The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

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you should be thanking me Vaclav. i'm sure even you can afford one now with your welfare money.
 
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kegkilla_sl said:
you should be thanking me Vaclav. i'm sure even you can afford one now with your welfare money.
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It's quite possible that I earn more than you. And we've had two for quite a while, with XBOne on the way tomorrow unless UPS botches things. [Hell, I bought a $350 board game just a few weeks ago]

Crone: If you read his link, with how coupons can stack at Target you can apparently stack one for 15% off a registry item (you'd just have to have the item on a registry) and the RedCard 5% to get it to like $247 or something.
 
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kegkilla_sl said:
a great use of our taxpayer money.
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I'm around 20-30 years away from when I'll actually have taken more from Social Security than I paid in (assuming they made no interest - 15 yrs of paying in FICA at $60-80k/yr and 5 yrs previous to that at around 28k I think? [been so long since I worked at Babbage's to recall my salary pre-degree (and was management there for 7 yrs, but only the past 20 count to Social Security - so only 5 matter)])

You've paid $0 that goes to me, dipshit. Claims to be an accountant, doesn't understand how FICA works. Not that I even spend any of my disability on any luxuries anyhow - home payments and health + car insurance eats it up.

And mind you, I still pay around $10k in taxes each year on cap gains. [probably close to if not mare than you pay in taxes] It's a smidge under what I earn in disability =p [at least with last years figures - this year with the extra inherited investments will likely be quite a bit higher since my dad tossed so much my way on his passing]
 
Khane

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Hrmm... I have a prepaid REDcard already for stacking credit card points... Maybe I'll pull the trigger on this dealio.

One question. Are the hybrid SSHD's performant? It worth upgrading to one?
 
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Vaclav_sl said:
I'm around 20-30 years away from when I'll actually have taken more from Social Security than I paid in (assuming they made no interest - 15 yrs of paying in FICA at $60-80k/yr and 5 yrs previous to that at around 28k I think? [been so long since I worked at Babbage's to recall my salary pre-degree (and was management there for 7 yrs, but only the past 20 count to Social Security - so only 5 matter)])

You've paid $0 that goes to me, dipshit. Claims to be an accountant, doesn't understand how FICA works. Not that I even spend any of my disability on any luxuries anyhow - home payments and health + car insurance eats it up.

And mind you, I still pay around $10k in taxes each year on cap gains. [probably close to if not mare than you pay in taxes] It's a smidge under what I earn in disability =p [at least with last years figures - this year with the extra inherited investments will likely be quite a bit higher since my dad tossed so much my way on his passing]
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thanks for sharing Sean
 
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Khane_sl said:
Hrmm... I have a prepaid REDcard already for stacking credit card points... Maybe I'll pull the trigger on this dealio.

One question. Are the hybrid SSHD's performant? It worth upgrading to one?
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they'll give a 10-20% loading boost for any thing that takes more than 10 seconds. Size is more the issue than performance, you will notice a 500gb limit super fast vs 2TB+ while you will not really notice the perf load difference between HD/SSD/SSHD too much, unless you are like reloading a save game every 15 seconds in Fallout 4. Keep in mind too a 500gb drive is really around 380g of game space, a 2TB drive is around 1.67t.

For xbox one since it supports storing games on external USB drives, i'd just stick with whatever is cheapest. The elite+ system is nice if you want an elite controller, pretty much the only way to get it right now and the system is matte. I have a 2TB drive attached to my xbone, it powers fine off the xbox and is tiny and all my new games go onto that, no perf issues. Took me under 15 minutes to go from my old xbone to new one since all my games were on USB drive.

for PS4 you are going to want to replace the internal drive (500 or 1tb) with a 2TB SSHD, since the diff between 2TB HD and 2TB SSHD is like.. $10 you may as well go for it.
 
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I need a deal like that, that doesn't involve me going to a store on Black Friday.
 
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I don't count stacking coupons and shit. Sticker price is 300, prediction failed.
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I didn't mean to be annoying about it, but yea - since pre-Black Friday the same stuff would work - you could've knocked 20% off a $400 one a few weeks ago if not more with the same stuff - $320 going down to $250 at Black Friday is reasonable to expect ($50 price drop plus some promo shit).

Heck, you can get 25% off Best Buy PS4s at any time (I think it's 25% - it's been a few) with a mover's coupon that stacks with almost everything too - which should land around the same for those willing to go through the hassle of coupon stacking. (In fact it's how I could justify the wife's PS4 amidst mid-move - sure we'd spent like $11k that month already but there was some sort of time limit on it or something)
 
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Vaclav_sl said:
I didn't mean to be annoying about it, but yea - since pre-Black Friday the same stuff would work - you could've knocked 20% off a $400 one a few weeks ago if not more with the same stuff - $320 going down to $250 at Black Friday is reasonable to expect ($50 price drop plus some promo shit).

Heck, you can get 25% off Best Buy PS4s at any time (I think it's 25% - it's been a few) with a mover's coupon that stacks with almost everything too - which should land around the same for those willing to go through the hassle of coupon stacking. (In fact it's how I could justify the wife's PS4 amidst mid-move - sure we'd spent like $11k that month already but there was some sort of time limit on it or something)
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Mover's coupon is 10%, but still stacks with nearly everything. If ever doing a bigger purchase, it's worth it to stop by a post office and pick up a movers packet that will have the coupon inside.
 
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I tried the Target registry trick and it said I'd have to wait 5 days for my coupon, which goes past the deadline for this particular deal, but I'm sure another Target deal will come through soon.
 
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target has already started catching on to all these coupon shenanigans and most stores aren't allowing it, they definitely won't on black friday when there are a million fat women all fighting over Adam Sandler DVDs and cheetos and you try to convince the clerk to scan like 3 barcodes that take off $100

movers coupon is no longer 10% at best buy, it got nuked to $5 off a few months ago

amazon's deal is pretty good, not sure if its running still but it was $349 for ps4 and you got UC collection and fallout 4. basically $299. you'll see amazon do something similar on black friday too, so you can order from your home without ever leaving. costco and sams club will run something similar, although their lines are pretty shitty on BF too
 
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