I ended up getting not one but two (second-hand) laptops - it was originally going to be just the older of the two (an HP from 06-07) but it has no sound and reports a hardware failure on attempting to reinstall the driver, so my mother decided to give me the 2010 one she got from my nephew when he upgraded, so I'd have one that was fully functional, and get herself a new one with the latest bells and whistles. Rather awesome, my mum. Aside from that, got an SD card the triples the onboard storage capacity of my Chromebook (which as the bottom tier model, chokes and sputters along after jailbreaking it to use a full Ubuntu desktop rather than Google Spyware Suite, let alone when trying to use GIMP or Blender, and has no optical drive either, hence even an old full laptop as an upgrade) some art supplies, a "sports car" mouse

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to match the metal flake red finish on the older laptop, and various books/posters/gadgets/"gosh presents." Oh, and pesto! I'm not sure why, but three different people gave me a jar of pesto for some reason. It is something I like a lot, but kind of an odd coincidence.

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"All the angles for the (VF-4) fit together (..) in robot mode it creates a heavy robed, almost medieval look, while still leaving all those joints free for motion. The shape of the arms, the legs, even the upper legs and nose cone, screams extravagantly aggressive. We all love the VF-4 jet mode - it's sleek and beautiful (..) but the battroid mode takes that and turns it into a tough, violent, brutal looking robot. The VF-4 looks like it skinned a plane and is wearing it as a pelt." - NeoverseOmega