What did you get for HOLIDAY?

[Abominator]

Do you see my non-denominational topic?

I got a Nexus 7 tablet, as requested, but everything else was unexpected.

Got Kid Icarus and Paper Mario for 3DS, Sonic T-Shirt, Half-Life hoodie, Pac-Man stress ball, Space Invaders bottle opener... people certainly know my retrogaming taste!

Plus some festive booze and random goodness.

Good haul all in.

Hope you all had fun too.

[Vinchenz Rock]

Mine was good. Got the Last Story, bunch of shirts, and a new monitor.

Bigger haul than usual. Usually its just a game, so its a nice surprise.

[Johncarllos]

I got a few hundred bucks, some miracle berry tablets, pajama pants (that my girlfriend will wear more often than I will), amazon gift card, $40 for my steam wallet, wal mart gift card, a new wallet and that's about it.

Really good haul this year, more than most.

Also will be getting a bunch of retired computer parts from my sister. Enough to build 3-4 working towers which I intend to sell for 30-80$ each, depending on what I throw in them.

[Snare]

My brother got me some fancy booze glasses and absinthe spoons, among other things!

Mom got me assorted kitchen gadgets and knick-knacks. She also upgraded my old phone to a new-fangled smart phone and my grandma sent me a very large sum of money so I can survive until I graduate!

I got a lot this year. It was a most successful HOLIDAY.

[TheRedPriest]

Scribblenauts Unlimted for 3DS and a boxed NES Zelda 1 with super manuel/strat guide.

I was also gifted a Genesis and Sega CD and 18 Genesis games and 7 Sega CD games with two Dreamcast games.

Not a bad haul.

[Speed Racer]

I got a new laptop, as my old one died before finals. Also got the first season of Blue Bloods, Star Fluxx (a card game), Superman: Earth One Vol. 2, some other random graphic novels, a Miami Marlins hat (time to retire my old Florida Marlins hat), beef jerky, a Wal-Mart gift card, and a long-sleeve shirt.

[Majikn]

For Christmas/Birthday:
My girlfriend got me a Zelda T-shirt, a pixelated heart mug that turns red when hot, and a Luigi plush.
My parents got me a vegan cookbook, a 29 inch TV, dark hot chocolate, and a 125 dollar gift card, a red Nintendo shirt with a bunch of Mario characters (which I would never wear but it's awesome regardless) and some really comfortable black pyjama pants that I am wearing right now.
My brother and his girlfriend got me a Batman: Arkham Asylum posable figure.

I may use the gift card to buy 2 seasons of Breaking Bad and BBC's Sherlock, which have been my two favourite shows of late (mind you, I don't watch very much television).

[Johncarllos]

BBCs Sherlock is excellent. I'm greatly anticipating the next season.

[Mikero]

Well happy.

Bunch of stuff I needed more than wanted, but that's how I requested it this year. Not gonna list everything but some big guns are thus; My grandfather sold his condo and cut everyone a way-fatter-than-usual cheque, so that's super useful. My girlfriend's dad's side of the family got me all this;

[Johncarllos]

That's... beautiful.

[Mikero]

Correction: All the caribbean beers, and the Budweisers (which were a gag), I got from her dad's side of the family. Her mom gave me the black spiced rum.

I am SET.

[Snare]

Can I have that?

[Mikero]

I'll share it if you come over.

[Speed Racer]

Red Stripe? Oh so classy.

[Mikero]

Banks is better.

[Snare]

I'll share it if you come over.

Oh yeah... We live in the same city don't we? Shame Thompson (Dyne) moved back home... He was living in Ottawa for some time too.

Heeee was sooooo funnnnny

[TheRedPriest]

Alcohol kills plants you fool.

[Snare]

It so does not!

Isopropyl alcohol is good for treating pests on plants (at properly dilutions)... And you can force some bulb plants like Narcissus to grow less tall (and therefore less apt to falling over) if you grow them in water with vodka in it... As long as you don't overdo it.

But yeah okay, beer and wine is a terrible idea. Plants won't like that.

REZ.

[TheRedPriest]

I think we all know EXACTLY what kind of alcohol we were talking about.

SNARE.

[Johncarllos]

obligatory daily post

[Snare]

What? That's it? You can do better.

JOHN.

[Delta]

Got some money with which I used to go and buy some much-needed new pants (boring).  New shirt.  Bluetooth headphones.  Some other nice things, too.  I'm apparently a hard person to buy for, especially when the conversation goes like:

"What do you want for Christmas this year?"

"Nothing.  You don't need to buy me anything.  Seriously."

"No really, what would you like?"

"No really, don't."

[Speed Racer]

I'm the same - I didn't ask for anything, nor did I care - I just wanted to be home with my folks. If they were going to give me anything, I asked for cash to make sure my trip to SW/TX PCA/ACA went smoothly. Naturally, I got everything but.

[Johncarllos]

I just say cash or Steam gift card.

When they ask what I really want, I need to describe that what I REALLY want is one of the top of line AM3 socket CPUs (as that's all my mobo will handle), a new graphics card, preferable an Nvidia 670 or AMD HD7870+ and a new power supply capable of 550+ watts that also includes 2 6+2 pin ATX connectors.

Or a new 23" 1080p monitor.

Then they give me cash because all of things are too expensive and they have no idea what the hell I'm talking about.
The worst is the Wal-Mart gift cards, because I can't buy anything worth anything with those, I just sell them to friends for cash if they're going there anyways.

[Delta]

My parents can't get me gift cards anymore, because they don't know what stores are in the US, and I won't tell them.  So they're stuck giving me cash.

[TheRedPriest]

But Canadian money is worthless in America?  HOW DO YOU EAT?!

[Delta]

I eat the flesh of students that fail.

[TheRedPriest]

But no one fails Professor Delta's courses... OH...

[Snare]

Y'all can eat my flesh.

I don't want it anymore.

[Speed Racer]

My parents can't get me gift cards anymore, because they don't know what stores are in the US, and I won't tell them.  So they're stuck giving me cash.

They couldn't do a Google search for your area and go from there?

[Snare]

Parents are old. They don't know what these new fangled googles, flickers and neopets are.

[Mikero]

My parents can't get me gift cards anymore, because they don't know what stores are in the US, and I won't tell them.  So they're stuck giving me cash.

They couldn't do a Google search for your area and go from there?

I think the more apt question is how do they not "know what stores are in the US"?

I get that they're Canadian, but most of us know all that ##### from TV, trades, magazines, films, books, movies, shows, moviefilms, etc.

[TheRedPriest]

*offensive Canada joke*

AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!  I kill me.

[Mikero]

Thank you, Rez! While posting that I was hoping you'd give me *offensive Canada joke* for HOLIDAY!

You sleigh me.

[Snare]

Rez you took it too far. I'm reporting you.

[TheRedPriest]

Don't worry Snare, as a moderator I will ban the offending poster to keep Matrix clean.

[Delta]

My parents can't get me gift cards anymore, because they don't know what stores are in the US, and I won't tell them.  So they're stuck giving me cash.

They couldn't do a Google search for your area and go from there?

Hey.  They're still getting used to "cut-and-paste" on a computer!  Besides, I don't want gift-cards.  Why restrict where I can spend money, if I could have more freedom with cash?  It's not like a gift-card is somehow more thoughtful.  At least I don't think it is.

[TheRedPriest]

If you want freedom, live in America!!!  ##### YEA!!!

[Mikero]

*insert guitar riff and powerpoint slideshow of factory machines*

[TheRedPriest]

*tears up*