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SXSW is not an easy thing to survive. So much of it happens outside of the conference center and into the wee hours of the morning. How do you handle an event that pretty much goes on 20 hours each day? People who attended the Mashable House party at Buffalo Billiards lived to tell the tale--and here's what they say.