What's the Holy Grail item in your hobby?
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A debit card with limitless funds
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I'm into fly fishing and the holy grail for many anglers is catching native brook trout. Most trout are stocked or introduced with wild reproduction. Brookies were plentiful at one time before the loss of habitat. There are those that crawl on their hands an knees through brush to catch a 6" fish out of a stream you can jump over
I tickled a trout once from a brook in the Galloway Forest.
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Depends on the hobby, but this list is for me, idk if there is a consensus
1.Levity printer
2. Electric Yarn Ball Winder
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Elite Dangerous: the grail is the Fleet Carrier. Spent 7 years of non-grindy playtime saving up for mine.
wrote last edited by [email protected]When the fleet carriers came out, I think I had mine in a week. Of course, I didn't keep paying it off, I never really saw the point of them.
You just need to find a good freight loop. It's actually pretty fun running cargo with no shield (but extra armor). I had an imperial cutter customized for cargo hauling and if done right, you made money at astounding rates.
It took a while to locate, but I found a loop between three stations that allowed me to essentially buy low and sell high at every stop on the route. Though one leg of the route was all cargo transport missions, and they always invited interdictions. If done right you can drop out of FS and then jump right back out before the other ship gets their bearings. With a ship that big nobody can stop you.
But it was scary a few times. I may have lost it once or twice...
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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)
Yes, as of now, you cannot destroy another player’s fleet carrier.
My upkeep costs are ~$15,000,000 a week, which is a good chunk of money but not too much of a hassle.
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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.
I love taking my FC deep into the black. Just gotta pay my squad mates to load excess fuel and I’m good to go!
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In the typewriter community, the “holy grail” differs from person to person, but for me it was a 1930s Royal P equipped with a rare typeface called Vogue. Very, very rarely they’ll pop up from people who don’t know how significant that is, and that’s the only way to get one at a reasonable price - because those who do know what it is will ask thousands of dollars for it.
Eventually I found one for a comparatively cheap price (sub 1k), and the only reason someone else didn’t snap it up before I saw it was because the guy refused to ship it. Local pickup only. So I took the chance to drive the 10 hours round trip to snag it, and it sits proudly as the crown jewel of my collection:
Bill Lee: I gave up writing when I was ten. Too dangerous.
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I'm a book collector, sadly most of the books in my preferred address are, and forever, will be out of my reach. My holy grail is The Magus by Francis Barrett (1801), it's basically a guidebook to the occult. I've got a facsimile edition published in 1970 but I've never seen or heard of a original copy for sale - not that I've searched, I don't wish to see an old man cry.
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Octanitrocubane
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Self confidence is in fact very cool. And I'll convince you over a game of Agricola.
Oooh, hey!! I have that game but haven't played it yet. It looks freaking dope. Any suggestions? If I can't convince my family to play I was just going to try it solo
It's the "revised edition" if that matters
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Well, my hobby is searching for historical religious artifacts, so...
So being the UK?
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What is growing there now? It sounds like a pretty shitty situation.
Stumps and other trees. And of course, a ton it was leveled for housing/infrastructure/etc
Captainaggravated had some great info a few comments down about the remains of the forest if you want to know more!
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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.
because some rich asshole just HAD to have foreign trees on their estates.
Blight would have happened at some point. Global travel made it inevitable.
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So being the UK?
Sad lol.
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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.
Are you aware of this guy on youtube? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeEf90AEmmxaQs5BUkHqR3Q he creates some very inspired mini electronics.
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Electronics / hardware hacking and development. I have a Saleae Logic Pro 8 which is probably the most expensive thing I've ever bought in a weight to cost ratio at £933 for 60g.
Works fantastically, though, and the analog function and high sample rate is what truly sets it apart from other analysers.
I don't have a personal need for a 16 channel analyser currently, so couldn't bring myself to cough up the extra £500 for that model.
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In the typewriter community, the “holy grail” differs from person to person, but for me it was a 1930s Royal P equipped with a rare typeface called Vogue. Very, very rarely they’ll pop up from people who don’t know how significant that is, and that’s the only way to get one at a reasonable price - because those who do know what it is will ask thousands of dollars for it.
Eventually I found one for a comparatively cheap price (sub 1k), and the only reason someone else didn’t snap it up before I saw it was because the guy refused to ship it. Local pickup only. So I took the chance to drive the 10 hours round trip to snag it, and it sits proudly as the crown jewel of my collection:
to drive the 10 hours round trip to snag it
Fucking respect o7.
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Idk if it's just oz but I never have trouble finding the stuff, always at dans whenever I check
Never on the ground here anymore, US$100 online but not from any vendor I trust. It's a really nice ingredient for a lot of cocktails.
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A workshop
There it is! The holy grail for all my hobbies... space
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Motivation. I lost it some time around 2015 and have been kinda just killing time before death ever since.
Were you diagnosed with something at that time?
