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[Norondor]

I got $10, which i will be using to mail out my WDSE package, having spent the last of my food money on a "good faith" rent payment about two weeks ago.

[Defenestration]

Dude, I scored. McDohl is the fucking man. (No camera though, sorry.)

Douglas Adams - The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul: I loved Hitchhiker's Guide, so this should be great! I just finished Ender's Game too, so the reading material is welcomed!

Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers: Hooray! Many people have told me the book is better! This will see use.

Some bag with a bunch of katakama on it: After recently starting tabletop gaming, a dice bag was needed.

Dungeons and Dragons 4e For Dummies: Did I really come off THAT unknowledgeable in that thread? Oh well, this is very well timed since I'm considering joining a 4e game!

Metal Gear Solid: The Novel: The perhaps slightly masochistic side of me that loves Metal Gear will enjoy pouring through this for missed backstory tidbits! Also well timed to go with...

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Can I get a ? I had an overwhelming desire to play this again a few months ago to discover that somehow the disc popped off the nub and slid around inside the case for god knows how long, scratching it past readability. Now that urge will be checked!

Megaman X4: The third to last X game that was good! Also, the only one I don't have!

Slamscape [PSX]: I... have no idea what this game is. BUT I CAN FIND OUT (review later)

Fallout: The Brotherhood of Steel: Another I've yet to play! And it says "Fallout", despite me only hearing of the name of the game before, it can't be terrible!

Jingle All The Way: You know, as much as I hate Christmas movies, this actually was pretty good too!

Dragonball Z: The Legend of Trunks: Not my favorite anime, but since it came with a original audio and subtitle option, I will certainly watch it and compare the original for scholastic interest!

And honestly, Dirty Santa was the highlight of my holiday. I got $40 from my cool aunt, but I think McDohl rolled a 20 on his awesome check and blew it out of the water!

[Kazz]

Fallout: The Brotherhood of Steel: Another I've yet to play! And it says "Fallout", despite me only hearing of the name of the game before, it can't be terrible!

 

[McDohl]

Fallout: The Brotherhood of Steel: Another I've yet to play! And it says "Fallout", despite me only hearing of the name of the game before, it can't be terrible!

 

[Roger]

First, I got a bunch of Transformers.

And from my first match for Dirty Santa, Defenestration:

Two Transformers: Beast Machines Jetstorm and Beast Wars Fuzor Skyshadow.  One turns into a jet, the other an iguana dragonfly.  Much awesome.
As well, two novels: David Brin's "Kiln People", and John Steakley's "Armor".

 

[François]

I got the Starcraft board game. My first thought was "there's a Starcraft board game?". Haven't played it yet, but it's looking kind of neat:


yes i can has zerg rush for xmas!

[Burrito Al Pastor]

I remember people were playing that at last year's PAX, when it was brand new (or possibly not even out yet at the time). There were two interesting things about it:

1) It took the people playing it some four hours to finish one game.
2) About half of them then promptly started a second game of it.

[MadMAxJr]

That Fallout BoS game is making the rounds I see...  I am glad it is so universally despised and now EVERYONE will see it.

BTW: My loot
Leather jacket
$200 cash.

[Rosencrantz]

I had a great Christmas this year. I got:
*Wall-E (BD)
*Dark Knight (BD)
*Lost Season 4 (BD)
*Reaper Season 1
*Electronics Charger Organizer Thing
*Combined total of $90 in Gamestop money
*$100 cash card
*Combined total of $50 in Amazon.com money
*MST3k: The Movie t-shirt
*"Dwight Shrute is my Sensei" t-shirt

Dogstar sent me a WDS package as well! It's back at my mom's house, but off the top of my head it included:
*A bunch of old PC games, including Gothic 3, Full Throttle (the one LucasArts adventure game I never had a chance to play!), and Sam & Max Hit the Road
*Two fantasy novels, one of which was Magic: The Gathering based
*A Star Wars book about vehicles and spaceships
*An old stuffed animal (a porcupine or hedgehog, I think)

A lot of other great stuff happened, too, and overall it really was a magical, romantic day. Easily the best Christmas I've had in a very, very long time.

[Koah]

...waitaminute, if Dohl got FO:BoS last Dirty Santa, who gave it to him?  Because I'm trying to keep track of possible re-gifting here and I think that it might've been mine at some point.

...and Zack left out the rambling, barely coherent letter I wrote him in lieu of a card.  Just think, Zack: I'm like that when I'm sober! 

PS: Details of Dogstar's package forthcoming.

[Kazz]

I got FO:BoS as a "bonus" from Max when I traded my Bully for his Makai Kingdom.  I then sent FO:BoS to McDohl for Dirty Santa.

[Guild]

I got a drunk Christmas card from Clutch, $25 cash, a $30 gift card (Wal-Mart), two sweaters, a button-up shirt, two t-shirts, The Simpsons Movie, Jujyfruit theater box candies, Sugarbabies theater box candies, a Sweet-Tarts giant candycane, various bell-shaped chocolates wrapped in foil (very awesome, expensive chocolate), a jumbo box of Nerds which my brother promptly stole and three amazing meals, one cooked by my mom, the other two by my aunt.

But the best present was spending the whole day with my family. I played my annual game of chess against my cousin, taught his new wife a reflex card game, played a new kind of Yahtzee with my aunt, uncle and brother, played Guitar Hero with my cousins and taught them to fear PK Freeze in Smash Brothers.

Best. Christmas. Ever (I say that every year, and it's always true).

[Mongrel]

From the Funnybooks thread:

SO in the first part of our "Hey let's make up for our awful FAILPRESENTS!", my wife got me the complete Tintin boxed set (I do own all the books already, but they've been in my brother's posession for years).

I'm getting her a new hard drive (and a new copy of Orange Box, but that's trivial).

Also, thanks to 1 - going back to work in an office, 2 - extremely worn out boots and 3 - pre-Christmas/Boxing Day sales, I have now spent $345 on footwear in two weeks. 

[JDigital]

My brother got me that Munchkin card game. And the expansion, with the blank cards to make up your own cards. And the second expansion. And the third.

[Mothra]

Pretty badass Christmas this year. Cooked up some popovers and omlettes for the folks, got to spend some time my brother's newborn son, and most importantly, got tons of awesome stuff:

• The Forever War, Dexter Filkins' account of the Iraq and Afgan wars.
• A 250 Gig Hard Drive to replace the one that died on me back in September.
• A new phone - the EnV², with a 4 Gig MicroSD card for music. Absolutely loving this thing.
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, heard it was a pretty good read.
• A striped hoodie/sweater with a positively delightful wool hood.
• Persona 4 (still gotta finish 3 sometime)
• Solanin, a manga ANN leads me to believe will be excellent.
• The Acid House, the latest book by the dude who did Trainspotting. Here's hoping it's an easier read (the fact that it doesn't have a glossary of terms in the back is promising, at least).
• A small journal.
• Lodger's Hi-Fi Lights Down Low, which turns out to have a lot of remixed versions of the tracks they used for the flash videos. So far, I'm impressed!

Damned fine haul if I do say so myself. Been looking forward to a lot of this.

[Ted Belmont]

LOOT UPDATE!

From MAH PARENTS: A 500GB external hard drive, Godhand, Rogue Galaxy, Odin Sphere, Mario sleep pants, and a super-warm hoodie.
From my sister and her husband: A $50 gift card, half of which I used to buy myself the Heretic/Hexen pack, the Half-Life 1 Anthology(minus TFC), Ultimate DOOM, DOOM II(with Master Levels!) and Audiosurf. I'll probably use the other half for gas.

[Beat Bandit]

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

If you didn't let-on that this was a book, that would have indeed been an awesome Christmas.

[Zach]

...and Zack left out the rambling, barely coherent letter I wrote him in lieu of a card.  Just think, Zack: I'm like that when I'm sober! 

Aww, it wasn't that bad. The use of semicolons was spot-on, and you never deviated from the thesis statement.

  Do you want a hug? Should I just wait for the rambling, booze-fueled second page?

[Dogstar]

Two new gifts to report!

First, my package from Iron Mongrel arrived. INSIDE:

A very nice box holding everything. I usually don't care about boxes, but this is a lovely high quality Christmas gift box, with a solid lid and heavy-duty cardboard paper.

1 manga - Banya: The Explosive Deliveryman.

3 PC games - World of Goo, 18 Wheels of Steel: Haulin', and The Godfather.

A Christmas card from Evil Cat calling out one Tony "Bruce Sirius Wayne" Strickland for a world-ending showdown.



Second late Christmas gift: A friend of mine, after hearing me bitch about it, dropped $75 on a NewEgg gift card with the exhortation to "Get A New Freaking Hard Drive."

[Beat Bandit]

I don't think I've mentioned here yet that I got a Netflix account for Christmas. It's awesome.

We don't have cable, and have pretty much watched every movie the local library has, which was a really good selection, but this is just tits to top all.

My sister and mom have been getting classic movies that they've apparently had trouble finding about, and while I've been working (masturbating) at my computer, I've already gone through Every Ghost in the Shell movie and episode, New Dr. Who up to the end of season four, half of classic Dr. Who, the Super Mario Brothers Super Show, and now 30 Rock on demand.

It's grand.