Most of us done got da jizzob. We be bigger badder better 4 life!!!
After that it comes down to priorities. I COULD have my place be nice and toasty all winter long. I COULD buy a nice house in the suburbs. I COULD buy a pimped out sports car to pimp hos with.
But being 25 and single (non sugar momma wives take too much money out of the cool shit budget) I can use my money where it will do the most good. I live in a townhouse in a not exactly great neighborhood, but after my neighbors saw me practicing kendo in the back yard a few minutes after he-maning arcades in they know not to mess with me.
I CHOOSE to pinch pennies on things like the food budget. Man can live on rice and ramen (not that crap they sell at American grocery stores, I'm talking REAL instant ramen) with the occaisional splurge for the cheap Chinese buffet, or yakiniku after getting a nice bonus. I CHOOSE drive a tinyass Honda Insight with its pimp 73 horsepower to save money on gas and car insurance. It doesn't like hills, but I don't like bills. I CHOOSE to put on two sweaters at home, because the cost of natural gas keeps going up and up, and I don't get any warmer for paying more.
That frees up money for more important things in life. I CHOOSE to take those pinched pennies and jet off to Thailand for a month. I CHOOSE to drop the coin when it counts - I just bought a Domy Theater 33, I'm going to be buying at least 2 Egret IIs, hopefully an Aero City and possibly a box truck to transport them home. I CHOOSE to get by with MP3s of Hayashibara Megumi-sama's voice instead of spending an ever increasing amount of money on attempting to import the real things from Japan as the dollar dies and the yen beats the living hell out of every currency on the planet.
In a world of scarce resources wealth and priorities decide to who they are distributed. This is one of the very basic lessons in economics. Or you could say that is the how the MEDIUM TYMER enjoys a small taste of what it's like to be a BIG TYMER!
Of course, there is an easy way to be become a BIG TYMER without the hassle of that whole getting skills that are worth something in the marketplace hassle. I tell my students (I teach IT professionals how to be better IT professionals) that security isn't what it should be at financial institutions, because they don't have the time to keep up with how quickly hackers evolve. Having worked at JPMorgam Chase and having enough access, as a temporary employee hired for one project, to give myself full access to every account in the company, I stand by that statement. All you've got to do is hack into a bank, initiate a few transfers to a Cayman account, buy SNKP, shut it down, resurrect NGF in its place (bringing the magazine back too!) and reopen Neo Geo Land stocked full with the Neo Candy 100 you'll invent to become the NEO GOD TYMER!
