Buy new gaming rig

Im pretty much the same. Was recently dumped from a 3 year relationship had to sell my old rig to bridge the move to a new part of town. First paycheck i bought a gtx170 r5 1600 itx system and a gym membership. Pretty much turned it on 5 times in the last 3 months and went to the gym everyday.
Granted I was never much of a gamer and ill need it for my music/film making project when I pick up that hobby again.
Id say unless you have 4 hours a day free after work gym cooking and socializing there is next to no point in building a gaming system.

It means he is stupid and wasted his money. He also probably lies.

just go buy a used laptop you dont need a good computer to study

Then you learn about KVM and GPU-passthrough, gaming in a VM has never been more fun