I bought a warhammer. Then I bought a second warhammer. Don’t regret either purchase.
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24gb GPU
Tossed a hefty chunk of change on a Maschine+. AKA fancy beat pad for finger drumming/music production that can operate as standalone device. Did catch on sale, but still a hefty investment.
While not as “responsible” as other things I’m saving for, it’s been a fucking blast! Always fun having an easy way to kick beats without schlepping a full kit, and tbh I have so much more potential for making weird noises with the pad.
I always look at things like these and are tempted to buy them. There is so much cool audio gear out there that I feel like could “up my game”, but then I realize I have no game and already own a bunch of fun production gear that collects dust because I don’t have the time or energy to make music anymore.
I considered selling some of my stuff, but want to hang on to it just in case any of my kids pick up the hobby and all my stuff is cool and “retro” at that point. Shit it is almost already cool and retro - Akai MPC1000, Korg Electribe SX ESX1, Korg KP3, Dsi MoPho, a couple other bits and bobs.
But yeah, always tempted to buy cool new awesome shit that I would never use.
That’s the curse, man. Finally got fun money budget (kinda), but also got zero damn free time. Don’t even have kids! Where the hell is all the damn time going?! HOW is it the last week of August?!
Definitely would keep the gear to try and share with the kids. Old music tech is dope! Old tech in general, still quite cool. Loved hitting retro games on the thicc floppy back in the day. Or whatever other gadget pops would have around. Cherished times.
My most irresponsible purchase was definitely a high end stereo system. I got into it in college after hearing some amazing rigs. It’s the irresponsible thing I’ve always wanted but really couldn’t afford (starting life, marriage, kids, school bills, etc.). Eventually we had saved enough where we had some $ leftover after getting lucky timing things in the housing market.
I begged my wife like a kid begs his mom in a toy store (I’m not proud). She didn’t get it, but was all “do it if you want it that bad.” It. Is. Awesome. It has gotten used everyday for like 7 years now. My wife has even become a big fan - she “gets it now, this is awesome”
I have to pry her music away from it to play mine! :) My kid’s friends like to come over our house and hang out watching movies and listening to music on it. Totally frivolous and way too much money - but no single thing has brought people together quite like awesome music.
100% would do it again.
What set up do you have?
- Emotiva 5x200w modular amp
- Marantz pre pro
- Ascend acoustics towersx2 up front, sierra2’sx2 rears, horizonx1 center
- Pair of Rhythmik sealed 15’s, with integrated amps 600W each
- Misc. stuff - blue ray player and whatnot.
I really like the ascend stuff. Most of my audiophile friends can’t believe the bang for the buck. Tough purchase though - internet only. No easy way to demo unless you find someone in their forums willing to invite you over (which I’ve done).
I also really like the Rythmik subs, but only as a pair.
I hate my marantz. That’ll get replaced soon. I’ve got my eye on Anthem’s gear.
Amp is fine.
where we had some $ leftover
- Emotiva 5x200w modular amp - $3000
- Marantz pre pro - $3,199.00
- Ascend ELX TOWER SINGLE - $2,649.00
- Rythmik E15HP/HP2 15" Subwoofer - $1,599.00
Prices taken from first hit I found. Total ~$10500
I’m not judging (I acutally somewhat envy you), I am just saying that $10000 is more than some leftover money.
Moved across country for a job. Super high market to one less crazy. Had to do stupid things to buy into the first market, recouped that money and reinvested it back into my retirement (where it belonged) when we moved back. Decided to have some fun as well. “Leftover” in terms of housing money is where that term slipped out from.
It was insane $ for me ;) But it was something I wanted for almost 30 years and couldn’t afford. It’s insane what you can spend on stereo equipment. My wife and I both drove cars until they broke, 14 and 15 years, both over 350k miles. Some people buy sports cars - we chose a stereo ;)
That would involve quite a bit of begging if I were to try that too.
Excellent and nice choices! I feel the same way about the Revel F208 speakers I bought a while back. Completely didn’t need them since the Revel F36 were already pretty good but oh was the improvement noticeable. I honestly don’t think I will replace them as long as the are working properly.
I blew way too much money on a stuffed dog at a hotel general store for my wife. We were driving a Uhaul during a snowstorm to move in together. The roads became very slippery so we decided to sleep through the storm. It was our first hotel stay together and money was very tight, but it was a romantic gesture. She cherished it until our son claimed it as his own personal “security blanket.”
What the fuck kind of hotels have a taxidermist on staff and sells stuffed dogs. That’s like seriously fucked up.
lol I’m an idiot. I just finished a rewatch of Mr. Robot in which a taxidermist that stuffs formerly living animals plays a prominent role. That show kinda fucks with my head and messed up my perception of reality for a while.
Perhaps I should have said “plush dog.”
lol I’m an idiot. I just finished a rewatch of Mr. Robot in which a taxidermist that stuffs formerly living animals plays a prominent role. That show kinda fucks with my head and messed up my perception of reality for a while.
No worries. Misunderstandings happen. 😀
This is hard because of I like it then I don’t think it was irresponsible. Generally the irresponsible things I purchase are more like monthly things or meal deliveries. I can’t point at one thing and say “that’s it!”
Subscriptions, those must be the only things I reflect on that feel irresponsible.
Particularly anything around Apple because they’re impossible to cancel
Possibly a year subscription to Incogni and Discord Nitro Basic then.
- Incogni: I love the idea of this service but as soon as data brokers get more info on you they can keep it again even after the deletion request (as far as I know). I hate that this needs to be a service and I hate that it is a subscription model instead of a one time fee.
- Nitro Basic: I just wanted to use emojis lmao. Nitro Basic is cheap but still, it was giving a company money just to use fancy emojis 🤣. Also I sort of stopped using Discord.
3 gm/3 ml of oud oil for $650 plus shipping. Was amazing! No regrets whatsoever.
What do you use it for? Anything more than perfume?
iMastari
You burn the wood as an incense. Oil for “perfume”.
During COVID, I went a bit mad and got really into collecting Transformers action figures. I’m still not entirely sure why. One day I just bought one on a whim, and before I knew it my closet was full of unopened, mint condition toy robots.
Anyway, Christmas rolls around and I see a flyer for a local toy drive. A sudden compulsion hit me, so I loaded up my entire stash and donated the lot. Just like that, the spell was broken. Not even Soundwave was spared.
To this day, nobody in my life knows that I spent thousands of dollars on plastic crack, only to foist my addiction on some poor, unsuspecting kids. I like to imagine the War for Cybertron rages on in their hearts.
Not even Soundwave was spared? Shit dude. That’s some hard core cold turkey.
Turkey? Dude, his name’s Laserbeak.
A very very expensive sixth scale action figure
As of right now, a bunch of Magic the Gathering cards. I have nobody to play with. I regret nothing.
There’s another purchase that would’ve been one of the most irresponsible of my life, but the seller didn’t actually have the thing in stock. No, I won’t tell what it is, I’ll just let you folks imagine
My dog
Tickets to Avatar: The Last Airbender in Concert and the merch I bought at it. I spent something like $200 in total, but it was WORTH. EVERY. PENNY.
Those are fun! I went to 4 or 5 of the Harry potter movies in concert. It’s a fun way to re-watch older movies on a projector above, while having an amazing live orchestra play through the whole movie. It’s really cool that the orchestra director can follow along with the electronic karaoke-like metrenome and keep everyone in sync with the movie the entire time.
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They didn’t show full episodes from the show. Rather, it was clips from the show organized around specific characters, themes, or moments from the show. Sometimes (not often, but sometimes), they would use voice lines from the show as well.
For example, (Avatar: The Last Airbender spoilers)
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they had clips and music about Iroh. It included, of course, Leaves From the Vine with audio and clips of Iroh singing it. I cried through that whole segment. I don’t think there was a dry eye in that theater.
For the encore they made an entire song out of
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the Secret Tunnel song :::.
Six motorcycles in 2 years
I thought I was crazy with a beginner bike into a fast naked bike within 12 months lol. What are they?
I still think of myself as a beginner but I am obsessed with doing everything I can to be as safe as possible, thankfully I also think learning safety is fun!
In October 2022 I bought a 2001 Kawasaki w650, that was my first bike since I briefly tinkered with dirt bikes about 10 years prior. I sold that this spring.
That same year in November I picked up an 82 Kawasaki ke100 and a 2004 KLR650.
This spring I picked up a 2019 Kawasaki z900rs and a 2017 KTM 125 SX.
A few weeks ago I picked up a KLX300, which is the first new thing I ever purchased, and I just finished putting the 650-ish break-in miles on it yesterday, so I’m really excited to take that on the trails now.
I think what I’m finding is riding very different bikes in different ways teaches you all kinds of different skills that are transferrable to all of them in subtle ways.
What are you riding on now?
My first bike was a 2006 Suzuki GZ250, a little beginner cruiser bike with just enough power to keep up on the highway with it pinned in top gear. Comfortable and fun, especially around town.
After 3500 miles on the GZ, I made quite the jump to a 2012 Triumph Street Triple R. I wanted something sportier but still fairly comfortable (vs something like an R6, where there were plenty available near me). I didn’t want something heavy or something that I would grow out of soon. I’ve only had it for about a month but so far I’m loving it! It’s incredibly fast (to me ofc; can’t even imagine what a literbike feels like), I really need to be careful with it lol
The funny thing about bikes is they’re all so fun. I put over 300 highway miles on my klx300 over this past weekend and that hardened my nerves way more than the capabilities of my z900 did!
The great thing about higher performance bikes is that, while they can certainly go way faster than we should ever ask them to, they can also maneuver way better than we should ever ask them to.
They all bring me so much joy in so many different ways. I absolutely appreciate my sport bike like an engineering marvel (I’m pretty simple), and getting slightly naughty on it when no one is around is definitely thrilling, but honestly the bike rides so nice that even low speeds feels so good, and high speeds don’t actually feel so high. The little bike is kind of the opposite in a way that’s also fun anyway. It feels naughty even when it’s not haha.
Anyway I hope you’re staying safe out there. It’s the best way to have fun for longer!
I get the thrill of going fast on a slow bike like the GZ250. I have dragged pegs and asked it to do ridiculous highway trips (once 80mi of highway in one go, on a bike that can barely do the speed limit), and I even tried offroading the poor thing. (I dropped it a couple times lol)
The Street Triple is a whole different beast. One that tempts me to go way too fast. Luckily, I can (usually) resist those temptations and just cruise along.
I am being safe. I keep any slightly naughty things away from traffic, and I am ATGATT. It’s weird how unsafe some riders are, just today a bald man on a cruiser passed me on the highway with no helmet.
Ya a lot of folks make a lot of poor choices. I’m sure I do too.
I like to take note of any way I could have done something better in a ride, even if it’s just something simple like getting passed by a car before I knew it was there – a mild reminder to always be checking the 360.
How many do you have now?
After selling one and borrowing a dirt bike for my kid, 6 are in my possession, but the one I’m borrowing is grown out of now.
I have an 82 Kawasaki that needs minor engine work, and to get sold, a newer retro sport bike and an older klr650.
I’m thinking next year I’ll sell the sport bike and klr and consolidate on a larger adventure bike, taking my fleet down to 3.
One mx bike, one klx300 that is capable on dirt and road, and one sportier adventure bike. That way my kid and I can ride trails anywhere and I can do some nice trips too. We can kinda trade off depending on how we feel like riding.
We bought a demilitarized Humvee (HMMWV). It was like 10 grand, and it’s cool as hell.
You don’t use this as a daily drive vehicle do you?
Definitely not. But we do a lot of projects, so it’s our “truck”. And we like to have fun, so it’s our offroading vehicle.
My Triumph Street Triple R (when it works).
After taxes, insurance, and service it cost me $5000, but when I twist that throttle and hear that screaming inline-3 at 11000rpm pulling harder than a V8 mustang, its intoxicating and I forget my worries, if only for a moment.
reliability problems?
So far it’s just been the battery not being screwed in tight enough, and me not having the correct tools to screw it in tightly. Other than that it hasn’t had a problem in the 300 miles since I got it (recently). I’m such a noob at mechanic stuff.
