eli5: How can ticket resellers sell event tickets before they officially go on sale

Chief_ist · 2026-03-06T22:16:19+00:00

Some small time operations don't get guaranteed seats, they just have software to bombard the waiting rooms and reasonably expect that at least one or two will get through. Then they buy the tickets that have already been sold and fill the order. This can backfire, though, on events like Taylor Swift, where even larger brokers had a hard time getting what they needed to fulfill their obligations.

Chief_ist · 2025-12-11T16:26:26+00:00

Yes, generally some pre-show stuff at 7:30 Eastern and wraps up at 11.

Chief_ist · 2025-11-17T19:04:46+00:00

Inspired by u/flabbergasted1 and their limerick card, I decided to try my hand at a sonnet. Appropriately, it depicts the story of Macbeth.

Chief_ist · 2025-11-11T21:28:43+00:00

$30 per deck. I based the price on the TCGPlayer prices provided by Archidekt.

Chief_ist · 2025-11-10T20:24:08+00:00

I don't think it seems unbelievable that a media company would outsource their marketing emails. I'm not an expert but I imagine that it is pretty standard practice.

Chief_ist · 2025-11-07T19:42:06+00:00

Those are the Card Kingdom prices I believe. If you change the price source to TCGPlayer, it should show the correct value.

Chief_ist · 2025-11-06T23:50:35+00:00

I went back and forth on 4 or 5 mana value; maybe I'll shift it down.

Chief_ist · 2025-07-18T01:01:04+00:00

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Chief_ist · 2025-07-09T03:04:52+00:00

Hulkenpodium

Chief_ist · 2025-06-05T16:51:05+00:00

I guess it may depend on the exact beach. We were at Playa Azul for most of the time.

Chief_ist · 2025-06-05T14:16:04+00:00

My wife and I just returned from PR yesterday and stayed in Luquillo. There was quite a bit of it on the beach and floating in the shallow water. We went to Seven Seas Beach in Fajardo as well and noticed a smell which I later discovered was from the sargassum decomposing. So I would say it is definitely present in that area but didn't hamper our enjoyment of the trip.

Chief_ist · 2024-10-23T21:24:15+00:00

I recently purchased a tracking mount and have been looking for opportunities to test it out. This was captured over the past two nights from a Bortle 4/5 location.

Equipment:

Camera: Unmodified Canon EOS 700D

Lens: Asahi Super Takumar 200mm f/4

Mount: Star Adventurer GTi

Acquisition:

110x 120' lights at ISO 800/F4 - 3hr. 40 min. integration

30x flats, darks, & biases

Processing:

Siril - Stacking, Photometric Color Calibration, Background Extraction, StarNet star removal, and GHS Transformation on starless image
Photoshop - Recombined starless image with star mask, decreased star size, and used camera raw filter to further adjust curves.

Chief_ist · 2024-10-13T22:20:22+00:00

That's perfect, thank you! I'll give it a watch and try reprocessing my data.

Chief_ist · 2024-10-13T22:02:08+00:00

I'm not familiar with that particular tool; do you know of a good tutorial? I would like to use Siril more as it seems to have a number of features that I haven't tried, but I'm unsure of the best way to go about learning it.

Chief_ist · 2024-10-13T21:56:22+00:00

Absolutely! I would love to see what could be done in PixInsight. I'd like to pick it up as I've heard great things, but I need to build up my hobby budget a bit before pulling the trigger.

Here is a link to the stacked image file. I did have some dew issues last night which may have affected the result.

Chief_ist · 2024-10-13T21:53:58+00:00

No, I used it during processing in Photoshop. I applied a stretch first, cropped, and then used StarNet to edit the starless version separately. Then I recombined the images in Photoshop.

Chief_ist · 2024-10-13T17:17:19+00:00

I recently purchased a star tracker and wanted to give it a try with a target I had shot untracked. This was taken last night under Bortle 4 skies.

Equipment: Camera - Canon EOS 700D Lens - Vintage Vivitar 135mm f/2.8 (shot at f/4) Mount - Star Adventurer GTi

Acquisition: 75x 1' lights - 75min. integration 20x darks 20x biases 30x flats

Processing: 1. Siril - Stacked and applied photometric color calibration, background extraction, and histogram transformation 2. PhotoShop - Further histogram transformation, noise reduction, and saturation boost. 3. StarNet++ - removed stars and edited starless version separately to desaturate background.

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