NURVUSS'S PROFILE

author=AlphaOmega247
As Max McGee said, it was 2 six-sided dice. And let me tell you, those Grandma Gift Certificates never yield anything good. The $10 was probably the best gift ever. I still don't know what I should be doing with that collector's edition Dale Earnhardt Jr. telephone that she got me a few years ago. Boy, it was hard to look excited when I opened that bad boy up. Actually, it was hard not to vomit.

But nothing beats the sweater that she knitted for me when I was a kid. I loved dinosaurs back in the day, so she knitted me a sweater with a fair approximation of an Apatosaurus on it (also, fuck you Google spell check, it is NOT Brontosaurus). Anyway, the whole thing was just a disaster in every other way imaginable. I barely remember the color scheme, but I distinctly remember orange. It was also so short that it was a mid-drift... with sleeves that were about six or seven inches longer than my arms. Apparently Grandma thought I had body of an orangutan. (For the record, I am not an orangutan.)

So I'll gladly take your pebble and $1 bill, nervuss! XD

That is a bargain for a lifetime of delightfully bizarre kitsch and I will throw in an extra dollar and pebble of my own.

I love how Pianotm never fails to provide us with apt esoteric trivia in these situations. Keep it up.

author=LockeZ
I don't know why people who aren't Christian even bother with Christmas. You don't have to become Jewish to skip out on it, you can just be like, "I don't celebrate Christmas."

Once again, rituals, man. My parents were not religious in the slightest, but they enjoyed the holiday and it was celebrated in our house. When you grow up with that as a yearly tradition, you learn to appreciate it and make it your own. (unless you've just been having a really horrible time every year!)

Aw yeah that's the best thing. My office closes at 12pm on the 24th and doesn't open again until Jan 2nd.

My family get-togethers have always been rather tense. Everybody used to get together at my grandmother's place; if you play my game Postcards, you'll probably get the idea of what that would entail. She's passed on now, and my mom's house is too messy to accommodate visitors, so for the past few years I've been having a sedate and chill Christmas at home.

And yknow, now that I'm an adult and I can have my own Christmas in my own house with my partner and I cooking a meal together, I feel pretty good about it. That said, we're spending this Christmas with my partner's family, but I can vibe with that!

I'm not religious, and I don't dig commercialism and/or vapid consumerism, but I think rituals have their place. When you can set a day that is an excuse to eat a bunch of fancy food and do something nice for your loved ones, I think that's cool.

I'm a fan! I dig the messiness and the shading, it gives an uncanny feeling. Your work reminds me a little bit of the old JB Harold detective games by Riverhill Soft. I look forward to seeing these in a project!