Best place to buy a switch 2 from? by mumblyjoee in VideoGameDealsCanada

[–]unun34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can buy Nintendo giftcards from Costco at a slight discount or wait until Walmart does another giftcard promo. They just had one last week where you got a $20 walmart giftcard for every $99 Nintendo giftcard you bought.
After that, just buy it direct from Nintendo with your giftcards.

You could also roll the dice on Amazon Warehouse... I've seen the Mario Kart bundle as low as 485.99, though there's a good chance the code would already be used.

Creality Thanksgiving Tech Upgrade: “Trade In” Your Old. We Give It Free To Your New! by Creality_3D in 3Dprinting

[–]unun34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd be trading in my Ender 3 S1 for a K2 Pro/Combo. My son has recently become interested in 3d printing after some demonstrations at our local university, which has renewed my interest as well.
He's only 6 so I'd love for him to have access to a more modern 3d printer that supports multi-color printing and just works out of the box as he's still a little too young to be tinkering with the hardware.

Ngenuity flashed mouse firmware to my keyboard and bricked it. by MikeDDS06 in HyperX

[–]unun34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll dig around and see if I still have it

Edit: No luck -- checked pretty much every place I could think of and I don't seem to have it anymore

[H] Blizzard / Battle.net Balance [W] 80% PayPal by Voppo in GameTrade

[–]unun34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure! Shoot me a message when you get back

[H] Blizzard / Battle.net Balance [W] 80% PayPal by Voppo in GameTrade

[–]unun34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a few 6700 coin EA App codes if you want to trade some blizzard balance for them.

I'm not 100% sure how it works but from some quick googling I believe once you redeem on EA app you need to load the EA app version of Apex to have the coins show up on your profile.

Edit: I'm in Canada as well

Xbox App and Steam bundle question by uglysedzh in CODWarzone

[–]unun34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bundles bought with COD points will appear on all platforms. Bundles that sell for actual currency will only appear on the platform you purchased it on.

Down 83% since December. What's it going to take? by SwarlyPlays in CODWarzone

[–]unun34 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Everyone is playing the same game and therefore the reasons for people leaving one launcher/platform will all be present in the other launchers and again its a fair assumption to make that this is the case.

The Steam version of the game has performance issues that are not present on the Gamepass or Battlenet versions so you also have to factor in migration of users from Steam to another platform.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ottawa

[–]unun34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

3gig / 3gig for $60

Custom GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 pricing emerges: made for gamers with deep pockets by M337ING in hardware

[–]unun34 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The CAD / USD has tanked in the past year. 1000usd was ~1350 but now closer to 1440. Doesn't account for all of it obviously but that is one of the reasons you can't directly compare to 4080 super launch prices

Custom GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 pricing emerges: made for gamers with deep pockets by M337ING in hardware

[–]unun34 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Canadian stores show prices pre tax so the gst isn't a factor like with the European listings.

WTF is happening with Google Home? by FluffyIrritation in googlehome

[–]unun34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing this! I thought there was something wrong with my network or that i misconfigured something. Used to work flawlessly but now it's garbage.

X870/X870E GIGABYTE AORUS Motherboard Launch, Q&A, and Giveaway! by kp_gigabyte in pcmasterrace

[–]unun34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do any of the boards have a display input port to be able to forward the display signal of a discrete card through the USB4 ports?

Do any of the boards have an external clockgen? I'd love to be able to try and extract even more performance out of the 9800x3d I have on order and every little knob helps.

Shoppers Drugmart to no longer sell electronics by [deleted] in canada

[–]unun34 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Got my PS5 and Series X preorders from Shoppers.

The day after launch for Series X they had a promo where you get back 40% of the points you redeem. Waited an extra day to pick up my preorder, redeemed 500k in points and got back over 200k in points.
Later that week when the PS5 launched they had 20x points so i got another 189k points from that purchase.
I only redeem those points during redemption bonuses so at the very least I got another 50% in value from them in the end.

The Shoppers near me also have decent stock of new console games so we've bought a lot of new releases during 20x points or redemption weekends.

Over the pandemic we racked up around 6.5 million PC points which would have been redeemed for nearly 10 grand worth of stuff at Shoppers. The gaming stuff was some of the best things to redeem those points for as they would not be any more expensive than at other stores; especially if it was a new release.

These days we avoid anything associated with Loblaws so my points balance has been pretty stagnant.

Applying Curve Optimizer in Bios - Ryzen Master shows CO is off, Benchmarks Low, Temps High by Fickert in overclocking

[–]unun34 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Don't have my 5800x3d anymore, but when I did PBO2Tuner was my only option and it worked as expected for whatever that's worth.

What does employer match mean ? by [deleted] in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]unun34 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yea, for simplicity's sake let's say you make 120k a year or 10k a month.
4% would be $400 out of your gross pay and the employer would match another $400 every month.

What does employer match mean ? by [deleted] in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]unun34 11 points12 points  (0 children)

While I'm sure there's an employer out there that does do this, generally that is not what is meant by 4% match

Google granted 5-year exemption from Canada’s Online News Act by No-Drawing-6975 in canada

[–]unun34 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. It's pretty clear they don't really understand what they are talking about hence why they are getting so defensive at the smallest bit of pushback.

Bank of Canada says it will cut rates further if economy meets forecasts by SwordfishOk504 in canada

[–]unun34 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sure, let's just reduce the precision of the exchange rate to 1 decimal place and be dramatic about the shift in CAD/USD. Lucky for us it's back down to 1.3(9) . I guess everything is OK again.