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Brewed the beer that DyasAlure got for me today. Was quite fun and totally doable on a stove.
I expect a rich on beer blogpost. . .
@shadowane Also, Have you had more of the stuff in the flask? Curious what your thoughts are on it now. I always love to know what people think of my infusions. :P
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spookymuffin( ° ʖ ° )Puyallup WA Registered Userregular
I got my SS gift in the mail. Nailed it so hard, pics coming soon.
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@SkutSkut
my apologies, I might have made my clues and ciphers too obtuse to understand. However, I feel it appropriate to reveal myself as your Santa!
Previously, you had asked if someone had sent you some jump rings. I will answer in the affirmative, I did indeed send those to you.
Merry Christmas, and a Happy new year!
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jakobaggerLO THY DREAD EMPIRE CHAOS IS RESTOREDRegistered Userregular
I just wanted to post a huge thank you. My gifts of the board game variety came in and my wonderful Santa and new Danish best friend, I mean it Pen Pals for life! Santee one of your back ordered gifts just came in but they shipped it two hours away I am blaiming the elfs but you will have it next week. Here is the picture :biggrin:
Just so no one has an inaccurate view of the relative classiness of G&T and D&D I would like to point out that this gift actually is part of the D&D Secret Santa.
I claim this post on behalf of Dand/orD. Skyrim belongs to the nerds!
Do we have any idea how many people didn't receive anything yet?
I have not received anything, nor any word from a possible Santa. I'll be checking the mail again today though. Being in Japan has its benefits and drawbacks. The main drawback being so far away from my family! The second biggest is mail takes forever to get here (And shipping things from here is always iffy).
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My first secret santa just saved me! I bought a Wii U last night and I only had Mario Kart 8. I thought I gave Skyward sword away, the game my secret santa sent me from the first year I did it. BUT I STILL HAVE IT I HAVE TWO GAMES FOR IT NOW. THANKS @RADIATION!!!!
Brewed the beer that DyasAlure got for me today. Was quite fun and totally doable on a stove.
I expect a rich on beer blogpost. . .
@shadowane Also, Have you had more of the stuff in the flask? Curious what your thoughts are on it now. I always love to know what people think of my infusions. :P
Actually yes sorry I didn't say anything. It's quite tasty! The cinnamon covers up the alcohol superbly and the raspberries add a nice finish. I don't even like hard alcohol a ton so it must be good!
Do we have any idea how many people didn't receive anything yet?
I haven't heard a peep from my Santa. Santa, if you're out there, I am here tomorrow, but then I'll be out of town again for a few days!
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The_SpaniardIt's never lupinesIrvine, CaliforniaRegistered Userregular
On the twelfth day of not Christmas my true love gave to me, some Sonic games to end the gift spree. :whistle:
P.S. I'm still waiting a week later for S.Gifts support to get back to me on re-rolling 2 of the last batch of 5 gifts because someone won 3 of them. So as soon as they get back to me there will be more gifts going out.
So I had been fwd a tracking number by my Santa a while ago, but when I received the luchador mask in the mail and it didn't match up with the tracking info in the usps site I just figured the site wasn't being updated due to the holidays.
Turned out that was the second gift! I have another gift coming (usps says it'll be delivered today). Looks like Christmas isn't over for me yet!
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spookymuffin( ° ʖ ° )Puyallup WA Registered Userregular
So I got this neat box a few days ago, and have been a little busy. Nonetheless, you guys have gotta see this! @Elvenshae came through with possibly the best gifting I've ever been gifted.
It started with a box!
Inside the box was a note which took me on an amazing journey!
He found out various things about me, like my addiction affinity towards alcohol!
Also that I like to hit people things with sticks!
Also that I am a complete whore fan of Nintendo!
Also about my borderline diabetes love for chocolate!
And finally, that I neglect my body's need for rest like to be vibrant and alive!
BEHOLD! The entire haul. Know that I've already devoured a bar of the chocolate, filled the mug with beer, and the coffee cup with coffee. I plan to use the point card for the new Shantae game, as soon as I can clear out my backlog from the current Steam sale (to which I've already been subjected to, in a previous gift...
So thanks again, @Elvenshae for the great gift. You're a gigantic person among men.
PSN: MegaSpooky // 3DS: 3797-6276-7138 Wii U NNID: MegaSpooky
Not sure who got these for me because there was no name attached to it, but thank you so much for the harney & sons Paris tea!
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never-ending-reignPolish Catholicentering a world of painRegistered Userregular
edited December 2014
Thanks to @Shady3011 for my gift of 3 months of Xbox live gold There was also some XbL credit but Santa forgot they are not cross-regional. Silly Santa. So he bestowed another 3 months worth. Not sure how I should post a pic though.
edit: And Santee... your doom shall be arriving anytime now.
Got a message from a forumer with a tracking number.
UPS says it should be delivered in 5 business days, which apparently that means 10 normal days, since the ETA is Monday the 29th and it was scanned into their system on the 19th. Holiday maths are confusing and hard.
It didn't come through Proxy though, so to the forumer who PM'd me (who may or may not be my Santa, but will remain unnamed at this point), maybe check your closets and under your bed for angry elves before you sleep too soundly. Proxy gets kinda territorial about doing his thing, and candy cane shanks aren't nearly as festive as they sound.
So, ten days have passed, and UPS is doing God's Santa's work delivering a huge bundle of Christmas joy to me today.
As per normal, it's time to bring the bomb sniffing Tribble out of hibernation. Not that I don't trust you fine gents, but it's better safe than sorry, right?
Of course, I still don't speak Tribble, so I have no idea what it's trying to tell me.
So, let's open this thing up and see what's there to be seen.
A letter, well should read that first, up unto the line where I'm instructed to stop reading and start unwrapping.
Sorry about gift blocking you Santa, I wanted in on that CAH Kwanzaa package. And now that I have my square foot of that sweet sweet private island, everything's coming up Milhouse. Course, my name isn't Milhouse, but... To the unpackening.
So, we let the unwrappening commence.
[ img ]REDACTED: TOO EXTREME FOR THESE FORUMS: HOT UNWRAPPING ACTION[ /img ]
And the unwrapped haul:
Please ignore my Safeway bag full of other bags in the background. And the rest of my clutter.
@DiannaoChong come forward and claim your accords! In the mean time I need to try and learn the difference in Tribble for "There's an explosive cactus thing in here and a large spider, you may want to be careful" and "Everything's safe! Maybe get me some eggnog?"
Edit: In case my photography/image shrinking skills are wanting:
The haul includes:
A Star Wars themed Nerf Gun, which is an excellent combination of words.
A copy of The Lego Movie (which, according to the letter had no real inspiration from stalking, which I find odd cause I thought a lot of my posts came from assorted Lego threads). This was one of my favorite movies to come out this year.
A copy of the game Zombie Dice, another excellent combination of words. I look forward to playing this at my next game night while other people are rolling up characters that it'll be too late to use when they're done.
A Diablo vinyl figure. Box says Diablo III, but I'm thinking he looks more like Diablo 2 Diablo. Silly Pop Games, did you think we wouldn't notice? It's cool, and will likely wind up at work keeping my pet rock company along side my broken wind up robot.
A coffee mug kill it with firewith a spiderkill it with fire in it. I don't really drink coffee, but I'm sure I'll find something to drink out of this kill it with fire. Perhaps hard liquor will make the spider seem friendlier... Further experimentation will be required.
And a Minecraft Creeper action figure.
Basically, if you are a Santa and aren't 100% sure your gift will arrive by Wednesday, then you should be contacting Hypatia or your Santee with a good reason as to why that's the case. Along with some proof that a gift is on the way, should it have shipped already.
If you are a Santee, then wait until the 1st to post about a lack of giftage. Especially if you have received no word from your Santa. The 1st is also a good time for Santas whose Santee have not posted pictures or in extreme cases have not communicated with you at all (in spite of you having sent a gift that has been successfully delivered).
On the twelfth day of not Christmas my true love gave to me, some Sonic games to end the gift spree. :whistle:
P.S. I'm still waiting a week later for S.Gifts support to get back to me on re-rolling 2 of the last batch of 5 gifts because someone won 3 of them. So as soon as they get back to me there will be more gifts going out.
@thejaxx has hit me with a double dose of giftage today.
After many, many attempts (seriously, how many have you got man?) he finally found me an unredeemed code from his vault for Shadowrun Returns and Dragonfall on Steam which looks aces.
The just as he's signed off Steam chat, there's a knock at the door and a wild Postman appears with a large parcel.
My small children are either asleep or off at the park with Mum, and my cat is wherever the hell cats go while not sleeping on our bed, so I hit up the piles of Christmas toys to form a crack wind-up dinosaur address obfuscation team. And a dalek because I was afraid to tell him he wasn't invited lest I be egg-whisked to death.
And what's inside?
A freaking huge LEGO dragon that's what! And a castle and a Princess and an Evil Wizard and a catapult and AAAAH!
When my 4 year old daughter gets back from the park and sees this she's going to be crazy excited to build and play with me.
And apparently there's more coming mid-Jan? Who knows if the thread will even exist then so let's just assume it was amazing and give Santa the props for that now as well.
Many thanks Santa! Hope your next year is better than your last one.
I seem to have been a bit of a curse this year, both Santa and Santee having a bit of a rough time of it.
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I AM HOME! And on the way I managed to stop at the UPS depot and claim my mystery box. As anticipated, it was part 4 of my ongoing Secret Santa Saga. Ergo ...
Another nicely sized Amazon gift pops out of the box. I guess Amazon resorts to using UPS during their end-of-the-year-GET-THIS-SHIT-DELIVERED-OR-ELSE mode.
I send in my CCC to investigate.
Confirmed - this is the final gift. Spoilers suggest it is also something I will massively enjoy. And if my Santa is who I think she is ...
YAAAAY! So, honestly, if you had just given me this, I would have been thrilled. Up! is the one Pixar movie above all others I have wanted, and no, I couldn't tell you why I've never just bought it. I'm weird, I guess. Whatever. I'm so incredibly happy to own it now. I suspect I will watch it tonight and enjoy all of the many emotions that movie evokes.
I'm going to jump out on a limb here and thank @Hypatia, who I've been pretty sure was my Santa since the second gift, and then REALLY sure since the third gift when she send me Defense Grid 2 on Steam. Her being able to gift me this particular movie is ... just the best kind of coincidence. ^_^ Of course, if I am wrong, then Santa needs to come forward ASAP and claim her glory. ;D
Man, this year was so awesome. I'm reminded of how much I missed missing the G&T exchange last year. WHY YOU GUYS AND GALS SO GOOD!?
Santa, I am thrilled, thank you!!! I don't know who you are on the forum, so thank you!!!
I'm ill- have been since our move in, which was a bit difficult in that the removal company didn't deliver our stuff on 19th, but 20th, and I've been ill since
I love my presents and when my PC is up and running I'll post pics.
Santee, I'm so sorry, your gifts are still on their way - I've been too ill to post them to you. I feel a deadbeat, and as I was deadbeated a few years ago, feel dreadful that you're still waiting for your gifts xxxxx
LewieP's Mummy on
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I can't think of a single thing I would rather do than get totally ripped on a thermos full of these babies while somebody motorcycles me around town and country in an actual sidecar.
So, my wife is a monster and refuses to buy a motorcycle with a sidecar and drive me around town and country just for the sake of this post. I know, I know. But here I am, drinking sidecars from a thermos.
(I don't have a cocktail shaker, but a thermos seems pretty close)
((the plastic bottle, knife, board, etc are all somehow related to the lemon juice component. It's hard to remember their exact role, the thermos is empty)
Um, in the retrospect of 8 seconds later, that's not entirely clear. The quote about sidecars preceeded a recipe for sidecars, the cocktail, in the book my santa gave me. So, context.
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I expect a rich on beer blogpost. . .
@shadowane Also, Have you had more of the stuff in the flask? Curious what your thoughts are on it now. I always love to know what people think of my infusions. :P
Wii U NNID: MegaSpooky
my apologies, I might have made my clues and ciphers too obtuse to understand. However, I feel it appropriate to reveal myself as your Santa!
Previously, you had asked if someone had sent you some jump rings. I will answer in the affirmative, I did indeed send those to you.
Merry Christmas, and a Happy new year!
Just so no one has an inaccurate view of the relative classiness of G&T and D&D I would like to point out that this gift actually is part of the D&D Secret Santa.
I claim this post on behalf of Dand/orD. Skyrim belongs to the nerds!
Love, some guy from Denmark.
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I have not received anything, nor any word from a possible Santa. I'll be checking the mail again today though. Being in Japan has its benefits and drawbacks. The main drawback being so far away from my family! The second biggest is mail takes forever to get here (And shipping things from here is always iffy).
PSN: Dyvion -- Eternal: Dyvion+9393 -- Genshin Impact: Dyvion
I haven't heard a peep from my Santa. Santa, if you're out there, I am here tomorrow, but then I'll be out of town again for a few days!
3DS Friend Code: 0404-6826-4588 PM if you add.
P.S. I'm still waiting a week later for S.Gifts support to get back to me on re-rolling 2 of the last batch of 5 gifts because someone won 3 of them. So as soon as they get back to me there will be more gifts going out.
P.P.S. Since Christmas is now over, it is safe to assume that some of you got PS4s, so just an FYI I'm still giving out PS4 content in this thread over here:
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/31417820/#Comment_31417820
So I had been fwd a tracking number by my Santa a while ago, but when I received the luchador mask in the mail and it didn't match up with the tracking info in the usps site I just figured the site wasn't being updated due to the holidays.
Turned out that was the second gift! I have another gift coming (usps says it'll be delivered today). Looks like Christmas isn't over for me yet!
So I got this neat box a few days ago, and have been a little busy. Nonetheless, you guys have gotta see this! @Elvenshae came through with possibly the best gifting I've ever been gifted.
It started with a box!
Inside the box was a note which took me on an amazing journey!
He found out various things about me, like my addiction affinity towards alcohol!
Also that I like to hit people things with sticks!
Also that I am a complete whore fan of Nintendo!
Also about my borderline diabetes love for chocolate!
And finally, that I neglect my body's need for rest like to be vibrant and alive!
BEHOLD! The entire haul. Know that I've already devoured a bar of the chocolate, filled the mug with beer, and the coffee cup with coffee. I plan to use the point card for the new Shantae game, as soon as I can clear out my backlog from the current Steam sale (to which I've already been subjected to, in a previous gift...
So thanks again, @Elvenshae for the great gift. You're a gigantic person among men.
Wii U NNID: MegaSpooky
I was a little worried about the chocolate arriving in one piece. And a little sad that I couldn't send actual Starr Hill beer.
Steam: Elvenshae // PSN: Elvenshae // WotC: Elvenshae
Wilds of Aladrion: [https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/43159014/#Comment_43159014]Ellandryn[/url]
edit: And Santee... your doom shall be arriving anytime now.
So, ten days have passed, and UPS is doing God's Santa's work delivering a huge bundle of Christmas joy to me today.
As per normal, it's time to bring the bomb sniffing Tribble out of hibernation. Not that I don't trust you fine gents, but it's better safe than sorry, right?
Of course, I still don't speak Tribble, so I have no idea what it's trying to tell me.
So, let's open this thing up and see what's there to be seen.
A letter, well should read that first, up unto the line where I'm instructed to stop reading and start unwrapping.
Sorry about gift blocking you Santa, I wanted in on that CAH Kwanzaa package. And now that I have my square foot of that sweet sweet private island, everything's coming up Milhouse. Course, my name isn't Milhouse, but... To the unpackening.
So, we let the unwrappening commence.
[ img ]REDACTED: TOO EXTREME FOR THESE FORUMS: HOT UNWRAPPING ACTION[ /img ]
And the unwrapped haul:
Please ignore my Safeway bag full of other bags in the background. And the rest of my clutter.
@DiannaoChong come forward and claim your accords! In the mean time I need to try and learn the difference in Tribble for "There's an explosive cactus thing in here and a large spider, you may want to be careful" and "Everything's safe! Maybe get me some eggnog?"
Edit: In case my photography/image shrinking skills are wanting:
The haul includes:
A Star Wars themed Nerf Gun, which is an excellent combination of words.
A copy of The Lego Movie (which, according to the letter had no real inspiration from stalking, which I find odd cause I thought a lot of my posts came from assorted Lego threads). This was one of my favorite movies to come out this year.
A copy of the game Zombie Dice, another excellent combination of words. I look forward to playing this at my next game night while other people are rolling up characters that it'll be too late to use when they're done.
A Diablo vinyl figure. Box says Diablo III, but I'm thinking he looks more like Diablo 2 Diablo. Silly Pop Games, did you think we wouldn't notice? It's cool, and will likely wind up at work keeping my pet rock company along side my broken wind up robot.
A coffee mug kill it with firewith a spiderkill it with fire in it. I don't really drink coffee, but I'm sure I'll find something to drink out of this kill it with fire. Perhaps hard liquor will make the spider seem friendlier... Further experimentation will be required.
And a Minecraft Creeper action figure.
Thanks!
The cups see pretty much daily use too, Lannister glass for water Targ for coffee, Lannister cup sitting upon the Stark coaster, as things should be.
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Me on Twitch!
No gift yet here and no word from my Santa either
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If you are a Santee, then wait until the 1st to post about a lack of giftage. Especially if you have received no word from your Santa. The 1st is also a good time for Santas whose Santee have not posted pictures or in extreme cases have not communicated with you at all (in spite of you having sent a gift that has been successfully delivered).
Now to sit obsessively by my computer and watch the package slowly make its way towards me.
Just an FYI less than a day left on the Sonic giveaways.
@thejaxx has hit me with a double dose of giftage today.
After many, many attempts (seriously, how many have you got man?) he finally found me an unredeemed code from his vault for Shadowrun Returns and Dragonfall on Steam which looks aces.
The just as he's signed off Steam chat, there's a knock at the door and a wild Postman appears with a large parcel.
My small children are either asleep or off at the park with Mum, and my cat is wherever the hell cats go while not sleeping on our bed, so I hit up the piles of Christmas toys to form a crack wind-up dinosaur address obfuscation team. And a dalek because I was afraid to tell him he wasn't invited lest I be egg-whisked to death.
And what's inside?
A freaking huge LEGO dragon that's what! And a castle and a Princess and an Evil Wizard and a catapult and AAAAH!
When my 4 year old daughter gets back from the park and sees this she's going to be crazy excited to build and play with me.
And apparently there's more coming mid-Jan? Who knows if the thread will even exist then so let's just assume it was amazing and give Santa the props for that now as well.
Many thanks Santa! Hope your next year is better than your last one.
I seem to have been a bit of a curse this year, both Santa and Santee having a bit of a rough time of it.
Another nicely sized Amazon gift pops out of the box. I guess Amazon resorts to using UPS during their end-of-the-year-GET-THIS-SHIT-DELIVERED-OR-ELSE mode.
I send in my CCC to investigate.
Confirmed - this is the final gift. Spoilers suggest it is also something I will massively enjoy. And if my Santa is who I think she is ...
YAAAAY! So, honestly, if you had just given me this, I would have been thrilled. Up! is the one Pixar movie above all others I have wanted, and no, I couldn't tell you why I've never just bought it. I'm weird, I guess. Whatever. I'm so incredibly happy to own it now. I suspect I will watch it tonight and enjoy all of the many emotions that movie evokes.
I'm going to jump out on a limb here and thank @Hypatia, who I've been pretty sure was my Santa since the second gift, and then REALLY sure since the third gift when she send me Defense Grid 2 on Steam. Her being able to gift me this particular movie is ... just the best kind of coincidence. ^_^ Of course, if I am wrong, then Santa needs to come forward ASAP and claim her glory. ;D
Man, this year was so awesome. I'm reminded of how much I missed missing the G&T exchange last year. WHY YOU GUYS AND GALS SO GOOD!?
Perhaps I can interest you in my meager selection of pins?
Santa, I am thrilled, thank you!!! I don't know who you are on the forum, so thank you!!!
I'm ill- have been since our move in, which was a bit difficult in that the removal company didn't deliver our stuff on 19th, but 20th, and I've been ill since
I love my presents and when my PC is up and running I'll post pics.
Santee, I'm so sorry, your gifts are still on their way - I've been too ill to post them to you. I feel a deadbeat, and as I was deadbeated a few years ago, feel dreadful that you're still waiting for your gifts xxxxx
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"The power of the weirdness compels me."
Little Miss Jam has been breathlessly telling me tales of Princess rescue all evening.
PSN: Dyvion -- Eternal: Dyvion+9393 -- Genshin Impact: Dyvion
So, my wife is a monster and refuses to buy a motorcycle with a sidecar and drive me around town and country just for the sake of this post. I know, I know. But here I am, drinking sidecars from a thermos.
(I don't have a cocktail shaker, but a thermos seems pretty close)
((the plastic bottle, knife, board, etc are all somehow related to the lemon juice component. It's hard to remember their exact role, the thermos is empty)