I'm going to make a man cave and I'm trying to plan it all in advance. Can you guys give me your dos and donts so I can avoid common traps and not waste time or money on something I'm going to regret later?I intend for the room to have:>retro consoles space>retro computers space>modern PC space>3D printer>soldering station/projects and repairs spaceI already have all of this stuff, I just need to figure out how to make it all work together in one room without it feeling cluttered. I only plan to buy maybe tables, shelves, or chairs as necessary, and maybe a few posters or something for the walls. The room itself is pretty sizable.I'll write some more details in a comment regarding my collection to give an idea of what I'm working with.
>without it feeling cluttered hahahahah. you need more walls
CONSOLES:>Famicom>Super Famicom>PC Engine>Mega Drive and 32X>Saturn>PSX>N64>Dreamcast>PS2>Gamecube>Big Game Boy collection>Virtual Boy>Egret 2 mini and all of the add-onsCOMPUTERS:>an MSX two MSX2's>C64>Sharp X1>Sharp MZ-721>PC-8001>PC-6001 MkII>SORD M5>PC-8201
For the computers, I'm thinking get a corner desk and put a shelf next to it for storing the computers vertically. Keep the input for the video cable and a power outlet accessible from the top of the desk when sitting so I can just grab whatever computer I want and have it up and running in 30 seconds.For the consoles, I'm not sure. Right now I keep each console in a bin with it's controllers and cables. I'm thinking about doing a similar approach as the computers. I've got a little CRT so maybe put it on a little table and then have a shelf next to it with the bins and just grab whichever console I want to play in the moment when I want to play it? Hooking them all up at once sounds like a nightmare.Maybe get another corner desk for my modern PC, and use my current PC desk (big table) for the soldering and repair workspace.
>>12466741I have 4, isn't that enough?
>mancaveKys
>>12466739I recommend staying in school. Getting a college degree will help immensely towards a higher paying career so that you can maintain this sort of space. Gaining those social connections definitely assists in attaining at least a dual-source income or even multi-source incomes necessary for the current housing market. They say to build equity and invest so you have an emergency fund. I hope you learn from my shortcomings in these matters which should make that place feel very comfortable.
>>12466807Seethe harder poorfag
>>12466817I'm married and own a house without a loan, that's not the problem.
>>12466739My biggest advice is don't take the cave part literally and put it in your basement. I have a very good buddy who's still deep into anime and he had a room in his basement filled with art and toys, plushies, body pillows and the like. Then his cistern ruptured and it flooded, mostly it was water damage and wet tools, but it also wiped out about 10k worth of his anime crap. The silver lining is that his wife was very happy to see a flood god wipe out his loli jerk material and in the end it's made him pivot more towards Warhammer again instead of trying to rebuild the anime den, but it was a big loss. So if it's something you're going to put real money and effort into and will care about, make sure it's somewhere safe. Pick a nice room in your house to dedicate it to.
>>12466973Thanks but I live 10 stories up so thankfully I don't have to worry about floods
>>12466824Weird flex, soi faggot
>>12466975>>12466825You live in a 10 story house???
>>12466989I live in a mansion
>>12466981why are poor people like always like this
>>12466973Damn. I felt pissed when a leaky pipe ruined a bunch of my vhs tape covers i had in a box, but atleast it was all stuff easily replaceable at a few thrift stores and flea markets. Stories like this just continues to prove my view that kitchens and bathrooms should always be on the bottom floor of the house, in basements even.
>>12467304Bathrooms I agree with, but my kitchen getting flooded like that would cost me a heck of a lot more than his anime collection and at least that stuff wasn't essential. I don't keep anything in mine I really care about. >>12467036Having a flat in a condo instead of a house is grim in my books, I'd sell the collection to get some land and then just emulate, but that's me. I don't have the collecting gene though.
>>12467323They both have their benefits but I like the condo
>>12466739>o I can avoid common traps and not waste time or money on something I'm going to regret later?don't make a onions cave and just emulate everything on a computer. Hook it up to a television and use with a controller if that's more your pace.Literally collecting anything is a wast of time/resources unless you're an accredited museum, as it'll all end up in the dump once you're gone.
>>12467345That's fair. I can't imagine being happy in a condo without my own yard and garden but to each their own.
>>12467378>literally enjoying anything is a waste of time/resources
>>12467505collecting things for the sake of it does not provide long-term enjoyment or contentment from life, you just become a misert. reformed collecting fag
>>12467526Well thats the good thing with collecting vidya, there is more to do with it in addition to building a collection.
This is my setup at my second exwife's
>>12467679I wish i had a real ddr pad instead of the floppy plastic ones.
>>12467378That sounds gay and lame. Besides, I already own tons of consoles and hundreds of games.>>12467494I don't live in the US, yards aren't a thing here.>>12467505You like having fun? What are you, gay?>>12467526It's not a collection, it's a library. We're talking about video games, not baseball cards.
>>12467679soul
>>12468019>I don't live in the US, yards aren't a thing here.I don't either, but what you describe sounds grim. I can't imagine having to live in a condominium, it seems hellish.
>>12468037I don't have to, I chose to.
>>12468105It was more the part about how even if you didn't live in a condo you still probably wouldn't have a yard. I need to get my deck redone which isn't going to be cheap, but I can't imagine being stuck not even having my own garden. That's what sounds like hell.
>>12468125If I had a detached house I would have space for a garden
>>12466825Must be nice. All the interest rates here are high and loans will likely outlive me. Glad you got the difficult part out of the way, now you can enjoy however you'd want so long as it does not harm others. I think, I'll go get depressed and reread my old mags to imagine.
>>12468130A garden, but no yard? Weird.
>>12468546You have a marble countertop and every game under the sun, you expect me to believe you're poor?>>12468572Yards are big
>>12468627>>12468546Yeah he's a weird loser who has nothing going on with his life so he just takes pictures of his games to show off online whilst pretending to be poor for sympathy or more depth of character I'm not too sure why he pretends
>>12468627>Yards are bigA yard is a yard... I don't say this in a pejorative way at all bjt is English not your first language? It was weird when you described your condo flat as a house, then you said no one there, wherever that is, has yards. But then you say a detached house (an uncommon term already) would have space for a garden, but that would not be a yard... Not to say your life choice is bad, it's just weird trying to follow what you mean when you say things.
>>12468736A detached house means something like pic related. There isn't space for a yard but there's usually a tiny bit of green space so you could plant a garden. I grew up in America so I speak English natively.
>>12468785We would just call that a house with a small yard. Here in Canada I have never heard the term detached house used unless someone needed to specify one that wasn't a townhouse, but townhouses themselves are pretty rare. Also if you did grow up speaking English, you have to admit it's pretty weird to refer to a condominium apartment as a house. I have never, ever heard that before. But, the US is a very different country so there's that.
>mancaveTell your bitch wife that you own the house and you can play vidya wherever you want.
>>12468802He doesn't have a house, it's an apartment in a condominium. Or at least supposedly. The longer the thread goes the more convinced I am that the OP and all the responses are made by a bot. He claims to have been raised speaking English, but speaks very strangely and uses words in a way that implies he doesn't know what they mean. Then posted an image generated by grok >>12468785 but renamed to imply it was a photo. It might just be a very autistic person with difficulty communicating, but given the state of this whole site over the last couple of years it's much more likely AI data mining.
>>12468795I'm forgetting English. Here we have detached houses and mansions and they're all called houses.>>12468802Usually I play modern stuff in the living room and retro stuff in the bedroom since that's where the CRT is.>>12468925>it's an apartmentNo it's a mansion. Apartments are low quality shitholes where you can hear your neighbors breathing and the top of the toilet water turns into ice in the winter. I'm not a poorfag.>He claims to have been raised speaking English, but speaks very strangely and uses words in a way that implies he doesn't know what they meanI grew up in Maryland and I've been living in Japan since I was a teenager. You try living in a non-English speaking country without it affecting your English ability.>posted an image generated by grok but renamed to imply it was a photoI googled 家屋 and grabbed an image that fit what I was looking for and I'm posting from an iphone so it changed the file name.>It might just be a very autistic person with difficulty communicatingYou're the retards who keep making this thread about my house and gardens and interest rates and shit when I was asking for game room ideas.
>>12468019>It's not a collection, it's a library.literally the same thing, a library is a collection of books. >That sounds gay and lame.more power to you man, do what you like at the end of the day, just throwing in my 2c on collecting for the sake of it rather than enjoying what you already own.Also >Living in a 1lkd Leo's Palace マンション>Wanting to be a collect-fagohnononononono
>>12469316>collecting for the sake of it rather than enjoying what you already own>I already have all of this stuff, I just need to figure out how to make it all work together in one room without it feeling clutteredLearn how to read>Living in a 1lkd Leo's Palace マンションLeopalaces aren't mansions and I live in a 4LDK.
