u/Dr_Superfluid

I've been to all the card stores and card shows, and even browse carousel a lot.

Market price seems to be an elusive term to almost everyone. I've seen small card stores sell a $3 card for $28, $2 cards are routinely sold for $10. And don't get me started at big shops. $25 cards for $90.

Also condition seems to be irrelevant for anything not graded. Even if it's chewed by a dog and gone through a washing machine the price is always LP market + 20% if we are lucky.

Yes sometimes in events you can haggle with some vendors, but most won't haggle much and still expect above market for the final sale.

It's a bit frustrating wanting a card that has a market of $30 and having to be happy to pay $55 for it.

PS: before you start telling me they need to make profit, then if they make profit on the sale selling way above market and condition price then they should buy on market. You cannot double profit on both the seller and the buyer and keep the lie going. At least we should be clear on that.

Funny story on the $3 card for $28. I happened to have multiples of this card with me at the time and asked if they do trades. They said yes. I said ok I can 75% on this card for trades, but 75% on your price here not market. Long story short they weren't happy. Double standards I guess.

As the title says. Some people just never take a loss. They just let the timer hang.

Or even often in the beginning of the battle. They don’t attack and you have to wait 2 full minutes for them either to start at the very end or they never intended to play and just wanted to waste your time. While of course if you are high ladder you cannot start another battle because having two difficult battles at the same time is very disadvantageous.

I would suggest losing on time being you lose an extra 5 points, and if an account loses on timer more than three times per 24h then every timer loss should be double points deducted from their ELO (not added to yours, just them losing as a penalty).

Also 30 seconds for first play instead of 2 minutes. What’s the point of starting battle and giving people the option to waste 2 full minutes of your time? If 5 people do that then there goes half the battles I wanted to play in the 30 minutes I have.

Just lost 2 days work because Microsoft has more control over my computer than I do.
This is a reminder to people forgetting what windows feels like when they haven't used it in a while. I could not suggest more strongly to avoid windows at all costs...

Had been a windows guy for the first 27 years of my life. Did my PhD with coding and simulations using windows, suffering through all of its crap.

Got so frustrated that I transferred to Linux after my PhD, and a bit later a Mac became my main machine and Linux my secondary.

This week I needed some old codes from back in the day that could only run in a specific software only available for windows. I sourced a high end windows laptop (i9 12th gen, 32GB). I reinstall my software, open my codes, and start to do a new run that knew that would take 2-3 days.

I change the settings so that it doesn't go to sleep or hibernate or whatever. Always on when in power..

After two days of running I figured by this morning it would have finished. And what do I see? Windows has restarted WHILE MY PROGRAM WAS RUNNING in order to install some AI-slop updates that I never even confirmed I wanted or agreed to be installed!

What is this crap? Microsoft restarts my computer, without any prompt or anything and I just lose all my work!

There might a subsetting on a submenu somewhere to tell it not to do that, but why the hell is the default for the computer to restart with ZERO prior notice???!!!!

When I am done with this code I am never touching Windows again. This is insanity. Yes Linux and MacOS have many issues, but for god's sake, they don't restart mid-load without any notice or asking specifically to accept if it wants to do an update overnight. Stay with your Macs people. The grass might look greener on the other side sometimes, but it is a crap-show in reality.

This is a reminder to people looking to get a laptop, I could not suggest more strongly to avoid windows at all costs...

Had been a windows guy for the first 27 years of my life. Did my PhD with coding and simulations using windows, suffering through all of its crap.

Got so frustrated that I transferred to Linux after my PhD, and a bit later a Mac became my main machine and Linux my secondary.

This week I needed some old codes that could only run in a specific software only available for windows. I sources a high end windows laptop (i9 12th gen, 32GB). I reinstall my software, open my codes, and start to do a new run that knew that would take 2-3 days.

I change the settings so that it doesn't go to sleep or hibernate or whatever. Always on when in power..

After two days of running I figured by this morning it would have finished. And what do I see? Windows has restarted WHILE MY PROGRAM WAS RUNNING in order to install some AI-slop updates that I never even confirmed I wanted!

What is this crap? Microsoft restarts my computer, without any prompt or anything and I just lose all my work!

There might a subsetting on a submenu somewhere to tell it not to do that, but why the hell is the default for the computer to restart with ZERO prior notice???!!!!

When I am done with this code I am never touching Windows again. This is insanity. Yes Linux and MacOS have many issues, but for god's sake, they don't restart mid-load without any notice or asking specifically to accept if it wants to do an update overnight.

Hey all. I just wanted to ask if other people miss trading cards as well.

Currently, no one just trades cards. Sometimes people trade money in the form of cards, but they don't even look at the cards themselves.

In the old days if I had a Arbok I was then biggest fan of and you had a Wartorle I like more and you liked the Arbok we traded the cards.

Now this is eradicated. People are always like "oh but my Arbok is $27 on TGC because a random dude in Taiwan sold one for this money yesterday on eBay, and your Wartortle is $19 so you better give me my $8"

Ok I am not saying I would expect people to trade a shadowless base set Zard for a Dunsparce common, but come one. Lets look at each others binders and if we feel like our binders would improve by a certain trade lets do it. Don't ruin the fun of it by having to look up every single card and making everything a money transaction.

I would say ok keep your valuable cards separately, but please do trade your non-blue chip cards. I am the first one to say I don't care to lose a some dollars just for the experience.

It was part of the fun! I remember I traded as a kid a shining tyranitar of a base set unlimited Machamp. Why? BECAUSE I LIKED THE MACHAMP MORE hahahah. And I still have it and I am very happy with it. Would I had my nice memories with my card if I said "no friend, my card is worth more. Pay up or go home". We never even thought about card values back then.

So I am in the fortunate enough position to have these three in my daily workflow in the following specs:

MBP M3 Max 16” 16/40 64GB

MBP M4 Max 16” 14/32 36GB

Mac Studio M2 Ultra 24/76 192GB

Running analysis models in Python with the exact same conda environment (from the same .yml created in the M3 Max and then copied to the other 2) so all the settings are the same.

Current runs are CPU only, all cores at full constant load. Multiple cases run over 12+ hours without stops.

Average case example times:

M2 Ultra 47 minutes

M3 max 56 minutes

M4 max 68 minutes

I was expecting the higher clocks of the M4 Max to make more of a difference. In my case it seems that more cores make a bigger difference than clocks. Also, RAM is not a factor in this run. The code takes about 6-8GB to run so they all have plenty.

Considering cooling. All machines are in the same room and have been running for 12+ hours each (multiple cases).

M2 Ultra: dead silent but you don’t want to touch the top

M4 Max: very very silent. Fans sometimes go off even after 12+ hours of max CPU load

M3 Max: I can hear it from the next room. Fans rump up and stay on full speed.

Next week I’ll have some GPU loads to run so I’ll report back with those results. Unfortunately, these runs will be heavily VRAM dependent.

Again all of this is anecdotal, just wanted to share my experience with these machines as it’s kind of rare to have all three and be running the same big loads.