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▲ 1.2k r/magicTCG

I found an old box of MTG cards dumpster diving, was told to come here.

Hi everyone. So I’m a dumpster diver. I posted on r/DumpsterDiving this MTG box I found full of old magic cards. The copyright date on some is 1995. The box looks pretty old too. They suggested I come here and post the cards. I don’t play or collect cards but they said I have a few nice ones. I posted in r/DumpsterDiving before work and when I came home, my inbox had blown up so I’m still going through messages. They told me to try and layout the cards. There’s at least 850 cards here but I can only upload 20 photos. I don’t know much about MTG but I’ll answer any questions anyone has. Thanks in advance

u/davinpantz — 5 days ago
▲ 86 r/DumpsterDiving

Old Magic cards, foot massager (works!), rubber skull, random cords, used paint brushes, and an Xbox controller.

u/davinpantz — 5 days ago
▲ 28 r/Wrasslin

I dumpster dive. Today I found a 1999 nWo Wolfpac Lex Luger car still in the package. It hadn’t been completely ripped open

u/davinpantz — 9 days ago
▲ 40 r/DumpsterDiving

Update - Turns out, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Dragonball, Naruto, Baseball, Football, Basketball, NASCAR, easily over a thousand cards to go through. 🫩

u/davinpantz — 13 days ago
▲ 2 r/KayouNarutoCards

Naruto cards found while dumpster diving

Hi everyone. So I’m a dumpster diver, tonight I found a Pokemon box thing containing these Naruto cards. I don’t know anything about Naruto or the trading cards especially. The cards appear to be in great shape, alot of holographic cards and a couple of transparent cards mixed in.
I’m mainly trying to figure out what I found. Are these from a particular set? Is there anything interesting or collectible here, or are they mostly common cards? I have no idea why they were thrown away, but they seemed too nice to leave behind. Any information would be appreciated! Thank you

u/davinpantz — 17 days ago
▲ 18 r/oklahoma

Book signing by children’s horror author in Shawnee, OK!

Hey fellow-also humans. I’m Davin Davis, local author, professional wrestler t-shirt designer, part-time dumpster archaeologist, and full-time author.

If you’ve ever thought, “You know what my kid needs? Nightmares.” …good news. I’ve got you covered.

I’ll be doing a book signing at the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art in Shawnee on July 12th from 1 PM to 4 PM, and I’d love for you to stop by and say hello.

I’ll have copies of all four Midnight Lullabies books available, including:

Whispers From the Toy Box
Creature in the Chimney
Lost in the Nowhere
The Paintings of Pearl Manor

All currently available on Amazon.

And for the adults who accidentally wandered into the children’s section, I’ll also have copies of my best-selling comedy book Scattered, Smothered & Uncovered available.

Come grab a signed book, talk horror, writing, wrestling, Pokémon, weird small-town stories, or whatever treasure I found in a dumpster that week.

I promise I’m much friendlier in person than the things I write about.

Hope to see you there.

July 12th • 1 PM – 4 PM
Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art
1900 E. MacArthur Street,
Shawnee, Oklahoma

u/davinpantz — 18 days ago
▲ 26 r/monopoly

My mom has a 2005 still-sealed, never-opened, original plastic-wrapped 50th Anniversary Waffle House Waffle-Opoly board game.

u/davinpantz — 18 days ago
▲ 229 r/boardgames

My mom has a 21 year old, never opened, 50th Anniversary Waffle House Waffle-Opoly board game.

u/davinpantz — 18 days ago
▲ 63 r/DumpsterDiving

One of my best hauls ever!

Bubble gun (needs battery), bubble bottles, Raphael sai’s, Michaelangeo’s nunchucks, Donatello’s bo staff, Captain Americas helmet, Black Panther claws, two Dino masks (one makes sounds), Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em robots, Wii guns, remote control tank, remote control mini monster truck, and DVDs with the wrong DVDs in them, and brand new foot massager

u/davinpantz — 21 days ago
▲ 48 r/DumpsterDiving

1991 Sega Genesis Manuel, Wii Active 2 with wrist bands, Wired and Wireless headphones, Namco TV games controller, Google Play Mini and Bluetooth speakers

u/davinpantz — 22 days ago
▲ 63 r/DumpsterDiving

Three dumpsters - A crown royal bag w three watches, a bike pump, Wii guns, a bunch of Samsung cases, and what I predict is a broken PS5 controller, and Punisher

u/davinpantz — 23 days ago
▲ 5 r/LowStakesConspiracies

JOHN CARPENTER’S “THE THING” WAS A PRISONER, NOT THE PILOT

Hi everyone! So I was rewatching The Thing last night, a movie I’ve seen a billion times, and something hit me in the very opening of the movie.

Most fans assume the alien spacecraft discovered beneath the Antarctic ice belonged to the Thing. But what if it didn’t?

What if the Thing was never the pilot? What if it was the prisoner?

The first clue appears during the opening moments of the 1982 film. The spacecraft doesn’t descend in a controlled manner. It wobbles violently from side to side before crashing into Earth. That isn’t the behavior of a ship being flown. It’s the behavior of a ship that has lost control.

Imagine an advanced alien civilization transporting an extremely dangerous organism across the galaxy. They know what it is. They know what it can do. They keep it contained aboard a specialized vessel. Then something goes wrong.

The Thing escapes.

Within minutes it begins assimilating the crew. The pilots disappear one by one. Engineers. Navigators. Scientists. Every victim adds to the Thing’s knowledge. Every memory becomes part of the hive.

The surviving aliens desperately attempt to maintain control of the ship while fighting an enemy that can literally become one of them.

Their prison ship crashes into Antarctica.
The impact either kills the last survivors or leaves them stranded alongside the creature they were trying to contain.

Then comes the most important piece of evidence. The Thing freezes. If the spacecraft belonged to the Thing, and was intended to land on Earth, why would it crash land in an ice desert and try to escape? Doesn’t sound like an intelligent move. The ship wasn’t on fire. It was still fully intact with minimum damage when they found it in the sequel.

Why not repair the ship? Because it couldn’t. Not yet. At the time of the crash it had only recently consumed the crew. It may have understood fragments of what it absorbed but lacked the resources, tools, and biological forms necessary to recreate alien technology.

Fast forward to the events of the film.

When the Thing assimilates humans, something changes. It gains access to engineers, mechanics, pilots, scientists, and technicians. Suddenly it has a much larger knowledge base to work with.

This leads directly to one of the most overlooked moments in the movie.

Near the end, MacReady discovers the Thing secretly constructing a small spacecraft beneath the station. The creature has never had access to human aerospace engineering before. Yet now it is attempting to build a vehicle capable of escape.

Why?

Because it finally possesses enough accumulated knowledge to do what it couldn’t do after the original crash.

The 2011 prequel strengthens this theory even further. The Thing does not seem interested in exploration, communication, or scientific curiosity.

It behaves like an escaped prisoner.

Its first instinct is always concealment. Then assimilation. Then escape. It never tries to reclaim its original ship. It never attempts to repair alien technology. Instead it focuses entirely on infecting hosts and surviving.

That’s exactly what you would expect from a fugitive, not a captain.

Viewed this way, the alien ship wasn’t the Thing’s vessel at all. It was its cage. The crash wasn’t an accident. It was the final act of a doomed alien crew desperately trying to stop an unstoppable prisoner from reaching the rest of the galaxy.

And they failed.

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u/davinpantz — 26 days ago
▲ 28 r/videogames

Found a bunch of PS Magazine Demo discs from the 90s/2000 while dumpster diving

I took a picture of each one and had ChatGPT make me a list. I almost wanna find an old PlayStation just to play these.

OPM Demo Disc #30 (March 2000)

Playable Demos

Syphon Filter 2
NCAA Final Four 2000
CTR: Crash Team Racing
Ace Combat 3
Silent Bomber
MTV Music Generator
Twisted Metal 4
Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage!

Non-Playable Demos

Vigilante 8: Second Offense
Test Drive Cycles
Alundra 2

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OPM Demo Disc #28 (January 2000)

Playable Demos

KKL: FaceOff 2000
WCW Mayhem
NBA Basketball 2000
Dino Crisis
Army Men: Air Attack
Tarzan

Non-Playable Demos

Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation
International Track & Field

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OPM Demo Disc #32 (May 2000)

Playable Demos

MediEvil II
Speed Punks
NASCAR Rumble
Rugrats Studio Tour
NCAA March Madness 2000

Non-Playable Demos

MLB 2001
Vagrant Story
Front Mission 3
Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes
Rush Rush Rally Racing (text is a little blurry)
Jikkyou/Jailbreak (last title is difficult to read from the photo)

June 2001 OPM Demo Disc

Playable

Grind Session
Hot Shots Golf 2
Dino Crisis
Klonoa

Video Previews

Disney’s Aladdin in Nasira’s Revenge
Dark Cloud

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September 2000 OPM Demo Disc

Playable

Grind Session
Ms. Pac-Man
Rayman 2
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX
Tyco RC Assault

Non-Playable

NFL GameDay 2001
NCAA GameBreaker 2001
Matt Hoffman’s Pro BMX
Chrono Cross

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September 2001 OPM Demo Disc

Playable

Matt Hoffman’s Pro BMX 2

Video Previews

Legion: The Legend of Excalibur
Escape from Monkey Island
Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Drakan II
Okage: Shadow King

October 2000 OPM Demo Disc

Playable

RC Revenge
Sno-Cross Championship Racing
Muppet Monster Adventure
Team Buddies
Bust-A-Groove 2
Sydney 2000

Non-Playable

Crash Bash
Spyro: Year of the Dragon
Rayman 2: The Great Escape

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The Legend of Dragoon
Polaris Sno Cross

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July 2001 OPM Demo Disc

Playable

Disney’s Aladdin in Nasira’s Revenge
Alone in the Dark
Dave Mirra BMX Remix
Gran Turismo 2
Tomb Raider 2
Tomb Raider 3
Tomb Raider 4

Video Previews

Gauntlet Dark Legacy
WinBack

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March 2002 OPM Demo Disc #54

Playable Demos

Sheep Raider
Disney/Pixar’s Monsters, Inc.
Twisted Metal: Small Brawl
Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase
E.T. Interplanetary Mission

Video Previews

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3
Jak and Daxter
The Precursors Legacy (early title for Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy)
Batman: Vengeance

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Standout demos from your stack

Chrono Cross (Sept. 2000)
Spyro: Year of the Dragon (Oct. 2000)
Rayman 2 (Sept. & Oct. 2000)
Team Buddies (Oct. 2000) — surprisingly sought-after today
Bust-A-Groove 2 (Oct. 2000)
MediEvil II (May 2000)
Vagrant Story preview (May 2000)
Front Mission 3 preview (May 2000)
Klonoa (June 2001)
Tomb Raider 2/3/4 (July 2001)
Okage: Shadow King preview (Sept. 2001)
Jak and Daxter preview (March 2002)

OPM Demo Disc #22 (July 1999)

Playable Demos

Ape Escape
Bloody Roar 2
Croc 2
MLB 2000
The Next Tetris
Interplay Sports Baseball 2000
Soul of the Samurai
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater

Non-Playable

Xenogears
Warrior Princess
Jet Moto X
Macross VFX-2
Street Fighter Alpha 3

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OPM Demo Disc #18 (March 1999)

Playable Demos

Syphon Filter
Bust A Groove
Shadow Madness
Street Sk8er
No One Can Stop Mr. Domino
Akuji the Heartless
Fisherman’s Bait

Non-Playable

NCAA Final Four ’99
Guardian’s Crusade

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OPM Demo Disc #24 (September 1999)

Playable Demos

Um Jammer Lammy
Sled Storm
Monaco Grand Prix Racing Simulation 2
Chocobo Racing
Pong

Non-Playable

NCAA GameBreaker 2000
NFL GameDay 2000
Toy Story 2
Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense
Thrash, Skate and Destroy

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OPM Demo Disc #35 (August 2000)

Playable Demos

Tenchu 2
Destruction Derby Raw
Play With the Teletubbies
Star Wars: Jedi Power Battles
Walt Disney World Racing Tour

Non-Playable

Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX

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April 2001 OPM Demo Disc

Playable

Championship Surfer
Tigger’s Honey Hunt
Power Spike Pro Beach Volleyball

Non-Playable

Twisted Metal: Black
Shadow of Destiny

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OPM Demo Disc #33 (June 2000)

Playable Demos

X-Men: Mutant Academy
Deception III: Dark Delusion
WWF SmackDown!
Gauntlet Legends
Threads of Fate
Grind Session

Non-Playable

The Legend of Dragoon
Vanishing Point

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December 2000 OPM Demo Disc

Playable

Madden NFL 2001
Star Wars Demolition
Matt Hoffman’s Pro BMX
Disney’s The Emperor’s New Groove
MTV Sports: Pure Ride

Non-Playable

Muppet RaceMania
102 Dalmatians

OPM Demo Disc #27 (December 1999)

Playable Demos

Gran Turismo 2
NCAA GameBreaker 2000
Cool Boarders 4
NFL GameDay 2000
Thrasher: Skate and Destroy
Demolition Racer
Madden NFL 2000
Test Drive: Off-Road 3

Non-Playable Demos

Twisted Metal 4
Final Four 2000
MTV Snowboarding

OPM Demo Disc #52 (January 2002)

Playable Demos

JumpStart Wildlife
Safari Field Trip
Sheep Raider
Mary-Kate and Ashley’s Crush Course
Sesame Street Sports
Hot Wheels Extreme Racing
Disney/Pixar’s Monsters, Inc.

Video Previews (PlayStation)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Twisted Metal: Small Brawl
NBA ShootOut 2002

Video Previews (PlayStation 2)

u/davinpantz — 29 days ago
▲ 79 r/vintage

Dumpster Diving I found a bunch of PS Magazine Demo discs from 90s/2000s

u/davinpantz — 29 days ago