SXSW 2009 : The ceremonial unbagging of the swag
We're in the thick of it at SXSWi 2009! Our own Nik Fletcher unbags and disects the official South by Southwest bag full of goodies. Keep your eyes peeled from more from Austin and, if you happen to be here with us, hit us up on Twitter and meet up with us in person!
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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Michael Beck said 4:48PM on 3-13-2009
Looked more like a library tote than a bag of swag... more useless literature than anything else! lol
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sinesolis said 10:36PM on 3-14-2009
that was a pretty bad unbagging...seriously. How about laying everything out and taking pictures or panning across it all instead of just tossing shit around and never actually showing anything up close. And who was the mouth breather operating the camera? Darth Vader?
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Grant Robertson said 10:38PM on 3-14-2009
That's hilarious. Last year, we did a gallery of photos and people complained that we didn't do video, or that the gallery wasn't appropriate.
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The Mouth-Breather Behind the Camera