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Merry Christmas Ranchers!!!

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Hope you're all having/going to have a great day! This will be the second time myself and Mrs Burnside have hosted the big family Christmas, so this is the calm before the storm :lol: Two nephews and a niece should make the day awesome :)

My wife has spoiled me again. My haul thus far:

Star Wars: Battlefront
Fallout 4
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Extended Edition
Wikipedia: The Game About Everything ( :lol: )
Chocolates
Juddy's autobiography (a present to myself ;) )

I also have a Bunnings voucher from a work Secret Santa and a passport cover from a work buddy (going on my first overseas trip next year!)
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Merry Xmas.

Managed to.score an iPod Classic 160gb (148gb really :P ), an iPod speaker dock, a coffee mug and some daks (my fiancé refuses to buy games!). Felt a bit stink as I lost my job 3 weeks ago and have had very little money to spare so my presents to the missus paled in comparison.
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Scored

Star Wars Battlefront for PS4
A Grr Argh Shirt
A Pop Figure of Data from Goonies
Socks
A Wash Figurine from Firefly.

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Merry Christmas games-ranch.
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A case of gastro

Merry Christmas!
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GreyWizzard wrote:A case of gastro

Merry Christmas!

Santa knows if you've been bad or good!
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I got Forza6.
Just gave it a quick spin. :up:
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Christarwars should be an amazing time for everyone. It feels like they used to market other things once, a long time ago. But as we know, on this day thirty years ago, Jesus used the Force on a great evil to fuck their shit up. Today is the day we celebrate Jesus' courage and bravery.

I got some cool Star wars stuff. Airhogs X Wing, Microscalectrix Star Wars battle, Stormtrooper cookie jar, but mostly, Tobias knew it wasn't a normal day. The mountain of presents under the tree were torn into and he pretty much gave everything some attention.

Happy Star Wars everyone.
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Even I got something with Star Wars :lol: (2016 calendar)
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Merry Christmas!

I got:

Drunk.

Seriously though, the highlights were my 10y/o niece handing me a present (that she'd bought with her own pocket money) and sincerely saying "It's not much, but it's much"... and my 3y/o niece bursting out of the loungeroom in full Queen Elsa cosplay, unscripted, declaring "Bitches please, FREEZE". Having kids but not having kids is great.

TL;DR Happy Star Wars
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flipswitch wrote:Even I got something with Star Wars :lol: (2016 calendar)
Same. My 4yo picked me some Star Wars undies. One day I'll model them for you.
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You can stuff the socks I got for you down the front of them.
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Merry Xmas to all of you assholes
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Merry late Christmas all.
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Merry xmas ranchers.

I got a dart board, some cologne... And a halo themed UNSC cap.

The wife's brothers and families are over from Perth, people everywhere until the new year, its exhausting!!

Can't wait till it's all over
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Merry belated Christmas y'all.

I got...the day off. Best gift of all. I bought myself a shitload of gaming crap in celebration though -

G Sync monitor - BenQ XL2420G
Steam sale games - Grandia II Anniversary Edition, Skyrim, Remember Me, Raiden IV, Hacknet, Ryse, Tales from the Borderlands, XCOM.
PS4 - Wasteland 2 Director's Cut from JB. Never knew it had been ported. Haven't played this yet, have a copy on PC but look forward to playing it when I am out at work.

That's about it for now. Kind of don't want to buy anything else but days off + sales = lots of outgoing cash.
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I got a bunch of vouchers from family members. I picked up a West Coast Eagles Classics box set. Contains six amazing games from their history (like the first derby, the 9 goal comeback vs Geelong in Geelong, the Grand Final rematch (Round 1 2007 vs Sydney in Sydney) etc), the latest season of Community on DVD, the StarCraft 2 BattleChest (the base game and first expansion, was only $28 at EB Games, JB were selling the base game and first expansion for $28 EACH).

I also picked up an eclectic collection of stuff on Steam: Painkiller: Black Edition (includes the expansion pack), F.E.A.R. (includes both expansion packs), BioShock Infinite - Season Pass, Rocket League (my sister has been bugging me to get this for a while!), Star Wars Empire at War - Gold Pack (blame the new movie for this one), Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series
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Spent most of my 100 dollar Bunnings voucher on a big box of 5 minute Araldite.
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I was at Bunnings maribyrnong today for the first and the damn thing has a huge escalator going to another level. It was like Disney Land.
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Got a refund for Painkiller. Buggy as all hell. Cutscenes won't play and I keep getting booted to desktop.

Will look at something else to satisfy my kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out craving ... Maybe Serious Sam :lol:
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Got a late gift from the family, copy of Witcher 3 for the PS4. Already have it on PC but glad to have a copy for work.
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t0mby wrote:Merry Xmas.

Managed to.score an iPod Classic 160gb (148gb really :P ), an iPod speaker dock, a coffee mug and some daks (my fiancé refuses to buy games!). Felt a bit stink as I lost my job 3 weeks ago and have had very little money to spare so my presents to the missus paled in comparison.
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When first revealed to you they were referred to as “Synthetics” and in honor of the dar­ing Truth-Bringers we shall continue to label them as such. I request that herein you not ask me for details of the replicas for they are not the point of my story and they will be covered at a more appropriate writing—just know that they DO exist and currently they are used continu­ally to cover the shadow/parallel governments of your nations.
 
Suffice it here to simply state that they do exist and were utilized in the April launch. One reason the prepa­ration time of early astro­nauts was so lengthy for public consumption was to fa­cilitate perfecting duplication of all seg­ments, including the astronauts. Ac­tually, the duplicates need not be perfect for plans are well laid in case of dis­covery an alteration can be instantly orchestrated if neces­sary.
 
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i got for my birthday and Christmas

Fitbit surge
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I fell for the oldest trick in the book. My spouse and I resolved to not buy Christmas gifts for each other due to various reasons - concentrate on the kids, about to settle on a new property, we're spending hundreds on each other for a NY event we're going to, etc. All very reasonable and a consensus was reached. Christmas Day arrives and my spouse hands me not one gift but three. There was no warning. Yes like a naive teen I took the consensus literally. I blame the baby for wiping my decades of street-smarts.

Reminder to all: if you and your significant other resolve to not buy Xmas gifts for each other, buy three.
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