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[MISC] Haddy dappy fun thread of never-ending positive PAX-related thoughts
SovietMudkipz
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As we all know, PAX is a utopia, a cornucopia of unbridled happiness.
No inconvenience will arise amongst anyone who attends a convention composed of 85,000 people and god damnthe man who entertains such impure thoughts.
No inconvenience will arise amongst anyone who attends a convention composed of 85,000 people and god damnthe man who entertains such impure thoughts.
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Sounds like you're going to be someone's bad experience this time.
Met a ton of new friends.
Met Mike and Jerry.
Met Felicia Day.
Met Wil Wheton.
Experienced the best Gaming Expo on the planet.
Had Bawls.
Went to Pre-PAX dinner.
Had cookies.
Played assassins.
Played Patient Zero.
Played tons of games.
Met the guys from Rooster Teeth.
Got a characture from Luke McKay. (One of the best things ever)
Got a fruit fucker t-shirt.
Got RvB t-shirts.
Booked my flight for 2009 in January cause I can't wait to go again.
I could go on and on.
Crappy PAX
negative Nancy >:-(
All sarcasm aside, even what little negativity I had (and I mean I would have to nitpick), it was somehow made up for in a hojillion gallons of awesomeness.
Worst Convention... Ever.
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I don't think I've had a bad experience at PAX, except for my epic fail at trying to find other ladies to come to my hotel party.
To be fair, I forgot my anti-anxiety medication at home and I'm hypersensitive to large crowds of people, and it wasn't really anyone at PAX's fault, more that I'm messed up in the head.
So no, not really, PAX is one of those rare conventions where people are generally nice. Frightening.
Oh, actually, at PAX '07 or '08, at the Front concert, there was a ball being bumped around up front, and according to my friend who was in the crush up front, some greasy scene looking type attempted to grab and pop the ball.
Other than, I dunno. This convention doesn't really draw the slavering fanboy type, and if they do show up, they generally keep to themselves, from the fear of being stared at ruthlessly.
EDIT: And PAX 08 I was annoyed with the ditzy chicks running the Patriot raffle...The guy who did the NVIDIA raffle in 06 was way more awesome.
I was stopping by the ubisoft booth (first mistake) and someone approached me, I believe it was one of the fragdolls. Anyhow she wanted me to take a ticket for their contest. I knew I wouldn't be present and I really didn't need a 1tb drive, so I said "no, its ok" Then she went on about how a terabyte was a THOUSAND gigabytes and became all bitchy when I was trying to be polite and decline.
She might of been frazzled with the leering eye of all the guys at pax, but seriously? Its a dumb raffle.
Why do people have to be dicks at pax? I thought there was a "don't be a dick" policy.
Seriously, though, bad things and bad people do occur at conventions this size. They're probably about .05% of the whole, but I experienced some incidents that threatened to crush my PAX spirit a couple times. Especially in '07 when I was fairly new and didn't know a lot of people.
Couldn't we turn this thread into a more positive one and maybe discuss how people should deal with those negative incidents? And maybe some constructive (warnings) comments about their behavior and how not to be a dick?
Sorry to sound all high-school-counselor, but seriously, if you're passive-aggressive and don't say anything (nicely, no fighting you youngins!) to the jerks, they're just going to keep being jerks and ruin someone else's time too. Or maybe they'll do it anyway....
...also it is possible that it's too early in the morning and I haven't redeveloped my jaded-ness yet today...
I should have a button made that says "DONT BE A DICK!"
Heh, there was a guy that was hanging out with me on Sunday (I think it was) and he played a practical joke on me, he had snagged my hat... and I was looking for it, and he finally pulled it out of his bag.
There's a thread for that!!
The guy on my left didn't move at all, but the guy on my right kept inching towards me and wound up smacking me in the face with his Wii-mote cord once, and nearly hit me with the whole controller a few times.
I got a little grumpy and told him to back off, but he just gave me a weird look and kept doing it anyway.
Since the guy on the other side of me didn't move a single inch there was no where for me to go to, so I just stopped, stepped out of the way, and stood there watching them finish.
Then the woman running the booth told me in a cutesy little voice "wow, you got to get a little more active than that to play, that was a good try though! good job!"
WTF? o_O
Lady just saw me get hit in the face and just acted like a was a little kid that couldn't keep up.
Grrr....
She made me almost as angry as Mr Whacky-Wiimote.
Oh well... :?
The game itself was pretty fun though.
Remember kids: When playing "activity" games, don't stand less than 1 foot away from other players!
It was really confusing and scary.
Pax-ers being horrid? no, you didn't go to the same thing as I did.
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"The power of the weirdness compels me."
If anything the above was self inflicted, so no sympathies please! Other than that I can't think of a single bad thing from PAX last year. Oh wait yes I can. IT ENDED
Walkin down those small lil hallways.. Whew.. my poor eyes have never shed so many tears. And i'm a girl.. i cry.... a lot.
So worstest experience ever was
B.O.!!!!!!
Best experience was gettin a peek at the new halo map, and then watching my boyfriend get banned from xbox live for havin the motto of "support internet porn." Oh, and messing with fimo clay to make plasma grenade earrings, that was pretty fun. Too bad my cat played with one once I took it off so now I only got one
Are you referring to Robot Chicken? Because that was actually a lot of fun.
...The incident being leaving The Boyfriend in the hotel room while hanging out with ya'll for four hours...and not having my mobile with me and instead having it on the desk in the room.
He still doesn't let me down for that.
No. He's referring to the Sealab party that didn't happen. It went for about 20 minutes before it was shut down by multiple noise complaints and security calls.
Edit: yeeaah. Just read the post directly above mine. Might be more tired than I thought.
Well if you were the dudes who jumped in front of me at Dead Space, I was pissed till they very wholeheartedly apologized to me and my friend about it. I was just glad they realized that they were cutting and said sorry to people who waited. And even then the Dead Space guy made up for it with letting us interview the Art Director I think it was.
Before you go rolling all us boy/men together into a B.O. group.
First, one stank individual can rotten a 100 foot radius pretty quickly and that shit lingers.
Second, the worst B.O. I have ever smelt was not from a male.
But I do agree the lack of deoderant is disturbing at PAX. I think we should get them to give it away in the little bags everyone gets.
40+ people/30 minutes might have been generous on both counts.
Don't stand up for them.
Re-apply, change shirts, go back to the hotel and shower at lunch, do the hobo thing and wash in the bathroom sink, I don't care just stop filling everyone’s nose with the aerosol particles of your body stench.
Agreed. I went to my room, showered, used Anti-perspirant (deodorant just helps with smell not stop sweating), and I did not freaking smell. It is so easy why can't people just have basic hygiene skills in this modern era. Not like you have an excuse to smell like a goat, when the hell were you last even around a goat?
BTW I don't smell ever. When odor shows up at my door I just kick its ass. 8-)
I encourage people to go use the pool (if your at the sheraton) Why? you get nice and clean. There is an awesome view of the city up there and its a really nice pool. No need for chemical warfare then if your squeaky clean.
And it begins:
LIST OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T REALLY BATH OR HAVE B.O.:
Viscountalpha (Uses the pool as a bathtub, you need to get up in that shit with a lather yo!)