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GAF Secret Santa 2012
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"Rogue Santas" will have a bit of a window to come through to avoid the blacklist. The deadline will be announced in the near future.
We'll begin gathering information and preparing to contact them on Wednesday. Hang tight, more details soon.
Keep those pics coming guys, some great stuff this year!
Well, the gift didn't come today. Will be keeping an eye out.
matthewwhatever
Member
Thanks SS! My house is about to get crazy busy for xmas so I found spare time to open gift and upload picture right now. So here is my gifts I got. Never tried WWE All Stars yet so can't wait to try it out. The gummies look tasty. Sorry for the iphone pic but I had to do this quick lol. Happy Holidays!!!!
You're welcome! Very glad you liked it -- I did some Google stalking and found you liked WWE/MMA. Merry Christmas!
(And I'll post my gifts when I open then in the morning!)
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Merry Christmas!
NintendoGal
Member
No SS gift, but oh well. Merry X-mas to all, however!
friskykillface
Banned
bleh still pissed i got lazy and never fully signed up for secret santa 
next year
next year
Photosynthesis
Member
Merry Christmas, y'all! <3 Hope everyone's gift arrives safely.
Like the hat?
Banned
Got an adventure time tshirt, thanks ss! Gonna wear it today.
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
Opened up my gift. Thanks SS!
That chocolate threw me off. I thought you sent me a bust or something. lol
That chocolate threw me off. I thought you sent me a bust or something. lol
anonymous_abc
Member
Fracking awesome!!!
Thank you so much!!!
Thank you so much!!!
Thanks mf.luder!
link not working
edit: copy and pasted them myselves. you like ballet?
Ok that's cool. Cute kid too
Fixed my links. Thanks! She's pretty swell. Newest trick is 'maniacal laugh'
Give me your steam id so I can you the other stuff. Also, there is something still floating in the post towards you.
Sorry I forgot to even give a clue as to who I was! I hope you like it though. Kind of a hard person to shop for and I wanted to get something somewhat interesting. Merry Christmas!What a thoughtful and creative gift! Thank you so much to my SS (who could it be?). Merry Christmas!
RumblingRosco
Member
I opened my gifts from thebaroness this morning! Funny thing I noticed, I sent my gifts to wascallywabbit, he sent his gifts to thebaroness, and she sent her gifts to me! We had our own little Secret Santa circle going, hah!
First, I have to say I was super excited just to get the package on Saturday. I'd just been on campus at my lab from 7 AM until around noon trying to wrap up some experimental work, and had to hurry because my girlfriend and I were leaving for her parents (which live a few hours away) as soon as I could get home, but it was really fun and exciting to see my gifts had arrived even in the middle of all that rush. I found them just outside the front door as I was coming back from lab, so it was great timing.
My girlfriend said I looked really excited when I was holding the package so she got a pic of me with it:
So, then today I opened it all up. I forgot to take pictures of the gifts wrapped, so sorry about that, but here's the haul, starting with the front and back of the cool card:
I got some candy! I will end up eating these very quickly.
I got a stuffed star which I think I will put up on our tree next year, but maybe I'm missing the actual purpose of it? It's a little stuffed/felt star; kind of reminds me of something from Mario Galaxy... which will make sense soon.
I got some cool pins! I recognize what I think is Midna, the kid from Advance Wars, and Ace Attorney, but I'm not sure on the other two; any guesses?
So, and finally and clearly the coolest gift from this collection, some hand-made art from thebaroness:
It's about 9"x12" and Mario Galaxy is easily one of my favorite games (which, I'm not sure if thebaroness knew that or just got lucky!) but I really love this. I'm going to get it a nice frame later on and find a good spot in our house for it! I don't know if she did some snooping and saw me drooling over orioto's thread a few times or what, but this is perfect Thanks so much!
First, I have to say I was super excited just to get the package on Saturday. I'd just been on campus at my lab from 7 AM until around noon trying to wrap up some experimental work, and had to hurry because my girlfriend and I were leaving for her parents (which live a few hours away) as soon as I could get home, but it was really fun and exciting to see my gifts had arrived even in the middle of all that rush. I found them just outside the front door as I was coming back from lab, so it was great timing.
My girlfriend said I looked really excited when I was holding the package so she got a pic of me with it:
So, then today I opened it all up. I forgot to take pictures of the gifts wrapped, so sorry about that, but here's the haul, starting with the front and back of the cool card:
I got some candy! I will end up eating these very quickly.
I got a stuffed star which I think I will put up on our tree next year, but maybe I'm missing the actual purpose of it? It's a little stuffed/felt star; kind of reminds me of something from Mario Galaxy... which will make sense soon.
I got some cool pins! I recognize what I think is Midna, the kid from Advance Wars, and Ace Attorney, but I'm not sure on the other two; any guesses?
So, and finally and clearly the coolest gift from this collection, some hand-made art from thebaroness:
It's about 9"x12" and Mario Galaxy is easily one of my favorite games (which, I'm not sure if thebaroness knew that or just got lucky!) but I really love this. I'm going to get it a nice frame later on and find a good spot in our house for it! I don't know if she did some snooping and saw me drooling over orioto's thread a few times or what, but this is perfect
Thanks so much!fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
Just found the note from my SS. I don't have either books so it was a nice surprise. Thanks for checking for chips. I think that request has carried over for three years. Here's hoping for year four!
My family and I completed opening our presents, and I wanted to jump onto this thread to tell my Secret Santa, Gryphter, that I adored his presents and heartfelt letter.
I laughed pretty hard when I got Gamer as a present, it was even better because the wrapping was Gamer too. I guess I finally have a reason to watch this supposedly awful film. I hope I won't get eye cancer. This was the first present I opened, so I had no idea if the rest would be gag gifts.
Then I realized Gryphter became serious when I opened my next present, The Lost Room. I have no idea if I ever heard of this show before (I thought it was a film before I read his letter). I feel like I heard of it from somewhere. However, how you desrcibed this show sounds like I will fall in love with it.
As an aside, my family were giving me weird looks because I decided to open up my Gaf gifts before I opened up their gifts. They also gave me weirder look when I told them I was part of an online secret santa. The older folks and my country sisters will never understand the radness of NeoGaf. Oh! Gryphter, they found your wrappings hilarious, I have a few pictures that I may post later of it.
Anyway, back to the presents, the third gift I opened contained "Locke Key." I never heard of this comic before, so I was pretty pumped when I glance through it and discover some rad art. Plus anything Lovecraft-related tends to be awesome. After your comparison to VLR, Persona, and Twin Peaks, I am expecting to have an epic orgasm.
The next gift contained one of the best comics known to man, Watchmen. I read through this during my freshman year of college, which would be four years back (a lot of the themes in Watchmen I ignored back then). I am still stoked that I got this present for a few reasons: Gryphter has quality taste, I lost my copy a few years back during a move, and I really want to reread it to see everything I missed during my first read.
Also Gryphter, I saw the film, but thankfully after reading the source material.
My last gift was heartfelt, especially after reading Gryphter's letter to me, Pixel Blocks. I lack the necessary imagination to really use your former Pixel Blocks, but I will either donate them to a child who is creative, or save them for my possible children. If I keep it for the latter reason, I will force them to make video game characters!
Everyone should see the heartfelt letter that Gryphter wrote to me too. This really elevated the awesomeness of all of his gifts. I am truly appreciative of the research you did to send me kick-ass presents. You truly made my first year of Secret Santa truly awesome.
I hope my Tiny Tim enjoyed his gifts. I sadly lack a proper job at the moment, so I had to compromise on some of his presents, but I think he will dig them. After this groovy year, I will certainly return for the following year. But next time, I will have a full-time job and time to meet the level of Gryphter!
Edit: For the letter, I didn't want to contain Gryphter's real name or signature, so we have a kawaii sun to cover those details up because I don't know how to properly block those other details out!
I laughed pretty hard when I got Gamer as a present, it was even better because the wrapping was Gamer too. I guess I finally have a reason to watch this supposedly awful film. I hope I won't get eye cancer. This was the first present I opened, so I had no idea if the rest would be gag gifts.
Then I realized Gryphter became serious when I opened my next present, The Lost Room. I have no idea if I ever heard of this show before (I thought it was a film before I read his letter). I feel like I heard of it from somewhere. However, how you desrcibed this show sounds like I will fall in love with it.
As an aside, my family were giving me weird looks because I decided to open up my Gaf gifts before I opened up their gifts. They also gave me weirder look when I told them I was part of an online secret santa. The older folks and my country sisters will never understand the radness of NeoGaf. Oh! Gryphter, they found your wrappings hilarious, I have a few pictures that I may post later of it.
Anyway, back to the presents, the third gift I opened contained "Locke Key." I never heard of this comic before, so I was pretty pumped when I glance through it and discover some rad art. Plus anything Lovecraft-related tends to be awesome. After your comparison to VLR, Persona, and Twin Peaks, I am expecting to have an epic orgasm.
The next gift contained one of the best comics known to man, Watchmen. I read through this during my freshman year of college, which would be four years back (a lot of the themes in Watchmen I ignored back then). I am still stoked that I got this present for a few reasons: Gryphter has quality taste, I lost my copy a few years back during a move, and I really want to reread it to see everything I missed during my first read.
Also Gryphter, I saw the film, but thankfully after reading the source material.
My last gift was heartfelt, especially after reading Gryphter's letter to me, Pixel Blocks. I lack the necessary imagination to really use your former Pixel Blocks, but I will either donate them to a child who is creative, or save them for my possible children. If I keep it for the latter reason, I will force them to make video game characters!
Everyone should see the heartfelt letter that Gryphter wrote to me too. This really elevated the awesomeness of all of his gifts. I am truly appreciative of the research you did to send me kick-ass presents. You truly made my first year of Secret Santa truly awesome.
I hope my Tiny Tim enjoyed his gifts. I sadly lack a proper job at the moment, so I had to compromise on some of his presents, but I think he will dig them. After this groovy year, I will certainly return for the following year. But next time, I will have a full-time job and time to meet the level of Gryphter!
Edit: For the letter, I didn't want to contain Gryphter's real name or signature, so we have a kawaii sun to cover those details up because I don't know how to properly block those other details out!
Photosynthesis
Member
OH MY GOD I love the Lost Room. Such an excellent miniseries. You'll like it!
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
The package in all of its glory!
So many packing peanuts! You should have seen the huge box of packing peanuts it all came in!
!!! An Awesome Mario/Star Wars shirt and an amazing blu-ray collection of all 4 alien movies? I LOVE IT. I've actually really been wanting the blu-rays of those movies so this is perfect. And the shirt is amazing and hilarious as well. Not sure if my secret santa is a great sleuth or just lucky but I love my gifts. Thank you very much!
Glad you like it sir! Also you just can't go wrong with packing peanuts.
That's an amazing shirt!
Thanks Toki! A very interesting present! I love it!
Opened up my box to find some great anime Already on disc two of robotech love it so far.
Can't say I have heard of the two movies but after a quick glance I can tell I'm going to love them both.
All the stuff that came with the movies Couldn't ask for anything better Thank you.
Forgot a card with mine as well realized soon as I dropped it off too.
Although not sure it would have fit with all the packing peanuts heh.
Ho-ly crap. After receiving nothing last year, this year more than made up for it!
Three comic books that I've been wanting to read, and...
...a US PS2! I've been wanting one for the longest time to play my imports and I still can't believe I got one! And if that wasn't enough, 3 great games! Seriously, it wouldn't be easy to find me a better gift.
Thank you so much, acksman!
Three comic books that I've been wanting to read, and...
...a US PS2! I've been wanting one for the longest time to play my imports and I still can't believe I got one! And if that wasn't enough, 3 great games! Seriously, it wouldn't be easy to find me a better gift.
Thank you so much, acksman!
SystemShark
Member
Merry Christmas!!
iqubal was my Secret Santa!
Star Wars LEGO
Star Wars LEGO Encyclopedia
World War Hulk
Wolverine Evolution
A Magic: The Gathering starter deck
Season 5 of the 80's Ninja Turtles
Very generous and awesome. Can't wait to read WWH and WE. Season 5 means I need to track down the first 4 seasons! My wife will love that!!
Very impressed with iqubal and thank you very much!
Auron_Kale
Member
Thanks TehOh for the awesome gifts!
Can't wait to read them all & love the card!
Can't wait to read them all & love the card!
Forgot to mention, my SS was balddemon, which makes my post coming on the heels of his delivery confirmation post kinda neat.
I'm wearing the Dr. Swag shirt as I harangue my wife to let me open my goddamned presents, but noooooo, it's baby's first Christmas, blah blah blah.
Bitch, give me my presents!
I'm wearing the Dr. Swag shirt as I harangue my wife to let me open my goddamned presents, but noooooo, it's baby's first Christmas, blah blah blah.
Bitch, give me my presents!
Escape Goat
Member
You guys spend a lot of money on total strangers. Its unusual and nice to see. I wish I had monies
SystemShark
Member
Ha, we're having our son's first Xmas as well and we're currently waiting for him to wake up.
I was able to open my Neogaf present thankfully!
I was able to open my Neogaf present thankfully!
Johnny Cage In The Shower
Member
This thread has inspired me quite a lot, never realized that GAFers could be so generous and nice to each other with all these gifts. will participate for sure in the future.
Merry Christmas everyone!
See you next year, hopefully.
Merry Christmas everyone!
See you next year, hopefully.
For some reason, I find it funner to send gifts to complete strangers rather than people I know.
And now that it's Christmas, my Tiny Tim's exclusivity window on my terribad fan fiction I included has expired.
I apologize in advance to everyone who has the dedication to read all 100+ pages of it.
I apologize in advance to everyone who has the dedication to read all 100+ pages of it.
Red_taiyaki
Member
Loved the present my SS gave me. Thanks whomever you are!
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