ChinaJoy 2014: Where warlocks, pandas and Kim Jong-Un collide

By Erik Crouch, August 1, 2014

File this under "we went so you don't have to."

July 31 was the first full day of ChinaJoy 2014, the annual celebration of all things even tangentially related to video games. Asia's biggest tech conference was in full force, with massive crowds, scantily-clad women, and... Barack Obama masks? Things got a bit weird.

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Leave your caption in the comments (and be sure to let us know which number photo it's for) and the best entries will get vouchers to everyone's favorite food delivery service, Sherpa's. Vouchers only valid for Shanghai, Suzhou and Beijing, but that shouldn't stop others from throwing in their two cents.

1. This is a full-body pillow with a vixen on it, for snugglin'. This is also a judgement-free zone, so we won't comment.

2. Because sometimes, one beer-helmet just isn't enough...

3. Suddenly, a dictator appears! It's super ineffective!

4. Insert hard-drive pun here. (My god, even that was a pun)

5. Background creepin'

6. Presumably advertising the XBox game: "OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Congressional Gridlock XII"

7. Well isn't this just butterflies and sunshine.

8. This is the precise moment we lost all connection to reality.

9. #HatersGonnaHate

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