u/DrPoxter

Sim:

-Trak Racer F1 Movie Limited Edition TRX (11 of 100) -Asetek FORTE button box

-Asetek leather wheel rim

-Asetek initium wheelbase

-Asetek Invicta Pedals with clutch

-MSI MPG491CQP 49" QD-OLED Monitor

PC:

-MSI Inspire 5070Ti

-Rvzen 9 7900x

-32GB DDR5 Corsair Vengeance Ram

-1TB M.2 SSD

-12TB WD Black external hard drive

-Corsair Vanquard 96 Keyboard

-Logitech G502 lightspeed wireless mouse

-Acer portable monitor

-Steelseries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless headset

Finally after over a year, I finished* my Sim rig. I started this project last year, with the goal of building a mid-high end Sim rig by ONLY trading and selling on marketplace. I didn't pay a penny on this out of pocket. Here were my rules:

-I can't put any money from mine or my wife's salary into this

-I CAN sell stuff that I trade to buy components

-I can't add any money from gig jobs like doordash or spark

-I can ONLY buy things strictly from marketplace sell or trade.

I started all this with an old Nintendo DS. I traded up several times and sometimes for multiple things. Some things I'd trade directly for rig parts, but most I had to sell and buy the parts myself.

Why did I do this? For the love of the game of course. I'm essentially in this with no money down, and I love marketplace.

*for legal and marriage reasons, I must say that my Sim rig is finished. Though we all know its not.

First post here, but I need to talk about this. Today is Thursday April 30th, 2026. My wife and I just recently bought a house, been in it for a little over a year now. I bought the house from my godmother, so this is the house I grew up in before I got married. I work from home, my wife works at a daycare.

Before I get into the story, a little background on my situation. My mother is a single mother, and I have 3 younger brothers, all teenagers under 16. Without getting too much into it, she's had a hard time with her ex-husband, who is currently incarcerated. Because of this, my wife and I let my mother, brothers, and my elderly godmother stay with us until they found a place. Its a full house but we have plenty of bedrooms.

My youngest brother stayed home from school today. My godmother is always home. I took my wife to work this morning as I normally do, then headed to cracker barrel to get us breakfast. As I'm leaving cracker barrel, I get a call from my godmothers number; its my brother's voice. He begins screaming "there's someone in the house, there's someone in the house" I ask him to calm down and explain what's going on, and he says "there's a drugged up lady in the house trying to beat up your dogs" I have a Cane Corso and a German Shepherd.

So I'm speeding home trying to get there quickly, I arrive and there are 7 police cars and they have a large lady, butt naked, on the ground, tasered. We give the police a statement, I tell them that no one is hurt and nothing is broken, so I tell them I don't wanna press charges, the lady just needs help.

As everything calms down, I ask my godmother and brother what happened, and they explained as follows.

The lady walked into our yard, my dogs inside were barking at her. She began barking back at them in an angry manner. She then tried the doorknob, and it was unlocked (our neighborhood is relatively safe, we usually dont have to lock the doors during the day). When she entered the door, my Cane Corso lunged at her and bit her. She fell to the ground trying to get him off of her. When she got up, she made her way to our kitchen trying to defend herself from him. She threw stuff at him and grabbed a kitchen knife, to which he bit her again and made her drop it. She fled from the house, stripped her clothes for some reason, and that's around when the cops arrived.

This is the first time something like this has ever happened for me and I'm just thankful no one was hurt. Except maybe the lady from the dog bite.

I traded up for this from a Nintendo DS ama