or full versions of games?
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{Fondly remembers the PAXTrain}
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
Nintendo hat
Various demos
2x bags of dice (full sets)
Gamecloud t-shirt, which I really like and continue to wear
Bawls mints
SnoBawls
Guildwars/various NCSoft posters
PAX bage signed by Gabe and Tycho
Other misc. small stuff
And I wasn't even really trying. NCSoft and the City of Heroes people were giving away full versions of their games in trivia contests and stuff.
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Pirates of the Burning Seas t-shirt (I think he gave it to me cuz I was the only person to freeze the game up during the whole event, since I actually lost and didn't finish)
Several game demos for systems I don't own.
Clout (that weird poker chip tossing game)
1 ship for Pirates of the Spanish Main
Bawls, SnoBawls, and Bawls Mints
There were also job offers to locals, discounts to US citizens on PC stuff, stuff like that. If you really swag-whore like some people, yeah you could score a huge amount of stuff. I wish I had gotten a DS glow thingy though.
Full versions of games? Hah, unless it's something like GuildWars, or you win it like that one MMO type thing.
I still remember the question I won CoH for too.
Yeah. Turbine was giving away a lot of D&D Online Betas. Even during their bar party. One guy had to do charades to a D&D monster to win a beta pass. I won it for him by yelling "GELATINOUS CUBE!"
They also were giving the beta keys away for finishing the demo at their booth on the weekend. Or if you had one in the dice bags they were tossing out at the line before it opened Friday. So I ended up with two. Wouldnt be surprised if they had Lord of the Rings Online beta keys this year.
I also got a free copy if Lineage II last year from tivia at the NCSoft booth for knowing the actor that played Darth Vader.
You know that "Did someone say Weeaboo" PBF comic?
That's basically what happens if you lose the Omegathon.
Public group flogging.
Good times for all.
Also flogging.
Ham sandwich, ham sandwich, ham ham ham...
Argh, I love my Gamecloud T-shirt. Awesome! The only sucky thing is I got this weird bleach stain on the front and it looks like crap now... I still wear it occassionaly.
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
Only problem is everyone asks me what gamecloud is and I have to explain that I have no idea what it is and the shirt was free.
Edit: Also, there were soo many bawls mints last year it wasn't even funny. Everyone would just grab one and down practically the whole tin in seconds. Im surprised nobody at PAX ever goes into caffeine-related cardiac arrest.
{Fondly remembers the PAXTrain}
I think I myself had like 10 bottles of bawls. I've probably done worse. No cardiac arrest yet. It's like the stoners who say you can't overdose from THC. Can you overdose from caffeine? I know pregnant women and people with heart problems aren't supposed to have so much. But seriously, I've drank like 4 pots of coffee in a few hours, mind you I felt like absolute shit the next day, but I recovered. Xo)
As for Gamecloud, it's like an online file sharing system. The original Penny Arcade Podcasts were posted on it.
All the people giving out stuff were either giving it to everyone or were selling it. I can't think of anything last year that someone may have wanted but was denied to them.
I wasnt able to buy one of the PA stickers because it had sold out.
Oh. Well, boobs wouldn't have helped.
Boobs always help.
I didnt manage to get to play the Pirates of the Burning Sea demo that was there as most of the time there was no organized line in anyway at their booth, and even at the end of the show sunday they wouldnt let me get one of those Getting Booty Since 1720 shirts despite not having time to play the demo.
That sucks, man. I beat the crap out of my opponent in that game. I think me yelling "YAR RUN OUT THE SWEEPS AND PREPARE FOR BROADSIDES!" might have distracted her from the game a bit.
A bottle of bawls has 67mg of caffeine. So a normal person would need to drink between 44 and 298 bottles of bawls in a relatively short period of time in order to overdose on caffeine. But, while not realistically possible with drinks, there are pills that have 200 mg of caffeine in them. So 15-100 of those would do it.
http://www.energyfiend.com/death-by-caffeine/
Very informative, thank you. It's nice to know that without being a complete and total caffeine glutton I shouldn't have to worry about killing myself.
My dad grabbed a copy off the table. For what it's worth, the guy was looking right at him.
I got a big old NCSoft bag and a Lineage 2 poster, lots of Bawls stuff (dirnks, mints, etc), City of Heroes comics, lots of PS2 demos, a FEAR demo disc, and the d20 that came in the bag.