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What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Flight simming. Started out with a cheap joystick. Now I have an expensive one, throttle quadrants, rudder pedals, a vr headset and I've built myself a button box and a flight seat. And I'm now I want a helicopter collective. Oh well..

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

lol at some point is is cheaper to take flying lessons?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

At $250+/hr for flight lessons, no.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

On the contrary, it's probably cheaper to build your own sim today than waste xx flying lessons on procedures you can learn in a sim.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

And you didn’t even get into the software.

Aircraft, scenery, support software like Navigraph, it all adds up. Fortunately aircraft and scenery are “buy it for life” and anyone who tries otherwise is liable to have rocks thrown at them.

VATSIM is free however, and that’s part of why it’s so great.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sim racing is very similar. Started off with a $150 wheel, then $300 with $300 “rig” and $200 pedals.

Now I have something like a $8-10k rig with bass shakers, hue lights and the works.

I just dick around in dirt rally and ATS

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bet it still doesn't come close to simulating real driving.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I’m not sure what this is supposed to mean but even Max Verstappen and a lot of real life drivers all use SimRacing to learn tracks and hone skills.

Conversely there’s also been SimRacers who went on to become real race car drivers.

You’re not going to feel g forces but there are motion kits out there that will really bring it to the next level. Just look up dbox simracing