I really wanted a modded Xbox 360 when I was younger because I thought being able to play ‘backed up’ games and having a custom dashboard was really neat.
I ended up buying one last year to fulfill that childhood wish.
When I was like 19 or something, I went into a restaurant, got seated, asked to see a dessert menu. I ordered dessert. Then I asked for an appetizer menu. And I ordered an appetizer. Then I paid, and left.
You didn’t even stay to eat them??
It’s not about dining, it’s about sending a message
This. When I first started working, I ordered soup before my meal in a fancy restaurant.
Isn’t it normal to get soup before the main course?
Yes, but I think they were referring to either a:) the ability to afford to eat out or b:) the ability to be able to afford more than one course.
I never have in my 25 years on this planet. A little salad or some roasted peppers or something like that if anything at all
Not for me, the few times I’d be fed from a fancy place was always a shared single item.
Only if you can afford it. Like ordering a drink instead of water.
When I was a kid, I was really into driving games, started off with Mario Kart and Stunt Race FX on the SNES, later moved onto F1 World Grand Prix on the N64, for which I had one of these bad boys.
You put your legs either side of the wheel to hold it in place. It wasn’t very good at all if I’m being honest. Even at the time, 9 year old me thought it wasn’t great.
So during covid, I saw that V3 pictured above being sold on facebook marketplace for 20chf (swissbux), and thought I could do better. Started off with a Logitech G29 and ended up with this:
Yes, cable management is not great, but I’m in a relatively small apartment, so gotta wedge it in a corner, but it’s my corner, the Corner of Speed
I also loved racing games as a kid and my first purchase after I moved out was a g29 lmao.
I’d love to have a simrig and could probably afford one nowadays, but space is really big issue when living in an apartment. I don’t really have a free corner to put it in like you.
Thanks for the pics looks sick!
That’s insane! I love it for you.
2 tv’s side-by-side with 2 consoles for local multi-player. Dream achieved with a bonus wife to play with.
You got a bonus wife? Is your main wife ok with that? Also how do unlock that achievement?
You need to complete the polygamy side quest.
Or just start as the mormon class
Is that like a bang maid?
Nicely done
When I built my new pc my wife inherited my old one which fortunately is still good enough to play most games (not well but they run), so we now have a two desk set up for co-op games, it’s great.
My wife just recently saw the appeal, after years of explaining.
I always loved construction equipment as a kid. I had a full set of die-cast Cat construction machines and would play with them in a sandbox my dad built.
Three months ago I bought a Kubota U27-4 mini-excavator. Needless to say, my inner 8 year old is thrilled.
Figured a picture would be appropriate…
How much does that cost?
Looking it up, 30-50k
But think of how much you would save!
OP dug up the fiber cable connecting the east to the west
of earth
Want to be friends?
This is great. I think every kid wants a digger.
😂 disposable income! 💀😐
A pinball machine
Fucking awesome! What table?
25 year old back to the future machine 🤙
I know the one. I am definitely envious but super happy for you. That’s a good table.
That’s heavy.
Why were things so heavy in the past?
At this point it’s back to the past. The guy went from the past to the past and then back to past-eerrrrrr
They said a pinball table!
Name checks out
A real video game set up. I have 17 consoles in the house and over 450 games.
I even have the old CRT TV with an AV switcher hooked up so I can switch between consoles quickly without having to mess with any wires.
17 consoles? Wow! Any rarities?
Eh not really. I have the yellow Pikachu Gameboy color. But I’m a big Halo fan (hence the username) so I’ve focused on collecting all the Halo special edition Xboxs. Only missing 5 and Infinite. 5 is relatively cheap I just haven’t got it yet and the Infinite Series X is jacked up in price since there were so few made and it was released during the pandemic when sclapers were doing their thing.
Other than than mostly Xbox and Nintendo systems going back to SNES.
If I were you, I’d skip the 5 xbox just as an insult to that game’s writing.
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I bought a new '99 Civic Si but when I saw the S2000 I wished I had waited. I loved my Si - it was blue and I named him Moonshadow – but that S2000 is sweet. Will never forget driving from Vegas to SoCal and being passed by a guy driving an S2000. Or did I pass him? It was so long ago. One of us yelled “nice car!” and the other said “you too!”
it’s probably worth more now than when you bought it lol
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A home away from my parents.
Also ice cream cake
I sold a bunch of 70’s and 80’s tabletop roleplaying stuff when I went to college. A few years ago, I reacquired many of those titles at collector’s prices. Not my most brilliant financial move.
Sell the dip.
A fucking sword.
That’s sounds rather unhygienic.
It’s just different word for “dildo”
I can already see the Oglaf about it __
I bought a house, and then the vacant lot next to the house, and hopefully someday before prices go nuts the vacant lot on the other side of the house. Urban farm, baybee!
I don’t think there are any desires I carried over from childhood that I finally fulfilled later. Most things I wanted in the past I simply stopped wanting as I changed with age.
I have, however, on numerous occasions in my adult life, looked at something that probably would’ve made my kid self go into orbit with excitement and thought, “Man, if only I could get an adult to buy me this…” only to blink a couple times, see the lightbulb turn on, and go, “HEY, WAIT A MINUTE…!”
If only I had disposable income.
Mostly computer parts. Growing up, my father bought the family a computer (an 8088 Turbo XT. See my awesome 4Mhz power!) and in what can only be described as clinical insanity, he let me loose on it. Of course I discovered computer games and was hooked ever since. It also led me to a life working on computers, so that part of his plan worked. Thanks to that computer, I now have a comfortable income. And while my computer isn’t on the bleeding edge of performance, I do keep it fairly modern. Last year I was having frame rate issues in some games and upgraded to a RTX 3080. Just recently, my wife’s computer was having low frames so we bought her an RTX 4070 Super. The games have come a long way from Starflight on that old 8088, but the kid inside of me who fell in love with video games is still happy to play them.
Starlight was such a great game. My friends Grandpa made hand drawn maps for it.
