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What did you get for Christmas, etc? I made out like a bandit this year and it was probably my biggest Christmas ever in terms of what I got:

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Hardware:
Black Wii Hardware Bundle (console, 1 Wiimote Plus, 1 Nunchuk, 2 games)
+1 Wiimote Plus
+2 Nunchuks
+1 Classic Controller

And the following 16 games, ranked by preference:

God Tier:
New Super Mario Bros Wii

Great Tier:
Goldeneye 007 Wii
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

Good Tier:
Dokapon Kingdom (Would be on great tier if it weren't for blatantly cheating AI)
Wii Sports (Came with bundle)
A Boy and His Blob

Okay Tier:
Wii Sports Resort (Came with bundle)
Excite Bots: Trick Racing

Unopened:
Donkey Kong Country Returns (Prediction: Great Tier)
Wario Land: Shake It! (Prediction: Good Tier)
Metroid: Other M (Prediction: Good Tier)
Muramasa: The Demon Blade (Prediction: Okay Tier)

WiiWare:
Cave Story (Great Tier)
Bomberman Blast (Good Tier)
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years (Good Tier)
Dr. Mario Online RX (Okay Tier)


I'd post pics, but a) I left my camera adapter in California and b) I turned on my camera this morning to discover its LCD screen was busted :(

EDIT: Pics posted from my shitty camera phone :D

Anyways, what an awesome Christmas in terms of loot! It's so great to step into the current generation of console gaming again after almost 10 years.

Okay, now that my excited rant is over, tell us what you got and post pics :D

"current generation" :D

My Loot:

Cash
Starbucks Gift Card
Shanked on Steam (TigSanta Gift)
2 Flannel shirts
A box of chocolates
A can of tea
A Bag of coffee
Wooden shaving soap holder + new soap (GOD TIER)

So much loot I will soon port back to home :x

· More :handmoneyR: than i've ever had
· Castlevania ~ Lords of Shadows
· A great novel you guys can't read because it's in French
· Lots of Marron Glacé (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marron_glac%C3%A9)
· Three great comics you can't read either. Pictures below =)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v152/Superpouvoir/Previews6/ServitudeT01P27.jpg
http://static.skynetblogs.be/media/61153/dyn006_original_650_909_pjpeg_2551150_285e48a0dba949ae08797eb8a171db70.jpg
http://hayleeherrick.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/blacksad-ii.jpg

Hey, it's my birthday tomorrow...MOAR LOOT !

Civilization V. 8)

I got:

3 t-shirts
2 books in the Malazan Book of the Fallen (Steven Erikson)
The chaser annual 2009
New wallet
Ticket to a concert
1.2kg of chocolate  :o

It sorta didn't seem like much, since my 21st was just a few months ago, but it's all very nice.

A badass shirt (http://www.heavymetalonline.co.uk/acatalog/Reverend_Bizarre_Shortsleeve_T-Shirt_Harbinger_Of_Metal.html), something for the coffee table (http://www.amazon.com/Art-LP-Classic-Covers-1955-1995/dp/1402771134/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1293357973&sr=1-1-spell), DVDs (http://www.amazon.com/Mysterious-Complete-Esteban-Myst%C3%A9rieuses-NON-USA/dp/B001HNNFSI/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1293358412&sr=8-4) and some dosh. There's also an LP and some 7"s that haven't arrived yet and a stack of jigsaws which were gifts to myself. Capitalism ho!

I got:

32gb iPod touch ;D (combined birthday and Christmas gift, I actually got it on my birthday a couple days ago...)
A couple books
A range bag
Assorted candy/cookies/etc
A few random stocking stuffers (zip drive, a t-shirt etc)
Some cash and a gift card or two from relatives

Amongst other things (including the Machinarium collector's edition) every work of fiction by Robert L. Forward (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L_Forward) that I didn't already own. Hard scifi heaven for months to come  ;D


The artwork in those comics is amazing!

God Tier:
A Learjet.

Demigod Tier
2 Ferraris

Saint Tier
A wild orgy featuring hookers and blow.

Tier Tier
50 games my butler has unfortunately not opened yet. I should fire him.

• Enslaved: Odyssey to the West for Xbox 360
• Voucher to a bookstore (I'll be using that on some comics :) )
• 2011 Coca-Cola calendar (with some vintage Coca-Cola ads)
• Chocolate
• Some ecological frying pan
• An exercise thingy for my back
• Clothing
• Stuff for bed

Then of course some games from Steam for myself. ;)

$50 in Gamestop gift cards
$25 Target gift card
$25 Borders gift card
$240 cash
Blur for PS3
a bunch of assorted books from people who don't know what I want  ::) (I even specified an author for books to get me but apparently my mother "forgot" who it was. (Jules Verne))
underwear  ???
and a ton of snack foods/drinks/chocolate.

So far I've spent $60 on steam, with the Indie 2D pack, Beyond Good and Evil, Batman: AA, Amnesia: TDD, SMB, Star Ruler, Drift Metal, and Greed Corp.

I'm glad someone shares this opinion. In case you're curious, the titles are Servitude, La Licorne and Blacksad.

Disgaea 3, misc. garments, random cash, misc. colognes, misc. junk food, and your soul.

I've got nothing :(

And my birthday is in 22 of december, and I got nothing for that either (well, my parents took me to eat pizza, and that is it...)

I got Donky kong country returns, and bought cave story for the Wii, now i need to figure out what to do with the other 1000 points...

Let's see...

- 1TB external hard drive
- Rechargeable batteries for what I may need (They're Kodak, so they should work.)
- 4GB flash drive for school
- Some Columbia brand jacket I didn't like because it would replace my tattered grey jacket.
- Gamepad-to-USB adapter. It has some uses.

...That's about it. Good junk, if I do say so myself.

Better than that one christmas i had where my parents threw me out of the house and I lived in my car for about 2 weeks in december/january.

Three shirts and some perfume.

a couple of CDs, some tea, some lightsaber chopsticks, and money

2 new sketchpads, a pack of colored pencils, a Gamestop gift card, some cash, and a very comfy fleece hoodie. My girlfriend's coming into town this Friday, so we'll be exchanging gifts for each other than. I'm making her a li'l stuffed crab, but shh~ it's a surprise :3

My wife got me the beer brewing kit I've been lusting after for awhile. I'm brewing my first batch tomorrow!

A play-doh kit.
Two sci-fi books that sound like they came out of an airport.
117.50 dollars total.

I got some chocolate, some shirts and socks and a toy remote controlled helicopter.

Games:
Wii red bundle
Brawl
Monster Hunter Tri
Though, I didn't wait till actual christmas, but opened these about two weeks ago.

Indie Fantasy pack
Indie Smarts pack
Indie 2d pack
Nimbus

Music:
Anathema: Natural disaster, Judgement

Books:
Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind
Esko Valtaoja's Kotona maailmankaikkeudessa (award winning finnish book about universe and reality. Name could be translated roughly as "In home in the universe".

Other:
Koss Spark plugs
Some candies
Some clothes
Some money

I bought many games from Steam holiday sale, got Operation Flashpoint for 3$, that's insane for such an incredible game, and 5$ for the Witcher, I can't believe it   :laughter:.

Iphone 4
Large frame of a picture of me and Jeff Smith creator of BONE with the shirt of Phoney Bone on it.
Epic Mickey Collectors edition
50 bucks toward my 3DS and preordering
Domo shirt
and more!

A new pair of headphones, driving lessons, a cookbook and applied cryptography, by Bruce schnier

Neverhood, Jedi Knight/Mysteries of the Sith, Bad Mojo, fleece jacket, watch, gift cards

- Repaired Wii
- Kirby's Epic Yarn (YES!)
- A Boy and His Blob
- White PS3 slim
- Some clothes

I may buy some more Wii and PS3 games later this week, though. And maybe a red Wii, that thing won't get out of my head even if my Wii works now   :'(

-weight bench for working out
-awesome pencil set, paired with money and such for art supplies, I'm set
-a nice electric razor
-A7X keychain for my car keys
-new soccer ball + pump
-some movies

Overall, it was a good Christmas. Spent lots of time with the family and did some awesome stuff, which is better than any present imo.

32GB iPod Touch
a bag of pistachios
monty python's flying circus complete set
enslaved for X360 (SO FREAKING GOOD)
settlers of catan
zombie dice
clark's desert boots
a peacoat
the newest uncle john's bathroom reader
machine of death
a mini surge protector
milk duds
$175 in checks
scott pilgrim the movie
toy story 3
transformers silly bands
$15 itunes giftcard
some thermal shirts
thick socks
a pack of pilot precise v5 pens (black)
twix
100 grand bars
a sweater
a free laptop from google

xbox 360
about 10 scratch-off lottery tickets
call of duty black ops
ribbit king
half life
gameboy micro
candy
epic mickey
1,001 games you should play before you die
infamous

stuff i bought with christmas money
-pacman championship dx
-apple jack xbla
-platformance
-mass effect 1 and 2
-banjo and kazooie: nuts and bolts

I got six pairs of socks, some beef jerky (yum protein), and assorted candy. I bought myself a dozen N64 games, a bunch of literature, and Survival Kids for Game Boy.

An awesome 60's typewriter (http://www.tias.com/cgi-bin/showcase-item.cgi?itemKey=3923837479&store=/stores/clocksgalore), some cash which will promptly be blown on used black metal records and a bunch of random bizarre shit such as a plastic do-it-yourself Native American air freshener and a misprinted glass cat ornament.

100th post right here someone bake me a cake.

Did you or anyone else notice that for the past 3 days, the hero of Cave Story appears in-game as a black santa??

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You can gift me a WiiWare game  :eyebrows: Migamin 9 or 10?  :eyebrows:


WANT!

I got:

- Dishes and kitchen utensils.
- A wooden spoon.
- A history book about Tintin.
- A shirt.
- Chocolate caramel (or caramel chocolate, not sure)

I got a laptop :D Well, I specced it and ordered it but my wife paid for it.  I'm kinda old and few people in my family celebrate xmas so I don't often get presents - i'm not complaining though :)

A box of fucking nothing.

This game sounds and looks amazing.

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GAMES
-Kirby's Epic Yarn
-Donkey Kong Country Returns

BOOKS
-Aaron Marks' Game Audio book
-Mastering Audio by Bob Katz
-Twisty Little Passages, about text adventures
-The Great Cities in History
-Race With the Wind: How Air Racing Advanced Aviation

MISC.
-Ableton Live!
-a little Melodica

I have converted about 40 bucks into glorious, glorious loot.

AMERICAN GODS, SMOKE & MIRRORS (both by Neil Gaiman)
ANOTHER FINE MYTH | MYTH-CONCEPTIONS (together in a single book; Robert Asprin, part of Myth-adventures series)

DEMON'S SOULS!!!  >:D

Good stuff man.

Got a bunch of shirts,
a messenger bag,
the complete Velvet Underground,
and a used book reading thingamajig.

I got an Remote Controll Airplane. The first page of the instruction maunual says in big bold letters: "This is not a Toy" I am skeptical.

I have flown it a few times. It is very forgiving. I have put it into the ground nose first twice and had a dozen cartwheel landings, yet it is none the worse for wear. It probably comes from being incredibaly light. It will almost fly backward in a stiff wind.

Fable 3
Red Dead Redemption (with Undead Nightmare)
Spiderman: Shattered Dimensions
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
12 Months of Xbox Live
A tripod for my video camera
A jar of Wham! bars
And about £40

Overall, a good day.

5x5 RUBIKS CUBE!!!  and other stuff

I want that box set soooooo badly.

Do gifts I bought myself count?

If not... well... chocolate. Damn you, mom, I'm not a kid anymore!

Vinyl finally arrived, it's Christmas all over again.

This year was a good year

-Xbox 360 Slim 250GB with Alan Wake, Forza Motorsport 3, and Fable 3
-4000 MS Points, with which I bought Limbo, Castle Crashers, Apple Jack, and I Made A Game With Zombies In It
-About $250 cash
-And a bunch of candy (namely candy canes and Snickers)

Also bought Humble Indie Bundle 2 w/ the first bundle, as well as preordered Overgrowth
And bought 10 boxes of Hello Panda cookie treats :3

GPH Caanoo, Red Mars trilogy, Super Street Fighter 4 (x360), Starcraft II, Final Fantasy 4 Heroes of Light, Amazon gift cards, lots of misc. small things for stockings and what not. Plus my TIGS secret santa Retrolink SNES controller and Wargames DVD!

By far my most entertaining gift (I have yet to install SC2), a Syma S107 Helicopter  >:D
(http://symas107helicopter.org/syma-s107-helicopter.jpg)

Good lord this thing is fun to fly. I'm going to buy two pairs of replacement blades I think, its pretty durable but I'm noticing the wings are getting chipped on the front. You only get about 3-4 minutes of really solid flight time, but its so much fun!

Three pairs of socks and chocolate.
Also, AshfordPride bought me Super Meat Boy on Steam.

i got a small bottle of toasted sesame oil and some money; supposedly will be getting a card in the mail too.

That's so Eres.

$1000 in cash and gift cards
Wilson by Daniel Clowes
Extra Lives by Tom Bissell
Real World Flash Game Developement by Chris Griffith
Various foods

wouldn't it be less egoistic to have a thread about what you gave others for xmas

But who cares about THAT?!

I got (amongst other things) Hitch 22, Christopher Hitchens' autobiography. Is good.

So you can brag about how generous you are? lol.

Anyway, my bro got me this, and it is awesome:

http://fangamer.net/products/ct-fanfest-combo-pack-2010

I bought my grandma Professor Layton: The Unwound Future and I bought Dragon Quest IX for my little brother. I didn't buy anything for my mom because I didn't know what she wanted and I bought her genealogy software for her birthday a little over a month ago.

Paul, considering what you bought for yourself and these gifts, I'm starting to think you may be suspiciously wealthy to be a true indie :ninja:
Unless of course you took a debt : P

i've been meaning to get that christopher hitchens book, he's one of my favorite journalists

and what did i buy myself? i haven't even bought much yet (just a few steam games that were on sale)

Well, I do have a decent paying gig right now, but I probably still make less than most artists in the game industry. Still, what I get paid is a lot for a po' boy like me. I still wear the same raggedy clothes with holes in them and I live in San Francisco, which is really expensive. Granted, I did buy most of that stuff for myself, my folks ended up giving me enough cash to cover most of the expenses. Most of the games I bought were on sale for around $20 each, which is why I ended up with so many ;)

oh, he meant the other paul? specify last name foo'

Haha, I didn't notice that Eres had posted in previous page and there could be a mix up  :P
Well, I think both of you can hold your indie status since Phuban's explanation was good enough :noir:

Gran Turismo 5 (PS3)
Assassin's Creed (PS3)
Okami (Wii)
Trauma Team (Wii)
Gift Cards for Best Buy and various movie theatres
Books
Beatles coasters and mugs (maybe my favourite gift)
Candy
a dozen Guitar Picks

Black Ops was an early chirstmas present, I guess it counts to.

Games
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (XBox 360)
Mario All-Stars 25th Anniversary Edition (Wii)
Goldeneye 007 (Wii)
Metroid: Other M (Wii)

Books
The Necronomicon
Death: The High Cost of Living (Graphic Novel)
Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett

Other
A few accessories for my car
Candy
Bought myself some music and the Humble Indie Bundle

75$ worth of gift cards to Panda Express (I love to eat there leave me alone ;~; )

A quail stuffed animal, a certificate for a pound of See's Candies chocolate, um... a nice formal shirt, aaaaaaaaaaaand um. Various chocolates in my stocking along with some cheap plastic bracelets since I keep taking rubber bands from work by putting them on my wrist because yeah.

It was an ok Christmas I guess.  :shrug2:

A: Fantastic taste in books. Good Omens is great, believe me. And you know it's co-authored by Neil Gaiman, no?

B: Necronomicon as in the collection of Lovecraft's short stories, or a story entitled Necronomicon?

I was pretty sure he was referring to the actual volume of arcane dark knowledge.

• A Playstation 3 with Uncharted 2, God of War 3 and Demon's Souls;
• Black Clouds and Silver Linings - Dream Theater.

It's not my favourite record, but I'm not one to whine. It's Dream fucking Theater, after all.

A: Thank you, I really enjoy Terry Pratchett's work. I did know that Neil Gaiman was a part of the process, but I did not know it was such a big role.

B: The Necronomicon is actually written by someone other than Lovecraft. It is the author's interpretation of what the fictional Necronomicon in Lovecraft's stories would be like. Oddly enough, there is no named author, besides the borrowed name of Abdul Alhazred (Who wrote the Necronomicon in Lovecraft's stories). It is copyright 1977, a good 40 years after Lovecraft's death. So, it is not a collection of stories from Lovecraft, nor an unrelated story.

Sorry, I tend to ramble on a bit sometimes.

Ah, yes, I think my brother has a copy of that. Except he swears its real...  :tired:

• 1 GB Western Digital External HD
• 15 GB flash stick
• Konky Bong Country Returns
• $50

$50 spent on:

• Border's Rewards + membership
• Starcraft 2 which my friend ripped me off on because the PROD-KEY was already used. What a jerk. There is no way to get it back, so whenever I want to play I have to login as him...LAME

Since BDay is around the same time as christmas

Heavenly Sword - PS3
Imfamous - PS3
RE: Darkside Chronicles - Wii
Sushi Making Kit - I like to cook
12 String Electric Guitar - I like to rock
2 Tickets to any future Concert I want to go to

Around $900 (AU) in money and gift cards, a Sega Master System and 22 games (my gf got me it off Ebay), a bottle of bourbon, some t-shirts and chocolates. Think that's about it.