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Re:Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany by IgorPartola on Saturday March 20, 2021 @09:58AM (#26523275)
You might enjoy Reddit’s secret Santa thing. It’s not demoscene oriented of course but the idea of sending and receiving random cheap gifts is neat. Plus a number of celebrities participate and when was the last time you participated in a gift exchange along with Ian McKellen?
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Re:Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany by morsch on Saturday March 20, 2021 @10:02AM (#26523295)
Presumably the risk of receiving a bag of poop is suitably low?
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Re:Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany by Grimm1 on Saturday March 20, 2021 @12:36PM (#26524251)
I participated this year and I wound up with a full book trilogy in a genre I really like and I wound up buying someone a relatively new video game for their current console. It was a very pleasant experience and I will now likely participate further.

I think they've done it for 8 years now to good success.

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Re:Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany by Semaphor on Saturday March 20, 2021 @01:25PM (#26524563)
It’s been some time since I took part, but besides one time (got a very simplistic board game for children) I got something cool and fitting every time. I actually still have the motivational sloth poster "live slow, die whenever" hanging in my office :)
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Re:Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany by IgorPartola on Saturday March 20, 2021 @10:05AM (#26523319)
The much bigger risk seems to be that you don’t get anything. But they have strict rules and if you don’t send your gift you can never do it again.
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Re:Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany by yellowapple on Saturday March 20, 2021 @06:16PM (#26526447)
Thankfully. Seems like the bigger risk is of the Secret Santa not actually sending anything; I'm hesitant to do it because I know I'll be that asshole who spaces out and forgets about it.
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Re:Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany by IgorPartola on Saturday March 20, 2021 @11:27PM (#26527898)
They do send you loads of reminders. I had similar concerns but had no issues.
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