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Miscellaneous => General Chat => Topic started by: Kimimaru on December 25, 2008, 01:47:47 PM
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I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, whether you celebrate it or not! I got Mario Party 8, New Super Mario Bros., $50, and an 8GB Flashdrive. I hope everyone enjoys his/her gifts, and I hope you all enjoy the rest of the year!
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Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good whatever time of day it happens to be in your time zone! As for gifts, a very tiny laptop and an Xbox 360 are keeping me quite happy.
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My Japanese Coach, Tetris DS, Geometry Wars Galaxies DS, Final Fantasy 4, Kirby Super Star Ultra, Animal Crossing, Metroid Prime 3, a SMRPG strategy guide in great condition, a Sonic hat, a new MP3 player, an ESV study Bible, the Out of the Silent Planet trilogy, the book Sesame Street Unpaved, and a wireless mouse. Not bad at all.
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I'd like to see pictures of that Sonic hat!
I got a huge umbrella, a sweet watch made of dark energy steel and clothes.
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A pair of moccasins, a new bedspread, Wii-themed pajamas, Ferrero truffles, a gummy spider, GameStop cards, Ice Breakers Ice Cubes peppermint-flavored gum, and an Xbox 360 Arcade. My parents and sister are pretty cool. Yeah... in about half an hour we're taking off for my aunt's house. Most of my family is anti-gaming though so I'm not counting on games. I'll go buy them with any money I get.
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One of those "game + case + styli" packs from Wal-Mart (black case, Elite Beat Agents), a few cheap PS2 titles, a couple of cheap PC games, some shirts, a 2GB thumbdrive (which now has all my Diablo II files on it so I can play it on school computers and stuff; I'll either use the rest of the space for actual files or continue using my other thumbdrive for that and load one of the Touhou games on there or something), a video card (http://themushroomkingdom.net/board/index.php?topic=9327.msg531669#msg531669) (although that was two weeks early; also, I had the sound problem mentioned in that post fixed the next day), and $50. Haven't gotten stuff from my grandparents or my relatives in Iowa yet.
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Final Fantasy IV
スーパーマリオ shirt
Rush - Hemispheres
Stargate DVD
Some cash
Some other stuff
Pretty good.
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The Dark Knight DVD
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Wii
ZEN Mozaic mp3 player
Lots of miscellaneous junk (socks, pencils, etc.)
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Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
Wario Land: Shake It!
Some supplies for my PSP
Futurama Volume 2
Some expensive cigars
A cool Mario T-Shirt
Guitar Belt Buckle
and last but certainly not least, Batman: The Complete Animated Series.
So yeah, I had a pretty good Xmas this year myself.
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Money, 7 Hawaiian shirts... (one for each day of the week!), UHF, Dodgeball (The movie), and Sim City 4.
That's all so far. We haven't really gotten together to do the party with the whole family yet, so we haven't finished up Christmas completely yet. This list also doesn't include what I got for my birthday (It being the 18th of December), which wasn't that much anyway... but I don't mind.
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Well, it's been a different (everyone keeps calling it "interesting") Christmas for me this year. With a few family members out of commission with assorted medical maladies or financial constraints and a series of mid-December snowstorms that left us with at least seven inches of snow in multiple layers--great for school canceling, sledding, and eventually efficient snow-balling, bad for trying to drive all over the place for Christmas--some celebrations have been cumulatively postponed and downsized. Traditionally, given the substantial size and generosity of my family, there are five Christmases (take that, Vince Vaughn!):
--1-- First, my great-aunt (who is also my neighbor)'s, with the gifts primarily being from her and my other great-aunt (one of those "out" this year, hospitalized) on the 24th. This is first because my dad was born on Christmas Eve and it saves everyone the hassle of going back the next day. Just my close family and my great-aunt this year (some other family members showed up later, but they're always late).
--2-- Close family (brother and parents) at our house on Christmas morning.
--3-- Christmas Day, a bit after the above, we go (dared, rather, but our dad's truck and 4-wheeling made it) to our Grandparents's. This year, "Santa" was snowbound for six days so, as you'll see below, I got some odd stocking stuffers.
Fourth and fifth are my great-grandma's and my other grandparents's, usually interchangeable in order on the 23rd, 25th, or 26th, but they haven't happened yet so I don't feel all that qualified to continue from here on out.
Gifts, as best I can remember, chronological but in no particular order!
--1-- Zack & Wiki, bag of chocolates, $20, was offered a Page-A-Day but declined and passed it on to mom, came back on Christmas for a few things and got more chocolates from my other great-aunt ("sent through" someone, no doubt).
--2-- Instant chocolate pudding mix, Twix, $1.50, hot choco mix in-a-pointed-sack, bulk box of assorted hot choco flavors (a favorite, and a joint gift to my brother and I), an orange, silly string (I've accumulated cans of that stuff over the years and I've still got five left. It's concentrated, pressurized irritation.), one of those wearable blankets.
--3-- $100 (two $50s), Drill Dozer +some GameStop coupons I tossed (I was supposed to also get Secret of Mana, mangled in description by my grandmother as "Matta", or something, but that's cool because I actually decided earlier I was going to get it on the VC. Anyway, that's where the second $50 came from in compensation) a toolbox (I don't want it now but I know I will later so I had my parents hold onto it. However, it was handy for storing all my gifts and came with a BA screwdriver-in-a-screwdriver-in-a-screwdriver-in-a-screwdriver-in-a-hammer), a German handkerchief, an emergency flashlight, a light-up pen, a fundraiser chocolate bar, four AAs, a scarf, and an unfinished and upside-down photobook of Halloween pictures of me.
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I got...
-Chrono Trigger DS
-A Fender Hot Rod Deluxe
-2001: A Space Oddysey
-Massey Hall: 1971 - Neil Young
-Clothes
-New gym Bag
-Shower stuff
-$20
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A bit of an update:
Since yesterday, I have also received two $25 gift cards to Wal-Mart and Best Buy, respectively, and an awesome watch (http://pageofstuff.googlepages.com/awesomewatch.jpg). And the picture was taken with the built-in camera in the laptop. I really love this thing.
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Had the "other grandparents" Christmas yesterday. Food was great, family was family, presents were... meh ($50 check, $15 K-Mart/Sears gift card, and PJs, something I already have. I'm set to swap the gift card for $15 with someone, though). However, my GH4 guitar also came back and my grandma let me take all their old NES stuff, so that was certainly good.
As for the previously-mentioned "great-grandma Christmas"... I somehow missed it. As in it had already happened, but we didn't go and no one told me (apparently, we've been doing it every Christmas Eve and I never noticed the pattern).
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Ended up spending my $50 from Christmas today on the BioShock limited edition and a copy of Metroid: Zero Mission (the former means I don't have to use the Golden TEM Point on it and don't have to deal with a giant download). Haven't gotten the rest of my Christmas stuff yet.
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I got 2 ds games, 1 wii game, a ds, 2 gba games, a watch, 2 cd's, all the matrix movies, the first Dark Tower book and The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
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A 50 Dollary Ebay gift card
A David Letterman Fun Fact Book
Four records wrapped in sets of two:
Niel Diamond - Headed For the Future
Police Album
Some Monty Python Album
Burlesque Humor - Redd Foxx
Some DVDs
The Man
The Andy Griffith Show 4 Episodes
Jackie Chan - Rumble In Bronx
The History Channel DVD game : Time Troopers
Some Candy Coins
A Chocolate Orange
Two clothe articles
DS flashcard made by Kingston
200 Dollar check (I'll get then money in three days. I know it's stupid but...)
50 Dollars from my aunt which I used to buy a ebay gift card
I'm still getting more money and my thing in January. (I think I got the best here) Hint notebook...
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Went out to use gift cards today. Got myself a 14-foot ethernet cable for the ecksbawksthreesickstee and Project Gotham Racing 4. I was planning to get Chrono Triggger and a RAM upgrade for the laptop, but Best Buy and Wal-Mart were out of stock.
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Merry Christmas! I got:
Wii PJs (White shirt, sky blue pants)
Green House shoes
A laptop (kinda small though)
Color pencils
I didn't ask for video games this Christmas because I feel that you can buy them at anytime for that person, and then a month or two later, they trade it off...so...yeah. That's why.
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Guitar Hero pajama pants
Über Micro knit hat
Hard-soled slippers
USB-heated fingerless gloves
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I apparently would have gotten some Wii underwear if my mom hadn't forgotten where it was in the store.
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DVDs
Tropic Thunder (Best comedy I've seen all year; Tom Cruise and Jack Black have some of the best lines ever.)
Dead Space: Downfall (A disappointment that I had high hopes for; standard run-of-the-mill faux-anime animation with an absurdly lame story. Serves only as a prequel to DS and nothing else.)
Doom [Unrated Edition] (First time seeing it; story and lots of other stuff sucks, but the FPS sequence makes up for it all.)
Scary Movie 4 and Duece Bigalow: European Gigolo (sigh)
Books
Eragon (Third time I've gotten it from my aunt; still have yet to read and probably never will.)
May Bird Book Two (Looks mildly interesting; may read one day when I'm bored.)
Games
N/A
Misc.
A bag of hella-good gourmet coffee
A cell phone (yeah!)
$25 iTunes gift card
$35 GameStop gift card
$20 Target gift card
A total of $60 in cash
All in all, a great Christmas with great presents.
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Wait, your aunt gave you the same book three times?
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This Christmas was a bit different business from usual. Sonic Unleashed was the only Wii game I wanted, and nothing was out on the DS. Aside from a new pair of headphones and the last three booster decks of Killer Bunnies (a card game that totally isn't the cheesy children's game it sounds like), I had nothing to ask for. So then I thought...maybe I could replace the random unasked-for gifts I get every year but never use, with something I've dreamed of since 2006?
See, back when Sonic 2006 came out, I wanted it. Badly. And once I saw its mediocre reception, I STILL wanted it. The problem was, they didn't release a Wii version for some bizarre reason. I considered asking for a 360 then, but figured it wouldn't be worth just one game, especially since I also asked for a Wii. Christmas 2007 passed by without much real thought.
So when Christmas 2008 rolled around, I said "Heck with it." I asked for an Xbox 360, Sonic 2006, and both Rock Band games (I'd played the first at a friend's house and liked it), just to make the 360 worth more than one game.
So there you have it. I loved Sonic 2006, and now I'm off for Unleashed. I've already played a little of that game, since I got it on the Eve, and didn't receive 2006 until our annual Christmas Day trip to my cousins' house. So here goes the rest!
All in all, it was a pretty merry Christmas. I'll actually end up regularly using most of my presents this year - in the past, I was lucky if one-fourth had any meaning to me. :P
My brother got some presents too, like Brisingr. I enjoyed Eragon and Eldest, but I'm not really interested in reading Brisingr for some reason. I guess my interest in the series waned in all the time since I've read them (I read the two one after the other).
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The author of the Inheritance Cycle, Christopher Paolini, got his start selling his books on consignment at the store where I currently work. I see him from time to time and it's kind of a pain because I have to have him sign buttloads of books and then ship them to other needy stores.
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For Christmas, I got...
MUSIC:
The Grateful Dead - Rocking the Cradle: Egypt 1978
Phish - Undermind
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Scorpions
MOVIES:
WALL-E
The Rocketeer
MISC.:
Dunlop 222 Medium Brass Guitar Slide
Some cash
A few shirts
A Sketchbook
And that's about it. I hope everybody had a great Christmas!
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Sonic! (sorry about the myspace look)
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You're too slow!
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Got the rest of my Christmas presents earlier: a $25 Visa gift card, a $2
50 GameStop gift card, $10 in cash, and an 8GB MP4 player.
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USB-heated fingerless gloves
This is the most useful thing I have ever heard of in my life.
Dead Space: Downfall (A disappointment that I had high hopes for; standard run-of-the-mill faux-anime animation with an absurdly lame story. Serves only as a prequel to DS and nothing else.)
I knew it!
Also weird hat.
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Happy
Hanukkah New Year.
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Wait, your aunt gave you the same book three times?
Yeah, second year in a row. The only gifts she ever gets me are fantasy novels, despite the fact that I've gone on the record several times as saying I generally dislike the fantasy genre.
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"Just" a bunch of extra money here, really. That, and a Borders gift card, which now justifies my previously unfounded dislike of their stores.