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  • My first parrot Johnny. I purchased him for my husband as a surprise Valentine's gift when we were dating/living together. While we had done our research and made sure we were ready to handle the responsibility, we were not financially in a great place at the time. My credit card was almost maxed but I made the impulse decision to call the company to get a limit increase so I could make the purchase. And while it did take me some time to get out of my young and dumb credit card debit I never once regretted getting my little turkey bird. He passed away from old age almost 2 years ago but I still miss him everyday.

  • right at the start of the pandemic I bought a nice projector and 135" screen, and converted our entire basement into a dark theater. It's really great for playing video games, watching sports, and obviously watching movies. Even with multi-view showing 4 events at one time like in the olympics it's still like having 4x 60"+ screens on the same wall.

  • Mini-split AC for my office. My central air always struggled to keep the room cool with all the computer equipment. Work & gaming is so nice now.

  • An Xbox 360 with a VGA adapter and Dead Rising. My TV at the time was one of those gigantic old 90s video editing CRTs, the kind that take all sorts of analog inputs like RCA and S-Video and even did HD if you could convert something to BNC, but pointedly would not do Component or HDMI. A few days prior I'd learned that VGA can be repinned directly to BNC, and then when I was wandering through Best Buy I saw they'd gotten some 360 VGA adapters in. I stopped, flipped a coin, called heads, it landed heads, I bought it.

    I'd figured I'd get some minor fun out of it, basically just bought it because I really wanted to play Dead Rising. Instead I wound up using the ever loving hell out of my 360. Still have it, still works, no RROD or anything.

  • I bought a high end home stereo setup with large speakers and a subwoofer with my first credit card when I didn't really have the money to pay it off quickly. Ended up paying an extra 25% of the cost in interest and had to really go cheap on food for a couple years.

    Still use it 20 years later.

  • 300 euro's worth of cocaine that I smoked in a day.

    I'm not proud of it, and I don't often smoke it, but it was a fun day.

    • Not to judge you or anything, as I really don't, but I think it'd be more accurate to say "crack", as in order to smoke cocaine, you'd have to freebase it. And freebase cocaine is crack.

      When consumed, cocaine can be found in two primary forms: 

      A water-soluble hydrochloride salt, which is typically snorted

      “Crack” cocaine, a water-insoluble base form that is smoked

      That being said I've inhaled a few hundred euros a night at times as well so again, no judgment. I'm just pedantic.

      • Crack comes from the crackle sound you get when smoking if you use baking soda to make the freebase. I use ammonia. Nowadays they just use the name crack for freebase cocaine, which isn't really accurate. Where I live we just call it smoking coke because almost everybody uses ammonia, and most people don't buy freebase directly.

        So to be accurate we should call it "freebase cocaine" and not "crack".

  • Second limited edition steam deck. My kids now use both of them.

  • $95 on a flashlight and then $50 to have it done with custom cerakote. To be fair, it's a badass flashlight. Consequently, that led to the purchase of a few other flashlights with similar features but much cheaper and without the custom coatings.

    See the attached image for more details and feel free to ask me any questions :P

    • I hope this isn't blatantly obvious, and I have a guess, but which is the expensive one? I really like the lit up buttons

      Edit: I feel it is the large one due to the similar textures on the others. Mind explaining a bit what makes the light special? Super bright, fun colors? I enjoy them, I just have never looked into the hobby

      • The expensive one is the white-ish one all the way on the left! That one is made of titanium (with the exception of the copper head). All the other lights are made of aluminum. Also, the cerakote coating is special because it changes color with heat! At rest it's a dark navy blue, but as it gets warmer it turns into the greyish white you see in the picture :)

        The special thing about each of these lights is that they're almost semi-custom made, you get to pick certain things such as the color and material of the body, the actual length of the battery tube for different types of cells, and most specifically the type of LED that gets put inside. They also use an open-source and insanely complicated user interface called Anduril 2.0.

        The fancy colors you see the lights putting out in the image are just auxiliary LEDs that look pretty. You can change what color they're producing or even have em do a little light show if you set them to do that.

        There's one guy who actually makes them, his name is Hank Wang. You can find his store at intl-outdoor.com. Considering the amount of customization that goes into these lights and the quality of the LEDs themselves, the value of them is actually rather amazing.

        In this image you can see how the beams vary in color temperature across these lights.

    • Hah! I use my mf01s every night when I go to bed. I turn on candle mode, give it a timer, and drift to sleep. It's an incredibly expensive night light but I love it

      • I originally came from Olights, I was a big fan of them. I never understood how people could complain about them until I finally had a flashlight with great CRI and tint. Also, the fact that these things use Anduril is incredible. After learning how to use Anduril 2.0, I hardly want to use any other flashlight!

        Needless to say, I'm done with Olight. I'm actually looking to sell them away lol

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