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a huge box arrived from goon Snacksmaniac! what's inside? why, magic the gathering fatpack boxes! lots of them!   you might be thinking, "why would you pay money for a whole bunch of empty boxes?" well, one day I want to open a small game store, and having empty boxes like these on upper shelves would make for excellent display props. the old card shop I used to go to did it all the time, putting empty booster boxes on the upper shelves or along windowsills and such to add a bit of variety. plus I can actually use them for storing things in, they're good boxes, unlike the current fatpack boxes which are not designed properly to hold cards without support anymore, I had a few cards get creased by the lid before I started putting cardboard inside to provide a buffer.
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a pair of these nail clippers I bought them as christmas gifts for a bunch of folks this past christmas and they've been unanimously happy with them, they're seriously the best nail clippers I've ever used. totally worth the price.
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Nothing really, they're just insanely sharp and high quality. Cuts smoothly through nails like they're not even there as opposed to prior clippers I've used that meet resistance and then *CLIP*, often sending the bit of clipped nail flying. I got a pair for one person and warned them of it being super sharp, so naturally the first thing they did was run their fingertip along the edge and slice open their finger because it's SUPER SHARP Captain Invictus has a new favorite as of 19:51 on May 11, 2021 |
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Timotheous Venture posted:Lol what the christ are those things "art" "fashion"
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during a discussion of absurdly inappropriate marketing pushes towards kids, I was reminded of the Aliens toy line from the early 90s that had a bunch of weird play-action aliens like the Snake Alien, Bull Alien, Scorpion Alien, etc. I remember getting a bunch of them and the Evac Fighter for christmas one year. I also remember finding that evac fighter later on in life, and converting it into a Thunderhawk Gunship for warhammer 40k because there was no way a kid like me was going to be able to afford the real one and so I had to make do somehow. And then I sold it and forgot about it until now. Well, turns out they're dirt loving cheap, even the MISB ones, and so now I once again own a shiny new Evac Fighter. 
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vinyls, eh? I have one, just the one, of my own, anyways. mom's still got her original vinyls from when she was a kid. But when I saw this was available and had the scratch, I had to get it, just as a display piece. Heresy, I know. The sleeve is super slick, with a full metallic lenticular design of a magma block, the camera flash managed to pick up the entirety of the image, but it doesn't really all show up at once to the naked eye. quite a stylish disc design, too.  Volume Beta has one of my single favorite pieces of music on it and one of the main reasons I wanted to pick up the vinyl(in addition to supporting C418 who is a cool fella); Alpha, the epilogue music for Minecraft that to me, represents a single day in Minecraft. from morning, to prep, to setting out on adventure, to combat and danger, to exhaustion and returning home, to going to sleep. It's a beautiful piece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNCGM7FJ8wQ I'm glad I picked it up when I did, seems it's sold out everywhere now.
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only a million? a house like that around me would probably be 2-3mil minimum. basic-rear end ranch houses on a postage stamp-sized property around here are regularly selling for 450-600k. speaking of postage stamp-sized things, I like this World's Smallest company's stuff, they, well, they make stuff that's really tiny and, generally, fully functional still. They made these Magic the Gathering Planeswalker Duel Decks, I bought the first pair they put out and when I saw they put out series 2, I picked it up too. Even nicer quality than the first one. they are really really tiny, about 1/4 the size of a regular magic card. and still completely legible, even the copyright text underneath the artist name. regular-sized card and a quarter for scale  
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:Got a new amp and subwoofer for my car...
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:The trunk and doors are lined with extra sound deadener so unless the windows are down you can't hear much outside. Added bonus is that even when the stereo is off road noise is pretty much non-existent now. ok you're cool the guys who drive down the road at 4AM with bowel-loosening bass rumbling everything within a 500 meter radius are not cool
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skooma512 posted:There’s a guy who posts up outside my window just BLARING his car stereo, usually after 10. This is an apartment building. loving hate that poo poo, I'm a light sleeper so it's doubly terrible. it's like the guys I work with who bring suitcase speakers to work with them and absolutely blast dad rock that's audible halfway across the building above all the machinery, like not everyone wants to hear your oldies my dude, get some earbuds. Just utterly selfish shitheads who don't give a drat about other people, only their own satisfaction. anyways, since I'm turning into an old person, I've decided to get a jump on things and get addicted to hard candy early with filled raspberry hard candies. love this poo poo. 
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got a bulk deal on a boatload of Core 2021 magic the gathering promo packs cracked those suckers, gave away the MTG:Arena ingame codes to goons, the rest goes in my collection couple of them were real bangers(ugin, the spirit dragon and liliana, dreadhorde commander are 30+ dollar mythic rares even when non-promo versions)   picked up some dirt cheap transformers and magic cards during prime day. probably should've grabbed more of the transformers to hold onto for later, but eh, they don't do the ludicrous discounts like 75% these days, only like 25%. 
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I replaced my eneloops last year. the ones I had I've had for like 10 and only recently started to decline, and were used constantly. eneloops are godsends. plus they have adapters that allow you to use the AA's and AAA's as C and D batteries, which is nuts.
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I have a samsung fridge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueZ30kK000E I was told by the repairman who came to fix my fridge last week that getting a pre-2015(iirc, might've been pre-2010) model is what you want to go for, Whirlpool is one brand he recommended.
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skooma512 posted:Mine told me that the retailers were passing off returns as new. Which makes sense since I had 2 dead fridges delivered this year. I got a used kenmore from 2002 off craigslist for 100 bucks, the motor was full of cat hair and burned out two months after getting it, cost 500 to repair including parts, but now it works flawlessly and has had the internals thoroughly cleaned out since. old fridges can last a ridiculously long time with maybe one or two minor part replacements and routine cleaning/maintenance, we had my grandmother's old icebox from 1960 that lasted until 2012 or so and survived half a dozen minor basement floodings before finally kicking the bucket beyond repair. meanwhile the samsung we have right now has had to be fixed for three different things in 5 years including straight up not having a critical part that keeps the freezer drawer aligned on the railings, and the thing cost 1700 new.
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I got a magic the gathering Dominaria bundle since I wasn't playing when the set was out and it sounded really neat, all the flavor stuff I liked from when I played as a kid. and the ten boosters in it were I guess put in there improperly because the layouts of the rares were weirdly sequential:  I opened them and got helm of the host, lich's mastery, precognition field, helm of the host, lich's mastery, precognition field all in a row right after each other. weird. must've been at the beginning or end of a print run as they cycled back to a new sheet, maybe. oh well, neat cards. And the booklet that comes with the bundle is awesome, explaining a lot of the history of the magic universe since the first sets came out, all the background lore with the Brother's War, Weatherlight Saga, and Phyrexians and such, good stuff.
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someone in discord posted this image and I made a terrible decision. if you know, you know. if you don't, it's been something I've wanted for over two decades but never actually got. The one I got doesn't have the manual but I'm sure I can find a PDF, or just buy a secondhand one. It's kind of important for this in particular, though.
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Inzombiac posted:You absolute madlad.
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IT'S HEEEEEEEEEEEERE YYYYEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH  now I just need to find a copy of the original manual in good condition.
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buddy, these vertical tanks have manual everything
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I bought the one in the pictures, which was used literally once and then put back in the box and is complete aside from not having the oversized manual, for $310 shipped. that's $110 more than it retailed for, which, for something that is 22 years old, is not bad. I'm sure you can find one without the box for as much if not less. There's obviously idiots on ebay trying to sell MISB ones for three grand but you can absolutely find setups for around what I paid. also, there are apparently adapters that allow you to plug it into a PC, and mods that let you use it in other games. I've heard that someone has made it so you can play Armored Core 6 with the Steel Battalion controller, which just sounds insane, but in a good way.
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drat, those look niiiiice. are they leatherbound? how much did those run you? I stopped reading the horus heresy around...The Flight of the Eisenstein, or Legion, one of those two, whichever came later.
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also it's no surprise they'd have their absolute best writing talent do the most important trio of books in the entirety of the history of the franchise and company lol Dan Abnett is a treasure
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The ciaphas Cain series is specifically, and almost literally, the Harry Flashman series but 40k.
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I bought these stickers from Dokibird and they're super well made and adorable. I mostly bought them to support her after the bullshit she was going through, but they're also such fantastic little stickers that I'm probably gonna put some on my car. she mentioned in one of her first streams back that she had to emergency shut down her etsy store because after the nijisanji debacle began she got 200+ orders overnight so I'm glad I got them when I did lol
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Warbird posted:I don't know what any of that means but the stickers are nice. meanwhile the news breached the vtuber veil and got into the global conversation for about a week, and resulted in doki getting over 600,000 subscribers in a couple weeks, becoming an incredibly successful indie talent essentially overnight who is fast approaching the subscriber count she had as a member of the megacorp. it went from a real horrific story to a real feel-good one. Waste of Breath posted:drat I like that jack frost and I'm jealous I can't get one.    but since she hand-packs all of it herself and writes a little thank-you card for each one, I can understand not wanting to deal with any of that right now. Trabant posted:absolutely did not happen.  just because you didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen. maybe "global conversation" was a bit much, but trending on twitter in multiple countries for multiple days, youtubers with tens of millions of subscribers talking about it and goldman sachs issuing statements about the validity of the stocks is more than just vtuber circles.
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TEMPLE GRANDIN OS posted:nerds! this Magic the Gathering playmat  and this robot who I have posed to flip off Wendigee in particular.   (the Dog Plains Playmat can be bought here) (Astrobot Vulkan can be bought here) Vulkan is basically the perfect fiddly desk toy. it can do essentially any pose you want, hold any object you want that it can fit its hands/claws around, and has the durability and stability to do whatever without ever needing a stand, including holding entire other figures at arm's length without issue. it's decently large and for the quality, very reasonably priced. genuinely in the top two best action figures I have ever bought. he's just so loving fun to fiddle with and pose, I took a bunch of pictures when I first got him         and there's a modified version coming out at some point in the next couple months(hopefully) called Hyperion that replaces the drill claws with a second pair of gigantic fists. definitely grabbing that one, "exosuit with a pair of gigantic punchin' fists" is like, my childhood dream iron man-style superhero powerup 
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Every finger is fully articulated and are jointed to move around, and they've got balljoints at the base of each finger for full range of movement. It's why they're so fun to fiddle with, the designers really thought about the engineering of the joints to maximize stability and articulation. The female astrobots unfortunately prioritize "fembot" styling over functionality, which means they have static pose hands that swap out of a socket rather than jointed fingers, and have trouble standing without a base to hold them up because they have high heel feet instead of the big stompers of the other astrobots.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Books cum music CDs.
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I think I gave my dad a sous vide thing as a christmas gift at one point but I dunno if he ever even used it. might ask him if I can have it if he never opened it. got a good starter guide to using one?
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shut up about the gross-rear end looking chicken and post stuff you bought I saw a box of joytoy spess mehreens at a deep discount and since I only have one of their figures that I wound up liking a lot, decided to grab it they're pretty rad   definitely gonna put the helmets on some of these ugly bastards tho 
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the boy Hyperion is here a remold of a prior figure, Vulkan  the big ol' robo mitts on his backpack are highly articulated, as expected  joints are terrifyingly tight but get looser after fiddling with it for a bit. nearly perfect figure, only complaint is the up/down wrist articulation, it's limited by the giant gauntlet guards and the rotating cylinder gimmick right before the wrist. I've been thoroughly impressed by the Astrobots line, except for Athenia, but other than that they've all been magnificent. can't wait to see what else they do.
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The smaller hand wrists are way tighter than vulkan but once you carefully get it going the first time it should be fine after that. And yeah, they are specifically made for articulation and stability above all else, which is why I don't like athenia.
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I bought an original G1 Optimus Prime! he looks great! haha not really, he's actually Missing Link Optimus Prime, a high-quality recreation of the original Optimus Prime toy complete with die-cast parts, but with actual articulation and engineering!  and leaked photos show that the next Missing Link figures, since this is apparently going to be a series, are G1 Bumblebee and Cliffjumper!  
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I bought one of these 8TB hard drives to tide me over until I get a new PC. my hard drive is both old and also only two terabytes, which for everything I've built up over the years from photos to videos to comics to games, it just doesn't hold enough. so it's nice to increase that storage by a factor of five, and it somehow got to me within 4 hours of ordering it. I also picked up some more Nendoroids, including a hilarious attack on titan one that includes a teeny tiny version of the titan that eats Eren's Mom, as well as a 10mm tall Eren's Mom for it to eat. 
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:That Toriel is illegal levels of adorable  IGN has a bunch of the Undertale nendoroids on sale right now, Undyne's 30, Sans is 41, and Papyrus is 36, quite a bit less than they usually are if you're after any of them. Toriel and The Human are much harder to get since they're both not currently being sold(but might get reissued like Sans is) njsykora posted:I would buy a full size Bubba nendo.
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