An electric keyboard (Casio Privia s1100). I played the trumpet in high school and wanted to get back to it but trumpets agent exactly the kind of thing you can practice regularly when living in an apartment. One weekend I decided I was just going to switch instruments and picked up a keyboard I could play with headphones on. Its been almost two years now and I love it.
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Didn’t know what to get my boomer father for Christmas so I got him an xbox. it’s been great for his mental clarity and for our ability to hang out more since I can’t often make the trip to see him.
I bought an E-Bike, the impulsive bit was not getting a normal bike.
I kinda just figured it would be fun, and probably useful for some longer trips through the city. It ended up being one of the most empowering things I've ever owned, I have a pretty nasty health condition with lots of really bad fatigue and I live in a hilly area. I was able to look after myself to a whole new level, it was in almost every way a mobility aid for me, it made it possible for me to get supplies and meds on bad days it was a game changer.
Anyway it got stolen a couple of weeks ago so that's cool
Sounds awesome (except the stealing part)!
My local government is pushing for people to bike more instead of driving, but if you have a decent-looking bike it will be stolen. Bike theft is so bad that there is a satirical movement to oppose biking until the bike theft situation has been dealt with.
Yeah my current bike is literally just an abandoned bike that I repaired, so I doubt anyone's gonna want to steal it. If I get another E-Bike I'll be a lot more particular about where and when I leave it, and use multiple locks
Spent a few hundred on a nice butterfly knife. I love the thing, it's my favorite knife.
Literally the same, what a great impulse purchase.
You'll love it!
I plan on replacing my laptop with it as well
the steam deck is the first pc gaming console. Steam deck, 3ds, and original PSP slim were my 3 big impulse buys that went well. The PSP only because it rules when you install homebrew on it.
I remember a ton of amazing LUA-scripted games running on it after that PNG-based jailbreak. There was these crazy Smash Bros and Dance Dance Revolution clones running on my PSP in 2005 and it blew my mind haha
I did exactly that, albeit with a 3rd of your hiatus. I want to play it every moment I get - I don't think you'll be disappointed.
giant OLED television.
My HP ProLiant DL380 Gen8 (awesome name, ik)
Was randomly scrolling through a local 2nd hand marketplace and saw it for an absolutely killer price and just bought it.
Thing's been great as a homelab/VM server/ Local dev server/NAS.
I went from DL380g6 to DL380g9 they are quite powerful for what you get. Also very noisy though. I have installed two p40s. I love it.
Well, I wouldn't call it a strictly impulse purchase, but I did get a steam deck because I was missing gaming and I'm glad I did. I haven't played in maybe a week or so, but I've put a good number of hours into BG3 so far. You'll enjoy it. I'm glad I got it.
I impulse bought a Steam Deck around a year ago, mainly for emulation, and haven't regretted it once.
Steam deck.
A bed, and now I'm having gooood sleep
Never underestimate the importance of having a good sleep! ❤️
Now get a thick memory foam mattress topper and never want to leave bed again!
I have power tools. I had like 7 batteries for them. I saw that they offered a USB adapter so I could charge my cell phones. $20. I quickly stopped using wall warts and standard battery packs. 5 amp hours, hot swappable, always a battery in the charger so I could never run out of power. Power tool batteries are built to higher specs than typical cell phone chargers so they didn't die after 10 chargers. The batteries are rugged so a drop doesn't destroy them.
My tools were stolen. I replaced all my Makita with Harbor Freight Hercules brand, their premium brand. Half the cost of Makita and actually better designed in a lot of areas. I quickly bought the USB adapter because I could never live without it again.
If you have power tools and always use them, I'm a handyman, then a USB adapter is a must.
Neir: Automata and Nier: Replicant were on a steam sale recently and I picked them up.
Automata had been on my radar for a while and I assumed it was just one of those annoyingly difficult souls-likes throw the controller at the wall type games that also (feat.) a Waifu—color me surprised with how in-depth and bizarre the world building and game design was.
Replicant had its issues but the remake was equally fantastic.
Both were wonderful surprises. Considering you just got a steam deck I’d say get both.
Fun fact: NieR:Automata is the sole reason DXVK (a huge source of Proton's performance) exists. The avatar for it on github (or its developer) is fanart of 2B
A puffco peak pro and 3DXL chamber. It felt insane to spend as much as an Xbox on a vaping device but honestly I fucking love this expensive little guy. He slaps lol
I have a feeling you’ll love it! Hooking it up to a TV is very functional also. If you use Linux at all you’ll feel right at home for the most part.
A $1 grand piano off of eBay. I had been looking around on stuff like FB Marketplace for a "real" piano after learning with a really basic keyboard for a while, and happened across a gorgeous 6'1" grand piano on eBay. It was reasonably close, the ad said it was in good working order, and they took very detailed pictures of basically every single flaw in the case. I called up a piano mover, and had them pick it up from the church, sight unseen. I was so worried that I'd made a mistake, given that the moving was still about $400, but I got insanely lucky, with a beautiful looking and sounding piano worth about $5k for basically just the cost of moving it.
Even $5k is extremely cheap for a good 6'1" grand piano in good condition.
I went on the low side since it's not in perfect shape and is an older (1985) Young-Chang built Wurlitzer. It was a church piano so it has some bushing wear in the keys, but still very playable, and had a broken string on D2 that was an easy $50 fix. I think after moving, tuning, the string, and eventually rebushing it in the next year or so, I'll have about $900-1000 into it all said and done. Still definitely a pretty inexpensive piano overall, but understandable why they might not have wanted to put money into something that was probably a donation to begin with.
Haunted piano?
So far, no ghosts yet! Only haunted by the vague odor of the church it was in before, so it kind of smells like an old lady's house, but it's going away pretty quickly.
What an amazing story! Its always amazing the stuff you can find second hand 😁
While back I randomly got a little over a thousand bucks from the state and I used some of it to buy a PS5 just for Bloodborne and Demon's Souls but I ended up really loving the adaptive triggers. Motion and gyro controls are kinda lame. I can take or leave rumble/vibration. Adaptive triggers, however, are actually fucking awesome. I want to see it adopted more; maybe it'll be something most consoles have next gen.
The system itself isn't bad, either, I guess.
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