@Kidsandliz it automatically added me to the league when I clicked, so it shouldn’t be necessary to type it in.

@Kidsandliz say what now? O__o

@f00l
/giphy You’re the winner!

@PantHeist
That works. Thanks.

@f00l just doing my job.

@f00l your single set of picks applies to both leagues unless you decide to make an alternate account.

@Confusedkitty it’s tough coming up with ways to win that can’t be exploited. I feel like last place would encourage people to just throw the whole thing to win that prize. I tried to make the means to win the other categories all respect the standard gameplay so that you can’t just ignore the normal game and go just for that prize. Do you have any suggestions on how to tie such a category into the game in such a way as to prevent people simply choosing the cheapest and least likely to perform well movie each week in all eight screens? I feel like striving to score low is a very big departure from the core game. I’m not against the idea I just don’t know how we’d make it work.

@Confusedkitty if we were to do it we’d have to add conditions like they have to use at least 75% of their budget each week or something like that.

@jbartus I think it could be done w/ condition of participant spending at least $900 bux every week. I did an unscientific random sample of FML: never found an example of cinema under $900 for folks that are (by all appearances) trying to win.

@Confusedkitty @jbartus @compunaut
I like the $900 idea with the stipulation that there can be no empty theaters if they can be filled with the remaining funds. Also no skipped weeks. The prize? How about a dozen or so of those neoprene things. There still has to be a few around.

@compunaut it will be my challenge (torture) to figure such out. Never fear!

In the quote you posted, I should have punctuated it as follows:

In the case of a tie, score will serve as the tie breaker.

In other words, the number of screens played is a numeric value, if two people have the same number of screens then we’ll let their overall income over the course of the contest serve as the tie breaker.

Apologies if things are unclear, written very late at night upon realizing that Week 1 is imminent.

@Mehrocco_Mole ooh, I like the latter though I think “Decidedly Mediocre” has more of a ring to it, what do you think?

@jbartus Meh! I don’t care.

@Mehrocco_Mole it’s perfect because it’s practically impossible to cheat to get.

@jbartus
Make the furthest from first prize a dozen neoprene thingies. I’m sure someody still has a bunch of those. In other words, a gag gift. And I mean gag as in stick your finger down your throat gag.

@Mehrocco_Mole we’re still discussing the rules that would dictate such a prize to keep it from being exploited. Feel free to join in! https://meh.com/forum/topics/mediocre-fml-early-bird-contest-2-12-the-smell-of-cellulose-open-to-all#58b3961e90b5d309e0a34efc

Definitely, @mick. I have just been juggling things on my end and figuring out how best to do things.

@Nuurgle it’s up right now.

@SaintO welcome aboard, you’ll fit right in!

@SaintO I also can’t imagine doing it, but it’s no worse than the people who spend all day playing other online games. Not that that’s great either.

@PantHeist what are you implying?

@jbartus Was there an implication?

@jbartus
Come, Watson!

@f00l common misconception. It’s actually from King Henry V

Follow your spirit and upon this charge, cry God for Harry, England,and Saint George!

@jbartus
Holmes was pretty fond of it also.

@f00l yeah but that was because Doyle was a big Shakespeare fan.

@jbartus
And I’m a bit Doyle fan. : )

@f00l and well you should be.

@jbartus
About once every 5 years I do them all, or most of them.

@f00l ugh, you’re making me work for it…

@jbartus
I thought maybe I was too stupppidd to find it.

@f00l it’s in the usual place but I’m trying to assemble a list of people to tag at the moment.

@jbartus
Can you ask @Thumperchick to put the link to the google form into the original topic post, so that people don’t have to scroll down the thread to find it? Thanks. And thanks for all the work.

This link:

https://sites.google.com/view/fml-early-bird/entry-form

@f00l I will ask her to once we nail down any extra categories and such so I can keep down the number of requests.

@Nuurgle
You do have to pretend to be a @f00l to win. It’s in the unstated rules.

@Nuurgle

@jbartus there’s so many FML threads going that I actually missed the whole post about the form. It didn’t lock me out… So hopefully I got it in in time.

@carl669 hence why I offered the chance to make an alt.

@hanzov69 I missed it too. I blame the many FML threads that all have the same picture icon.

@hanzov69 @RiotDemon I haven’t actually locked down entries yet (Playing Overwatch) so if you hurry in…

Nothing useful to give you a competitive advantage at this hour anyhow.

sorry…@jbartus i am confused??? am i suppose to post my picks on the https://sites.google.com/view/fml-early-bird/entry-form and the FML thread? just the one or the other or both? i did both, cause i don’t know what i am doing. help! lol

@mick You pick on FML and then add them to the form as well. There’s no way for me to lock your FML picks on Wednesday so putting it on the form lets us double check the picks and make sure the scores you get on FML match up with your competition score.

@jbartus I mean, you can click people’s profiles to see when they made their picks, but it’s a lot of extra work. I don’t blame you for wanting people to use the form.

@PantHeist I wasn’t aware of that but yeah… forms are a lot more hands-off, technically I need never look at them with the new format until the time comes to run the results.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@jbartus thanks. I had already done it. I just wasn’t sure if it went through since you had said it would be locked.

@PantHeist I did mention that there’s a grace period. It was open well through 2 AM and I know for a fact that I was not the final entry. Besides, I can’t win anything but bragging rights.

@jbartus I was just teasing because I’m jealous of the number of shacks you grabbed based on how well i’ve heard that’s doing. I’m passing on any prizes this time too since I got em last time.

@Nuurgle I heard you hacked his computer!

@f00l sad…

@f00l On it! Give me until tomorrow!

@f00l Actually, wait… what are you talking about? You got the perfect cinema…

@PantHeist
That is not possible. Ever.

@mick
Read around on the FML site and in the site forums to get better. Or just laze around and do badly like most of us.

@SaintO there are 12 more weeks to go, never you fear!

And yes, there’s going to be some kind of prizes for underperforming.

@compunaut they’re live automatically, it’s part of why we’re using an FML league this time.

https://fantasymovieleague.com/group/8737?statType=week&weekId=96

@jbartus
Technically, the league standings on the FML site represent final selection standings, not early selection standings, if someone is using the same theater for both leagues and changes the selections after the early deadline, right? Or do I misunderstand?

@f00l the whole point of doing it in both places was to try to reduce the workload this time 'round. That’s why I offered to let people use alternate accounts if they had other leagues they wanted to compete in without being restricted to this deadline.

@jbartus
I don’t mind. And I tend not to change stuff anyway.

Just wanted to be sure I understood. Keeping the work down is excellent.

@f00l yeah… I didn’t realize people’s submission times were able to be checked on the site or I’d have just gone with that.

@jbartus Then why are we still submitting to Google docs? Still reqd to calculate bonuses (bonsai?) for Earliest Bird and Mr. Scrooge, right?

@compunaut
The google docs could be useful if someone changed their lineup on Thursday or Friday.

@f00l Useful how? The FML site records the last submittal date/time. It’s perfectly adequate for tracking Midas, Best in Show, & Biggest Luzer, but can’t calculate the bonus for Earliest Bird or Mr. Scrooge. We need the Google doc for doing the math & recording/displaying cumulative standings for those 2 contests.

Or am I missing something? Perhaps I’m being phuulish…

@compunaut
If someone changes their lineup on Friday morning, how do you know what their lineup was on Wed eve? Unless we do google docs or something saves a screenshot or something.

Also the spreadsheet can do the math and stuff.
Also the form is kinda fun to fill out.

Also perhaps no one should get a prize if that person is too lazy to fill out the form.

@f00l Well, @jbartus might say that any change to Early Bird League (meant to be ‘locked’ Wed night/Thu morn) on Friday is cheating, and the penalty (via the Google spreadsheet, I guess) is to reinstate previous week’s picks.
My point has been that results as shown by FML is incomplete, at best. The standings as calculated by Google doc must be updated with weekly bonuses (and possible penalties) to give accurate results.
All that’s obvious right now is that Speedie is off to a great start for Midas & Best in Show, and SaintO is in full command for Biggest Luzer. How do we know who’s winning Earliest Bird or Mr. Scrooge?

@compunaut
Many of us are using the same id in both leagues. Which means if you make changes in order to improve your shot in our regular league after Wed, the Early Bird stuff is no longer accurate on this FML site.

We don’t, AFAIK, have rules against doing that.

And filling out the form is fun. For people like me. (Please don’t tell me that means I have the intellectual development of a fungus.)

@f00l Unless I’m mistaken, @jbartus wants us to keep our picks on the FML site the same as we set them for the early bird league- that’s why he mentioned making an alternate account if you wanted to change your picks for the main game after the deadline. The idea is to reduce the amount of clerical work required- entering on the google docs makes it so you can tell everyone got their picks in at a glance, entering on FML calculates totals, provides estimates, etc.

@PantHeist entering on FML does a whole lot of stuff. I can’t even begin to describe how much time it took each week to prep the results sheets and post them up. I got it down to a system and even then it was a giant pain in the tuchus!

With that said, @compunaut, I thought I was pretty clear with the following:

I didn’t realize people’s submission times were able to be checked on the site

If you need a further why, let’s assume (with 99% certainty) that I will be using spreadsheets in Google Docs to massage the numbers and spit out the various prize winners. If nothing else you are saving me a bunch of effort transcribing that shit and the FML numbers are great as a backstop / sanity check for any figures I come up with in my sheets which was another massive time sink the first time around (checking, rechecking, and re-rechecking the numbers I came up with and my methodology for getting them)

During the first run of this contest I probably spent some 3-5 hours per week on all of the various clerical work.

@jbartus
And that’s a great reason for us doing both. : )

@Pantheist I just changed mine for the “I lost count” number of times. I think I will quit now. I need to stop reading and blindly pick something that works bux wise. I can see where this could become a time sink with numbers flying. I may need an intervention with alcoholic beverages.

@jbartus that explains why the form was saying it was closed when I tried it earlier. Was wondering if I had the wrong link.

@RiotDemon I actually had it done before 9 but couldn’t update the site via mobile.

@Nuurgle i’m so fucking drunk and you saved my day!

@jbartus- transfer 5 million from me to my man @Nuurgle!

@Pantheist
@jbartus can you get @thumperchick to add this link to the topic description?

(Sorry, @thumperchick, I know all you wanna do is hold @puppycat right now.)

@f00l yeah, she wiggled out of her cast this morning, so we are back at the ortho office getting a new one.

@Thumperchick hold off on adding it, I’ll get you a full edit with the finalized list of prize-winning criteria and such.

What did I miss?! @puppycat is hurt!?

@jbartus
Broke her leg. See the March blame thread.

@jbartus

Goddam it. I can’t remember. Did I use a gmail address or not, signing into the form? (As opposed to another domain.)

@f00l I thought you had to use a Gmail to use the form?

@RiotDemon
If the domain email is hosted by gmail, that also works. But I think I figured it out. Thx.

@f00l I have no access to see your email addresses. Google keeps track of it on their end with regards to allowing you to submit a response but does not pass that information along to me.

Furthermore you can create a Google account using any email address you like from any domain.

@mick
/giphy raises hand

@mick
/giphy raises hand

@mick I try to go once or twice a month, and this contest has actually inspired me to go out and see more movies in theaters (never would have even heard of Arrival without last season). Big action super hero movies are my main “need to see this in a theater” experiences.

It helps that many new theaters have assigned seats you pick at checkout and reclining chairs now (and some near me also serve booze).

@mick Not very often, but it can be a fun date night thing. Going to one tonight.

@mick
When a few Star Wars movie comes out I go.

Other than that, once or twice a decade.

@Pantheist beauty and the beast? Logan?
I’m betting Logan… Totally a date movie.

@RiotDemon That would have been my pick, but beauty and the beast. No complaints anyway.

@Pantheist saw Logan already. B&B is next. Would of taken either as a date night, haha

@RiotDemon Nice How was Logan?

@Pantheist I loved it. I don’t want to say much to spoil anything.

@RiotDemon now I’m stuck at the impasse between curiosity and hating spoilers…

@Nuurgle comfy chairs nice, beer essential, but do they have a pause button yet??? lol

@RiotDemon B & B?? ugh. i voted for it , but haven’t they made like 5000 different versions of it??? sooo many sequel movie, tv, cartoons themes… all the time. it is so boring to me. any original stuff… feels like preaching not entertainment. i want to be entertained! i am going to shut up now.

@Pantheist Go see Logan before it gets spoiled for you. It’s extremely hard to talk about without ruining everything, but it’s near the top of my Marvel movie rankings and that wasn’t an easy spot to move into.

@Nuurgle Nice I have no friends though, so not too worried about it

@Pantheist a friend wouldn’t spoil Logan for you. That’s something only an enemy would do. Everyone has enemies.

@mick I’ve never seen anything but the original and this. If there was anything else, I have never heard of it.
The original was one of my favorites as a kid. As soon as I saw the trailer, I got chills. Brought me right back to childhood.

@Pantheist after you see it, we’ll start a thread and discuss it.

There’s only one thing I want to say about it, and even that gives away too much.

I tried to stay away from the media and everything about it. I heard just a tiny bit, and that was enough to let me know a thing that was probably going to happen. It didn’t ruin the movie, but I was anticipating it throughout.

@RiotDemon Aw, I hate it when that happens. I can be good and not look at your other thread if you wana talk now though

@Pantheist I’ll wait a few more days.

Definitely go see it on the movie theatre though. Movies like this benefit from the big screen.

@RiotDemon dunno if I can convince Jen. We’ll see.

@Pantheist just go alone. That’s what I do.

@Nuurgle I didn’t really like the tv show. Would I possibly like the movie?

@RiotDemon It’s a really slow burn until you really get to the “show” part. They actually spend some time building up the characters instead of just telling you these teens can magically can fight space wizards.

It’s hard to say how I would have felt about it had I not been a fan of the source, but I think it was good fun.

@Nuurgle fair enough review, thanks.

@jbartus
/image the beatings will continue

@Pantheist
What is an autolock?

@Pantheist Mine was an automatic rollover.

@jbartus whoops- didn’t notice on yours because you had all of your screens

@f00l @Jbartus, @compunaut, and @stevenbrooken all had their screens locked a couple minutes after 12 est on friday. All but @Jbartus had missing screens, but I trust him- I assume you do to. If you don’t change your picks by that point FML locks what you had last week for you

edit: wesley and yourlazybutt were probably autolocks too.

@Pantheist HEY!!! i had my picks in on tuesday. they stayed the same. probably should have changed them…lol i kept checking to see if it was locked down?? ummm, it never happened…

@Pantheist You can go back and check my prior week to be sure.

WHOO HOOO!!! well, now you have to do it every week!. and write a play of some sort…

@Mehrocco_Mole I dunno man… 1000 monkeys sounds like a lot of cleanup… how about 250 octopodes?

@RiotDemon Wow, REALLY? I thought the baby movie was going to be the next big animated flopfest. There was nothing about the previews that led me to believe it would be even slightly watchable, and I assumed the rest of the audience would think the same. I mean, I predicted Ghost would be terrible, but to have it that far outdone by Boss Baby…ugh.

@Nuurgle I dunno what your standards are but among my friend group everyone wants to see it… or did before it came out, I haven’t seen the takeaways.

@Nuurgle i know!!
so i made my 16 year old granddaughter listen to all the movie choices, she said “well kids are saying the boss baby sounds funny”. and than she said,“gran i am not helping you with your stupid movie contest stuff”. ungrateful she is! for all i do for her, i say!! lol going to ask her, her “thoughts” about the new movies anyway!! LOL

@jbartus
No worries.

@jbartus
/image it’s just a game

@jbartus But this is very important life changing critical…wait…nope. Playing for fun.

I was busy this week and did not read much. I should have changed mine from the first plug ins from Monday but didn’t take the time to do it. I can see how this could be addictive if you played seriously.

@jbartus shambles?? pft!!
i think you are doing this fun game, just right! i am cool with the deadline, being whenever you can get to it. and if the form still happens to be open after midnight wednesday, so what.
folks who forgot can still pick and folks who want to change their picks can. it’s still a fair game!

[If there’s anyone out there who’d like to lend a hand getting the forms up and closed each week (@f00l maybe?)]

i don’t know how to do this. or i would.
unless maybe? you or fools wants to teach me how??? sooooo…

i still want to help you with the prize stuff!!
please, let me know how i can assist you ???

@jbartus If an unreliable helper sounds good, I’ll help.

@jbartus meh, don’t stress! I appreciate you doing it at all, sure others feel the same.

@jbartus you had asked for volunteers to help. I have no idea what I’m doing, but I’ll do whatever I can.

@RiotDemon the problem is just getting a volunteer up to speed requires time. Coordinating a means of contact, explaining the process, showing them what needs done.

I haven’t even finalized the prize categories and told ya’ll where to ship stuff yet.

@jbartus don’t worry yourself. I don’t think anyone is freaking out.

@RiotDemon I am.

@jbartus besides you. It’s just a fun thing. Seriously, no worries!

@RiotDemon @jbartus Ditto. Playing for fun. Real life stuff like work and family are important. I think it is traditional to figure out prizes at a later date here anyway.

I am busy calculating my way to mediocre. I think I would have made changes past lock time at least half the weeks so far. I think the change would have helped maybe twice. I should have wrote it down and kept track. I can see where this game could occupy alot more time if I started running numbers instead of a bit of reading and basic math.

@speediedelivery Reading and math? By the stats on the fml site, I’ve outperformed two whole players in the early bird league (and 40 in the main Meh league) by picking very poorly in less than one minute a week.

In an unrelated matter, do we have two players who aren’t submitting any more? Lol

@jbartus Guess who remembered to set his lineup before the lock time?

@jbartus
We do appreciate you, ya know.

Much thanks.

@f00l i agree!! i think we all really do, think jbartus . is…

@Pantheist Ouch, I got the lowest out of all active players this week

@Nuurgle we peaked early.

edit: you’re still number 5 overall. Not bad. No complaining for you.

@Pantheist Meanwhile I’m stoked that I’m even in the top 10… thanks to the inactives it’s a little easier.

@hanzov69 I’m number 11 Been trying to pick on monday/tuesday. Not going great.

@jbartus
Much thx. Usually forget to say that.

What @f00l said.

I remembered to set my lineup again. I’m getting pretty good at remembering to waste time at work.

@jbartus Must be nice to have a life.

@jbartus sorry, i just saw this. i sent you an email i hope… if i did it wrong. just tell me and i will try again lol.
just says, tell me what to do! i hope i did it right…

@Nuurgle Yeah, if you tie whoever locks it in first gets the win.

@f00l not that I’ve noticed but I’ll check in detail tomorrow and report back.

I am fine thanks for asking.

@f00l I haven’t received a form entry from @compunaut since Week 2

@jbartus
I’m sorry @compunaut vanished. I think in early or mid March? Hope things are ok with him.

@f00l me too. I assumed you were asking to confirm that @compunaut’s disappearance was total. For my end of things, stuff happens. I’m more concerned for @compunaut than I am bothered that they stopped participating in the contest.

@jbartus
I don’t care about the contest regarding him. I just saw he had vanished from here, and hoped at least he was still doing that, but … i guess nothing.

Really hope he and family are ok.

@f00l yeah that’s what I meant, I didn’t figure that was the concern so much as “has he been doing anything?!”. I share your concern and hope.

@jbartus
He’s quite nearby. I know that much. But I don’t have a name. I think I know where he works, but …

@f00l Let’s stalk them!

@mick I’d like to know as well. Then again, I’m doing zero research and just sort of guessing…

@jbartus I have zero clue what to do about this week. Blind guessing!

@jbartus Did you get my email?

@speediedelivery let’s add not checking the email often enough to my list of failures this season. Responded!

@f00l Hey, it’s the same set I went with, and someone else did the exact same thing. To make it even better, the definitive winner this week used the same idea (7 screens) with a different set of movies. It was a fun way to end, even if it didn’t work out.

@f00l I can’t be relied on for this right now, too much going on. If you guys want to pick it up somehow I will be happy to pass over editing rights to the site and copies of the forms and such.

@jbartus hey!! i need you to check your email!

@mick I did an hour ago!

@jbartus i have been busy, talking. I just now got this! timing is so funny… talk to you soon…

good lord, have you seen all the vast pages of emojis on meh… wow.

@mick I made my picks too. I’m also in the regular meh league… But I’m doing terrible in that one.

@mick
I did pix on the site. there’s no form to fill out this week, right?

@f00l at present things are continuing in an unofficial capacity so that is correct there is no form this week. It occurs to me that we might be able to keep this going if it’s got less management type stuff for me to do. What do you guys think of running it strictly through the FML website and only having a prize for the top grosser? Now that we know you can see when somebody locked in their picks we can always check back at the end to verify the win.

@jbartus I like it better without the form anyway. Less work and less chance of mistakes.

@RiotDemon yeah I generally agree. During the first rendition the form was the means by which we were able to keep track of things without making people pick in accordance with the rules for this contest. With that said last season it was the means by which I will get all of the information in a hopefully number crunchable format for figuring out the convoluted prize structure. Now that we know we can check the timestamps and streamlining the prize back down to a single offering there’s really no need for the form.

@jbartus
I’m all for saving work. I always kinda felt bad that you had to do the setup.

So let’s skip the extra work.

PS I was a little late today? I think around 1:15pm?

But given a holiday weekend plus no clear announcement that we were still on for the new season, I want my entry allowed in this time. Forgive the small indulgence of extra time I used, pls.

Besides, I swear I did my usual amt of research. Which is to say, none.

BTW

Thx thx thx thx thx. In case you didn’t know, you and all this are appreciated.

@f00l I’ll assume you meant AM. At any rate on weeks where we don’t have Monday due to a long weekend we extend til noon on Thursday instead of midnight Wednesday night.

You guys are welcome just wish I had been less ambitious

@jbartus we have not sent out the prize fukos yet! let’s do this!!.

@mick I know, it’s been a busy few weeks.

@jbartus it is busy… too much so.
just let me know when you are ready. i will help you.

@mick will do thanks for volunteering to provide one of the prizes!

@mick just ordered a whole bunch of stuff for the prizes to add to my collected stuff plus contributions from other sources that wish to remain nameless. Will be trying to crunch the numbers this weekend so we can get these out though mine might take a couple of weeks before everything comes in to assemble.

@jbartus no worries, take your time.

@RiotDemon I am motivating myself with the thought of the hopefully awesome reactions to the prizes. Between the stuff I have, the stuff I’ve sourced, and the stuff that’s been contributed these should be some awesome prize fukos.

@jbartus
Congratulations to all the winners!

I got second place twice, how perfectly meh, haha

@RiotDemon That just means you did really well! Although technically one is a third place… had I handed prizes out in a different order you’d have won Midas but possibly only come in 3rd elsewhere.

@jbartus A sincere thank you for the time you put into this.

@jbartus Thank you! It has been/is fun playing. I got lucky last season with an early good week and some decent weeks later.

You are doing a great job as commissioner. I know this takes time out of real life and it is likely more time than I am guessing to put this together.

@jbartus no bonus prize for my dashing streak of 3rd place finishes in almost every category I didn’t win (some of which were actually 4th but @speediedelivery couldn’t win everything)?

Thanks again for putting this together, and to everyone who has helped out behind the scenes and with prizes, and who kept playing along and kept the whole thing fun.

That was fun Thanks, @jbartus !

@jbartus Thanks for all your work putting this on! It was fun to participate in.

@abmille @speediedelivery @Nuurgle @Pantheist @djslack I’m glad everybody had fun, it make all of the work worthwhile.

@jbartus turns out the first four shipments came. Two were hiding somewhere weird. Gotta love Amazon sending single orders in like 30 boxes.

@jbartus I do not need original packaging. Do as you wish. Sounds like there should be a video of you packing.

Check your weights and distances. Between our zipcodes, if a package is under 11 pounds, it is cheaper NOT in a large flat rate box. Size would not matter until you got pretty big in this case.

You can check this for any zipcode on the usps app or website. I can give you a quick breakdown if you email zipcodes you are using. Size and distance both matter when figuring prices.

@speediedelivery I will keep that in mind, thanks for the heads up. Weight really shouldn’t be a factor so…

@speediedelivery do you shipstation or stamps.com or anything or just regular postage calculations then drop at the post office?

@jbartus I use paypal.com/shipnow
No fees just postage and you get a discount from retail prices. Round up any ounces to the next pound if you are not using flat rate. Prices break down by the pound so you are not paying extra. (Minor exceptions to that pricing rule do not apply to you here)

Sign in to paypal. Follow the screen that comes up. You will see a summary to check everything before you pay. Print on regular paper and tape to the box. Leave the top half of the barcode with no tape. You can give it to your mail carrier or drop off at the post office.

@jbartus I am a greedy hoarder. Anything I receive will be for my own enjoyment/disappointment. I don’t need fancy packages.

@Nuurgle I knew I liked you.

@jbartus Cram it full please!

/giphy greedy

@Mehrocco_Mole I’ll be happy to but I need your address to send it!

@jbartus I expected nothing, so anything you send my way is both amazingly cool and well exceeds my expectations.

Besides, my personal policy is to always unbox items I plan on regifting. Just so they know how little consideration I gave them

@jbartus Sent the address via fml.early.bird@gmail.com

@jbartus Should I be expecting a package?

@Mehrocco_Mole as soon as I ship them, things have been a bit crazy here lately.

@jbartus Not a problem. I just wanted to know if something disappeared from the porch and I’m coming across as an ungrateful jerk for not acknowledging the gifts.
/giphy ungrateful jerk

@f00l you all are most welcome. As for the postage it’s really not necessary, I budgeted for this awhile ago and with @mick taking on the mantle for one of the boxes I am below budget on my shipping, though I admittedly used some of that to enhance the existing boxes. That said, you have my email, if you want you can send something, I won’t get into one of those silly ‘who’s paying for dinner’ debates about it.

@jbartus just another small update. Am expecting the last shipment of goodies Tuesday and should be shipping out prizes (and having @mick send theirs) later this week. Waited so that everything would hopefully be coordinated!

@jbartus hahaha.

I expected nothing and had fun playing. No need to apologize!

@jbartus i just now saw this!!! send me the unlucky persons address!!! lol

@mick done!

@jbartus HOLY SWEET FANCY MOSES.

@jbartus forgot to tell you i sent it! lol

@mick It is at the post office now. I will be picking it up soon.

@mick You made my day! I will do a proper thank you post hopefully tomorrow.

@speediedelivery damn! i am happy already.

@mick
@hanzov69: https://meh.com/forum/topics/a-very-special-non-fuko-from-jbartus
@Mehrocco_Mole: https://meh.com/forum/topics/a-very-special-non-fuko-from-jbartus-part-ii

@mick no word from @bstjohn27 or @Nuurgle yet but I got the impression from @Nuurgle at least that life had gotten busy.

@mick I did get mine on Monday of this week (USPS were dumb) and will try to get something posted in the next couple of days. I just recently moved and everything in my new place is kind of a mess at the moment.

@Nuurgle sorry to add to the mess!

@bstjohn27 Overwhelmed?

I hope you’ll think it’s…

@bstjohn27 we will wait… for the reveal… of this most legendary box!! WOO HOOO!!! imma so excited!!

@mick @jbartus sorry it took so long, but that should wrap up all of the missing boxes now.

Also not pictured, a bag of Sour Gummi Octopi that was consumed pretty much on sight.

@Nuurgle no need to be sorry. Taking pics and such was never a requirement I was just happy to be sure you got it.