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.
😂 disposable income! 💀😐
A fucking sword.
That’s sounds rather unhygienic.
It’s just different word for “dildo”
I can already see the Oglaf about it __
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 really nice electric guitar, amp, and pedal. Money was tight as a kid for a lot of reasons, my dad did the best he could. However, this meant playing with some equipment that didn’t sound quite right.
Now I have what I always wanted, but have trouble finding the time and energy to play.
Now I have what I always wanted, but have trouble finding the time and energy to play.
I feel like that’s the story for a lot of people here. I definitely feel that way with video games on occasion.
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.
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.
A pair of rollerblades.
I remember sitting with my wife, waiting to get the train back home, holding the bag in my hands. That’s when it hit me. I started to cry, loudly.
Cute. Did you take the wife roller blading?
Oh. For sure 😃
She bought a pair of roller skates herself.
By the time you can afford it, the car ain’t important…
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’m building my way up to a helicopter.
I used to play the demo for Star Trek Bridge Commander so much and always wanted the full game - several years ago I bought a copy off Amazon (now it’s available on Gog). Fun game, but it shows its age now.
Isn’t there a kind of VR version of that now? Or is the game I’m talking about totally different?
Maybe you’re thinking of Pulsar: Lost Colony? It has some similarities (in that someone can captain a ship and look around the bridge) but the gameplay is pretty different. ST:BC was from the early 2000s so there’s definitely not a VR version of it in particular.
Independence from my parents. Mainly financial independence. Never needing anything from them ever again so they can no longer hold it over my head and be douchebags about how they had to raise me and pay for things.
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.
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.
When I say seasonal work I mean there are only open jobs here for the tourist season, which is seasonal.
I tried getting into all time jobs here but they are very very rare and super picky about getting only people who have some connections.
Does a hot wife that pole dances count? But yeah, I built an arcade machine and have a problem with building emulator consoles
Do you just like making them? Or do you keep trying out new designs and setups?
Both. I make them as gifts, or just to try out a new box or sbc.