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Offline Stogi

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Was Secret Santa a success?
« on: December 24, 2007, 03:52:16 AM »
You tell me!


I know I love my gift, and I know my recipient likes there gift.


What about you?
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RE: Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2007, 04:35:02 AM »
i'll tell you when i get it lol

i think BnM liked his gift. he has to, he wrote right there in his post "i havent played S&P yet" so how could i go wrong?
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RE: Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2007, 04:43:37 AM »
I thought it was awesome.  I think I'll call it a success when everyone gives and gets their game.  But I had fun and would do it again.  

Good luck to those that don't have their gift yet.
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RE: Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2007, 08:19:59 AM »
I'm happy. Landtsalker is pretty cool!
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RE: Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2007, 08:54:49 AM »
I'm more than happy. I frankly didn't expect to get an N64 game as a gift! And its really quite awesome.

As for the event it could've been planned earlier, but since Nintendo unveiled the feature in mid December its really no one's fault.

I would gladly do it again. I had fun doing it and it made me happy.
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RE:Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2007, 10:28:51 AM »
Well I don't believe I have received mine so I cannot comment. Though I think vudu enjoyed his.
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RE: Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2007, 11:06:21 AM »
Is there anyone who regrets not holding out till this Monday update? Blades of Steel is pretty awesome... but I don't regret it. Landstalker = win.
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RE:Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #7 on: December 24, 2007, 11:08:09 AM »
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Is there anyone who regrets not holding out till this Monday update? Blades of Steel is pretty awesome... but I don't regret it. Landstalker = win.


Is Blades of Steel that hockey game where you have fights?
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RE: Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #8 on: December 24, 2007, 11:13:58 AM »
Yes. YES.
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RE:Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #9 on: December 24, 2007, 11:43:33 AM »
I liked it, I would have wished I could have forked out something nicer than a $6 game to give.  I was more worried about giving a gift someone wouldn't like
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RE: Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #10 on: December 24, 2007, 12:06:20 PM »
You could always send follow-up gifts later to assuage your guilt! ^_^
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RE: Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #11 on: December 24, 2007, 12:10:37 PM »
The gift that I got
was the gift that sent,
so not only was I happy,
so was the other recipient.
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RE: Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #12 on: December 24, 2007, 12:16:54 PM »
BLADES OF STEEL IS OUT?!?!?!?

That's the game, not ice hockey, I love. It was that game I played the first time I was wasted.
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RE: Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #13 on: December 24, 2007, 12:41:45 PM »
It hasn't been a success for me
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RE: Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #14 on: December 24, 2007, 01:01:52 PM »
But it is now!
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RE: Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #15 on: December 25, 2007, 12:41:40 AM »
No, because i forgot to put my details in.

Damn this stupid finance assignment distracting me from existence!
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RE:Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #16 on: December 25, 2007, 02:00:00 PM »
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But it is now!


YOU BET IT IS! ::high five::
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RE:Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #17 on: December 25, 2007, 06:36:00 PM »
I wonder if this could possibly be expanded to birthdays where the gift giver is randomly drawn from a pool. If not, hey it was just an idea.
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RE: Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #18 on: December 26, 2007, 01:09:04 AM »
I have to say that I wish we would have decided to do the sending the week before or after Christmas and I wish Nintendo would get off there high horse and let you do inter-regional gifting.  I understand if the game wasn't released in that region but you should be able to gift anything that was since your essentially just getting on to download it not sending the actual game file.

I'm not sure if it was a success yet.  My person hasn't said if he liked it or not but I'm not sure if he's gotten it yet.  We will see.  Count me in for next year and if a birthday pool is done I wouldn't mind participating as long as you can't get drawn more then once in a given year, unless special circumstances.
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RE:Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #19 on: December 26, 2007, 03:22:26 AM »
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I wonder if this could possibly be expanded to birthdays where the gift giver is randomly drawn from a pool. If not, hey it was just an idea.


i was thinking of the same actually. as long as the poster is cool and i have the wii points i wouldnt mind giving a gift as a complete surprise. im just cool like that
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RE:Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #20 on: December 26, 2007, 05:20:43 AM »
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I wonder if this could possibly be expanded to birthdays where the gift giver is randomly drawn from a pool. If not, hey it was just an idea.


i was thinking of the same actually. as long as the poster is cool and i have the wii points i wouldnt mind giving a gift as a complete surprise. im just cool like that


I too was thinking the same thing. The reason I didn't suggest it was because since there's always at least one birthday per month people wouldn't be willing to buy a game each time someone had a birthday.
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RE: Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #21 on: December 26, 2007, 05:40:54 AM »
Hey Ceric, thanks for ComixZone! I hadn't heard about it until it came out on the VC, and it looks like a cool game. I'm glad it's something I wasn't expecting - hopefully it's good.
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RE: Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #22 on: December 26, 2007, 07:10:00 AM »
Was a success for me, just like the one I was in over at CAG.  I enjoyed my gift and know my recipient did as well.  No real hassles on my end, despite my vacationing and problems with having a system 100% full of names.

I do agree the regional thing is crap and there really ought to be a way around it.

CAG discussed birthdays as well, and the consensus was that it would be hard to get everyone to drop the points (and thus money) on other people every month, as well as diluting the nature of the gift-giving's specialness/rarity.

Anyway, thanks again to Crimm for heading it up, and thanks to everyone for making it work!  Happy holidays all!
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RE:Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #23 on: December 26, 2007, 08:24:15 AM »
Thanks to Me for being the first to bring it up on these forums!
When i thought of bringing up the idea I wanted to be host to it but i knew with my work schedule i would do a horrible job. I even had this crazy though of surprising everyone who participated a gift even if i wasnt their secret santa.

time and budget constrictions made me think otherwise. maybe next year though!

oh and did everyone recieve their present???
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RE:Was Secret Santa a success?
« Reply #24 on: December 26, 2007, 10:28:58 AM »
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Thanks to Me for being the first to bring it up on these forums!
When i thought of bringing up the idea I wanted to be host to it but i knew with my work schedule i would do a horrible job. I even had this crazy though of surprising everyone who participated a gift even if i wasnt their secret santa.

time and budget constrictions made me think otherwise. maybe next year though!

oh and did everyone recieve their present???


I haven't received mine yet.
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