https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/14x6fr3/35hour_and_still_broke
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OP complains that they're broke making $70K a year. But some enterprising commenters delve into their post history, which demonstrates some very expensive gaming cabinets and consoles throughout OP's large apartment.
https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/14x6fr3/35hour_and_still_broke/jrmd6h0/
>I saw your post on your arcade room &….. Fricking heck…. You have money. Your entire place is massive with a ton of arcade stuffs that’s well beyond what the majority of Americans can afford…. This post smells like the one about the “self-made” woman who’s parents built her a $100,000 “tiny” home she could live in, paid for all her living expenses, made $60K a year working for her dad’s company, & only managed to save $7,500 for a downpayment on a 3% mortgage for a house. That’s pretty much OP in a nut shell it seems.
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>TBH I was on your side, as a g*mer myself… and I saw you defend your post history and I was like yea I respect that… then I looked… buying multiple arcade machines and having them in your house? Really?
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>The audacity and entitlement it took you to make this post while literally having an arcade in your apartment is fricking insane.
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This validates my hatred for people who collect arcade cabinets
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and it's a troid
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Keep noticing a pattern here
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Similar to arguing about student loan forgiveness with a friend.
He said a buddy of his had taken out $100k and didn’t finish. I was feeling sympathetic until he said the guy was still making $80k rn lmao.
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80k and not finishing is not that bad unless you live in leftoid paradise.
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correct lol, I was like that sucks but it seems to be within his means.
The way he phrased the costs it seemed like he did not apply for any grants, scholarships, etc. and just rawdogged $50k/yr
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Color me surprised
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well OP also has this expensive hobby too. we are all real jealous of a fat coomer troid with a waifu and vidya collection
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Theyre posting on antiwork about how poor they are
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Not poor just dumb. But then again that's the majority of "poor" people so maybe you have a point. Just further proves being poor is mostly a choice
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DIY MAMEchads stay winning
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It will always be more based to make something with your own hands. Than it is to buy it to just consoom.
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OP could honestly collapse all this down into a single gaming PC, stop burning through every dollar xze makes, and stop renting.
Sometimes, poverty is just a mindset.
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I'm a hardcore utilitarian in my personal life so the shitload of stuffed animals, posters, and other trinkets seem like such a massive waste of space and money tbh. Like, are they constantly using/looking at all of those things? I own a monstrously expensive computer system & related equipment but I use it for pretty much everything. I have some expensive kitchen appliances as well but I also use them constantly, etc. I don't understand the mindset of buying tons of crap that will be rarely used or can be better replaced with something smaller and better.
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Dopamine hits from obtaining "trophies"
Collectable consumer crap makes for good trophies, since you need no skill to "win" it... just money and maybe some patience
They could probably be sold for profit, but that involves a shitload more patience, guy will probably just keep hoarding instead
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I perform all of my shitposting on a Dell Laptop I found in Arby's dumpster in 2009
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MAME machine mogs albeit
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B-b-but X-Men arcade was lit
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I'll put you in a cabinet
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wtf is an arcade cabinet?
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I once DIY'd my own
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You gotta read her history too. Her nb partner is mooching and can't pass some simple entrance exam. Also, look at xer house. It's like a maze of shitty gaming systems.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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wtf its a
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Coomer, too
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I'm naturally revolted by anyone who has anime figurines. I think it's a deep-seated survival instinct.
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I see it the same as funkos or any other plastic toy shit, cool you got one of your favorite character from your favorite childhood show or you got it from a gift, whatever
But anyone actively collecting these things need to get separated from normal society
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I really liked some shows in HS.
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Don't worry, nobody would have expected better.
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In this case,
ing out is an inevitability, that or zxe becomes a neo-nazi.
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Figurines like that cost hundreds of dollars. Definitely struggling
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i wholeheartedly agree. OPs history is just page after page after page of consooming. no wonder he's fricking broke lol
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looks like those machines are all 1k to 3k, i sort of dont hate the way they look but putting them in the living room is weird
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You’re right so an even better idea is using the spare room
op is either very wealthy or financially r-slurred. Hes got a pretty good looking home so i wanna say wealthy
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definitely r-slurred I’ll tell u that much
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Its a
so 
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Awww man don’t taint silent hill for me
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Oh shit are you a former lurker????? Welcome to the big dogs den
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OP is r-slurred. It is a train that works like 30 hours a week and has a fully dependent enby partner that hasn’t worked in five years. Also rents that big of an apartment so they have room for their arcade games.
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No fricking way are they renters investing tens of thousands into capital that will end up in the dump when theyre evicted.
That would be insanity
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This might surprise you but most rentoids do not get evicted and you can actually rent moving trucks and dollies for $20 at U Haul
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In LA, makes 70k a year, claims apt is only 800sqft, yet has a spare room. Yea, something isn't adding up here...
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Its only 800sqft when you deduct the space all the arcade cabinets take up.
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marsey.pink
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It appears clean-ish but the anime, stuffed animals, and vidya make it look disgusting.
Also the cursive on the sign looks like it says “Heorens Mighvo”
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Lol yeah i see it now
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Wtf are you supposed to read it as?
The whole room hurts my eyes just from the lighting, I hope they play the games with it like that and lose their eyesight.
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I think it’s Heaven’s Might but I am not positive.
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You know they stay in that blue-lit room until midnight every night then wonder why they can't sleep
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Candy cabs are neat.
But you're getting them second hand so enjoy cleaning a couple decades worth of cigarette residue off them.
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there's no world in which they're worse than s....
smash player controllers.
Smash players are subhuman dogs who's genetics are as finely tuned as possible to produce nothing but g*mer gunk to ruin god's chosen controller.
Feast your eyes on a "new" controller that hasn't been cleaned in 6 months
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Cumtroller
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Dodonpachi
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Yeah, but it's SDOJ. Are you really in the mood for CBT?
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I'm always in the mood for its soundtrack, at least. But DOJ reigns as my favorite
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I used to know some guys who bought those. They told me they would do a group buy and fill a container for like $800 each, then pay more to ship it over land. Since that guy is in LA it probably wasn't more than 1k each.
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I had a coworker in his 30’s who pulled out of his 401k to pay off 40k in cc debt but ended up buying an arcade cabinet and a giant snorlax yogibo. He did not use it to pay his cc debt. I think he also leveraged his mortgage for this endeavor, but tbh I’m not 100% sure on what that means.
He even literally looks like a soyjak. Shit scraggly beard, nerdy glasses, open-mouth smiles. He disgusts me.
He singlehandedly ruined a lax overtime policy by refusing to do his work during the day, taking overtime to do it, and then would go out to a 3 hour dinner with the second shift crew. Idk what happened after as I had left by this point, but after his original manager quit, his new manager realized that he actually hasn’t done shit in all the time and money he took. I always assumed his old manager kinda felt bad for him and thus treated him like an r-slur that doesn’t know better.
Also he double-shifted all the time at a nearby Gamestop during some of his overtime. He apparently loves socializing at the job and wished aloud that he could live there.
He had a corporate card taken from him after he blew all their money on his friends at NYC Pride (he’s straight, but chaired the LGBTQ employee group).
He was also a s*x pest. Once a coworker invited a bunch of us to her home for a housewarming. He decided to get “wasted” so that “he didn’t feel comfortable driving home” and could guilt the host into crashing on her couch. Apparently not his first time doing this.
He also bought tickets for himself to sit behind another coworker at a concert when he found out she was going alone. He bought the ticket online in front of her despite her protestation and then immediately asked her if she could give him a ride cuz his electric car doesn’t have enough range to get to the concert. She did reluctantly oblige him.
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Anyone who can live rent free in your head for so long and cause you to write an essay like this has ascended from r-slur to chad.
You lost sweaty.
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This man would be forever etched into your soul, too, if you met him. The man is a being made entirely of an alloy of reddit and tumblr.
Honestly, he might even be a chad. I’ve never seen such unapologetic griftmaxxing go entirely unpunished. That girl did give him a ride. This man weaponized shamelessness.
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😴😴😴
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Redditors hate anyone better off than them which is basically everybody.
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Seriously, the OP has a few grand in stupid video games and theyre acting like "she" is a patek collector or something lmao
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Capitalism has failed, billions must socialize
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Candy cabs and rhythm game cabs aren't cheap either.
Plus you're probably paying shipping to import the frickers.
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He's getting dunked on in his other threads
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All g*mers should
be gassed
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70k annually is not hard to live in LA on. Redditors acting like $35/h is a poverty wage anger me to no end
I literally make 30k as a PhD student and I'm living just fine. If I had 70k I'd feel like a god
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You can post any shit on antiwork for easy karma. Of course, the question still remains why anyone would care.
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PalestinePingsalot 1yr ago #4569692 spent 0 currency on pingsSomeone help me budget this my family is dying
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I'm starting to notice that the problem isn't people not being paid enough but its people are too stupid to manage their money.
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Can someone post a pic of the arcade?
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this neighbor think he chief keef lmao
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https://old.reddit.com/r/transadorable/comments/13srrgi/1_year_woo
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Oh shit it was the goblin from yesterday.
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