Only in reply to your santa if he/she has already Proxy'd you. Proxy has no way of knowing who your santa is, so you can't just send a message off to him/her.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
Only in reply to your santa if he/she has already Proxy'd you. Proxy has no way of knowing who your santa is, so you can't just send a message off to him/her.
Hypatia has done this for me in the past when I really needed to get a message to my Santa but had no idea who they were.
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Only in reply to your santa if he/she has already Proxy'd you. Proxy has no way of knowing who your santa is, so you can't just send a message off to him/her.
Hypatia has done this for me in the past when I really needed to get a message to my Santa but had no idea who they were.
Ah, yeah, Hypatia could probably do the lookup in a pinch, but (if I'm not mistaken), Proxy is not privy to such info. You'd have to ask Hypatia to handle that one.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
oh snap, there was an amazon package waiting for me when i got home from work today that i definitely didnt order for myself.
the box in question
kitty is curious about the contents of said box
note number 1
oh shit dark souls! i have definitely been curious about this game for a while now.
note number 2
my terrible secret... ive never played SOTC. but now i can! awesome!
note number 3
kitty photobomb! its the DMC HD collection, as you might be able to tell around the edges of cat there. i fucking love these games, so any excuse to replay them is a-ok in my book.
note number 4
a real awesome sounding movie that ive never heard of, starring one of the andys from hot fuzz! nothing like some brutal revenge for christmas.
note number 5
ive wanted to read this series for a long time now, so i'm quite excited about this.
note number 6
more sci-fi awesomeness.
the whole shebang.
plus proxy told me to expect another package of a more personalized nature, which is on its way through the mail at this very moment.
i have no words. thanks a ton for this awesome pile of awesomeness, santa! reveal yourself and bask in my gratitude! youre totally rad!
oh snap, there was an amazon package waiting for me when i got home from work today that i definitely didnt order for myself.
the box in question
kitty is curious about the contents of said box
note number 1
oh shit dark souls! i have definitely been curious about this game for a while now.
note number 2
my terrible secret... ive never played SOTC. but now i can! awesome!
note number 3
kitty photobomb! its the DMC HD collection, as you might be able to tell around the edges of cat there. i fucking love these games, so any excuse to replay them is a-ok in my book.
note number 4
a real awesome sounding movie that ive never heard of, starring one of the andys from hot fuzz! nothing like some brutal revenge for christmas.
note number 5
ive wanted to read this series for a long time now, so i'm quite excited about this.
note number 6
more sci-fi awesomeness.
the whole shebang.
plus proxy told me to expect another package of a more personalized nature, which is on its way through the mail at this very moment.
i have no words. thanks a ton for this awesome pile of awesomeness, santa! reveal yourself and bask in my gratitude! youre totally rad!
Random opinion push:
Your Santa won just by sending you Dark Souls. Demon's Souls was a huge surprise to me (I bought it for my brother a few Christmas' ago, and he got fed up with it, so I played through it instead and LOVED it). Despite owning Dark Souls since launch, I have literally only started playing it 4 days ago, so how's that for timing?
In contrast, SotC felt over-rated to me. There's a really great idea there, but I was often frustrated with a lack of good player feedback to help me understand what was going on. The 'boar' and 'turtle' bosses were striking examples of the game not doing a great job with clues. Oh, and the last boss. Ugh. But whatever. It's still worth playing, and the art style is great. Honestly, I would really love for someone else to give that core idea a shot sometime, as it definitely has merit.
Oh man, @Ah_Pook Player of Games is probably my favorite of Banks' Culture books. I'm jealous that you get to read it for the first time.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Shipping is definitely going to cost an arm and a leg. That's what I get for getting such heavy/ big things.
Mine was about to cost ~$100 just to ship. Then I changed gears from UPS to USPS, and it dropped to $14. I'll take it!!
Just got back from shipping my packages through FedEx. Express Saver it came to a little over 50 for both of the Secret Santas I'm in this year.
Good news for my Santee, it should be delivered Wednesday(ish).
This is some pretty swank stuff. Mind you, that pan thing is going to be used to make takoyaki now. I have no idea what the initial intent was, but its making fried octopus balls, now.
The cardgame thing is awesome, now I just need to find someone to play with. My room mate refuses. But I'll leave it on my game shelf and maybe someday someone will be all, 'That looks awesome, what is it' and I can be all, 'WELL LETS FIND OUT.'
Also I have no pets or children, so instead I use my high class leather couch. It's kind of like a child, at least I take about as much care of it as I would a child.
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The cardgame thing is awesome, now I just need to find someone to play with. My room mate refuses. But I'll leave it on my game shelf and maybe someday someone will be all, 'That looks awesome, what is it' and I can be all, 'WELL LETS FIND OUT.'
Wow! I used to play the shit out of the old card game of Netrunner (still have the cards too). I've heard from a few people that this is a redone version and a lot of fun. Def something I'm going to get in the future.
I got home and my girlfriend had an ear-to-ear grin, and just pointed to a big box sitting on the table. I open it and:
Land ho, Captain! Don't forget the map before you row to shore!
- First Mate Santa
My own One Piece-style Jolly Roger. As soon as I have the chance I am scanning the hell outta it!
The map led me to a package, which I greedily opened.
Oh ho! If yer readin' this, that means ye probably have me map. Well, the treasure's yours now if ye can dig it all up!
This be a box of snacks from close to home. I bought the box off of a sea wizard who said it would keep them as fresh as the day I plundered them. Let's hope he was right!
- Captain Key
First package:
Lots of tasty treats! I nearly tore into them right then, but decided to be patient and enjoy them over the holidays.
Second package:
Now here's a game for any pirate worth his salt. It's full of skullduggery, backstabbing, thievery, piles o' gold, bluffs, double bluffs, and triple bluffs. Works great for 2 to 8 players if ye haven't assembled yer whole pirate crew yet!
Citadels! It's my first card game. I'm excited to try it out! I'll try to get family to join in as well.
Third package:
Pieces O' Eight! Doubloons! Cold, hard cash!
(Only accepted as currency in Kutaragi Bay, I'm afraid.)
$20 in PSN bucks towards One Piece Pirate Warriors! I'm a huge fan of both One Piece and Warriors, and I'd been hoping to grab it in a sale or something. Santa just made getting it a lot easier.
Fourth package:
One o' them role playin' games, compatible with any dual scrying glass handheld device. Sometimes a pirate just wants to pretend he's a plumber...
Santa, you have no idea how close I'd been to buying this recently. After being slightly disappointed with the direction Paper Mario SS takes, I was thinking of going back and playing the DS Mario & Luigi games (already played the original a while back).
Fifth package:
Har har har! Ye think I'd be enough of a blunderin' idiot to write down the real location of the gobble gobble fruit?
Curse you Captain Key!
...Then I noticed that there was a letter inside the bauble.
If ye believed that, maybe ye need to brush up on yer piratin' skills! Recite this voodoo incantation on yer browser o' choice for a little extra trainin'!
(...on second thought, PM me when you read this and I'll send it over.)
These games taught me everything I know! Come to think of it, maybe that's why I have those docking violations. Hm. Well, anwyay, complete those and maybe someday you'll have enough skill to come take the Gobble Gobble Fruit from me!
-Captain Aaron "Skeleton" Key of the Tacky Lamp Crew
Eeeeeeeee! I'd never played these games before. I like the occasional adventure game and I've heard these are solid.
Finally, there was an envelope with my Santa listing the goodies, his identity (AaronKI) and general classiness. It's a bit too long for me to transcribe.
My cat fell in love with the crystal ball and the packaging. At one point it was walking around the house with the ball's note in its mouth, dangling the whole thing around.
Okay, now that I'm done with this I can go back to reading other people's gift gets.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
This is some pretty swank stuff. Mind you, that pan thing is going to be used to make takoyaki now. I have no idea what the initial intent was, but its making fried octopus balls, now.
This is some pretty swank stuff. Mind you, that pan thing is going to be used to make takoyaki now. I have no idea what the initial intent was, but its making fried octopus balls, now.
That's a swank package you got. Good games and he's taught you how to fish (in a manner of speaking).
Takoyaki is the food of the gods and it would be the first thing I did as well. The local Japanese place stopped serving it and it broke my fucking heart.
Nice haul
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The map led me to a package, which I greedily opened.
Oh ho! If yer readin' this, that means ye probably have me map. Well, the treasure's yours now if ye can dig it all up!
This be a box of snacks from close to home. I bought the box off of a sea wizard who said it would keep them as fresh as the day I plundered them. Let's hope he was right!
- Captain Key
oh snap, there was an amazon package waiting for me when i got home from work today that i definitely didnt order for myself.
the box in question
kitty is curious about the contents of said box
note number 1
oh shit dark souls! i have definitely been curious about this game for a while now.
note number 2
my terrible secret... ive never played SOTC. but now i can! awesome!
note number 3
kitty photobomb! its the DMC HD collection, as you might be able to tell around the edges of cat there. i fucking love these games, so any excuse to replay them is a-ok in my book.
note number 4
a real awesome sounding movie that ive never heard of, starring one of the andys from hot fuzz! nothing like some brutal revenge for christmas.
note number 5
ive wanted to read this series for a long time now, so i'm quite excited about this.
note number 6
more sci-fi awesomeness.
the whole shebang.
plus proxy told me to expect another package of a more personalized nature, which is on its way through the mail at this very moment.
i have no words. thanks a ton for this awesome pile of awesomeness, santa! reveal yourself and bask in my gratitude! youre totally rad!
I was going to wait til your next package arrives but I have not the willpower, it was me!
You were fun to buy stuff for, although I think I might have creeped your girlfriend out as she didn't respond to my facebook message, apologies to her if I did!
The other package is of a more local nature and the bloke and the post office said it should't be longer than a week, so should hopefully be there tomorrow!
Here's the picture I used to print the flag if you want a digital copy. (If you zoom in, you can still see a bit of purple on the edges left over from the Baroque Works logo. Whoops!)
For those that can't tell, one of the snacks is a chocolate Abraham Lincoln bust. I practically live in Springfield, IL and you can't go anywhere without tripping over Lincoln's name or image, so I thought it was appropriate. :P
Edit: Super slow response because we've been decorating our tree tonight. :D
@AaronKI - Thanks for the digital version of the flag! I really dug the whole package and backstory. Your stalking was outstanding, given the 'spy' you contacted and everything. :P
@AaronKI - Thanks for the digital version of the flag! I really dug the whole package and backstory. Your stalking was outstanding, given the 'spy' you contacted and everything. :P
Funnily enough, I saw your comment about being a Koei fanboy (even had a note about it in my Turkey Stalkipedia file) but I didn't realize that Pirate Warriors was by Koei and didn't make a mental connection to the Warriors series until your gift post. That worked out well. :D
I also decided on Mario & Luigi after hearing launch week twitter grumblings over Sticker Star. I figured there was a good chance you would pick it up and hoped that you would like it, but thought M&L would give you something to fall back on just in case.
Conveniently, I already had an etsy account for top secret spy communications. :P
Got an Amazon package today, which while I'm expecting an Amazon package I ordered stuff last night and it wasn't expected until Monday. I open the box to find the stuff I ordered. So unless you are REALLY stalking me santa, I think Amazon decided to upgrade my prime shipping to next day.
This is technically a couple of days late (and I'm a terrible person for keeping Santa waiting) so without further ado...
The parcel arrived just as I was starting to fret my own gifting efforts, so it was met with equal parts joy and shame (an intoxicating mix). I used the obligatory 'hide my address with zany local currency and free burger coupon' method for presentation:
In the absence of any adorable pets/offspring/plush novelties, I chose to be gifted under the judgemental eye of Soundwave. Excitement bubbling, I was about to get started when he interrupted with a dry observation.
"Cookbook?" He vocalised coldly in a minor chord. "Sounds kinda gay."
As always I ignored Soundwave's casual homophobia and tore into the package. Book confirmed!
But... how did Santa know my secret love for Liza Minnelli? Wait a minute...
After re-reading the title about seventeen times to work out the metering of the sentence, I realised it was in fact a cookbook. Soundwave walked off in disgust.
Inside the cover, a note from Santa reveals that it's a family production- stories and homestyle American recipes from his father, with editing by his wife and photography from Santa himself. A lot of love and butter clearly went into the making of this book. It's a unique gift; surprising, and deeply personal in a way I truly appreciate.
I'm terrible at cooking, but forever fascinated by American culture and cuisine. The Thanksgiving food discussions on Giant Bomb and Tested are always a weird delight (you seriously put marshmallows on casserole??) and this book has given me an authentic window into that madness. My girlfriend can't wait to try some of the recipes, so I'm probably going to need bigger pants soon.
Santa really nailed this one! But Santa wasn't done...
It's difficult to showcase Santa's talent without revealing my address to the world, but holy shit, he's gone and modelled my home for Google Earth! This is both amazingly thoughtful and terrifyingly intimate and I LOVE IT!
Take that, two-dimensional peasants. Seriously, y'all thought your Santas were good stalkers? Try living with the knowledge they've recreated the very walls in which you sleep; that they know exactly where your only exit lies. I'm doomed. But this truly is a wonderful gift! My housemates and I have always wanted to try modelling the place for Google Earth, but it was realistically never going to happen. So a sincere thank you from the whole household.
But who is this mysterious kindly Santa from the north? Why, none other than PA veteran @Icemopper, a shining beacon of class and all around handsome motherfucker. Thank you sir, and Merry Christmas to you! I will try and be less of a ghost on PA in the new year.
Two thumbs up (collective groan).
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This is some pretty swank stuff. Mind you, that pan thing is going to be used to make takoyaki now. I have no idea what the initial intent was, but its making fried octopus balls, now.
The cardgame thing is awesome, now I just need to find someone to play with. My room mate refuses. But I'll leave it on my game shelf and maybe someday someone will be all, 'That looks awesome, what is it' and I can be all, 'WELL LETS FIND OUT.'
Also I have no pets or children, so instead I use my high class leather couch. It's kind of like a child, at least I take about as much care of it as I would a child.
Time to get a new roommate! :twisted:
I'm so glad you liked the gifts. If you haven't figured it out already, then the pan is used to make traditional Danish Æbleskiver. Its a dessert that is only made around the holidays, and it's served with jam and sugar. I'll send you a recipe later, but it is awesome that you can use it to make japanese food also. I had no idea that they had something similar.
And regarding Netrunner, I really hope you can find someone to play it with. It is one of the best new board games this year, and there is constant talk about it in the Board game-thread in Critical Failures.
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As in I send a message to MY santa?
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Only in reply to your santa if he/she has already Proxy'd you. Proxy has no way of knowing who your santa is, so you can't just send a message off to him/her.
Hypatia has done this for me in the past when I really needed to get a message to my Santa but had no idea who they were.
Ah, yeah, Hypatia could probably do the lookup in a pinch, but (if I'm not mistaken), Proxy is not privy to such info. You'd have to ask Hypatia to handle that one.
3DS FC: 5343-7720-0490
How do you know?
I doubt it is me, I don't have anything yet!
The magic of Tracking numbers.
the box in question
kitty is curious about the contents of said box
note number 1
oh shit dark souls! i have definitely been curious about this game for a while now.
note number 2
my terrible secret... ive never played SOTC. but now i can! awesome!
note number 3
kitty photobomb! its the DMC HD collection, as you might be able to tell around the edges of cat there. i fucking love these games, so any excuse to replay them is a-ok in my book.
note number 4
a real awesome sounding movie that ive never heard of, starring one of the andys from hot fuzz! nothing like some brutal revenge for christmas.
note number 5
ive wanted to read this series for a long time now, so i'm quite excited about this.
note number 6
more sci-fi awesomeness.
the whole shebang.
plus proxy told me to expect another package of a more personalized nature, which is on its way through the mail at this very moment.
i have no words. thanks a ton for this awesome pile of awesomeness, santa! reveal yourself and bask in my gratitude! youre totally rad!
Random opinion push:
Your Santa won just by sending you Dark Souls. Demon's Souls was a huge surprise to me (I bought it for my brother a few Christmas' ago, and he got fed up with it, so I played through it instead and LOVED it). Despite owning Dark Souls since launch, I have literally only started playing it 4 days ago, so how's that for timing?
In contrast, SotC felt over-rated to me. There's a really great idea there, but I was often frustrated with a lack of good player feedback to help me understand what was going on. The 'boar' and 'turtle' bosses were striking examples of the game not doing a great job with clues. Oh, and the last boss. Ugh. But whatever. It's still worth playing, and the art style is great. Honestly, I would really love for someone else to give that core idea a shot sometime, as it definitely has merit.
Enjoy your fantastical haul!
Perhaps I can interest you in my meager selection of pins?
Still pretty cool!
Player of Games is probably my favorite of Banks' Culture books. I'm jealous that you get to read it for the first time.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Mine was about to cost ~$100 just to ship. Then I changed gears from UPS to USPS, and it dropped to $14. I'll take it!!
Just got back from shipping my packages through FedEx. Express Saver it came to a little over 50 for both of the Secret Santas I'm in this year.
Good news for my Santee, it should be delivered Wednesday(ish).
This is some pretty swank stuff. Mind you, that pan thing is going to be used to make takoyaki now. I have no idea what the initial intent was, but its making fried octopus balls, now.
The cardgame thing is awesome, now I just need to find someone to play with. My room mate refuses.
Thanks @the mantiz!
Also I have no pets or children, so instead I use my high class leather couch. It's kind of like a child, at least I take about as much care of it as I would a child.
Wow! I used to play the shit out of the old card game of Netrunner (still have the cards too). I've heard from a few people that this is a redone version and a lot of fun. Def something I'm going to get in the future.
I got home and my girlfriend had an ear-to-ear grin, and just pointed to a big box sitting on the table. I open it and:
First package:
Second package:
Third package:
Fourth package:
Fifth package:
...Then I noticed that there was a letter inside the bauble.
My cat fell in love with the crystal ball and the packaging. At one point it was walking around the house with the ball's note in its mouth, dangling the whole thing around.
Okay, now that I'm done with this I can go back to reading other people's gift gets.
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fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
That's a swank package you got. Good games and he's taught you how to fish (in a manner of speaking).
Takoyaki is the food of the gods and it would be the first thing I did as well. The local Japanese place stopped serving it and it broke my fucking heart.
Nice haul
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I enjoy that the note says "die dig."
Santee, giftage part 1, most of part 2 and part 3 is on its way to you! I'm still working on part 4, but it should be good to go on Monday.
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"The power of the weirdness compels me."
I was going to wait til your next package arrives but I have not the willpower, it was me!
You were fun to buy stuff for, although I think I might have creeped your girlfriend out as she didn't respond to my facebook message, apologies to her if I did!
The other package is of a more local nature and the bloke and the post office said it should't be longer than a week, so should hopefully be there tomorrow!
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c45/AaronKI/turkeyflag.jpg
Here's the picture I used to print the flag if you want a digital copy. (If you zoom in, you can still see a bit of purple on the edges left over from the Baroque Works logo. Whoops!)
For those that can't tell, one of the snacks is a chocolate Abraham Lincoln bust. I practically live in Springfield, IL and you can't go anywhere without tripping over Lincoln's name or image, so I thought it was appropriate. :P
Edit: Super slow response because we've been decorating our tree tonight. :D
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Funnily enough, I saw your comment about being a Koei fanboy (even had a note about it in my Turkey Stalkipedia file) but I didn't realize that Pirate Warriors was by Koei and didn't make a mental connection to the Warriors series until your gift post. That worked out well. :D
I also decided on Mario & Luigi after hearing launch week twitter grumblings over Sticker Star. I figured there was a good chance you would pick it up and hoped that you would like it, but thought M&L would give you something to fall back on just in case.
Conveniently, I already had an etsy account for top secret spy communications. :P
Look what you made me do, Santa!
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In the absence of any adorable pets/offspring/plush novelties, I chose to be gifted under the judgemental eye of Soundwave. Excitement bubbling, I was about to get started when he interrupted with a dry observation.
"Cookbook?" He vocalised coldly in a minor chord. "Sounds kinda gay."
As always I ignored Soundwave's casual homophobia and tore into the package. Book confirmed!
But... how did Santa know my secret love for Liza Minnelli? Wait a minute...
After re-reading the title about seventeen times to work out the metering of the sentence, I realised it was in fact a cookbook. Soundwave walked off in disgust.
Inside the cover, a note from Santa reveals that it's a family production- stories and homestyle American recipes from his father, with editing by his wife and photography from Santa himself. A lot of love and butter clearly went into the making of this book. It's a unique gift; surprising, and deeply personal in a way I truly appreciate.
I'm terrible at cooking, but forever fascinated by American culture and cuisine. The Thanksgiving food discussions on Giant Bomb and Tested are always a weird delight (you seriously put marshmallows on casserole??) and this book has given me an authentic window into that madness. My girlfriend can't wait to try some of the recipes, so I'm probably going to need bigger pants soon.
Santa really nailed this one! But Santa wasn't done...
It's difficult to showcase Santa's talent without revealing my address to the world, but holy shit, he's gone and modelled my home for Google Earth! This is both amazingly thoughtful and terrifyingly intimate and I LOVE IT!
Take that, two-dimensional peasants. Seriously, y'all thought your Santas were good stalkers? Try living with the knowledge they've recreated the very walls in which you sleep; that they know exactly where your only exit lies. I'm doomed. But this truly is a wonderful gift! My housemates and I have always wanted to try modelling the place for Google Earth, but it was realistically never going to happen. So a sincere thank you from the whole household.
But who is this mysterious kindly Santa from the north? Why, none other than PA veteran @Icemopper, a shining beacon of class and all around handsome motherfucker. Thank you sir, and Merry Christmas to you! I will try and be less of a ghost on PA in the new year.
Two thumbs up (collective groan).
Which is the absolute best compliment a Secret Santa can get.
I should pick this up now that I have the PS3. I am ashamed to say I've played neither, yet.
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Time to get a new roommate! :twisted:
I'm so glad you liked the gifts. If you haven't figured it out already, then the pan is used to make traditional Danish Æbleskiver. Its a dessert that is only made around the holidays, and it's served with jam and sugar. I'll send you a recipe later, but it is awesome that you can use it to make japanese food also. I had no idea that they had something similar.
And regarding Netrunner, I really hope you can find someone to play it with. It is one of the best new board games this year, and there is constant talk about it in the Board game-thread in Critical Failures.