I just used to to grab a new Kindle Fire HD Plus for practically nothing.
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Pretty soon the seasonal popup roasted almond stand will appear at the dead mall near the office and I'll be raiding it liberally!
I am however waiting for GPU prices to come down significantly, but I'm not sure yet that I'd actually buy one.
Right now, an RTX 3070 (2 years since launch) is still $760 CAD off the shelf (with supposed black friday discount), which is a shit ton of cash.
A770 comes in at slightly slower than the 3070, but also with 16GB of VRAM, more space for a lot of compute problems. (Stable Diffusion, KataGo, etc. etc.) Not that I'm sure that Intel is a good GPU or that its drivers work or anything, but $350 is a good price point for experimentation...
No need to wait for Black Friday though. I don't expect GPU prices to drop. Might as well just buy it.
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My nieces want some video games. I'll probably buy the new Pokemon for them.
Just do a search for Pokémon Violet issues for a huge list.
Some off the top of my head- performance (stuttering, pop-ins, etc), crashes, graphics are gamecube-like; the list is so long I've yet to see or hear anything positive about it.
I'd thought sword/shield were bad but this one is really bad.
Gamefreak chose to blame the Switch...for a game that is obviously unfinished.
Botw, metroid, xenoverse- there are some great games that run damn near flawlessly on the Switch that look lightyears ahead of Violet.
My kids didn't want it. Gave my copy to my girlfriend's 10 year old son, he gave it back and went back to playing Lego Batman I bought him the other day on sale for $5.
Anyways forewarned is fore-armed
That’s about it for me I think. Still waiting for the new Mikrotik hap ax3 to be available somewhere, but don’t expect there to be any sales in that regard.
Toys for one, a Nintendo Switch for another, Comic Books for me, and something for the partner (I don't know yet what it will be...).
The new onyx boox tab is tempting but the company looks too shady (ignoring gpl, lol privacy policy).
Everybody around me has some deals to be excited about. Not me. I looked through my wish list, no red marks, no discounts, one of them is actually more expensive now. I’m on a forgotten island in the world of capitalistic celebration.
