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A new main sail

A surprising amount as prices have dropped considerably in the past few years. (3d printing)

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??

A decent entry-level hardtail.

An enclosed core XY 3D printer with a material changing system with a built in filament dryer.

The Bambu Lab P1S is a crazy good deal. If you get it with the older AMS that doesn’t do filament drying, it’s only €800.

There are some issues with Bambu Lab and their proprietary nature. But I’ve very much loved my P1S, and while I’ve tinkered with and upgraded it quite a bit, I’ve never NEEDED to the same way I did with older 3D printers (other than standard maintenance).

You can get Prusa’s Core One for a bit over the stated budget, but only if you do the assembly yourself. Which is fun! But you also don’t get the multiple material system included in that price.

A couple pieces niche test equipment that I'll ude once a year.

I can get a lot of weigths and a sick power rack

Flight, hotel room, and entry fee to a major tournament. If you're splitting hotel costs maybe that'll cover 2-3 trips, and enough left over for a good fightstick.

One card in a vintage deck.

100s of components and boards

If I really wanted to go HAM, about one third of a Norbauer Seneca. For me in reality, my laser engraver, 3D printer, soldering station, and other tools I typically use to do keyboard projects probably all come together to be about EUR1000.

Would that it 'twere my only hobby.

digital art: i guess... a new drawing tablet? maybe a laptop that's also a tablet with pen pressure and stuff. would be neat

gaming: upgrade my pc (add a dedicated gpu, new power supply, water cooling, etc) + better peripherals

Few or many diseases depending on how I spend it.

That's at least like... Ten crunchwrap Supremes!

Imagine how much SALE steam games I can collect!

A practice pin, a new cart, and about 30 new discs!

... Or about one graphics card...

200-300 12" singles. Thus reducing my Discogs wantlist by about... 12%.

A hole in the water you can throw money into

Dnd A shit load of dice.

Bjj six months membership and the gi that comes with it.

About like 10 of the must have flashlights or a few good customs. Or one fourth of some really extreme ones.

about 100 nights at the cheapest campsite i know of that takes caravans

or about 17-20 nights at some of the more expensive ones

about 360 ESP32 microcontroller boards

One nice guitar or a couple decent guitars, one rare comic book or a shit load of common comic books

A Prusa or 76 spools of ASA or PETG from my local supplier.

A mid-range direct drive simracing wheel, or a very nice ukulele.

1L flasks, dimroth condenser, heating mantle, heating plate, materials to build an electric kiln, if i have anything left i'd use it on chemicals

and i'm probably already overbudget, home chemistry is fucked price-wise, we're lucky to have synthware for all our glassware needs but for equipment you either diy it or go broke (a good hotplate is ~500$ new, 200$ used in bad conditions)

Or a pair of boots, a great backpack, hiking trousers, helmet, harness and a "via ferrata cable kit".

Admission to all the folk dances I would visit in a year as well as the localish festivals OR admission and basic-mid range gear for a LARP fest

A pretty good but not fantastic camera or lens

Either a guitar.. or a gpu

A new practice basket. A new stack of practice putters. A cart. With plenty left over for me to get a few more backups for some of my favorite discs.