{"id":16136,"date":"2017-02-03T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16136"},"modified":"2017-02-01T02:19:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T02:19:14","slug":"pax-south-2017-part-2-modeling-masquerades-and-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/03\/pax-south-2017-part-2-modeling-masquerades-and-miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"PAX South 2017 Part 2: Modeling, Masquerades, and Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So at PAX shows I attend a lot of meetings with game companies showing off their new games, and that\u2019s why my Part 1 article was mostly about.\u00a0 But I also take a lot of pictures that aren\u2019t related to any of that stuff, but are still cool.\u00a0 So we\u2019ll be looking at all that stuff in Part 2 of my PAX South 2017 article.<\/p>\n

Jinx<\/strong><\/p>\n

So there is an online T-shirt and apparel company called Jinx.\u00a0 They were at PAX South this year, but before I left for the show, I got an email from them saying that they would like to send me some of their clothes to wear at the show.\u00a0 So I said, sure.\u00a0 I did wear their shirts at the show, so here are some pictures proving it.\u00a0 But first, here was a giant bespectacled skull at their booth.<\/p>\n

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Here is me and my brother Ben wearing a couple of the shirts they sent me.\u00a0 I\u2019m the one on the left with the shirt with pixel video game controllers on it.\u00a0 Ben\u2019s wearing the hoodie.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s Ben wearing another one of the shirts.\u00a0 He makes a much better model than me.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s the back of the shirt I wore on the last day we were there.<\/p>\n

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So what do I think of the shirts?\u00a0 Well, they\u2019re all right I guess. \u00a0I noticed the sizes run a tiny bit small, but other than that they\u2019re fine. \u00a0I\u2019m not really the best person to review clothes, as I\u2019m not much of a fashionista.\u00a0 Most of my clothes come from Kohl\u2019s and Wal-Mart.\u00a0 Plus, a lot of the Jinx clothes had skulls on them, and I\u2019m not the kind of person to wear clothes with skulls.\u00a0 But then, I\u2019m probably not the target audience for these clothes, as I\u2019m a 40-year-old man.\u00a0 But all my brothers had heard of Jinx, so they must be a fairly popular company.\u00a0 So if you like video game related clothes, but don\u2019t like wearing shirts with recognizable logos and stuff on them, you might want to check out Jinx.<\/p>\n

Stack-Up.org<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is this neat charity organization called Stack-Up, and they provide the US military with video games and consoles for them to play on active duty and in hospitals and such.\u00a0 They do a lot of good things, so I suggest checking out their site.\u00a0 They had a contest at their booth where you could win a free game if you could do 40 push-ups in under a minute, and I won!\u00a0 They also had a T-rex walking around the show as well.<\/p>\n

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Misc.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So the next batch of pictures are just things I took, but I have no idea what they were.\u00a0 Like this big scary monster!<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s an adorable little blue piggy thing.<\/p>\n

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And an inflatable giant robot dog\u2026thing.<\/p>\n

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Cosplay<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some people go to these conventions dressed as their favorite video game characters.\u00a0 I think it would be fun to do that, but I\u2019m probably too old for that by now.\u00a0 But I took pictures of a lot of other costumes.\u00a0 There were way more costumes than what I took pictures of, but I tried to not take pictures of costumes I didn\u2019t know what they were, and sometimes I couldn\u2019t take pictures of people I saw because we were in a crowded hallway.<\/p>\n

Of course I say that, and the first costume I show is some barbarian lady that I have no idea what she\u2019s from.<\/p>\n

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But at least I know what Chrono Trigger is!<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen an Eggman cosplay before.\u00a0 That moustache has a mind of its own!<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s the two dancing sharks.\u00a0 Which one is the Left Shark?\u00a0 Why the one on the right, of course!<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s Shovel Knight checking out his own booth.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s Wario and Waluigi.\u00a0 There were lots of Mario costumes at the show, but I figure that\u2019s because they\u2019re easy to make.<\/p>\n

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But I think my favorite costumes this year (aside from the RIME lady from the last article), were these two young ladies dressed as Shantae and Risky Boots from the Shantae games.\u00a0 I hope they got a chance to play Monster Boy, since it has a lot of similarities with the Shantae games.\u00a0 I also hope they brought jackets to wear after the show, because it was a little bit cold for San Antonio last weekend.<\/p>\n

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And that\u2019s all for PAX South.\u00a0 Thanks for reading my articles, and I hope you enjoyed them and my pictures.\u00a0 This was definitely the best PAX South yet.\u00a0 But the best part of all was getting to spend time with my dad and brothers who went with me.\u00a0 Let me know if you have any questions!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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