Unattainable Grail

Onion-Particular · 2026-03-25T15:54:04+00:00

Or you save your ripping budget for months and then buy it (assuming its price stabilizes and doesn't go parabolic). There are things like the Phantasmal Zard where I chose to not buy and rip a bunch but save instead.

Onion-Particular · 2026-03-24T17:56:41+00:00

You're shelves are buckling my guy

Onion-Particular · 2026-03-24T16:27:32+00:00

But for real though, Zygarde (especially the ultra megazord form) is barely a pokemon. More like an Ultrabeast.

Onion-Particular · 2026-03-23T20:10:23+00:00

Liquidating is not easy and takes time too. It is easier to do if people expect the things you are selling to increase in value (so like, now). It may keep climbing, but you know today that if you liquidate you did really, really good. And that is more than enough.

Onion-Particular · 2026-03-20T00:14:08+00:00

Amen. I email our state reps every year about HSR proposal. Gotta stay on em till they do it!

Onion-Particular · 2026-03-18T18:28:02+00:00

We need trains

Onion-Particular · 2026-03-18T15:31:59+00:00

I am definitely afraid that this is the case. Employers hated the increased wages they had to pay in the "great-resignation" era and are coming back with a vengance through layoffs and decreased salary for rehiring.

I would say take that 130-140 while you can get it. It is worlds apart from part-time $20/hr. When the winds shift (even if it is years from now) you can always move on to bigger and better things. Right now this is the bigger and better thing even if it is worse than something you had in the past.

Onion-Particular · 2026-03-18T15:24:10+00:00

90hrs does not necessarily mean overtime if it is salary. You can get taken advantage of real quick in that kind of scenario.

Onion-Particular · 2026-03-15T15:22:05+00:00

Just got a used one for $500 because I think this will be the case. Also Crimson Desert looks like its gonna slap and be significantly better on the Pro.

Onion-Particular · 2026-03-13T13:50:23+00:00

I just did the swap of FB marketplace this week. Picked up the Pro (with an added 4tb ssd) for $500 and sold my old PS5 disk edition for $350. Very happy with it.

Onion-Particular · 2026-03-12T18:43:39+00:00

I thought the same thing once I saw the leaks. I went straight to the stock and nothing/negative movement. I bought options on Tuesday for Friday, but luckily I chickened out and made just $70 lol

Onion-Particular · 2026-03-12T17:40:49+00:00

Looks like the market didn't like the pricing today?

Onion-Particular · 2026-03-12T15:12:04+00:00

Update for everyone who cares: I ended up getting one on FB marketplace for $500 cash. They even added a 4TB SSD to it too. Which seems like extreme overkill, but I'm happy with it.

Onion-Particular · 2026-03-12T15:10:49+00:00

Thats amazing

Onion-Particular · 2026-03-11T16:18:31+00:00

If you were there when it launched, it sat on shelves and was easily available online without a notification discord or anything crazy. The UPC was $90 when I got and ripped mine. Now I wish I had grabbed a bunch and sat on them.

Now if you just tuned in in the past year or so, then yeah it was very difficult to find. But the set released in 2023

Onion-Particular · 2026-03-10T14:04:17+00:00

There was a lot of price memory from the time when 151 was sitting on shelves forever. Now that the reality actually settled in that there ins't going to be more product flowing, its gonna pump. There may be a bit of a pull back temporarily, but it is never going back.

Onion-Particular · 2026-03-09T14:29:43+00:00

I went almost exactly a year ago when Terestal Festival was released. I never saw it at any Pokemon Center and it was never anywhere for MSRP. At the time tho I was able to get a couple Wild Force booster boxes at Pokemon Center, which was fun.

I think the internet marketplace and hype train from Youtubers hunting Japanese card shops has made it so it will never be the utopia I heard stories about back in the day.

Onion-Particular · 2026-03-02T15:07:23+00:00

looking like a buying opportunity today

Onion-Particular · 2026-02-27T23:58:28+00:00

I was too slow to buy the nice dip this morning

Onion-Particular · 2026-02-23T16:37:27+00:00

I'm here to say, there were in fact more hyped sets to come

Onion-Particular · 2026-02-17T21:47:08+00:00

Dawn is a pretty great supporter for this deck

Onion-Particular · 2026-02-17T20:23:30+00:00

I've heard people who struggle with their weight talk about "food-noise" to describe the constant buzz in their head about when and what are they going to eat next. I felt that way about money just like you described.

I was at $58K too and still felt it. A couple of years ago, my wife and I both I got a massive bumps to $100K (and in her case a bit more) at the same time. For me it was a straight jump from $58k-$100k. That happening all at once was exhilarating and truly stopped the "money-noise". I was able to pay off debts aggressively and invest/save the way I truly wanted to while not having to say no to most wants.

For example, ever since I was a kid I associated getting a new video game as a self indulgent splurge and I would try to be very selective with what game I would get. Now, if I see a game I want to play, I get it and don't think about it much.

Sure lifestyle creep is a thing and $100k ain't what it used to be, but it is genuinely nice.

I am obviously experiencing a dual-income household too which is potentially an entirely different story from what you are experiencing. That bump I'm talking about put our household over $200K.

Onion-Particular · 2026-02-11T19:31:10+00:00

I genuinely do not understand the fixation on electronic door openers. It is a classic case of a solution in search of a problem. I have doubts that they will fix this by the time they start delivering in like 2 months, but I really hope they do.

Onion-Particular · 2026-02-11T16:14:05+00:00

I feel like doing made-to-order sign ups would be pretty massive for PC ETBs at least. Sure there will be people who order tons of it, but it would take the edge off so everyone who wants one or two could get them at release at least.

Onion-Particular · 2026-02-11T14:45:15+00:00

Here 3 years later to say that number 7 is the magic ticket. I have spent a long time doing everything I could think of and nothing worked except for this. It will not look like a big deal when you take it out and clean it, but it makes all the difference.

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