CPSS7: Embodiment of Secret Santa REVEAL POSTED

[Helepolis]

You're welcome! Any thoughts on any beer in particular?
I have not! I have not had a lot of time to play around with the lock, but I learned a lot about how a lock works because of the clear lock.

If you're further interested in a good yt channel which also discusses some things, check out bosnianbill. Lots of videos and things.

[HakureiSM]

You're welcome! Any thoughts on any beer in particular?

I want Arashi beer reviews too

[Edible]

I read that as "Asahi beer reviews" at first and was gonna be like "it's just a lager"

[Rin Kagamine]

I read that as "Asahi beer reviews" at first and was gonna be like "it's just a lager"

I dunno, I like Asahi a lot and not just because I can pretend I'm imprisoned in an underground work camp zawa zawa

[Vyrien]

Okay this is finally happening, SORRY FOR THE DELAY because of timezones 'tomorrow' means 'in 9 days' in Japan

First of all, a package from Hong Kong arrived



a package with the addresses clumsily blurred out i just woke up ok


omg she finally got a job


MOKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU this card really speaks to me on a personal level

uh


LUNARIAN COIN GREAT i can spend it in my moonrune shops


ask kanako


EIRIN OF MY VERY OWN also omg that yuyuko I LOVE ARTBOOKS


ignore her, evil laughs make the world go round NO BUT WAIT


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA also you can see pasu in the bg performing some kind of chinese ritual idk

then there was like this big block and i thought it was cardboard backing BUT ACTUALLY

omgomgomgthatmokou

SCREAMS

but wait

and so there was


CLOTH BAG ITS GOT A DRAGON FUCK

inside the dragonbag there was

a pretty nicely presented DVD boxset thing also w/ dragon so 10/10 in my book

inside there were also

KEYCHAINS AND MORE DRAGON


this really cool clear acrylic poster LOOK AT THOSE BOOTS THO

Damn houraison,  you sure managed to stuff a lot in. It was really a lot of fun opening it so thank you!!!! There were also like 2 artbooks you can sort of see in the first pictures that I forgot to take a picture of, really nice art THANKS FOR PAYING ATTENTION TO MY WISHLIST <3

I'm going to make an estimated guess of

Spoiler:

Labuto

from doing some snooping around. Cheers!

:getdown:                   :getdown:

[Labuto]

Cheers~

Really glad that you enjoyed it. I was initially panicked because of your geographical location, as you may have gotten your hands on the majority of artbooks already.

So I sent books that can only be specifically bought/found outside Japan* , to hopefully reduce chances of double gifting.

I'm happy that it all worked out in the end~

*I may have forgotten that most of the books were in Chinese. Woopsies.

[Raikaria]

So... [when] are we getting lists? Has everyone posted yet?

[Vento]

ababABABAH had to settle comiket stuff sorry sorry


so i got my package sent early to vyrien's house and couldn't actually open it on christmas lol
but

watercolour like i asked for SWEET
also some brushes...how did my SS know almost all my brushes are dead
i recently started dabbling into traditional drawing and its great to use something better than
those cheap $10 dry palettes

hold on do those brushes say Van Gogh on them
Does that mean I'll be able to draw a The Starry Night with th-
here goes noth--

....okay so the mona lisa didn't come out but the colours were pretty good!
There was a very convenient skin tone colour in the selection that fixed my issue of having to manually mix yellow/white/orange with my old set...

I don't know who my Secret Santa is (vyrien says she knows psh) but thanks a lot for the equipment upgrade!!

[The ⑨th Zentillion]

I do believe that's everybody now! Can't wait to see that reveal list.

[Rin Kagamine]

If we actually revealed the list then it wouldn't be a secret now would it???

Vic Viper -> Arashi
Pesco -> Labuto
Tamashii -> Dorakyura
Spotty Ren -> pasu
triangles -> Chaore
Raikaria -> Nietz
Sect -> Spotty Ren
Mea -> HakureiSM
jq1790 -> triangles
Moogs Parfait -> Drake
Tengukami -> hungrybookworm
aUsernameIsFineToo -> Moogs Parfait
Zent -> Edible
RuneDevros -> Puffy
PX -> Zent
Jana -> Helepolis
Helepolis -> Vic Viper
Reddyne -> PX
Nietz -> Tamashii
HakureiSM -> Pesco
Vyrien -> Rune Devros
Vento -> SirSlarty
pasu -> Jeremie
MJP -> aUsernameIsFineToo
YJ -> jq1790
Puffy -> YJ
Purvis -> Zirene
hungrybookworm -> NekoNekoRex
Kiro -> Your Everyday NEET
Your Everyday NEET -> Firestorm29
Shadow1176 -> Raikaria
N-Forza -> Purvis
Labuto -> Vyrien
Dorakyura -> Mea
Edible -> Nobu
Nobu -> MJP
Arashi -> Vento
Drake -> Reddyne
SirSlarty -> Sect
NekoNekoRex -> yuyukos
Jeremie -> N-Forza
Chaore -> Shadow1176
yuyukos -> Kiro
Zirene -> Tengukami
dyril -> Jana
Firestorm29 -> dyril

[dyril]

I finished Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer (correction: it was 5 discs)!



It felt force-fed at the start but heartstrings were pulled. You don't often come across a show like this anymore.



screencaps irrelevant :B

Thanks again, Firestorm29!

[Jq1790]

Angelic Layer is a fun one.  Good taste indeed.

[Shadow1176]

Oh, can we share our international shipping stories now then?

[Shizumarashi Mayuzumi]

Oh, can we share our international shipping stories now then?

My international shipping story: I was shipping to Japan so I just bought on Amazon Japan and it arrived like 12 hours later and shipping was free. :V

(I mean I already shop on Amazon Japan somewhat regularly they just only ship internationally, i.e. to me, for media mail type stuff and shipping is... rather more. :V)

[Moogs Parfait]

I was brutally murdered by shipping costs because I missed Santa's note about just the customs number being enough.

Also Drake managed to guess it was me despite not actually seeing that poster at my booth, it was a commission.  Maybe it's the style of artists I hire?  Or maybe that it's the same dimensions as a Danmaku!! poster because I had the template lying around?

[yuyukos]

I mailed my gift and then I saw him in person a week later anyway so ?_(ツ)_/?

[[Y]oukai [J]esus]

I had to tell Pesco what Idols to buy for Labuto because he knows jackshit about Idols

[Chaore]

...no -wonder- my gift fits with last years.

Triangles, you clever geometry :v

[Raikaria]

I typo'ed y own address; so my package went to #1 not #2.

When I realised this it was back at the werehouse. They fixed the address and put it for re-sending.

Except it fell off the elevator and wasn't noticed until I rung to query it again and the same phoneperson went and checked remembering saying to me when it was due

[hungrybookworm]

I spend about an hour at the post office waiting to send my gift, because a couple in front of the queue decided now was a great time to go totally beserk and scream abuse at the post office staff, and then the staff got fed up with it and started yelling at them back, then the crowd joined in because they were fed up with waiting, then eventually security showed up and tried to drag the couple away, but they came back to do more yelling.

I was pretty shaken up by this so when I finally got to the counter and filled in the form, I forgot to tick 'gift' and then spent the rest of the day worrying my SS would have to pay import tax. Luckily I *cough* undervalued the items *cough* so it wasn't a problem.

The post office manager looked like he wanted to die.

[Tengukami]

Paying for tracking cost more than the postage itself.

[Dorakyura]

Cost were okish, for 2kg of packet, I didn't expect less. Wasn't as expensive as last years delivery to JP, though.
(also I choose to deliver via ship instead of air cargo  :derp:, saved me 30? extra, and still arrived on 23th :V)

[N-Forza]

Wasn't any different from my usual routine, except instead of being paid in cash, I was paid in cheer and goodwill.

[Sect]

I decided to muddle through Amazon.fr to send my package (fun trying to figure out how to send packages in a language you don't know) so I'd save a ton of money on postage, which was why I was confused when the package came from California.

[Firestorm29]

I finished Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer (correction: it was 5 discs)!



It felt force-fed at the start but heartstrings were pulled. You don't often come across a show like this anymore.



screencaps irrelevant :B

Thanks again, Firestorm29!

Glad you liked it. I like to try and find anime others haven't seen but were pretty good. I was torn between what would have been the best match based on your MAL; Angelic Layer, A Little Snow Fairy Sugar or maybe Slayers. Angelic Layer felt the closest of the three.

[HakureiSM]

Oh, can we share our international shipping stories now then?

hhhhhhhhhhhahahahahahahahahahhahahhahahahahhhahahah

[Rin Kagamine]

My international shipping story: I was shipping to Japan so I just bought on Amazon Japan and it arrived like 12 hours later and shipping was free. :V

(I mean I already shop on Amazon Japan somewhat regularly they just only ship internationally, i.e. to me, for media mail type stuff and shipping is... rather more. :V)

ARASHI I NEED BEER REVIEWS!!!

[Shizumarashi Mayuzumi]

ARASHI I NEED BEER REVIEWS!!!

but I am bad at detailed opinionssssssssssssss ;_;

beer was good I liked the stout best but I like stouts anyway. =P I still don't really like IPAs it turns out but that one was okay enough and I'm glad for a chance to try a decent one since I hadn't in a while. :3

[Vyrien]

I had to deal with the post office lady deciding I couldn't speak Japanese (GAIJIN RIGHT) then trying to ask me about the contents in broken English (English EMS form so I wrote the contents in English) whilst I continued to speak Japanese because she couldn't understand my English explanation. She wasn't listening and was panicking then got her 'Hi my name is xxxxxx i can speak English' colleague with whom I had a pleasant conversation in Japanese (including but not limited to the contents of the package) with the original colleague listening in and looking very embarrassed. By the time I'd finished it had taken about an hour and the post office was past closing time, luckily they still took the parcels.

This is a recurring thing I've found, people just do not want to believe I can speak Japanese here lol

apart from one lady in melonbooks who gave me a bunch of free stickers because EEEEEEEEEEH? NIHONGO DEKIRU??? BIKKURISHIMASHITAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA

[Helepolis]

My shipping story: Costed me money. I found the recording of movies quite fun to be honest.

Also highly suspicious of Vic Viper rigging the pairing system to roll me as SS. I am not quite sure what he did to Reimu in order to make her HAXOR the list. Probably was one hell of a donation.

I had to deal with the post office lady deciding I couldn't speak Japanese (GAIJIN RIGHT) then trying to ask me about the contents in broken English (English EMS form so I wrote the contents in English) whilst I continued to speak Japanese because she couldn't understand my English explanation. She wasn't listening and was panicking then got her 'Hi my name is xxxxxx i can speak English' colleague with whom I had a pleasant conversation in Japanese (including but not limited to the contents of the package) with the original colleague listening in and looking very embarrassed. By the time I'd finished it had taken about an hour and the post office was past closing time, luckily they still took the parcels.

This is a recurring thing I've found, people just do not want to believe I can speak Japanese here lol

Wait, so while you actually were speaking in Japanese, she refused to speak back in Japanese and kept putting up English!? Why?

apart from one lady in melonbooks who gave me a bunch of free stickers because EEEEEEEEEEH? NIHONGO DEKIRU??? BIKKURISHIMASHITAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA

Confirming reactions/startle from natives is funny when you're obvious-gaijin-as-***** and respond to them in Japanese.

• Enter elevator with a couple > ask what floor they desire > BIKKURIIIIIII
• Hold the door open at some mountain cafe for pair of ladies, receive 'arigatou' as default answer > respond back with JP 'you're welcome' > BIKKURIIIIIII
• Walk around in Kamakura watching the statue, quad of female students suddenly say 'Herro *wave' > respond with JP 'Domo' > BIKKURIIIIII

The responses always take a certain pattern. First they are logically surprised. Followed by usually the phrase: "You speak Japanese!?" Eventually asking: "Where / why did you learn Japanese"


Edit:

in melonbooks

I bet you were in the Adult version of Melong Books on the main street :V