What's the Holy Grail item in your hobby?
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TTRPGs. A cleared schedule
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Gasp. The things I felt seeing this image.
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Farmers used to just let their critters loose into the forests to eat the chestnuts off the forest floor because there were just so many. Now I think every American chestnut tree alive has a name.
If I could time travel, I'd go see the chestnut forests first. I only learned about them a few years ago but I think about it a weird amount (maybe because I have a huge elm tree in my yard)
Like can you imagine entire states covered in them? I don't think they were quite the size of redwoods but they were ancient and well-established forests. And it makes me sad that most people don't even know what we lost because some rich asshole just HAD to have foreign trees on their estates.
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Elite Dangerous: the grail is the Fleet Carrier. Spent 7 years of non-grindy playtime saving up for mine.
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To celebrate the new millennium, German model train maker Märklin released a 1/87 scale electric locomotive with a body made out of platinum, with real rubys for the red taillights and other real materials such as windows made of real glass, wheels made of stainless steel and isolators of real ceramics. It's considered one of the most sought after railway models.
Do you have a link? Trying to look it up but don't know which I should be looking at.
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They're super special electrostatic headphones, so they have to be run with a special type of amplifier, and the one they come with come is absolutely insane, and is a huge part of the cost. Honestly, I bet you could cost cut the whole thing down to under $20k, but you're paying a LOT of money for stuff like the fact that the amplifier case is made of marble and has one of the coolest boot sequences imaginable, where all the tubes and knobs rise out of it and retract back in so the whole thing is seamless. It's very much one of those things that get built when engineers are handed a blank check and told "We don't care what it costs, have fun"
wrote last edited by [email protected]Cadillac 16 energy imo. I think part of what's wrong with the world today is all companies suck, have no fun anymore and don't care if things are actually cool. I know it sounds stupid but everything is black, white, or grey on the road and everything is a shapeless blob. Oh you want nice headphones, or computer case, etc? Enjoy our exciting options of black or grey, and fresh new material of cheapest plastic we can make shiny.
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My hobby is Chess, and to me it would be to beat a Grandmaster(impossible under normal context). I have beaten only once a National Master in a simul, to put things in perspective.
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Probably an Abarth 695 Bipisto or similar. I could drive nothing but Fiat 500s and die happy. I have an Abarth 500, and I've literally driven the car to its limit on the track before, 3 wheeling around corners. I can only imagine what a race prepped example would be like.
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Green Chartreuse.
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They're super special electrostatic headphones, so they have to be run with a special type of amplifier, and the one they come with come is absolutely insane, and is a huge part of the cost. Honestly, I bet you could cost cut the whole thing down to under $20k, but you're paying a LOT of money for stuff like the fact that the amplifier case is made of marble and has one of the coolest boot sequences imaginable, where all the tubes and knobs rise out of it and retract back in so the whole thing is seamless. It's very much one of those things that get built when engineers are handed a blank check and told "We don't care what it costs, have fun"
where all the tubes and knobs rise out of it and retract back in
what the fuck
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Self confidence is in fact very cool. And I'll convince you over a game of Agricola.
I like your moxie. Very cool of you to be so graceful towards an unkind comment
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Elite Dangerous: the grail is the Fleet Carrier. Spent 7 years of non-grindy playtime saving up for mine.
If you got one is it the kind of ship you could use or is it to valuable to risk?
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To clarify, would you consider this specific individual watch the holy grail, or one of that make, model and spec?
Well, the ultimate holy Grail would be this individual watch
Second would be a "true Pogue" of the same spec and very close in serial number, although that would have to compete with a few other nice Seikos... There are so many out there. A platinum first Grand Seiko. A Seiko Spacewalk. A working and complete Seiko TV Watch (as seen in James Bond - Octopussy)
.I do own a fine 6139-6002 yellow dial. However, that's a later "rest of the world" model, with a more golden dial and different wording. Still nice, though.
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Do you have a link? Trying to look it up but don't know which I should be looking at.
Seems to be this one: https://www.maerklin.de/en/products/details/article/32000
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My hobby is Chess, and to me it would be to beat a Grandmaster(impossible under normal context). I have beaten only once a National Master in a simul, to put things in perspective.
So historically speaking, when people have managed to beat a Grandmaster in chess, how often was it because they discovered such a novel new chess technique that even the Grandmaster wasn't familiar and thus pushed the boundary of the "martial" arts of chess, and how often was it because the Grandmaster made a mistake that gave their opponent a sufficient advantage to beat the Grandmaster?
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So historically speaking, when people have managed to beat a Grandmaster in chess, how often was it because they discovered such a novel new chess technique that even the Grandmaster wasn't familiar and thus pushed the boundary of the "martial" arts of chess, and how often was it because the Grandmaster made a mistake that gave their opponent a sufficient advantage to beat the Grandmaster?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Getting a novel technique is impossible, there is less and less new theory, and they know all the tricks, but the only way one can possible gain an advantage on a Grandmaster is baiting them into an opening line they they do not know well and you know very well, which again is very unlikely considering they study the game for life and even then, converting said advantage would be very difficult.
The difference between International Masters and Grandmasters is big enough, but the difference between Grandmasters and amateurs is abysmal. You can see this with the Elo System (rating system), players under 200 Elo points their rival are expected to win almost never.
They can even beat amateurs with their eyes blinded, and this is not a joke, one can just see the many videos of Grandmasters giving opponents odds like this.
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I'm really just starting to get into audio and that's kind of by accident.
I actually started fixing electronics, and then some good quality audio equipment came into my life. I didn't know it was good, I thought my little piece of crap bose was awesome but holy moly no, in retrospect. Really all I wanted to do was to fix the obvious minor issues and sell it all. But I do test things meticulously before I sell them.
My first experience was listening to Stevie Wonder As and initially running up to the speakers because I thought I was hearing noise or distortion or something. No, it just turned out there was detail in the music I literally had never heard.
Well I moved that set down the line and sold it because another amazing Yamaha receiver and sub set came into my life, and then two weeks later I got some amazing studio monitor speakers for 10 bucks. Whoever priced them had no idea what they were. And they sound even more amazing in my little apartment than the other setup.
So I guess what I'm telling you all is my weird audio journey that I didn't mean to get into, and now I've become the thing I have always despised, an audiophile.
So basically just drive a dump truck starting with around $180,000 up to my place and then I can get a clean chain of great audio gear, and the appropriate reference audio to play upon it.
Also somebody to teach me what the hell I'm doing with audio stuff. But they can just scoop a few bricks of money off the pile from the dump truck.
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If you got one is it the kind of ship you could use or is it to valuable to risk?
You can use it, and can't really lose it, but it costs a lot of money to operate. (The carriers are about 3.5 burj khalifas long. They are huge)
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A couple more things about American Chestnuts:
-Chestnut forests used to cover a shitton of the northeast before being reduced to basically nothing
-"Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire" is about the tradition of eating American Chestnuts in the winter...
-... Because for some, it was a treat. And for others, it was practically a staple food! They were an extremely abundant resource
-Seriously, look at the size of the original American Chestnut forest:
This is one thing that I really hope GMOs allow us to counter. We need chestnut trees back. Natural and farmed ones. Perhaps we will find a gene for blight resistance someday.
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TTRPGs. A cleared schedule
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