A)"I don't know how to make myself happy. I can only do so by bragging about what I have to others."
B)"I have more money than sense. It's my money, and I can spend it how I want!"
C)"It's a drug. Having the latest and greatest gives me a rush of dopamine like no other."
There's likely more, but that's what comes to mind, at the moment.
I pity the A group, see the B group as foolish, and the C group needs to get out more often...
You should be more charitable. We aren't all happy, satisfied with life and well-supported by anyone, especially with this quarantine. Go out? Where? Everything is closed here, or obnoxious.
I ended up buying a scalped oculus quest a bit after quarantine started. Paid about 180% of the price- i think the total came out to $700~ or so.
I didn't do it to brag. I did it because I was going absolutely insane when school went only online and I didn't even get the chance to go to uni and sit in class for a couple of hours a week, the Switch and most other things were in a similar boat, and PC gaming had really lost its luster with the newest shooters just being counter strike: redux: electric boogaloo with rootkit anticheat and cod: battle royale with bloated bnet software and quake: except not quake battle royale with bloated ubisoft software.
I had never given VR a shot and after I played VRchat with some other similarly stuck folks I really wanted to try it- and, well, now I have an index I bought from valve and waited on, since I had found something to really occupy my time and give me something to have fun with.
Especially since last year I had no money whatsoever, no chance or time to get or even think about anything, and now that I have gotten some extra I was willing to go a little further as I had achieved some life rebuilding.
Revise those to
"I'm not really happy right now, but this thing might make me happy, and the extra cost may be in the longer term more worthwhile than being depressed and more aimless until (indeterminate time in the future since April was the month of 'quarantine will last 2 months dont worry
'"
"There are no other options if I don't want to wait , the reasons for which can't be judged without directly asking me, and presuming every poor decision has to be predicated by smug indifference is an arrogant way to view life."
"This is what I do every single day, 10 hours or more a day, so the extra cost is absolutely worthwhile when it is my single primary hobby, and price : performance is not an issue when it's engaging enough to want as soon as possible. Consider price : performance : satisfaction." 5:1:10 might be a better ratio than say having bought a 2080 ti in the past 2 months and being at a 8:1:1 now.
It's people that buy things, after the fact, for MSRP, without really even needing or knowing how/why to use it, that are confusing to me. People who buy asap at least typically
know why they are buying asap. My example of the Quest (which was cool for a while but the index is much better) has unfortunately been ruined by Facebook but the amount of sanity it granted me in a turbulent time was appreciated greatly.
I don't make any claim of it being good to buy from scalpers. I view Apple as "legitimized scalping" and people actually defend them. That's what's absurd.
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