Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you:
No adverts like this in the forums anymore.
Times and dates in your local timezone.
Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance.
Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely.
Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net.
If you are already a member then feel free to login now.
dementedwombat wrote: Tau Barracuda (with Taros Campaign book), Battlefoam Pack GO, ambidextrous safety for my 1911 (horrible being a left handed person with that gun unless you get one), and a high-lift jack. Good times.
Gave out a socket wrench set and coffee mug to my dad and a nice music cd to my mom. What can I say, they didn't want much.
The 1911 has a grip saftey so being left handed should only suck for brass in your face, unless youre talking about the slidelock second saftey thing
Some sweet new headphones, two small bags of basing grass, lots of acrylics that I need to water down before it can even touch a model xD three canvasses some nice stiff brushes of varying size oh yea and 50 pounds of coal-- no joke
Lets see I got:
Dewalt 4 pack Cordless Tools set (finally)
New Harley Wallet (with chain of course)
Some Axe body stuff (wonder if the wife is telling me something)
Now the stuff that matters:
Primary Weapon Systems (PWS) AR-15 18" piston system
Forge World order that including the following:
Fire Raptor, Chaos Warhound, 6 Chaos Dwarf Bull Centaurs, 1 Bull Centaur Character, Iron Warriors Land Raider and Rhino door kits
On a side not, I still have an unopened present under the tree for my Battle Brother who is in Afghanistan right now and it will stay unopened until he gets back to open it. As the days pass and we move into the New Year, please remember the ones who cannot be home with their loved ones for the Holidays......I know I have missed my share of them and its never easy....
This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2013/12/25 22:59:12
Let a billion souls burn in death than for one soul to bend knee to a false Emperor.....
"I am the punishment of God, had you not committed great sin, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you"
Mechanicum castelax, iron hands medussa immortals breecher squad, zone mortalis tiles, an Arvus lighter and a 1907 pattern bayonet for my matching British lee enfield rifle.
I got an online voucher worth £25 for Games Workshop ... what'll that get me? Half a box of Cadians?
I really don't want to sound ungrateful (it was a gift from my partner who knows nowt about this sort of thing) but I'd rather have had the cash to spend with other manufacturers...
"If I advance, follow me. If I retreat, shoot me. If I fall, avenge me. This is my last command to you all. FORWARD!!"
Hobby wise, I just picked up a Stormtalon, Razorback, and Command Squad. I'm highly excited about it.
As for everything else, just clothing and some tools. I don't need much, I work hard and earn a good paycheck. And at the end of the day, the little gifts are all that matter.
This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2013/12/26 00:01:00
I had dinner with my family and enjoyed the company at my house in a nice shirt and jeans and a comfy pair of slippers with a glass of chianti while eating homemade lasagna and watching my three month old's eyes sparkle with the lights from the Christmas tree. It's not a matter of what the day brought to you but what you did with the day.
Perhaps you should come out of the hobby room and be a part of the civilized world and think more of others than yourself.
Some of you who have responded in this thread should be ashamed of yourselves.
Khorneball wrote: I had dinner with my family and enjoyed the company at my house in a nice shirt and jeans and a comfy pair of slippers with a glass of chianti while eating homemade lasagna and watching my three month old's eyes sparkle with the lights from the Christmas tree. It's not a matter of what the day brought to you but what you did with the day.
Perhaps you should come out of the hobby room and be a part of the civilized world and think more of others than yourself.
Some of you who have responded in this thread should be ashamed of yourselves.
Merry Christmas to those of you who got it right.
So only those who do it the way you do it are "doing it right"? Get off your high horse and save that dribble for another thread....
Let a billion souls burn in death than for one soul to bend knee to a false Emperor.....
"I am the punishment of God, had you not committed great sin, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you"
Khorneball wrote: I had dinner with my family and enjoyed the company at my house in a nice shirt and jeans and a comfy pair of slippers with a glass of chianti while eating homemade lasagna and watching my three month old's eyes sparkle with the lights from the Christmas tree. It's not a matter of what the day brought to you but what you did with the day.
Perhaps you should come out of the hobby room and be a part of the civilized world and think more of others than yourself.
Some of you who have responded in this thread should be ashamed of yourselves.
Merry Christmas to those of you who got it right.
Shotgun wrote: I don't think I will ever understand the mentality of people that feel the need to record and post their butthurt on the interwebs.
Khorneball wrote: I had dinner with my family and enjoyed the company at my house in a nice shirt and jeans and a comfy pair of slippers with a glass of chianti while eating homemade lasagna and watching my three month old's eyes sparkle with the lights from the Christmas tree. It's not a matter of what the day brought to you but what you did with the day.
Perhaps you should come out of the hobby room and be a part of the civilized world and think more of others than yourself.
Some of you who have responded in this thread should be ashamed of yourselves.
Merry Christmas to those of you who got it right.
Good for you. It seemed like you were replying to me but, I've learned on Dakka to assume that posts are not directed to any one person. As I'm sure this is the case with many other users on the forum, I don't completely post about my personal life on DakkaDakka, as this is a thread for hobbyists IIRC. However, I'll have you know I spent time with my in-laws and immediate family all day today. We didn't exchange many gifts at all, as we don't believe that's the spirit of Christmas. As for the other people that your posts targets, the only person who should be ashamed in this thread is you; as you took a good thing (this thread,) and used it is a tool to condemn others.
The only war-gaming related item I asked for was the Black Library novel 'Baneblade. I got some non-wargamng bits and bobs such as DVDs to watch with my family, some art equipment, books and a 'make your own beer' set.
What was better than the gifts was getting to spend time with my family and everyone sitting around the table enjoying good food and plenty of laughs. Afterwards we played a two and a half hour game of monopoly.
This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2013/12/26 01:07:23
Khorneball wrote: I had dinner with my family and enjoyed the company at my house in a nice shirt and jeans and a comfy pair of slippers with a glass of chianti while eating homemade lasagna and watching my three month old's eyes sparkle with the lights from the Christmas tree. It's not a matter of what the day brought to you but what you did with the day.
Perhaps you should come out of the hobby room and be a part of the civilized world and think more of others than yourself.
Some of you who have responded in this thread should be ashamed of yourselves.
Merry Christmas to those of you who got it right.
Surely, 'a nice shirt and jeans' made from ethical free trade cotton, and slippers made from only the highest quality hand woven hemp. The Chianti, good sir, I'm sure is from a particular winery that I 'probably haven't heard of'.
First kid? Good for you, champ! :p
[\feedingtrolls]
This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2013/12/26 03:02:48
Gift wise it was a great Christmas, family wise it was awful though.
Hobby wise I got an airbrush (GF and I got it for ourselves) and some brushes. Girlfriend got a crap ton of apoxie sculpt, a hobby knife, and some clay shapers.
"other" hobby wise I got some steam gift cards and a few minor gun things.
Nonhobby wise I got a box of new socks, which is nice.
chaos0xomega wrote: Clearly they aren't. but I'm really not the type to tell people what to get me, etc. I dunno I have my peculiarities and beliefs, and I don't really expect my parents to know what to get me in regards to wargaming either, but they know my friends and how to contact them, they can get creative.
If you were my family member and you did not give me a list of things that you might enjoy to receive, then you get the Alfndrate standard of socks and underwear. The few times I've had to use this standard has meant that the following year I get a list, and a I get a gosh dang good one. Also I at least put forth the effort in giving you underwear and socks of the appropriate size, while it's not a 'thoughtful' gift. I've made it known to family members far and wide I am terrible at getting people gifts, and a list makes my job easier and also ensures that you're going to get a gift of something that you want/need. And besides! Who doesn't always need a fresh pair of socks and new underwear to go with it?!
As for what you should do, you should check out stubhub (conviently linked to a game on Jan 21, 2014 with tickets hovering about 25 dollars), and then put the rest of the money towards a Devils jersey. And when you go to said game and the relatives/parents/etc... see you in your new duds, tell them, "Hey, thanks for that cash for Christmas, I was able to get myself a jersey for my favorite hockey team." Then give them a hug, and tell them thanks.
I pay my own way to games all the time, it would be nice if they gave me tickets to one as a gesture instead of me having to do it myself, id be far more appreciative. And I actually would have loved socks, I could use some new wool boot socks, ive evn been droppin hints to that for a few weeks now... not even that...
As a note, they coulda dropped $10,000 on thoughtless gifts on me and I'd still be complaining about it, but $5 spent on something legitimately thoughtful and I'd be grinning ear to ear, the closest to that was the beard trimmer my mom got me, until I realized that she wanta me to use it to cut down the length of my glorious beard rather than to just keep it well shaped (so its actually a bit of a veiled insult).
CoALabaer wrote: Wargamers hate two things: the state of the game and change.
Windshield hinges, Door hinges, and lower pin brackets for my '04 TJ. All stainless steel and a royal pain to put on ... which I will be starting in about 6 hours after I get some sleep. I got the wife some nice diamond earrings, a Harley vest, and a bunch of little things like running socks, phone arm-band, etc. Was a good Christmas for my entire family really.
Oh ... and got to point out that my brother is getting so blind that he did not even recognize his own handwriting from 4 years earlier ....
Now, we like big books. (And we cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny, a book flops open with an itty-bitty font, and a map that’s in your face, you get—sorry! Sorry!)
Khorneball wrote: I had dinner with my family and enjoyed the company at my house in a nice shirt and jeans and a comfy pair of slippers with a glass of chianti while eating homemade lasagna and watching my three month old's eyes sparkle with the lights from the Christmas tree. It's not a matter of what the day brought to you but what you did with the day.
Perhaps you should come out of the hobby room and be a part of the civilized world and think more of others than yourself.
Some of you who have responded in this thread should be ashamed of yourselves.
Merry Christmas to those of you who got it right.
Wow. You must be such a great person.
Anyways:
Hobby SOTOR 20/20 airbrush
Some Feldherr Storage
About 8 boxes of various Dystopian Legions Britannians
Zombicide Toxic City Mall
Seasons Enchanted Kingdom Expansion
About 5 Freebooters Fate minis
Nerd gak[/b]
Fables Hardcovers Volumes 2-4
Pre Vizlas Ship in Lego
[b]Normal Dude gak Angels Envy Port Cask Bourbon
Old Rip Van Winkle 12-year Bourbon
Bunch of under armor shirts and sweats
Pacers Tickets
CCW IWB Holster
"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
This year, I received mainly money and books on History (mainly WW2);
"The wages of Destruction" by Adam Tooze
"A World at Arms" by Gerhard Weinberg
"The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" by Paul Kennedy
and a bunch of other older history books my sister picked up somewhere.
Hobby wise, I received a Pegasus Hobbies cottage and cobblestone walls, a Pathfinder red dragon from Reaper, and Settlers of Cattan.
I also got to see and speak to my reclusive cousin who is the only one in my family as geeky as me at my family party, so that was nice.
Flames of War:
Italian Bersaglieri
German Heer Panzerkompanie
I bought for meself some kingdom of the dead mini's, a left vulcan cannon for my Leviathan/Mortis. Several games for my PS3. Going back to my home country on the 30th, with a bag full of お土産(souvenirs) for my friends and family.
People don't know what to get me as well, since what I want and like is usually pretty specific in terms of my hobbies, and I have a rather bad habit of getting it myself long before Christmas. So I tell my wife what I want, and my parents give us money. Luckily I'm pretty good at getting others what they want, but even in that, it's good if they tell me what they want.
Having said that, I only do Christmas with my wife and our parents. My wife does it with me, our parents, and her siblings, etc (which I add my thoughts to). So I'm not one with a huge number of relatives to buy for. We also tend to get our parents anything they need when we find out they need it, as they're all older and retired. So at Christmas there's a real "what do you want?" element.
I got:
From my DCM Secret Santa (after all the delays I decided to hold off opening it until yesterday!):
4 Plastic and 3 metal LotR Elves, and a Rohirrim horseman, some vehicle bitz including a nice looking dozer blade and some deflier legs(?), 4 Plastic Wolves, Some banners and rats, a bunch of marine torsos, heads and bits, a bunch of metal model parts including an entire minotaur, and a really cool Chaos Star pin/badge/brooch.
From my wife:
HTC One (she got her revenge after I got her one as a surprise for Christmas! - replacing her iPhone3 that was starting to buzz at random times)
Song of Ice and Fire Collection
From my wife and parents (and I chipped in a bunch of money, too):
IA Vol 1 SE
IA Vol 2 SE
Horus Heresy Book 1
Horus Heresy Book 2
IA Masterclass Vol 1
IA Masterclass Vol 2
IA Apocalypse
A pile of FW models
I got some money to spend on Amazon from my parents and sister.
Otherwise, nothing.
My wife and I didn't spend any money on each other.
We have a baby due in a month or so.
Any spare cash is going on that.
If you think GW is expensive, you should see how much a pram costs!
Also I was at work, and my wife is 3500 miles away.
If the thought of something makes me giggle for longer than 15 seconds, I am to assume that I am not allowed to do it. item 87, skippys list
DC:70S+++G+++M+++B+++I++Pw40k86/f#-D+++++A++++/cWD86R+++++T(D)DM++
Well, I'm thankful to be alive, and to have kids, and a lovely wife! That's really all I could ever wish for, and then the Mrs. spoils me by actually knowing me, and she knows how to spoil me. So, she started with my favorite Rugby team the All Blacks official Polo! Wearing it now at work, amongst these football fans they have no idea... Then she got me a BOSE Soundlink Mini so I can listen to music in style while I get my hobby on...
She then got me started on my WFB Vampire Counts Army, with a Wight King, a Necromancer and a box of Hex Wraiths. Then two boxes of Tetley Tea shipped from England!
My DCM Secret Santa, really just went overboard, and again, I was completely spoiled with just tons of Cadians, Heavy weapons, Leman Russ Tanks, a Valkyrie, a Chimera, a couple of great 40K books, sentinels, and I’m sure I missed something in that list. Really just spoiled rotten! I’m looking forward to passing on the “spoiled” to another DCM’er next year!
Merry Christmas, and a very great New Year to everyone!
This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2013/12/26 08:18:01
Crush your enemies, see them driven before you and to hear the lamentations of the women.
. It is a a very merry x-mass.
Let a billion souls burn in death than for one soul to bend knee to a false Emperor.....
and 
WIP
Children of Stirba 
Order of Saint Pan Thera 
