• makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    You could buy a top tier modern deck, a couple of competitive standard decks, or a bunch of pretty good commander decks in Magic:the Gathering

  • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    3 cheap synths but only half a more expensive one.

    Reasonable amount of average magic cards or just a few good ones.

    Half a graphics card.

    Some nice wood for woodworking, but not that much if decent quality.

    A flight ticket.

    3 festival tickets.

    0.5kg of ketamine.

    A lot of 3D printing filament.

    2 Warhammer figures.

    3 years of swimming pool subscription.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It varies wildly, but I’d go with the level of quality I’d be paying for, not what the most you could get for that money would be (Also, I’m in the UK, so I’m kinda just answering for a grand in GBP to save myself converting). Also, I kinda rotate my hobbies so my favourite varies based on when you’re asking me. In no particular order:

    Music production: a couple of Eurorack modules or some percentage of a full synth, you can get cheaper stuff, but I’ve probably got equivalents available at that level already. I could upgrade my keyboard to a fancy new Komplete or KeyLab one. Software wise, if all my software and vsts released new versions and I decided to lose my mind for a minute, I’d hopefully be able to cover all the typical version upgrade costs for that price. (Realistically I tend to wait until a couple of versions have passed before an upgrade if nothing jumps out at me about it)

    Music listening (vinyl): 20-40 on records or a nice-enough-for-me pair of speakers. You could probably get 4 or 5 of my turntable (which would be silly) as it does the job perfectly for me.

    Music listening (gigs and festivals): tickets, travel and a good chunk of my other expenses to go to Glastonbury or European festival (got decent camping gear already, so don’t need to buy that). Tickets and travel, but not much for other expenses for a couple of smaller or city festivals. 10 arena gigs or 20-40 smaller gigs.

    Travel: big, big holiday ~2 weeks, maybe half the hotel costs, maybe less as I tend to go all out when it’s a long holiday. Shorter long weekends I’d hope to get my flights and accommodation at that price. If it’s a stag do or similar, I’d hope to pretty much cover all costs for that.

    Photography: I shoot full frame using a Sony alpha, so it might get me a percentage of a camera body or maybe a couple of decent second hand lenses (maybe 3 or 4 of the more entry level ones), of the lenses I’d like to buy, I think there is one I could get new for around that price.

    Gaming (pc): probably a new mid-to-high-end graphics card, games wise I pretty much exclusively wait until things are on sale on Steam, so probably at least a couple of years of steam spend. Oh I could get a couple of steam decks if I had a reason to buy more than the one I’ve already got.

    Watching football & rugby (live): I’m an Arsenal fan that lives in the north, so I’m probably only getting two chances to go for that price as I’ll need to factor in travel, hotels, meals and beers. I visit some lower league grounds nearer me every now and again, I reckon a grand would pay for a season ticket and all my concessions that year plus a bit of merch at most of them. My rugby team no longer exists, but I could see them 4-5 times a year with travel etc. before they went into administration

    Watching football & rugby (legally on TV): Need Sky, TNT, Amazon Prime, Premier Sports (predominantly for rugby), TV licence & if I was truly arsed about them, various one off passes for pre-season competitions. You’re probably not getting a whole year for that price unless you do the threaten-to-quit-sky thing and hope they give you a decent discount, you can also get away with sharing logins for some of these, but I was answering strictly legally.

    Eating a meal out (I like going to new restaurants so I guess it’s a hobby): I’d probably take my partner out for dinner around my city 4-10 times for that depending where we go, a couple of courses plus a bottle of wine and maybe cocktails.

    I… was not expecting this comment to become an essay lol

  • hraegsvelmir@ani.social
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    7 months ago

    Depends on how much you mind restoration/cleaning work for fountain pens. I’ve already got all the entry tier stuff covered, so buying new pens at MSRP would probably mean somewhere between 1-3 pens, depending on how fancy I’m looking to get. I already have an ultrasonic cleaner and plenty of repair supplies, so I’d be hitting up auctions, personally. Depending on what’s in the lots and how many people notice the contents, 1000€ would probably get me somewhere between 200-400 pens. Probably another 200 or so if I get to count what I could buy with the proceeds of selling off the ones I’m not interested in.

    • wjrii@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Ohhh, we got a sumgai over here. Nothing super fancy in my collection, topping out with probably a mid-range conical nib Sheaffer lever-fill, but I still regret selling my little marbled M200 with nib changed out for that sweet solid gold Pelikan BB.

  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    A decent road bike. Not top specced, and with none of the additional gear you’ll probably want, but you can definitely get started with €1k. I bought my current bike for approximately €700 and have upgraded + bought additional gear for probably a bit over €1k, but that has gotten me some really great stuff and I basically want for nothing in the sport.

  • Darren@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Depending on how much people think they’re worth, I could probably overhaul and mod 6 iPods.

    My other hobby is my little radio show. €1000 would set me up with a nice new controller/mixer, a half decent new second display, and a bunch of sound proofing for my studio. And that would be nice. I’m happy enough with my mic and headphones that I already have.

  • PlexSheep@infosec.pub
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    7 months ago

    All the Japanese language resources for a lifetime you need and then some more for lessons if you want.

    • Wanikani and Bunpro might be about 300€ together for a lifetime.
    • A few grammar books with extra exercises, like Genki, would be less than 200€ I think.
    • Writing supplies, a computer, Internet access etc is assumed.
    • 500€ Could likely get private tutoring for quite a few lessons I think. You may also want to look at courses by the nearby university or language school, or get additional support resources.

    Japanese learning resources are really amazing nowadays. Tons of good free content too, like articles on grammar or YouTube Videos by people explaining stuff. If you cut Wanikani and Bunpro and go with Anki (FOSS) instead for SRS, you can go really cheap.

    That is, the price you pay for learning the Japanese language is also that it takes a fuck ton of time to get anywhere. But then again, you understand Japanese after that, how cool is that??

  • glorkon@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I would probably buy a really nice Pechauer pool cue. Or another premium brand as quality equipment is pretty important for pool players.