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    Wenonah Itasca canoe in Kevlar, a canoe that you can transport your life and another person and their life at a blazing clip and the boat barely weighs over 50 pounds for bring 19.5 feet.

    I have the hull in a heavier layup so I am happy but I dream of having the kevlar ultralight version.

  • Rose@slrpnk.net
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    I’m a photography nerd.

    There’s a bunch of rare and expensive cameras, of course, so I could probably just say “oh, probably anything from Leica”.

    But the real snobs go for turbo rare lenses. As a Nikon fan, I hope that I shall one day be allowed to the same airspace as the hallowed Nikkor 13mm f/5.6. The first ultrawide non-fisheye lens. 350 of these were made, each individually blessed by priests as they left the factory, or so the story goes. They cost an arm and leg - wait, in this economy, an arm and leg would probably be cheaper.

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    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.

  • KING@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I dream of one day finding an original Model M keyboard in a Goodwill or yard sale for like $10. Every time I’m in a thrift store I look over the electronics section JUST in case.

    Also waiting for the day I find a random copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga for the Sega Saturn. Only 20,000 north American copies were made, which sounds like a lot but in video game numbers is insanely low. I’ve only ever seen it in the real world once at a gaming convention and it sold for $1,500.

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    The Imperator-Class Titan is the largest mini in Warhammer 40k.

    I have fantasized about using one of these in an actual game ever since I learned of their existence in 8th grade.

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    As an old and broken skateboarder, I would love nothing more than a pump track within driving distance.

    There are some great parks, but nothing with enough flow that I can just carve around to work up a sweat without have to push or climb a ramp to drop in all the time.

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      I have a backyard that i don’t use and i often think about how hard it could be to build one. The more i think about it, the more i realise that the answer is: very.

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        An extended mini ramp w some features I could build myself.

        A pump track that would be any fun and not be totaly dangerous sounds like a massive project.

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    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.

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      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?

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        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.

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    The true Holy Grail item in my hobby of motorcycle riding would be a MotoGP bike.

    Realistically the achievable halo option is a 1000cc supersport and lots of track days.

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      I see a guy pop up on my you tube shorts who talks about his Aprilla a bunch. Says it’s not really worth the headache when something that would be simple to fix on a mass produced bike, isn’t cause there only like 5,000 of that model ever made.

      I say this but if I had fu money, I would definitely buy a Koenigsegg.

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    Woodworking: An entire log of American Chestnut.

    About a century ago, the species was all but wiped out by a blight that came from Japanese chestnut. Some three billion trees died. The blight actually survives in the forest living on but not damaging oak trees, so American chestnuts are struggling to reclaim their historic habitats. The species is critically endangered and efforts to rehabilitate the population are underway, including trying to breed large surviving individuals or to genetically engineer blight resistant trees. Logging is of course completely out of the question.

    American Chestnut is an excellent lumber, with many of the properties of white oak in a faster growing tree. It is straight grained, hard and strong, easy to saw and split, rot resistant due to tannins. A fantastic choice for indoor and outdoor furniture, structural timber, even telephone poles. Reclaimed chestnut timber from old buildings is highly prized, and what woodworker wouldn’t love access to a few hundred board feet of freshly kiln dried American chestnut…if it was possible to ethically source.

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      A couple more things about American Chestnuts:

      -Chestnut forests used to cover a shitton of the northeast before being reduced to basically nothing

      -“Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire” is about the tradition of eating American Chestnuts in the winter…

      -… Because for some, it was a treat. And for others, it was practically a staple food! They were an extremely abundant resource

      -Seriously, look at the size of the original American Chestnut forest:

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    In photography: Global Shutter. So whenever you see object bending horizontally while they’re moving, that’s because most digital camera sensors have a rolling shutter.

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    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. Also you need a very high quality amplifier to receive since the signal you get back from the mood is very weak. You can hear an echo of yourself delayed about 2.6 seconds, since the moon is about 1.3 light seconds away.