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[–] [email protected] 208 points 2 months ago (24 children)

It's really common advice to not start with the cheapest gear. Yes a lot of us learned to play on dime store guitars but would have suffered less with a quality instrument. The same is true for just about everything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Skateboards with no pop. Guitars with shit intonation. More broadly: consumables that wear through too quickly and cause people to nope out of the hobby because it is ‘too expensive’, the list goes on.

There is something reassuring about quality gear because beginners don’t always know or properly understand this stuff.

With that said there is a point beyond which those returns begin to diminish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Same in road and mountainbiking, we have BSOs, bike shaped objects.

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