It's a big milestone of accomplishment in my life, but I feel weird just telling family members or my online friends about it. The only other people who know are my coworkers because we all got the same raise. Money doesn't go as far nowadays due to crazy inflation post COVID and my area has higher cost of living than where I grew up, but I'm still very happy about this. I remember back when I used to only make minimum wage. All those years of schooling eventually made their way back to me. I'll never make as much money as someone like a doctor, but it's definitely enough for me to live comfortably as a single person.

Anyway, I'll delete this in a bit (or sooner if it gets removed by a mod), but I hope you guys out there have a good weekend.

Edit: Thank you guys very much :)

Edit 2: Jeez there are so many more comments than I expected. You guys are so nice!!

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[–] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nice! What did / will you buy to celebrate?

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Tbh I was thinking about looking into getting a VR capable PC but idk! I've had an Oculus Quest 2 for quite a few years now, but the library and storage is pretty limited compared to PCVR. And I haven't played with it for a few years lol.

[–] SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I love it. This was very much the sort of reward I chose for myself when I finally crossed that financial threshold. I had already started to lose my enthusiasm for VR at that point but wanted a really high end gaming PC that could do VR, RTX, anything I threw at it. I went all out and tried to get the best rig I could at the time along with a giant curved gaming monitor. I didn’t build it myself and spent WAY too much on the setup.

I regret nothing.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah I don't have any interest in building one myself tbh. I know it's cheaper that route, but I'd rather go pre built and skip any headaches. Part of it tho is that I have no idea where to begin or what the cost will end up. The only thing I'd care about feature wise is that it's VR capable lol. How did you go about yours?

[–] SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I tried to find the names of major places that did custom rigs and then tried to find as many reviews as I could about them.

In the end I chose Origin PC. I would recommend them to anyone who has the budget. They do have some prebuilt options that you can choose from or you can customize, which is what I did. I got exactly what I ordered and have had no problems so far. I attached some pictures to show the amazing wooden crate they shipped it in (and it was well padded inside) and what my build ended up looking like (those were the default lights, I have a much more subdued lighting scheme now).

Origin Case

PC internals

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Damn that looks snazzy af. Hope you're enjoying it!

[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Look into a bigscreen beyond. I've heard good reviews.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Interesting, I've never heard of it before. It's not the headset I'm missing though, it's the PC.