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The Coast Guard Exchange has the Spider-Man DualSense controller for $49.99. Also the Spiderman Ps5 bundle is $479. No sales tax. Only available for those active duty, retirees, veterans, and their dependents. 

https://shopcgx.com/electronics-en-2/featured-brands-en/sony/ps5-dualsense-wireless-controller-spiderman2-lmtd-ed-new-age-8-1-23.html

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GCMGames via Eneba has Xbox Game Pass Ultimate: 3 Month Subscription (Digital Delivery - Stackable) on sale for around $26.99 when you follow the instructions below:

Deal Instructions:

• Go to product page
• Click on Buy Now.
• Click on "Got discount code?" under "Total Price" and apply discount code XGPUUS
• Proceed to checkout.
• Total price after service/payment fees should be around $26.99

Note: Codes are stackable, you can stack up to three years.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KRKD3P2?tag=cheapassgam08-20&th=1

This is more like one of those hack and slash Musou type games for anyone that isn't usually interested in Fire Emblem. Metacritic 80 with an 89 user score.

Half off select accessories via verizon up. Elite 2 controller 89.99

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$50 Numskull SEGA Shenmue Ryo Hazuki Figure 10" 28cm Collectible Replica Statue Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YD53SJR

From 11/17 until 12/14, get $25 off future grocery purchase when you buy $150+ in gift cards. Includes PSN, xbox, gamestop, and other random retailers.

16.6% discount on gaming credit if you were getting groceries anyway. Promos are usually valid at all regional Albertson affiliates. Star Market, Acme, Vons, etc.

Eneba offers 50-Day of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate via Xbox Game Pass Core Conversion for around $11.05 when you follow the instructions below.

• Note, this offer is for Current/Existing Game Pass Ultimate Members only.

• Click here to visit the product page.
• Click Buy Now and go to cart.
• Apply discount code XGPC
• Select payment method PayPal/Credit Card (service fees will be applied here)
• Proceed to checkout with end-price of ~ $11.05
• Click here to redeem your 3-Month Xbox Live Gold Membership code(s).
• You will be prompted to extend your Game Pass Ultimate by 50 days. The renewal date should be the same as your Xbox Game Pass Ultimate plus 50 days (Maximum 36 months).

• Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Membership includes Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass with over 100 high-quality games to play with friends on console, PC, phones, and tablets, plus an EA Play membership, all for one low price.

Eneba has $70 Xbox Gift Card (Digital Delivery) for around $59 after applying code X70US in cart.

• Note: Price is after service fees and applying code X70US in cart.

You can purchase the code(s) and redeem to add balance to your Microsoft account.

• Both the Microsoft and Xbox cards work just the same. Once redeemed to your Microsoft account, you can spend your balance at Microsoft Store online, on Windows, and on Xbox. You can get the latest apps, games, movies, TV shows, and Surface, Xbox, and accessories. (Source)

Add balance to your Microsoft account and use to purchase items from Microsoft Store online. Black Friday deals from Microsoft Store can be found here.
 

Note:

• Price is after service fees and applying discount code X70US.
• Deals ends tonight.
• Eneba codes usually sell out fast.
• Xbox Gift cards do not currently work at physical Microsoft Stores.
• You currently cannot buy Microsoft 365 with a gift card.

Good deals, just grabbed FF16, AC VI, and Jedi Survivor, don't forget to use the coupon for an extra 10% off!

https://www.gamefly.com/games

Eneba has Xbox Game Pass Ultimate – 3 Month Membership (Digital Delivery) on sale for around $28 when you follow the instructions below.

• Note: You can stack up to three years of Game Pass Ultimate Membership.

Deal Instructions:

• Visit the product page
• Click 'Buy Now' to add the item to cart
• Click on "Got discount code?" Apply discount code GamePassBF
• Proceed to checkout
• Select a payment method: PayPal or Credit Card (a service fee will be applied on this step)
• Price after discount and service fee will be ~$28
• Note: Price is subject to change by a few cents due to currency exchange rate volatility
• After purchase, redeem the Membership code at Microsoft

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Eneba also has $100 Amazon Gift Card (Digital Delivery) on sale for around $94 when you follow the instructions below.

Deal Instructions:

• Visit the product page
• Click 'Buy Now' to add the item to cart
• Click on "Got discount code?" Apply discount code USBFAMZ
• Proceed to checkout
• Select a payment method: PayPal or Credit Card (a service fee will be applied on this step)
• Price after discount and service fee will be ~$94
  • Note: Price is subject to change by a few cents due to currency exchange rate volatility
• After purchase, redeem the Gift Card code at Amazon

Eneba has $99 Nintendo eShop Gift Card (Digital Delivery) on sale for around $85 when you follow the instructions below.

Eneba also has $50 PlayStation Network Gift Card (Digital Delivery) on sale for around $43 when you follow the instructions below.

Deal Instructions:

• Visit the product page
• Click 'Buy Now' to add the item to cart
• Click on "Got discount code?" Apply discount code USBFPSN
• Proceed to checkout
• Select a payment method: PayPal or Credit Card (a service fee will be applied on this step)
• Price after discount and service fee will be ~$43
  • Note: Price is subject to change by a few cents due to currency exchange rate volatility
• After purchase, redeem the Gift Card code at PlayStation

About:

• Buy a PlayStation Store gift card and redeem for anything on PlayStation Store: games, add-ons, subscriptions and more. Codes can be redeemed on the PlayStation Store via console, any web browser or on the PlayStation App.
• Please note that PlayStation Store digital gift cards are not redeemable at direct.playstation.com

As part of their ongoing 3 day sale Meijer is giving 20k Mperks points, aka $20, when you buy at least $50 of certain gift cards.  If you buy the "One4All" gift card you can redeem it for Xbox or Playstation credit, or a bunch of other brands. 

I had the mperks points in my account within an hour, and just redeemed my $50 gc for PSN credit with no issues.  If you shop at Meijer anyway, this is 40% off Sony or MS credit if you do the minimum $50 gift card purchase.  If you put $70 on it that would be a new full price game for $50.  I believe this can only be used once per Mperks account.

Might be best to shut up for a bit.

Put me down for Team Big Rich Oaf for now.

Gov. JB Pritzker is combing through hundreds of pages of Project 2025, shoring up legal resources and finding ways to further expand reproductive rights and environmental protections — all while he explores his own political future.

I don't agree with everything here, precisely, but it's probably the best expression of the "left critique" you'll see.  

I don't think I could have voted for Biden. I held my nose and voted for Harris. I was never going to make a thing of it.  I wasn't going suggest anybody shouldn't vote.  

The thing is, my vote doesn't matter. I mean, yah, there's that chance the election would have come down to the state of Pennsylvania, and the state of Pennsylvania would come down to one vote - mine! - but while we like to imagine these things, they aren't very likely.

Absent mandatory voting, elections depend on lots of people deciding that it does matter if they vote, even though it really doesn't.  Not individually.  

Why did I almost not vote?  No of course I didn't want the bad orange man to win - and ultimately that's why I voted - but also I've been watching a genocide unfold for past year and I've watched Biden's smirking ghouls at State on that subject and I've watched almost the entire Dem-industrial complex go after the people who opposed that genocide, or at best stay silent.

These people are so rotten and so horrible and many of them would be on trial in a just world.  People were put on trial for less. "We" certainly supported putting people on trial for less, instead of opposing it in every way possible.  We went to war - supposedly - over less!

So much for the international rules-based order.

I'm an engaged voter.  I understand the issues.  I understand harm reduction.  I understand that the bad orange man is very bad indeed.  I have no belief in accelerationism or fantasies about third party presidential runs.  I am not a narcissist about this stuff; politics is never going to be centered around my personal desires.

But how dare these fucking people make me vote for this.  How dare almost all of them, at best, stay silent.  What did they want to be in positions of power for?  Vacation homes and new boats?

It is, truly, a problem from hell, Samantha.

Every bad election - and even the pretty good ones - we have to try to remind them that being unwilling to take your own side in an argument is not actually clever politics.

This was nonsense at the time (2022), but more importantly you can imagine what other nonsense Jeremy Peters - and his editors - believe.

Philippe Reines.

Also, they're bad at their one job (winning) and they're unwilling to take responsibility. I do agree with them that they should find this anonymous trans woman who runs the DNC and fire her, because she has been doing a bad job, too.

I know that we'd all like some come-together-in-unity rhetoric, but on Morning Joseph (Biden's favorite show!) they're reading Maureen Dowd columns about the evil transes and, you know, we're back to the bad days of the early aughts.

In 1999, Maureen Dowd devoted her existence to ruining Monica Lewinksy's life. She was 47 then. She had just been dumped by Michael Douglas for Catherine Zeta-Jones. Dowd is 72 now.

People regularly bring up the focus group organizers who said that a problem that they face is that participants refuse to believe that Republicans are planning to do the things they are planning to do. Nobody could be that evil! More than that, if they were then surely I would have heard about it before!

1) Are the Democrats too Right or Too Left?

2) The Democrats Have A Media Problem

3) Being a Democrat should be a Membership With Benefits

The first is a debate, the second is inarguable even if the prescriptions differ, the third is something which is also a good idea but no one ever  follows through with it.

There actually was a lot of money pumped into a media effort recently, and I don't like to dump on it because I suppose any effort should be encouraged, but that most of you have never heard of it tells the story.

This has been trotted out for years, mostly about Afghanistan, and which "Left" are you talking about? There is no "Left" in the NYT (Bouie but it isn't really his beat), the Washington Post, CNN... MSNBC has Hayes and he did!

If you want credit from this unnamed Left, you'd better empower them. The Chapo guys gave you a lot of credit! Then they criticized you for other things! That's how it works!

I don't think you have to be a commie trot to observe that calling it that is stupid.

This is, to be clear, Kooky shit, independent of the moment.

Clinton went on to note the history of the Jewish people and Judaism in what is now the State of Israel, saying that Jews “were there first — before their faith existed,” apparently referring to Islam and the Palestinian people.

He said that Jews had been in the land “in the time of King David, and the southernmost tribes had Judea and Samaria,” referring to the West Bank using the Biblical terminology also in use among Israelis.

Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, says he has ordered preparations to annex the occupied West Bank, hoping “2025 will be, with God's help, the year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.” pic.twitter.com/qhPFTI8IDt

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) November 11, 2024

Satan is prepping Biden's chair.

Rock on. Neil was 50 then. Time is funny.

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