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Might as well lose the topic-posting virginity. What did ye's all get for the festive season?

My loot:
Amazon Kindle 3 + £25 store credit
Sonic Colours
Lamy pen
"CD Pod"
Inception on DVD
Two Clarkson books
QI Book of General Ignorance

And a small quantity of other things which I've forgotten about because I've already eaten them.

Some wood.

Combined Christmas and birthday haul, since they're less than a week apart:

Sonic Colours
Dragon Age Origins: Awakening - More Dragon Age, which surely can't be a bad thing. Maybe I can pretend it's 2009 again and forget about that other PC RPG that's taking over my life at the moment.
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm poster and The Shattering novel - Well so much for that.
Plants vs Zombies - I was quite touched that my sister got me this, because it's the first time anyone's ever bought me a video game I hadn't explicitly asked for. She even checked Steam to try and make sure I didn't already have it. Sadly, I did - I got it directly from PopCap rather than via Steam. I assured her that had I not already bought it, I would have been very excited (and it's true!).
Evangelion 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone - I know I'm 15 years behind the curve yet again, but this is my second interaction with the Evangelion series, the first being You Can (Not) Advance. I'll spare you my opinions on the series in general but I would like to say that the dub in this remake is actually rather convincing. I'd watched the second movie with my uni's anime club, and the higher ups rather snootily voted unanimously to only air the subbed versions of their weekly screenings. I guess nothing improves immersion like having to glance down every 5 seconds. But the dub had very little in the way of awkward deliveries and the emotional expression was just as visceral as in the Japanese original, but without the painful Engrish. Short of learning Japanese, I suspect this is probably the closest we gaijin will ever get to the intended Evangelion experience.
DeathSpank - Just started playing it. Seems funny.
The Big Bang Theory Season 1

... and a book on economics and one about popular psychology, the former being politically relevant and the latter of general interest. And some One Piece manga because I need to get around to reading more One Piece.

Batman: Arkham Asylum for Xbox 360 and a bag full of assorted snacks.

Jack shit.

A pair of Sketchers Shape-ups.

What's a tactful way of saying "I appreciate you thinking of me, but I can't wear shoes this expensive no matter how ridiculous-looking."?

I got a digital camcorder and money. What I plan with said money is unknown. (My Wii is not playing games very well right now, so games for it are sadly out of the question until repairs are made.)

Stress and anxiety.

My family got me a dress shirt, dress pants, a tie, a leather jacket, Season 2 of Mad Men, and a set of pocket knives. I must have been giving them a particular vibe lately.

Also, Mario Galaxy 2, Super Scribblenauts, and a Wii nunchuck.

I got a cool hat and a Netflix subscription.

Sonic Colors (DS)
Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands (360)
A Boy and His Blob (Wii)
Mass Effect 2 (360)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (dvd/br)
Coming Home Crazy (Bill Holm)

Delphine wrote:Sex and ecstasy.

Quit being so blunt.

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs (dvd)
Scattegories (boardgame)
500 days of summer (dvd)
two volumes of Naoki Urusawa's "Monster"
a power drill

so uh, yeah.

Some money, some clothes, some candy, a voucher to the Brisbane City Story Bridge Climb, and some shaving goods replete with new bag for storing toiletries. Not terribly exciting.

Bought mother a new TV as a surprise however, which went down very well. Also about ten times the price of anyone else's present, but hey it's better to give, etc.

P.P.A. wrote:

• Jenseits von Gut und Böse
• A Briefer History of Time
• Das Nibelungenlied
• Parzival
• Wilhelm Tell
• Lolita
• Faust
• Hermann und Dorothea
• Iphigenie auf Tauris
• Hamlet
• The Sonnets
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• even more books
• some money (of which I spent some on the Paradox Complete Pack on Steam already)
• enemy propaganda (The Bridge of Remagen on DVD)

You didn't use the weird Ss.

New Super Mario Bros Wii, 45 bucks, half of a nice flatscreen TV and a whole bunch of chocolate and gummies.

Neo wrote:half of a nice flatscreen TV

Half?

Neo wrote:45 bucks

$45? Why not $40 or $50?

I'm betting his candies are half-eaten, too?

gr4yJ4Y wrote:Half?

The other half was my birthday present!

MiraiTails wrote:$45? Why not $40 or $50?

Because it came from various sources.

Dr. BUGMAN wrote:I'm betting his candies are half-eaten, too?

People eat candles?

Zlng!

I got a brand new pair o' sandals! :D

I also bought myself a Dreamcast VGA Box, it should be arriving anytime now.

Isuka wrote:I got a brand new pair o' sandals! :D

Is that... Is that really the only gift you got?

I got $200, which I spent on:

Grado SR60i headphones
Wacom 6D art pen
E3 card reader
Fancy poster
This shitty thing that I regret buying (I didn't spend that much on it).

Actual gifts:

Sonic Colors
Donkey Kong Country Returns (Colors is better)
Fat PS3 with four controllers and about 8 games (Including Shadow of the Colossus!) that my parents bought for about $50 off of some guy who almost certainly stole it. Awesome!

And my nephew got Little Big Planet and GTA4. Really enjoying the latter, which was not at all anticipated! All in all, best Christmas since 1994.

I got a photo book on Vienna and a Dreamcast VGA (waited for years to finally get one).

My christmas loot:

-A traditional chinese drawing painting guide focused on the eastern zodiac. It's a bit biased, though - the tiger and the monkey got more pages dedicated to them then all the other beasts put together.
-A traditional chinese painting kit to go with it, including 5 different brushes. I might actually do something, after all.
-"A Rough Guide to Manga", by Jason Yadao. It was kind of unnecessary, but it's actually wordy and insightful for something of its genre. And for an aunt's gift, it's still better than socks.
-Some clothes.
-R$2,00