What's the Holy Grail item in your hobby?
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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
And friends with matching ones
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Gasp. The things I felt seeing this image.
Sorry it's a potato. There must've been something on my phone lens.
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In amateur radio, making an Earth-Moon-Earth contact. That means bouncing your signal off of the moon, basically using it as a satellite. You generally need a big antenna array to do it. Also you need a very high quality amplifier to receive since the signal you get back from the mood is very weak. You can hear an echo of yourself delayed about 2.6 seconds, since the moon is about 1.3 light seconds away.
Dude that sounds amazing and would be crazy to demo to someone.
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Elite Dangerous: the grail is the Fleet Carrier. Spent 7 years of non-grindy playtime saving up for mine.
Got one, really couldn’t find a use for it, let it go. If you have a gaming group to play with on E:D they’re far more useful for everyone to keep their ships on and engage in group objectives. I generally do exo, so having to maintain that beast while I was out in the black wasn’t worth it.
Good luck getting one, it’s still kinda thrilling to achieve that objective.
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I picked up 3D printing and started with the super cheap Ender 3. I keep chasing it and got there... The journey was annoying but I keep having to re-calibrate and I'm just too busy to keep fixing it.
A perfectly level bed:
Upload limit cut it off. Link to longer with punchline.
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Like the “real” grail, it doesn’t exist. A mutual standard and compatibility between aftermarket automotive components. IOW, if I’m building a car, I’d want a third party automatic headlight system to work with the backlighting in the instruments, the wiper controller to work with a stock steering column switch, the air conditioning to work with any temperature sensor and thermostatic control at all…. Yeah. You need to be a programming expert and have the ability to design a controller to get all these proprietary systems to function coherently. But instead it’s cadging together systems and trying to not make it clunky and distracting.
Also, gaming: the grail would be for abandoned games that require online servers to play are turned over to the gamers. Run your own servers and mods. Licensing servers can be contracted out to third parties, so you can still buy the game and a royalty is paid to the original studio, but they don’t have to maintain it anymore.
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It's very subjective, but for me, I'd probably say Black Knight 2000. It wouldn't necessarily be the first pinball game I buy as the gameplay isn't that deep, but if I'm ever in the position to own multiple tables, BK2K will definitely be one of them. Very close second place would probably be the 2007 Stern Spider-Man with all the media rights from the Raimi movies and the JK Simmons call outs and errything, so corny and awesome. I mean it's got a gd Bonesaw mode, what more could I ask for?
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Designing small electronics:
Unlimited money for iterated prototyping and being able to afford 0.4mm pitch BGA fabrication and rigid-flex
Maybe holy grail "Item" would be an expensive electronics lab with a very nice R&S scope and a nice soldering station with a trinocular microscope.
