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I keep forgetting to participate in these secret santas even though they are a lot of fun. What I like: Generally speaking, I would like to think I’m easy to shop for. I like practical things, in general. Like, now that I’m almost 33  I enjoy fun socks, I enjoy videogames, I like tea, coffee. I would say I’m very left leaning, but don’t align with any mainstream groups exactly. I like Sci-Fi more than I like Fantasy, but I don’t particularly enjoy like, no offense, “SyFy” B-level stuff. I used to read a lot, but mostly just do audiobooks, because I can paint minis while I listen to them. I enjoy anime but barely watch it anymore, and have been dying to do D&D stuff, and just started a Pathfinder campaign and super happy about that with some goons. I like music, usually metal, and I have an electric guitar (technically two, one’s my grandfather’s), a Ukulele, two Harmonicas, a recorder, a (non-zelda) orcarina, and a kalimba. I am not especially good at any of them, and wish I was better, but it’s hard to stay motivated and keep my attention/focus on something like playing an instrument if I’m not feeling like I’m constantly making observable progress. Maybe I just need someone’s constant criticism? I want to get a guitar pedal like https://www.electrofoods.space/nepenthes, but it’s very expensive for someone who barely knows some basic chords, but it would mean I could make my guitar do funny sounds and record it and learn how to do some post-rock/drone/sludge music (I’m sure someone is going to  at not knowing more before getting a pedal, and I’d agree, but I’d make the argument that coercing yourself to spend more time by doing the stuff you want, is beneficial to learning since you’re spending more time with it). I’ve tried rockband/fender play and haven’t spent as much time on it anymore because it some of the chords keep kicking my rear end.I like photography and have a nice camera, but I haven’t had the chance to spend as much time on it as I’d like. I also don’t know as much about photography, other than some basics like rule of thirds, and fiddling around with filters in lightroom afterwards. On a similar topic, I’m wanting to do more artistic things, whether with digital or traditional media, but just need to practice more. I totally have been bit by the wargaming bug, in that I wish I had the money for all these cool wargaming things, but don’t have the money for most of them. Right now I’m focusing on Warhammer 40k Necrons and Ultramarines, but maybe one day I’ll be able to get some Sisters of Battle minis. I also bought the “Dominion” box of Age of Sigmar, because it was a good deal, but I think instead of focusing on building either army in the box (Orruk Warclans & Stormcast Eternals), I want to get some Ossiarch Bonereapers (coming from a necron owner, I realize that’s not very different, but skeleton stuff is cool). I want to get some stuff from Warmachine (played it once at a convention years ago), Star Wars Legions (star wars minis? sounds fun!), Fallout Wasteland Warfare (got the core box of this for my birthday, haven’t had the chance to play it yet, but I’d probably go for NCR faction first). I think for now I have enough paints, and I have bunches of art supplies, I suppose you can never go wrong with any “good” decent brushes. Most of my paint brushes are extremely cheap brushes in a pack, so eventually I want to upgrade to some good brushes so I’m not frustrated with the brushes I have after a few uses. I also have been lucky to have the chance to rope my coworkers into playing boardgames with me, so we do that sometimes, but for other times, I have been interested in solo games. I have a few already (I try to keep my BGG profile updated…) but I’ll try whatever. It’s hard to not scour miniaturemarket.com for some cheap $5 board game to try, even if it might not be reviewed well. I have plenty of videogames, so I’m not sure videogames are a good choice, I don’t play them much anymore, mostly because I’ve run out of functional time during the day to actually play them, but, I’ve been eyeing Rimworld for a good long time, but it’s a bit outside of my impulse buy range, and I’m not even entirely sure I’m going to like it or not, having never played a game like dwarf fortress before. I tend to like turn-based RPGs, or somewhat relaxed strategy games. Age of Empires/Rise of Nations are always good games to play, though I haven’t played them in quite some time. I also don’t mind visual novels like Ace Attorney. I have also been wanting to try and learn programming stuff to “level up” as it were, at work, or use it as an excuse to branch out into something useful like game development or whatever. I’m still trying to figure out exactly what I want to learn there, but it sounds like maybe Python? A means to an ends as foundation to do the thing I feel like I might rather be doing. Anyways, that was a lot of words, but I’m sure that should give anyone plenty of ideas of what to work with, I’m not super picky. The above was a list of things I like, most of the stuff I dislike is just “people who are mean/cruel” and “brussel sprouts” and even for that last one it’s not a hard-no, just a  Location: Northeast coast, USA Promise: No one wants to be Grinched, so I promise not to do that. I’ll promise to do my best to come up with something nice for a secret santa. https://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/Gvaz I don’t really keep wishlists very well organized, but I do keep that up to date above best I can.
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I'll do one more, and take the last spot in the lighting round, if no one minds. If we have technically reached 8 then I'll wait until next time. I'll edit this a few minutes with a more concise wishlist than before, if I can. GreenBuckanneer posted:
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Yeah I also spent about $60~ already, whoopsie!
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Base round gift 1 has a tracking number, but no details. Not sure where exactly it's shipping from, but will update later. (no gift wrap options were available) Base Round gift 2 has no tracking number, but it estimates it'll be delivered the 3rd of December. I may have forgotten to gift wrap it, sorry. Going out to get Lightning Round cheer shortly, I have an idea. I wont be able to ship it till tomorrow though, but, I'm guesstimating (I have no idea right now) that also may get there around the 3rd, or so. edit: got the gifts I want for Lightning Round cheer, will send it tomorrow. edit2: base round gift 1 now has an ETA of monday GreenBuckanneer fucked around with this message at 09:02 on Nov 27, 2021 |
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Lightning round cheer is deployed. They gave an eta of probably Tuesday or so (2 day was about the same as 6 day)
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Not sure which round this was from, but thanks DigitalRaven! I had in fact been thinking of buying this myself, since I like Cthulhu (still haven't finished the Necronomicon, but I guess I should do so soon) but kept wringing my hands about it because dang Fantasy Flight and their piles of expansions that are all nice to have. Incidentally, I keep trying to get my significant other to play board games with me, and she said she was interested in playing this one, so even better! And it has a solo mode?  Thank you again! edit: as an aside, I'll skip bonus round 2, but I *may* be interested in doing bonus round 3, but it's up in the air for now. GreenBuckanneer fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Nov 29, 2021 |
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Nov 28, 2021 21:33
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Base cheer out for delivery! Second half is still Dec 2/3, no tracking.
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 Not sure who sent it but this came in today! Thanks mystery goon!
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thegodofchuck posted:I received a small box tucked in my door I’m glad you like it! You should be receiving the other parts of my gifts now (says delivered). One part of it may not make sense, but once your other gifts come in from us, it should be obvious  I’m glad that Reaper actually wrote something on the package, because there wasn’t any gift options lol Kwyndig posted:It was me, I was the turkey the whole time. Hope you have fun painting those guys! That's okay! I'm just excited to have more stuff to play with. Wrr posted:Oh drat, I forgot I liked those dudes. Should have mentioned that and needing figures for Zona Alfa in my post The only comment I'd make is the models themselves are a little messier than I expected, coming from GW. Not sure why, though it's not a big deal. GreenBuckanneer fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Dec 1, 2021 |
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Yeah I saw it after the fact, I wanted to make sure one of you guys ended up at least considering it. I thought it was super cool edit: I hope my LR santee gets their gifts soon, I mailed it a week ago and it should be there by now, since I got 2 day and shipped it about a week ago... (unfortunately I can't find the tracking number cause the darn USPS guy gave me the receipt before I could email it to myself and now can't find the darn paper) 
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Bucnasti posted:Is there going to be a lightning round 3? At least 1 person has signed up for lightning round 3 atm it'd technically be 3 people but Leperflesh put 2 of them in to round 2
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So I found my tracking # and it says: edit: sneaky sneak Giftee hasn't posted about it in the thread yet tho GreenBuckanneer fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Dec 3, 2021 |
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The Bloop posted:A box arrives! I'm glad you liked it. As soon as I read the crazy dice, I thought of those then ran out and bought it from my LGS. The minis were super cool, honestly I like the noodly Boi on the right there the most. I saw these too, but I couldn't afford it at the time:  Sharing it for inspiration
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gschmidl posted:Do you have the name of those dice? They're awesome. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/polyherodice/polyhero-dice-rogue-set The LGS had them in other colors but I liked the two tone I got them the most
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Tekopo posted:(also you either are in my FC or you did a really deep dive in the FFXIV thread, but either way, incredible) Wasn't me, but I think they probably just did post history and filtered by posts you made in the thread, then went to most recent. It looks like a really good rendition too! In a more on topic question: where are we at for LR3 signups?
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gently caress it, lets do it. Sign me up for LR3. quote:What I love:
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Holy shiz we're at 6/8 for LR4 already?  EDIT 7/8! GreenBuckanneer fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Dec 6, 2021 |
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I'm waiting on my fellow Santas to reach back out to me regarding their gifts, before I go ahead with my purchases...
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I am still waiting on the other (third) Santa to get back to me on what they got my Cheer Target, but it seems like I’m going to just go ahead with purchasing them and cross my fingers there isn’t an overlap to try and ensure we hit the december 22nd target. Will update in a few once I’ve purchased.
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LR3 Cheer Deployed, with a Dec 12 ETA. I forgot to mark it for gift wrapped  Since we seem? to be almost at LR4, I'll go again to make it 8 signups quote:What I love: GreenBuckanneer fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Dec 8, 2021 |
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Waiting for response from other Santa before pulling the trigger
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BRB changing my name to Sam 😅
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No response from other Santa for LR4, sent out gifts anyways! I’m excited about one of them, wasn’t free shipping and I paid a little more to make sure it can (try) to get there before the 21st. EDIT: Santa got back to me, no overlap. Woohoo! GreenBuckanneer fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Dec 10, 2021 |
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That's 8 for LR5?  rydiafan posted:Holiday cheer has arrived, accompanied by the sounds of the dogs enthusiastically greeting/threatening the mail carrier. This was from me LR3! I was trying to play it safe since the information had changed. I also didn't know if you had the core book that they had so I tried to play it safe there too. It seems there is a few more various books and things I wasn't sure if you had or not already. I had initially wanted to get you the miniatures the company has for it, but that website was out of the EU and it may not have got there in time. Mophidius had another american-based website, but that website didn't have any of the minis in stock. Very frustrating. I wanted to get you the third book that goes with this, but I couldn't find it on amazon at the time so I went with that. I thought I had marked it as me but I guess I forgot 
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 It's a bonemas miracle!  Thanks Bone Lord, Lord of Bones!
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 Thank you Chekans316! I love the bony Boi and I love the book! I'll start reading this tomorrow 😍
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Rhjamiz posted:I totally missed this post. That was me. Neither do I! I just wanted skeleton and to use them vs my friend's orks or stormcasts (fantasy orcs or space marines) Seems they're useful as heck too
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I don't want to say too much, so I'll just say that there's more coming in for Chuck, and once that comes in, it should be obvious. We're still waiting on that however
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Finally, I've been sitting on that pun for what feels like forever without being able to say 😂
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L4 says both packages are delivered today, that should be everything from me.
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Bucnasti posted:Santa DE-FUCKIN-LIVERED today You are very welcome. You mentioned you had an office, and what better than to relax and read the forums while sipping [BEVERAGE] from your Chewy Mug? The terrain was the same situation, can never go wrong with some extra terrain bits. Then as I’m scrolling around I saw that poster and knew I had to get it for you, hell, I was tempted to get it for myself, and I’m not even a big Chewy friend, just because it was cool.
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Nemesis is a $150 msrp miniatures game with $40-70 expansions, so it's a little expensive? That's yet another game I've been thinking about
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Rhjamiz posted:Oops, I almost forgot to post this entirely. My bad! The audiobook of these is voiced by the same actor who does Kevin in Welcome to Night Vale. It's a really great series. That's my peanut gallery comment
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