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cah:

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A few weeks ago, we exhibited at Emerald City Comicon. Typically when we attend conventions, we try to create some spectacle that captures people’s attention and sells games. Like the time we brought a marching band to PAX Australia.

At ECCC, we set up a “Pay What You Want” booth and encouraged people to give us any amount of money in exchange for our games. We put games on a table, set up some signs, stood off to the side, and waited to see what would happen.

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We brought 2000 games. Before the convention began, we took bets on what would happen:

  • Tom thought we’d sell out in a few hours.
  • Alex thought we’d run out on the of the second day of the con.
  • Trin thought that we would not run out of games because we are no longer cool or relevant.
  • Jenn got a fever and didn’t know what was happening.

We were all wrong. 

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The doors opened, and attendees swarmed the booth. Within five minutes attendees realized they could just take games and walk away. A small group grabbed armfuls of free games and left, but most people paid something. Within an hour, the booth looked like this:

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We ran out of games in 51 minutes.and made $8042.48, or 18.7% of the games’ retail value. In other words, we lost $685.44 per minute.

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Attendees put lots of other stuff in the payment box too.

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Some things you put in our box:

  • Five Canadian Dollars ($3.72 USD)
  • Ten Euros ($10.66 USD)
  • Eighty Philippine Pesos ($1.59 USD)
  • One Chinese Yuan ($0.14 USD)
  • One Cubone Pokemon Card, XY Breakthrough (Avg price - $0.68 USD)
  • One Magic: The Gathering Eternal Masters booster pack wrapper (No Value)
  • One handwritten “Any Pizza Free” and “Twisted Flicks + KPC” Coupon from a Papa Murphy’s in Kirkland, WA (Estimated Value $25.00 USD)
  • One $1 Bill folded into a bowtie ($1.00 USD)
  • One “FeelTheBurn.org” $1 bill. ($1.00 USD)
  • Two halves of a $1 bill ($1.00 USD )
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Once we sold out, we had to figure out what to do with our booth space. 

On Saturday, we gave our space to artists who weren’t able to get a table at the con. People showed up to exhibit cosplay horns, board games, recycled journals, and comic art.

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On the last day of the con, we set up a station for mailing letters to representatives.

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We provided pens, paper, postage, envelopes, writing tips, and the address of every US Senator. 

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Over 200 letters were written by con attendees, including the most bad ass Imperator Furiosa cosplayer we’ve ever seen.

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We’re still waiting on Immortan Trump’s response.

land-of-blitheness-and-catharsis:

anyway. here’s the top 5 grammatically unusual phrases containing the f-word that resonate with me the most currently

1. what’s so fuck then
2. what the hap is fuckening
3. Shut Your Fuck
4. fuck of
5. something’s fucky

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zendaysa:

If you only care about trump attacking Syria because it could start a major war and not about the fact that syrians have been suffering for years at the hands of America and in their darkest times will continue to suffer, then you’re an asshole and you really dont care about anyone but yourself lmao

tlatophat:
“ someponys-scribbles:
“ krakenpocalypse:
“ capacity:
“ pisshets:
“This picture has a refreshing energy
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It is inspiring and gives me the courage to keep fighting.
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This picture reminds me that strange ladies in ponds distributing swords...

tlatophat:

someponys-scribbles:

krakenpocalypse:

capacity:

pisshets:

This picture has a refreshing energy

It is inspiring and gives me the courage to keep fighting.

This picture reminds me that strange ladies in ponds distributing swords is no way to run a government.

You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.

I mean if I ran around, sayin’ I was an Emperor, ‘cause some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!

squigglydigg:

what the heck is a bed

so I was chitchattin’ it up with @whatisthisnonsense again about the Bendys and we came up with this AU.  in a nutshell: Good Ending where Bendy realizes Henry isn’t to blame for his situation, works together with Henry to take down a corrupted Final Boss Joey, and then Henry decides to offer Bendy the chance to leave that horrible studio for good and, y’know, come home with him to have a better shot at life in the real world

so he goes home with Henry, and Henry introduces this Real Life Cartoon to his niece Susan and his sister Darlene.  Darlene, aware of Henry’s roll-with-it attitude (his voice clips in-game are WAY too chill) but exasperated at the fact that “HOOOWWWWW IS THERE A REAL LIFE CARTOON HERE,” throws her hands up and decides to roll with it as best she can, too.

Susan, who admires her animator uncle, is FLIPPIN DELIGHTED because HOLY SMOKES IT’S HER FAVORITE CARTOON CHARACTER AND HE’S

R E A L

itsyaboitaako:
“i keep forgetting to post this but i’ve been laughing at this for like 3 days
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itsyaboitaako:

i keep forgetting to post this but i’ve been laughing at this for like 3 days