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  • strebaliciousstrebalicious Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    iMatt wrote: »
    My Santees gift is now winging it's way to the land of the rising sun!

    Well that just narrowed it down to about four people.

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  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    iMatt wrote: »
    My Santees gift is now winging it's way to the land of the rising sun!

    Well that just narrowed it down to about four people.
    nahh. The sun rises everywhere!

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  • TheScrupleTheScruple The Oldest of BridgesRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    THEPAIN73 wrote: »
    THEPAIN73 wrote: »
    I got the OK from my santa via Proxy to post the link that is a hint to something

    http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/miracles

    I for one am lost as to what it could mean.

    Spoilered for F-bombs and such ?

    Because of the Faygo in the pic, and the whisper sounds like Violent J

    I liked them before they went... uh... weirder?

    E: Apparently the forum doesn't want this particular video to show up in page, probably for the better.

    No offense to my santa:

    I realllllly hope it's not ICP.

    My guess is that you're getting magnets, perhaps with an explanation on how they work.

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  • strebaliciousstrebalicious Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    anoffday wrote: »
    iMatt wrote: »
    My Santees gift is now winging it's way to the land of the rising sun!

    Well that just narrowed it down to about four people.
    nahh. The sun rises everywhere!

    I may be drunk (I am) but that's deep.

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  • noir_bloodnoir_blood Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    So anything I should know if I'm considering gifting something through steam? Never used it, so do I have to set up an account, or do they have a store of some sort?

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I just remembered my Santa from last year never revealed himself. Kind of disheartening.

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  • devericdeveric MinneapolisRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    noir_blood wrote: »
    So anything I should know if I'm considering gifting something through steam? Never used it, so do I have to set up an account, or do they have a store of some sort?

    This sounds like something you should do with Proxy. You probably want to set up a new account just to gift someone a game, since you don't want to gift the game through your main account, unless you want to do that. You need to be friends with the person, so that's where proxy would come in. Most people won't add a random friendless person to their steam friends, so Proxy could pass the message along that expect a friend request on steam from XXXXXXnew person to receive a gift!

    at least that's my 2 cents

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  • AaronKIAaronKI Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    THEPAIN73 wrote: »
    THEPAIN73 wrote: »
    I got the OK from my santa via Proxy to post the link that is a hint to something

    http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/miracles

    I for one am lost as to what it could mean.

    Spoilered for F-bombs and such ?

    Because of the Faygo in the pic, and the whisper sounds like Violent J

    I liked them before they went... uh... weirder?

    E: Apparently the forum doesn't want this particular video to show up in page, probably for the better.

    No offense to my santa:

    I realllllly hope it's not ICP.

    I'm afraid to listen to the song because of potential spoilers, but I just discovered Homestuck a few days ago. It might be the best thing I've ever read, and I can't stop reading. It's cutting into my secret santa productivity. :P (I'm somewhere in Act 4)


    If you know your santee's e-mail address, you can gift a game that way without being a friend. (but when they accept the gift, I think both of you are automatically added to the other's friend list)

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  • mxmarksmxmarks Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Santa,

    If I have been too difficult to stalk, you can use Proxy obviously to just let me know. I was thinking about my lack of wishlists, Facebook and general mystery beyond what I post here today and realized it MAY not be as fun for you as it is for me -- which is totally cool and fine!

    Just let me know via Proxy if there's any burning questions...

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  • anoffdayanoffday To be changed whenever Anoffday gets around to it. Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    deveric wrote: »
    noir_blood wrote: »
    So anything I should know if I'm considering gifting something through steam? Never used it, so do I have to set up an account, or do they have a store of some sort?

    This sounds like something you should do with Proxy. You probably want to set up a new account just to gift someone a game, since you don't want to gift the game through your main account, unless you want to do that. You need to be friends with the person, so that's where proxy would come in. Most people won't add a random friendless person to their steam friends, so Proxy could pass the message along that expect a friend request on steam from XXXXXXnew person to receive a gift!

    at least that's my 2 cents
    Well he doesn't have an account of his own. So as long as he makes an account and doesn't use his PA name then he should be fine. But yeah, you need an account to buy games and get them on your friend's list, and they do have a gift option so after you make an account then you're set.

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  • THEPAIN73THEPAIN73 Shiny. Real shiny.Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    My girlfriend says we have a box.

    She says it's from a person.

    Oh god is it happening today?!

    I am so unprepared!!!

    Can't wait to go home now!!!!

    EDIT: EXCLAMATION POINTS

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  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Is it weird I spend more on a person I never met than on most of my friends?

    Already ordered my SS's main gift, but now I'm debating stopping by a particular store this coming week to send a goodie package.

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  • NorfairNorfair Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Nah, not really. I do spend about the same on everyone every year but I don't skimp on my Santee just because he/she is a random stranger from the internet. edit: actually I don't skimp on my Santee at all, bad wording on my part. What I meant is that I enjoy the whole gift-giving thing and keep things pretty much equal for everybody.

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  • IcemopperIcemopper Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Kyougu wrote: »
    Is it weird I spend more on a person I never met than on most of my friends?

    Already ordered my SS's main gift, but now I'm debating stopping by a particular store this coming week to send a goodie package.

    I do the same. The way I see it, my family knows I love them and the gifts worth giving there aren't on store shelves. The gifts are very similar here, but this random person might not know they are loved, and I want them to know that, so I end up spending way more.

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  • FiggyFiggy Fighter of the night man Champion of the sunRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    mxmarks wrote: »
    I get angry when Christmas stuff goes up in November, though.

    So, was this too early to do last night?

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Lights are awesome and can start November 1st.

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  • FiggyFiggy Fighter of the night man Champion of the sunRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    urahonky wrote: »
    Lights are awesome and can start November 1st.

    I'm the first on the street and anywhere else I've seen, but it's the second Christmas in our new house and the first time we're putting up outdoor lights, so I got excited.

    As I was doing it, I kept thinking to myself that perhaps I should have made sure there was no rule against early lights in the condo handbook. Then, randomly, one of the board members comes up to me in the middle of it. I was like, "Oh brother..."

    But she just wanted to know how I got them up there, because she didn't see a ladder. And yes ma'am, I did not use a ladder. I found these super useful clips that screw on to the end of a broom stick and snap onto your eaves trough (or under your shingles if you have no gutters). I highly recommend them!
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    I also ended up using like eight fucking extension cords to wire it all together, cause I'll be damned if I'm going to have lights randomly in the garden or along the soffits. Then, I find out the outdoor outlet on the porch doesn't work. I replace it with a GFCI, and it still doesn't work. The wires coming in aren't hot. I check the breakers. Everything's fine. Fucking hell. So, I had to buy another extension cord to run along the edge of the house into the backyard. BUT IT WORKS!

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  • spookymuffinspookymuffin ( ° ʖ ° ) Puyallup WA Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    urahonky wrote: »
    Lights are awesome and can start November 1st.

    Agreed. Anything before Halloween is tacky, unless they've been left up for the entire year.

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  • THEPAIN73THEPAIN73 Shiny. Real shiny.Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    urahonky wrote: »
    Lights are awesome and can start November 1st.

    agreed

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  • BlueBlueBlueBlue Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    I just remembered my Santa from last year never revealed himself. Kind of disheartening.

    My first year I didn't outright reveal but I dropped a hint - though no effort by santee was made to figure it out :(

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  • ArikadoArikado Southern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I always reveal myself.

    Even during the G&T Secret Santa.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I laughed Arikado.

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  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    His avatar makes it even funnier.

    Kyougu on
  • MightyMighty Omeganaut '15 '16 '17 NebraskaRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Whoop whooop! lets get a freaking gift train going on!

    I want to see some motha'fuggin CHEER up in here!

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  • remlap13remlap13 Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Success! I know exactly what I'm going to get my Santee. Well, the main part of the gift anyway. So pumped.

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  • Doc HollidayDoc Holliday Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Man I gotta do decorations soon. Maybe this weekend I'll go buy a Christmas Tree and some lights.

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  • JAEFJAEF Unstoppably Bald Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Waiting on a very sexy gift (maybe it's cerebral palsy!) to arrive in the mail and then I can box everything up and send it out. Personal note included. So much notage.

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  • slacktronslacktron Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    BlueBlue wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    I just remembered my Santa from last year never revealed himself. Kind of disheartening.

    My first year I didn't outright reveal but I dropped a hint - though no effort by santee was made to figure it out :(

    Not everyone is as awesome at the guessing game as you. :D

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  • FiggyFiggy Fighter of the night man Champion of the sunRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    slacktron wrote: »
    BlueBlue wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    I just remembered my Santa from last year never revealed himself. Kind of disheartening.

    My first year I didn't outright reveal but I dropped a hint - though no effort by santee was made to figure it out :(

    Not everyone is as awesome at the guessing game as you. :D

    Last year's Google map made it painfully easy, given the return address on the package.

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  • John ZoidbergJohn Zoidberg Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    With luck my gift should arrive in 4 days.

    So that will be Tuesday. I can go buy myself the Toy Story boxset and hopefully come home to the knowledge it arrived safely.

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  • NackmatholnNackmatholn Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Alas, foiled again. Drats to you ups man arriving not 10 minutes before I get home from getting the car inspected... And leaving not a package, but a note. A note essentially saying to hell with you until monday. I can only assume that it a package from my Santa, and not something for my santee, since Amazon was not on the notice...

    I shall storm their office at nightfall!

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  • Lord YodLord Yod Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Dear Santa: Sorry about not responding to the proxy pm. Had to find my camera! :oops:

    Dear Santee: Your stuff is on the way!

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  • crucialityfactorcrucialityfactor Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I'm not entirely sure...but I think I got my gift(s) today:
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    Kinda ambiguous right? Oh well...let's see what's inside...
    ...I'm going to blue balls the thread a bit. I'm not opening it until I send out my gifts and it needs to at least be December.

    Santa: If anything inside is perishable, please let me know either directly or via Proxy.

    Merry Christmas!

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited November 2010
    You total dick.

    If I can't see *my* present, I want to see *your* present.

    But in all seriousness, I understand. Some folk even wait all the way until X-mas day to open it, but that's just teasing.

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  • shadowaneshadowane Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Yeah, items ordered. Not much to go on so I went with some stuff I really like. Probably get it out the first week in December or so.

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  • crucialityfactorcrucialityfactor Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Imperfect wrote: »
    You total dick.

    If I can't see *my* present, I want to see *your* present.

    But in all seriousness, I understand. Some folk even wait all the way until X-mas day to open it, but that's just teasing.

    Yeah..in retrospect...Christmas karma just caught up to me real fast...just broke the thing I was working on...

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  • LewieP's MummyLewieP's Mummy Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Icemopper wrote: »
    Kyougu wrote: »
    Is it weird I spend more on a person I never met than on most of my friends?

    Already ordered my SS's main gift, but now I'm debating stopping by a particular store this coming week to send a goodie package.

    I do the same. The way I see it, my family knows I love them and the gifts worth giving there aren't on store shelves. The gifts are very similar here, but this random person might not know they are loved, and I want them to know that, so I end up spending way more.

    Icemopper, that is soooooooooooooo lovely. I hope your santa sends you lots and lots of lovely things!

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  • THEPAIN73THEPAIN73 Shiny. Real shiny.Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    To whom it may concern:

    I got my gift

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    Happy holidays.

    Who was my Santa the note failed to identify you or why you bought me these things, could you explain?

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  • NackmatholnNackmatholn Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    Alas, foiled again. Drats to you ups man arriving not 10 minutes before I get home from getting the car inspected... And leaving not a package, but a note. A note essentially saying to hell with you until monday. I can only assume that it a package from my Santa, and not something for my santee, since Amazon was not on the notice...

    I shall storm their office at nightfall!

    Office Stormed. Package was from Amazon. Not from Santa, False alarm. In other news, everything is together for Santee, I will send your package very shortly after turkey day

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  • bigwahbigwah Registered User regular
    edited November 2010
    I've got together (in my head anyway) what I'll be buying. But since I'm shipping to the UK, I'll be sending a pre-gift note before I place my order (plus its not December yet!).

    Getting excited!

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