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Geek Culture / The Official "What you got for Christmas" thread

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Fallout
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Posted: 25th Dec 2007 19:08
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Since the day has come and is almost gone, what did everyone get this year? Any nice surprises, or big disappointments?

For me, the nice surprise was a Nintendo DS with a couple of games, as most places are out of stock. The booby prize was a leather holder specifically for my driving license, with my initials embossed onto it. Can't think of anything more pointless, especially since I need my license in my wallet as proof of ID.

Can't complain though. Looking forward to my xmas dinner now! Any interesting gifts?


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Insert Name Here
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Posted: 25th Dec 2007 19:11
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TAAAABLLLLLEEEEEEETTTTT!
Wacom Bamboo One tablet
Extra RAM
Guinness book of world records.


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Grandma
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I got a t-shirt with darth vader on it that says "Vader was framed".

Oh and a new mp3 player, moneh and 2 books.

This message was brought to you by Grandma industries.

Making yesterdays games, today!
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n008
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Posted: 25th Dec 2007 19:20 Edited at: 25th Dec 2007 19:21
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I got:

$10k

A havoc Heli

A bunch of Movies

A DVD player

A flashlight

Deoderant

Socks

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Insanity Complex
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2GB MP3 Player(finally upgraded from CD player...although I still my CD player)
Best Buy gift card


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RUCCUS
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Posted: 25th Dec 2007 19:27 Edited at: 25th Dec 2007 19:29
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Guitar Hero 3, Lumix Panasonic Digital Camera w/ 2GB mem card, and Sennheiser 150 Headphones .

<Edit>

Oh! Almost forgot, and a 3-disk Led Zeppelin Memorial Album with all of their major hits / a DVD of their history

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Keo C
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This Vostro 1000 laptop and a backpack case.


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tha_rami
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A day alone as my girlfriend went to her dad for today, a fight between my parents and a lot of work done.


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Posted: 25th Dec 2007 19:54
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You're making that sound worse than it was, surely?


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Accoun
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-A 40cm pen
-1l of coca-cola (and a bonus playstation 3 ;-P)

Make games, not war.

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tha_rami
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Wish that's true. Parents decided to divorce few weeks ago and it appears they aren't as mature as they should be. They keep fighting and screaming over nothing.


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Posted: 25th Dec 2007 19:57
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Feel sorry for ya.


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Agent Dink
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Aww, I feel bad for you Rami.

I got 2 pairs of pajama pants, 2 sweatshirts, a Mozilla Firefox T-Shirt and mouse pad + the complimentary stickers. A 50$ newegg gift card, $30, some M&Ms, and the brothers got Guitar Hero 3, sister was supposed to get Galaxies, (see my other thread ) so 'twas pretty good

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DrewG
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my two front teeth,
a twenty pound bag of char-COAL
five flannel shirts
four mud tires
three shotgun shells
two hunting dogs
and some parts for a mustang GT.

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Ed222
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I got metroid prime 2 but what I really want is a wii


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Preston C
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A cell-phone charger for my car.

It may seem like a booby gift, but it's really useful, as I'm always forgetting to charge my cell-phone, and it's always dead when I need it most



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gbark
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A 4-Gig iPod Nano, now I don't have to carry around a case full of CDs everywhere I go! I'm downloading the contents of my favorite CDs onto it right at this moment, and I still have about $15 dollars worth of songs I can get off of the online store, so I'm happy.

Also a Nintendo Wii for the whole family, and several games, including Mario Galaxy, Paper Mario, Sonic, and about five or six others.
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Blobby 101
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Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock! and a USB colour changing light and a Weird Al CD.


thanks to deathead for the sig! please Click on it!
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Peter H
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Posted: 25th Dec 2007 21:17 Edited at: 25th Dec 2007 21:18
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Rubik's Cube (my first one... already solved it 3 times lol)

Sony Cybershot 7.2MP camera, with 2gig memory stick, and case.

one of those flashlights that you can shake to power (so it doesn't use any batteries at all)

+a few lesser items

[edit] oh, and i bought myself a laptop backpack for my sony vaio..

One man, one lawnmower, plenty of angry groundhogs.
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hessiess
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2 gigs of ram, now got 3, should be able to render anything now, also got some books.

Quote: "Wish that's true. Parents decided to divorce few weeks ago and it appears they aren't as mature as they should be. They keep fighting and screaming over nothing."


my parents seem to do that allot too, though it has never gone as far as divorce thankfully. happy Christmas rami

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Venge
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Among other things,

Ultimate Santana CD
Seagate 320gb SATA HDD
Orange Box for PC

Speaking of which, its the most ridiculous setup of any game I've owned. The box comes with 2 discs, but so far all I've done is attempted to install the first one on my computer(without internet, only my parents' old comp has a connection) and came up with an error saying I was missing some dll. So I googled and found out that in order to install the games, I have to be connected to the internet and proceed to download everything with Steam. I started downloading Portal a few hours ago, it's only at 20% now...Basically I've got a big box that's only useful as a key, even to play single player I've got to download every bloody game one at a time and transfer it (hopefully) to my computer, the only one with a good enough system to run it.

[/rant]

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Bozzy
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Posted: 25th Dec 2007 22:14
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40 Inch Samsung TV
XBox 360 Elite
Dell XPS M1330

and of course:

PANTS AND SOCKS from mother darling

Lovely stuff... Oh, and I almost forgot CHOCOLATE

"I'm a firm believer that if a team scores one goal, then the other has to score two to win."
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Silvester
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What I got? Nothing, as always.

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Tom J
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XPS M1330 - same as Bozzy I see
dvd's
Some HMV vouchers + cash

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Data
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A WACOM tablet

also a snowboard and bunch of other small books and clothes and stuff.

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Xarshi
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Absolutely nothing.

WC Physics - PhysX wrapper for Dark GDK.
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-a 2 GB thumb drive cleverly hidden inside a decent looking wrist watch, Mega Memory Watch (im not actually that geeky)
-a nice picture frame with a picture of my daughter
-a black sweatshirt (hoodie) that says "No, I will not fix your computer"

thats about it. not bad considering I didnt want or ask for anything

My DBP plugins page is now hosted [href]here[/href]
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Quote: "a nice picture frame with a picture of my daughter
-a black sweatshirt (hoodie) that says "No, I will not fix your computer""

Can't beat those.


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Posted: 25th Dec 2007 23:11 Edited at: 25th Dec 2007 23:11
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-Wireless Optical Mouse

-Noise canceling head phones

-A few books

-A few clothing items(as always)

-Some other small things.



A book? I hate book. Book is stupid.
(Formerly Yellow)
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24V Cordless Drill with torque adjustment and 1-hour fast charger. I'm gonna make me some holes
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Osiris
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Posted: 25th Dec 2007 23:14
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Call of duty 4

Mass Effect

Guitar Hero 3!!!

Game Informer subscription

Metroid Prime 3 for the Wii

Star wars Battlefront 2

A book called Fingerprints of the Gods

2008 Sports Illustrated calender

Assorted clothes

Best buy gift card

Over all Id say pretty good!




RIP Max-Tuesday, November 2 2007
You will be dearly missed.
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Quote: "24V Cordless Drill with torque adjustment and 1-hour fast charger. I'm gonna make me some holes"

Coming from anyone else, that would be really worrying. From you, batvink, it's just remotely disturbing.


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Quote: "my parents seem to do that allot too, though it has never gone as far as divorce thankfully. happy Christmas rami"

Thanks Hessies You too!


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Mnemonix
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I have digital camerawr!!


Also I got that new Blade Runner boxset and the Amurikan Pie boxset and some nice spirits for my optics *


*I don't drink

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Sounds like we have a few interesting prezzies.

And rami, good luck chap. My parents suck a lot too. These days I just let them get on with it. There's nothing you can do about it really, short of bumping them off and claiming the inheritance.


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For christmas I received:

Crossword puzzle book + free pen
Snowglobe with a santa in it
A long pen with a snowman on it
Tea infuser kit
Dove moisterising cream (I'm assuming someone sent me the wrong gift)
Dove moisterising bath soak (again I assume I got someone elses!)
Stained Glass paining kit
A warm blanket
A king size bed cover

People kept asking me what I wanted for the last month, I had no idea. Got a new duel core direct X 10 PC, no much point in upgrading it! Got a new laptop from the carphone warehouse deal. Plus I've got a subscription to Metaboli so that's all the games I can eat. So I'm not doing to badly!


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Xbox 360 Arcade with Halo 3, PGR4 and Smackdown vs Raw 2008
80gb iPod Classic

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Xarshi
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@rami - it isn't that bad having your parents divorced. Like, I haven't seen my dad in 6 years or more, but I really couldn't care less. Maybe thats just cuz I dont' care anymore, idk. But it wasn't bad for a little bit after(my dads kinda a jerk though, so he ruined things...) But if your dad is halfway decent, things won't change that much. Hope everything works out for you man, and merry christmas.

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Thanks. I hope everything works out. Happy Christmas to you too.


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AlanC
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Ace Combat 6
Madden 08
A Book about Monopoly
The Terminal
Macgyver Season 2
Rocky Balboa

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I got chocolates and de-oderant, I think they are hinting i'm fat and smelly

I gave away a couple of nVidia 8600GTS and Creative Labs XFi Gamer soundcard

Christmas is about giving right?

Well no fights so everything was good.

DinoHunter (still no nVidia compo voucher!), CPU/GPU Benchmark, DarkFish Encryption DLL, War MMOG (WIP), 3D Model Viewer
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*makes note to self to become good friends with GatorHex by next Christmas.

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Keo C
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Dink! I'm surprised at you!
/Runs away and makes same note.


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-Unreal Tournament 3, Collector's Edition
-The Witcher
-Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
-Gears of War (PC)
-Some gift cards to Best Buy
-Transformers (movie)

And my brothers got:

-Mario Party 8
-Metroid Prime 3
-Skate
-Call of Duty 4
-Some gift cards to Best Buy
-Transformers (Wii game)

...and a couple totally pointless gifts. Overall I'm pretty happy.

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Got an Xbox 360 (yay.....)

2 games, crap, crap, and even more crap

"Originally I was going to have a BS on it but you know how that would be. I can't walk around with the letters BS on me." More or less a qoute by Syndrome from Jack, Jack, attack
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A satin silver slim PS2
9 ps2 games
1 psp game
3 PC games
1 movie
some kind of compass thing
2 giftcards to walmart, a new keyboard and mouse (THEY LIGHT UP!!!)


might think of more later.

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An Xbox 360,
A remote control helicopter (Awesomish!!)
Two Books (Does anything eat sh*t and Do ants have ar*eh*les)
Xbox games.
A Wii,
Wii games,
and loads of other casual Xmas gifts. (Chocolate, ect.)

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I got:
socks
more socks
an awsome bathrobe ^^ yay!!
2 pairs of gloves
teach your self c++ in 21 days (4:th edition)
and money

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oh and a amazon gift card, well I´m off to buy some more programming books!!

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CDs-
Apocalyptica - Cult
Opeth - Roundhouse Tales
Iced Earth - Frame Armageddon (currently listening, and it kicks butt)
Books-
The Tractatus Logico Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Orgins of the British by Oppenheimer -> Very Interesting looking book, basically on the new DNA evidence for the history of the Britons from the ice-age hunter gatherers to the Vikings/Saxons.
Japanese recipe book for noodles with Chopsticks
DVDs-
Flushed Away
Simpsons Movie
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (far out!)
Saw III

I've got more to come and Aunt and Uncle and on their way up from Canterbury.

My Brother bought my Mum a Nikon D90 Camera and my Dad a Gibson Les Paul - they were very pleased.

And this morning, I suppose you could call it a present, our TV blew up, so we had to buy a new one, flat screen HD ready.

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