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.
All 7 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers figures, the Dino Megazord, Dragonzord, and Titanus. Got a black Dino Megazord too.
Red Alert 2 big box
I have a bunch of those retro mini consoles on a cheap projector on an unprepared white painted wall (cheap projector and unprepped wall mimics crt blur very nicely)
As a kid I wanted a Neo Geo arcade cabinet… now I have Metal Slug, Samurai Showdown and Fatal Fury on a 100+ inch “screen” (Not to mention the other consoles and switch)
I have a ton of different Nintendo consoles and lots of gameboy color cartridges for that reason. Good thing I collected them like 8 years ago because they are stupid expensive now
A pinball machine
Fucking awesome! What table?
They said a pinball table!
Name checks out
25 year old back to the future machine 🤙
That’s heavy.
I know the one. I am definitely envious but super happy for you. That’s a good table.
A lot of the games I wanted to try as a kid
Some of them aren’t as fun as I thought it would be, but at least I can still try them and confirm
A Nintendo 3DS because I didn’t have a console (like ever) and it was cheaper than a switch.
I’ve only had time to play it a handful of times
Consider putting custom firmware on the 3DS - opens up lots of possibilities and gives you access to pretty much any game you could ever want
That’s like the first thing I did. It’s a Japanese 3DS so I needed to change the region on it. I still have all the original firmware files if I need to change it back
Awesome! Is it a special edition 3DS or is there a different reason for getting it from Japan?
They were a bit cheaper than the US ones. The seller was based in the US.
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.
Not for me, the few times I’d be fed from a fancy place was always a shared single item.
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
Unfortunately, there’s nothing I could get, because circumstances.
What would you want if you could make a frivolous purchase?
If most of my needs were fulfilled, I’ll spend on buying some single-board computer to learn and play around with, and music instruments like synths, effect machines and traditional folk instruments. I also like tender coconuts (with decently thicker flesh) and palmyra palm, so I’ll probably spend my money on that everyday - that counts as frivolous, right?
You guys get disposable income?
On a serious note, here it’s very hard to get to a point to get any disposable income, unless you stay living with your parent’s all your life and never get married, …
This is the main reason why I’m now able to actually afford a used ps4, physical manga and be able to finally buy games, especially indie one’s without the guilt of pirating them.
NOTE: I’m 20 and have been working since I was 18 seasonal work since that’s mostly all you can find here, even if you finish university/college so I just skipped that part.
Being married can make things cheaper. 2 incomes, and most expenses are not doubled, like rent or utility costs. That is until you have a kid, then things can be as expensive as you let them get.
In most cases here, the woman doesn’t work because it’s very hard for them to get a job here. So they are in most cases just literally housewive with no income.
Man you’re still just 20. It gets easier. I didn’t really have any serious disposable income until I was around 26. Now I can basically buy what I want.
Obviously it’s different for everyone, but if you save money and develop good spending habits, it should get a little easier over time.
Here it’s the kind of living space where at 40 with 20 years of working years you get barelly any disposable income.
Here it’s the fact that the difference between income of somebody who just starts and somebody who has been working at the same company is so small you could think it’s a rounding error.
EDIT: Example being on my last summer job I was getting higher wage than a person who was working there for 27 years.
youre incredibly short sighted, and missing the larger picture of the economy. youve only been working for 2 years, and you didnt start til you were 18, and it was seasonal.
in the last 3 years minimum wages have skyrocketed across the board, leaving all kinds of new people with higher wages than existent staff. it is a problem, but it will eventually work itself out.
…but youre complaining about your job efficacy and agency at 20. wait til you actually get some experience in the job market, and maybe actually pursue a career over the next 5-10 years.
the only kids with disposable income before 25 were the rich kids whose parents paid for most of their shit already anyway.
Seasonal work is the kind of work 90% of the population in the country bere does, it’s literally the only thing available here. That’s why 95% of my friends and people my agre group left the country to search for careers. Because here to get started with a carrer you either need to have cosmic level of luck of habe somebody who will get you in.
I plan on leaving the country myself to be able to actually pursue a career but because of some circumstances I’m not able to atm.
What the heck country are you in where literally everyone works seasonal? Surely there must be people with normal jobs that work year-round. There aren’t any teachers, doctors, lawyers, engineers, bureaucrats, etc.?
I’m no economist but I’m pretty sure if 90% of a country’s workforce only works for a couple months a year, that country will economically collapse.
Croatia, the number prob is too high but most people I know and see only work seasonal work here, tricky part here is that thay season work can be anywhere from 3 months to 10 months, depending on the job.
And on the note of teachers, doctors, … we are severelly lackijg then because people leave the country since the pay is so small that it pays of more to work a seasonal job than being any of them.
Ironic.
So do you just sit on your ass for those other months? Because you could try doing freelance work on the internet or something. I just find it so hard to believe that an entire country is functioning off of people only working a few months a year.
I mean… you haven’t given any details, but it sounds to me like you should explore a different line of work. When you said you only do “seasonal” work, does that mean you’re just straight up not working for most of the year? Because in that case I’d say there’s a pretty simple way you could improve your income situation.
A fucking sword.
That’s sounds rather unhygienic.
I can already see the Oglaf about it __
It’s just different word for “dildo”
😂 disposable income! 💀😐
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 wasn’t exactly a kid (I was in my 20s), but I’m now buying equipment for my home gym. For years I only had a barbell, plates, and two saw horses that I used as squat stands. I also worked out outside on my back patio. Now I have a garage, two benches (one adjustable), squat stands, and just bought a GHR/nordic combo bench.
Disposable income?
