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  2. Secret Santa 2021

    in General Chatter

    Posted · Edited by abhi90

      

    Hello friends.

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    Come one, come all to this year's iteration of Secret Santa

     

     

    Welcome to the thread that celebrates the spirit of Christmas. We all need some love and care this year.

     

    What is Secret Santa?

    Secret Santa is a tradition in which volunteering members of our lovely community anonymously send gifts to a randomly chosen participating member

     

    The basic flowchart of Secret Santa is:

    • Interested people post their names in this thread
    • After the dead-line for submitting names is over, a random draw is held to assign a person(aka target) to every Santa
    • Every Santa then has about 2-3 weeks to scout & stalk their designated target, choose an appropriate gift and then send it
    • The designated target should (ideally) receive the gift just around the 25th of December i.e. Christmas
    • A Secret Santa should only reveal himself through the "Sent by" tag on the courier i.e. No one should know of the identity of their Secret Santa until they receive their gift

     

    The key of a successful Secret Santa is secrecy, so please do all that you can to ensure that your identity stays hidden until your target receives his gift.

     

    Want to take part? Here's what you've got to do:

    1. Read this post and the guidelines carefully.
    2. If you can adhere to the time-frame, post your names in this thread.
    3. Send me a PM with your complete address along with your mobile number. The title should be ~ "Secret Santa 2021"
    4. After the deadline for submitting names is over, someone will hold a lucky draw and you (i.e. the Santa) will be assigned a target.

    5. Find out the likes and dislikes of your target and choose a suitable NEW gift for him.
    6. You, Santa, will send the gift(s) to your designated target.

    P.S: You should send your gifts so that your target will receive their gifts before Christmas. The closer to 25th, the better.

     

    Spoiler

    Let there be two persons, A and B. If A is the Secret Santa of B, it does not necessarily mean that B is the Santa of A (Probability dictates that A being the Secret Santa of B AND B being the Secret Santa of A is relatively minor). Most probably, a person will send a gift to someone and receive a gift from someone else.

     

    Guidelines for Secret Santa:
    1. This is all about the bond we share in the community
    2. Please don't tell anyone, even to non-participants, the identity of your target
    3. It is absolutely necessary (and makes the gift that extra bit sweet) that the gift is a well-searched one and not a generic one
    4. Gift-wrapping the gift along with a card is encouraged, but not mandatory
    5. IMPORTANT: The gift should be NEW. Whatever it is, it shouldn't be a used one
    6. The gift should be chosen according to the person's likes or dislikes, do proper research before sending a gift.
    7. Take appropriate measures so that your target gets his gift just before Christmas i.e. in the range of 21-24th December

     

    Previous Iterations of Secret Santa:

    Spoiler

    This is for the twelfth consecutive time that Secret Santa is being held within IVG. Following are the links to the previous Secret Santa threads:
    Secret Santa 2009
    Secret Santa 2010
    Secret Santa 2010 - Gifts Thread
    Secret Santa 2011

    Secret Santa 2012

    Secret Santa 2012 - Gifts Thread

    Secret Santa 2013

    Secret Santa 2013 - Gifts Thread

    Secret Santa 2014

    Secret Santa 2014 - Gifts Thread

    Secret Santa 2015

    Secret Santa 2015 - Gifts Thread

    Secret Santa 2016

    Secret Santa 2016 - Gifts Thread

    Secret Santa 2017

    Secret Santa 2017 - Gifts Thread

    Sadly due to the outage we have lost the threads for Secret Santa 2018

    Secret Santa 2019

    Secret Santa 2020

    Secret Santa 2020 - Gifts Thread

     

    Tips for Secret Santa:

    Spoiler
    1. Login anonymously. Doing so will help you be anonymous and your target cannot go into his/her profile and see your name in the "Latest visitors" list and make a calculated guess of who their Secret Santa is.
    2. If you're really stumped and cannot finalize on an appropriate gift, then as a last resort PM me and ONLY me. I'll ask your target on your behalf, while maintaining your anonymity, as to what he/she would prefer.
    3. There's no price range for gifts, it's all about the happiness you can share with other IVGian. To get a rough idea on the price of gifts being sent refer to the Secret Santa of yesteryears.

     

    Hall of Fame

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    I would like to thank, first and foremost, the participants who have made Secret Santa such a success that a lot of us look forward to this time of the year.

     

    I would also like to especially thank the members who have been a part of every Secret Santa without fail, they are:

    • Aftrunner
    • KrackChap
    • Sufyan
    • Snake

     

    Last date for registrations: 13th December 2021

    Please commit iff you will be 100% able to send a gift. We've had defaulters in the past and we don't want any more sad people, do we?

    Feel free to post here/ PM me if you have any doubts.

    Let's all end this year on a positive happy note. Hope you all have a great Christmas this year.

     

    edit: Secret Santa 2021 gift thread is up:

     

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  5. Wrestling fans

    in General Chatter

    Posted

    I was watching dinner and came across Eurosport telecasting AEW rampage and the match was Lucha brothers vs The Accolade(?)

     

    Goddamn that match was so much fun miles better than anything I watched in WWE. Pentagon had been awesome since Lucha underground and he's a great guy

     

     

    :fap:

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  8. God of War: Ragnarök

    in Games

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    52 minutes ago, radicaldude said:

     

     

     

    After ?, some might assume that. 

     

     

     

    Cursed game is cursed :rofl: Wonder what the Sony guys were smoking.

     

    Regarding people saying he has a son, etc. Dude wtf he can change his sexual preferences or can be a bi. :fear:

  9. God of War: Ragnarök

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    31 minutes ago, PhantomShade said:

     

    This is a game where you have a 6'5' Greek demi-god dude who was as tan as a american black dude but now isn't because of his dead family's ash stuck to his whole body is now whiter than most whites, some how landing in magical Norse world and having a Boi with some sorceror Jotunn chick and said Boi will somehow become Lauki, bro of Thor thanks to some time travel f**kery i'm sure.

     

    Also said magic mix angrboda chick is supposed to marry to boi and produce 1x giant wolf, 1x giant snake, and some godess who rules hel..

     

    Also Kratos still can't jump, and people here worried that she's not some blonde blue eyed godess :rofl:

     

    I think it's more about the entire culture of forcing things for the sake pf cultural enrichment. Ideally people also should not get angry if they reveal that Kratos is gay.

     

     

  16. The Playstation 5 thread

    in News, Rumours and Discussions

    Posted · Edited by abhi90

    2 hours ago, Sach4life said:

     

    Would love a new Infamous game. If not that, at least a remake of the original two titles.

    The original games wouldn't go down well, way too repetitive :(

     

      

    7 minutes ago, playstationdude said:

    Maybe something like metal gear survive:rofl:

    Just give me Metal gear revengeance part 2 :wub:

  18. FIFA 22

    in Games

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    7 minutes ago, Joe Cool said:

     

    This is the main reason I stopped playing. The community is so terrible when it comes to UT. 

    I played FUT offline totally and it isn't nearly half as rewarding as online, and online's so stressful. The only game in which I've thrown a controller out of frustration.

  19. FIFA 22

    in Games

    Posted

    44 minutes ago, Joe Cool said:

    Sadly it is the truth. UT has become too big too much liked and only mode that gets lot of stuff/changes every year. Other modes are standard football, not much to change.

     

    Look at Volta, even after adding cool new mode and new stuff, nobody wants to play that over UT. 

     

    Career mode is getting some changes this year which is nice but still not played like UT. 

    UT is a gacha with some trading mechanics.

     

    UT also has that lootbox tendencies, frankly all of that is still fine but the toxic community is something that gets on my nerves. Maybe it's the same for other online MP but I don't have experience with them.

  24. Tales of Arise

    in Games

    Posted · Edited by abhi90

    1 hour ago, playstationdude said:

    Preorders are up guys. 4299 for the physical copy. Just ordered mine.:bigyellowgrin:

    from where?

     

    edit: mcubegames for anyone wondering

     

    just hoped that they'd have brought the Ce :cry:

  25. The Careers Thread

    in General Chatter

    Posted

    1 hour ago, KunjanPSD said:

    A little off topic but what did you buy or how did you spend your first paycheck?

     

    Will be interesting to know.

    First paycheck went to parents, then slowly started saving money for games/ other hobbies and buying them :P

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