By special request: The Dojo

Welcome, Gyo6161 and Tpgb12.

@Gyo: It's amazing that Shenmue can turn people into passionate fans, even after all those years. Don't worry about English. There are lots of non-native speakers here. :)

@Tpgb12: Again, your case shows how powerful and beautiful Shenmue is. A 16 year-old who first plays Shenmue in 2015 and becomes a fan. Wow! Just Wow! Welcome to the Shenmue Family!

I was 16 when I first played Shenmue. What can one say? You saved yourself 14 years of waiting, young man. You may perhaps never know the sweet feeling of joy, gratification and relief which I felt when S3 was announced. But on the other hand, you didn't have to live with that feeling of emptiness, that void which Shenmue 2's ending had left within my soul for well more than a decade.

Most of the people on this forum are about 30 years old now. Old people from your point of view. But don't worry, you'll hit 30 before you know it. :)

It makes me happy to see that Shenmue has been living on, even with younger players. :)

Welcome to the family, both of you!

No one I know seemed quite as jazzed about christmas this year compared to previous years, so it wasn't exactly the most exciting. Nice enough all the same, bit of time with the family and all that.
The main thing I got was a nice new laptop, since my old one crapped out on me a while back. I plan to use this new one almost exclusively for "work" stuff, like writing my stories, editing music, that kind of stuff. Should be a big help with the writing especially, since it was starting to become a chore, having to go sit at my PC in my room and basically close myself off from anything else if I wanted to get anything done. Now I can write while watching tv or whatever, move around if I need, so it'll make it a lot easier to actually make some progress.

Good taste in the anime section!

I just asked for money instead of presents this year, to help out with my trips in 2016. After dinner at my parents I came home and spent Christmas alone. Normally I like being alone, to relax and do whatever I want, but today I felt a bit depressed. I guess it was the occasion.

Was able to put another 7 hours into Sleeping Dogs and complete it 100%. Depending on what stuff I have to do over the next few days, plus Monday being my birthday, I might aim for around 20 hours into the Witcher 3. It's been sitting on my shelf for quite a while now, I just haven't gotten around to playing it. I like to 100% games and I already know it's a 60+ hour game apparently. So should be fun.

I usually don't get anything much for christmas, but I got some really cool stuff this year thanks to my awesome family.

http://i.imgur.com/kGz6cJh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/N2H2gYt.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/4WQUQ5Z.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ptwOgjP.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/aPXzDKR.jpg

Tie Bomber is my favorite ship in Star Wars.

:)

What does the PCB with the "QC passed" sticker and what looks like an SD or MicroSD card do? Does the card have 8/16-bit games on? :D

Probably an Everdrive or sonething similar. It's an especially awesome thing to have if it means he can play out of region games.

I'm so jealous of that PC-Duo though. I've wanted to get into PC-E/TG16 collecting, but I don't know Japanese and Turbografx stuff is crazy expensive.

I didn't get too much in terms of material stuff, but I did get a paid-for vacation to Costa Rica (typing this from there, in fact).

What does the PCB with the "QC passed" sticker and what looks like an SD or MicroSD card do? Does the card have 8/16-bit games on?

Me, I got Just Cause 3, some money, some chocolates, some scents and a Nike T shirt. Quite pleased TBH!