[brailsafe]

Like others have said, all the sales are fake in some way, or at the very least not compelling enough to spend money I wouldn't have otherwise.

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.

[dragontamer]

I'm actually intrigued with A770, not that I want to actually get one right now. But if I were to build a GPU-compute computer, it'd probably be based on the $350 16GB Intel Arc A770

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.

[effingwewt]

Just a heads up Pokémon Violet/Scarlet is one of the worst Gamefreak offerings ever.

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