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Post Post #0 (ISO) » Fri Jul 05, 2024 3:07 am

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Gift-giving is a time honored tradition to mark milestones, aid in celebrating holidays, and generally showing others you care for and apperciate them. It seems a perfect fit, therefore, to have one to mark the most momentous of occasions: The one year anniversary of me becoming your humble Admin. So let's make one happen!

Most gifts I suspect will be digital (although I am open to coordinating if any users are open to giving/receiving physical gifts) and can come in any form: A drawing, a poem, an essay on why the user is great, a new avatar, anything you want to give another person is a great gift!

The process is simple:
  1. Those who want to give (and receive) gifts sign up below, answer the survey, and provide any other information they feel is relevant.
  2. Those who sign up message me to provide me the following information: Whether they are open to receiving physical gifts, whether there is any user who has signed up they would not like to have assigned to or have assigned to them (I will also send a reminder for this when there is a full list but before I assign users to make sure), and any other information that might be necessary for me to know that I do not know already.
  3. On July 31st, I will close sign-ups, send follow-ups, and begin assigning users to one another.
  4. Between August 1st and September 14th, users should make every effort to distribute gifts to their assigned party. If you need more time or life has gotten in the way, let me know as soon as possible so I can let your person know or find an alternate participant.
  5. If you arrive to this thread too late but still are in a gift-giving mood, feel free to sign-up as a replacement gift-giver in case someone needs to drop out!
Sign-Ups1. Ariel
2. LoveKilling
3. biancospino
4. Psyche
5. Chickadee
6. Elements
7. Ythan


Survey Questions1. What is a hobby you have been enjoying recently?
2. What is your favorite (or recent favorite) book/movie/tv show/video game?
3. What was your favorite toy as a child?
4. Is there anything you would want your gift-giver to know?
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Post Post #1 (ISO) » Fri Jul 05, 2024 8:21 pm

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/in

Spoiler: survey
- recent hobby: cooking
- fave book: healing with whole foods?
- fave music: Tracy Chapman
- fave board game: Gloomhaven. I haven't gotten a chance to really play frosthaven though
- fave movie: the princess bride
- tv shows: I disproportionately watch competition shows. So stuff I'd be most excited for new seasons of are like Devil's Plan/Genius, The Mole (preferably Netherlands/Belgium versions), Taskmaster, Ireland's Fittest Family. oh and I enjoyed Lupin recently
- fave video game: fire emblem 9? I was mostly a Nintendo gamer and have also been a stardew valley addict
- fave childhood toy: manatee plushies
- to my gift giver: Firstly, please don't stress. I am open to a change of avatar and open to basically whatever. But if you have been assigned me and you're like oh no I have 0 clue what to do and I barely know you, I do like the aesthetic of post cards. pretty photo + thoughtful/random msg, what's not to like? Or send some type of activity e.g. trivia questions. Or run something like Loaded Questions or the Name Game or Tragedy Looper in Mish Mash. Or contribute some stuff to the wiki. Or say hey Ariel, I want to review a challenge for your upcoming LSG
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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Mon Jul 08, 2024 1:28 pm

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/in this sounds so fun

Spoiler: Survey Because Fun spoiler

Hi all how are you all. Something that I've been getting to recently is Dodgeball. It's such a fun game to play in college, and I'm trying to get better at it.

I have not read a book sense high school but my favorite book is Time Bomb by Joelle Charbonneau. I don't care to watch movies, but one I want to watch is Blue Lock Episode Nagi, and my favorite as of recently is Escape Room 2. A T.V. show I just watched that I liked is The Worst Roommate on Netflix and A murder at the end of the World. I'm just obsessed with League of Legends, but I've just replayed zero time dilemma and got back into Phoenix Wright.

When I was younger I LOVED stuffed animals, I just have been collecting them recently and not admiring them as I once did.

I am always willing to chat if you want to chat, and I've been told I'm super kind (does not always show in Mafia) anything you want right know or ask just let me know ❤️.

Have a great day everyone
:] Love :] Killing :]
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Post Post #3 (ISO) » Mon Jul 08, 2024 3:02 pm

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/in!
Spoiler: survey

Survey
1. What is a hobby you have been enjoying recently?
-- trekking
2. What is your favorite (or recent favorite)

(I'm listing multiple per category)
  • book
    --
    Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore
    ;
    Good Omens
    . I've recently read
    Teorema
    by Pasolini and it's just an absolutely mesmerazingly
    delirant
    piece of literature.
  • movie
    -- serious ones,
    Videodrome
    . For something sillier,
    The cabin in the woods
    . Among Z-tier so-bad-it's-good trash,
    Nekromantik
    .
  • video game
    --
    Final Fantasy III
    (the one with the onion kids, not the one with Kefka. Although the latter is objectively a better game);
    Wizardry VI
    . For less ancient stuff,
    Hollow Knigth
    . For more obscure stuff,
    Cragne Manor
    (that one is objectively a bad game; still love it thou. But then again, I liked
    King Quest II
    better than III, so my taste in parser games may be a bit warped).
  • tv show
    -- I don't own a TV, so idk
(Some bonus ones)
  • music
    -- Opeth; Therion; Anaal Nathrakh
  • board game
    -- Dominion. Also a big fan of traditional card games in general
  • spirit
    -- Absinthe; among bitters, Petrum Boonekamp
3. What was your favorite toy as a child?
a Geomag set.
When I was
really
little I remember having one of those wooden boards with nails one uses to play with rubber bands, which I loved for some reason.
4. Is there anything you would want your gift-giver to know?
Anything goes really, never fret. I don't feel the gift in itself is really the important part of the exchange, which really suffices for its own sake.
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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Fri Jul 19, 2024 7:18 am

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sure /in
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Post Post #5 (ISO) » Fri Jul 19, 2024 1:14 pm

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I guess so

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Post Post #6 (ISO) » Mon Jul 22, 2024 1:44 pm

Post by Elements »

/in
I do enjoy a good send random person something

Spoiler: Survey

1. What is a hobby you have been enjoying recently?
Playing piano. Been learning video game duets with my friend. Great Gerrudo Valley one by Kyle Landry we're trying to learn with swaping parts half way through. Also currently trying to design an escape room.

2. What is your favorite (or recent favorite) book/movie/tv show/video game?
  • Books - Favorite is a tight thing between Ender's Game and the Legendeer Trilogy. Currently re-reading the Stormlight Archives.
  • Music - Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
  • Board Game - I
    love
    assymetric games e.g. the recent terrorscape, mysterium, Mind MGNT. Hidden information (surprise surprise) is probably my favorite board game mechanic. It's difficult to pick a favorite, but one I could just pick up and play anytime for any length of time is Ogre: Objective 218, which is ammusing as it's neither assymetric nor does it really involve hidden information.
  • TV/Movie - Super hyped for the new Alien film coming out in a few weeks. Palm Springs is also a great film, if you like B99 or grounhog day you should go watch it. TV show wise just finished the latest series of The Boys and Rick and Morty.
  • Video Game - Puzzle games! Puzzles! Puzzles! Puzzles! Slowly working my way through Ebony the riddle game (thanks Aneninen if any of you have had games with him). Show me a puzzle game and I will almost certainly enjoy it. Outside of that; Darkest Dungeon (working on a theme game based on that), Hollow Knight, New Vegas, XCOM 2

    3. What was your favorite toy as a child?
    A modle Triceratops that when you squeezed the sides the head moved. It also had a removable piece with bone underneath.
    Lonpos 101, a puzzle (noticing a theme yet?) game where you have to built pyramids out of tetris adjacent shapes.

    4. Is there anything you would want your gift-giver to know?
    The act of exchanging is more fun than the items exchanged. So put in as much or as little thought into it as you wish. I will say I much prefer random, unexpected things to traditional gift items e.g. my favorite secret santa gift I've ever recieved was 14 2cm wooden cubes in a cardboard tube.



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    Post Post #7 (ISO) » Thu Jul 25, 2024 5:35 pm

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    i'll likely need to opt out but i rly wanna ego this for the vibes
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    Post Post #8 (ISO) » Thu Jul 25, 2024 8:32 pm

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    Ah fuck
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    Post Post #9 (ISO) » Thu Jul 25, 2024 10:13 pm

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    /in I guess
    Spoiler: Survey

    - recent hobby: cooking, photography
    - fave book: don't have one actually. I guess my favorite genre is sci-fi though.
    - fave music: Michael Jackson, Sabaton
    - fave board game: probably Avalon
    - fave movie: don't have one
    - tv shows: Code Geass or Frieren
    - fave video game: FTL, Crusader Kings
    - fave childhood toy: pirate/wild-west Playmobil
    - to my gift giver: I'd love to get a new avatar! Or a signature. Or just a nice drawing or a short story. Or anything else. Also in case it isn't obvious I do love dragons and would appreciate anything dragon related most likely. I also like cute things. I also like surprises! So basically as long as you put some thought and a personal touch into it, it should be very easy to give me something I like.
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    Post Post #10 (ISO) » Thu Jul 25, 2024 10:35 pm

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    /out

    self disclosure too challenging
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    Post Post #11 (ISO) » Fri Jul 26, 2024 6:17 am

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    In post 10, Psyche wrote: /out

    self disclosure too challenging
    Self-disclosure is more about making sure you get a gift tailored to you, not meant to be a burden. If you want to stay in, I'm sure we can work around the need for the survey.
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    Post Post #12 (ISO) » Fri Jul 26, 2024 9:20 am

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    okay! /in
    i choose to be mysterious in a tantalyzing way and accept all consequences
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    Post Post #13 (ISO) » Tue Jul 30, 2024 2:41 am

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    Gotta do this maybe after work tonight
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    Post Post #14 (ISO) » Tue Jul 30, 2024 7:57 pm

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    In!

    Spoiler:
    1. What is a hobby you have been enjoying recently?

    Cooking. Swimming? Fishing??

    2. What is your favorite (or recent favorite) book

    Prolly The Silmarillion

    /movie

    Big Trouble in Little China

    /tv show

    Jeopardy!

    /video game?

    Oof. Donkey Kongs Country 2 and 3???

    3. What was your favorite toy as a child?

    How old are we talking because I had this stuffed penguin but then I also had a Game Boy.

    4. Is there anything you would want your gift-giver to know?

    That I'm happy just to see what you pick out!
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    Post Post #15 (ISO) » Wed Aug 07, 2024 7:22 am

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    I have gotten confirmation/final info from all parties now and will begin the Matching Process!
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    Post Post #16 (ISO) » Wed Aug 07, 2024 7:29 am

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    I'm excited, nice event.
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    Post Post #17 (ISO) » Wed Aug 07, 2024 2:24 pm

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    All Assignments should be out and users can get gifting!
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    Post Post #18 (ISO) » Mon Sep 02, 2024 8:04 am

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    REMINDER! Two weeks until the recommended time all gifts should be given!

    And if you've already received your gifts: Feel free to post them here!
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