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an iksar marauder posted:I want one that says USA back to back World War Champs When i was doing a job at a steel mill, the electrician supevisor had a shirt that said that on when the German technician came in to do the install on the german line straightener. It was very 'MERICA!
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how do German lines differ from other lines
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:how do German lines differ from other lines I worded it poorly. Extremely poorly. I was working on a finishing line where they uncoil a roll of steel, dip it through several baths along a line and then reroll it at the end. The machine to keep the unrolled steel on the line was German and the company who made the machine sent a technician from Germany to install it.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:how do German lines differ from other lines This is a common mistake, the lines were actually designed by a metallurgist named Samuel German.
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Line straightening is an art only the Germans care for As seen in oft talked about but never exported gameshow Stackenblochen
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Alan Smithee posted:Line straightening is an art only the Germans care for The ratings were great for that show, as reported by the show runners every season.
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dervinosdoom posted:I worded it poorly. Extremely poorly. I was working on a finishing line where they uncoil a roll of steel, dip it through several baths along a line and then reroll it at the end. The machine to keep the unrolled steel on the line was German and the company who made the machine sent a technician from Germany to install it. Appreciate the clarification, OP. This is still uninteresting.
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Scott Forstall posted:Appreciate the clarification, OP. This is still uninteresting. You're not wrong
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honestly I kinda disagree, random-rear end tidbits of peoples' expertise thrown into discussions is always good
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dervinosdoom posted:You're not wrong
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I miss working with the guy, every big project he would be working on, he'd make a bunch of stickers for it. This time it was the pickle line so he had big ol pickle stickers for peoples' hardhats. His dumbass got kicked out of the plant for going around railroad arms when they were down right in front of the safety guys.
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You Bought the Thing. Now You Regret the Thing.quote:The limited edition SpongeBob Funko Pop was calling to Jason Grioua. quote:Just before the pandemic descended, Suzanne Lawler of Pacifica, Calif., made a purchase that didn’t seem so bad at the time. Ms. Lawler, a retired legal manager, had just sold an item she had inherited, pocketing about $90,000. Then, on a trip to New York City with a friend, she “fell in love” with a Celine handbag at a luxury consignment shop in SoHo. It was a stunner, she thought, and in orange python, it was one of the team colors of her beloved San Francisco Giants. The price: $3,000. Non-paywall link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/...&smid=share-url
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if dropping 100 bones one time on funko pops convinces you to save money for retirement that is probably gwm good for you mr. grioua
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silvergoose posted:honestly I kinda disagree, random-rear end tidbits of peoples' expertise thrown into discussions is always good Like Bigpeeler, right?
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:if dropping 100 bones one time on funko pops convinces you to save money for retirement that is probably gwm Yeah, I was expecting the second quote to be a follow up on how it led to addiction and now he has spent $90,000 on Funko and his life is in shambles. Funny story, I took my kids to a toy store the other day and asked them to pick out a toy. My son is 12, and he's starting to age out of playing with toys. He basically said "eh, I don't need a toy that will break or I'll get bored of, so I'm ok, but thanks." I almost cried I was so happy. Then my eight year old daughter showed up with two barbies, a horse, and several lip glosses.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:You Bought the Thing. Now You Regret the Thing. Both of those sound like relatively cheap lessons learned. Real BWM is when folks double-down on their dumb decisions and continue to burn money.
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laxbro posted:Both of those sound like relatively cheap lessons learned. Real BWM is when folks double-down on their dumb decisions and continue to burn money. Yeah the funko pop guy whose lesson only cost $100 is a success story.
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So I watched one video on MTG, and now Youtube thinks I want to go full in so it keeps giving me suggested videos. I'm streaming this video while I work, and I came to this part where MTV attempts to make MTG look cool by having some babes and hunks watch an MTG tournament back, from around 1995, I really just want to share this, mtg is bwm I guess so it fits the thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rXvW53z018&t=765s
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Super-NintendoUser posted:So I watched one video on MTG, and now Youtube thinks I want to go full in so it keeps giving me suggested videos. I'm streaming this video while I work, and I came to this part where MTV attempts to make MTG look cool by having some babes and hunks watch an MTG tournament back, from around 1995, I really just want to share this, mtg is bwm I guess so it fits the thread: The cringiest thing that jumped out at me was none of those cards are sleeved. Was that not common at tournaments back then?
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Hyrax Attack! posted:The cringiest thing that jumped out at me was none of those cards are sleeved. Was that not common at tournaments back then? It absolutely was not common to sleeve. Pretty fun to watch someone ripple shuffle a deck of old cards now worth $80k Someone is in the process of writing up an extensive history of the collecting and competition scene of Magic starting from the early days and it's fascinating https://cohost.org/bruno/post/130673-a-compleat-history-o
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To be fair, those cards are only worth 80k now because people are stupid and not because of any deducible or logical reason so I can't blame people in the past for not worrying about condoms for their nerd cardboard
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Every collector I know is just a hoarder who rebranded.
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A collector curates. A hoarder amasses.
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https://twitter.com/liron/status/1603434695189938176 Binance Wants Money: we’ll let the lawyers handle it
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Hahahah, that look of exasperation at the end is basically crypto.gif.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:The cringiest thing that jumped out at me was none of those cards are sleeved. Was that not common at tournaments back then? People play MTG with all their cards in sleeves? I played in a few tournaments back around 96-97 (and was quickly bounced each time) and I don’t recall anyone playing with sleeves. The only cards worth any money back then were betas that you couldn’t play with anyway.
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I still have two boxes of cards from the mid nineties. I played for maybe six months in middle school, probably 8th grade so 1995? Whenever Ice Age came out. I should probably see what I have.
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skrapp mettle posted:I still have two boxes of cards from the mid nineties. I played for maybe six months in middle school, probably 8th grade so 1995? Whenever Ice Age came out. I should probably see what I have. I sold a box from that era for $200 fifteen years ago. Probably would have been worth at least ten times that by now.
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Ham Equity posted:I sold a box from that era for $200 fifteen years ago. Probably would have been worth at least ten times that by now. One box has a sweet dragon or wizard or something on it. I'll bet that adds value. I'm going to scrounge those up tonight.
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Goddamn, every time MTG chat comes up I'm reminded of the ~700 cards or so I have sitting around. My brother stole the REAL valuable stuff way back when we were kids, but there's likely still some valuable stuff leftover.
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skrapp mettle posted:One box has a sweet dragon or wizard or something on it. I'll bet that adds value. I'm going to scrounge those up tonight. A guy I work with sold his 90's magic collection to Rudy from Alpha Investments a few years ago. He made tens of thousands and used it to finance his kids college. It's wild.
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Super-NintendoUser posted:A guy I work with sold his 90's magic collection to Rudy from Alpha Investments a few years ago. He made tens of thousands and used it to finance his kids college. It's wild. Rudy looks like he belongs in this thread. https://nitter.poast.org/MTG_AlphaInvest/status/1233836391634788353#m
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If you played in the early days the number one thing you probably have that are gonna be worth money are dual lands so keep an eye for those Like a dummy I gave all my old cards away when I moved a decade ago and now I curse myself for it
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Bird in a Blender posted:People play MTG with all their cards in sleeves? I played in a few tournaments back around 96-97 (and was quickly bounced each time) and I don’t recall anyone playing with sleeves. The only cards worth any money back then were betas that you couldn’t play with anyway. I played in tournaments (also quickly bounced most years) in like 1999-2000. The judges made us de-sleeve our decks, so maybe that was it? Edit: I sold all my cards except for one deck when I went off to college to pay for my first computer. That one deck is basically unplayable now because it was a joke deck relying on mana burn, which is no longer a mechanic in the game at all. Sundae fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Dec 15, 2022 |
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hallo spacedog posted:If you played in the early days the number one thing you probably have that are gonna be worth money are dual lands so keep an eye for those literally one of the cards my brother stole, because even back in the day it was worth a lot relative to other cards. Plateau, I'm pretty sure.
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A guy I know had his backpack full of dual lands (and other cards) stolen in the mid 2000s. At the time it was a painful $1000 or $2000 loss for a ~20 year old. Today those cards would be worth at least $15,000.skrapp mettle posted:Rudy looks like he belongs in this thread. https://nitter.poast.org/MTG_AlphaInvest/status/1233836391634788353#m Rudy spent years making gently caress you money in investment banking before bouncing from that life and directing his workaholic nature towards personal ventures like Alpha Investments and landlording. He has successfully used his youtube channel to promote a stock market like speculation culture for MTG cards, and his sales business operates by selling MTG stock to the people he hooks. The tweet you linked is really just him acquiring a bunch of stock he plans to sell, probably after making a video hyping up the investment vale of that set. I bet he sourced a sweet deal on his purchase of that stock too. The real BWM is that he buys big money vintage cards (e.g. Black Lotus) with no intent of ever selling them. This appears to be pure personal interest collecting, and he spends huge amounts of money to buy these cards from anyone looking to liquidate their collections. Kefit fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Dec 15, 2022 |
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Kefit posted:A guy I know had his backpack full of dual lands (and other cards) stolen in the mid 2000s. At the time it was a painful $1000 or $2000 loss for a ~20 year old. Today those cards would be worth at least $15,000. Yikes. A buddy around 1997 had his best decks stolen at recess when he left them near a fence during flag football. Wonder if some schools eventually banned cards after the value of some decks were considered felony level thefts.
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