Swag at pax has dropped off drastically. My first time, maybe 5 years ago, I went home with probably 20 t-shirts.
swag is literally nonexistent now. Maybe a lanyard or two. They don't even give out stuff in the swag bags anymore! It's all ads and like 2 superfight cards.
the only reason swag bags are still around is people keep buying the ad space
now, as for why all the expo vendors stopped handing stuff out I dunno
I think they cut back on the stuff in the bags after a couple years ago when they actually had some cool stuff in them so people tried to get as many as possible and one of the expo halls was coated in the unwanted contents.
it was the Oatmeal Year, when the oatmeal was actually part of a set of an exclusive CAH deck
It sticks out as one of the few times I've ever seen a significant number of people behaving badly at Pax. The league tournament was fun to watch but it brought in a lot of kinda gross people.
canadia doesn't let you have a firearm? this injustice...don't they know about your second amendment rights....
no joke the number of times i have had people think rights to firearms are some kind of universal human constant is kind of mind-blowing
mostly Americans but sometimes Canadians too!
an alarming number of Canadians are overly informed about law and culture by American television and cultural importation, so they believe they can do things like plead the Fifth, they believe they need to "read their rights" when arrested, they think they have a right to bear arms, and they think they have waaaaaaay more free speech than they actually have
and it's like lol you watch too much American TV, countryman
Swag at pax has dropped off drastically. My first time, maybe 5 years ago, I went home with probably 20 t-shirts.
swag is literally nonexistent now. Maybe a lanyard or two. They don't even give out stuff in the swag bags anymore! It's all ads and like 2 superfight cards.
the only reason swag bags are still around is people keep buying the ad space
now, as for why all the expo vendors stopped handing stuff out I dunno
I think they cut back on the stuff in the bags after a couple years ago when they actually had some cool stuff in them so people tried to get as many as possible and one of the expo halls was coated in the unwanted contents.
it was the Oatmeal Year, when the oatmeal was actually part of a set of an exclusive CAH deck
the cards were in the oatmeal packets
which means you had to dump oatmeal everywhere to get the cards
I really dislike max tempkin
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
It was like, cards against humanity, mtg, and league skin cards in there plus the usual ads and stuff and people would go through the line 5-6 times, put all the stuff they wanted in one bag and just leave the rest on the floor. It was everywhere.
that Sunday afternoon there were people who had hundreds of the CAH cards.
Ships have different sections that can be on fire, and a Damage Control Party consumable that instantly extinguish all fires and make you immune to new fires for ~10 seconds and also stops flooding, but then goes on cooldown.
Players tend to panic as soon as there's a single fire and mash the DCP button.
So I just hold fire for ten seconds and then shoot them some more. Here, enjoy your new fires!
Players that use DCP on a single fire are called one-pump chumps.
Right now I'm just doing some bot matches because I can't really focus and it's like shooting fish in a barrel with bots. The faster ships tend to get into shooting position before me, so I don't get many shots off.
This is me getting citadel hits with HE ammo. Sure, HE ammo has some armor penetration, but cruisers can usually take it without citadel penetrations from HE ammo.
Except this was a British cruiser and they have shit for citadel armor.
That big blue bit in the center is the citadel -- it's the most heavily armored part of ships because that's where all the juicy stuff is located, like engines and ammo stores and stuff.
So if you get a nice broadside view of a target, aim for the citadel if you have beefy enough guns that can penetrate it and you'll do citadel damage.
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I was into LoL when it was still at Pax but I'm glad it's gone now. It monopolized the con, and there were too many kids there just for League, which lead to bad behavior elsewhere. Because that just seems to be human nature with mega-fandom in shared spaces
To be honest, pax does sound kinda boring for me, but it’s a great excuse to hang out with people I haven’t before (or rarely have before) and go to a place I’ve never been so I’m pretty excited to go.
It was like, cards against humanity, mtg, and league skin cards in there plus the usual ads and stuff and people would go through the line 5-6 times, put all the stuff they wanted in one bag and just leave the rest on the floor. It was everywhere.
that Sunday afternoon there were people who had hundreds of the CAH cards.
I remember wanting to get one of each color of the little MTG decks they were giving out and thinking I'd have to work it out among friends but nope just picked them off the floor.
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Best scene from the new Star Wars is when Luke skywalker drinks blue alien milk straight from the teet
5 were maybes, my wife and i and one other dude were the only for-sures going
then the day of the other guy cancelled, and none of the maybes showed up
so it was just us and the couple hosting, and they had made food and got a bunch of alcohol and they don't even drink and they had like, cleaned up their place and got a bunch of seating together and stuff
it was sad!
we hung out for a little while and played a game of star trek settlers of catan and then left because tbh i find the dude of that couple really grating
he's this 48 year old king-geek type dude who doesn't just reference stuff, he references shit like a challenge, like he'll make an obscure star trek reference and then if you don't laugh because you didn't get it or you didn't find it funny he will ask you if you knew what it was from, and then tell you, regardless of your answer
which is incredibly wearying
the sort of guy who has made being the smartest and geekiest person in the room his entire identity his whole life and doesn't know how to deal with that not being the case, so he's constantly trying to big-dick everyone in really petty ways, and it's just like dude
i don't care
You cut me pony, you cut me deep.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
I was into LoL when it was still at Pax but I'm glad it's gone now. It monopolized the con, and there were too many kids there just for League, which lead to bad behavior elsewhere. Because that just seems to be human nature with mega-fandom in shared spaces
They managed to bring it back in a really cool way at the last East I went to... but they really needed some time in the wilderness. Having that spot right up front meant you had to fight through crowds of nonsense to see anything else, right off the escalator. It was really not great.
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
I have been weirdly preoccupied with the fact that we are all going to die over the last few weeks. It is not pleasant.
the downfall to swag bags came a bit earlier than that, though
had a year where there was so much shit in the bags, with weird shapes, that it was a nightmare getting them stuffed
so after that things had to meet certain dimensions, like if you wanted a shirt in there it'd need to be pre-folded and bagged etc
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
So in PVP the role of this ship is basically to make people panic and blow their consumables on putting out fires, and then lighting them on fire again.
Not to mention the juicy opportunity for destroyers to get some flooding going, because that does WAY more damage than fires and is also percentage-based. (Also, harder to actually hit with torpedoes.)
in fact, I think PAX East 2015 was a kind of turning point year for PAX just in general.
yeah I think East 2015 was the last time I was really excited to be at the convention itself as opposed to just hanging out with friends at the convention
Swag at pax has dropped off drastically. My first time, maybe 5 years ago, I went home with probably 20 t-shirts.
swag is literally nonexistent now. Maybe a lanyard or two. They don't even give out stuff in the swag bags anymore! It's all ads and like 2 superfight cards.
The swag bags at 2017 PAX South were really lame. Just a CPU mag, leaflets, and some cards.
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
canadia doesn't let you have a firearm? this injustice...don't they know about your second amendment rights....
no joke the number of times i have had people think rights to firearms are some kind of universal human constant is kind of mind-blowing
mostly Americans but sometimes Canadians too!
an alarming number of Canadians are overly informed about law and culture by American television and cultural importation, so they believe they can do things like plead the Fifth, they believe they need to "read their rights" when arrested, they think they have a right to bear arms, and they think they have waaaaaaay more free speech than they actually have
and it's like lol you watch too much American TV, countryman
I follow Demolition Ranch on Youtube, and the host (he's also named Matt!) is a gun nut but also a veterinarian, father of three, Mr. fix-it, etc. He's a cool guy.
Anyway, he was up in Canada (his wife ran the Toronto Marathon this year!) and he had a Canadian friend take him to a gun range up here. And they had a guy on who was a bit of an expert in Canadian (or at least Ontarian) gun law, and it was fascinating.
Like, initially, the rule was gonna be "blanket ban on 'military' weapons", but then they realized that inadvertently banned a lot of the most popular hunting rifles, which would have been an unpopular idea.
And the true minutia about what guns are 'restricted' which are 'prohibited', and which are out-right illegal (because for some reason prohibited doesn't mean that in this case!) is fascinating.
I just realized I was critically low on both calories and fluid and am trying to address that
I need a minder or something
I continue to be not capable of basic self-maintenance
I think you can get your phone to do this for you.
*shrug* maybe
what I actually mean is that I want another human being to prioritize my needs. which is such a sad statement, really.
...although some way to just remind myself to always eat when I am not hungry would be mildly useful. I'd just ignore it though so...probably not very useful at all.
whatever, I drank some water and ate a nutrient bar and ordered takeout
(working form home)
(by "working" I still mean "learning to use Blender, ostensibly to create some simulated data but actually because it's really fucking cool so I am going way into depth with it and now I secretly want to be a 3d artist or something")
I was into LoL when it was still at Pax but I'm glad it's gone now. It monopolized the con, and there were too many kids there just for League, which lead to bad behavior elsewhere. Because that just seems to be human nature with mega-fandom in shared spaces
They managed to bring it back in a really cool way at the last East I went to... but they really needed some time in the wilderness. Having that spot right up front meant you had to fight through crowds of nonsense to see anything else, right off the escalator. It was really not great.
Remember how they used to have Riot employees wade out into the crowd and give away cards? The last year League was there I watched enforcers have to escort this asian woman who was giving out cards to safety because she was in danger of being trampled.
But like 5 minutes later someone threw a foam Poro into the crowd and it hit my head and now sits on my computer tower so
matt it sounds like the main problem here was deciding to go to that party
eh, it wasn't the worst
but I do genuinely like the wife in that couple, she's a former co-worker and was the person I am actually friends with. Her husband I don't really care for and tbh I hadn't even met face to face before the party, dude's just sorta talked at me before on Facebook previously.
they're not bad people, they're just dorks and he's just a particularly irritating brand of dork who is aggressively Gen X in his sensibilities about the whole subject and it just gets tiresome to deal with
we went because we were 2 of 15 people invited and at that point literally nobody had confirmed going and my wife felt really bad for them and we had no plans that night anyway and when there's only 15 people invited it's hard to ghost someone, it's not like when there's 50 people invited and nobody notices you didn't respond
so we did it to be... polite?
and it wasn't god awful, they were nice people and they had very cute pet birds, i just find the dude irritating and kind of a stereotype dingus and it was sad to see how much effort they put into it for like, only two guests who were there for like i think two or three hours?
the downfall to swag bags came a bit earlier than that, though
had a year where there was so much shit in the bags, with weird shapes, that it was a nightmare getting them stuffed
so after that things had to meet certain dimensions, like if you wanted a shirt in there it'd need to be pre-folded and bagged etc
The only swag I miss are the magic decks. It was nice just having some pre-built ones to play folks with while waiting for things.
yeah wizards used to be pretty solid in handing those out and then they just... stopped
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
if you're not even going to bribe me with a sack of tchotchkes while I stand in line to play your beta test for ten minutes then you're not even trying to win my heart
if you're not even going to bribe me with a sack of tchotchkes while I stand in line to play your beta test for ten minutes then you're not even trying to win my heart
This year at Prime you had to walk a couple blocks away to get them and unless you tried to figure out where they were being given out you'd never know.
matt it sounds like the main problem here was deciding to go to that party
eh, it wasn't the worst
but I do genuinely like the wife in that couple, she's a former co-worker and was the person I am actually friends with. Her husband I don't really care for and tbh I hadn't even met face to face before the party, dude's just sorta talked at me before on Facebook previously.
they're not bad people, they're just dorks and he's just a particularly irritating brand of dork who is aggressively Gen X in his sensibilities about the whole subject and it just gets tiresome to deal with
we went because we were 2 of 15 people invited and at that point literally nobody had confirmed going and my wife felt really bad for them and we had no plans that night anyway and when there's only 15 people invited it's hard to ghost someone, it's not like when there's 50 people invited and nobody notices you didn't respond
so we did it to be... polite?
and it wasn't god awful, they were nice people and they had very cute pet birds, i just find the dude irritating and kind of a stereotype dingus and it was sad to see how much effort they put into it for like, only two guests who were there for like i think two or three hours?
I hope things were cool with them after you left and it didn't like, descend into a nasty marital spat.
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In fact the only tissues we do have are the cheapest, scratchiest stuff around. The type you find in public school toilets.
Every time I have to blow my nose it's like sandpapering my skin off
I think you can get your phone to do this for you.
Where we just do fun stuff and play games and hang out
And let's have it near Narwhal
Hotels and venues are both cheap out here!
It sticks out as one of the few times I've ever seen a significant number of people behaving badly at Pax. The league tournament was fun to watch but it brought in a lot of kinda gross people.
no joke the number of times i have had people think rights to firearms are some kind of universal human constant is kind of mind-blowing
mostly Americans but sometimes Canadians too!
an alarming number of Canadians are overly informed about law and culture by American television and cultural importation, so they believe they can do things like plead the Fifth, they believe they need to "read their rights" when arrested, they think they have a right to bear arms, and they think they have waaaaaaay more free speech than they actually have
and it's like lol you watch too much American TV, countryman
fear of that kind of experience is up there with laziness and -30 temperatures as a reason to blow off a party IMO
the cards were in the oatmeal packets
which means you had to dump oatmeal everywhere to get the cards
I really dislike max tempkin
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
that Sunday afternoon there were people who had hundreds of the CAH cards.
Ships have different sections that can be on fire, and a Damage Control Party consumable that instantly extinguish all fires and make you immune to new fires for ~10 seconds and also stops flooding, but then goes on cooldown.
Players tend to panic as soon as there's a single fire and mash the DCP button.
So I just hold fire for ten seconds and then shoot them some more. Here, enjoy your new fires!
Players that use DCP on a single fire are called one-pump chumps.
Right now I'm just doing some bot matches because I can't really focus and it's like shooting fish in a barrel with bots. The faster ships tend to get into shooting position before me, so I don't get many shots off.
This is me getting citadel hits with HE ammo. Sure, HE ammo has some armor penetration, but cruisers can usually take it without citadel penetrations from HE ammo.
Except this was a British cruiser and they have shit for citadel armor.
That big blue bit in the center is the citadel -- it's the most heavily armored part of ships because that's where all the juicy stuff is located, like engines and ammo stores and stuff.
So if you get a nice broadside view of a target, aim for the citadel if you have beefy enough guns that can penetrate it and you'll do citadel damage.
I remember wanting to get one of each color of the little MTG decks they were giving out and thinking I'd have to work it out among friends but nope just picked them off the floor.
You cut me pony, you cut me deep.
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They managed to bring it back in a really cool way at the last East I went to... but they really needed some time in the wilderness. Having that spot right up front meant you had to fight through crowds of nonsense to see anything else, right off the escalator. It was really not great.
had a year where there was so much shit in the bags, with weird shapes, that it was a nightmare getting them stuffed
so after that things had to meet certain dimensions, like if you wanted a shirt in there it'd need to be pre-folded and bagged etc
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Not to mention the juicy opportunity for destroyers to get some flooding going, because that does WAY more damage than fires and is also percentage-based. (Also, harder to actually hit with torpedoes.)
yeah I think East 2015 was the last time I was really excited to be at the convention itself as opposed to just hanging out with friends at the convention
The swag bags at 2017 PAX South were really lame. Just a CPU mag, leaflets, and some cards.
I follow Demolition Ranch on Youtube, and the host (he's also named Matt!) is a gun nut but also a veterinarian, father of three, Mr. fix-it, etc. He's a cool guy.
Anyway, he was up in Canada (his wife ran the Toronto Marathon this year!) and he had a Canadian friend take him to a gun range up here. And they had a guy on who was a bit of an expert in Canadian (or at least Ontarian) gun law, and it was fascinating.
Like, initially, the rule was gonna be "blanket ban on 'military' weapons", but then they realized that inadvertently banned a lot of the most popular hunting rifles, which would have been an unpopular idea.
And the true minutia about what guns are 'restricted' which are 'prohibited', and which are out-right illegal (because for some reason prohibited doesn't mean that in this case!) is fascinating.
The only swag I miss are the magic decks. It was nice just having some pre-built ones to play folks with while waiting for things.
*shrug* maybe
what I actually mean is that I want another human being to prioritize my needs. which is such a sad statement, really.
...although some way to just remind myself to always eat when I am not hungry would be mildly useful. I'd just ignore it though so...probably not very useful at all.
whatever, I drank some water and ate a nutrient bar and ordered takeout
(working form home)
(by "working" I still mean "learning to use Blender, ostensibly to create some simulated data but actually because it's really fucking cool so I am going way into depth with it and now I secretly want to be a 3d artist or something")
Same, actually.
Remember how they used to have Riot employees wade out into the crowd and give away cards? The last year League was there I watched enforcers have to escort this asian woman who was giving out cards to safety because she was in danger of being trampled.
But like 5 minutes later someone threw a foam Poro into the crowd and it hit my head and now sits on my computer tower so
eh, it wasn't the worst
but I do genuinely like the wife in that couple, she's a former co-worker and was the person I am actually friends with. Her husband I don't really care for and tbh I hadn't even met face to face before the party, dude's just sorta talked at me before on Facebook previously.
they're not bad people, they're just dorks and he's just a particularly irritating brand of dork who is aggressively Gen X in his sensibilities about the whole subject and it just gets tiresome to deal with
we went because we were 2 of 15 people invited and at that point literally nobody had confirmed going and my wife felt really bad for them and we had no plans that night anyway and when there's only 15 people invited it's hard to ghost someone, it's not like when there's 50 people invited and nobody notices you didn't respond
so we did it to be... polite?
and it wasn't god awful, they were nice people and they had very cute pet birds, i just find the dude irritating and kind of a stereotype dingus and it was sad to see how much effort they put into it for like, only two guests who were there for like i think two or three hours?
now I can be a mount&blade potato in good conscience
yeah wizards used to be pretty solid in handing those out and then they just... stopped
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
How so
in fact Canadians don't even have a right to counsel during police interrogations, I believe, which seems problematic
development hell is more of a pre-production/getting passed around before development ever starts in earnest anywhere kind of thing
I've watched it being played by people and that's the feedback
it needs more
Only eventually, is the good news.
I mean, maybe tomorrow, that's always a possibility.
But more likely, you've got at least another lifetime to live, minimum!
And then probably a perpetual void of nothingness but it's best not to think about it.
This year at Prime you had to walk a couple blocks away to get them and unless you tried to figure out where they were being given out you'd never know.
I hope things were cool with them after you left and it didn't like, descend into a nasty marital spat.