For me it would have been buying the steam frame (but I am still in the waitlist). Also, I recently gotten into the 40k lore, but there is no way I can find the time and physical place to get into wargames.
I thought about the Steam Frame, and can definitely afford it, but I just can’t see enough VR software I’m interested in. I’ve played through HL:A, and most everything else is very short experiences. Or beat saber, which is too fast for me.
Retiring
I’m lucky enough that I can afford some nicer things for myself, like a new ebike. Metallica is one of my favorite bands and I’m looking to go visit the Sphere in Las Vegas one day.
But with all of that said, I can’t justify paying a minimum of $500 a ticket to go see Metallica at the sphere. I get the spectacle and Vegas setting brings the price up, but most live music seating to me is not worth more than $200-300 tops per ticket.
Talkbox.
I’m decent with a synth (and bass guitar) but never really leaned into vocals. I would surely never use it once the novelty wore off.
but they’re just so. damn. neat.
Nobody did it better than the late, great Roger Troutman (of Zapp and/or Roger):
A virtual tabletop setup for D&D. A tv cut into a large table with space for players to have some food, drink, their sheets, and dice while putting their minis on an animated map in the center
A new bicycle. But I can fix the one I’ve got for now.
A couple days vacation to go hiking. I haven’t had a vacation in years, and I desperately need a break from my life. I’d be thrilled if I could just get on a plane, go across the country and see some mountains for 2-3 days and then come home, but I just can’t afford it. Maybe next year, she says, for the 3rd year in a row…
Aw, man. We all need a break sometime. Maybe you can find something closer to home that can help you decompress?
Upgrade my server/storage. I only have 1.5tb of storage total for everything including my music, shows, etc.
But I am able to manage it, so I can’t really justify buying more storage for it when I technically don’t need it.
Certain games, for example, Metaphor ReFantazio. Expensive even on sale and the whole “you do not own it despite paying for it” thing. Books and manga; I truly want to purchase a lot of books and manga, but it is just so expensive. Even on sale or secondhand. For example, I would love to purchase: No Game No Life, Smoking Behind the Supermarket, Witch Hat Atelier, and Hey Boy! Let’s take a break? Manga/light novels.
I wish there was a good monthly subscription service for manga, but I also don’t know if it would pay fairly enough to creators.
A pair of 20TB HDDs. My NAS is a janky RAID0 setup of a Raspberry Pi and 2x 12TB external WD HDDs that are about 3 years old at this point. I want a backup at this point but there’s no way I’m paying for something that ridiculously expensive at the moment.
I also should’ve gone for at least 32GBs of RAM for my PCs but my cheap ass thought prices would never explode.
😭 i want so bad but these times it makes no sense
A camera for bird watching, a new PC for playing games and VR, a second pad for stepmania, and more thing I can’t think of right now.
The thing is that it is not as much that I can’t justify those expenses as that the older I get, I realise that I’m fine without them, I don’t need any of those things, so I keep postponing them.
I put off buy new hard drives for my NAS. I have an 8 bay and slowly filled it over the years with 6tb drives since they were about $200 at that time. Now that I ran out of that space I started replacing the 6tb one by one with 12tb which at the time was around $200 as well. Ive needed a new HD for years now but couldnt really afford it, but now I really need a new one and I REALLY can’t afford it… this hobby is essentially dead at these prices. Ill continue to purge data and hope in a few years some miracle happens and prices drop again. I also hope these current drives hold out without issues…
A FUCKING HOUSE
Brothels are available for low prices
Load-bearing walls!
Double strapped and reinforced tie downs
I feel you.
I heard the banks where I live are thinking about providing multi-generational loans so people would be able to pay for them.
Amazing, that’s literally serfdom 😭
Can I do that and not have kids
They’ll find some next-of-kin to pin it on, I’m sure
Nothing like having your kids pay for the house you buy…
You have inherited the family home…
…payments.
Don’t worry kids. It will require you to be a slave only for a 30 years.
I mean, that is how a mortgage works. You don’t have to accept the inheritance after all, or you could sell the house to pay the reminder of the mortgage. Still sucks.
The point is people used to be able to pay off the house in a reasonable number of years.
Oh, I fully agree here, the economy is fucked, money only moves one way (up), and housing is not really affordable unless you either settle for dogshit in bumfuck nowhere, or make a lot of money.
Shit, this is an amazingly depressive development
Solar everything.
