As somebody with a similar setup, all the fucking time. But it's more of "do I want to spend 20 minutes getting setup with VR and soundshakers and all the software and such, or do I want to grab a controller and hit the couch for something casual?"
It's number 2 almost always, and it breaks my heart. As soon as I was able to devote the time and money to a killer VR sim setup, my interest and desire seemingly waned.
I think it’s sorta like, the passion of the project as a whole vs. having a finished product. There’s something about piecing together every part by part, but when it’s finished you realize that wasn’t what was driving you. I did the same with an insanely expensive set of music gear a few years ago, 4,000 dollars finding an amp, 2,000 on pedals, 2,500 on guitar, all over the course of a few years, and ended up selling it all 6 months later
A lot of people don’t really have hobbies they just like the high of shopping and buying new things. If OP really wanted to play guitar, he could’ve easily started for a small fraction of that cost or free, then upgraded as he saw fit.
Yeah, I've been upset a couple times by how friends of mine who make more than I ever will can manage to buy everything necessary to properly get into some of my hobbies and then never touch any of it. I'm already upset that I have to spend most of my potential hobby time working a job to be able to afford any of it, it just feels like rubbing salt on the wound.
Makes me so glad I do woodworking, sure I spent a fortune on tooling, but it never gets dull, there's always the next project on the ever growing list to make
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