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because I’m still childish enough to want one

SO THIS IS A LIST OF MOSTLY AFFORDABLE THINGS THAT CAN BE PURCHASED FOR CHRISTMAS I GUESS oh gods i feel selfish it’s also not in any order whatsoever and is numbered just so I can see how worthlessly selfish I am oh gods

also I do not expect to get everything on this list, it’s just a pile of links so you know what to get if you don’t know what to get and is a beautiful series of recommendations

this may also become a List Of Shit I Could Get People

1. Pokeball! [FROOGLE]
2. Pokedex! [FROOGLE]
3. Awesome soap! [SOAPIER]
4. Anything that’s practical! (Outline what it could be used for.)
5. Gundam model kits! [IT'S A GUNDAM] (high grade preferably, ask me for specifics)
6. Gundam model kit bases! [SAME WEBSITE AS ABOVE] (anything works)
7. Random things that may not be practical but look cool anyways!
8. I… I dunno, a headphone extension cable [FROOGLE] <– I actually need this one
9. Sonic screwdriver! preferably this one [LINK], but this one [LINK] may work too. I’m not sure if the second one has a whirrrr though
10. A mace, I… guess [BLUDGEON!]
11. Shirts! [SHIRT.WOOT] But preferably this one [LINK] or this one [LINK] or this one [LINK] or this one [LINK]
12. Webcomic (Topatoco) shirts. [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] are the preferred, but if you see anything on there that you personally think is witty then it works. In fact I would prefer you chose a shirt that you think would fit, regardless of what I think, because it makes it more OMFG SPECIAL that way or some shit
13. xkcd store swag. height poster [LINK] shark science [LINK] actual size [ACTUAL SIZE LINK] alien poster [LINK] reddit shirt [LINK] orangered [LINK]
14. xkcd book jesus christ how did i forget [LINK]
15. Thinkgeek gadgets! titanium spork [LINK] survival kit inna can [LINK] superspork [LINK] survival kit inna bottle [LINK] utility key tool [LINK]
16. Thinkgeek geek toys! cactus inna jar [LINK] ceramic cup noodle cup [LINK] mini trebuchet [LINK] snow inna jar [LINK] wooden machines [LINK] butterfly pen [LINK]
17. I’LL NEVER GET THIS, BUT: USB Doomsday Device Hub [LINK]
18. HOLY SHIT GIANT NERF SWORD [LINK - Target]
19. Anything on this website, I swear, they make amazing shit and I have loved them since like 2004 [LINK]
20. Do you want me to be specific? Fine. thumbtack buttons [LINK] interesting tape [LINK] preferably in russian [LINK] tetrius [LINK] atmark mug [LINK] tetris ice cubes [LINK] the “fuck you” jigsaw puzzle [LINK] bookmarks [LINK] moloko [LINK] no swearing [LINK] student driver [LINK]

this list is constantly updated, people who want to claim what they get can post responses

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just click jesus christ why does it fail so hard

[22:46] <Talhydras> Man, what have you guys been eating of late?
[22:46] <Talhydras> Icefox, you still working on that chili?
[22:46] <Icefox> Chili and sandwiches.
[22:46] <Icefox> In profusion
[22:47] <Icefox> Tonight I had doctored ramen just to change things up.
[22:52] <Talhydras> Heh, oh ramen
[22:52] <Ara[LateNightFood]> doctored ramen?
[22:53] <Icefox> Ramen, plus whatever you have on hand.
[22:53] <Icefox> In my case, egg and peas and corn.
[22:53] <Talhydras> That reminds me, I need to cook fried rice sometime soon
[22:53] *** Ara[LateNightFood]!~Aralonia@7774EC6B.72EA781C.7CCD0E34.IP is now known as DanielHawking
[22:53] *** DanielHawking sets mode +r
[22:53] <Icefox> I did that last wee.
[22:53] <DanielHawking> I just had two meatball subs. fuck yeah
[22:53] <Icefox> last week
[22:53] <Icefox> It was pretty awesome.
[22:54] <Talhydras> two?
[22:54] <Icefox> And I had meatballs the week before that, and ate them in sandwiches.
[22:54] <Icefox> Man.
[22:54] <Icefox> Am I awesome or what?
[22:54] <DanielHawking> Two, yeah.
[22:54] <DanielHawking> I was hungry.
[22:54] <Icefox> Were they… small meatball subs?
[22:55] <DanielHawking> 5 meatballs each.
[22:55] <DanielHawking> I missed lunch.
[22:55] <Talhydras> I know of no meatball sub small enough that mo…
[22:55] * Talhydras D8
[22:55] <DanielHawking> WHAT
[22:56] <Talhydras> you missed lunch in a big way
[22:56] <_Lizzie_> MEATBALL. SUB. NOW
[22:56] <Talhydras> I’ve never eaten aaack
[22:56] * Talhydras DIVES AWAY FROM MONITOR
[22:56] * _Lizzie_ rocket fist punch
[22:56] * Talhydras is hit in the jaw! It is torn off!
[22:56] * DanielHawking dives through the monitor and casts Reflega
[22:56] <DanielHawking> *dives through Tal’s monitor
[22:57] <DanielHawking> IT’S OKAY I’LL HOLD IT OFF JUST GET FURTHER AWAY
[22:57] <Talhydras> You have entered Tal’s Dorm.
[22:57] <Talhydras> There are clothes on the floor.
[22:57] <DanielHawking> also, http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1496 was horrifying at the end
[22:57] <Talhydras> There is a bed behind you.
[22:57] * _Lizzie_ lurks in the shadows of the room
[22:57] <DanielHawking> >stab bed
[22:58] <Talhydras> the bed squeals! Six pincered claws and four armored mechanical arms pop out!
[22:58] <Talhydras> YOU FACE:  WESLEYAN NONSTANDARD SIZED DORM ROOM BED LEVEL 93
[22:58] * Talhydras fwooshy final fantasy battle lines thingies
[22:58] <DanielHawking> WHAT THE HELL OH MY GOD
[22:58] <DanielHawking> >cast Fire5
[22:58] <Talhydras> The bed takes 99567 damage!
[22:59] <Talhydras> The bed glows once.
[22:59] <Talhydras> The bed used “Charging for ultimate attack…”
[22:59] <DanielHawking> >cast Fire99999
[22:59] <Talhydras> *miss*
[22:59] <DanielHawking> WHAT
[22:59] <Talhydras> The bed used “A-10 Strafing Run + Precision Artillery Rushdown”
[23:00] <Talhydras> Multiple attacks, high physical and fire damage!
[23:00] * DanielHawking casts reflexive perfect dodge
[23:00] <Talhydras> (also, Liz, my overhead lights are broken. My whole room is shadows. Congrats, I will now have trouble sleeping tonight.)
[23:00] <Talhydras> THE BED FAINTED!
[23:00] * _Lizzie_ suddenly appears from the shadows, eats the bed, eats the A-10 and then merges back into the shadows
[23:00] <Talhydras> Ara gained a level!
[23:01] <Talhydras> Ara has learned “Hacks!”
[23:01] <Talhydras> Ara already knows four moves.
[23:01] <Talhydras> Forget one?
[23:01] <DanielHawking> What moves do I know?
[23:01] <Talhydras> Breathe, Eat, Sleep, Reflexive Perfect Dodge
[23:02] <DanielHawking> >forget Reflexive Perfect Dodge
[23:02] <Talhydras> Ara is evolving!
[23:02] <Talhydras> Let Ara evolve into Master Turtle Knight?
[23:03] <DanielHawking> EVOLVE
[23:04] * Talhydras watches as Ara transforms from a Turtle Knight to a Master Turtle Knight! Ara now has short take off and landing technology, FLIR, D rank proficiency in Lances, Axes, memes, and trollan, and 50% more defense!
[23:04] * DanielHawking ’s eyes can see in another spectrum!
[23:04] * DanielHawking CAN SEE FOREVER
[23:04] * _Lizzie_ is still hidden
[23:04] <_Lizzie_> it is dark
[23:05] * Talhydras quakes in terror
[23:05] <Talhydras> don’t eat grues
[23:05] <Talhydras> really
[23:05] <_Lizzie_> you are likely to be eaten by a lizzie
[23:05] <Talhydras> I am not tasty

[02:42] <DanielHawking> oh my god oh my GOD I HATE EVERYTHING asd;lfkjas;dljfas;ldfjasd;flj that kid tried to fuck with me while I was about to go take a shower. I’m wearing a fucking bathrobe, carrying a towel, and he decides to get up in my business and say YOU ARE NOT TAKING A SHOWER TONIGHT. I have to wait until 3 people pull him the fuck away from me so I can walk without him trying to mess around with my shit. I’m sick of this.
[02:42] <DanielHawking> I swear
[02:42] <DanielHawking> I am so sick of this shit.
[02:42] <Talhydras> …
[02:43] <Talhydras> Are you sure you’re in college, and not a ghetto?
[02:43] <DanielHawking> I don’t know anymore
[02:43] <DanielHawking> I’m pissed

Those bastards in my hall really are prideful bastards.. So he’s calling me a pussy and a liar for not taking food from people in the hallways. I’m just not hungry. I close the door in his face and he starts ripping the whiteboard off my door. He starts calling me a faggot and a pussy, again, of course, since that’s all his vocabulary. Then he tells me to step over to where he is and I tell him “Aralonians listen to ourselves. We are indpendent. We don’t listen to people like you.” He rushes at me but I slam the door in his face. Someone in the hall pulls him back and he thinks I’m insulting him for being Arabic. I open the door, tell him “Actually, you’re an idiot” and close it again.

[8:37:09 PM] !Daniel Hawking: Okay, so
[8:37:25 PM] !Daniel Hawking: I’m minding my own business cooking myself some dinner.
[8:37:49 PM] !Daniel Hawking: Some random bitches come in.
[8:38:06 PM] !Daniel Hawking: They offer to duel me. Again. (This is following last night, which was just human stupidity)
[8:38:10 PM] !Daniel Hawking: I don’t give a shit.
[8:38:12 PM] !Daniel Hawking: I cook dinner.
[8:38:18 PM] !Daniel Hawking: They open my drawers? A bit of a violation of my own privacy
[8:38:31 PM] !Daniel Hawking: Grab a nerf gun out of it and start pointing it at me, dry firing it at me.
[8:38:38 PM] !Daniel Hawking: Sonya, stop typing, this is my story, let me finish
[8:39:09 PM] !Daniel Hawking: Anyways.
[8:39:35 PM] !Daniel Hawking: This sorta starts pissing me off. But I just keep preparing my food. Then they take my own possession out of my room. Um, wtf?
[8:40:02 PM] !Daniel Hawking: As you can imagine about having someone steal something that belongs to me, I’m fucking pissed off.
[8:40:54 PM] !Daniel Hawking: But that’s beside the point. The point of the matter is that he throws it on the ground the moment I start walking towards the RA’s office.
[8:40:59 PM] !Daniel Hawking: Calling me a dirty snitch and stuff like that.
[8:41:17 PM] !Daniel Hawking: Um, hello? Rule 1 of Aralonian Infantry Tactics? “There is never too much artillery.”
[8:42:09 PM] !Daniel Hawking: Anyways, that’s it.

>You know… This is something I have trouble getting people to understand in magazine interviews. For example, you’ve got World War II, and then you have lots of movies based on that event, right? They are all fictional. They’re all based on a war that actually took place, but they are all different. For example, in period dramas you have Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, but there are so many Oda Nobunagas and Tokugawa Ieyasus. The producers look at the real event and adapt the character according to their wishes. The actors and lines also change, so the character changes. It’s that kind of feeling. OK, so in the timeline you have a movie called DYRL that was released, does that mean that the TV series is the true story? Well, you have the SDF-1 that supposedly fell from the sky, and then a story was made about the subsequent history and was televised. Then that became a movie. Then later, there was a “Macross 7 incident”, and a TV series was made about that. That’s basically how I see it.

>So… “Macross 7” is also a TV series broadcast within the Macross timeline?

>That’s right, that’s the interpretation. It’s not just the movie, they are ALL works of fiction.

>None of them are real?

>None of them are real.

tired, copypasting from IRC

[02:13] Aralonia: I never told you the whole story about the swordfight
[02:13] _Lizzie_: ok
[02:14] Aralonia: So my roomie picks up my sword. I poke him to give it back but he goes and tosses it at another dude.
[02:14] Aralonia: the other dude, an Arabic, starts slashing back at me
[02:14] Aralonia: I want it back
[02:14] Aralonia: so he offers to duel me in the hallway
[02:14] Aralonia: by this point I just want my sword back and he says “no”
[02:15] Aralonia: so fine, I go upstairs and get changed into proper battle wear (a long sleeve shirt and my brown coat, plus slacks and shoes)
[02:15] Aralonia: go downstairs
[02:15] Aralonia: he makes the first move and I slash at him. he dodges backwards
[02:15] Aralonia: the duel continues, but he disarms me for a sec.
[02:15] Aralonia: I pull my fucking nerf rifle out of my coat and point it at him
[02:16] Aralonia: er, not rifle, pistol
[02:16] Aralonia: he flees for a sec but then I put it away and grab my sword
[02:16] Aralonia: duel continues
[02:16] Aralonia: He did a punch at me with his fist but I blocked with the nerf gun.
[02:16] Aralonia: His knuckle at this point is in pain
[02:17] Aralonia: Then he broke the sword tip of my nerf sword. motherfucker
[02:17] Aralonia: he stuffed it down his pants. double mofucka
[02:17] Aralonia: he stepped on the sword tip and broke it into pieces. triple mofucker
[02:17] Aralonia: I call him a stupid coward, honourless
[02:17] Aralonia: I guess Egyptian people surround me and try to talk touch
[02:17] Aralonia: *talk tough
[02:17] Aralonia: a few girls, who saw me, step in and tell them to fuck off
[02:17] Aralonia: I get my swords back and then Public Safety arrives and tells them to fuck off
[02:18] Aralonia: at this point I run away
[02:19] Aralonia: but apparently Public Safety said “When I heard there was a swordfight going on, first I wanted to just drive BACKWARDS. Second, I wanted to come watch”
[02:20] Aralonia: so uh
[02:20] Aralonia: I come out uninjured even though he kicks me like 5 times
[02:20] Aralonia: he comes out uninjured but with the pride that he can’t beat up a little kid broken
[02:20] Aralonia: because little kid knows fencing/kendo
[02:23] Aralonia: I apologised to the students