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My dog, Tali, flipped her shiz when she heard a loud THUNK at the door. “What’s that?” I thought. I don’t remember ordering anything from Amazon recently…



Tali was obviously more concerned with escaping than with the strange package at the doorstep.

Anyway, to my surprise it’s a box from Destructoid! Written in (I assume) Hamza’s lovely handwriting. He even misspelled my zipcode, how adorable. :]



So what the Chell is in this package? I completely forgot that I had won something!



I took some scissors (no, not you) to it.

Yes, this is how I open things and yes, I still have all my fingers.

Drumroll please…



Rift? Oh yeahhhh, I won a collector's edition of Rift! EFFING SWEET!



It’s so heavy that I leaned it against my chin to keep it from falling out of my hands! I guess this is why it made a loud THUNK noise when the mail carrier decided to toss it up the stairs, that bastard.



This collection comes with some pretty cool stuff! I’m totes using this mouse pad at work, where no one has any idea what a video game even is.

Alas, while I did not open a rift into anyone’s heart as promised to win this entry, I am very grateful to have won. Thank you Dtoid, you truly are the happiest place on Earth (at least in my mind – I used to work at Epcot so I may be biased).

P.S. - wish me luck tomorrow, I have an on-site interview with Google and may or may not be joining the New England Dtoid group in the near future! ;]

P.P.S. – I promise a real blog is coming soon! I have it (mostly) written up and everything, for realsies!



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good luck with your on site interview! hope you get the job!

don't skip it because you spent all night playing RIFT!
Awesome!!! I'm super jelly over it.


.... Can I have your dog? I'll give it back. Just let me borrow it for awhile. :)
What's a Rift do?

@Venus: What does one do with a borrowed dog?

HOW DO THINGS WORK? I AM SO CONFUSED!
You makin fun of my name huh? Oh yeah, well I like to have green beans on the side of my Mashed Pa-Caiters? :)


good luck with the job, I hope you get it


also don't give Venus your dog I gave him my mixed Pomeranian and what he gave back to me was a sock puppet filled with popcorn that he claimed to be my dog.
Nice, Cait!
This needs to be failblogged IMMEDIATELY.

There are not enough words here and the Dtoid community does not approve.

Also, fapped. Maybe literally! tee hee XD
Congrats! Surprise mail items are the bomb digitty!
I think I would kill your dog. Don't blame me; blame Rage Against The Machine. Their music has gotten me in a very violent mood now. RAWR :)
Too bad you have a bf... We could have been something special. :(
That looks like a pretty awesome collector's edition, congrats!
@ VenusInFurs - So touching.

That's what I hate the most about Dtoid. It has all the spiritual intimacy of a TSA agent's finger up a three year old's ass.
Awesome, congrats! Good luck on the interview!
Cait, forgive me, but I'm drunk, lonely, and you...well. You just kind of hurt me somehow, through the mere virtue of your existence.

I don't think I'm gonna make it. Here, this is for you.
That game's packaging travelled all the way from 1998!

What's inside? 8 CD-ROMs with Full FMV?! A code disc to twirl around and find the answer when prompted onscreen? A manual in 6 different languages? Er...that's about it really.

Any of these old PC gaming jokes doing anything for ya'?

Cos obviously they don't work if you actually see the...back...of the...ahem...you know, packaging. *sniffs and looks away at nothing in particular*

Observational comedy is not my forte.

Anyway, Good Luck.
Oh awesome!! Congrats on the victory!! For a second there I thought this was Starhawk-related haha.

Also, good luck with your interview!!
Mana - Thanks! It's actually going to be quite a while until I start playing...I had to quit WOW because I was too busy to play, I'd only be able to log in once every two weeks or so. :[

Venus - YES, YES YOU MAY. Tali is the most adorable creature on the planet, but she is a toy Australian Shepherd and is bouncy bouncy bouncy....all....day....long.

False - Apparently, kill it. D:

Scissorizoriz - WEAK ;]. Did he at least draw cute little puppy eyes on the sock?

Andy and Knivy and Fatality - Thanks! :D

SirLegend - D:D:D: Actually I was one upped by the awesome Jim montage that was posted right after mine!

Venus (again) - We can't have anything special if you kill my dog! And don't worry hon, soon you'll grow out of that horrendous phase. ;]

Sir Legendything (again) - What. Is that thing. WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME.

Stevil - Haha I remember those days! I still have my prized NWN collector's edition complete with like 6 disks and a kick-ass map that was in my bedroom until I went off to college...where the hell did that map go anyway...
wait, your goign to work for google? Crazy smart people work for google! Genius! Congrats! I'm totally jelly.
...
see
If they like me today, I might be! :D

I'm totally jelly of your jelly pic.
Ohhh, I want to gain cool stuff too... I think I will try harder and be better to deserve it. Great stuff Caiters.
Tali is ADORABLE!!!!!

Congrats!

(and best of luck on your interview... let us know how it goes!!)
Cute dog, dawg! (Every dog I've ever owned has left me, so I learned to guard my heart... and to give them their shots...)

Congrats on winning Rift, and good luck with you google interview.
You have hardwood floors.

I approve,

Girl, we need to decorate them walls.

Shit's blank.

You need art?

I have so much fucking art.

How much you like puff paint?

ANSWER ME!

Oh and on a less psychotic note, hope the interview goes/went well!
Manwithnoname - Most of the contests aren't really about effort or deserving it, I think they mostly pick randomly (unless it says otherwise). Just keep an eye out on the FP or in the upper left hand corner of the page for contests. :]

Elsa - Thanks!! I just finished the interview and I have NO IDEA how I did. They were so hard to read! I did enjoy the free drinks and the lava lamps though haha.

Wolfy - Cool beans?

Handsome - Awww, yes, shots are important! Thanks!

Occams - I'm renting, but yeah, this place is super swank. The kitchen is even better - there's like blue granite all up in that shiz. And yes I really do need art, all I have are like...silly paintings I made in college, like a giant katamari face and a pac-man board. Or framed posters of ATHF or Transformers or something equally immature. I have no idea what the hell puff paint is but it sounds exciting and I kind of want to eat it.

All - MORE PICTURES OF TALI YAAAAY!






BABY TALI YEEEEEE
You better wacth your back!!!! I'm stealing it!

I'm in Union Square laying down on the grass, filled with people and their dogs, and yours is the cutest!!!!!!!!! :)

Awwwwwwwwwww
Congrats on the win! And good luck with the interview! And yay for adorable doggie!
Aurgh, late to the comments. Congratulations on winning and hopefully a better future!
Scotty - Haha, we already talked about this last night but thanks! :D

Law - It's okay I'm often late too :[ Thanks!
Move over Chadface, now it's CAITFACE!

I love your dog. I hate its name. It should be mordin. Or Ashley. Or Garrus.

Because Tali sucks. :3

Also, grats on the win! I remember winning my first contest...then I never got it in the mail. :( (dammit Hamza.)
Epiccccc didn't I ban you from talking about Mass Effect? ;]

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