No worries. If you have any questions regarding the print processes feel free to PM me and I’ll answer if I can :D

Ah OK, sorry, my bad.

Thanks for the link though, it is interesting to have a look at. Do you know ones in Germany are already printing cards like that Chinese place you linked or are you talking about general online print stores that are based in germany?

The reason I ask as if they already do a lot of cards (like the Chinese one obviously does) they will already have a lot of the requires equipment like dies available and in use, if however they are just a generic online print store like say redbubble sort of thing then they may add drastic extra costs to cover additional tooling where they don’t already have it, so I would definitely suggest leaning towards companies that already deal in printing cards like that link.

Either way sorry I can’t give you an idea of costs or more help.

I foiled these pokemon card things last year at work for a Christmas limited edition and the foiling process alone cost them around €500 for around 250 sheets which is why I suggest you go with someone that already has the tooling required.

Good luck, I’d be interested to see the results once you do get something done!

If you want any kind of decent quality then it probably isnt going to be cost effective for you to print them yourself.

Firstly you are going to have to pay for the stock for it to be printed onto.

By the nature of the fact you will not want long runs of all the same cards and thus have many sheets all with different cards on you are going to have to get them digitally printed as opposed to litho. Digital quality these days is very good and most people will not be able to tell the difference but wizards would have them done litho and they would be of a better quality because of it. Digital is also not quite as accurate in terms of registration which can make more or less of a difference depending on the method of cutting them out you use.

Im not sure if the real cards are laminated or not from memory but if they are and you wanted to replicate that that is another process that would need to be paid for for machine time and materials. Lamination would make them a lot more durable for sure.

If you want foils then you would need to pay for dies to be made for the foiling as well as then the foil and machine time for doing that.

Cutting them out you would need to have dies made to have them die cut to shape. You could have them cut normally then use a round corner cutter on every card but that is time consuming and less accurate. The registration of the printing method here would then make a difference so depending on how good the print is you may have off center cards with poor borders etc. You could also get them cut on a flat bed die cutting machine which would be more accurate as it uses registration dots that are printed to get its position so the registration of the print in relation to the paper is less vital with that but it costs more.

This is a very big rabbit hole that you could fall into and it all gets very expensive very quickly. You typical high street print shop will be able to get a reasonable finish but the small machines they use are never going to be as good as their industrial grade counter parts.

I personally think it would probably be more cost effective for you to buy job lots of actual cards from eBay and maybe search out some specific sets you want.

We havent even talked about where you are going to get the artwork from for the print shop and paying them for laying down the cards and imposing them for their machines which is costly before anything goes towards paper.

I would recommend trying to find a print shop local to you and going in and having a basic conversation with them about what kind of thing you want to achieve and just get a basic idea of costs to give yourself an idea of an approximate cost for the kind of finish you want to achieve and decide if it is a route you want to go down before maybe then shopping around for the print shop you think may be the best as I think you are going to be surprised at how much it will set you back to print the stuff yourself.

I have no experience of Chinese print houses and their prices / quality.

This just shows how different everyone is though. The only trips I regret are the ones where I have gone with other people. Travelling with other people is the fucking worst for me and it just ruins any trip having another person there with me, no matter the relationship.

OP is gonna need to try both though to get a feel for what they like.

UK is the same in that respect.

For food I cooked using a gas type stove or I also had a portable rice cooker type thing that I could cook rice as well as soups or stews or that type of thing in.

Cleaning I used a combination of a gym membership to a nationwide chain and used their showers, used family members showers if I was near to them and sometimes I’d have a baby wipe shower if I was really in a pinch and needed a basic clean.

Entertainment the same as I do in a house but just in a lot more energy conscious fashion. I run and cycle a lot so that was easy and I could run a lot of different places.

I had a small solar panel as well as the alternator charging a decent sized battery setup that I had hooked up to USB ports as well as a power inverter to convert to AC power so that way I could charge a laptop as well as devices.

So I had my phone to watch videos or listen to music on etc and then a laptop I could play games on or ran my DJ setup reliably. I had many options, I just always had to be conscious of batteries. I’d always have the laptop charging whilst I was on the move as the engine would make an abundant amount of electricity and then I could charge the laptop a few times if needed from the battery or trickle charging from the solar. So yeh, I had plenty to do.

I also smoked a lot of weed in combination of those things xD

I miss that life tbf, houses are over rated but it is also nice to always have a hot shower and stuff. Advantages of both

Yeh a lot of people do but I bought my van for 2 grand which was basically 2 months rent. There is definitely some anxiety in terms of I hope this shit doesn’t break down as it is also my house but then owning or renting a house also comes with different anxieties based on different things and the constantly moving around part I loved.

I am UK based and just parked where ever I wanted to a point, as long as I was following the sign posted rules for parking up no one would say shit, parking is a civil matter here anyway so even if I had chosen to park somewhere that I was supposedly not meant to it isn’t technically illegal if it was public land and the cops aren’t coming out to do anything about it.

That must be a US thing, aside from the initial cost of the van I saved an absolute shit ton of money living in a van full time and never had to worry about where to park or ever pay for parking.

It certainly isn’t free but it is affordable as fuck compared to disgustingly high rent prices.

“The OG game” and it isn’t Wii Sports… Then calls Wii Sports Resort a “sim”. Riiiiiight

Someone has been watching Technology Connections :p

Foxes are cool, I love seeing them, but that noise they make that sounds like a baby crying / being murdered is unsettling as fuck when you are out at night. Especially when it is pitch black in the woods.

Solo or in a squad? Playing solo I have probably been shot at maybe 20 times in 70 hours of play and have never experienced an extraction camper.

When in a squad that is very different as pretty much everyone we have met has shot at us straight away but we have still met with very few extraction campers.

Obviously everyone has different experiences in games, that is inevitable, but playing solo for me has been mostly chill as fuck. Especially coming from fucking Tarkov.

For whatever reason my first thoughts was Opiuo - Meraki

If I were a jellyfish I’d be bopping to this as I swam around the ocean xD

I don’t think this has anything to do with time and is more to do with the kind of person they are. I had similar exchanges with my current partner within the first year of our relationship. If the response had been a blood feud as you put it that would have been a good indicator that the relationship was going nowhere.

Even if you knew what to do I find those captchas for archive links never work. It will just make me keep completing them forever and never show me the site.

The album is fucking great, as are the two following albums from them!

It isn’t that bad but it is 100% the worst track on that album and probably one of their worst songs (although their newest album more recently was pretty Meh)

I skip it every single time I listen to the album.

Prepare for the worst tasting shit you’ll probably ever smoke, it’s like smoking mothballs.