I must admit the trailer for the Alice didn't look great. I think leaving out Johnny Depp would have been a very good idea. But he's great, and does wonderful pictures...
http://rgr-static1.tangentlabs.co.uk...-christmas.jpg Moving on... what did you get for Christmas? |
From my parents I got...
Street Fighter 4 The Shadow Out Of Time radio drama Necronomicon CD by Nox Arcana District 9 on Blu-Ray A blue robe Black leather gloves Christmas socks Some candy My brother got me this really nice painting of two dutch rabbits in a stable that came with this really heavy frame. I get a lot of stuff on Christmas because I have such a big family, which means i have to buy a lot of gifts though lol, i still haven't even seen all my siblings for Christmas. |
I've NEVER seen all my siblings for Christmas! Indeed, I've never seen all my siblings at once before.
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Complicated family tree, eh? How many of your siblings are halves and steps?
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No steps, but some halfs.
Let me see... ah, yes, five of them. |
A didgeridoo and a panflute to start. I can get the latter to make noise, the former not so much.
A 41-key midi controller keyboard (which has a lengthy and needlessly complicated driver-installation process). Some travel speakers for my P.O.S. laptop. An AE wallprint, the unofficial "Swimming Abe" one. I'm impressed by the quality of the print, but I wish they had mounted it on foam card or something. I'm going to be getting that done at a print shop on my own dime within the next few days. Lots of nice clothes, all of which fit surprisingly well considering my parents are in love with the idea that I'm a size smaller than I actually am and tend to buy clothes that are far too tight. A couple of movies I asked for. A copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum for PS3. So far the game is fun but the controls bug the crap out of me, and I find myself returning to the configuration menu often to tweak the inverts and sensitivities over and over. Also not too impressed with the score, but that could simply be becase I'm so used to Batman having such good music (not counting Zimmer's piss-poor scoring for BB/TDK of course). A copy of The Suffering (have only played rented), complete with a new cover my friend drew specifically to make me laugh. It features Torque drawn in crayon by what you would think was a three year old. The title was written in cutesy kids letters with some of them being backwards. The back half of the cover featured one of the monsters apparently frolicking in a field of flowers and poorly-drawn rainbows. My friend Greg did all this for me, and I must say I lol'd pretty damn hard when I tore into the wrapping paper and saw that perfectly round, crayon rendition of Torque staring back at me. I'll be sure to scan it if anyone's interested, I bet MA will be. |
I'm interested.
And if the Swimming Abe posted is good I may get it; provided I can find room on the walls :P |
The quality is damned good. They manage to squeeze around pixel distortion via gentle use of a softening filter. If you hold your nose to it, naturally you're going to see the flaws, but it looks damned fine from even a foot away. It's printed on some seriously flimsy gloss paper though, so I would get it poster sprayed and stuck to something stiffer before you mount it.
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I did not post on Christmas, what with family and all, but I got:
- A new camera - This Mitchell and Book - A couple of Steam games - A t-shirt with Che Guevara on it - A cardigan (!) - Scattergories - QI annual and various others - if you only ask for a few things you're bound to get a lot of random stuff. |
I got Metal Gear solid 4. Really, really fun. I've never played many stealth games (this, AO and AE) and love the way it flows.
I gave my mum a china dog with very detailed genitals. Its arse-hole wasn't that shabby, either. |
Hi people.. Finally decided to post here a bit.
I got lotsa girly stuff from various of Chris's family members, and I got some money from my dad. I also got some fun clothes and the super awesome DOOM (nerdy) Boardgame which I've been wanting for a while. Yey. |
Wait... Doom, as in the computer game, has been turned in to a board game?
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I got £60 and sweeties from my nana, so I now have £100 to do whatever I want with =D I never knew the value of money I don't need till I needed approx 95% of the money I was given.
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I want it now, also. I forgot to mention my $70 in gift cards, and 3 movie tickets. I'm going to see Avatar soon! |
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I had this friend who has a lot of nerdy boardgames like that. They are quite fun. Arkham Horror is another board game I'd like at some point. Apparently it's themed around HP Lovecraft's stories. Yey for nerdy stuff. |
Let's see.. I got myself an old Xbox system with
Munch's oddysee, stranger's wrath and Xtreme beach vollyball. A hard candy case that's in the shape of a super star off the mario games, and the new super mario brother's on wii. I'm hoping when I get payed at the first of the month I can get abes oddysee and abes exoddus. |
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Just beat someone up for it. If you have anything left over then you should buy some Subway.
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WAS THAT SNARKY ENOUGH FOR YOU?
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Yes. Here's a toffee. Go climb that tree and nibble on the corners of it like a squirrel.
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Price check.
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Or, you know, goddamned Steam.
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FFs Opril, he even linked it in his first post. learn2forum
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I've totally had the Doom boardgame for years. never played it, just looked at the totally awesome little models
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And yes, I'm totally going to paint the models. |
i always intended to but never did. they are glorious though.
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