Mine… My Xbox 360 slim only costed 129 euro back in 2012 and to this day still work like brand new, you would think that the disc drive would stop working but no. Never had the need of open it or clean it’s insides. Still great, I just don’t use it anymore since I feel it’s outdated and loading speeds are better nowadays.
I bought a straw hat for a dollar at a yard sale as I walked past during my job delivering packages
Coming in second is a goofy novelty cane I got from a dollar store and used for a while for a leg injury
Third is a box fan for 20.
I’m still loving my iPod Classic. I got it a little Bluetooth dongle so I can listen via my hearing aids. I find iTunes beyond irritating though and am always looking for an alternative for adding music.
Back in the day, I installed Rockbox on mine. completely eliminated the need for additional management software, just drag&drop my music via a file explorer.
Ooo I haven’t thought of Rockbox in a long while!
I still have my SanDisk mp3 player for audiobooks. It feels more straightforward to use for that purpose and the battery lasts for like 3 days of listening and is lighter than my phone.
Oh man… I didn’t even think of flashing the old iPods I have. But now… I might seriously fix the one that I prepped for a SSD.
Simple reusable tie wraps. I haven’t bought any in years because I can just undo and reuse.
For me, it was probably the Yakuza games series on sale at the PlayStation store. I don’t game very much, so I wait to get things until I find them near free, and during the start of Covid I went looking for a game and got Yakuza 0 for $5. Got probably 100 hours in that game, and I picked up all the others (1-7) all for about the same price, so I’ve gotten hundreds of hours of gameplay for less than $50.
It’s sort of GTA-like, but the protagonist is actually a good person, so I enjoy it more for that, and it’s more minigame centric. There’s some great story, and lots of funny gags throughout.
I tried Yakuza 1 once but I just couldn’t enjoy it. Is too weird and there’s too much standing around taking. Too much pauses.
Nothing wrong with that. It’s not as constant action of a thing for sure, the real fights being spread out after the exposition is what makes them more impactful to me, the regular street fights are mainly just grinding while you get used to the combos and are kinda boring. The varied minigames give you a break, and I like the comedy bits to swing the mood back and forth from serious to funny. I enjoy the GTA games, but find them much darker and the protagonists aren’t as likeable to me. Yakuza has Kiryu as a relatively good guy, and the games are all mostly in the same city over the years, so you see the city grow, businesses come and go, and you see your NPC friends change jobs over the years, so it is a really organic experience, but it’s not all fresh and brand new, so people could get bored of being in the same places a lot of the time. It’s more of a book experience than an action movie.
Hit up 8 yet, or waiting for a price cut? I played it subbed cuz man that Kiryu dub was not it.
Also, gave Ishin or Man Who Erased his Name a shot? The former is its own thing but the latter ties in with 7, does the boss fight from 5 right, and has a peak ending.
Oh and if you haven’t messed with them, Judgment and Lost Judgment are both great, their own protag and crew, but set in the same universe. Highly recommend and on sale fairly regularly. I know their on half off ish on Steam atm.
I’ve done 0-7, Like a Dragon, and Judgement. I have Lost Judgement installed, but haven’t gotten to start it yet. I’ve been meaning to finish Persona 4’s bonus content first, but haven’t touched it in a couple months. Very much looking forward to Ishin, though I hear it’s a bit slow on PS4. I don’t know much about Infinite Wealth or Gaiden, as I’ve been trying to stay spoiler free as much as possible.
The dubs of Kiryu and Majima took me right out of Like a Dragon! I didn’t know they were going to appear, and when they did, it felt like “Fake Kiryu” from the other games showing up with that voice. That’s not my Kiryu! 😅
I have Lost Judgement installed, but haven’t gotten to start it yet.
It does everything Judgment did, but better. Drone racing still kinda trash tho ngl.
I’ve been meaning to finish Persona 4’s bonus content first, but haven’t touched it in a couple months.
I know that feel. Like 2/3 done with Ghost of Tsushima and it just feels like a slog at this point.
I don’t know much about Infinite Wealth or Gaiden, as I’ve been trying to stay spoiler free as much as possible.
Gaiden happens during 7, so play it first. Other then that, recommend subs over dubs, as noted previously.
I wanted to like the go karts in LAD and the drone racing in in Judgement, but I’m so bad at both!
I enjoyed Tsushima a lot. I still think about how it ended, some of the paths the characters took, and how beautiful all the scenery is.
Ski goggles, and they’re still good. I got them like 10ish years ago after having to walk put in some serious sub-zero harsh January wind that was making my eyes hurt. $40, now my eyes are fine and my glasses stay nice and snow-free.
I’ve lived in Chicagoland all my life and sometimes the winters can get almost Minnesotan, so it pays to have some quality eye protection.
Handheld car battery jump starter. $20 off Amazon, worked through two winters.
My father got a toaster at a garage sale back in the 1970’s. That was the toaster I grew up with. When I was moving out, my parents happen to be replacing it, so I asked for it. I did some research and it is a GE toaster from the mid 1950’s. I have used it for the past ten years and it’s still going strong. It’s maybe a bit small for some slices, but it’s hard to argue with 70 years of near continuous service.
This reminds me that every night I set the alarm on the alarm clock next to my bed. I bought this alarm clock in 1991 in a Caldor store for less than $10. It has a little light bulb in it that I’ve changed 3 times.
33 years. Not bad.
I bought a RoboGrip, self adjusting wrench, maybe 35 years ago a a Sears iirc. One of the best tools I ever brought and still going strong.
I got a racquetball for a couple bucks. I place it against the wall and use it to work out knots in my back and shoulders. Better than expensive massage therapy. Better than muscle relaxants except for the worst cases.
shoes
they lasted 3 years, which is about 12x longer than i would have guessed.
Stackable prep bowls for the kitchen. They’re about $6 a piece and I have eight of them. I got sick of constantly running out of bowls when I was doing things like chopping lots of veggies for a soup or marinating tofu. I expect to reach the end of my “usefulness” before they do.
Similarly, I have a set of 12 rounded stacking mixing bowls. I use them a lot for tossed salads, but they are also useful for dough.
I don’t know why, but I read “stackable” and my brain went to “collapsible”. Was flabbergasted anyone was trying to mix dough in a rubber flimsy container lol. +1 for the stainless steel. All of the non-stick coating pans and pots are a complete scam of wasted money. If anyone out there hasn’t purchased stainless steel, just buy one pot or pan when you need a replacement. You’ll quickly realize you now have that item for life and it’s safe to use any cooking utensil you want.
When I first moved into my own place I needed a few pots and pans to cook. I bought 2 cheap aluminum pots with a non-stick coating and the coating is starting to disintegrate after like 3 years and light usage.
I should have just spent the extra 10 bucks to get cheap stainless stuff.
I have really fallen in love with my carbon steel skillet for general purpose cooking, including more delicate food like eggs. It took some time to get the hang of cooking with it and I still haven’t quite gotten the seasoning right, but it’s a sturdy piece. I also have a cast iron skillet, but it’s much heavier and I’ve never been able to get it to cook eggs. Since I started using the carbon steel for eggs, I have basically stopped using our non-stick pan.
I actively use a couple of appliances with a nonstick interior, an air fryer and a rice cooker. I just try to treat them very nicely but I know they won’t last forever. At least the parts are trays or liners that can be replaced separately from the appliance.
I also have a very nice 3 ply stainless steel pan, but I find that I don’t pull that out as much. Maybe because I’m usually not making the sorts of recipes that it excels with, like ones that use the fond to make a pan sauce.
My Logitech G203 is still alive after 8 years of constant use. Never tried to fix, but it autorepaired itself of double click (both buttons) , miss click and bad contact. At this point I am afraid of opening it to clean inside and it just cease to exist, I still clean outside tho.
Interesting that your double click fixed itself. Maybe it was just a bad case of lint or some dust inside your mouse?
I think all the double clicks i had to fix involved resoldering
I bought a fancy US made spatula for my grill. They make a smaller cheaper one that I added on impulse. That little guy is a champ and gets 5x the use of the big fancy one.
Plastic cutlery. Not the single use kind, but more like normal cutlery. Originally bought when my oldest was a baby, but now I’m the one using them the most.
I travel a lot for a living, and I often find myself arriving late, after any eateries in the area have closed. I started by packing a metal fork and some cup noodles in my checked luggage, but it didn’t take me long to instead start keeping cup noodles and plastic cutlery in my carry-on. This way I can go to bed without being hungry even if/when United (why is it always United?) misplace my luggage.
Our 10 to 15 year old 50" smasung LCD. Was top of the line back in the day, now its not 4k so that’s it.
Found it 3 years ago standing at our buildings garbage dump. Bought a google TV for it, and with my jellyfin setup it has been a blast as a bedroom TV
We bought a Sony 720P LCD brand new 15 years ago. Our first tv together. It’s still our only tv and works just fine.
