I usually prefer non-cooked dolphins, but I'll make an exception here. Thanks for the delicious dolphin, AtskaHeart.

Some really wonderful and imaginative pieces. My favourite from the bunch being this.

Also, yay, lots of custom wrapping!

^___^ Rydin, thanks for the Dolphin

Some amazing gifts; I can't help but feel slightly emasculated

Some stand out pieces:

Photocopier - Nice job. pretty cool scene; also, nice job lighting the armour
A3um - Holy night! This is like the Hands challenge times 100
Jeremy - Awesomes as usual.
Offwhite - I guess cats always land on their feet...provided that they actually land, of course. Also I cannot stop watching that gif
Dex - Love the atmosphere; perhaps your best piece yet?
iLKke - ALL HAIL HYPNOCAT.

Also, to people that made multiple gifts.

This is awesome, I didn't know all you guys worked on this

My copy is in the mail, can't wait to play it when it finally arrives.

I don't have too much of an issue with the garish false-colour stuff; It can work if that's what you're going for. Where did you get the colours from BTW? Did you pick them or was it some pre-defined palette from somewhere else?

Anyway, I think the main thing you should do before you continue any further is reducing the size of the piece drastically. Working at about 1/4 of this size would be good. That way you'll really be able to pay attention to the pixel details instead of doing that copy-paste dither thing that you had going in the previous version.

Yay time constraints! I sent mine in.
Kinda want to see Ptoing get banned, it'd be humorous.

I too would like to see Ptoing banned

Uh...how long exactly is left?