That’s why I won’t start painting 40K minis, even if I’d love to. I wouldn’t even want to play. Besides, I wouldn’t have anyone to play with, anyway.
Og dawn of war with unification is fucking awesome. It’s not entirely like the tt game, but I personally think it’s better.
That’s what happened to me and buying some old books. I’m kinda baffled how I manage to buy the same shit ten times cheaper all time while everyone else bitches the prices are insane. Like come on - these old books - you have a dozen ways to chip away the price by literally describing the yellowness of the paper.
“Turn your hobby into a business!”, they said. “It’ll be fun!”, they said.
Conlanging is a very cheap hobby. Quoth Tolkien in A Secret Vice
It is incidentally one of the attractions of this hobby that it needs so little apparatus!
My hobby is buying materials for projects and then not doing the projects.
Pssh, only if you aren’t turning all your hobbies into side-hustles.
What are you afraid of, besides completely burning out and probably still losing money anyway?
Craft beer for me.
That’s how expensive skydiving hobby is. Unless you’re an instructor. Then you get paid to skydive.
Same with motorcycling, unless you get paid $13/hr to be an MSF instructor.
I barely spent any money on my hobbies this year. I’m not some kind of sucker!
I merely spent thousands of dollars on materials and tools to build the supporting infrastructure for them!
I also have some very expensive computer parts waiting to be assembled. But they aren’t for any hobby of mine! They’re for the kid so we can play stuff without him using a computer twice as old as he is. 😉
How old is the kid, can they not be trusted to put it together themselves?
My hobby costs nothing after that initial ten years and a total of $10k investment in classes & equipment. Now with my own gear I can do it anytime, anywhere in favorable weather plus expending a shit-ton of physical exertion.
sex swing, huh? Yeah I remember my first one too
…the suspense is killing me! What is it?
If you are looking for an endless money pit, take up the guitar.
I have had a guitar for a few years and I haven’t spent a dime since buying it. Haven’t even broken any strings yet, which I already have 3 packs of replacements for because I thought they broke more often so I bought 4 packs when I got the guitar.
You definitely don’t play enough, or your strings a gnarly and should be replaced anyway by now dude lol
Edit: I change my strings every few months
That explains it. You haven’t played enough to get GAS, Guitar/ Gear Acquisition Syndrome, yet. One day, it will get in your head that the reason you aren’t improving is because you need a better guitar, and life as you know it, will be over.
Is there any real reason to replace them if they aren’t broken? I know they can get stretched out, but I thought that would affect the sound. They still sound okay as long as I tune it.
But I also only really practice twice a week and I’m not good at it.
They lose some of their sound, literally. This is very audible with the mandolin, it gets quite muted as the strings age. What a difference when you change them.
I think even that’s getting cheaper over the last couple years. Mid range guitars are getting premium features & qc out of Philippines and Indonesia is pretty solid, modelers are making a big collection of amps and pedals unnecessary for chasing tones. As long as you’re not a collector gathering signature serieses or looking at all the new releases giving yourself fomo it’s not too bad.
Oh, yeah, that’s what gave me the bug. I bought a Monoprice strat copy for $99, including a padded gig bag and shipping, and I couldn’t believe how nice it was. I still have it, still play it often.
I got a Harley Benton Les Paul copy for $158 (with $85 shipping from Germany, ouch), and loved it. Then I visited Nashville, and went to the Gibson Garage, where they had the exact same guitar, with all Gibson branding, of course. Both guitars are a copy of a popular style/color from the early 70s, neither is an original model. Yet, while my copy was $158, the Gibson version was $6700! You could argue that the Gibson hardware makes a huge difference, but even if I replaced all the hardware with Gibson branded stuff, it would still be only about $1000. You could try to argue that the QC is better on the Gibson, but $6700 better? I don’t think so, especially since my HB is perfect. I’ve had it a couple of years now, and I’ve never found any flaw in it at all. You could never rationalize that the Gibson copy is thousands of dollars better than my HB copy.
I’m a big cheapskate. I love to find old beat up guitars, fix them, clean them, restring them, set them up, play them for a while, then sell them. Or keep them if I like it enough.
It’s fun, but the money pit is bottomless.
My hobby is burning other people’s money.
…Joker? What are you doing on Lemmy?
EDIT: Nwm, he only burned his own share.
Do Thinkpads count?
Quite literally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Quid
These guys seem awesome. They deleted their backlog in like 1992 or '93 and said they wouldn’t release an album until world peace was declared.
They didn’t really keep that promise, but their next release was “K Cera Cera (War Is Over If You Want It)” in 1993, released exclusively in Israel and Palestine after the peace deal between Israel and the PLO.
Looks at ever growing pile of retro handhelds, tabletop miniatures and BDSM gear
Surely, it cannot.
