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Tekopo
Oct 24, 2008

When you see it, you'll shit yourself.


Think I might give this a try this year, after missing a lot of years.

Gift Preferences:
Don't get me board games, I have more than enough and I already don't play them enough to warrant me getting them more. I'm into Final Fantasy XIV or Monster Hunter at the moment, so anything from that would be cool. In terms of RPG I'd love to get Heart (the one that uses the Spire system) or Flying Circus or Delta Green or any other quirky system (I have a lot of PbtAs and Blades in the Dark system, so if you are thinking of them, would probably be better to ask before buying).

General Location: UK

Solemn Vow: I haven't grinched in the past, and I'm not gonna grinch now.

Tekopo fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Nov 19, 2021

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Tekopo
Oct 24, 2008

When you see it, you'll shit yourself.


I have now sent my gift, as was my duty

Tekopo
Oct 24, 2008

When you see it, you'll shit yourself.


Leperflesh posted:

You can do it. But, I suggest you have a backup in mind, and monitor progress of your custom order closely. Most vendors know that people ordering stuff in late November expect it to be delivered by christmas, but also many vendors get backed up. Be conscientious about it, basically: you are supposed to get a gift delivered in time, and if it starts to look like that's not going to happen, be prepared to shell out some cash to get a backup sent.

Not in archives:
2020: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3947418
2019: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3903744
2018: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3874029
2017: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3840013
2014 https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3679966
2015: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3750564
2016: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3796690
In archives:
2013: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3584444
2012: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3516427
2011: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3447887
From 2010 and earlier, the threads are found in The Game Room rather than what is currently the TG forum, because back then I guess the functions of the two forumids were different.
2010: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3362781
Winson_Paine used to run TGSS before I took it over:
2009: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3224709
2008: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3009170
2007: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2670831
and before that, Oobey:
2006: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2138779
and Sputnik:
2005: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1698688
and Vidmaster:
2004: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1358693
..and that's the earliest one I can find.
This reminds me of when I had to be degrinched and then my original santa got me something on the 11th of March. I wonder if that was the longest before someone actually got a gift.

Tekopo
Oct 24, 2008

When you see it, you'll shit yourself.


So I got an unexpected package waiting for me when I came back home after a long day, arriving back at 11am (thankfully I think my neighbours were there to put it in the shared area, so it was safe!).

And I got an awesome assortment of gifts! Heart, basically the dungeon-crawling sequel of one of my favourite games, Spire, an hexboard with stickers for the same, and a murder-scree pin from Final Fantasy XIV!



Just this haul made me really happy, but there was also a card! A card with, strangely enough, a sticker with the axe that I use for my FFXIV character. A nice touch, I thought.

What I wasn't ready for, though, was the real gift that I hadn't seen yet:



Custom art of my FFXIV, in one of the glams that I regularly use on her. Which just blew me away. Just the best Secret Santa gift I've ever gotten. I'm not kidding. I'm just left speechless. My santa really went above and beyond.
(also you either are in my FC or you did a really deep dive in the FFXIV thread, but either way, incredible)

Tekopo
Oct 24, 2008

When you see it, you'll shit yourself.


Got something extra in the post from my TGSS that I didn't expect!



Love it :)

Tekopo fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Dec 12, 2021

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