/hob/ - Hobbies

Anyone here learning to tie knots? Want to learn survival skills for just checking out of society decades from now. I'm completely clueless starting out though because of years spent in front of a screen. Want to prepare for homelessness when it eventually comes one day. I'm getting into growing plants, and plan to guerrilla garden edible plants all over my area so I can have some healthy plants to supplement whatever goyslop they serve in soup kitchens (never been before). I cleared out an area in my parents backyard (it's a jungle at this point lol) where I can practice setting up a tent and sleeping bag every night and take it down every morning, to prepare for being homeless. I want to learn botany and fishing at some point. Maybe how to make rope from plants. I have decades to master it and I'm neet anyways so might as well. I want to learn how to use sticks to worm charm (get worms from the ground) so I can make a worm farm in a plastic water bottle. I'll use the worms for fishing bait and use the soil they produce so I don't need to buy enriched soil I can just make it. Not sure of the clay content of the soil worms produce but if I can use it to make mud bricks with water and dried grass, it would be so badass to go into the woods and just make a mud hut with a thatched roof, and be a hermit meditating and shit. Coming into civilization for supplies and showers and reading books at the library and shit.

>>70386
It can be identified thus it can be observed mr smartass

>>65514
I never watch romance films bacause i think all are bullshit but i watched this film by accident
>Silver Linings Playbook
And i liked it, i feel it humanistic in a lot of ways.
Maybe bacause the feeling of that anyone get how you feel is in the entire film, all are assholes to protagonist and all put moralistic tags or bullshit on them. The protagonist feels lonely in a lot of ways, everyone feel distant to them in a not forced acting way.
There're some escenes that the dude and same the succubus turn full anxiety and i suffered that shit, i feel empathy for the protagonists so that maybe is a good camera and acting job.
I dont know if the book is more good.

>>70389
>more good
>crappy tastes
>low IQ

most likely indian

I watched "Redux Redux" two days ago. It wasn't terrible— just kind of a turn-your-brain-off movie. You throw it on, kick back, and let it wash over you. It's about a succubus with a time machine who keeps jumping between parallel universes to track down the guy who took her daughter away, over and over.

Tenet

Citizen Kane

I don't watch movies often to be honest

>>70473
>>70472
>Magic explanation
Crowley in a way in some book was into some psychological explanation of things
in another was into a religious belief in some way pagan
in other was more into the way of Duquette everything its in your mind but you dont know how big its is
but Crowley actually told a student that in magic you call outer occult forces like gods, angels, spirits and etc.
Who fuck knows, the dude changed from that his genius or HGA was a psychological phenomena to a magical occult third party entity out of control of him that make a possesion of his wife and write a damn religious book like an spiritist.
in some text he says that demons of goetia are just part of the brain, i dont know.
or maybe the two posibilies even if are a contradiction are valid.
Crowley was Agnostic, later more Chaoist, later more pagan, and later more religious and later who fuck knows maybe just trippy dude.
>fringe belief into psy
Some guys of chaos magic have some fringe belief beyond agnosticism or atheistic view in a sense just to open something to a psy-powers thing or something. its a kinda rare belief, its more rare than the typical that magick is just doing material things or not to achieve objetives or things, like hypnosis (yep, magick with K is more related to material world than the old paranormal magic)
in some way you can call that everything is just hypnosis or maybe in the more fringe belief this hypnosis with ritual open something to a psy-powers or who knows.
>RAW and mind powers, maybe
Robert Anton Wilson sometimes was in the middle between paranormal and agnosticism and the dude have a lot of fringe-paranormal maybe explainable experiences into a cosmic schizo shit. you can call it that view into quantum things but the dude sometimes was more into something weird is happening and other times that's its just something materialistic psychological.
He first try to relate it to scientific knowledge of its time like the brain waves, alpha state, altered state of mind, drugs, hypnosis and etc (he in some book tried some experiments with this around sound, waves and etc and he says that in some waves he know itPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I have read few text on magic but it requires many leaps of faith just like religion, just like anything really. I yawned and closed the book. Maybe it is as true as anything else but man, I don't care.

I am exhausted by things and knowledge.

If you're gonna seek something obscure why don't you try something which actually delivers like neoplatonism. I'm sorry but this just looks to me like some scam for normies

Qliphoth traveller here, i fornicate with the demon queens and they teach me debaouchery and magick in dreams. Basically i'm still stuck at lust. I went beyond but found out it's fucking horrible (nofap,semen retention). It's like the soul stands bare before the almighty. This spehere is brutal, took me about six months of this shit to give up. So went back to Lilith,Naamah,Babalon, Ishtar and all the other aspects of Venus. Beautiful, warm pleasure But i gotta go through this sphere to cross the abyss and become that black diamond. Free from the loop, free from the wheel doing whatever the fuck i want. Warning though, once you start this journey there's no getting off, you either burn or ascend. Horrible things will happen to your soul,mind and body. The alternative is coming back to this shithole. The other way, is that dark soul piercing evil that child molestors do like that guy from The True Detective or Epstein. You entrap souls in that awful awful loop and you get more free everytime you do it. The dark side of indian mages know this, they eat the dead, rape their sisters/mothers and know they ascend. The path to God is horrible.

>>70544
what kind of magick do they teach you?
or do i have to learn it myself from them?

>>50746
I love etymologies. It's very fun to break down morphemes

>>50746
https://www.etymonline.com/
You can use this for a broader answer

>>49409
I like to read about
>Psychonautics
(or altered state of mind or how to play with your brain and sensations)
In general i read just about Hypnosis and magic/magick or ritualism, placebos, mind tricks, mindhacking, mind illusions etc.
I dont read much about drugs bacause i dont consume or have money for these (i dont want to turn addict) maybe in my 40 years i will try some drugs or heavy methods but for now i want to be healthy.
Its a fun insteresting hobby but is not a very good talk topic for normies.
Sometimes i talk with this with hippies new agers and some aspie science dudes, not the typical normie but they respect and have interest in these things around mind and body control and sensations.

>>70531
I have read a lot about drugs and I find that it has some practical application. Like I will never take any opioids or benzos if a doctor tries to prescribe it to me being aware of the death spiral.

jerking off and beer.

thats it

I wish I was tech literate. having A linux OS sounds cool

>>70569
Linux for desktop use is still trash, you have to choose between two janky display servers, one that's like 40 years old and the other is jank

None of the android display solutions have been ported to desktop linux, that gpl license is worthless

>>70570
why people are using linux distros if it is jank shit? I will never know; just because the software is written differently to work with an hardware

>>70575
Because windows is "Fascist" and "invades your privacy" and doesn't "respect your freedoms". Those using Linux as a protest against windows are the embodiment of "cutting off your nose to spite your face".

>>70576
I want a linux now

This is going to sound like a shitpost but I have this recurring dream that some ethic foreigners are trying to steal my car. It always ends with me killing them in some way. Half the time the car in question isn't even the car I drive IRL but I know it's mine and they want to take it.

I get these dreams about video games or romhacks which do not exist complete with entire mechanics and stories. The games always give this child like excitement and go paired with this feeling of when I played games as a child.
I only play games occasionaly these days and when I do they do not really excite me anymore or are anything like my dreams

>>70465
Average armed Ameriburger who wishes someone would break into their house

I play a lot of multiplayer military shooters that aim for realism in the way weapons are handled, and I also do shooting sports IRL. This gives me a lot of dreams in which I'm just an armed soldier tasked with doing mundane military tasks or going and killing communists. Being an actual warrior in these dreams is cool but sometimes the dreams lean more to the videogame side and I end up dying because I'm lagging out or the controls are being unresponsive. Like you know how men have dreams about punching people but the dream doesn't always let the punch really land? I keep needing to shoot communists but the gun isn't working. Last night was a case of me needing to set up a radio on the field but it kept being red and translucent to indicate that it couldn't be placed there, and I died trying to find a place where the game would let me set it up. Then the dream went realism mode and I was shooting at bad guys (Slavs) who were holed up in a building, but then I found out there were also nice cats and dogs in the building too and I may have harmed them so I woke myself up by killing myself.

>>65927
I once had a dream i fucked you mama

Have you studied the military structure of the Eastern Front Einsatzgruppen?
it's a thing I personally am working on, even if it's super complex.

It is very difficult to find some actual information on genocides which isn't tainted by politics or propaganda. I wonder why politicians and governments have such a fixation on this stuff. Maybe it is simply because they were committed by political regimes.

>>70431
Why is this so true xD

>>70441
>Sergeant Grey
You dont belong on this site, please go back to your tranny discord

Who are the most recent popular philosophers and what are they saying?

Who's a better philosopher to start with, Plato or Aristotle? Socrates didn't right anything, Plato seems to be the OG, but he wrote mainly in dialogues which might not be as nice of a format to read compared to Aristotle's more treatise-like format. I read Plato's Euthyphro already and I feel like it was to subtle for my mind to grasp. I'm sure as I get older though I will understand it better.

>>70533
>I'm sure as I get older though I will understand it better.
huh I think you need like a teacher who can explain to you what the philosophers were trying to say in their scribbles

>>70227
Nick Land

He is saying that post-human intelligence is here to take over and humans are going to slowly bleed out.

I managed to read this, Letters from a Stoic by Seneca. He lived in the times of the New Testament.
I enjoyed reading this, there are useful tiny tidbits here and there which still hold up today. It's also fun if you are interested in the Romans.
This is also good if you have read that meme book by Marcus Aurelius (which I also did) and you still want to continue.

>>70556
This is rich coming from someone who said.
>Why pass on the chance to make something new?
Then he draws a witch zapping a cat. Wonder where he got this idea from? Whenever Salem got punished in Sabrina the Teenage Witch? SO NEW AND ORIGINAL!
>I don't actually draw
>me as someone who gets gratification from creating
These statements don't match up. If you liked creating so much, you would be drawing often. Not necessary every day. but frequent. You like the idea of creating, not the process. You just seem to be seething in the rest of your post about how technical skills are for normies and how wizards value imagination more.
Apparently your love for witch hat lolis, isn't strong enough to put effort in improving your technical skills to make your art better. No it won't take you 8 years of spending half of your day grinding references, buying books or learning resources is optional thanks to the internet.
>Stan Lee is a pretty bad artist all things considered
Good that you know about his past actions of taking credit for other artists work. Odd that you didn't give any heat to Akira Toriyama. You do know that he reuses the same plot ideas in dbz over and over again right?
>New villains threatens earth/universe and almost wipe the Z-fighters out
>Someone in the group gain super ultra saiyan power or use some ultra powerful technique and defeats them
>use the dragon balls to revive the dead.
Do you think mangakas are any better than comic artists? If you read Devilman, you will see how much Chainsaw man and Berserk have stolen from it. Peak creativity. You demand innovation from random hobbyists but don't hold big name artists to the same standards?

Something tells me you don't really care about making something new.

>>70557
>Then he draws a witch zapping a cat. Wonder where he got this idea from? Whenever Salem got punished in Sabrina the Teenage Witch? SO NEW AND ORIGINAL!
Oh you're ESL, that's why you're confused about the meaning of the word "creating". If you read any of the discussion and actually work to understand the words being used, you'd hopefully come to realize that this whole argument is about drawing from the imagination and developing skills through hands-on trial and error as opposed to academically studying "how to" books that trick guys with the potential to put their mental visualizations to paper in to redundantly building up drawings with geometric shapes and concerning themselves with photo realistic pencil shading even if they just want to draw anime succubi. It has nothing to do with inventing novel concepts the likes of which have never been seen. Now you're saying that with any two things remotely thematically similar, the latter one is ultimately derivative of the former. A common cope of someone without an imagination.
>Good that you know about his past actions of taking credit for other artists work
I don't know anything about that. Whether his works are plagiarized or entirely made up by him doesn't change the fact that everything he's credited as drawing and writing is liquid dog shit that could only ever appeal to toddlers. You bringing him up lets me remind you that in spite of his - and other "old school" American comic book artist - art being horrendous, the main voices of the comics industry are the primary promoters of these "draw by numbers" and "Learn to draw the fundamentals and only the fundamentals" books. To recomend these books and those like them is to encourage people to start drawing from a mental angle that evidently leads to producing bad art the likes of which is found in comic books.
>Odd that you didn't give any heat to Akira Toriyama.
Because I didn't readily know who that is. Not kvetching about every subject of your post doesn't mean I endorse what I hadn't bothered to quote.
>You do know that he reuses the same plot ideas in dbz over and over again right?
Are we talking about writing now? I don't care if he sticks to a formula in his writing. What I care about is that when he Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>70558
Now you are just making things up.
>academically studying "how to" books that trick guys with the potential
We have all been to deviantart and seen how things pan out for people who buys into the "drawing from the imagination and developing skills through hands-on trial and error". The saying "drawing from reference is cheating" is a straight up lie, parroted by malicious people who wish to sabotage others and people who takes everything their favorite artist say as gospel.
These academic methods are there to help you accelerate your skills.
>To recomend these books and those like them is to encourage people to start drawing from a mental angle that evidently leads to producing bad art the likes of which is found in comic books
Seething aside, you just think there is something unique about drawing from imagination without any knowledge of the fundamentals. Most people don't end up being good at their craft from that.
>cultivate the parts of the mind responsible for rotating an apple
Your 2d cardboard witch clearly shows how good your mind is at rotating an apple. This is the end result of all those years of drawing solely from imagination?
>Do you consider books about your hobby to be the ultimate voice on how to approach that hobby by virtue of them being publish books alone?
Most people don't treat these books as gospels. The books are not there to force you to use their methods. They teach you methods that can help you to accomplish your goals. If all you want to do is to doodle, then it doesn't matter.
But if you want your art to look like X anime/cartoon. Well time to learn observation, construction and perspective. The animators of these shows had to learn it, so why do you think you're so special that you can recreate the art of these shows without it? I don't get why you think showing someone the ropes is a disservice. There are plenty of people who are just talented and can create amazing art without setting their foot in an art academy or reading any books. Too bad you're most likely not one of them. Norman Rockwell wasn't talented either, he built up his skills by studying at art academy.

Forsaking tried and proven methods doesn't sound like something a wizard would do. This not aPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>70560
>We have all been to deviantart and seen how things pan out for people who buys into the "drawing from the imagination and developing skills through hands-on trial and error"
Yeah, we see them having fun and laughing with their fellow artists for years in spite of their skills. This argument is moot though because the reality is that most of DeviantArt's contributors are drawing with the help of books and references.
>The saying "drawing from reference is cheating" is a straight up lie
It's not drawing period. I didn't read any of your post beyond that. The witch (drawing) is a better contribution to the drawing thread than the cat (conversion of medium)

>>70561
So much seething and coping, also lying. Remember folks, the guy who takes hours to make a doodle witch, is they one telling you to not learn the fundamentals. Because he is a crab who wants your skill to remain on his level.
>I didn't read any of your post beyond that.
lies, how do i know?
>The witch (drawing) is a better contribution to the drawing thread than the cat (conversion of medium)
you got triggered by this line, didn't you?
>Your 2d cardboard witch clearly shows how good your mind is at rotating an apple.

>>54859
heh just laughed out loud like a dinkey at a 5 year old picture

I play on duelingnexus
https://duelingnexus.com/home
Its fan-made and free, so no pay to win or grinding for the cards you want, all cards are unlocked for everyone right from the start

>>70453
oh wow i was hoping something like this exists.

>>49308
I played some Yu-Gi-Oh! with my older sister yesterday, Forbidden Memories rules since we grew up on that. It was a lot of fun! I'm leaving my parents' house soon though, just came by to visit for the weekend, this got me in a Yu-Gi-Oh! mood yet again, I might play some more today, and when I'm home I think I'll pop in a video game to play solo as I come from work.

I'm 30 and I don't play it, but I used to in elementary school. 2 succ actually stole my pack of cards but got caught and had to give it back.
I remember really enjoying playing this game with other kids on the playground but they tried to steal or swindle these rare or expensive cards I had acquired.
I'm not familiar with the current game, but as I see it back then it had this early 2000s feeling/atmosphere about it which made it so fun together with the anime and the GB/GBA games. It must have lost this feeling surrounding it.