Living life to the fullest

It is nice though

Ahnold: "milk is for babies; I drink beer!"

https://youtu.be/RwkCbsnxscg

Dude sprang for the WaveBird and what I assume is delivery pizza, how many more luxuries should he have?
- That looks like a Little Caesars box, so definitely the low end of to-go pizza.
  Also, he took the time to decorate with the Konga drums, so its totally luxurious!

OOP missed the mark on this one. This is serene. Like you moved out either for the first time or transferred to a new city and brought only the things you love before you fill your house up with trash
- Ah. Triumphant beach-head phase. Legend.

Man, I wish my life were that simple again.
That looks so fucking relaxing, like I have nothing to do for the rest of the evening, and no pressing concerns as I sip my chocolate milk.
Only thing I would change: out that TV on a milk crate so your neck isnt strained even more than it is from sitting on the floor.
- But when we were young and had set ups like this we also had invincible bodies.
  Or rather, what felt at the time to be invincible bodies. Now I'm at the part of life where the bill for that comes due.
  
  I threw my back out the other day.... By turning over in bed.
- That was exactly my setup when I struck out on my own.
  GameCube, wavebird, bongos, Twilight Princess. PS2, Guitar Hero, mod chip, case full of burned games. Single twin size mattress on the floor.
  Those were the best days of my life.
  I had two DVDs. Napoleon Dynamite and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
  No internet, no telephone. I wanted to be creative and I didn’t want distractions. I wrote most of my songs in that little window.
  Screw it. I never share my music. Here’s one of the songs I recorded.
  https://mega.nz/file/MwdwTaAC#ZkyRIAnntCA6tq_sw06y64A2ljX7sldMhKKY0A3a0Bs
  
  This song slaps, did you do all the parts yourself? Are you still making music?

My bro got out of army and moved 6000km to a new job in a new city in a new country. His setup was:
clothes
couch for sleeping
monitor on cardboard box
keyboard on smaller box
back to the wall
He worked like that until the Stuff arrived.

HES GOT THE BONGOS
- Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is amazing
- My thoughts exactly! This man is living the dream!

It’s missing the milk crate stolen from behind a dunkin donuts serving as a tv stand

That's some clean carpet.

ITT: A lot of guys going "Ah man this was first days in my first apartment out on my own. Good times."
Chocolate milk, GameCube, and me!

I guess I am too old, my first thought when I see this picture is "my poor back". 😂
- Yeah, my response was "needs a comfy seat, something to put the TV on so it's eye level, and something to put the pizza and drink on so they're within arm's reach".
  But otherwise this is peak. I had a space in my parent's basement like this with an old couch and dresser that had been headed to the dump, along with the big family CRT when they upgraded to LCD. Add some Bionicle and other Lego to fidget with and inject that nostalgia into my veins.
  
  Well, that's just showing our mileage.
  My current setup holds this spirit but does add some back support.
- That’s usually my first thought after getting out of bed!
  
  You should stretch before getting out of bed.
  I'm only in my 30s but I have joint issues and since I started stretching before I get out of bed, I have had less back issues, particularly my lower back.
- I’m recoiling from the greasy pizza box on the carpet

This is what happiness looks like.

People mocking other peoples happiness & low environmental footprint is weak af.

I ended up renting a room as an adult, not because i'm bad at adulting but because the value of my wage has been destroyed and i basically learned that if i have a desk + chair for my pc and a bed/sofa mix...i am golden.
I just need a computer and no one bothering me (which was an issue at the time as 2 others were quite a burden. One was addicted to hard drugs and the other was a petty criminal who was always in trouble with the police to the point they came looking for him on a daily basis.) Other than the constant noise and not being able to sleep...yeah i'd settle for a minimal life with maximum peace and quiet.
I really do not care for society, i never asked to be put on this planet.

+1 for Pokemon Colosseum.
Isn’t that like the black sheep of Pokémon games? And one of my favorites: I’m feeling majorly nostalgic RN.
Another +1 for a wireless GC controller. This is a man of sophistication and culture.
- Colosseum was great. Maybe it was a different version but I remember you could import your pokemon from the gameboy games so it was just gym battles with much better graphics. Also yeah. The (wavebird?) controller was the shit back then. Your friend having one meant they had rich parents.
- It's funny he sprung for the wireless controller despite his clear intention to sit 2 feet from the TV lol

There is remote controls for game cube?
- Yeah, I loved my wavebird back in the day.
- The wavebird!
- Look up the advertisement for it. It's hilarious enough to make you shit your pants.
  
  Ok i just did. I wouldn't say shitting-pants-hilarious but they are indeed amusing.

So glad I kept my bongos.

I'm in my thirties so I too crave this scenario but what I really wanna talk about is the amount of people mentioning sitting on the floor hurting their back. Sedentary lifestyles and/or the constant push for more labor has wiped out something humanity has done for thousands of years.
I feel weird for fixating on this but it's a little sad a lot of people are losing the ability to just sit on some grass and exist
- It's more the TV won't be at eye level so you'll naturally hunch your back which tends to be poor sitting posture.
  
  Looked into ergonomics about 10 years ago after an injury, changed my life.

That sure looks like my old TV. The screen was flat but cropped the edges pretty significantly, even eating into the title safe area so sometimes you couldn’t read everything that was on-screen.

my first thought when seeing this, before reading the caption, was "hell yeah im jealous as fuck"

floor clean enough to eat off of with no extra clutter?

Well, I guess if fairlife is all you can find, it's better than nothing
- Nuh uh, man. Fairlife is awesome. Dairyland is dead, man, and there ain't no bringing it back.

I'd at least need the TV on some crates, and I might be too old to sit on the floor for more than a little while 😂

Stop posting pictures of my college apartment.

This looks awesome as fuck, but... my back, my poor back 😭

Yeah pizza and chocolate milk sounds fucking gross.
- Don’t knock it til you try it.
- Gotta find your limit on lactose some how.

Not a fan of carpet flooring but otherwise livible
- Please justify your outrageous opinion
  
  I agree with him because wooden floors with decent sized turkish rugs are preferable. You can take the rug out and beat it.
  Fixed carpet is warmer, but vaguely unpleasant and makes a house feel like a hotel.
  
  Sweeping the floor is cheaper and can be done at any hour, walking on old carpet especially kicks up dust and even after vacuuming it feels kind of gross (probably because I know it hasn't been washed). Non-carpet floors are also easier to actually clean (or just wipe up spills etc), at least where I am where the air isn't super-dry.
  I'm with them, a throw rug would be fine so long as you can still pick it up to clean it elsewhere. Though I'd still rather just use a broom.
  Also, cold floors doesn't bother me but wearing socks/slippers instead is a nice option.
  
  I agree with him only because I've seen what lives in and beneath carpet. Even fastidious folks can't truly clean it well enough, and they definitely can't keep the moisture from collecting beneath it.
  
  carpet holds on to pollen and pet dander more than hardwood or tile. This would be my personal reasoning.
  
  I've never lived in a flat/house with carpet floors. Always tiles, wood floors, pvc, vinyl, linoleum or wood laminate. I don't think I've ever visited a home with carpet flooring. The only places I know it from is hotels and videos of really old run down ruins that need to be ripped apart and renovated from the base.
  It gives me the ick, I feel like they're always dirty and dusty. Normally I'm not squeamish, but I just don't feel comfortable on carpet flooring. I've grown up washing my floors wet or swiping. It just doesn't fit into my head. However, laying a spatially limited carpet on a hard floor is beautiful.
  There. I tried.

I need at least a plastic lawn chair and some milk crates for the tv or my back will explode. Otherwise looks decent.

To much dairy. Other than that. Love it.
- To much dairy
  I'll cheers to that. TO MUCH DAIRY! TO FAIRLIFE! TO PIZZAPIZZA.ca !
  Party on, Wayne.

After coming too close to personally finding out the hard way that alcholoism does indeed run in my patriarchichal lineage...
Take out the Jack, maybe replace it with some Kombucha, or just a nice non alco cocktail, and yep, this looks amazing.
Just keep that carpet clean, eat that pizza with some plates or something, or use the other side of the open box as your psuedo plate.
EDIT: For those with bad backs, they make ... complicated pillows for this sort of thing.
... Or just put the TV up on the box some off screen Ikea furniture came in, rofl.
- Ahahah!
  I legit didn't see that, I actually need glasses.
  Amazing. Choccy milk is a great choice rofl.
  
  Yep! This dudes just missing some chocolate donuts or smth

Don't be so harsh give the guy some time to collect enough pizza boxes f to build up

Give me a beanbag chair and we're in business

Throw some dog toys and a dog in the photo, and this was me about 16 years ago before I met my now ex wife. In the bedroom was a deflated air mattress.

The WaveBird is a problem. Those are notoriously aweful.
- Since when? Wavebird is the tits. I could use that thing all the way from the kitchen.
  
  Since they were first released. They are known for noticeable input delay, and connection issues causing occasional dropped inputs and/or extra ghost inputs. Their only advantage is being able to sit further away, but in the picture, buddy is going to be within 3 feet of the console. Within range of a wire on a standard controller.
  Its probably fine for some Pokemon Colosseum, but there is a reason you are never going to see them at a Melee tourney.