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Social Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: superaielman on December 25, 2011, 02:26:37 PM
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What'd you all get this year?
I got the usual family time, cooked food, etc fun times that go with the holidays, which is the coolest part. There's also shinies; I got:
Socks
Shoes
AC DC Highway to hell T-shirt
A Packers jacket
50 dollar Amazon card
25 dollar BP gas card
15 dollar subway card
Candy
Jeans (returning, didn't like)
Alloy of law
25 dollars in lotto tickets (Struck out miserably)
I'm happy.
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A printer.
Giant stack of paper for said printer.
A new office chair that kicks the shit out of my old one.
Several pants.
Sweat-jacket.
A copy of Fate/Extra that I bought and ended up under the tree :F
New shoes.
A new shirt.
New underwear.
LCD Screen Wipes.
A slinky[it's practically a tradition at this point...]
A flashlight.
New toothbrush.
A calculator.
Lots of candy.
Family got a 360 w/ Kinect and like 7 games that came with both the console and the kinect. Games include Halo Reach, Fable III, Forza Motorsport 3, The Gunstringer, Fruit Ninja Kinect, Kinect Sports, and Kinect Adventures. :F
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I actually did Christmas this year, for the first time since I was a preteen. Haul includes:
ESPN: Those Guys Have All The Fun (a history of the network)
Pajamas and bathrobe
"Come to the dark side; we have cookies" apron
A set of fireplace tools
Doctor Who stuff: TARDIS cookie jar and "desktop Dalek"
Zombie trifecta: The Walking Dead Compendium 1 (giant book, 48 issues), zombie-themed magnetic poetry, and "Pat the Zombie" (this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_the_bunny), but with...well, you can figure it out)
The Dark Knight Returns TPB
The complete Rocky & Bullwinkle
A Muppet mega-set: The first three seasons of the Muppet Show, The Muppet Movie and Muppet Treasure Island
And a stocking full of chocolate and chocolate-related products.
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Kindle Fire
Calendar (it has ponies!)
Smashbox lip gloss set
Journal (it has ponies!)
Hat
Harry Potter pins (<3)
I am sure Andrew's family got me things, too, but I'll try not to think about that.
This makes year number... uh... 6 or 7? since I stopped "celebrating" Christmas with all the trimmings of a tree and wrapped presents, etc. People around me refuse to stop doing that, though, so the gifts still come, and I still send them out...
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Lessee....
Before Christmas, my other Internet Group got me:
Cthulu Saves the World
Breath of Death VII: The Beginning
Portal 2
Sanctum
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
My folks got me an early gift of a package of 40 delicious meat-snack-products
Today, my ever-growing family gave me:
Maple Candy
Coffee Crisp
A Lindt Candy sampler
Stracciatella Lindor Balls
A Fushigi Ball
The Skylander "Wrecking Ball"
New Socks (Hooray! Bonnie's Cats peed all over most of my socks so I've been without)
A new Scarf
A couple new undershirts for layering
A new over-shirt for layering. Pretty fly.
How to Live Safely In a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
A badger-bristle shaving brush.
The Sims: Medieval
Dollars from several relatives totaling $300. This is the first time in so long my wallet has had money in it (in part BECAUSE of Christmas) that it refuses to close right, and it's not even that many bills.
I bought myself Galactic Civilizations 2, and the NBA gave me a basketball season.
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If I remember everything... I got...
Socks
Undershirts
Boxers
New sheets and a comforter
Cave Story+
and I bought myself Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
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This time, I got about 40% of the Christmas haul by myself. I'm quickly learning that I absolutely -can't- allow myself to walk into stores if I have money to burn. The clothes just keep finding me. ANYHOW:
- A couple plaid shirts from earlier in December.
- A wonderful pair of coffee-brown tennis shoes with a coal grey underlayer.
- A stitchin' black belt for my darker colored suits.
- A gorgeous brown leather executive suitcase.
- Two striped ties - one colored dark purple and a silver one.
- Two long-sleeve casual shirts, no patterns, but absolutely stunning fabric. Great for the double-shirt two-in-one.
- Four t-shirts with varying patterns and colors. This is crucial because I'm shockingly low on t-shirts and only now this became a problem.
- Jeans from earlier in December. Amazing color and fabric, but it desperately needs a cut to fit into my tiny legs. Should get that fixed this week.
- A box of Kopenhagen chocolates and a belgian chocolate brownie. This went down alarmingly fast.
- A pack of cashew nuts. What do you mean, they aren't Christmas gifts?
Yet to come: a bottle of whiskey or two (depending on whether my liaison gets Glenfiddich or Jack Daniels), and then I have no idea.
I've never gotten so much clothing for Christmas, and it feels so. Damn. FABULOUS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YjDMmjgKec).
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Nothing. My holidays rule btw.
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Some absolutely fantastic stylin clothing.
And I gave my father a list of games (as he didn't want to shop for clothes) and ended up with...Batman: Arkham City.
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-Bitchin Suit
-Bottle of Glenlivet 12-year-old
-Bottle of Glenfidditch with matching glass and (wait for it) "whisky diary."
-Return, the book about the 2010 Packers. Lotta great photos in there.
-Four tickets to the Blazers home opener
-Cooking With Beer, a cookbook (laminated because you know you'll spill on it eventually).
-Trip to visit my brother in Hawaii over Spring Break
Pretty boss.
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-Various flavors of tobasco sauce.
-Tortillas! And they weren't moldy when I got them! Yay!
-One of those sausage and cheese sets you get someone when you don't know what to get them. Considering how you can't find good sausage or cheese up here, this was pretty sweet.
-A number of trinkets to give to my students as prizes. Which are all christmas themed, so, uh. This would have worked better if the box didn't arrive literally last week.
Yeah, pretty sweet.
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- The Parks & Rec book "The Greatest Town in America"
- "100 words To Make You Sound Great"
- Wii Motion Plus remote
- Headphones I'll be exchanging for a good headset
- That tablet I won
- $100
- a plane ticket to florida
p. cool
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Part in ordering a boxing stand.
Tales of the Abyss.
stuff.
Ash as a consumate socialist and atheist, I see nothing wrong with celebrating Saturnalia. People can call it what they want. Something that lets you give things to people that you love in a socially accepted scenario that doesn't make everyone feel uncomfortable is fine in my books. It could be a bit less commercialised, but if we don't give them excuses for rampant consumerism they will just construct one for us.
Don't need the tinsel and a tree and shit. Don't even need the wrapping paper. All you need is an excuse and people worth high fiving.
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The gang and I call it Alvistide. We have a tree but only so a Commander Riker action figure can ride it.
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Lessee
- A side table (I could really use a bookself or five and space to PUT those, but for a blind gift this is still pretty cool)
- various stocking stuff (candy, homemade jam)
- A soap+cologne set
Family does white elephant, but tends not to actually trade each other much. Yielded...
- Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. I'm sure it's what you'd expect.
- $10 BP Gas card
And of course $$$
- $550. That's uh $50 from my dad and the rest from my grandparents. Uh *boggle* I guess I can maybe actually buy myself something besides bills and school books. Or at least have a nice dinner.
I should totally take over dinner duties though. Not because my family is bad at it (far from it) but because it's kinda what I'm going for and all.
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80$
50$ GameSTOP gift card.
??$ McDonald's gift card X2
Shirt X4 including one from my old High School being sold at a K-MART
Pants X3
Portable Lantern
Michael Jackson
Bed cover/wall hanger
Axe
Fate/Extra
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Jenna's family, as always, goes nuts this holiday and spends WAY more then is remotely reasonable.
My share of the lot came out to...
Disgaea 4
Florence + the Machine's new CD, Ceremonials
The new 500 Kingdoms book by Mercedes Lackey, Beauty and the Werewolf
Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2(from Kier, actually. Which is hilarious because I almost got this for him.)
Samurai Warriors 3 and Bowser's Inside Story(don't really count, I bought these for myself and stuck them under the tree with "from Jenna" on them).
8 gb flashdrive(in the stocking, but counts since that's damn useful).
First time in years I got no gift cards.
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Capitalist pig-dogs, focused on your gifts and comparing "hauls" and "loot". You make me SICK.
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Capitalist pig-dogs, focused on your gifts and comparing "hauls" and "loot". You make me SICK.
I'd list what I gave but it'd just be an empty post.
I am scrooge.
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turntechGodhead long-sleeved tee
Hero of Void tee
Skyrim
Homestuck 2012 Calendar
Pizza Hut gift card
Flavored Coffee
Kind of a light year both giving and receiving for me, because suddenly everyone is poor and has no time to do anything even if they weren't. But I'm very happy with what I got and people were happy with what I was able to give them, so it's all good.
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I don't mind celebrating Christmas, but I refuse to participate in the shopping frenzy. Presents tend to be what presents are: things I find that make me think of people. Same thing goes for birthdays, and just because.
Anyway. Like I said, Andrew's family disagrees. So they buy me things. The crazy gifts they gave me this year:
An Aperture Science mug
A crank-powered keychain flashlight
A ridiculous aluminum LED flashlight
A pair of costume-style necklaces
ANOTHER FREAKING KINDLE (the touch e-ink screen one, with special offers)
... *shakes her head*
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DVDs
Rookie of the Year
Young Frankenstein
Psych seasons 1-4
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia seasons 5-6
Due Date
Batman: Return of the Joker
Blu-Rays
How to Train Your Dragon
Stargate
Sherlock Holmes
The Green Hornet
Inglorious Basterds
Nier
Trinity Universe
El Shaddai
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
A Christmas Story bobblehead of the Dad clutching the leg lamp
A Make Your Own Root Beer kit
A shaker/strainer for my bar
Underwear and socks
A Devils shirt
Shirt, khakis, tie combo
A new pillow
Candy
$20 in scratchoff lotto tickets (Won 26 bucks this year)
$40 in PSN credit
$110 in cash
You know, I keep saying I'm gonna reduce the amount of stuff I ask for... and I actually did this year! But DVDs/BRs just get cheaper and cheaper, and despite telling them to get me less stuff, they got me MORE and somehow spent a lot less...
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Doctor Who stuff: TARDIS cookie jar and "desktop Dalek"
GODDAMNIT. Now I have to think of a different idea for a wedding present...
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Ranging all across the family in my spoiled spectrum...
$100 iTunes
$50 Gamestop
$25 Amazon
$25 Barnes and Noble
$300 Cash
Clothes! Clothes! A mixture of nice things and awesome gamer things.
Season 1 and 2 of the Big Bang Theory
Ico/Shadow of the Colossus Collection
A Hex Bug
Two keychain flashlights (one crank, one LED/battery)
Climate of Change (Book)
Bitter Angles (Book)
And a few single issue comics and magazines for the flight home
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Loot!
* Professor Layton and the Last Specter (DS)
* Bioshock (XBox 360)
* Inception on DVD
* Two small 8" frying pans
* Two packages of Brita water filters
* Two nice-looking shirts
* A ridiculously soft blanket
* Two pairs of ear buds from two separate people
* An assortment of air fresheners
* $100 gift card to Publix
* $20 gift card to Best Buy
* A 2012 calendar full of neat weather pictures (lightning and cloud formations and whatnot)
* A Wii points card with 2,000 points (Having never purchased any WiiWare or Virtual Console games, I have no idea how much this will get me)
* A couple miscellaneous food items (Candy, nuts, the usual)
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Do tell if you have another crazy present-opening story, Lance<G>
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$200 cash
$50 Gamestop gift card (will probably take it back for more $$$)
$30 Best Buy gift card
Playstation 3 Move Set (with zero games I can use it for, yesz)
2 Festive Knives. Fuck you Laggy.
Season 1 of Archer. Honestly this was one the worst shows I've seen in years.
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Do tell if you have another crazy present-opening story, Lance
Oh, wow. I actually wasn't even going to bother bringing it up since I figured everyone here had forgotten about it by now.
Okay, well, for those that don't know the tradition, let me get you up to speed. During the Christmas Eve party at my parents' place, we all get together and open a gift or two at the end of the night before people start leaving. My cousin and I have a tradition going wherein we try to make each others' gifts as difficult to open as possible. Here's a brief description of some of the things we've done to each other in the past. (http://foxkei.com/forums/showpost.php?p=93074&postcount=19979)
So what did we do this year? Well, my gift to him was this awesome knife holder (http://amzn.to/vFFmag) and a burned CD full of assorted video game and anime music. I wrapped those items like normal and stuck them behind my parents' shed in the backyard. What I actually handed him, though, was a cheap styrofoam cooler with a game case inside. The game case just had a slip of paper inside it that said "Look behind the shed." Surrounding the game case was two whole cans of spray foam. You know, this stuff (http://amzn.to/rLWal2). You use it to patch big holes or gaps in drywall or piping or whatever. Once it hardens, it's kind of like styrofoam, but much denser. I gave him the cooler full of hardened spray foam (and a trash bag -- we did it on the back porch since it was a messy process) so he could rip away at it while I worked on his gift.
He sat me down and handed me his laptop, which was running a game he had made using RPGMaker. The game had three rooms: Maze Room, Boss Room, and Death Room. I had to get through all three of them before he would give me my gift. The Maze Room was self-explanatory: it was a big maze and I had to find the exit. I did that one first and it was a cakewalk. In the Boss Room, I was supposed to fight a boss (obviously), but as soon as I stepped into that room, all I saw was a switch. I inspected the switch and it said "Congratulations! You have completed this room!" which I thought was rather odd since I hadn't actually fought a boss. I didn't say anything, though, because I figured he had something up his sleeve. The Death Room was definitely the toughest. I had to guide my little RPG character through a maze of fire, and if I touched the fire, I had to go back to the start. Just to make things interesting, he increased the movement speed of the character in this room, so one little tap of the arrow keys would cause him to shoot forward three or four spaces. This maze was only one space wide, so I had trouble navigating through it.
After about ten minutes, though, my cousin conceded defeat because he couldn't get through the spray foam with his bare hands. The spray foam was actually my dad's idea, and he said that that stuff would be the texture and consistency of styrofoam once it hardened. Well, it wasn't. That crap was as hard as a rock. There was no way you could rip it apart with your bare hands. I had to give him a steak knife so he could cut through it. Once he did, though, he extracted his "game," checked behind the shed, and received his real gift.
As for his RPGMaker game, apparently there was a slight miscommunication on his part. His girlfriend had tested the game earlier to make sure it was actually doable, and when he handed the laptop to me, he had unknowingly loaded that file instead of starting a new one. That's why I didn't have to fight the boss; on that file, it had already been beaten. I did get through the Maze Room, though, so at least I conquered one of them. Oh, and his gift to me was the Wii points card I mentioned in my previous post. He just had it in his pocket the whole time.
This year's gift battle was a bit of a dud since we both messed up, but that's okay. I'll accept a draw. We'll just have to come up with some other new schemes and try again next year.
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Michael Jackson
Okay, I'm jealous. And a bit creeped out. He's gotta be getting pretty rank by now.
I got a sweater, a Whataburger t-shirt, Barnes and Noble gift card, some tools, and the Bastion soundtrack.
The boy got Skyward Sword, Castlevania Judgment, Castlevania OoE, a Kindle, several nice drawing books, and a lot of clothes and gift cards.
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Lessee....
Before Christmas, my other Internet Group got me:
You whore, you have an 'other Internet Group'?
This is the first year I've received zero video games for Christmas.
I got
An HDTV
A calendar
Two volumes of Buffy the vampire slayer comic books
$300
Short haul, but hey, I got a tv to finally play those ps3 games on now! That's a gift that keeps on... saving my eyesight!
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A list of stuff given? I bought my sister Rhapsody DS and Elite Beat Agents, but didn't really have the money to do more than that.
EDIT: Oh and I bought Jim Dungeons of Dredmor and Sage the DLC for that game.
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Michael Jackson
Okay, I'm jealous. And a bit creeped out. He's gotta be getting pretty rank by now.
The joys of embalming and ceramics.
Also the axe is probably for the smell.
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Loot:
assorted small canned foodstuffs
2 cookbooks (Betty Crocker and my hometown church's cookbook)
4 white dress shirts (labeled "lawyer costume")
a pair of black dress shoes
a bunch of socks
a jelly thermometer
a beard trimmin' kit
3 awesome handcrafted mugs
a spaghetti pot
a box made to look like a book (gonna have to get me a small handgun to put in it, clearly)
2 calendars (1 Australia and 1 Arizona-themed. So I can feel extra bad in NY in February.)
Better than Human by Allen Buchanan, which is essays about the ethical issues raised by prosthetics and other body enhancements
Living Water: Contemporary Art of te Far Western Desert by Judith Ryan
a pair of running shoes
a nice scarf
a hooded fleece jacket
$150 in Barnes & Noble gift cards (1 textbook down, 3 to go!)
things I got myself:
Zero History by William Gibson
2 volumes of Finder, a comic by Carla Speed McNeil
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Late gifts gained:
60-day prepaid card for WoW (forgot about this, since I already have the 12-month contract...)
Bastion
Chantelise
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Make sure you use it mang. It will still shave off 2 months you ahve to pay for it.
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a box made to look like a book (gonna have to get me a small handgun to put in it, clearly)
Be sure to call it "The Complete History of Corvis Minor"
Edit: Oh. They make thermometers specifically for jellies? What's the temperature range on that?
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Late gift to myself: a new video card (budget Radeon, pretty mediocre for new games, but should play my Steam backlog fine) that comes with a free copy of Orcs Must Die.
Late gift from a friend: Orcs Must Die on Steam.
Dammit!
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a box made to look like a book (gonna have to get me a small handgun to put in it, clearly)
Be sure to call it "The Complete History of Corvis Minor"
Edit: Oh. They make thermometers specifically for jellies? What's the temperature range on that?
Or better, "Handguns for Dummies"
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I got:
A number of books
Some chocolate
DVDs of the three recentish Discworld adaptations
Super Mario 3D Land
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Pretty low-key Christmas, just the siblings and parents at the parents' place. Well, and the dogs. One of which is mortally ill, so maybe it wasn't the most relaxing Christmas ever. Christmas day involved a Firefly marathon though, which I would say makes it automatically better than many other Christmases. Stuff got:
-Skyrim
-MGS HD Collection
-Hark! A Vagrant
-Historical Preenactment Society shirt
-A bunch of less exciting shirts
-A new desk chair. Not yet assembled because Skyrim.
-$1,000 total from various people. A notable chunk of this is probably getting dropped on new tires.
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I got jeans, a new coat, 25 dollar itunes card, a sleeve for my tablet,usb drive, arkham asylum, 35 dollars. :)
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a box made to look like a book (gonna have to get me a small handgun to put in it, clearly)
Be sure to call it "The Complete History of Corvis Minor"
Edit: Oh. They make thermometers specifically for jellies? What's the temperature range on that?
400 Fahrenheit. I mostly use it for measuring water for tea, though at some point I intend to make some fudge from scratch, and you need it for that too.