So it's Christmas here(Hah we get Christmas early) and I wanted to wish everyone a happy Christmas! And now a traditional Australian Christmas Song. Try to not have your mind blown!
Video isn't working, sorry!
You stole my idea! I was going to do a Merry Christmas topic tomorrow!
Quote from: The Mask on December 24, 2014, 11:13:43 PM
So it's Christmas here(Hah we get Christmas early) and I wanted to wish everyone a happy Christmas! And now a traditional Australian Christmas Song. Try to not have your mind blown.
Sorry, I just HAD to fix it. :)
It's Christmas in 40 minutes here in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland so I'm going to go ahead and say Merry Christmas Redwall Abbey Forum members
It will be Christmas in. . . . Fours and forty eight minutes, I believe. :) Merry Christmas Jet, Masky!
(And Mask, take out the S in the link. ;))
Four hours and 35 minutes for me. Though I will probably awake at seven or eight or something like that.
Five-ish hours for me. :)
6 1/2 hours for me!
It's been Christmas for 10 hours here.
It has been Christmas for exactly 41 minutes here in England
It'll be Christmas in four hours and eleven minutes here. I've already opened about half my presents, though, 'cause I live about two hours from most of my family, so we all pack up in the car and go down on Christmas Eve to celebrate so that we can have Christmas to ourselves. There's a gift exchange and such, and it's really fun. I got TARDIS earrings, a TARDIS necklace, and a TARDIS T-shirt, as well as Mastering Manga 1 and 2 by Mark Crilley, a new sketchbook, new pencils, a Baby Blues calendar, cute owl sheets, and a lot of chocolate. ;D
Christmas in twenty nine minutes!
Fifty minutes until Christmas here.
Christmas in T+11 minutes.
Christmas in two hours and thirty-six minutes!
Christmas in an hour and a half!
Merry Christmas everybody! (in my best Daren Streblow impersonation)
Merry Christmas!
Christmas in T+1:17:30
Christmas in negative 1 hours and 18 minutes...
40 minutes.
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Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!!! :)
Indeed... ;D
Christmas in T+00:10:33:~~
Merry Christmas!! Posting this on my new chromebook.
Posting from my new desktop, on which I will shortly download WILDSTARRR!
You sound happy Russ. ;D
Do you have any idea how long I've wanted to play Wildstar? I never could, because my computer was a bad laptop with a terrible graphics card. Now I can (probably) run it on max settings. It'll be amazing!
Once it downloads.
800KBPS. Not a good download speed for a 30-gig game.
;D ;D ;D ;D
There was once a time when it took a whole day to download 80 megs, so I have some inkling what long download times are like. Downloading 30 gig files is a new-tech thing -- counting dropped connections, it would've taken forever to download something that size in the 90s or early 2000s, even if you had enough hard drive space to store it.
Picked up a couple of new games this morning -- Game Dev Tycoon, and Civ IV with all the expansions. Still might get a few more games or things in the next few days; it's my birthday tomorrow, and there's still Christmas budget to spare.
SOOOO, I'M POSTING THIS AS I'M WAITING FOR MY NEW WACOM BAMBOO TABLET TO GET SYNCED TO MY COMPUTER AND HAVE THE ART PROGRAM DOWNLOAD. MY FAMILY WAS AWESOME AND GOT ME THE BAMBOO CAPTURE PEN & TOUCH. THANK YOU, FAMILY!!!!!!!!
Also, in other news, my brother got me Dragon Age: Inquisition. I hope to be able to download and play that later on today, once he stops playing with his new keyboard. ;D
Merry Christmas, Everyone.
My favorite presents were Mastering Manga and a soft new blanket. :P ;D
Quote from: Mask on December 26, 2014, 05:40:41 AM
My favorite presents were Mastering Manga and a soft new blanket. :P ;D
Lol, we got the same present! Mastering Manga is awesome. ;D
Yes, it is. And I think my brother was considering getting me a pen tablet, but that didn't happen.
I HAVE A DESKTOP COMPUTER NOW YAY
AND WILDSTAR
WHICH I HAVE WANTED TO PLAY FOR SIX MONTHS BUT COULDN'T BECAUSE MY COMPUTER WAS BAD
YAY
Well, I didn't get my colored pencils, and my new lyrical soes are too small, but I got this awesome shirt that says 'Now Watch Me Dance' and a 3-D puzzle! And Howl's Moving Castle (Both book and movir!!!) Plus some other cool stuffs. But those are my favorites. :)
Nice!
I got a lovely flatcap: (http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=HN.607993470584622327&pid=15.1&H=160&W=160)
Some books- Blacksmith one and Redwall one-, pajama pants ( :P ), some small items, and a diamond hone knife sharpening set. ;D
Cool!
I got pretty much all the books I wanted which came at the price of my computer stopping working for no apparent reason
That sucks.
I got a tin whistle!
I (virtually) got a music player from Corny! Yay!
"The best gifts are not the fancy expensive ones. They are the ones from the heart of the giver."-I don't remember who said that. Probably me.
Hope you all had a wonderful and blessed Christmas!
Quote from: PluggFiretail on December 26, 2014, 11:10:45 PM
Hope you all had a wonderful and blessed Christmas!
Me too! Though, from what I'm seeing from these posts, looks like all y'all did. ;D
Must say, probably my favourite present right now is Dragon Age: Inquisition. ROGUES ARE SO STINKIN' AWESOME!!!!!! And I just got a horse. That was cool. Walking stinks, but riding on a horse is great. Still tryin' ta work out how to use the map to my advantage and how to get across the different areas without beating my head against the desk, but other than that, I'm really enjoying that game. You can probably tell that by the fact that I played it for about five hours today. :P
Quote from: PluggFiretail on December 26, 2014, 11:10:45 PM
Hope you all had a wonderful and blessed Christmas!
Likewise.
I got a Barnes and Noble gift card, a note book, amazon gift card and the CD "All Things Bright and Beautiful".
Quote from: Mask on December 26, 2014, 09:54:58 PM
I (virtually) got a music player from Corny! Yay!
"The best gifts are not the fancy expensive ones. They are the ones from the heart of the giver."-I don't remember who said that. Probably me.
Correction: The best gifts are the ones that are both, and extremely useful because of it.
(IE my desktop. :DDDDDD)
Merry Christmas everybody! (in full Daren Streblow impersonation of course)
Quote from: rusvulthesaber on December 27, 2014, 05:39:26 AM
Quote from: Mask on December 26, 2014, 09:54:58 PM
I (virtually) got a music player from Corny! Yay!
"The best gifts are not the fancy expensive ones. They are the ones from the heart of the giver."-I don't remember who said that. Probably me.
Correction: The best gifts are the ones that are both, and extremely useful because of it.
(IE my desktop. :DDDDDD)
IE My super fancy diamond hone knife sharpener. *Waggles eyebrows.* Shaving sharp in three minutes. ;D
You shave with a knife sharpener?
Merry (belated) Christmas from my family to all of yours. Goodwill to all. :) Looks like everyone is pleased with how the holiday turned out. Enjoy the rest of your vacation!
~Utterly Awesome Mod Lutra :)
Merry belated christmas everyone! I'm getting my late present tomorrow, a PAB cup. Well, my family does not celebrate christmas, so yeah. :-\
- Lord_Ashenwyte.
Quote from: Cornflower MM on December 26, 2014, 06:35:39 PM
Well, I didn't get my colored pencils, and my new lyrical soes are too small, but I got this awesome shirt that says 'Now Watch Me Dance' and a 3-D puzzle! And Howl's Moving Castle (Both book and movir!!!) Plus some other cool stuffs. But those are my favorites. :)
Okay, the movie is NOTHING like the book. Do I care? No. I have plans to watch it on my laptop today!
Quote from: Lutra on December 27, 2014, 01:39:04 PM
Merry (belated) Christmas from my family to all of yours. Goodwill to all. :) Looks like everyone is pleased with how the holiday turned out. Enjoy the rest of your vacation!
~Utterly Awesome Mod Lutra :)
Hi Lutra! *Hugs*
Quote from: Leatho Shellhound on December 27, 2014, 04:09:38 AM
I got a Barnes and Noble gift card, a note book, amazon gift card and the CD "All Things Bright and Beautiful".
*Is wishing she also had a notebook*
Quote from: Lord_Ashenwyte on December 27, 2014, 02:07:14 PM
Merry belated christmas everyone! I'm getting my late present tomorrow, a PAB cup. Well, my family does not celebrate christmas, so yeah. :-\
- Lord_Ashenwyte.
My family doesn't celebrate Christmas either. :)
Quote from: Cornflower MM on December 27, 2014, 03:21:37 PM
Quote from: Cornflower MM on December 26, 2014, 06:35:39 PM
Well, I didn't get my colored pencils, and my new lyrical soes are too small, but I got this awesome shirt that says 'Now Watch Me Dance' and a 3-D puzzle! And Howl's Moving Castle (Both book and movir!!!) Plus some other cool stuffs. But those are my favorites. :)
Okay, the movie is NOTHING like the book. Do I care? No. I have plans to watch it on my laptop today!
I got the book for Christmas too, did you know there are two other books? They're called
The Castle in the Air and
House of Many Ways.I got lots of books that were the first in series so that if I don't like them I'm not going to have a bunch of sequels that I won't read lying around. Well, I got all of the
Kane Chronicles and
Heroes of Olympus books but I know I'm going to love those.
Quote from: Jukka the Sling on December 27, 2014, 04:20:29 PM
Quote from: Lord_Ashenwyte on December 27, 2014, 02:07:14 PM
Merry belated christmas everyone! I'm getting my late present tomorrow, a PAB cup. Well, my family does not celebrate christmas, so yeah. :-\
- Lord_Ashenwyte.
My family doesn't celebrate Christmas either. :)
WOT?! Okay then. . .
Quote from: The Skarzs on December 27, 2014, 06:35:26 PM
Quote from: Jukka the Sling on December 27, 2014, 04:20:29 PM
Quote from: Lord_Ashenwyte on December 27, 2014, 02:07:14 PM
Merry belated christmas everyone! I'm getting my late present tomorrow, a PAB cup. Well, my family does not celebrate christmas, so yeah. :-\
- Lord_Ashenwyte.
My family doesn't celebrate Christmas either. :)
WOT?! Okay then. . .
I thought you knew that...
Noo. . . :P
Quote from: Jetthebinturong on December 27, 2014, 05:29:10 PM
Quote from: Cornflower MM on December 27, 2014, 03:21:37 PM
Quote from: Cornflower MM on December 26, 2014, 06:35:39 PM
Well, I didn't get my colored pencils, and my new lyrical soes are too small, but I got this awesome shirt that says 'Now Watch Me Dance' and a 3-D puzzle! And Howl's Moving Castle (Both book and movir!!!) Plus some other cool stuffs. But those are my favorites. :)
Okay, the movie is NOTHING like the book. Do I care? No. I have plans to watch it on my laptop today!
I got the book for Christmas too, did you know there are two other books? They're called The Castle in the Air and House of Many Ways.
I got lots of books that were the first in series so that if I don't like them I'm not going to have a bunch of sequels that I won't read lying around. Well, I got all of the Kane Chronicles and Heroes of Olympus books but I know I'm going to love those.
I knew about
House of Many Ways, and got it also, but I didn't know about
The Castle In The Air! Hmm, my birthday's in about four months. . . . . >:D
I've read both. Castle in the Air's really good but I prefer House of Many Ways.
Between the two I've read, I prefer Howl's Moving Castle. :P Hmm. . . . .
Well yeah, Howl's Moving Castle is the best but I meant between the sequels.
Did I hear House of Many Ways?
Yes, yes you did, Bluesy. Why?
*Presses 'Revive' button.*
*...The topic slowly whirs to life, shuddering and shaking off the dust of disuse...*
:)Merry Christmas, Everyone
It's Christmas Eve for me. Post again in four and a half hours, for me. I wasn't even up when it became December 25th in New Zealand (I was reading). For you, you've still got ten and a half hours, I think??
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
...
eve
Happy Christmas Eve and Merry Christmas, everyone!
Merry Christmas Eve, one and all!
Merry Christmas!
My brothers, cousins and I slept on mattresses on our deck last night. We were going to sleep under the Christmas tree (a five metre tall pin-oak on our lawn ;)) but we thought it was going to rain. I woke up at 4:30 A.M.
I have only opened the stuff in my stocking so far, we're going to open other presents after breakfast. My favourite things are a hairbrush with my name and a picture of a bow and arrow on it, a hoofpick and brush for Stanley, my horse.
Have a wonderful day everyone! God bless!
Merry Christmas, Ebby, and all your family!
Thanks ^-^ Merry Christmas to you too.
Merry Christmas/Eve, Ebby! I hope you have an awesome holiday! God bless!
*Reads the above posts.*
Well, that was quick O_O.And yeah, it's like 3:30 here.
Anyway, Merry Christmas Ebantu!!
So you're seven hours behind. Imteresting.
Hmm... Imteresting...
It's 1:27 pm. . .
*Shakes head* 3:27 pm, actually...
Peasant.
;D
The kiwis are 13 hours ahead, Verdauga is 7 hours behind, Skarzs is 8 hours behind, Sebias is 6 hours behind.
Quote from: The Skarzs on December 24, 2019, 09:29:42 PM
Peasant.
No. Pheasant.
Quote from: Booklover on December 24, 2019, 09:34:42 PM
The kiwis are 13 hours ahead, Verdauga is 7 hours behind, Skarzs is 8 hours behind, Sebias is 6 hours behind.
So
there!
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Merry Christmas! Skarzs, I think you've still got seven or eight minutes.
It is 2:47 am on Christmas Day. Merry Christmas, everyone!
and why are you still awake at that hour?
I go to midnight mass on Christmas.
Nice! Someone I know said they had to drink a monster drink before to stay up for the Mass xD
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope today goes wonderfully, even if it may not be what you expected
I waited until 8:30 then got up. I'm simply too excited to sleep!
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! WOO!!!
I got up before three-thirty.
Stupid cats in the garage.
Anyway, Merry Christmas for reals this time!!
Happy boxing day, I suppose. *puts on boxing gloves and begins to punch box*
....I think I got a razor for Christmas....
They're hinting something.
Quote from: shisteer of nothing much on December 25, 2019, 07:55:59 PM
Happy boxing day, I suppose. *puts on boxing gloves and begins to punch box*
NO.
Twelve days of Christmas and all that. We don't celebrate Christmas before the day, we celebrate it after.
Just feels wrong to put it all away the day after.
Okay then.
On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me
two kumara
and a pukeko in a paunga tree.
I got a watch for Christmas.
I didn't get anything for Christmas... but we played dreidle and I got chocolate coins.
I feel like I'm missing out on what dreidle is and I want to talk about my watch....
What's dreidle?
I dreidle is kind of like a spinning top. It's a kind of gambling that the Jewish children did when they were learning the Torah and had to hide that fact.
Now that you explain it, it sounds familiar from my early Bible studies. Cool. How do you like it?
So, how was everyone's Christmas?
Not that bad. Got a watch (which I already mentioned).
Soo, uh, ;D how was your Christmas?
Quote from: shisteer of nothing much on December 25, 2019, 08:49:51 PM
I didn't get anything for Christmas... but we played dreidle and I got chocolate coins.
Are you Jewish?
Merry Christmas everyone!
I had a great time this year. Dinner was great, we played party games (charades, and that character forehead thingy), me and my brother had an incredibly close chess game (he won. The game ended with him having just the king and both bishops, and I had the king and two pawns (I conceded when I lost my last knight). We also watched the first episode of
The Witcher, which was decent,
Independence Day, which was a fun action film (never actually seen it before) and
Deadpool.
I got a buncha books:
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List of books
From left to right, that's:
Fire & Blood by George R. R. Martin. Part one of the history of House Targaryen from his A Song of Ice and Fire series, told by three different historians (and thus, rather unreliable).
Lair of Dreams and Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray. Books 2 & 3 in The Diviners series. Prohibition era YA supernatural horror.
The Gunslinger by Stephen King. The first book in The Dark Tower. No idea what it's about, but I've been meaning to get into King, and figured I'd start with his fantasy - not the greatest fan of horror.
Warchild by Karin Lowachee. Honestly cannot remember what it's about, other than it's classic gay sci-fi.
Monster of the Week by F. T. Lukens. Sequel to The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic. It's a YA fantasy romance about a boy who accidentally becomes the apprentice of a wizard.
City of Betrayal by Claudie Arseneault. Sequel to City of Strife. Idealistic lord in a free city standing up to a brutal and domineering empire.
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston. Romance about the son of the US president, and the Prince of Wales falling in love.
The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen. YA high fantasy. Caste system named after birds. Crows cannot get diseases, so they deal with the dead. Lowest caste in society.
The Root by Na'amen Gobert Tilahun. Don't remember much about it. I think there might be a drug that gives people powers? Maybe some hacking? It's a sci-fi.
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. Adult high fantasy with dragons and magical assassin nuns.
Tapestry by Hallie Burton. YA high fantasy set in a world where anything that stirs passion is banned. Follows a boy who wants to make music.
The Last Sun by K. D. Edwards. Don't remember this either. Think it's adult urban fantasy. Series is called the Tarot Sequence, so it's probably to do with fate and fortune-telling.
and Saga Vols. 2 & 3 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples. Romeo and Juliet type space opera about two members of warring races who fall in love and have a kid, and now both races want them dead.
Mm, books.
I got a bunch of household items. Never knew I would be so happy to get a vacuum cleaner and kitchen utensils.
I got jeans, and was happy about it. Being an adult is kinda lame :laugh:
It's the little things in life.
Quote from: The Skarzs on December 26, 2019, 01:36:15 AM
Quote from: shisteer of nothing much on December 25, 2019, 08:49:51 PM
I didn't get anything for Christmas... but we played dreidle and I got chocolate coins.
Are you Jewish?
No but dad is and we enjoy celebrating the biblical feasts. (plus the stories are really cool)
So, not to sound materialistic, but why didn't you get anything?
Quote from: Jetthebinturong on December 26, 2019, 03:03:38 AM
Merry Christmas everyone!
I had a great time this year. Dinner was great, we played party games (charades, and that character forehead thingy), me and my brother had an incredibly close chess game (he won. The game ended with him having just the king and both bishops, and I had the king and two pawns (I conceded when I lost my last knight). We also watched the first episode of The Witcher, which was decent, Independence Day, which was a fun action film (never actually seen it before) and Deadpool.
I got a buncha books:
(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/413464726924951562/659406020887576586/image0.jpg?width=541&height=406)
List of books
From left to right, that's:
Fire & Blood by George R. R. Martin. Part one of the history of House Targaryen from his A Song of Ice and Fire series, told by three different historians (and thus, rather unreliable).
Lair of Dreams and Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray. Books 2 & 3 in The Diviners series. Prohibition era YA supernatural horror.
The Gunslinger by Stephen King. The first book in The Dark Tower. No idea what it's about, but I've been meaning to get into King, and figured I'd start with his fantasy - not the greatest fan of horror.
Warchild by Karin Lowachee. Honestly cannot remember what it's about, other than it's classic gay sci-fi.
Monster of the Week by F. T. Lukens. Sequel to The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic. It's a YA fantasy romance about a boy who accidentally becomes the apprentice of a wizard.
City of Betrayal by Claudie Arseneault. Sequel to City of Strife. Idealistic lord in a free city standing up to a brutal and domineering empire.
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston. Romance about the son of the US president, and the Prince of Wales falling in love.
The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen. YA high fantasy. Caste system named after birds. Crows cannot get diseases, so they deal with the dead. Lowest caste in society.
The Root by Na'amen Gobert Tilahun. Don't remember much about it. I think there might be a drug that gives people powers? Maybe some hacking? It's a sci-fi.
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. Adult high fantasy with dragons and magical assassin nuns.
Tapestry by Hallie Burton. YA high fantasy set in a world where anything that stirs passion is banned. Follows a boy who wants to make music.
The Last Sun by K. D. Edwards. Don't remember this either. Think it's adult urban fantasy. Series is called the Tarot Sequence, so it's probably to do with fate and fortune-telling.
and Saga Vols. 2 & 3 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples. Romeo and Juliet type space opera about two members of warring races who fall in love and have a kid, and now both races want them dead.
Do you play chess much? What's your grade? Depending on the position of your pawns, and whether or not your brother knows how to checkmate with two bishops within 50 moves (although two bishops is a lot easier than a bishop and a knight), you might have been able to scrape a draw.
I think I have some books to add to my ever-growing list of books I want to read.
One of the gifts I got was a Lord of the Rings Monopoly. I never knew that they even made one like that. (Though, I should've guessed. XD)
Do you like it?
Yep! Played it a few times already. Pretty fun!
What's your favourite board game?
Risk, or Chess. Maybe Axis and Allies.
I've got Lord of the Rings Risk. Anyway, the best thing about Risk is:
Spoiler
Some of the older versions forgot New Zealand.
Want to play chess?
Quote from: Booklover on January 01, 2020, 05:59:37 PM
I've got Lord of the Rings Risk.
Really? Neat!
Quote from: Booklover on January 01, 2020, 05:59:37 PM
Anyway, the best thing about Risk is:
Spoiler
Some of the older versions forgot New Zealand.
Lol
Quote from: Booklover on January 01, 2020, 05:59:37 PM
Want to play chess?
Probably not right now. I'll have to go soon. Besides, I'm only half-way good at playing people face-to-face. :P
Quote from: Booklover on January 01, 2020, 05:59:37 PM
I've got Lord of the Rings Risk. Anyway, the best thing about Risk is:
Spoiler
Some of the older versions forgot New Zealand.
Want to play chess?
You are so dead.
What are you talking about? Australia has always been on there.
You are also dead. Australia may be there, but the rest of Australasia is not. Aotearoa/New Zealand/The Land of the Long White Cloud/the Best Place in the World is NOT THERE!!! (actually, I don't care that most of the world doesn't even know we exist. We smash everyone in rugby, so...)
No, a lot of the world knows you exist, just not where you exist. That gives you sneak attack bonuses, and rolls against you are at -5.
Right. I was meaning in real life, not in Risk.
I think he was using D&D.
Indeed ;D
Quote from: Ebantu the Kararehe on January 09, 2020, 08:48:23 PM
Right. I was meaning in real life, not in Risk.
Well, the first part still holds up. Besides, I've never met someone who didn't think that NZ is awesome, so you've got that going for ya.
You think New Zealand has it bad? Spare a thought for the poor people of Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Tonga, and other Australasian countries no one has ever heard of.
And the Caribbean too. Like I bet you've never heard of St. Kitts and Nevis.
I have.
So there, Jet! :laugh:
It's that time of the year once again.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas one and all!
Sings "And a hAppY New yEar!"
It's officially Christmas over here, so MERRY CHRISTMAS! ^-^
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas everyone!
(It's 3:30 AM, so why am I still awake?) :P
Merry Crisis
I woke up at 5.
help.