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
In California Brook Trout is non-native, but we have a Heritage Trout Challenge where anglers try to catch six of the native trout species in their native streams. When somebody completes the challenge they get a custom certificate showing the species they caught and dates. So far I’ve caught one - California Golden Trout.
I'll try to keep these both short.
Magic the Gathering - the "Power Nine"
There's 9 cards from the first few printings that were simply deemed too powerful. Once they were out in the real world, the folks in charge realized they weren't fun to play against, and resulted in wildly uneven games. In extreme cases, the opponent could lose without even getting a single turn. They've been banned from every format*, and have never been reprinted*. *Except of course when they are. https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Power_Nine
Model railroading (O-gauge). Lionel 770e Hudson
For O gauge size, the train everyone wishes they had in their collection is the 1937-1941 Lionel 770E. This was a super-unusual toy for its day, pretty much everything else had been aimed at younger children and a lower price point. Lionel decided to take a gamble and build a hyper realistic scale model that was aimed at young adults. It was honestly not a great seller in its day due to the high price point and the looming threat of WW2. But it was, and still is, considered one of the highpoints of the industry. You could argue that the current Lionel company is founded on this concept, as their VisionLine products are focused on ultra-realistic toys for grown ups (which will always be funny, as yes, our track has 3 rails). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOdDw0-Tflg
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
Green Chartreuse.
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?
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
Owning that super special version of Nintendo World Cup that they made for some tournament and only 4 copies in the entire world exist. And IIRC, James Rolfe (the Angry Video Game Nerd) owns 3 of them.
And IIRC, James Rolfe (the Angry Video Game Nerd) owns 3 of them.
Wait, really?
In the episode he did on it he had to borrow it from Pat the NES Punk. Of course that was 14 years ago, so I assume he could have gotten his hands on them since.
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.
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.
I guess an Eleiko barbell:
Pretty much the Rolls Royce of barbells.
I'm curious as to what makes it so nice? My gut reaction is to say "It's literally a rod of metal with some checkering", but I've been in enough hobbies to know that there are some very fine details that make a world of difference.
It's springy but also very very tough. Weightlifting bars are designed to be dropped from overhead with weight (bumper plates) on them, and Eleikos are rigorously tested. Also, the collars (the things on the ends) that the plates go onto rotate very smoothly.
They use these barbells in the Olympics and other high level weightlifting competitions.
It used to be something like a 1959 Les Paul
or the Special Edition Lemmy Tribute Ric, but honestly these days I just like hanging out with my people and enjoying a refreshing beverage. Spending on some thing got less important.
Black Lotus. You gotta shell out bank or win some vintage tournament to acquire one these days.
I never knew they had merchandise for Big O.
From my personal collection:
I'd kill or die for a WWII or pre-WWII Colt .45. One I would especially love would be a Singer (yes, the sewing machine company) made for the war. There's a rare one that even Forgotten Weapons hasn't seen, forget the model.
An original, genuine copy of 'Akalabeth: World of Doom'.
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