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.
Being debt free.
This is what everyone should be striving for. At least in America, a large percent of the population doesn’t have more than two paychecks saved.
Holy shit, are you me?
Can’t really justify the Frame, but will do anyway, when buying mail comes around.
Also got into 40k lore recently, but that is easier to withold, as I have no time and patience whatsoever to paint minis rn (especially not if the Frame comes around 😅). Books do it now, I suppose.
I kinda want a true cargo bike. Not anything branded, I’d want to be able to replace electronics, but just having a huge box on an e-bike would be nice I imagine.
I rarely need to move more stuff than fits in a backpack, I have 2 big bike bags as well, and if it won’t fit in any of these, chances are it’s furniture that won’t fit in a cargo bike either. I simply do not need it.
Getting my dryer fixed.
Retiring
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.
This is my hang up on it too. There’s just not been any interesting VR titles lately, and I havent seen any announcements either. Seems like a waste of money for a blade and sorcery machine.
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.
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 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?
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
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.
Well, I’d rather own the manga and light novels physically, and I prefer to pay the creators directly. I’m not fond of subscription services, and if that were the case, there are other ways to read without spending money. Subscription services also have the problem with licenses and getting more expensive by the year.
I usually read the content in a certain way… And then purchase when I find it really good (which is what I wanted to do with the ones I have listed previously). Main issue is the pricing; No Game No Life volumes would cost me €144 (if not more since there are new volumes now), Witch Hat Atelier about ~€210 and at that point, I stopped researching about the prices. So don’t know the price of ‘‘Hey Boy! Let’s take a break?’’.
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 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.
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
