Yosmas 2023: Brought to you by a poodle wearing a Santa hat

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Achmed Jones: Oct 16, 2004

Halloween is happening soon. After that it'll be Thanksgiving, and then things are gonna get weird. Fuzzy Mammal has stepped down from organizing the Yosmas gift exchange, but he left me some OPs, a Google form, and some Apps Script stuff. Let's get this Yosmas train rolling.

:siren:

Rules

No lurkers please
Minimum of $20 (shipping not included). Handmade gifts are 100% encouraged and appreciated, so long as there was obvious thought put into it.
You must post in this thread - both the required registration post and subsequent update posts, including unboxing pics.
Register by end of SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26TH. I live on the west coast of the US, so that's the time zone I care about, but let's not be rules lawyers about sending gifts. Assignments will go out 24 hours or so after registration closes. If necessary, we might try to pick up stragglers after registration closes, but probably not.
Proof of shipment. This can be PM'd or emailed to jonesachmed@gmail.com. If you're doing multiple shipments, please let me know. If proof of shipment has not been received by Dec. 31st, you will be considered a flake.

Instructions :siren:

Fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/zjpN6aNVPg34FLmE6 (no login required). If you would like your package addressed to something other than your forums name, be sure to include it here. Note that there have been problems in the past delivering to forums handles (mostly with international shipping, if I remember correctly).
Post an introduction in the thread.
Don't flake.
When your gifts arrive, post some cool pictures of what you got. If you can include your dog, cat, bird, or lizard then so much the better. Nothing bad happens if you don't do this, but c'mon!

Previous years:

Please PM me and/or post in this thread if you're willing to help out with elf-ing.

Midjack is currently our sole, and also therefore best and most dashing, elf. He has this advice for you:

quote:

note to all participants: especially for non-us, make sure you supply a name where you can receive mail. if your gift has to clear incoming customs santa will have to address it and your box may get hung up at the post office until you can release it. my post office won't release a box addressed to "Midjack" but will release one addressed to my real name if they assess duties owed on it.

Current status: Registrations are closed and assignments have been sent. We are now in the "stalk your recipient, send them cool gifts" phase of the operation.

Achmed Jones fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Nov 30, 2023

# ? Oct 29, 2023 17:32

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# ? May 4, 2024 22:51

Optimus_Rhyme: Apr 15, 2007; are you that mainframe hacker guy?

Wow, am I the first one here?

So happy you've brought this back this year! I look forward to it every year, such weird and unique gifts. I really like seeing what other people get and send.

I've got 2 kiddos and wife and a dog, wife loves kdramas and kids love legos (even the ones from ali express). Myself, I'm a fan of all things cyberpunk, retrogaming/computing. I own some macross 82-99 Vinyls and play retro games on my AYN Odin and have physical copies of multiple cyberpunk novels. Big in to comics but I rarely buy them anymore.

Beyond that I'm a huge linux nerd who hacks mainframes for a living.

If youre thinking kids stuff one of my kids is super allergic to peanuts so no to that. Also the doggo is 30lbs wet.

Really excited to watch this space for the next 3 months.

# ? Oct 30, 2023 04:36

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

# ? Oct 30, 2023 08:21

Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

# ? Oct 30, 2023 23:45

Fuzzy Mammal: Aug 15, 2001; Lipstick Apathy

thanks achmedjones for taking over. i�m pretty sure I can participate!

# ? Oct 30, 2023 23:50

betty boof: Jun 2, 2023; presented by SPUDNUTS

# ? Oct 31, 2023 02:24

Kuvo: Oct 27, 2008; Blame it on the misfortune of your bark!; Fun Shoe

hell ya im in

# ? Oct 31, 2023 22:26

ADINSX: Sep 9, 2003; Wanna run with my crew huh? Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?

Hacker voice I�m in

# ? Nov 1, 2023 04:31

Achmed Jones: Oct 16, 2004

im not just the organizer, im also a participant!

(im in)

# ? Nov 1, 2023 04:46

faxlore: Sep 24, 2014; a blue star tattoo for you!

extremely in

# ? Nov 1, 2023 06:37

FalseNegative: Jul 24, 2007; 2>/dev/null

Had a blast with this last year, I'm IN

# ? Nov 1, 2023 13:15

mediaphage: Mar 22, 2007; Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

i think the last time i did this might�ve been pre covid

what ridiculous thing should i make

# ? Nov 1, 2023 15:34

JAnon: Jul 16, 2023

[ik note: try posting again, just do it better this time. or dont post at all, that'd be great too]

Somebody fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Nov 3, 2023

# ? Nov 3, 2023 18:17

JAnon: Jul 16, 2023

I'm all in, gentlemans

# ? Nov 3, 2023 19:39

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

gently caress it, I am IN this year

I�m Silver Alicorn, your local gay panda fan. I like red pandas, non-commercial space exploration, sci-fi, sewing, computer games, red pandas, pumas, servals, coyotes, foxes, opossums, unicorns, hobby electronics, lots of other nerd stuff?? Don�t have pets or kids, no alcohol/drugs

I have been working on a vintage computer build for some time, the parts I need for it now are pretty hard to get/expensive (lian-li aluminum case?? GeForce 2 Pro???) so I�m not expecting much. this being YosPos though I expect you to have some kind of computer garbage lying around. if you send me some cool windows 2000 compatible software I will install it and show it off. bonus points if it can actually make use of 2 CPUs. music stuff is cool. actually I could use a floppy drive cable

I didn�t participate for the last couple of years because I was brainsad and didn�t think I could come up with anything cool to send. I am more optimistic this year but I might still solicit tips.

what else should I say? mleb

E: I should also say I collect playing cards. I have a lot of fancy ones. been meaning to get a nice tarock deck but I haven't pulled the trigger on that one yet

but also if you can find any cool local themed playing cards that fun too

Silver Alicorn fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Nov 6, 2023

# ? Nov 3, 2023 21:11

Achmed Jones: Oct 16, 2004

JAnon posted:

I'm all in, gentlemans

janon, I'm sorry, but I don't recognize you and I've received several messages from other people who are, frankly, a bit concerned that you might get their physical address. you're a new registration with only a few posts in yospos. so while i don't have a bad thing to say about you, part of doing this sort of thing is making sure that participants feel safe disclosing their personal details. and since people have said that they are specifically _not_ comfortable with relatively unknown people taking part, i am going to exclude you under the 'no lurkers, please' provision. please do feel free to keep on yosposting and to take part next year!

but, like, post better. your thing begging for expensive computer components might have been intended as a joke, but if so it was a very dumb joke that kinda flies in the face of the whole vibe here and just, like, c'mon man.

# ? Nov 3, 2023 21:32

Fuzzy Mammal: Aug 15, 2001; Lipstick Apathy

I'm all in, gentlemans

# ? Nov 3, 2023 23:13

shitface: Nov 23, 2006

what's the appetite for shipping to/from APAC? Or maybe we can do a regional yosmas down here?

# ? Nov 5, 2023 00:26

Achmed Jones: Oct 16, 2004

if APAC folks don't mind shipping internationally, it's not a problem at all

if they do i can just try to match them up with each other or w/e (though might not be able to keep it strictly intranational)

# ? Nov 5, 2023 00:36

shitface: Nov 23, 2006

I'm fine with shipping anywhere

# ? Nov 5, 2023 00:38

Achmed Jones: Oct 16, 2004

sweet, it wont be a problem at all then

# ? Nov 5, 2023 00:41

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

how bad is international shipping nowadays? I could probably do it actually but it will impact the budget for the actual gift

# ? Nov 5, 2023 01:31

shitface: Nov 23, 2006

Silver Alicorn posted:

how bad is international shipping nowadays? I could probably do it actually but it will impact the budget for the actual gift

for small things and national post probably not too bad. I looked at courier for an mbp to Europe and it was 200 dollarydoos. kinda why I asked in the first place, not so much for me as for the person who�d have to send something down under

# ? Nov 5, 2023 01:58

shitface: Nov 23, 2006

from straya to us

up to 20kg
6-9 days
from $21AUD

up to 1kg
15+ business days
from $13.55

# ? Nov 5, 2023 02:38

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

fond memories of a 2 liter shasta costing $80 to get shipped to straya

# ? Nov 5, 2023 04:00

mediaphage: Mar 22, 2007; Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

shitface posted:

from straya to us

up to 20kg
6-9 days
from $21AUD

up to 1kg
15+ business days
from $13.55

golly is that ever reasonable

# ? Nov 5, 2023 04:17

Lutha Mahtin: Oct 10, 2010; Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

*yosmas voice* im in

# ? Nov 5, 2023 16:30

Midjack: Dec 24, 2007

i volunteer to elf again!

# ? Nov 5, 2023 16:59

ladyweapon: Nov 6, 2010; It reads all over his face,
like he's an Italian.

I�m in if I don�t count as a lurker. I only post in the catte thread and lurk everything else. im changing careers into computer touching so you�ll see more of my terrible posting in the future and I�ll participate next year if I can�t this year. I assume elf-ing is standby secret Santa�s for people who can�t send their gifts out?

also just happy to see Santa Teddy :unsmith:

# ? Nov 6, 2023 19:41

Achmed Jones: Oct 16, 2004

elf-ing is more acting as a liaison if a santa needs to ask their santee a question (or vice versa). i dont think that elf-ing generally involves serving as a backstop but maybe im wrong on that front. i will let midjack speak authoritatively to the scope of their duties (also, thanks midjack!)

cat thread 100% counts imo. i dont read it but that's a me-problem not a you-problem

# ? Nov 6, 2023 19:47

mediaphage: Mar 22, 2007; Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

fwiw i also assumed elfing was backup santa duty

# ? Nov 6, 2023 20:56

Midjack: Dec 24, 2007

Achmed Jones posted:

elf-ing is more acting as a liaison if a santa needs to ask their santee a question (or vice versa). i dont think that elf-ing generally involves serving as a backstop but maybe im wrong on that front. i will let midjack speak authoritatively to the scope of their duties (also, thanks midjack!)

cat thread 100% counts imo. i dont read it but that's a me-problem not a you-problem

glad to help! thanks for coordinating it. :cheerdoge:

the bulk of elf duty is acting as a proxy for santas asking questions but very occasionally elves un-grinch if a santa falls out of comms, gets banned, or has a sudden change in finances. i had to un-grinch once the first time i elfed but not again since, we have a pretty low grinch rate overall here.

note to all participants: especially for non-us, make sure you supply a name where you can receive mail. if your gift has to clear incoming customs santa will have to address it and your box may get hung up at the post office until you can release it. my post office won't release a box addressed to "Midjack" but will release one addressed to my real name if they assess duties owed on it.

# ? Nov 7, 2023 00:24