What's the Holy Grail item in your hobby?
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3 other cool nerds to play board games with consistently.
I was going to say Glory to Rome but your answer is better.
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Size 14 socket head
Best I can do is 9/16
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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.
This post has some real The 9th Gate vibes. Love it. I hope you find your book someday.
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The legendary spray and pray.
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3 other cool nerds to play board games with consistently.
Meanwhile, I keep ending up in rooms with board game nerds, and I only kind of like board games.
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As someone who has started rewriting an old Summer Camp Island fanfiction I started around 2019 and never got very far with, I'm gonna have to say concentration and not getting writers block as the combo that would be the holy grail IMO. I'm sure a lot of writers in general could probably agree with that.
I definitely wanna get back into fanfic writing to a degree, but concentration and writers block have been my enemy.
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The Alpha Lotus
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Atari Falcon
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Astronomy, something like this https://www.telescopesplus.com/products/meade-16-inch-lx200-acf-f-10-advanced-coma-free-telescope
How much of that cost is the optics? I'm pretty sure there's an open-source design for a diamond lathe that could turn them.
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As an old and broken skateboarder, I would love nothing more than a pump track within driving distance.
There are some great parks, but nothing with enough flow that I can just carve around to work up a sweat without have to push or climb a ramp to drop in all the time.
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I dream of one day finding an original Model M keyboard in a Goodwill or yard sale for like $10. Every time I'm in a thrift store I look over the electronics section JUST in case.
Also waiting for the day I find a random copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga for the Sega Saturn. Only 20,000 north American copies were made, which sounds like a lot but in video game numbers is insanely low. I've only ever seen it in the real world once at a gaming convention and it sold for $1,500.
JFC I had that game! Only could get like six games for the Saturn in the US (nights into dreams, clockwork toy knight, a tactical RPG that had a big rabbit in the intro (sorry I forgot the name), owner dragoon, and virutua fighter). Dan I had so many super obscure games from the discount bin cause they weren't popular new. Now everybody wants them.
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I really want a used arcade machine for drum mania. It's a party of my childhood I miss
If you're so inclined and have the time, you can make a USB controller to play it on your computer with an Arduino, pads, and some piezo speakers.
https://medium.com/@elainezshen/diy-electronic-drumset-for-drummania-bbcb6524e335
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The true Holy Grail item in my hobby of motorcycle riding would be a MotoGP bike.
Realistically the achievable halo option is a 1000cc supersport and lots of track days.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I see a guy pop up on my you tube shorts who talks about his Aprilla a bunch. Says it's not really worth the headache when something that would be simple to fix on a mass produced bike, isn't cause there only like 5,000 of that model ever made.
I say this but if I had fu money, I would definitely buy a Koenigsegg.
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I'm a photography nerd.
There's a bunch of rare and expensive cameras, of course, so I could probably just say "oh, probably anything from Leica".
But the real snobs go for turbo rare lenses. As a Nikon fan, I hope that I shall one day be allowed to the same airspace as the hallowed Nikkor 13mm f/5.6. The first ultrawide non-fisheye lens. 350 of these were made, each individually blessed by priests as they left the factory, or so the story goes. They cost an arm and leg - wait, in this economy, an arm and leg would probably be cheaper.
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The America's Cup.
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I like collecting games, nothing crazy like graded games (graded anything is a scam) or like I have to have every game ever made for a specific console, I just like having a big shelf of games.
I really want a like new, in box green Halo edition original Xbox. People want stupid money for them but I just want to have one. I've got a good condition boxed regular black console and a boxed Halo 3 Xbox 360 but I reeeeally want the green OG.
Here's what people are trying to sell a NIB version for
Hell yeah. If I had space and money this is what I'd be doing. I have some PS1 games (and of course my fav Halo 1-3) from my childhood that are stored away somewhere at my mother's... might have been thrown away by now it's been so long :^(
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I dream of one day finding an original Model M keyboard in a Goodwill or yard sale for like $10. Every time I'm in a thrift store I look over the electronics section JUST in case.
Also waiting for the day I find a random copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga for the Sega Saturn. Only 20,000 north American copies were made, which sounds like a lot but in video game numbers is insanely low. I've only ever seen it in the real world once at a gaming convention and it sold for $1,500.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Goodwill has competent people to notice and divert such things to online auction. You’re better off checking pawn shops in crappy towns/cities.
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I've started collecting 1:24 and 1:18 scale models of my favorite movie cars and I guess you could say my holy grail would be a 1:18 sized, 1985, Cumberland Grey, V8 Vantage Aston Martin, from 007's The Living Daylights (and recently, No Time To Die). That and the 1:18 Chevy Nova from Death Proof, without breaking my bank account.
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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.
Congrats on falling down the audiophile rabbit hole. Shortly, you'll be receiving your complimentary gold-plated interconnects and a lifetime subscription of A/B'ing different masters without actually listening to the full album
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A 1959 Gibson Les Paul in to a Marshall Plexi.
