{"id":44,"date":"2011-03-07T18:33:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T22:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/okpop\/?p=44"},"modified":"2012-01-18T18:38:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T22:38:56","slug":"what-is-in-my-bag-for-pax-east-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/okpop\/2011\/03\/07\/what-is-in-my-bag-for-pax-east-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"What is in my bag for PAX East 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PAX East<\/p><\/div>This will be my second PAX <\/a>event and I learned a lot from last year’s inaugural PAX East<\/a> as to what I should bring and strategies for how to manage my time. There is a ton of stuff to see and do and you will NOT get to everything you want to see.<\/p>\n

So what am I bringing?<\/p>\n

My North Face messenger bag<\/strong>: Basically this is my man purse that comes with me everywhere, but because its a shoulder bag I can quickly put away swag and other goodies I pick up along the way without having to pull off a backpack and stand there with promotional ‘crap’ in my hand that I just don’t care to look at then and there.<\/p>\n

iPhone<\/strong>: With this one again I never leave the house without it and this will be my life line for 3 days. Access to Twitter, schedules, friends, table top gaming apps, and maybe some Street Fighter IV<\/a> or Game Dev Story<\/a> while waiting in line.<\/p>\n

iPhone charger<\/strong>: With the amount I know I will be using my phone this will need to charge me up at some point in the day.<\/p>\n

GameBoy(s)<\/strong>: I love my GameBoys and plan on bringing at least 1 each day with a few carts. I may mix this up with an Advance and a classic but there will be 2 carts of Tetris for some head to head play with someone. Hey when else can you tote around a 1989 Gameboy and get props for it? As far as carts Tetris is a must and probably some SuperMario World but don’t want to bring my whole collection.<\/p>\n

Magic: The Gathering Deck<\/strong>: There was a MTG deck in last years goodies bag that helped pull me back into the game. This year I want to make sure I get at least a few games in with people I never play. For this I plan on bringing my Elf deck that a friend made and gave to me for my birthday. This deck is not standard legal so it will be only for free play. Any tournament play be in a sealed deck game so no worries here. While an Elf deck is a bit cliche it is still my most powerful deck and my Dickwolves <\/a>Deck is not done so the Elves will have to do. <\/p>\n

Game counters<\/strong>: A small drawstring bag of game counters and dice.<\/p>\n

Pandemic<\/strong>: Pandemic <\/a>is a small and easy to carry board game and could be fun with the right people. It may find its way into my bag but only for a day no more.<\/p>\n

Pen and Paper<\/strong>: You still need these things from time to time these days.<\/p>\n

Gamer Tag Cards<\/strong>: If I have time I want to get my gamer tags and twitter on a business card to hand out at PAX. I met a lot of cool gamers last year and would love to be able to play with them some time. The only problem was exchanging contact info was always a too difficult under the circumstances. If I can I want this in hand for this year.<\/p>\n

Camera<\/strong>: I actually don’t have one so if I can borrow one this will absolutely be in my bag. There are too many cool things to see from cos-play to game previews so the camera will come in handy a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This will be my second PAX event and I learned a lot from last year’s inaugural PAX East as to what I should bring and strategies for how to manage my time. There is a ton of stuff to see and do and you will NOT get to everything you want to see. So what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1907,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60327,60328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-2","category-video-games-games","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Mil6-I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/okpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/okpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/okpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/okpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/okpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/okpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/okpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/okpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/okpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/okpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}