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Santa baby, my name is Drone. Long time listener, first time caller. Gift preferences: Miniatures are okay but I've already got plenty that are unpainted. I like the idea of miniature games a lot (X-Wing, Armada, all Mantic stuff, Infinity), but don't really have anyone IRL to play with, so you should probably skip miniatures unless it's something you really think is great. I do RPG's, both online and in-person. Right now I'm in a D&D 5e group in real life and I'm enjoying myself despite what goons say about the system (I own the three core books). I'm ALL ABOUT Star Wars though and anything FFG Star Wars would be fantastic (I have the core rulebooks for EotE/AoR/F&D, but none of the supplements/dice/beginner games/anything). I'm not interested at all in PDF's though -- I want to have a book to rifle through and find PDF's too be cumbersome in that regard. Actually in general FFG stuff is probably a good bet, I have yet to play a game of theirs that I didn't like. I don't need Warhammer: Invasion though, a buddy's got that and I'm okay without. Accessories are fine too! If you don't plan to go the RPG or FFG route, I'd definitely be open to any kind of co-op board/card games that scale up -- my partner and I would like to play some games together, but not against each other. Any game that does this and is fun would be neat, doubly so if we could invite more people to play and still have the same amount of fun. Our current group (me and my partner, and another couple) gets together once a month for Legends of Andor, but we already have all the expansions, so we don't need anything there. I also own the Netrunner core box and, while I like it, I've only played it a handful of times and am not really at all interested in playing anything competitively or expanding on it. Please Don't Send: While I do really like beer, I don't really want any delivered to me. I don't smoke, no porn please, I play video games but my Steam account is already full enough. I don't really need movies or non-TG books. Nerdy tchotchkes are okay too but I don't really want anything that's actually a toy. Not a fan of PDF gifts or digital stuff -- I want a package to put under the tree. No clothes unless it's a cool hand-knitted scarf or something, but I have like a million of those already (patches are cool though, I can always stitch them to my canvas backpack). General Location: Germany -- but I strongly prefer gifts in English (RPG's are pretty much mandatory English, board/card games can go either way). Solemn Vow: I swear not to grinch, and though I'd prefer not to give GW money, I will if that's what my santee wishes. Drone fucked around with this message at 11:18 on Nov 23, 2015 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:I think part of the problem might be that there are a lot of people who don't seem to follow the chat threads or just visit the actual forum page (I know I'm guilty of that). Not sure how you could address that issue, though. Dropping a post in each of the megathreads for the various games maybe? Or at least, the most active ones (the various GW stuff, Mantic, Infinity, WarmaHordes, X-Wing, FFG, historicals, etc.)
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Nov 20, 2015 19:06
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But boom boom boom would just send everybody anime  It's only cool if it's Legend of the Galactic Heroes though
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Nov 20, 2015 20:15
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I have aimed my Christmas artillery at the target and fired a shot. According to Amazon, the estimated delivery date is somewhere between the 2nd and the 19th of December holy crap. That's what you get for dealing with third-party Amazon partners I guess. And no giftwrap for a cool message either. 
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Nov 23, 2015 20:56
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What's this? Could that ringing at my door possibly be a goony Santa? No, it can't be, it's so soon! But it is! Thanks Santa Goon! 
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Nov 24, 2015 13:06
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jivjov posted:Nice! Run that as a forums game or something You know, I might just do...
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Nov 24, 2015 13:32
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So I just got an email from Amazon that my santee's gifts, which had an estimated delivery date of the 2nd to the 19th of December, were shipped today. So my conclusion is that estimated delivery dates are total bullshit.
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Nov 24, 2015 16:08
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Ordered my santee's gift on Amazon like a week ago, and today I get an email from Amazon announcing that as of now, they're starting to do free shipping to the country my santee lives in.  At any rate the estimated delivery date has apparently still not changed, somewhere between the 2nd and the 19th. Though if their last email was correct, it should have been sent out late last week.
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Dec 1, 2015 12:55
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NeoAnjou posted:Well that was more painful than it needed to be! My debit card was rejected by the website [are debit cards a thing in the US? It's just a Visa!] but my credit-card order went through... then about 15 minutes I get a call and text-message from my bank about suspicious activity on my account! [and another from my parents who my bank also called as their number is still on my account!] Always use PayPal.
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Dec 1, 2015 17:14
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LoG posted:When I got home from Thanksgiving vacation there was a box waiting on me! I can't upload a picture from my phone to imgur for some reason but it's the Star Wars Armada game. Thanks mystery goon! There wasn't a username on the box from what I could see. I already have a buddy coming over this weekend for our first fleet battle! I'm pumped. Holy hell that's a generous gift. Can't decide which is better, that or Leperflesh's box-o'-wangs.
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Dec 1, 2015 20:29
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Lichtenstein posted:I got a dong! Hope you enjoy it, I had to wrack my brain a bit to figure out what to get.
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Dec 2, 2015 18:24
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Lichtenstein posted:Also, the green one has a warning sign for a reason. Open at your own risk! Someone sent a dong.
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Dec 14, 2015 16:53
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Lichtenstein posted:Hey Santa! Thanks a lot, lot, lot for an amazing surprise! Really glad you like it, since I was wracking my brain really hard to get something for you... your preferences + a bit of post history stalking revealed that I had no idea what to get you that was game-related, but you mentioned a hard-on for Lenin-era Soviet stuff and for subs, so I ran with that. Fun fact: the poster with the cavalryman (which I think is one of the coolest), must apparently be a freebie from the guy I bought it from on Amazon, because I didn't pay for it! The original order only had the other 4 posters on it. And don't worry about them rolling up, just stick them under paperweights for a few days and they'll even out. Then frame that poo poo and put it all over your wargaming den! And yeah the writing on the receipt is from the manufacturer, since I bought it through the Amazon Marketplace. If you want to type it up and PM it to me / post it here, I'll let you know what it says (hopefully something friendly and not creepy political poo poo). I also have no loving clue what any of the Russian in those posters says, I kinda had to trust the seller's very brief description about what the themes were in each. Edit: for curiosity's sake, what's the quality of the print? I ordered some similar ones from a different guy on Amazon and the DPI was less than ideal. Decent enough to view from a few meters away but up-close you could tell they were working with either a lovely large-format printer or fairly low-resolution source files. Drone fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Dec 24, 2015 |
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Dec 24, 2015 19:27
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Yeah it's English but I have no idea what the word after "Hello" is. So it's looking like "Hello ... thanks, include a complimentary print".  Oh well, at any rate you like them and you got a free one!
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Dec 24, 2015 20:17
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There's seriously zero excuse in the era of one-click Amazon purchases.
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Jan 20, 2016 19:33
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Leperflesh posted:one respondent felt there weren't enough naked dudes in the rules Make that two. I would definitely be in favor of a slightly higher-stakes "bonus round" style pot, as I was one of the ones who voted for a (slightly!) higher minimum buy-in for TGSS. Then again it's also my first year, and don't get me wrong, I'm super satisfied with my gift!
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Jan 20, 2016 21:08
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EatinCake posted:Howdy! Literally don't understand how 30 seconds of effort on Amazon was impossible for you. You don't even have to touch the package. Edit: I don't why this legitimately pisses me off. That you had told LeperFlesh multiple times that your package would be shipped (indicating you had even already bought it), that you seemed to ignore emails/PMs, that you've basically said "someone else spend money on this guy, I can't be hosed," or the really forced and insincere attempt to lighten up your post with bad "all mighty santa" humor. Someone earlier mentioned TGSS as one of the few gifts they receive during the holiday season and how they looked forward to it (not your santee I think though), and I guess that really hit a chord with me. Drone fucked around with this message at 07:03 on Jan 21, 2016 |
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Jan 21, 2016 06:56
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I almost felt like I was too specific in my original signup post, but that's probably the best way to avoid getting doubles of stuff for people that have a larger collection. Thankfully for me my collection was small, but I can see how it would be a problem for people who have a ton of stuff. Also why I didn't buy my santee anything game-related, because I was afraid he'd already own whatever I thought to buy 
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Jan 29, 2016 20:17
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