For most of you on this site, the end of November will no doubt see your wallet being approximately as light as mine, which is to say, empty. I cannot fathom why circumstances demanded that Mario Galaxy, Contra 4, and Ass Creed (have yet to pick up Mass Effect) all be released within two weeks of Black Friday. What I do see with perfect clarity, however, is that I have the following: three great games that constantly hinder me from planning from the future, virtually no savings on hand, a waiters' salary (thank god business is picking up), a large payment owed to my university, and several hundred dollars of computer components I need to get very badly this friday, before they magically become a thousand dollars of computer components on saturday.

The computer components are so I can piece together a vaguely shiny new rig. I suffer no delusions that I have the scratch to build Deep Thought or its present-day equivalent, but my old computer recently advised me that it no longer cared for this "accessing the internet" nonsense, and that I could go fuck myself. I could just reformat, but the newest thing in my case is my RADEON X850, so it's probably time for a major overhaul, and Black Friday is the day to do it.

Enter the problem: I really, really want to pick up Mass Effect. It is physically harming me that this game isn't spinning in my 360 right now. But I'll be lucky if I can dig up enough cash to get all the parts I need this Friday. And then, at the end of the month, I have to send a heart-rending amount of money to the University of Tulsa business office.

tl;dr: I'm broke. What can you do about it? Very little, considering most of you are probably now broke as well. Does anyone know if there's a better compendium of Black Friday ads than this?