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@annniekk

Anyways! Being mean for no reason is out, being kind for no reason is in

If you are scrolling through Tumblr trying to distract yourself from something you don’t want to think about, or you’re looking for a sign. It is going to be okay. Just breathe. You are alive and you matter. 

i reblog this everytime i see it because i always need it and figure others do toom

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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.

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. 

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:

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.

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

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 )

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.

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

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

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

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

cards against humanity is run by the pure force of chaos I stg. I like what they did with their booth after tho

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shout out to my fave under-appreciated unbreakable transgender hero

The thing that gets me is he didn’t ASK for the impenetrable skin. Poseidon was just like “cool cool but you know what you need? skin of IRON. don’t worry bud it’s on the house”

so… Poseidon made his trans boyfriend bulletproof.  alright.

Disliking someone who is black does not make you racist

Disliking someone because they are black makes you racist

Disliking someone who is gay does not make you homophobic

Disliking someone because they are gay makes you homophobic

Disliking someone who is a woman does not make you sexist

Disliking someone because they are a woman makes you sexist

EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THIS

Why seriously tell people to kill themselves when ‘deactivate your account’ is 1000x funnier and 1000x less shitty?

unplug your controller dawg

forfeit my buddy

concede dude

Call your ISP and tell them you’ve had enough.

Now that we have these fantastic alternatives I don’t wanna see anyone telling people to kill themselves anymore.

HURR DURR DURR IMA DOG

I DON’ USUALLY REBLOG SHIT LIKE THIS BUT I LAUGHED SO HARD IT ECHOED

why the german language and the dutch language are NOT the same

German: Der See means the lake
Dutch: De zee means the sea
German: Das Meer means the sea
Dutch: Het meer means the lake
German: No
Dutch: No
Me: *learns a word in a foreign language*
Me: *forgets the word in every other language I know including in my native one*

there are two types of multilinguals:

type 1: hey do you wanna know how to say octopus in polish? type 2: I swear to god if you ask me one more time to translate something I will KILL A MAN