Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

Rajaah said:

...but why? It's portable. Is someone else at the house playing it while a road trip is going on?

I've known a few people who wasted money like this, buying "backup systems" in case their PS2 failed, or parents getting a second system for a sibling when the kids only had one TV. Also had friends who bought multiple copies of games so that one could stay in the wrap, or filled shelves with games (bought at new price) that they didn't ever open or play.

Most of these people later complained to me about finances, or not being able to pay their bills, or struggling to afford whatever. And I'd always be like "why don't you sell some of the $6000 worth of unopened games over here that you're never going to play" and they'd balk.

People acting like moneybags and just being overall wasteful, then inevitably turning out to be folks who can't manage their money later in life. Nowadays the in-thing to do is say something about "game preservation" to explain the need to buy buy buy and then wait to buy next product. People pretending they're the damn Library of Alexandria because they had no impulse control with their spending habits.

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In the case of old people, depending on how old, they are stuck in this mentality of "Plenty".

My parents are a bit better than my in-laws about spending money but it's basically 2 different issues from the same tree. Her parents buy way more than they need and waste a ton of shit.

We go to christmas, tell them "We have your gifts at our house, they don't need to unwrap anything here, it's okay." Nope, they still go out and buy like 200 dollars in junk toys that live 1/2 way through the visit because they are cheap Chinese bullshit. Makes me feel like shit because it's just flushing money down the drain and the kids don't need it.

Hell, I remember that they bought them this stupid orb toy with a fanblade in it that you could float from one person to another. Kid wanted to try it at night because it had lights. In-laws say to do it outside, I figure father in law knows best because he saw people using it where he bought it. We went outside, turned it on, lightly tossed it back and fourth a bit before wind (like..a light blow) came and took that sucker 10 feet into the air. We watched it float off into the distance, blinking lights and all. I just looked at the kid and was like, "we don't tell grandpa and grandma...ok?" meanwhile he is dying laughing after he had the *gasp* reaction.

Found out later that my father in law paid 40...fucking...dollars for it. He bought 3...