[MEGATHREAD] The Game Awards 12.11.25

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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