The people who gifted me were lazy and just gave me money/gift cards... which works because none of them would have a clue what I'd really want and I'm not inclined to drop hints.
Sooooo... most of it will be spent on Amazon (books) and Ebay (miniatures).

I was the lucky recipient of:
Shadowrun 20th Anniversary edition
DnD Essentials Heroes of the Forgotten Lands
Force Unleashed 2 (I wanted to say "Yeah, Eff You, too!" to my brother)
Various Explosion-tastic DVDs that my wife and my parents actually ended up duplicating a bit

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Directly gaming-related I got a copy of the Laundry RPG, as well as a copy of the new Gamma World boxed set.  I'm holding off reading the Laundry book until I can catch up the stories.

Tangently, my brother found me "The monster-spotters guide to North America", which is just what it says on the tin, along with a book which purports to prepare me, should I happen to find myself trapped in the 14th century.

Beyond that, even more books, really.  Only DVDs I got this year was the first season of the Avatar TV series, which I didn't have yet.  Which isn't bad - I don't think I've watched all of my DVDs from last christmas.

Quote from: jcfiala;429143Which isn't bad - I don't think I've watched all of my DVDs from last christmas.

Same here.

I still have several dvds from past Christmases, which I haven't even opened up yet.  (They still have the plastic cellophane wrap on them).  One of them was a "Beavis and Butthead" collection dvd set.

I got a kindle.
As you read the following keep in mind that i am the kind of guy that haunts used bookstores and actually likes the smell of moldering 1950's paper back glue- to a rather creepy degree, really. However, book sharking is a rife with disappointment and sometimes you just can't find a copy of, say, The Star Kings  or whatever. Sure you can order them online, but that doesn't fill up your free time that day- and it adds to the clutter, which in my case is way way out of fucking control already.
That said, I was extremely skeptical of e-readers until I saw one up close for the first time, not too long ago.

With that experience in mind I asked my wife to pick one up for me for xmass.  I was pretty sure I would like it- but holy fuck it is awesome. I am deeply enamored of old school pulp SF and there is so much of it for next to nothing on Amazon I can not fucking believe it. Even if you ignore the free stuff, you could read for a year on 20$. I got 12 H. Beam Piper books for a fucking dollar and similar gains were made on the REH and HPL front. I'm not even going to talk about the anthologies of short SF or the scads and scads of free stuff (I'm reading The Night Land on it right now).
As for reading on the device, well it pretty much fades into the background right away. I am very, very impressed.


Also I got a hard copy of Icons.


As for DVDs, I got Watchman on blue-ray, and finally managed to see Cameron's Avatar also I watched Logan's Run on xmass night, and for a 70's Sf movie it was surprisingly good.

Got some more loot today.

Just received the latest KISS cd "Sonic Boom", from my ex-wife (of all people).

Quote from: Aos;429166I got a kindle.
As you read the following keep in mind that i am the kind of guy that haunts used bookstores and actually likes the smell of moldering 1950's paper back glue- to a rather creepy degree, really. However, book sharking is a rife with disappointment and sometimes you just can't find a copy of, say, The Star Kings  or whatever. Sure you can order them online, but that doesn't fill up your free time that day- and it adds to the clutter, which in my case is way way out of fucking control already.
That said, I was extremely skeptical of e-readers until I saw one up close for the first time, not too long ago.

With that experience in mind I asked my wife to pick one up for me for xmass.  I was pretty sure I would like it- but holy fuck it is awesome. I am deeply enamored of old school pulp SF and there is so much of it for next to nothing on Amazon I can not fucking believe it. Even if you ignore the free stuff, you could read for a year on 20$. I got 12 H. Beam Piper books for a fucking dollar and similar gains were made on the REH and HPL front. I'm not even going to talk about the anthologies of short SF or the scads and scads of free stuff (I'm reading The Night Land on it right now).
As for reading on the device, well it pretty much fades into the background right away. I am very, very impressed.

Yeah, I'm still enthralled with my Kindle DX. Like you, I've been scouring Amazon (and places like Project Gutenberg or Baen's free library) for scads and scads of free and really inexpensive books. I'm sure you've grabbed a lot of the same stuff I did; those old science fiction collections of the pulp era are mind-blowing, especially when you look at the sheer volume of material for such a small amount of money. I still can't wrap my head around the comments I've seen where people are getting rid of their Kindles due to the price of new books. Yeah, most current books are ridiculously overpriced, as are most magazines and newspapers, but prices for the latter two have begun to show signs of dropping, and the immense number of books available for a pittance outstrips the current stuff in numbers. What a great piece of technology.

Yeah, the price of new books is pretty out of control. The publishing industry needs to wake up, I think, or they will eventually be left behind.  I think when physical resources (i.e. paper, shipping ect...) aren't involved they should consider pricing things to sell at a volume.

Anyway, though, it's like this thing was made with folks who like the old stuff in mind.

I'm off the the Baen free library! Thanks for the tip.

Quote from: Aos;429166sometimes you just can't find a copy of, say, The Star Kings  or whatever.

Edmond Hamilton?

I loved that book.
Much better than his Captain Future novellas.

(One of the very few books that truly evoked a fuzzy, Star Wars-like feeling...)

Quote from: Dirk Remmecke;429284Edmond Hamilton?

I loved that book.
Much better than his Captain Future novellas.

(One of the very few books that truly evoked a fuzzy, Star Wars-like feeling...)

That's the one. I'm reading it for the first time right now.

Quote from: Dirk Remmecke;429284Edmond Hamilton?

I loved that book.
Much better than his Captain Future novellas.

(One of the very few books that truly evoked a fuzzy, Star Wars-like feeling...)

I think it's no coincidence that his wife, Leigh Brackett, co-wrote "The Empire Strikes Back".

Quote from: Aos;429328That's the one. I'm reading it for the first time right now.

There's a sequel: Return to the Stars.

Part of my loot was the new recording of the Conan the Barbarian soundtrack - it is utterly awesome. It's the first complete recording and the first time it was orchestrated the way Poledouris had planned - with a much bigger archestra and exotic intrumentation, including anvil and anchor chains...!

Quote from: Reckall;429331I think it's no coincidence that his wife, Leigh Brackett, co-wrote "The Empire Strikes Back".

Wow. I never saw that connection...!

Nothing gaming was got, per se but I'm digging the Wii we got for the...er kids and 3 of the giant Tick comic omnibuses.

Keen indeed.

And thanks to some inadvertent driving about, I came across a "new," gaming store (it relocated recently to an area I frequently drive through) so I foresee plunking down some dough for either Atomic Highway or the Dr. Who Aliens and Creatures box in the near future (i.e. tomorrow).

Quote from: Danger;429343Nothing gaming was got, per se but I'm digging the Wii we got for the...er kids and 3 of the giant Tick comic omnibuses.

Keen indeed.

And thanks to some inadvertent driving about, I came across a "new," gaming store (it relocated recently to an area I frequently drive through) so I foresee plunking down some dough for either Atomic Highway or the Dr. Who Aliens and Creatures box in the near future (i.e. tomorrow).

We got a Wii as well and it is loads of fun... for the kids of course.