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What's in your backpack/fannypack/purse
Haterot
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This will be my 1st time at Pax. After watching some YouTube and catching a special on G4 (HD channel we get at home) I noticed just about everyone carrying some sort of container (minus swag bags).
So, simply asked, whats everyone carrying around? And more to the point what SHOULD you be carrying around while at Pax?
So, simply asked, whats everyone carrying around? And more to the point what SHOULD you be carrying around while at Pax?
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Theres no bag check so no place to store things. If you buy something, get lots of swag, or need something with you (food, medicine, etc) then thats whats the bag is for. Epically if you don't want to go back to your hotel that much.
A lot of people don't have much in their bag, because it slowly fills up as the day goes by from swag/purchases :P
Umbrella
Plastic Ziploc bags (for portable electronics if it rains)
Charging stuff
PAX schedule/program
Room for schwag
Pockets:
Wallet
Personal media player
Camera
Cell phone
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Laptop
Camera (small point-shoot)
DS
iPod
Chargers for all the above
Headphones
Water Bottle
This year I might try and bring my DSLR but the backpack is much larger and last year even though I have a great backpack, it was getting rough on my back after being on my feet for nearly 8 hours.
DS
Umbrella
Game CD's if I need any for the BYOC
Camera and/or Camcorder
Nalgene Bottle
Sure there will be more but don't want to fill it up too much so it's not that much to carry and got room for swag like everyone else.
Inside my bag I'll have my Nalgene, a couple of cliff bars, my small cd case for byoc, my DS, and one of those new ds game portfolios from Hori.
Nintendo DS
HTC P4350 (used as both a cell phone and a way to keep my eye on upcoming panels)
Digital Camera
Zune (although I might leave that in the hotelroom safe this year, it's not like I actually used it during PAX last year)
The rest is room for swag.
In my bag last year: DS, cellphone, camera + chargers these things. And COOKIES (for handing out to the lovely forumers and anyone else I encountered). Bags are also nice in case you get leftover Subway, or some kind of packaged food/drink that you don't want to hold, and for swag, although they hand out large bag-things, which are nice too.
My pretty pink DS and small game case
A digital camera
Cell phone
Wallet
My little travel pack thing I throw in every purse, which has a mini first aid kit, tiny silverware, a swiss army knife and tons of other little helpful things
A snack bar
A can or bottle of bawls/pop/gatorade/ect
Pen and paper for getting peoples handles, email addys, phone numbers ect.
A deck of MTG
A set of gamers dice
And lets not forget.... Swag!
I had a point and shoot camera and my cell phone in my pocket. In my backpack, I had:
* UMPC (for periodic upload of pictures to flickr
* Nintendo DS and games
* Digital Camcorder
The rest of the room was for all the swag!
But that was in the long long ago, and I hear there is much more swag to be gotten now than a human can carry with bare hands.
{Fondly remembers the PAXTrain}
Edit: Found a decent picture of it on the manufacturers site here. Think it's actually pretty tactful and kind of artsy for something that's just there to feed the rabid fanboys with too much money. Especially if I can get it for less the $20.
Haha, look at that figured out I could just link it.
Unfortunately, it doesn't have any pouches (just the main storage space), which turns out to be important. Because every time I wanted to get something out of my bag, I had to go through:
Swag, MTG deck, DS + game cases, envelope of great importance (room key, monies, etc. inside), swag/clothes which belong to friends, camera, snack, merchandise (shirts, books, CDs), PAX booklet/schedule.
I'll have a few of these this year. My friend got me really into MTG recently and now I'm always excited to play someone.
My bf preferred the backpack, so I took the messenger bag. We also brought the laptop bag that contained everything needed for BYOC (cables, lock, thumbdrive, headphones) - it stayed in the BYOC room.
In addition to copious amounts of swag, the messenger bag I carried all over PAX contained the following:
-DS case w/DS and games
-bottled water
-Vitamin C drops
-Stride Gum
-My own personal PAX Schedule, generated online that some awesome forumer created
-Beef jerky and/or dried fruit
-Extra bottle of BAWLS
-cell phone
-wallet, hotel key
-chapstick/lip balm
-baseball hat
-comb
-lotion
Basically anything I thought I'd need from the time I left the hotel in the morning until well, 2am the next day. Because anything can happen at PAX, and you never know who you're going to meet up with, where you're going to be invited or how long you're going to be there.
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Sweet, it's on!
We should start an MTG thread for PAX here.
I, for one, am eager to bring my old Ink-Treader Nephilim deck out of cobwebs, if you guys don't mind playing with a set that's no longer standard.
That's a fairly accurate statement.
AHA, you did you quote ninja you!
Ended up grabbing that bag though since it only ended up running me $15 (yay) and just kind of looks like an artistic splotch unless you stop and look at it.
DS and games
Headphones
Water
Keys
Bawls
Camera
Telephone
A folder containing the PAX Handbook and personally done-up schedules of panels/events of interest
Swag/Purchased stuff (far too much)
Lots and lots of those tasty Haze mints
Earplugs (for concerts... I have tinnitus)
Deodorant stick (this is important!!!)
I found that carrying too much stuff was a serious pain in the ass. I'd heartily suggest PAXing in minimalist fashion, especially because you're bumping into people all the time with a big bag hanging off you. For this year I think I should get a portable camcorder... so many things are better captured in video form.
I steal only form the best.
Ok so everyone (but me) has a DS, but whyyyyyyyyyyyy?
Not to mention some game companies were sending game demos to people standing in line for concerts and panels. That reminds me - I gotta brush up on my Mario Kart for this PAX! Or will Mario Kart be out and some new FOTM game be in?
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You're from Abbotsford, that's decent. (Well, it's Abby, I can't really say it's decent here)
Valley Combat and Tactical on South Fraser near Dogwood might have something.
If not, I'd recommend looking at some of the options that Mountain Equipment Co-op has, since they've got a good variety of bags at low prices. You could check out their store in Vancouver or browse online at http://www.mec.ca
I have asked my husband probably half a dozen times since I got my DS Lite (when they were first released) if he would also like to have a DS and he has always said no. I think it was the day after we booked our hotel for PAX that he told me he wanted to get a DS and so we're going to get him one of the new cobalt/black ones.
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