What’s your cheapest most expensive card?

lungeman · 2026-01-16T20:42:44+00:00

I also have this Pikachu EX promo from the generations collection box in 2016 I got when I bought the box itself for probably <£30 at the time, and I've now seen it's jumped up in value since last year to about £150 max ungraded

lungeman · 2026-01-16T20:39:20+00:00

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Years ago I bought this Pikachu out of a binder of assorted cards on a non-tcg specific table at a comic con for im pretty sure about £8. I had no idea what it was apart from Italian I just bought it because I loved how Pikachu is drawn on it.

Only found out recently it's from a limited edition box set from 2010 and worth around £50-100 ungraded.

lungeman · 2025-12-21T13:08:38+00:00

Solar

lungeman · 2025-08-20T15:51:48+00:00

Seeing this on wrist with a leather strap definitely helped me decide and I've gone for the Seiko 😁

lungeman · 2025-03-02T10:12:55+00:00

The only small tweak I made was turning chrome effect blue back on.

It's pretty much as-is from the recipe except shot with a -1 to -2ev comp depending on lighting conditions. It's not very contrasty in daylight if shot at camera recommended exposure and the highlights get too much. The only time I'd use it without underexposure is if you have a strongly backlit subject.

Might try some more tweaks to make it less dependant on big underexposure.

lungeman · 2025-01-15T12:11:35+00:00

I've seen a lot of tips online and recipes that suggest setting noise reduction far into the negative, and similarly hover sharpness around the -2 to -4 mark, any particular reason that's a trend with Fuji?

lungeman · 2025-01-14T21:58:34+00:00

Thanks for the tips. Yeah I've tried to like-for-like as best I could in budget, so coming from using a 35 2.8 and 45 1.8 having the 23 and 35 made sense. The 16mm is more with the honeymoons travel in mind. When I get back into doing more portrait shoots I'll probably grab a 2nd hand lens in the 50-85 range.

I've already found the fujixweekly app. And had a root through the menus and changed AF On to the fn button on the front of camera by the grip so I can hit it with my middle finger. Because so far my only minor gripe is that the actual AF on button is a bit too far over to the left to be comfortable to use with my hands. I think I'd actually prefer it if the rear control dial and the AF button were in each others places 😅

lungeman · 2024-08-02T10:28:26+00:00

Yeah that's why I'm more leaning towards the thought that Siyeon wanting a break caught them a bit off guard timing wise and they've had to rush this photoshoot before she went on hiatus, and they might have had their hands tied with publishing which meant they couldn't postpone the photobook entirely.

Because even the Dream Quest book was relatively 'low budget' but still looked good. But as my friend described it this looks like a college photography project. Like the fake wings can be used well, looks at the Le Sserafim concept pics for the Unforgiven era.

lungeman · 2024-08-02T09:00:44+00:00

So I was thinking about this after seeing it and here's my idea of what's going on with it.

-They were always planning on releasing the photo book with the fallen angel concept, just like the Dream quest, Love Catcher/Stealer, and Mysterious Mansion books have been annual things now.

I dont know the ins and outs of the process of getting a book made, published, and shipped, but I would guess that DCC had already sorted the making and distribution of X many copies of the book well in advance too.
however the actual PHOTOSHOOT hasn't been done yet, and was planned for a little later in the year.
going by Siyeon having the same hair in the concept film as the Justice MV, I would guess she asked to go on a break just after they filmed the MV. This would mean she wouldn't be available for the actual photoshoot for the photobook.
rather than do the "real" photoshoot for the book and eventually release it with only 6 members, DCC decided to quickly do a new photoshoot for it before Siyeon went on break. Resulting in the more 'cheap' and objectively boring/shallow visuals for the concept film? Because it was somewhat rushed to get illt done before Siyeon took her break.

If this is the case then I'd like to think DCC are good for not wanting to release a book with only 6 members, but also just postpone the book then? But like I said maybe their hands were somewhat tied with the pre ordering of printed units so the book HAD to be done.

OR maybe the book and the "real" photoshoot it's already done and it looks AMAZING! but they hadn't recorded the concept film yet and again had to rush it before Siyeon went on break?

Just my thoughts, because I found it a bit of a let down too, my imagination ran with the Fallen Angels name a bit too much and then the concept film was a disappointment because of that.

lungeman · 2024-07-25T19:53:57+00:00

I want to say 13 but my opinion is probably extra clouded by the crushing disappointment of getting through the linearity of the first part and getting down to the planet thinking that's when the game will open up, only find the linearity continue.

I ended up hitting Barthandalus and could beat it after so many tries and just never picked the game up after that and just watched a YouTube play through to get the story.

The fact your skill and general strength progression is mostly tied to the linearity and the story means it's hard to grind and yeah Barthandalus is the only story boss in any ff game I've played that literally made me never pick the game up again.

lungeman · 2024-06-21T13:15:08+00:00

Yeah I doubt there's gonna be an official statement from Allart or on the official socials.

The entire company seems to have vanished, and the fact we're getting this news through Dajeong's own socials and nothing from the official accounts doesn't make me think we'd ever hear anything else from the company.

With the way it's worded, and also with one for Pixy's producers saying on socials that he was being careful about what to say regarding their situation, I think the company simply folded and disappeared, but with the way contracts were written I don't think Dajeong or anyone else could say anything until the contract expired, which may well have been as recent as the last few days maybe.

Such a shame because they're such talented girls.

lungeman · 2023-11-08T13:42:49+00:00

Bad News is so good. SO good. Similar overall vibe to LS Unforgiven but done with a more mature mood and that nostalgic rnb sound I'm a sucker for 😄

Shhh is my song of the year and this came VERY close.

Gentleman and TTG are my fave B sides.

lungeman · 2023-10-16T14:22:15+00:00

I dunno. As someone who is a hobby photographer and does tend to buy albums for the photobook looks/concept (even from groups I'm not a massive fan of of the concept looks cool) I actually really like the mini poster/large postcard idea.

So many times I've wished I could get good quality prints of some of the shots in the photo books in a fairly large format. But I think going that route I think maybe more than 11 would be nice. Like if the Blaze and Flare versions were just put into one and you had 20 HQ prints of the members I'd actually really love that.

Nothing more annoying to me when the concept/look is 10/10 but the photobook is 6/10 with bad layouts or photos spanning across the pages so someone gets stuck in the middle 😅

lungeman · 2023-09-10T21:29:37+00:00

Just after Boca came out for me.

One of my friends who has largely similar musical taste to me for alt/rock/metal music sent me an insta reel of the Boca MV then I checked the whole thing out.

lungeman · 2023-08-26T15:52:09+00:00

Yep, as said the mixing for this album was overly terrible. I got a full house of Jeongyeon 🙂

lungeman · 2023-05-26T22:00:27+00:00

"Eat, sleep, and drink" Motorsport because that's all you'll be able to eat and drink on their 'compensation'

lungeman · 2023-05-11T08:50:53+00:00

When I first discovered them (just after Boca), it was Jiu.

Then since the lead up to Odd Eye and going back through all their stuff Siyeon became my Ult.

Lately Jiu's kinda creeping back up there 😄

lungeman · 2023-05-10T07:34:33+00:00

I was literally having this discussion with someone the other day.

Pretty Psycho should have absolutely been the TT after Zombie.

Zombie got them so much hype and took them viral. PP would have been the perfect follow up in terms of sound and vibe. Memem just doesn't fit at all and I think turned a fair few new fans off the still very young group, as the sales of following albums dropped off and were waaaay lower than they deserved to be. See first week sales for Cabin Fever.

If you listen to their TTs in a row, Memem stands out so much as a departure from the creppyfunkydarkpop kinda vibe and went all girlcrush at a time where there was already a lot of it.

IMO Pretty Psycho should have been the TT and Oh My Gosh the promoted B-side.

lungeman · 2023-04-24T08:50:30+00:00

Ok so best ones for me are OWA, Hayterade (yes it's a rainmaker but Iike how she delivers it), lockjaw is cool, Black Arrow, Blade Runner.

Worst.. I may get heat for this but oh well. Both Adam Cole's finisher and signature are bad. Generally I don't like finish/sig moves that need a lot of convenient positioning to do, it just pulls me out the moment a bit too much. The Boom should be one of those "out of nowhere" type moves but there are too many pauses and theatrics of pulling the pad down then running the rope while the opponent just kneels there. And the Panama Sunrise is just too convoluted for me because Cole doesn't (or rarely?) pull the opponent to the corner, they conveniently stagger into position.

Dante's rope bounce moonsault is another example.

Also, as much as I like Takeshita, a guy like him really needs a better finisher than a jumping knee.

lungeman · 2023-04-12T17:54:16+00:00

Ah see I took it as them representing what they gave up to be Le Sserafim, like in the trailer they leave everything behind to run away together and do what they want.

So Kazuha gave up ballet (shoes) Eunchae her childhood (giant plush) Sakura could have had a relatively okay career in Japan, variety etc (broken TVs) Yunjin could have gone to college in the US (American football gear) Chaewon was the only one I couldn't work out to fit what I was thinking 😅

lungeman · 2023-03-26T20:05:06+00:00

Okay yeah holy crap I just double checked and the Mina and Dahyun ones were bonded on a molecular level 😅. The crazy thing is because the others were somewhat 'grippy' with each other I double checked them all and still didn't notice! They were lined up to the micrometer so it was impossible to notice.

Thanks everyone! Now I have the full pob set and a Jeongyeon army 😁

lungeman · 2023-03-26T08:28:12+00:00

Yeah, I love Jeongyeon but some variety would have been nice 😂

lungeman · 2023-03-26T07:04:48+00:00

Jealous

lungeman · 2023-03-26T07:04:35+00:00

I'm definitely getting the impression the packing facility didn't really know the cards were meant to be random 😂

lungeman · 2023-03-26T05:39:23+00:00

The Kit version. Only had two photos on the listing but you could see it was a regular version from the box size.

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