It’s called Black Lotus, I think. Not totally sure since I have never been interested in mtg as anything but something to have fun playing at a medium-high level, but I’ve heard copies of their original release go for many thousands of currency notes. Much to expensive for my means, but that’s okay.
I’ve been having a great time with my Vivi/Dragon Typhoon combo lately. Most everyone thinks I’m playing a burn deck until they’re up against 10+ dragos out of nowhere and it has yet to stop making me giddy when that moment comes.
The Power Nine https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Power_Nine before mtg worked out how to balance, these 9 cards in the alpha/beta set were brokenly overpowered. There’s an alpha Ancestral Recall on ebay rn for $5.5k
Super subjective, but for my handtool woodworking, my grail is a pistol grip Stanley 610 drill. Do t know why, but ever since I saw one, I’ve wanted it!
For me with gaming (both playing and dev), a Steam Deck. Never wanted anything more in my life, seeing people have them and barely use them hurts. But I’m on long-term sick leave and live paycheck to paycheck, not able to save anything and it doesn’t look like that’ll change anytime soon. And it’s more than just wanting a cool thing, all I have is a shitty laptop from 2010 that barely plays 1080p video, and a TV I found outside that gets so warm that it’s hard to sit in front of for longer than two hours at a time. The laptop has no battery so it has to be used with the charger connected all the time and it’s too heavy to comfortably use anywhere but at a desk. I also have back and knee problems and having something like a Steam Deck would allow me to play and develop in bed or on my sofa and save me some pain.
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. You can also hear an echo of yourself delayed about 2.6 seconds, since the moon is about 1.3 light seconds away.
EME Moonbounces do look like fun. Here’s a guy, I think pinging a friend off the moon.
That’s dope
Dude that sounds amazing and would be crazy to demo to someone.
Gunpla. That one rare, out-of-print kit that is only available on ebay for like $500. I have 3 grail kits, and fortunately, 2 of them are going to get reissued in the next 6ish months, and there’s a fair chance the third one may be reissued in the near future as well.
Another one for me is Godhand SPN-120-L. They are considered to be the best nippers on the market, and this is the left-handed version. Unfortunately, they’re only available on Godhand’s official site, and they only ship to Japan.
$500 isn’t even that bad tbh. Csgo skins get sold for more than that
Sure, but it’s hard to justify when the retail value is a fraction of that, and I can buy several other nice kits for the same price. I have plenty of other kits to build, so I’m fine with waiting.
Well, my hobby is searching for historical religious artifacts, so…
So being the UK?
Sad lol.
Your Holy Grail is the Holy Grail
The Lost Ark of the Covenant actually 😁
Are you sure?
Astronomy, something like this https://www.telescopesplus.com/products/meade-16-inch-lx200-acf-f-10-advanced-coma-free-telescope
Initially, I was like “not even a space telescope? The thing is probably pretty cheap”
A server rack with a few A100s
No it isn’t crypto
Well, what is it then?
Selfhosting, as well as occasional LLM/GenAI model hosting for when I’m looking for inspiration in my artistic ventures.
Currently I do all this on a several generations old gaming rig and would very much like to have a dedicated server for it that I can put not in my living room
Black Lotus. You gotta shell out bank or win some vintage tournament to acquire one these days.
My hobby is (or rather was) collecting Seiko watches.
I stopped buying watches, but my holy Grail would be “The” Pogue. The original 6139-6005 yellow face automatic chronograph worn by Col. William Pogue on the Skylab mission.
Other than the NASA issued Omegas, this was his personal watch that he just took with him into space, as NASA didn’t want the Astronauts to take their Speedmasters home and so they couldn’t train as much with them.
This also was the first automatic chronograph in space, as no one had tried before if they would work without gravity (surprise, they did, as momentum is still very much a thing in space).
Here is a very nice write up by a very knowledgeable guy:
https://www.plus9time.com/blog/2017/12/24/the-true-seiko-pogue-chronograph-6139-6005
Mmm love a good space watch. Personal grail for me would be an Omega Skywalker X-33.
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. 😊
Heard also gshocks were one of the few space rated watches for astronauts
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 :^(
unattended bag of chips
Proper.
An original, genuine copy of ‘Akalabeth: World of Doom’.
An original production Semmerling LM4.
