It’s beginning to look a lot like /co/hristmas.
The days grow colder, the nights grow longer. That means /co/ Christmas cheer is coming to town. Grab some cocoa, turn on the Christmas music, get comfy, and hang out with some /co/mrades as we share stories and get into the holiday spirit.
As previous years, share your Amazon wishlist and some random Anon may purchase a holiday gift for you. Be sure to gift another Anon in return so we can spread the cheer far and wide.
Last year we had 180 gifted anons, some more than once.
Ungifted lists:
pastebin.com/CVtwNUmq
All lists:
pastebin.com/km9Gfxvm
To get your wishlist code, open your wishlist on Amazon, then copy the number from the link. It will look like this:
amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/###########
We just need the ###########
Missing Address: When viewing your list, click the "…" in the upper right hand corner. From there click "Manage List" which will give you a few options including “Shipping Address”. While you’re here please check “Third party shipping agreement”. That will allow anons to buy you stuff that isn’t sold by amazon.
Lists update: 140 registered and 8 ungifted, 94% gifted.
We've also got a 24/h Christmas cartoon stream here:
https://bit DOT ly/2kytMfo
Previous thread:
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Mexicanon
>>104736542 What were the weirdest complaints you received?
Igi !7apjCC7mVI
>>104736542 I've been meaning to ask you for a while now but always forgot, what happens when you return items too often and you reach the point where they think it's too much (I remember you saying last year that they always keep count)? They always fuck up books and I am pretty adamant about having books without any tears and such
Krypto, Your Friendly Neighborhood Story-Timer
Krypto, Your Friendly Neighborhood Story-Timer Sun 16 Dec 2018 14:53:09 No. 104736773 Report Quoted By:
1/5 Unsurprisingly, a Dan Parent reprint from this week's Archie's Christmas Spectacular
Krypto, Your Friendly Neighborhood Story-Timer
Krypto, Your Friendly Neighborhood Story-Timer Sun 16 Dec 2018 14:54:23 No. 104736785 Report Quoted By:
2/5
Krypto, Your Friendly Neighborhood Story-Timer
Krypto, Your Friendly Neighborhood Story-Timer Sun 16 Dec 2018 14:55:54 No. 104736800 Report Quoted By:
3/5
Krypto, Your Friendly Neighborhood Story-Timer
Krypto, Your Friendly Neighborhood Story-Timer Sun 16 Dec 2018 14:57:46 No. 104736823 Report Quoted By:
4/5 Bill Golliher did the pencils on these, he's not really well known for anything other than a few random Archie books but Jim Amash who IS known for doing huge swath's of the Sonic books when Archie had that license was the inker
elusive !6Fk.zjvlFM
>>104736707 DTV: I thanked them for calling and told them to have a good day. They yelled "Don't tell me what to fucking do!" and then hung up.
Amazon: We had a guy that would call tech support for help shopping, some times crazy stuff like what size of shoe should he wear. But he would complain that we weren't being helpful and escalated enough that corporate told us to help him with his shopping every time he called. This was daily for a few months.
Hospital: Just had a guy come in drunk, yelling threatening, cussing, pissed on the floor. Then when he sobered up and was leaving had the balls to complain that we stole his lighter and we owed him a new one.
Construction: Lady was pissed when found a bunch of her dead cats/chickens under the house, most were so old they were mummified. But she was pissed that we removed them while updating her insulation, out of sight out of mind?
>>104736710 It gets pretty high up there. I remember having someone with almost $5000 in returns, that I could tell were scams, but the fraud department didn't care because the account had around $18000 in purchases.
I've heard they've been tightening the rules on returns using some sort of algorithm to look as sales vrs credits but there was soo much backlash of account getting shut down because they had all digital orders and their first physical order arrived damaged and then their account is closed and they lost all of their digital stuff.
Krypto, Your Friendly Neighborhood Story-Timer
Krypto, Your Friendly Neighborhood Story-Timer Sun 16 Dec 2018 14:59:19 No. 104736838 Report Quoted By:
5/5 FIN
Krypto, Your Friendly Neighborhood Story-Timer
Krypto, Your Friendly Neighborhood Story-Timer Sun 16 Dec 2018 15:00:32 No. 104736856 Report Quoted By:
5/5 FINDamnit, Janet - and Betty & Veronica, too
Mexicanon
>>104736833 The DTV is hilarious, as for the hospital one, staff at medical centers have it rough i admire their work.
Krypto the Disappointed Amazon Shopper
>>104736833 >corporate told us to help him So I guess I should bitch more, even though it feels like I'm complaining a lot? The woman from Wedding and Gift Registry chatting with me today even said that whether or not she was the only Kimberly working for Amazon in that department, that she only had to tell me that she was in the United States and that it was otherwise irrelevant to whether or not she was going to help me and since it didn't seemed I had an actual problem, she was just going to end the chat, and then she did.
Fortunately, the next person was able to send me that chat via email so I had intended to complain about her, since the next person resolved my issue a bit better and a bit quicker than good old Kimberly in wherever USA.
>>104736476 >Sabrina book It's good, similar to Afterlife With Archie, which is also good, and the current Vamparonica and Jughead The Hunger. However, sadly, they haven't finished any of the stories so that trade is the only collection of Sabrina so far but you can find the floppies on various of the ROC sties.
>>104734495 >>104734552 I was so disappointed in these and I generally like AU and elseworld type stories but yeah
>>104734609 they are forgettable for a reason. I found them that AND confusing.
elusive !6Fk.zjvlFM
>>104736937 >>104736707 DTV got really crazy, I've had plenty of times people complaining about insane things.
One guy thought his neighbors were having sex with his satellite dish at night so he would unscrew his cable so the little people on his tv couldn't get pregnant.
Or the people that think that DTV made the shows and would complain about what was on TV or how loud the announcers or fans at the sports game were. Or like 4-5 years ago there was a power outage at the superbowl, half the arena went dark and people were calling in saying DTV caused the power outage to force people to pay more money for their TV service.
>>104736973 Yea agents don't have to tell you more than their first name and ID. Though most likely they weren't in the US. Official amazon support centers are in the us but most of them are out sourced groups that take the calls/texts. The way it's setup they don't work directly for amazon so they can say that all of amazon's support lines are in the US.
But thankfully all calls/messages are tracked so contacting back you can ask for a manager to review the call.
And by calling in about something you can get up to a $10 amazon credit just for complaining, each agent has that as a freebie baseline to help get you off the phone. Or if you have prime and any minor delivery issue you can get a free month added on, up to a full free year.
Mexicanon
>>104737082 >ne guy thought his neighbors were having sex with his satellite dish at night so he would unscrew his cable so the little people on his tv couldn't get pregnant. I'll just assume that this was a prank call, i refuse to believe that there's people like that.
Ire
Damn, this Christmas is good for /co/ in the theater. Just saw Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse, HIGHLY recommend everyone seeing this, easily my favorite Spider-Man movie (yes, better than Raimi's 2 for me, I have problems with Raimi's constant horror screams)
Igi !7apjCC7mVI
>>104737220 As far as I can tell, they nailed the web slinging as well as the action scenes. I honestly see the story flaws in both ASM movies but hell, the action and web slinging were top notch in those two movies. Glad to see it is finally making a return because Homecoming had none of that
I gotta say though that I am a lot more hyped for Aquaman. I can't wait to see that one on the big screen
Ire
>>104737317 I was more hyped for Aquaman and I was going to skip Spider-Verse cause I'm kinda tired of all the rebooting of Spider-Man. But god damn, I am so glad I was proven wrong, there is very little chance that Aquaman can top this for me. But I will be glad to be proven wrong twice this Christmas season!
Anonymous
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>>104737399 >>104737317 Seeing both and excited.
Krypto the Super Dog
>>104737082 >One guy thought his neighbors were having sex with his satellite dish at night so he would unscrew his cable so the little people on his tv couldn't get pregnant. Now, I want Morrison to write an Annual issue for The Green Lantern where Hal has to come back to Earth to work as a DTV installer and also a DTV customer support rep to investigate this and it turns out that there real are tiny aliens who want to impregnate the little people on tv shows because in their dimension the broadcast signals are converted to reality when they reach this certain area in space that borders his dimension.
>>104737317 We just saw Fantastic Beast/Crimes in one of those MX4D Motion EFX theaters, which I had avoided before because it seemed way overpriced and I usually have a lot of passes to see standard 3D movies as it is, but we did this and were disappointed, which is a shame because we were considering doing it for Aquaman.
Anonymous
>>104699426 >you will never be stolen and spanked roundly by female Krampus while she tongues your balls with her massive prehensile tongue Krypto the Super Dog
>>104737399 Planning to see both, I almost saw Ralph yesterday, I thought the original was OK and watched it at home on DVD, but I do have these free passes and prefer to wait for opening weekend crowds to diminish. I might go see a matinee of SV by myself, most of my friends will watch Pixar or some of the stuff but balk at animation they think is for kids (they refused to watch Lego Batman in theaters).
Mexicanon
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>>104737399 I think that homecoming really lacked any emotional weight, how can you include the "if this be my destiny" scene and make it completely emotionless?
Igi !7apjCC7mVI
>>104737399 I just love the fact that Aquaman looks like an adventure movie because I'm a sucker for big scale movies. The DCEU really always pushes the right buttons for me except for JL. Love that the directors seem to be having a lot of creative freedom. I wish the MCU would start doing that too after not having really done it since Phase 1. I'm probably not going to see Spiderverse in the theater because I don't know anyone who would go with me and because I am already planning to see two movies this month (Aquaman and Bumblebee). I'm hyped to see Spiderverse though when it comes out on Bluray
Igi !7apjCC7mVI
>>104737474 3D nowadays sucks because no studio is doing it properly. I will definitely not pay for 3D shit when I can see all the movies in 2D instead.
At home, it's a whole other thing. I actually have a perfect passive-3D TV where the effects look a thousand times better than in theaters. It's amazing to watch stuff like Avatar, Pacific Rim or that that underwater documentary with Johnny Depp. Unfortunately, most movies today are only converted into 3D post-production. Colourless movies like Crimes of Grindelwald don't even stand a chance to look good anyway (I liked the movie itself tho)
elusive !6Fk.zjvlFM
>>104737158 I dunno, The accounts got notes for odd encounters, so unless that person decided out of the blue to do a single crazy call and hang up.
But there were others. One lady said that her receiver had a virus because there were too many snakes on the shows.
One lady was off her meds and would call in several times per week to explain how the people at the supermarket's eye were glowing and then all started watching her and welcomed her to hell. Or that her family had installed a magnet in the bathroom that she would get stuck to until she faded into non existence. Or how her family was like the partridge family and all were in a band. But she was cheating on her husband with the base player.
There was a guy that would call in demanding his adult channels/ppv refunded because he didn't order them, the devil did. And he refused to pay for such sinful materials.
Ire
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>>104737571 >3D nowadays sucks Honestly the only movie that really stood out in 3d for me was Ant-Man cause it really added to the shrinking perspective of everything. Wish they would go back to showing more 2d, but theaters push 3d SO much cause it's an excuse to rake in more money. IF they have a 2d movie it's usually far less screenings
Krypto the Super Dog
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>>104737498 now now, we be kiddie friendly now at 4channel
>>104737571 The water due to all the rain in the movie was an interesting effect as was the wind but who really wants to pay to get wet and be blown on? Parts of the 3D were done well, but yeah, I prefer when the stuff is shot in 3D but I want a good reason to go out to the theaters and 3D is sometimes it. I'll see Pixar in 3D because reconverting digital film in post production when it's rendered the way they do it, works really well. Which is why some 3D effects can look really when it's a CGI heavy film when done by the right house.
>>104737523 >Bumblebee The last movie of these I saw in theaters was the one where they destroyed Chicago because I was living there for the summer and a bunch of people I had met there wanted to see it - that was also a 3D - they did a preview for BB before Crimes and it was fine but nothing that feels differently than the first movie, which I saw with my then roommate on his girlfriend's parental units large flat screen projection tv.
Designated Dave
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Goranger stream today at 1:30pm EST!>vaughn dot live/designateddave Hope y'all can join in!
Krypto the Super Dog
Well, I think we've killed this. I will see your kids on the other side with two special story-times later today, one related to a post in this thread. Have a good one.
elusive !6Fk.zjvlFM
>>104737742 But we still have 2 posts and 5 images.
Scribs
>>104737827 Treevenge isn't until the 24th, Elusive!
Speaking of, I'm gonna go decorate the tree. See you guys in the next one!
elusive !6Fk.zjvlFM
>>104737842 sorry, didn't know there were time restraints on these.
elusive !6Fk.zjvlFM
ok, now the thread will slowly slip into oblivion. I'm going to get some sleep. But if any more questions are posted for me
>>104736542 I'll answer them in the next thread.
Anonymous
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>>104738076 Any time you had to deal with a customer that really was reasonable but there was nothing that could be done?
Anonymous
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>>104737585 >One lady said that her receiver had a virus because there were too many snakes on the shows. Was she tired of them?
Anonymous
>>104737871 What's the deal with Sue's doll?
POFG
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>>104736542 You are quite the Renaissance Man, aren't you?
>>104737501 I've seen every Lego movie in theaters thanks to my job and Regals 1 buck summer movie program. Missed a chunk of Ninjago due to one kid from a group of mentally challenged kids being manhandled like a rag doll. I should find a copy and play it for the kids at work one day before they all move on.
Anonymous
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>>104737082 >The way it's setup they don't work directly for amazon so they can say that all of amazon's support lines are in the US. Samsung does the same thing. We work for a American call center mogul who have a contract with Samsung, and if someone asks if we're Samsung employees we have to avoid the question.
Scribs
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>>104737871 Lol, there's not. I do however usually post that pic when I link Treevenge on the 24th.
>>104738268 It's talking.
I'm just gonna toss this out there since I haven't yet this year.
Anonymous
I know it's the wrong place to ask but as I'm sure that there's probably at least one person who knows, I might just go ahead and give it a try. I'm currently looking for a new notebook and I found a pretty decent Acer but with Linux installed. My question is whether it's still possible to just get some version of Windows 10 online and just install it or whether formatting and installing requires a key. For some reason, most notebooks on the website I'm lurking are equipped with Linux
Mexicanon
>>104738832 You can install Windows on it pretty easily, and you can download it from the Microsoft page without paying,but you need to buy a key to activate it
or you can pirate it Anonymous
>>104739137 yeah, that's exactly what I was implying. I just don't know how
Microsoft handles pirated keys nowadays. Is it like before where you could just get a random key and everything is alright or does it instantly register the thing online and you're fucked? Mexicanon
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>>104739165 Last i checked people in /g/ were suggesting KMSpico but I'm pretty sure that might have changed, worth looking into it though.
Designated Dave
Anonymous
>>104739553 and about 15 seconds left for this thread
Anonymous
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>>104739575 And more than ten minutes later there's still seven more threads up for the chopping block before this one.
Designated Dave
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And the stream is a go!
The Riddler
>>104736476 >on the tree Oh Scribs
I haven't had a tree in years. I like them, but I find decorating in general pointless. Scribs
Scribs
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Gonna make a new thread but we're in the last slot, so I won't be able to link it.
MexLokianon
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>>104740066 >>104739971 Dont worry scribs, that just means that the ornament wont be relegated to a specific time of the year. It'll be there making batbobs puzzled all year round!