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Post by DarkMatter (?) » Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:27 pm

SANTEE ACQUIRED

INITIATING GIFT SEARCH

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Post by Dr.Dinosaur » Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:29 pm

Time to put together the best most awesome gift package for my Santee!

I actually can't wait to go SHOPPING! :yay:

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Post by MrMaterial » Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:41 pm

wow i swear i posted. It should have been on the second page! :v:

Well anyway, my shirt size is medium and my favorite pony is Pinkie Pie!

I also like random old stuff; 70's stuff to decorate my pad with would also be awesome! If not either of those then something car related is also welcome. I don't mind reading material!

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Post by blasmeister (?) » Sun Nov 18, 2012 9:23 pm

The fun begins immediately December 25th :sweetiebot:
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Post by Dragoness (?) » Sun Nov 18, 2012 9:23 pm

TARGET ACQUIRED

PREPARING PACKAGE


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Post by Captain Funkadelic » Sun Nov 18, 2012 10:17 pm

blasmeister wrote:The fun begins immediately December 25th :sweetiebot:
The fun shall be doubled! :excite:

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Post by Madeline (?) » Mon Nov 19, 2012 12:04 am

I already have some gift ideas for my awesome Santee. :chillin:
Captain Funkadelic wrote: The fun shall be doubled! :excite:
Let us have... fun! :speakest:

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Post by Westy543 (?) » Mon Nov 19, 2012 1:09 am

... :allright:

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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Mon Nov 19, 2012 6:52 pm

Ideas - I has them. Now I can only hope they are the right ones!
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Post by Haller » Mon Nov 19, 2012 8:19 pm

And done.

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Post by Dexanth (?) » Mon Nov 19, 2012 10:20 pm

So many choices, oh, what to do, what to do! :gonkity:

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Post by drunkill (?) » Mon Nov 19, 2012 11:03 pm

I would just like to say thanks to Willsun for doing this a second year, having to put up with users who cannot read and leave out information in emails or who need to be tracked down to post gift ideas :-P

He also forgoes gifts for himself, which is a bold act!


THANK YOU WILLSUN. :yay:

I look forward to posting my opening on the 25th of December and also reading what everyone else has gotten.
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Post by Aramek (?) » Mon Nov 19, 2012 11:19 pm

I'm excited for my target.

Hear that, target?
I'm excited for you. :party:
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Post by Durandal (?) » Tue Nov 20, 2012 1:29 am

Oh man, this means that ONE OF YOU is searching through all my posts and otherwise stalking me to figure out what I might like as a present. And the same thing no doubt is happening all over, like some kind of high-stakes holiday Mafia game.

Never guessed Christmas would make me feel so irrationally paranoid :ohgawd:

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Post by Venusy (?) » Tue Nov 20, 2012 2:23 am

Research is fun! :excite:

Though I did need to rule out one potential idea straight away, but oh well, more to spend on [REDACTED]! :party:

(Still worried about buying the wrong thing though :flutterdear: )

EDIT: Let's just redact a little more of that, just in case.

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Post by synthorange » Tue Nov 20, 2012 3:29 am

Man, I hate it when a Santee is so easy to stalk. :v:

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Post by Damathacus » Tue Nov 20, 2012 8:27 am

Just a quick reminder because people are so excited, don't make a post when you send your package out as it may give you away to your santee based on time they get their package.

Also I might have a bit of a situation. Basically what's going on is that my family asked me to join them for a Christmas and new year at their holiday home. Now this a problem because they don't have internet connection there, so I will not be able to upload any pictures while there because I'll be using my phone and shitty 3G to surf. :-/

I have two solutions figured out. First one is that if I receive my package before I have to leave, I open it, take the unboxing pictures, upload them to imgur or whatever before I leave, and then I should be able to make the post at Christmas even with crappy 3G as I only have to link the already uploaded pictures. Second option is simply that I make my gift post after I come back home after the new year.
Which one of these do you guys prefer? Personally I like the first one better.

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Post by ozone » Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:57 am

I just sent out my gift, or did I? :iiam:
Damathacus wrote:I have two solutions figured out. First one is that if I receive my package before I have to leave, I open it, take the unboxing pictures, upload them to imgur or whatever before I leave, and then I should be able to make the post at Christmas even with crappy 3G as I only have to link the already uploaded pictures. Second option is simply that I make my gift post after I come back home after the new year.
Which one of these do you guys prefer? Personally I like the first one better.
First option sounds good. As long as nobody accidentally stumbles upon your imgur upload, you should be fine and you'll be able to post your gift-opening ritual the same day as everyone else. Second option is is pretty good as well but I'd personally prefer if everyone posted their gifts around the same time so the thread can be spammed with everyone's awesome new stuff.

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Post by !saak (?) » Tue Nov 20, 2012 2:26 pm

Aramek wrote:I'm excited for my target.

Hear that, target?
I'm excited for you. :party:
As Aramek's previous victim I can attest to the goodness of this :vogue:
Damathacus wrote:I have two solutions figured out. First one is that if I receive my package before I have to leave, I open it, take the unboxing pictures, upload them to imgur or whatever before I leave, and then I should be able to make the post at Christmas even with crappy 3G as I only have to link the already uploaded pictures. Second option is simply that I make my gift post after I come back home after the new year.
Which one of these do you guys prefer? Personally I like the first one better.
Thirded on that first option, that way you can join the fun of showing what you got!

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Post by Dexanth (?) » Thu Nov 22, 2012 12:31 am

Stalking complete, I think I am about 90% sure what my Santee is getting :gotcha:

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Post by drunkill (?) » Thu Nov 22, 2012 1:40 am

Coal? :gotcha:
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Post by Madeline (?) » Fri Nov 23, 2012 2:49 pm

Watch out, Santee. I may have already begun buying you gifts! :party:

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Post by Mad Surge (?) » Fri Nov 23, 2012 2:54 pm

My santa doesn't need to stalk me, I gave him/her/it so many choices, it must be the easiest job ever :gotcha:
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Post by Venusy (?) » Fri Nov 23, 2012 4:26 pm

I've ordered stuff for my Santee, now it's just a case of waiting for it to arrive. Or has it already arrived? :liarjack:

To my Santa: I've updated my original post with the shirts I bought from WLF's Black Friday sale (I have a problem! :wat: ). Hopefully you didn't buy any of them, but it's fine if you did. :modesty:
To my Santee: I would have got you something from there as well, but I'm too cheap to pay for expedited shipping, so chances are the order will arrive after Christmas, and that wouldn't make a very nice present! :-P Maybe I've got you a shirt from somewhere else instead, maybe I haven't and got you other things instead! :horse:

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Post by Vivianinatoga (?) » Fri Nov 23, 2012 8:09 pm

Ready to get shit done. :party:
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Post by Durandal (?) » Fri Nov 23, 2012 8:42 pm

The swag escalates :smug:

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Post by synthorange » Sat Nov 24, 2012 5:47 am

I wonder if my santee likes ponies.

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Post by !saak (?) » Sat Nov 24, 2012 7:03 am

Hey Santee, I'm making you something special :)

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Post by Vivianinatoga (?) » Sat Nov 24, 2012 9:33 pm

Isaak wrote:Hey Santee, I'm making you something special :)
Everyone should now be expecting the pinkest damn pie ever.

:-P "...Hehehe, how about a slice of 'Pink-an' pie!"
:vogue: "It's pronounced, 'peh-KAHN,' accented on the second syllable."
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Post by Madeline (?) » Sun Nov 25, 2012 12:23 am

I was a bad Santee and spoiled myself a bit, because I had a gift card. :modesty: So now I have Devil May Cry HD Collection, Gran Turismo 5 XL Edition, and Darksiders 2 Special Edition for Wii U. And a couple of CDs.

Rest assured I am being punished by having to download 8 separate patches for Gran Turismo. Right after I had to sit through a mandatory 2GB install. :facehoof: But I won't be buying myself any more swag, unless it's necessary stuff like groceries.

edit: Oh FFS, it has you do another 8GB install after the patches finish. This is worse than the Wii U patch was.

edit 2: An hour and 38 minutes to get to the main menu from start up, thanks to all the installs and patches and a user agreement. Forget coal, get your naughty santees this game and make them install it over and over again.

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Post by drunkill (?) » Sun Nov 25, 2012 2:54 am

Please don't say what you got until the 25th of December. If you are away on holiday then You can probably write a PM to a moderator to post it for you at the right time.

Edit: haha, welp at least it's cleared up.
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Post by Madeline (?) » Sun Nov 25, 2012 3:38 am

It was a gift card I got from my family, sorry about being unclear. :v: I haven't gotten any Secret Santa gifts yet, sorry for the confusion.

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Post by Venusy (?) » Sun Nov 25, 2012 6:44 am

Paperback Writer wrote:edit: Oh FFS, it has you do another 8GB install after the patches finish. This is worse than the Wii U patch was.
I don't own a Wii U, but unlike the other consoles, you can apparently hit cancel and the patch will then download in the background while you play your game. :spike101:

Of course, this is bad for games where you really don't want to download the patch (like the Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed Wii U one that made a mandatory mission impossible to complete, not sure if they've re-patched it yet).

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Post by Madeline (?) » Mon Nov 26, 2012 6:00 am

Sorry to be confusing, I was talking about one of the PS3 games I got, Gran Turismo 5. Sony in their infinite wisdom don't allow for background downloads of patches unless you have PS Plus, so I just put the game in and did other things while it installed and updated itself. I just didn't think it would take an hour and 40 minutes before I got to try playing the game. :squintyjack:

But as the owner of a Wii U, I can vouch that it lets you do background downloading of normal patches. It just didn't allow for that with its first system update on launch day, which took an only slightly less awful hour and 20 minutes to d/l and install itself. Otherwise it's a big improvement on the way the PS3 does things.

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Post by ixnay (?) » Tue Nov 27, 2012 9:58 pm

Everything for my santee has been purchased, and I am just waiting for half of it to arrive. They're gonna like it! :scootawoo:

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Post by Madeline (?) » Wed Nov 28, 2012 2:20 am

I might have purchased some gifts for my Santee already! Or I may be laying red herrings to throw potential Santees off the scent. :gotcha:

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Post by Aramek (?) » Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:50 am

On and beyond my Secret Santee, I have purchased waaaay too many gifts for people already. There's something wrong with me! :gonkity:
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Post by DarkMatter (?) » Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:05 pm

Aramek wrote:On and beyond my Secret Santee, I have purchased waaaay too many gifts for people already. There's something wrong with me! :gonkity:
Do you have that problem too?

I find that, when it comes to buying people Christmas gifts, I have a hard time stopping. I'll see something I think someone will like and be like "OH I HAVE TO GET THIS TOO".

I have a problem. A Christmas problem. :gonkity:

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Post by Dragoness (?) » Wed Nov 28, 2012 1:06 pm

If I wasn't hindered by a very restrictive budget, I'd probably be waiting on about 15 different gifts to give out to family and friends right about now.

Giving is so fun :allears:
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Post by Pineapple » Wed Nov 28, 2012 1:33 pm

Glaed wrote:If I wasn't hindered by a very restrictive budget, I'd probably be waiting on about 15 different gifts to give out to family and friends right about now.

Giving is so fun :allears:
Isn't it? :allears:

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