Loot

[notnamed]

Okay, there are already 16 Christmas threads, but this one is different - you can stop pretending Christmas is about family and friends and just focus on the good stuff, the loot. So, what did you get for Christmas?
So far I've only had one of my several Christmases, and most notably I got a blacklight, something I've wanted for a long time. Now all I need is a disco ball and it's rave time.

[Bruce]

The usual clothes (some nice dress slacks, some shirts, a hoody, socks/underwear)

DVDs:
Seinfeld Seasons 4, 5, 6
Family Guy Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4

PC Games:
Quake 4
F.E.A.R
Battlefield 2
Black & White 2
Rome: Total War
NBA Live 2006

Umm... and some other miscellaneous stuff (cologne, etc.). I'm probably forgetting some stuff too, but whatever.

[tandoc]

wow that's a lot of presents...

I believe this year's haul for me was pretty small though..

I got some nice new speakers (http://www.jbl.com/home/products/product_detail.aspx?prod=CREATUREIIBLK&cat=HMM&ser=HMM)

and a few shirts/shorts...

oh and a pencil case.

[edit]

almost forgot, an anime-themed blow up sex doll... don't ask.

[Bruce]

almost forgot, an anime-themed blow up sex doll... don't ask.Haha... WTF, mate?

Oh yeah, I got a Plantronics headset and speaker/headset switch too, by the way. Nifty little bugger, that switch is.

[stabme]

DVDs:
Seinfeld Seasons 4, 5, 6

you lucky sonuva... :o

thats uber costly too ;p

[Daniel]

Okay:

Samsung 997MB 19" CRT monitor(YAY! >60hz refresh rate now! WOOO!)
Chapelle's Show Season 1 & 2 + Platinum Comedy Series: Killin' Them Softly
1 huge bar of Toblerone 750g
1 pack of 3 boxes of After Eight
An Avirex Sweater
Family Guy Volume 3/Season 4

[themoose]

1 pack of 3 boxes of After Eight

man i need some of them

[Wojtek]

no high-tech stuff for me this year

got plates, smaller plates, cups, forks, knifes, etc. basically a whole sits 8 kitchen set
also got some very nice steinles steel 11pc cooking package
few shirts, chocolates and some christmas decorations (go figure lol maybe for next year)

[nex-gen host]

meh? I got a minifridge!:D I also got and wireless g link so my linux pc has internet and photoshop CS1 and war of the worlds on dvd:D
And lotsa chocolate:D

almost forgot, an anime-themed blow up sex doll... don't ask.
Right.. im gonna assume its an inside joke:D If not, your one lonely boy:D

[Daniel]

I just bought myself a new computer with the money I got from Christmas:

AMD Athlon X2 3800+
Asus A8N-SLi Deluxe
OCZ PC3200 DDR400 2GB (2x1GB) dual channel RAM
Maxtor DiamondMaxPlus10 200GB 16MB cache
eVGA 7800GT CO 256MB
Antec TruePower2.0 550W powersupply
A pretty crappy case.

[Ako]

Changed MSDOS and bought Windows 3.1 instead! Its so cool, never thought that an OS can be so advanced :D:D

[themoose]

Changed MSDOS and bought Windows 3.1 instead! Its so cool, never thought that an OS can be so advanced :D:D

wow, what browser are you using? :D

[Ako]

wow, what browser are you using? :D

Netscape. But dont think I am a loser I just upgraded to 1.02 :D

[makinalimits]

laptop
clothes
safe
money
chocs
books
snooker cue
walkman
football shirts(england and sunderland)
loads of other lil things to

[Blank Verse]

Well...

I got some new tires for my truck. Which is awesome, because I really didn't want to buy those :p

New skates
standard clothes/money
Tragically Hip Box Set
That 70's Show Season 3
The Family Guy movie
Trivial Pursuit SNL edition
The movies PC game

I'm forgetting something, I know it.

[notnamed]

With $145 in Best Buy gift cards from Christmas #2:
Altec Lansing 2.1 (VS4121) speaker system
SoundBlaster Live! 24bit (should have researched before I bought this piece of crap)

[Brandon]

Keyboard and Optical Mouse (Used to have ball mouse)
Cologne
Mario Kart DS
Wireless B/G router
The Sims 2
Target Gift Cards
Clothes

[hottweelz]

I got:
DVD System for the Car.
Dukes of Hazard DVD
Gone In 60 Seconds DVD
Kodak Digital Camera
About 5 Business Suits
And a Gift Card which resulted in my Home PC now having Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound.

[Brandon]

And a Gift Card which resulted in my Home PC now having Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound.
That must be awesome for watching dvds....

[hottweelz]

So far I can't stop playing games with it!

[Daniel]

Well...

I got some new tires for my truck. Which is awesome, because I really didn't want to buy those :p

New skates
standard clothes/money
Tragically Hip Box Set
That 70's Show Season 3
The Family Guy movie
Trivial Pursuit SNL edition
The movies PC game

I'm forgetting something, I know it.

Oh yeah I got new skates too. Bauer Vapor XX. :D

Too bad the ice around here is horrible(they haven't scrapped it since the snow storm).

[Blank Verse]

Oh yeah I got new skates too. Bauer Vapor XX. :D

Too bad the ice around here is horrible(they haven't scrapped it since the snow storm).

Yeah man, those are the skates i got too.

At least you have ice :P

[Daniel]

Hardly.

I walked 5 minutes to the park, looked over the fence, I see freaking pot holes in the ice, full of ice chips, snow, garbage, and I'm like: screw that.

[Gayowulf]

I got:
an awesome down sleeping bag (mummy style) good to -12
2 pairs of new gloves
LED headlamp
a bunch of socks
Metric ----ton of chocolate
Clothing

And a bunch of my friends pitched in money for me to get a cell phone. Apparently they're tired of me being hard to get ahold of. (that's how I like it)

I too am probably forgetting something. I'll look at my haul tomorrow and take inventory.

Oh yeah, the phone has a camera so I'll probably be able to take some dirty pictures. :P

[Daniel]

You plan on camping outside in -12 weather?

Metric ----ton of chocolate eh? You too? ;)

[Gayowulf]

You plan on camping outside in -12 weather?

Metric ----ton of chocolate eh? You too? ;)

Yeah I do, but I have my doubts that we'll ever see -12 again. it's 8 above and raining where I am, and that's completely ----ed. The snowpack is unstable everywhere, and I've got all this new equipment sitting in my basement staring at me.

So far this is all I've got to show for the season.

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/8881/imgp28659zo.jpg

And as far as chocolates go, I reall like those ones you have to smack on the ground before you can eat them... the raspberry flavoured especially.

[Blank Verse]

That picture has more snow in it than I've seen since last Christmas thru now. I've got an awesome thermal sleeping bag myself, perfect for winter camping, which I do from time to time. But I know what you mean...it would be WAY too hot sleeping in that thing right now. It might have dropped under 0 early this morning, but even that didn't last long.

[Daniel]

It's like 3 below right now, tomorrow it's going to be +1. At this rate, I'm never going to be able to play hockey outdoors this break. :(

We did get a ton of snow about 2 weeks ago. http://www.fr0mage.com/snowday/

[Matt8]

Yeah man, those are the skates i got too.

At least you have ice :P

Hey, at least you Canadian's have ice rinks period! Here in the the boring state of Kansas, my home town shut down the one ice rink I loved for the last 6 years or so. It doesn't get cold enough for the ponds to freeze up more than once, twice if we are lucky, each year.

Anyway, my loot:
-Couple shirts, hoodies, whatever
-Cologne
-Call of Duty 2
-Money
-Alarm Clock
-Heated Blanket (i love this)
-Leather jacket
-New wallet and Dilbert calender from girlfriend

Not the best bring-in from years past, but it wasn't bad either.

[iBrightDev]

Well, I got wedding band that I bought, plus my now fiance's engagment ring, so that set me back a bit, but we got some things that were decent.

George Foreman Cooking Grill
Dirt Devil Vacumn with the 2 smaller ones too
Gift Card for Outback Steakhouse
2 giftcards for On The Border Mexican Grill
2 Gift Cards for Macayos
Dave Chappelle - Live at the Fillmore (DVD)
A leather covered box (no sure what the hell my mom think I am going to use it for? maybe i'll trash it.)
A bottle of home made Sangria
baked crap like cookies.
A new shirt
A flannel blanket
Hair Cutting kit (now i can cut my own hair again.)

that is it. my fiance got a few other thing, but not sure what. :)

[Daniel]

Hey, at least you Canadian's have ice rinks period! Here in the the boring state of Kansas, my home town shut down the one ice rink I loved for the last 6 years or so. It doesn't get cold enough for the ponds to freeze up more than once, twice if we are lucky, each year.

Well, I can always go down the street and select 1 of 3 indoor arenas and play there. But it's not the same...


Btw, the Pitsburgh Penguins might move to Kansas City. :biggrin2:

[Wojtek]

indoor skate rinks suck ---
all infested with prepub teenies screaming and wining

[anhedonia]

Keyboard and Optical Mouse (Used to have ball mouse)
Mario Kart DS


<3 mario <3

[Daniel]

indoor skate rinks suck ---
all infested with prepub teenies screaming and wining

Rent a rink at any arena, get some friends and some sticks and a puck and play hockey.

[notnamed]

Just bought Command and Conquer: Generals and Generals: Zero Hour with the remaining money on my Best Buy gift card. Doesn't run amazingly well on my computer, but it's definitely better than I expected it to be.

[Bruce]

Yeah, you can't really go wrong with any C&C game. I actually preferred Act of War to Generals though...

I'm still waiting for February when EA releases The C&C First Decade set. The original C&C has always been my favorite, but I don't feel like setting up a 95 box just to play it. Being able to play it on XP will be sweet.

[Blank Verse]

Rent a rink at any arena, get some friends and some sticks and a puck and play hockey.


Yeah, that's the way to go. The more friends you can get out there, the less it's going to cost you, and it's better hockey. My friends and I try to do that at least once a year. But I live a one minute walk away from a huge pond that they put nets up on every winter, so I do that a lot more. I think it's cold enough to play on today, so that's my plan for today :p

[Daniel]

Yeah, that's the way to go. The more friends you can get out there, the less it's going to cost you, and it's better hockey. My friends and I try to do that at least once a year. But I live a one minute walk away from a huge pond that they put nets up on every winter, so I do that a lot more. I think it's cold enough to play on today, so that's my plan for today :p

I would have went today, but my new computer just came in so I had to break it in.

Bruce, you can run Red Alert and C&C on XP using compatibility mode, just no multiplayer. :( I'm waiting for First Decade aswell, I heard multiplayer will work in XP even for the old games. Awesome.

[Blank Verse]

Man, it was awesome. It was cold enough today to play, so me and some friends hit up the pond. My skates were broken in within 10 minutes, and then they no longer hurt my feet. It's like I've owned them for ten years. It was absolutely ----ing pristine.

Now if only I had skills.

[Daniel]

So far this year I've hit the rink only once, and there was no one there. :rolleyes:

I atleast have a big shot, too bad it's kinda useless when there's no goalie. :rolleyes:

[Gayowulf]

I don't have any good skating stories to relate. I have my trusty old CCM tacks from Canuck Wheel. Which is probably why i don't much like skating. They're like a couple of rusty leg-hold traps frozen to my feet.


But in other news I get paid to watch a lot of the Junior International hockey championships. WIth VIP seating.

I watched Sweden and Latvia play today, and Latvia got worked over 10-2, but i think it was one of the best hockey games I've seen in my life. I was cheering for Latvia, and then almost bought a Sweden Jersey.

and I dislike the Russians. Their behaviour off the ice has been really bad.

[Blank Verse]

How the hell did you land that job? And why wasn't I invited?

[Gayowulf]

I've worked at one of the venues for awhile, and they made me the bartender in the VIP lounge, and in charge of liquor service for all the private suites. THere are a bunch of big screens in the lounge.

During the game when the lounge is empty I go BS with the people in the suites and make sure everything is to their satisfaction (and watch the game) and then during the intermission I help all the important people and strange foreigners get drunk.

I would have invited you Blank, but I tell ya, there's no way to sneak in guests.

[Bruce]

Bruce, you can run Red Alert and C&C on XP using compatibility mode, just no multiplayer. :( I'm waiting for First Decade aswell, I heard multiplayer will work in XP even for the old games. Awesome.
I've had mixed luck getting them to run properly on XP. Sometimes it will run fine for a while and then freeze, and sometimes it just won't run at all.

But yes, working multiplayer is the big thing.

[Space Ghost]

Supercard SD + Superpass
512Mb SD card
Few misc dvds (Fight Club, War of the Worlds), gift cards, Gucci Envy (the women love it)

Was a nice and quiet christmas. Very good food. :)

[Brandon]

Hey, at least you Canadian's have ice rinks period! Here in the the boring state of Kansas, my home town shut down the one ice rink I loved for the last 6 years or so. It doesn't get cold enough for the ponds to freeze up more than once, twice if we are lucky, each year.

Anyway, my loot:
-Couple shirts, hoodies, whatever
-Cologne
-Call of Duty 2
-Money
-Alarm Clock
-Heated Blanket (i love this)
-Leather jacket
-New wallet and Dilbert calender from girlfriend

Not the best bring-in from years past, but it wasn't bad either.
You live in kansas too? Yeah, this state sucks....you live in Wichita? Because our ice rink is shut down....

[Matt8]

Nope, out here in your previous rival Topeka. Long live the Topeka Scarecrows :'-(

[Space Ghost]

Nope, out here in your previous rival Topeka. Long live the Topeka Scarecrows :'-(

Topeka: known first for the Westboro Baptist Church and second for it's fine hockey team. ;)

[Brandon]

Nope, out here in your previous rival Topeka. Long live the Topeka Scarecrows :'-(
Thunder might not be here to much longer..our City Goverment SUCKS! This whole state sucks...especially the board of education :P

[Matt8]

Fine hockey team that no longer exists and was never great in the first place. And yes, for the Westboro Baptist Cult Church of Haters. Oh, how we do enjoy them.