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.
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.
TTRPGs. A cleared schedule
And friends with matching ones
I finally saw a Baltimore Oriole (bird) in real life at my feeder. Its was beautiful and vibrant and now I need to find another cool bird to look at.
have you already seen a scarlet tanager or rose breasted grosbeak?
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.
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)
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.
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…
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?
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?
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.
How tf does blindfolded playing work?
They can hear the moves in algebraic notation, and then they play their move(either someone plays them physically for them or they have invisible pieces in the computer interface).
They have to remember the whole board position though, which is what makes it harder.
rock band 4 legacy adapter. they stopped making them years ago and the prices went from 20 bucks to over 500 bucks. i had one and it broke because it used a shitty ass micro usb
Can’t you solder in a new item port? preferably USB-c?
yeah. some guy in the community started doing that for people actually
Green Chartreuse.
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.
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.
My multimeter
Why is it a holy grail? Also what is it?
It’s an instrument like this. It can measure voltage, current, resistance and continuity in electrical circuits. Mine is a cheap 20 euro model but it does its job well so I don’t complain. I actually don’t mess with circuits very much, but when I do, this thing is very helpful.
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.
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.
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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!
