I cancelled Xbox Game Pass on Tuesday. It was about seventeen dollars a month, which works out to roughly two hundred and four dollars a year. Before we go any further I want to establish something, because I know how this looks.
I am not a gamer. A gamer plays games. I am a man who noticed a gap in the household and moved quickly to fill it with equipment.
about eleven thousand dollars. Shark rating 0.4.
You are going to call this a game. It is not a game. It is a chair that moves, which makes it furniture. People pay good money for recliners that do not do anything. This one leans into the corners. I have never raced a car. That is precisely why I need the motion. I would be guessing otherwise.
about four thousand dollars. Shark rating 0.5.
This is not for me. This is for the house. When people come over they will stand around it and talk. That is what a cabinet does. It gives a room a center. Right now the center of our living room is a lamp.
about six thousand dollars. Shark rating 0.6.
Pinball is not video games. There is a physical ball. Gravity is involved. If anything this belongs in the same category as bowling, and you have never once complained about bowling.
about two thousand dollars. Shark rating 0.7.
I cancelled the gym two years ago and you said the garage was becoming a facility. This is a treadmill. I am walking back into the facility business, upright, with a headset on.
about five hundred dollars. Shark rating 0.8.
It vibrates when something happens near you. I want to be clear that I find this useful in general life. If a car is coming I would like to know through the vest.
about five hundred dollars. Shark rating 0.9.
Donna asked if I have ever flown a plane. No. But I have been a passenger many times, and I have opinions about how it should be done. This lets me test those opinions in private, which I think is a courtesy to everyone.
about one thousand two hundred dollars. Shark rating 1.0.
The cheaper wheels use gears. I read one paragraph about this somewhere and I have not recovered. A direct drive wheel tells you what the road is doing. The road is currently not telling me anything, and I would like to change that.
about three hundred dollars. Shark rating 1.1.
You cannot have the wheel without pedals. It would be a wheel sitting on the floor like a lost object. These measure how hard I press. I press things wrong constantly. This is finally a record of it.
about two hundred dollars. Shark rating 1.2.
I need to go up and down through the gears in order. In our actual car I do this. I am simply asking to keep doing it in the house, in a chair, with the motion.
about one hundred fifty dollars. Shark rating 1.3.
This is the safety purchase. Every rig needs one. If I cannot stop the car I will have bought the rest of it for nothing.
about two hundred dollars. Shark rating 1.4.
Thirty two switches. I want to feel like a man who is in charge of a system. The thermostat does not have switches. This does. That is the difference between a house and a cockpit.
about one hundred fifty dollars. Shark rating 1.5.
Each button can do something different. I would use it to turn the lights off without getting up. This is not gaming. This is home automation with better hardware.
about two hundred dollars. Shark rating 1.6.
I am not streaming. I am not going to stream. But if the phone rings during a family call, I would like the family to sound professional.
about eighty dollars. Shark rating 1.7.
The microphone does not come with it. Nobody tells you this. You buy a microphone and it just sits there, mute and helpless, waiting for an arm you did not know about.
about one hundred fifty dollars. Shark rating 1.8.
Two of them. One for each side of the face. If I am going to be in a room at night I would like to be lit correctly, the way a person on television is lit. This is about dignity.
about one hundred dollars. Shark rating 1.9.
It goes behind the lights. Together they make a setup. Separately they are just a wall and some lamps, and we already have a wall.
about two hundred dollars. Shark rating 2.0.
It records what is happening on the screen so the video does not have to be done live. I do not currently record anything. But the moment I do, I will be ready, and readiness is what you are always asking me to show.
about nine hundred dollars. Shark rating 2.1.
It is wide. So wide that the edges are hard to see without turning. When I am in the chair with the motion and the vest, I will not know where I am, which is the goal.
about three hundred dollars. Shark rating 2.2.
You need one for the map. Everyone who has ever explained a setup to me says the map. I have never run a race. But I am confident a map is involved.
about one hundred twenty dollars. Shark rating 2.3.
Both monitors hang off this. It clears the desk. Right now the desk is where things pile up, and I am told that is a problem, so this is actually a solution to a problem you raised.
about eighty dollars. Shark rating 2.4.
Every setup has one. I have seen the pictures. It says something, or it says nothing, and either is fine. It is the punctuation at the end of the room.
about four hundred dollars. Shark rating 2.5.
You are going to say we have a chair. We have a chair for sitting at a table and eating. This is a chair for the other eleven hours.
about forty dollars. Shark rating 2.6.
My eyes. You have said that I squint. This is the fix. I am buying the fix.
about forty dollars. Shark rating 2.7.
The pedals are down there and I still need somewhere to put my feet when I am not pressing them. That is not a contradiction. That is two moods.
about thirty dollars. Shark rating 2.8.
The mouse slides better on it and the desk stops getting scratched. You noticed the scratches last spring. I am addressing the scratches.
about thirty dollars. Shark rating 2.9.
I did not want to bring this up. There are going to be cables. More cables than we have ever had, and I know how you feel about cables under the table. This tray is me getting ahead of it.
about one hundred fifty dollars. Shark rating 3.1.
If the power goes out mid session, everything I built shuts down badly. This keeps it alive long enough to close it properly. It also protects the router, which is the part you will care about.
about twenty five dollars. Shark rating 3.2.
I am not a gamer but I understand that a wire in the wall is better than the air. This is a long wire. It goes from the router to the chair.
about forty dollars. Shark rating 3.3.
One cable comes in. Five go out. Without this we can only plug in one thing, and I have more than one thing.
about twenty dollars. Shark rating 3.5.
You found the headphones on the counter twice last month. This is a place for them. A specific place, at a specific height, that is not the counter.
about thirty dollars. Shark rating 3.6.
So the controller has a home and is always full. I am trying to reduce the number of times I stand up and look around the room confused.
about twenty five dollars. Shark rating 3.7.
We already buy batteries for the remote. These pay for themselves and I can stop taking the remote apart on a Sunday.
about ten dollars. Shark rating 3.8.
The rubber on the sticks wears down. This stops that. Ten dollars now against a whole replacement later. I am being financially careful.
about ten dollars. Shark rating 3.9.
The monitor will get smudged. It always does. This is the cloth that fixes it so I do not use the dish towel again.
about ten dollars. Shark rating 4.1.
Dust gets into the vents and the whole thing runs hot. One can now, one can in the spring. This is maintenance, and maintenance is the least interesting part of anything, which is why it must be written down.
about eight dollars. Shark rating 4.3.
For the cables the tray does not catch. I am going to be honest with you. I will probably put these behind the desk and never look at them again. That is their job.
about fifteen dollars. Shark rating 4.6.
The wall is on the other side of the room. I cannot move the wall. I have looked into it.
about sixty dollars. Shark rating 4.7.
For you. So you can sit in the chair. Not the motion chair, the other one. But you can be in the room while all of this is happening, which I think you will enjoy once you try it.
about twelve dollars. Shark rating 5.0.
My feet are cold on the floor by the desk. That is the entire case. You can check the floor. It is cold.
Donna said, “Where is the motion chair going.”
I told her the garage, next to the facility.
She said we do not have a facility.
We do now.