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.

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    2 tv’s side-by-side with 2 consoles for local multi-player. Dream achieved with a bonus wife to play with.

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    A whole bunch fo NERF guns. Rival, Elite, Vortex, I got a fair few over the years.

    Do I need them? Of course not.

    Did 15y old.me always want a dozen or so? Definitely!

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    A Honda S2000. I saw the first one in 1999-2000 before college, and I thought, hell yea I want that. So in 2008 I bought a brand new one that I still have.

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        It has <40k miles on it. It’s not in pristine condition, but it has been garaged for basically the entire time I’ve had it.

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      I bought a new '99 Civic Si but when I saw the S2000 I wished I had waited. I loved my Si - it was blue and I named him Moonshadow – but that S2000 is sweet. Will never forget driving from Vegas to SoCal and being passed by a guy driving an S2000. Or did I pass him? It was so long ago. One of us yelled “nice car!” and the other said “you too!”

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    I have a ton of different Nintendo consoles and lots of gameboy color cartridges for that reason. Good thing I collected them like 8 years ago because they are stupid expensive now

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    I have a bunch of those retro mini consoles on a cheap projector on an unprepared white painted wall (cheap projector and unprepped wall mimics crt blur very nicely)

    As a kid I wanted a Neo Geo arcade cabinet… now I have Metal Slug, Samurai Showdown and Fatal Fury on a 100+ inch “screen” (Not to mention the other consoles and switch)

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    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

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      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

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        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

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    A lot of the games I wanted to try as a kid

    Some of them aren’t as fun as I thought it would be, but at least I can still try them and confirm

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    When I was like 19 or something, I went into a restaurant, got seated, asked to see a dessert menu. I ordered dessert. Then I asked for an appetizer menu. And I ordered an appetizer. Then I paid, and left.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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          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.

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            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.

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              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.

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                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.

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                  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.

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      Being married can make things cheaper. 2 incomes, and most expenses are not doubled, like rent or utility costs. That is until you have a kid, then things can be as expensive as you let them get.

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        In most cases here, the woman doesn’t work because it’s very hard for them to get a job here. So they are in most cases just literally housewive with no income.

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    Really i’ve bought everything i’ve wanted as a kid, as a kid.

    Nowadays it’s less about what I buy and more what I build. Maybe one day I will have enough for a house, but I doubt it.