What did you get! Consumerism-mas!!!!

Relative · Post by **Relative** » 01 Jan 2008, 14:16

I know its delayed, but I thought its about time we have a thread to pout our egos on what we got or bought for ourselves for Consumerism-mas.

Books:
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (Who is John Galt?) <3
Gilgamesh - A new translation by Stephen Mitchell

Games:
Xbox 360 Console
Mass Effect (Best sci-fi anything) <3
Halo 3
Eternal Sonata
Mario Galaxy <3

DVD:
The Wire - Season 1(Best TV series EVER) <3

Clothes:
Socks
Night robe (Shit hot night robe) <3
Socks

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 01 Jan 2008, 14:43

My Consumerism-mas season isn't over till I celebrate with my family on the 5th but so far:

Books:
Terry Pratchett - Going Postal and Thud

Games:
Wii:
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga Edition
Mario Galaxy

PS2:
Some crazy ball game and a crossword game that my wife bought for herself and "gave" to me.

Movies:
Cocoon and the sequel as a 2 disk set (wife found out I'd never seen em)

Clothing:
Black Shirt that says "meh."
Black Shirt that says "I don't finish anyth"
Black Shirt that says "If it's too loud, Your too old" with a picture of an electric guitar
Some Underwear and a pair of pajamas

Candy (Including a box of magical elves... chocolate with pop-rocks in it)

A Digital Camera my friend had upgraded from.

Hot chocolate... lot's of it... (my aunt didn't know what to get me)

The Rubik's Revolution talking electronic game... I was surprised that it doesn't actually work like a Rubik's cube... but you play games by pressing colored buttons... a bit like old Simon or Wizard electronic toys.

A 2 GB memory card for my PSP, and a 1GB usb thumb drive.

That's all I can remember.

Erom · Post by **Erom** » 01 Jan 2008, 16:34

My parents got me an xbox 360, which I'm pretty excited about since the last console I owned was a Nintendo 64, which was almost a decade ago.

Relative · Post by **Relative** » 01 Jan 2008, 16:43

Erom wrote:My parents got me an xbox 360, which I'm pretty excited about since the last console I owned was a Nintendo 64, which was almost a decade ago.

That's a pretty big gap, you skipped an entire generation. What games do you have?

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 01 Jan 2008, 16:46

I have a lump of coal.

Comp1337 · Post by **Comp1337** » 01 Jan 2008, 16:59

500 GB External harddrive
Heaps of clothes
Tea-pot-press-thinger (my old one broke

)
The Witcher (TRY THIS OR DIE)
CD of Nightrage - A New Disease is Born (Awesome)
loads of chocolate
Diesel cologne (my dad had lots of fun at that (hurr hurr we have diesel in the car if you want hurrr))

BlackLiger · Post by **BlackLiger** » 01 Jan 2008, 19:28

^5 sinbad. Yay pratchett.

Fuck if I remember what I got. Though the prezzie from my GF was the best, and I ain't sayin any more

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 01 Jan 2008, 20:53

I got COH: Opposing Fronts, Civ 4: Beyond the Sword, Gears of Wars for the PC, about 150$ from my Grandparents, Bill and Ted's Most Excellent Adventure, and a busted laptop from God.

Thanks God. I really needed my laptop broken...

Also, Relative, I bought Atlas Shrugged and found quite a few allusions to it in Bioshock, because Bioshock can basically be described as "Atlas Shrugged with Guns."

Except Bioshock is fun...and Atlas Shrugged is 1000 pages of pure Objectavist drivel.

BlackLiger · Post by **BlackLiger** » 01 Jan 2008, 23:03

YOu might wanna skip on Opposing fronts.

If you don't mind waiting a week to play the damn game every time they patch it, go right ahead and play, otherwise, it's probably not worth it. Also, they patch it every 4 or 5 days.

Noruas · Post by **Noruas** » 01 Jan 2008, 23:21

NUUTHING!

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 01 Jan 2008, 23:25

BlackLiger wrote:YOu might wanna skip on Opposing fronts.

If you don't mind waiting a week to play the damn game every time they patch it, go right ahead and play, otherwise, it's probably not worth it. Also, they patch it every 4 or 5 days.

Too late. I've already gotten through most of Operation Market Garden and look forward to the British campaign.

I never liked the original Company of Heroes campaign...but the German one has been very fun and interested.

I find it strange people are complaining about patches...mostly people complain about there not being ENOUGH patches, but now that we're getting lots of patches, people complain about there being too MANY patches.

It strikes me as strange...

I'm glad they're making so many patches. Sure, you have to download them, but they're fixing problems with the game. How is that a bad thing?

werdo · Post by **werdo** » 01 Jan 2008, 23:39

welllll
for my consumerism-mas
i managed to get :

A new guitar (LAG arkane master prestige

)
A new graphics card :D
enough chocholate to crush a M-10 tank killer
games wise
NONE D=
got clotheage
jack daniels
jack daniels shirt
jeans
(lots of j's ^ ^)
and such :)

happy new year an all :)

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 02 Jan 2008, 00:45

Books:
QI's book on general ignorance

Foodstuffs:
Lots of chocolate

Electronicy stuff:
Mobile Mobile Phone Recharger (yes, you read that correctly)
A little tiny version of space invaders you attach to a keychain
[strikeout]Something else[/strikeout]
A brainteaser kit thing

Monies:
Lots, including some from my parents which they haven't given me yet

Other:
My brother's gamecube (hand-me-down), albiet sans memory cards or controllers, so it's a bit useless at current. I'm sure I'll have lots of fun playing it on my TV That Can't Display The Colour Red For No Apparent Reason

Saktoth · Post by **Saktoth** » 02 Jan 2008, 03:19

Guessmyname wrote: My brother's gamecube (hand-me-down), albiet sans memory cards or controllers, so it's a bit useless at current. I'm sure I'll have lots of fun playing it on my TV That Can't Display The Colour Red For No Apparent Reason

Pure class!

It's good to know about libertarian theory, but Ayn Rand really only gives you half the picture, and alot of propaganda poo as well.

Not to mention its a work of non-fiction pretending to be a work of fiction.

SpikedHelmet · Post by **SpikedHelmet** » 02 Jan 2008, 03:26

I'm too old -- no, scatch that. I'm too cool for presents.

I got some money. My kid, though, got a BUNCH of stuff that RUINS YOU ALL. He got a Fisher Price Truck-Slash-Wheelbarrow thing that he can ride around in AND IT MAKES NOISE. He got some stand-up dance-a-thon doohicky with a mirror and flashing lights. He got a CD of AWESOME, TRADITIONAL CHILDREN'S SONGS. Row row row your boat, anyone? I thought not. He got about 5 different cool, awesome children's storybooks, including "Are you my mother?" and some other ones I can't remember. Best of all, HE GOT A LITTLE DRUM. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? THE DRUMSTICKS ARE *TIED* TO IT SO THEY CAN'T BE LOST! SO BEAT THAT!

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 02 Jan 2008, 03:31

Heh, where to start? :D

2.4ghz Q6600 CPU
8800 GT (Slightly OC) GPU
CoolerMaster Case
G Skill 2 Gb 5-5-5-15 800 mhz RAM
nForce 680i Mobo
OCZ StealthXStream 600W PSU

Some clothes. Tons of Frames per second :D

Oh sweet Jesus. Just played Crysis on high...

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 02 Jan 2008, 04:45

Noruas wrote:NUUTHING!

The Witcher (TRY THIS OR DIE)

Pirated

HeavyLancer · Post by **HeavyLancer** » 02 Jan 2008, 07:29

Let's see what i got for Chri$tma$...

The Six Sacred Stones by Matthew Reilly (Awesome author btw)
Some clothes, most notably a Chaser t-shirt (for all of those aussies out there on the forums)
Some food, not much though.
So not much really. It doesn't really matter though, I have a late christmas present/early birthday present coming soon as well (january birthday ftw)- A new computer

ianmac · Post by **ianmac** » 02 Jan 2008, 08:12

halo combat evolved
conflict global terror
the dangerous book for boys
two N64 steering wheels

BlackLiger · Post by **BlackLiger** » 02 Jan 2008, 11:33

Zoombie wrote: I'm glad they're making so many patches. Sure, you have to download them, but they're fixing problems with the game. How is that a bad thing?

YAR, YOU MUST DOWNLOADEN EIN PATCHEN! AND THEN ANOTHER! WE HAVE WAYS OF MAKINK YOU DOWNLOAD!

Jesus christ, do you KNOW how much of a piss take it's been at times?

We've had patches that stop it working, patches that download then fail to install, patches that crash half way through patching, patches that play like my arse........... patches to make the bazooka do 1 more point of damage, patches to set fire to the US infantry a little better......

I've played goddamn betas with less patches required.

Spring RTS Engine

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