Can I just note ....

[davidgillon]

... that I hate it when website download options just default to 'I'm going to stick this in Downloads without actually telling you', rather than 'where would you like me to put that file?'

I just had five minutes of unnecessary stress because I'd bought something from a German-language only website (which considering it's Swiss is a little surprising), pressed the download option and nothing happened. So not only the fear of a download fail, but the worry I might have missed something in translating the instructions. (German forms wanting your address appear to have a novel ordering - street, number, PO box, postcode, location - and I still haven't figured out if 'ort', location, is asking me for town or county)

It had in fact saved it in Downloads, once it occurred to me to check, but acually telling me so was clearly too much effort for Windows to bother with.

Grrr!

But that's the last of my Black Friday games purchases done - I allowed myself a budget of £30 and for that got one complete game, two large DLCs, and 5 small, which would have come to somewhere around £67 full price. About half of that was unexpected, throwing my pre-sale plans out of the window

The complete haul was:

Trainz: A New Era (complete game, unplanned, but £3.87 instead of £15, and for that price worth trying)

For Total War: Warhammer II (which I'd just gotten back into playing before current computer shenanigans)

Pirates of the Vampire Coast (Undead pirates! Grr, Aargh, yo-ho-ho!)

The Hunter and the Beast (Small pack with 2 new playable generals)

For Train Sim 2022

SBB Route 1 (The Swiss purchase, I'd been wanting another Swiss route and more Swiss rolling stock)

Three sets of extra carriages, and a set of extra colour schemes for an engine I already own (I might not have bothered with the last if it hadn't been for an engine that runs locally).

And yes, I'm turning into the proverbial middle-aged train-set owner, but it's cheaper doing it on screen - seriously cheaper, a set of two or three hobbyist level carriages is about £90 if you want something to run around a track, nearer £200 for an engine!

I also bought an Echo Dot in the Amazon sale, but that goes against the household budget, not the toy budget, as it's going to be a replacement alarm clock: "Alexa, wake me with Jazz".