I myself wanted one of those remote controlled air planes. I thought that’s the coolest thing ever. Once I grew up and had the money, I never bought it.
Nope. I realized that I didn’t even want it anymore so no point. I do pay attention to my current wants now though - gotta find that balance, Zen.
Oh yeah! I wanted a small RC helicopter, quite simple thing, never got one. I remembered that a few years ago & really got into pov drones. Another consideration was the factual impossibility for me to get a real pilots licence. So I took the cheap road. My wife’s opinion may vary.
I did get one. You know how drones have a buttload of sensors and computers to make them fly level and straight? Well what RC helicopters do instead of technology, is that they crash. A lot.
When the 3ds was relatively new, I saw one being sold at a garage sale for $20 bundled with Pokemon. Clearly just some old person who didn’t know its value. I wanted it so bad, but my dad said no. I didn’t have a game console until the Wii, and never had a handheld. I’ve always been a huge gamer, but I was basically forced onto PC lol.
I always wanted a cool Voltron toy with all the lions, but I never got one. When Lego released theirs I bought it straight away.
The giant metal one that broke down to the 5 lions and could transform was the pinnacle of childhood toy wants.
I have the Voltron from the Netflix series and it’s frigging great.
yes. do it, op. make younger you proud.
Kind of. I bought a SNES mini loaded with ROMs for about 10 different retro systems. Now I can play the games I didn’t get a chance back in the day.
Play Earthbound, please!
Have a few times. Kept getting distracted and never finished it though. Maybe I should try again. The last game I played through was FF6, and I haven’t found another one to waste my weekend on.
I bought a ton of ps1 , ps2 and ps3 games recently that I couldn’t afford before. Also I buy my son Lego sets he too young to build himself and make them for him because I find it really fun .
Other than that I mostly eventually got all the things I wanted because I didn’t really want much. The only expensive toy I wanted was a proper RC car and a PC but I bought those both with my own money that I had saved. I was a frugal kid.
Utterly ashamed to see Finnish plates on that. Hope you get taxed to death on it 😂 There’s simply no need for such a horribly polluting machine like that
There’s simply no need for such a horribly polluting machine like that
I’m a contractor. It’s my work truck. Hauling lumber and cement bags with a corolla is a bit difficult.
Builders with vans and tippers laugh at you behind your back 😂
There’s simply no need for such a horribly polluting machine like that
Whatever as long as you don’t don’t need to admit that you were wrong. And a huge asshole.
I’m literally a builder mate. You turn up in a fannymobile like that, someone will tear you a new arsehole for it and ask you if you need tweezers every time you go for a piss 😂
I don’t understand people like you that are intentionally mean to others on the internet. I don’t understand what you get out of it. I’ve been dreaming of a truck like that since I was a little kid and here you come pissing all over it, call me a micro dick and just overall act really shitty to a complete stranger for no reason. You know literally nothing about me except what kind of car I drive. I’ve done nothing to deserve this treatment. You honestly seem like a horrible person. Just go away. You genuinely made me feel bad. Thanks alot man.
If you want to dress up like a cat and walk around meowing at people, fire away, you’re not harming anyone. You want to play Dungeons and Dragons? Fire away, you do what you like doing.
But when you’re one of the millions upon millions who think “It’s only one giant truck,what harm can one giant truck do?”, it’s my duty as a resident of mother nature’s planet to make you feel bad
I never got that Gameboy I wanted, but that’s OK, I’m made up for it using emulators years later.
i finally got the gameboy and the screen was so dim it was unusable, and the batteries 4x AAAA lasted maybe an hour.
If you really want to play games on the classic devices, consider checking out IPS screen mods that add a backlight to most models of gameboy. I’ve also seen rechargeable USB-C battery packs mods people install
Same here. Got one a Miyoo Mini+ and put a community OS on it and a curated set of ROMs. 10 year old me would love it!
But turns out as an adult I just don’t have much use for it. The down side of being much more in control of how I spend my own time lol
Emulators were a godsend as a kid. I was lucky and had a cousin who was way into that stuff and set me up with several burned cd’s with zsnes and tons of ROMS when I was around 12. I experienced so many more games than I would’ve otherwise!
People talk about needing the CRT filters and blah blah to have a realistic experience, heck. Sharp pixels, Save states and Fast forwarding through unskippable stuff have been part of the experience for me for 25 years! Fanmade romhacks and expansions (like for chrono trigger, which I would never have experienced without emulation) are awesome!
Also: Rewind is the coolest feature. Even better than save states, it’s like you can undo every stupid mistake without having to plan ahead. It would have blown my mind as a kid.
I had a Commodore 64 as a kid but we couldn’t afford the disk drive (it was as much as the computer). I had to settle for a cassette drive. About 15 years later, I was at a garage sale and saw a C64 with disk drive but no cords. I asked the seller if it still worked. He said “For a dollar, does it matter?”. Still have them.
PRESS PLAY ON TAPE
Yeah that drive was $200+ if I recall correctly. I had to live with the tape drive for a year or so, was not fun. Then my mom bought me a Blue Chip drive because it wasn’t so expensive. It did not work well and she still wound up buying the 1541 drive. Thanks mom.
And the disk drive was still slow as shit. I always wanted an Apple //e and we couldn’t afford it. Biggest mistake my parents ever made imo, if they’d’ve sprung for it I might have gotten into tech 10 years earlier and I’d be filthy rich rn.
Anyhow, I got one, with Duodisk drive and everything. I regret nothing.
Sort of. My grandparents spoiled me growing up so I had a lot of fun toys, but lost them all in a house fire in high school. I’ve been slowly picking up some of my favorites ever since, everything from Mighty Max to Transformers to OG Gameboy games.
I always wanted these little cube things with an LCD on the front that had a stick man on it. There were various different cubes each with a different character, they basically went through little actions on the screen, and you stick the cubes together and sometimes they’d travel between them. I bought them as an adult, it was amusing very briefly lol
I still have mine from when I was a kid somewhere. Don’t know how those batteries are all still working but last I checked they were.
Trypticon. He unfolds into a base, and he walks in Dino mode, and he’s so freaking cool.
I saw him for $35 at a Walmart and never pulled the trigger. Still kicking myself for that.
Ditto. What the hell was I thinking. My inner voice of my 8 year old past self is still pissed at me.
I just want to say thank you to OP. I am going out and treating myself to all the stuff little me wanted
Jep, I bought a Furby when I first moved out. After about 2 months it stopped working (didn’t even drop it). So I cut it open, the cheapest piece of electronics I ever saw for that price tag.
Foreshadowing for what I would soon learn about the adult world in general.
