YesManKablam
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So, how exactly does this secret santa work? After a certain time, do I get an email with who I'm supposed to send shit?
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Super Best Friends Thread 8: "You know, we really are the Super Best Friends Play"
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RecursiveFault
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I'd say it's a "grass is greener on the other side" thing. Though, I grew up in a small rural town where everyone keeps to themselves, so it was both far away to even get to a grocery store and pretty lonely.
In an ideal situation, I'd probably want to move to a large few acre plot of my own land, that's only 10-15 minutes out from a shopping centre.
You'd be better off in a small Australian town, they're pretty touristy and not bogged down in old fashion/backwards beliefs and issues.
Yeah it should be around midnight in Dok's timezone, tomorrow for us. Keep it anonymous
RecursiveFault
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As I understand it, we get an email when the signup ends (today) and we have to gift something for that person. I believe our understood minimum is $5 and the limit is $40.
If the person you're gifting for is overseas, then you can just send something digital, don't feel obligated to make it physical.
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I think I should draft up a google doc for people to list their platforms they can game on, so people can know if they don't have a PC but have a Mac, only have a PS3, etc.
Well, it's not that I don't like small towns. I should elaborate that I don't like small towns that aren't close to anything decent, like a movie theater or a mall, and that are filled with people that have extremely different views to my own.
Living in a smallish town that's within a 20 minute drive of great food and fun, is right up my alley.
Aaron-Lagann
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That's actually the problem, in most small cities people are still callous and indifferent, there's just less to do and stores close early. You have to go really small to get that feeling of intimacy, but the trade-off means you have like, one store and one bar, and even then people are usually pent up being cooped up in a small town all their lives. There's no really good middle ground, unfortunately.
Albany Oregon is a bad middleground, where we're big enough that there's no intimacy but small enough that they're absolutely nothing to do and no businesses stay around. We open and close a hobby shop once every six months here, it's super depressing.
DoktorEvil
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DoktorEvil
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Minus the southern accent
It'll become a Brooklyn accent in due time.
No one wants that, Australian accents are where it's at.
DAREALGUMMY
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I'd be down for the Secret Santa but between actually buying a birthday gift for the gf, my nieces wedding in VEGAS, Christmas and a WWE show in LA, I'm beyond poor.
DoktorEvil
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So small towns aren't very personable and everyone knows your name type of deals?
Aaron-Lagann
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S'all good. You going to a house show or a RAW?
Luckily it's my birthday soon so I should be getting more money than spending it.
Aaron-Lagann
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You have to go super small to get that feeling, and the problems with small towns are only made worse the smaller you go.
RecursiveFault
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Not trying to cutter up the thread, but I wanna ask again. Should I make a list of platforms for Secret Santa so people don't buy people games for consoles/systems they don't own?
Some really small ones, but it really depends on the people there.
Definitely not.
But where I grew up, was actually a good balance. "Southern hospitality" is a great thing, you don't need everyone to know you, to have that feeling of fellowship and understanding in a smaller community. Of course you'll still have your issues and encounter assholes, but that happens everywhere.
And all the "cool" places, were all within 15-20 minutes away.
Aaron-Lagann
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I know a guy from Long Island and he's hilarious. One time we were ordering pizza and he kept calling them "pies"! Everyone had a great laugh that day.
Sure.
DoktorEvil
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But they are called pies. Pizza pies. Pies for short.
"Bless his heart" needs to be in my New York vernacular one day.
Southerners are experts at passive aggressive comments. North easterners are a little more blunt.
Aaron-Lagann
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Not here, in reality. Everyone was really confused as to what he was talking about.
DoktorEvil
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We also don't call soda "pop" or "fountain drinks". It's soda. ITS FUCKING SODA!
I'd never really thought about that before but you are absolutely correct.
Aaron-Lagann
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Oregon calls it Soda.
DoktorEvil
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This is what I found when I was looking for Southern insults a few weeks ago.
http://www.countryoutfitter.com/style/southern-insults/
I knew a redhead girl who went to my college from the South and she always had the best insults. She was also the best at being passive aggressive.
In North Carolina, when we went to visit family, it was called "pop" or "fountain beverage".
Annoyed the hell out of me for no particular reason.
"I'm just sayin'" is absurdly common on social media from Southern people. The rest are often said in a genuine way, not a passive aggressive way, though it does happen sometimes or jokingly.
Also the "northern" southern states like North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, etc are more prone to saying things like "pop".
You never hear someone call soft drinks "pop" in Alabama/Mississippi/Georgia etc
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
We call it pop here in Ohio, but I've noticed myself slowly transitioning over to calling it soda, probably because I think "pop" sounds silly.
Also, I remember seeing a map that showed what people called it by county/region, and noticing that Miami was the only place in Florida that called it something other than "coke" (a lot of places in the south call all soda "coke"). I brought this up to my friend from Miami and a day later he tells me "...I just realized why we don't call it coke".
I laughed pretty hard.
Also, I remember seeing a map that showed what people called it by county/region, and noticing that Miami was the only place in Florida that called it something other than "coke" (a lot of places in the south call all soda "coke"). I brought this up to my friend from Miami and a day later he tells me "...I just realized why we don't call it coke".
I laughed pretty hard.
I use them all the time.
DAREALGUMMY
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House show but it's a RAW house show so Paige is there....all I need.
My creepiness won't be contained.
Banana Aeon
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You know it. In Georgia, it's coke for everything. In Ohio, it's pop.
Gamestop said fuck it, and broke street date for GGXRD http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=949372
HEAVY DAY!
HEAVY DAY!
DAREALGUMMY
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I visited Michigan last year and the gf says "pop". I want to shake it out of her.
IT'S SODA!!
IT'S SODA!!
Ultimate_Trainer
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In Texas, we mostly call them cokes and infrequently soft drinks atleast in the DFW area.
Fuck I want money left over for secret santa...
DAREALGUMMY
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Soft drinks? Well la di da Mr. Frenchman.
YesManKablam
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Make sure to include regions for the region locked consoles.
As does everywhere outside of America
Aaron-Lagann
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Paige is the only WWE girl to knock Naomi out of my top slot.
RecursiveFault
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QUOTE FOR THE LINK TO LIST GAMING PLATFORMS FOR THE SECRET SANTA
Ooh hold on, I'll add it Edit: Added.
Ooh hold on, I'll add it Edit: Added.
Ultimate_Trainer
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CrackPebbles
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V4s are only being sold by third parties for $250 on Amazon right now. This is suffering.
Anyone else here gonna wait for the LE?
RecursiveFault
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In Kentucky they're just soft drinks to most people. You hear coke, pop, and soda too.
Banana Aeon
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Done.
I hated it, when I lived in Ohio, and I hated it when I lived in Georgia. Just call it soda, or name the brand, weirdos.
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