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[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 minutes ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago)

I still want a spaceship capable of FTL travel. And teleporters. And replicators. And a utopian post-scarcity society.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 46 minutes ago* (last edited 40 minutes ago)

More from my college years, but an ex made off with more than half of my video game collection right before scalpers/speculators started driving prices through the roof. Most of my GameBoy games. My favorite GameCube games. All of my Genesis, GameGear, Xbox360, and N64 games plus each of those consoles. Including multiple complete in box games. The argument was that she found and bought some of what she kept, but it was always bought using my fucking money. She didn't have a job past our first year together. Really had me swindled. Don't mingle finances until you're married folks.

From childhood? A whole bunch of LEGO sets that are either out of print now or are still stupid expensive. Hard to justify $50+ on LEGO.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I've always wanted to visit a factory. I've been in an airbus factory and that was nice, there were Tibetan monks there too. But it wasn't like a factory factory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Not sure if you were going for answers more like "ice cream for dinner every night" or "not having glass bones and paper skin, not breaking my legs every morning and not breaking my arms every afternoon".

My frivolous answer is a balcony. My depressing answer is a best friend and/or a sister close to my age who is nice to me. OR for my dad to die. OR to wake up and learn that my life was a dream and I'm someone else.

Idk, I was a depressing kid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

You can get a good quality repro cart, repro box, and repro players guide all together on AliExpress for ~$80 if you shop around. Or at least you could a year ago.

Still super overpriced, but cheaper than dealing with a scalper.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You never emulated it either?

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

Of course I have. But I am a physical game collector.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Freedom, my own place, stability.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Being able to exist without making my existence political

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Wast amounts of money.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

HeMan castle set.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Happiness and peace of mind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 35 minutes ago

Feeling loved and lots of hugs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I mean it's been like 20 years, I'm over it, but kid me is still angsty

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

I had a couple of idols in my childhood I wanted to meet (technically three, but I kind of accepted the third would be out of the question). I met one, and am proud to say we're great friends who regularly communicate, but the other one remained unmet, and a few years ago, he sadly committed suicide. RIP Jason David Frank.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

Less mental illnessess and back problems.