My two main hobbies are amassing wealth and being bad at finance so it probably gets me about 500€.
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Found the (Republican) American!
Confidently wrong x 2
Rich (US) Democrats also exist.
Democrat =/= Leftist
Sadly republicans seem to be doing better financially
You guys have stable hobbies…?
If you count “starting new hobbies” as a hobby, then I could get like 4-5 hobbies out of it, around 200-250$ is a reasonable buy-in for a new one.So, is your ADHD medicated?
Yes, but we’ve been having a few hot days around here and temperatures over 30°C really degrade the effectiveness of the medication. I bought a sewing machine on Saturday.
Ha, good guess on my part, or game recognising game…
wh— ok that explains a lot about why I’m such a pansy about heat
i wonder if stimulants are biochemically less effective in heat, or it’s just that our brains have to also deal with the sensory overload of melting to death thus eating into the medication’s mitigation of dopamine deficit… or both perhaps
Two and a half hard drives.
Data hoarder?
One-handed media connesieur.
Yup.
Yeah, about 72TB if I find a sale
I get 1 nice drone or 2 small ones.
Lost a 500€ infrared drone 2 days ago in a sugar beet field because “I don’t need the GPS when flying near the street” and then I was too high to make out if it was a deer or a rabbit and the powerline in between disrupted the radio signal, so the drone went into failsave and stopped all movement, getting carried by the wind into the field and it fell in a way that the battery disconnected… thank you for reading… I’m sad now…
If you had two infrared drones you could have started a rescue mission with the second one.
True! But only while the motors were hot!
Put one of those beepers that beeps when the battery has disconnected on there, it saved me at least a few times.
Damn that’s a shame. What resolution was the IR camera?
Just an analog one, the RunCam night eagle 3
Almost endless quantities (for me anyway) of 3d printing filament and small electronic parts.
Imagine 1000 thread count linen. The cloud soft pillows and the nice mattress. (I’m not actually sure how much bed things are.)
I also enjoy being a warm, cinnamon bun.
Two chicks at the same time.
Office Space in the wild! Love to see it
… my favorite hobby “this week”
A basic road bike I guess? 😅
*hi-fives in serial hobbyist that also just got into bicycles*
(except there’s been a heat advisory where I live for the past week so I can’t ride safely 😭)
Ah! Same here… I just went 20 minutes really early in the morning 🤣
The wind is good when you’re moving but as soon as you stop for a red light… you die…!
*gets run over bc i didn’t want to stop and lose all my speed and the airflow keeping me uncooked*
2 years of yoga classes.
Or
All of the garden beds, fencing, and good soil I got for the garden.
If you already have a good computer, that much money could outfit an entire home music recording studio with decent gear, especially if you buy good used gear, which is easily available:
A couple of good super-budget guitars from Harley Benton (a Strat clone and a Les Paul clone), for about $300 (new).
A good Yamaha acoustic guitar, $100.
A bass, $75.
An interface, to get the music into the computer, $50.
A basic MIDI controller, $30.
A good electronic keyboard with weighted keys, $100.
Microphone, $75.
Headphones, $50.
Electronic drum machine, $50, or use the pads on the MIDI controller, or voices on the keyboard.
DAW - Reaper is free, and works great.
That’s approximately what I spent on my studio, and everything works great, and sounds terrific…
A couple pieces niche test equipment that I’ll ude once a year.
3 cheap synths but only half a more expensive one.
Reasonable amount of average magic cards or just a few good ones.
Half a graphics card.
Some nice wood for woodworking, but not that much if decent quality.
A flight ticket.
3 festival tickets.
0.5kg of ketamine.
A lot of 3D printing filament.
2 Warhammer figures.
3 years of swimming pool subscription.
About like 10 of the must have flashlights or a few good customs. Or one fourth of some really extreme ones.
Nice I’m a huge fan of fleshlights too.
A good number of games on my PC.
Anywhere from 3-100 books of sheet music depending on the books.
A bunch of used blu-rays.
A ton of used records.
A new set of speakers for my record and/or home theatre setup(s).
A new amp for my record setup.
A new pre-amp for my record setup.
A little over half the parts for a new gaming PC.
Around 3-5 vintage watches for me to fix up.
Some new tools for fixing up vintage watches.
About 7-8 pocket knives.
A new kitchen knife set.
Some new pots and pans.
Does alcohol count as a hobby? If so then 5-10 bottles of scotch.
Shit, I have a lot of hobbies. No wonder I have no money. There’s probably stuff I’m forgetting too. Damn.
A low-mid range PC. Maybe? Prices for components are fucking wack and I’m broke anyway, so I am not sure how far 1000 dollars would go rn.
My current PC was ~$900, built in 2019 and was for low-entry VR, or high performance in flat space games for 1080p res and 144hz.
You can probably build a decent entry level gaming PC for that, that can do the latest games at 1440p.
Ryzen 9600X, motherboard, 32GB RAM, and either a nVidia 5060 Ti or AMD 9060 RX with 16GB VRAM.
Might have to reuse the case, storage and PSU, but at this point PC gamers are used to cannibalising their old machines to save money.
Personally I’m hanging on with a 1060 6GB, and just using my PS5 for anything demanding. I thought the 1060 was dead the other day, but a quick autopsy and a can of air duster later and it was working fine again.
