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Weekend Gamer: Gaming Desk
Well, it’s Christmas Day already! As you know, I’m currently living in a house in Jacksonville, Florida, for a few months. This is the first time that I’m not experiencing snow or freezing temperature in over 20 years. It’s so very nice to walk outside and see the sun in December!
Weekend Gamer Tech Bag
As I previously mentioned, I am temporarily living in Jacksonville for the next few months....
Vizio 65″ 4K Smart TV
We recently upgraded to a new Vizio 65” 4K Smart TV, as part of leftovers from a Black Friday campaign from Walmart.
I’m very happy with the display for the price (less than $400).
Black Birds of a Feather
There are a couple of spy thrillers with similar names out right now: Black Doves and Canary Black
Mozziest Time of the Year
We look to Moz Angeles, for the language we use. London is dead, London is dead!
The Game Awards 2024
The biggest video game award show, The Game Award, is airing/livestreaming right now with over 1 million watching the main stream. I’m very excited about this, because this is the 10th Anniversary of the show (which started in 2014 by Geoff Keighley). The show is broadcast live from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
TekTok: Candy Con and Standard Notes
This may be a Gamestop exclusive, as I cannot find this Candy Con for sale anywhere, including Amazon, which will only show you candy corn.
Weekend Gamer: Crucial 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD
After a week of tinkering with my Lenovo Legion Go, I’ve come to realize that I really, really need to upgrade the original 512GB storage to something much larger.
Black Friday Week
If you’ve been paying attention, Black Friday (and Cyber Monday it goes without saying), have been happening earlier and earlier every year. Last year, I said deals were happening as early as November 1, 2023.
Weekend Gamer: Legion Go 2, Nitro Blaze 7, and Xbox Handheld
As you know, I recently purchased the Lenovo Legion Go, and I’ve been enjoying it. Of course, as soon as I bought it, there’s already rumors of a Legion Go 2, which may come out in 2025. The biggest feature will likely be a new AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme CPU (all the current AMD-based handhelds are using the Ryzen Z1 Extreme chip). Only the MSI Claw uses an Intel chip.
Weekend Gamer: Lenovo Legion Go
I’ve always wanted the Lenovo Legion Go, which launched in Nov 2023, but by that point, I was already invested in the ROG Ally, which arrived eight months earlier. I couldn’t really justify the $700 price tag on the Legion Go.
Steam Deck White Edition
Let’s face it, the original Steam Deck, which launched in 2022 (I preordered it with $5), kicked off a PC handheld gaming revolution.
Weekend Gamer: Legion Go, ROG Ally, and MSI Claw at Target and Castlevania Anniversary Collection
I was surprised to see that all three Windows devices, the MSI Claw, the Lenovo Legion Go, and the Asus ROG Ally were all in stock (two each) at my semi-local Target Super Store. To be perfectly honest, this is the first time I have seen the Legion Go or the Claw in a retail store, and I was really excited. Not crazy about the prices, both the Legion Go and Claw are $700 and the ROG Ally is $500 (but keep in mind this is last year’s “Non-Extreme” version).
Ten Reasons to get the Kindle Colorsoft
As you may have heard, Amazon is releasing its first color Kindle called the Kindle Colorsoft on October 30, 2024.
The device is a 7-inch tablet that use Kaleido 3 does not appear to be competing with Remarkable Paper Pro, but rather Kobo, who makes a color 7” called the Kobo Libra Colour. The Kobo Colour out in April 2024 and have been slowly converting Kindle readers to Kobo readers.
Further proof, the Kindle Scribe was Amazon’s as an answer to Kobo’s Kobo Elipsa, which is a 10” device for notetaking (but also the ability to read Kobo books).
reMarkable Paper Pro Review
When I first saw the Remarkable Paper Pro online in early September 2024, I dismissed this because of how expensive it was. It’s about $600, and part of that price includes the required pen. Plus, I was massively disappointed in Boox Note Air 3 C due to the poor color representation of Kaleido 3.
After watching some comic book pages on the RPP, I was definitely interested buying this as my digital comic book reader! Unfortunately, as an e-reader, it absolutely sucks. The Remarkable only supports PDF and ePub, with no support for Kindle Books or CBR (the popular comic book archive format).
How to read your Kindle books on the Remarkable Paper Pro
If you want to read your digital Amazon books on the Remarkable Paper Pro, you are going to have to jump through some hoops, due to the Amazon’s DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Crime Time: The Horror Edition
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Rocktober: October 10, 2024
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Weekend Gamer: PS5 Pro
I’ve made it known in the past that I find that Sony is greedy, especially in their PlayStation department.
Here is the latest proof: PlayStation 5 Pro for $700, a $200 markup from the PS5 Slim that was released in Nov 2024.
Zoho Mail
I’m planning on moving my email host to a new host called Zoho. This company is based out of India, and have been around since 1996. Their focus is offering their web-based Zoho Office Suite, for business, rivaling Google Workspace and MicroSoft 365. Comparing prices, Zoho is a much cheaper alternative. Breaking down their office pricing, Zoho charges $72 a year, while Google and Microsoft charges $150 a year.
Alien vs Terminator
Alien vs Terminator - The latest Alien film, Alien: Romulus is very good. I’ve always liked the Alien franchise, I’m even one of the few people that liked Alien: Covenant (although I didn’t really like Prometheus as it was somewhat of a confusing ‘Alien’ film).
reMarkable Paper Pro
Longtime readers will remember that I’m on an impossible search for the perfect color e-Ink reader, mostly for reading comic books and magazines. So what I’m looking for is a large (larger than 12 inches) device to display color e-Ink.
As noted in my review of Boox Note Air 3c (10 inches), I was not impressed with the muted/faded colors. That’s because the color technology, called Kaleido 3, is limited to 4,000 colors and sits on top of the black and white layer. The result is a much darker image. You don’t get true black and white or do you get true colors, it just looks awful, in my opinion.
Half Price Books: The Big Sale (31 Aug to 02 Sep 2024)
Half Price Books’ “The Big Sale” event is back and will run through September 2,...
Gamescom Opening Night Live (20 August 2024)
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard
I previously mentioned that Dragon Age: Dreadwolf coming out in early 2025…. Well, there’s a couple of changes since then. Electronic Arts (EA) announced that the name is now called Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and it is coming out October 31, 2024.
Sony RX100 VII
The Sony RX100 cameras are a series of very high-end compact “Point and Shoot” cameras. They are designed for people who demands high quality stills and videos, but need the camera to be portable.
Dìdi
Didi, a movie about an awkward Asian teenager, won the Audience Award after its world...
Shawscope: Volume Three
Product Description High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentations of all fourteen films, including thirteen new...