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
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
Two chicks at the same time.
Office Space in the wild! Love to see it
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.
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.
A mid range set of motorbike gear (dirt or road) or a very cheap registrable motorbike.
Alternatively a number of interesting secondhand cameras/lenses, the number ranging from one to many depending on what exactly. I’ll admit I have actually spent near that much on two backs for my 1960s era Hasselblad so you don’t even necessarily get a whole camera…
buddy you can get some sweet dainese or A star full leathers for 1k €
Yes, you can. I guess I should have been more specific because I was thinking of a complete kit when I wrote that (so including helmet, boots, gloves, etc) and you do need to set your sights a bit lower to make the budget work for that.
fair enough, safe riding
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
Either a whole load of books, fiction, tabletop RPG sci-fi. I would also need to buy more bookshelves to put these on.
A decent upgrade to my computer, maybe a new graphics card.
A sword or two, some better protective kit for sparring.
Not much. My main interest is digital privacy. Perhaps 10 years of service with Proton.
Do you really have no hobby? What do you do in your free time?
Maintain their digital privacy
I could get a copy of the original “White Box” Dungeons & Dragons set, although not an actual first print run copy, because those go for $20k. But I’d probably buy the last few Planescape products I’m missing, which are also unreasonably expensive for rpg books but not in the same league as the original dnd sets, and much more enjoyable to read.
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.
A few large sets, amounting around 12000 bricks, or a random assortment of up to 20000 bricks if acquired in bulk ( or like a bathtub of bricks if acquired second-hand )
Homebrewing. Either everything you need to get started and going for like €100. Spend the rest on tools and equipment and ingredients as you go and learn what you need and why you need it.
Or, as it seems to me is the middle aged man thing to do¹, buy everything for a complete microbrewery and insist it is absolutely necessary with the best of laboratory grade equipment for your first batch of IPA that will taste like anybody else’s first batch of IPA and the only solution is to keep spending another €1000 when you got it on better equipment and gadgets and dodads and quirkmaflixers in magical materials and still nobody will be impressed but that’s just because you didn’t have the correct temperature to the third decimal and dear we absolutely need to take a small loan on the house no listen this is an investment when I get this going hey baby wait listen…
¹ I’m a middle aged man so I’m allowed to use these words.
A nice OLED TV. I love watching movies.
Edit: Holy cow OLED is still very expensive. I’ve changed my mind: projector.
I’m on the last generation of plasma still, waiting for OLED or micro-LED to become affordable. I love watching movies at night in a dark room with proper blacks on the screen. I don’t understand why people would want lights behind their telly.
Bias lightning (proper white light) is actually helpful with led displays. It increases perceived contrast (i also think it helps with blooming a bit). Not needed for OLEDs though and coloured lights is more of a gimmick.
We got given one of those led strips that stick to the edges all the way around the back of the TV. We have it on red and it’s a great mood light in an otherwise pitch black room. I wasn’t convinced I would like it but everyone in the house does.
If you’re referring to the backlight on an LED TV, the one we got has “zones” so the bleed isn’t too bad at all.
This post caused me to look for the first time in ages and the QLED ones look interesting.
The mood light thing. Some televisions have adaptive lights that project colours of the screen on the wall behind. For me the telly is the window to another universe. I want to be immersed in the movie. I can maybe see the appeal if watching family entertainment and such but for me it’s a nope.
Yeah that’s Phillips specific as far as I know. Never seen it IRL but the reviews for it are good in that it expands your perception of the screen size but I totally hear you. The immersion is the thing for me too and I’m not sure how it would affect it.
