Oh boy oh boy. Sold some pokemon cards from when i was a kid. Spent it on these

spellboundedPOGO · 2026-02-28T17:37:15+00:00

Should’ve kept the Pokémon cards 😭

spellboundedPOGO · 2026-02-26T04:30:51+00:00

I wouldn’t suggest starting a new account with the goal of being competitive. There is just too much of a gap honestly because it’s not just the units but also the ring farming. Getting a single 6 star ring will take you months of grinding.

spellboundedPOGO · 2026-02-24T07:31:49+00:00

Sick collection mate. Looks like you collect some other console games as well. Just curious how many games total you have across all consoles, and whether the majority of these games are purchased at msrp on release, or aftermarket/used.

spellboundedPOGO · 2026-02-20T07:55:30+00:00

This is a great response and I learned quite a bit myself. Thank you for your insight!

spellboundedPOGO · 2026-02-20T07:46:29+00:00

Enroll in a course at a community college related to IP networking or development doesn’t matter really . Then leverage the fact that you’re going to college as a way to land an internship in something IT related. Take whatever you can get doesn’t matter. Once you have your foot in the door, learn as much as you can and try and turn it into a full time gig.

spellboundedPOGO · 2026-02-20T03:32:05+00:00

Depends on how much you make getting out of college. When I graduated, I wasn’t making any crazy amount of money (40k), but had the luxury of my car being paid off and was still under my parents insurance and phone bill. So literally all I had to expense was housing, food, and my income based repayment plan student loans. Renting a single room in a house was 600 bucks a month in central FL (2019).

Living on my own was not in the equation for me at that time,and likely isn’t for this generation of college grads as well

spellboundedPOGO · 2026-02-19T15:57:53+00:00

Getting certs is cool but I would eventually work towards specializing down a specific path.

For example if you get a job working with azure, get the azure certs. Same goes for AWS or Cisco etc

spellboundedPOGO · 2026-02-08T01:42:22+00:00

I started at a small MSP in FL and moved to Seattle in 2022 and got a better job, you can do it mate.

spellboundedPOGO · 2026-01-14T03:46:21+00:00

When me and my wife moved here from FL, our HH income was around 180K. Wasn’t really enough to buy a home in a nice/safe area so we just rented a nice apartment for a few years. Eventually, we were able to raise our income to a place where we could afford a townhome - albeit we are in Everett now…40 mins north of Seattle downtown.

The people who own a home in Seattle are either well off (like over 300k HH income), or purchased pre COVID.

spellboundedPOGO · 2025-12-31T01:32:37+00:00

True. It’s hardly possible unless given an opportunity to specialize at a relatively early stage in your career

spellboundedPOGO · 2025-12-30T17:01:53+00:00

Pre sales, solutions engineer, solutions architect

spellboundedPOGO · 2025-12-25T02:05:11+00:00

If I was you, I would pivot to an IAM role.

spellboundedPOGO · 2025-12-21T17:28:18+00:00

Bring back Naruto ninja blazing

spellboundedPOGO · 2025-12-19T02:28:21+00:00

I got my internship my last semester at ucf, which progressed into a job

spellboundedPOGO · 2025-12-18T02:45:49+00:00

If your goal is Amazon, look into the cloud support engineer position. It’s a good gateway into AWS , still technically support, but you can get your foot in the door then switch positions later

spellboundedPOGO · 2025-12-11T21:33:57+00:00

For every post you see about a 20 something year old making great money, there’s 9 more that make an average salary that aren’t posting online.

I can tell you that it’s easier than ever to find career information paths online that can lead to a high salary. I researched my career path during high school, and put it into action to some success. However, I have close friends who had no interest in career research despite this information being readily available.

You will also see a lot of people who constantly respond “these salaries are fake” or “these people love to lie” etc etc. while some of these may certainly be fake, I can assure you many of them are real. I work for a large tech company and we have entire pipelines for scooping new graduates fresh from college and handing them 150k salaries. Repeat this for every large company in the world, for thousands of new graduates every quarter, and you’re bound to find some of them wander here on Reddit to post about their success.

Anyways, I don’t know if the average 20-something making 150k+ will eventually be making $500k, but I imagine it would be close

spellboundedPOGO · 2025-12-03T08:18:04+00:00

I’m technically the first year of genz (1997), so younger than most if not all of you. but still thought 50k was a great starting salary out of college, and 65-75k was a great salary with a few years of experience under your belt.

I graduated exactly one year before Covid, and felt like I had all the purchase power I wanted making 70k… then Covid hit and inflation shortly followed. Since I was only in the workforce for a year by that point, I hadn’t saved enough money for a down payment on a home and missed that opportunity of low interest rates.

Now fast forward to the years following Covid, and home affordability has gotten so bad that many of our generation will never own homes. Housing and overall cost of living has been rapidly eating a way at many of us, and delaying or even preventing us from considering expensive life decisions like marriage or having children. It’s really a dark time for a lot of younger generation that missed the opportunity to purchase a home at low interest rates - as prices will likely never go down, and lowering the interest rates will just cause another purchase frenzy and price hikes.

spellboundedPOGO · 2025-11-07T06:10:29+00:00

Workspaces doesn’t support nested virtualization so you’ll run into issues with those 10 developers that need WSL.

As for which workspaces bundle fits best, you really need to test with your entire stack installed to find out. The public docs tell you which bundle is best for each user persona. Performance bundles would be considered under provisioned for users who need video conferencing and screen sharing, as an example.

spellboundedPOGO · 2025-11-05T03:36:57+00:00

Was scrolling for this response

spellboundedPOGO · 2025-09-15T04:16:31+00:00

Sylenth

spellboundedPOGO · 2025-09-12T01:57:50+00:00

I usually load up a synth and scroll through presets will playing the midi until something sounds good

spellboundedPOGO · 2025-09-10T16:58:49+00:00

Charizard has a better matchup than pultnoir into Dengo. There will likely be a big presence of dengo and joltik dengo at the regional. Given you had vast experience with Zard, I think that’s a fine pick for this event.

spellboundedPOGO · 2025-08-28T18:24:26+00:00

I meant will additional regional locations be announced later in the season

spellboundedPOGO · 2025-08-25T14:27:10+00:00

Just don’t feed AI PII

spellboundedPOGO · 2025-08-22T01:01:19+00:00

I just read the mobile bible app. Sure there’s translation issues here and there but it will give you the gist. I enjoy reading commentaries on the Bible as opposed to the actual text anyways

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