The material side of Christmas

[Great Rumbler]

So what did you guys get? Post your haul right here!

Harakiri [Criterion Collection]
$20
Youth of the Beast [Criterion Collection]
Batman: The Animated Series volume 1
Animaniacs volume 1
Rayman Raving Rabbids
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - 2nd Gig volume 3,4
Brian Eno - Music for Airports
Steve Roach - Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces
Wired Xbox360 Controller
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Kahn
Dark Hertiage: The Final Descendant
Time Tunnel season 1
Set of Star Wars stamps from 1997
Star Wars comic by Marvel from 1977
Blade Runner movie poster
Me and My Katamari
A bunch of candy
Some clothes

[A Black Falcon]

Decent, but not fantastic... ("fantastic", of course, would be getting a Wii.)

christmas A: (from my mother, etc)
a replacement gamecube
Zelda: TP for the GC
"Jetlag Travel Guide: Molvania - A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry" (humor book)
Al Franken - "The Truth" (humor book)
two WWII documentary DVD collections (from the $5 and under section at Big Lots, I know... :))
$20 game/movie/music store gift certificate
t-shirt (fossils)
a wierd bendable soft plastic keyboard thing
wind-up flashlight
$100


christmas B: (from my father, etc)
"Five Germanies I Have Known" - Fritz Stern (history book)
$25 bookstore gift certificate
14 movie rental gift certificate
music: Autechre, Amber; misc. Brian Eno/David Byrne/ Daniel Lanois disc; Tugboat album
some candy
an issue of MAD Magazine
$100
t-shirt (Corel Draw... :D)

christmas C: (relatives, to be filled in in a few days)
$40
"Shadowmarch" - Tad Williams (fantasy book)
"The Oracle's Queen" - Lynn Fwelling (fantasy book)
"A Storm of Swords" - George R. R. Martin (fantasy book)
"A Feast for Crows" - George R. R. Martin (fantasty book)
"State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III" - Bob Woodward (political nonfiction)
two more candy bars

.... as compared to the things I bought for myself in the past few days:
Rollcage - Limited Edition (PSX)
Uniracers (SNES)
Metal Gear Solid 2 - Substance (PC)
... total $17. :)

[Fittisize]

$30 Best Buy gift certificate
Clerks II
Clerks II (yup, received the same movie from two people)
"Next" by Michael Crichton
Clothes

And that's it.

[Weltall]

A Murakami novel and a roadside emergency kit.

That's all.

[Dark Jaguar]

Enjoy Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance. Didn't know the Substance version had been released on PC. GCN version of Zelda eh? Well, whatever works. I understand that the layout of the world is a mirror image of the Wii version. Not sure which you could call the "true" hyrule. I can say that one way, it matches more closely with LTTP's locations. The other, it matches more closely with OOT.

[A Black Falcon]

I didn't know Substance was on PC either, until I saw a copy sitting in the bargain games/movies section of TJ Maxx... I knew that there had been a PC version of MGS2, though (as I remembered, it's DVD-only, not CD-ROM). Perhaps this is it, and they never released the original MGS2 for PC and only this? Maybe not, I'm not sure...

MGS1 also had a (CD) PC version, but not 3...

GCN version of Zelda eh? Well, whatever works. I understand that the layout of the world is a mirror image of the Wii version. Not sure which you could call the "true" hyrule. I can say that one way, it matches more closely with LTTP's locations. The other, it matches more closely with OOT.

GC is the "true" one because that way it has a left-handed Link, which is the way he is supposed to be. :)

Wii has the more interesting control scheme, though... wish I had that version, but I don't. And now that I have it for GC even if I did get a Wii I probably wouldn't want to spend full price just to play the game again with different controls... maybe if it was cheaper, though...

[DMiller]

My haul was very heavy on videogames this year, which I like, but I don't know when I'll play them all.

Excite Truck (Wii)
Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz (Wii)
Shadow of the Colossus (PS2)
Disgaea 2 (PS2)
Half-Life 2 (XBox)
Ninja Gaiden Black (XBox)
Jade Empire (XBox)
Final Fantasy III (DS)

Scrubs Season 2 DVDs
Seinfeld Season 7 DVDs

30 GB iPod VIdeo

[Dark Jaguar]

I'm not sure Link or any of the characters were mirrored.

[Dark Lord Neo]

Link was mirrored for sure.

I got
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky - Noam Chomsky (book)
An Inconvenient Truth (DVD)
$20
$10
Final Fantasy XII(PS2)
Clerks 2 (DVD)
$10 Music Store Gift Certificate
$25 Book Store Gift Certificate
Yoshi's Island DS (DS)
Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I (CD)
Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II (CD)
The Clash - London's Calling (CD)
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (CD)
Foo Fighters - Skin and Bones (CD)
Some candle and a girly notebook thing (this was from one of those weird group gift exchange things where you pick a random box and then whatever was in it was what you got, or you can steal something that's been opened instead of picking something when it's your turn)

[Dark Jaguar]

Understanding Power eh? I expect that's a science book about energy?
Monies, don't mind getting it, but I think the whole idea of the "gift certificate" is silly. It's basically all the "I couldn't think of what to get you" of money, only limited!

I gotted:

Yoshi DS (it is an expansion pack for Yoshi's Island, it's the SAME game with different levels, but that's the way I like it)
Touch Detective (that creepy stare...)
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (This time, Dracula is the bad guy)
Viva Pinata (The opening movie is more painful than the DK Rap, and this whole kid's cartoon advertising nonsense is insulting, but at least the game is good)
Trauma Center Wii edition (socially acceptable cutting up of peoples, or at least that's how a sociopath would look at it, probably wondering what the big deal about cutting people up outside an operating theater is or why it matters that it's to save a life instead of end it)
Children of Mana (much more light hearted than the other "Children of" thing that came out recently)
The Selfish Gene (interesting book, and lazy, nothing about genes actually thinking here, "Selfish" is a metaphor, it's still mindlessly only concerned with the here and now)
Pale Blue Dot (Our planet, as seen from a sobering distance)
Final Fantasy 3 (FINALLY, though it does lack the "original NES game", too bad...)
Candies, or red hot molten lava. Lava's heavier than I expected though, like it's made out of ROCK or something.

[Dark Jaguar]

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This comic goes the same places my mind typically wanders to! We should carpool!

[A Black Falcon]

Filled in what I got from my relatives during our trip, now that I'm back home. :)

... oh, last I used the $20 gift certificate from B on 2/3rds of the price of Summon Night: Swordcraft Story for the GBA. Fun little game... :)

I got a few more games today, but they really don't have anything to do with this thread...