/hob/ - Hobbies

>>70172
Do you still upload?

Snoopy Webseries (2018–2019)
Snoopy in Space (2019–2021)
The Snoopy Show (2021–2023)
Camp Snoopy (2024-2034)
Snoopy Gives Me A Rusty Trombone (2034-2469)

I finally know why I can never be a professional cartoonist, like my heroes, Mike Judge or Bill Amend.

unlike both of them, I'm not a Physics Major ;_;..

https://youtu.be/ApPm3R1vfc4?si=3b5r2bifS30lrIaS
Being autistic is being haunted by the small yet figuratively grim detail shortly after *one* version finished the line "They can sing they can dance, after all this is France" =_=…

I love watching SpongeBob before sleep. First three seasons are the comfiest. The rest is utter garbage with ocassional decent moments. The recent seasons are utter trash, a parody of my favorite cartoon that now caters to vore, inflation, feet, other deviantart degenerate tastes. It's horrible.

I don't watch cartoons but I get these dreams when I sleep where cartoon characters from shows I watched as a kid show up.

You can buy a cards and learn how to play

>>54403
Everything is a consumption

>>54403
>watching vidoes is consumption

thas rite! my nig i mean wizzard right dere! finally someone who gets it in this forsaken place. these technologic advanced fat people from the wall-e movie meme probably all browse wizchan.

>>53574

i recently found out those little fruit trays made from plastic that keep accumulating so hard in my kitchen are PET plastic and that means i could shredder it, dry it and turn it into free 3d printer filament. i consider starting to 3d print because of that because that way it wouldn't be consumption. buying filament would be consumption.

note-taking/ journaling/ diary
even premium notebooks are cheap and you really have to be very productive to fill them up
this hobby also really helps to organise your life

Okay, let me be one to ask: what would happen if you did that?

>>71316
Hopefully evolution via strong selective pressures.

>>71318
This will need to be brought to the island too.

I'm blessed with having a small forest park w/ trails VERY close to me, as in literally across the street from me. Love watching the trees turn to autumn colors lately, cool and damp temps w/ lots of mushrooms growing within.

Also you're almost guaranteed to run into a pile of dook left by deer, OR some bird/rabbit/squirrel who thought dying right in the middle of the path would be a neat idea. I get to see them decompose into a pile of fetid black rotted shit every time I return to that spot over the course of time, it's very educational.

I'm almost always out for at least an hour, and prefer wearing work boots rather than hiking boots, it's very important that it's something waterproof especially during winter.

Usually to the store, to get food. Rarely to the movies this year (saw 3). Recently I walked all the way to a forest reserve, mostly because trees are known to emmit some phermones that wake you up in a way.

>>71240
>I wear 10$ soles to correct my walking posture. Turns out my gait wasn't just bad, it was ill due to some wrong angles. They advice me to get custom 100$ soles, also

i really learned how to walk from skating where i repeated the same movement over and over again for hours, trying to find small ways to make it better and i found them and they have translated to every movement i make. doing this i noticed there are people who don't use their backfoot to push off the ground/forward before lifting it to set it as frontfoot. some people just lift their front foot the way a crane lifts a heavy piece of pipe and then lower it, that's so funny to me.

when you get the timing right and push off the backfoot, it feels like being a steam locomotive. i feel like a train doing this and i visualize the steam-logo.

I take walks because I have nothing better to do and my life is boring.

I've come to enjoy walking more when the weather becomes too cold or inclimate for cycling. I take photos occasionally with my phone or DSLR if I have it with me.

>>69166
Don't let FOMO rob of you of present satisfaction

>>65757
I have some cheapo GXT mechanical keyboard with red switches. It's great, it works, though I've also had membrane keyboards a decade ago that also felt super nice. As long as they keys aren't those flat laptop style keys I don't really care much. I prefer the feeling of Blue switches but hate the sound. Browns are just a bad compromise.

N00b tier question: what's difference between blue keycaps and red keycaps?

>>69850
the color

like an idiot the one time I bought an expensive mech keyboard I chose one with the ultraclicky blue switches, not really fun experience
I wonder if the regular or silent keyboards are actually good

>>70508
>making video gaymes in 2026
>thinks projective geometry is hard
brainlet moment

>>70509
I remembered seeing something like this a long time ago;
https://khanacademy.fandom.com/wiki/Knowledge_Map

Looking into it, a related project was
https://github-wiki-see.page/m/metacademy/metacademy-content/wiki/Roadmaps

Kinda wonder what happened in 2013 that stopped the development and use of both :(

Planning to slowly work my way through this one, doing all the exercises. I'll use an AI to help me explain stuff when I get hopelessly stuck. We'll see how it goes.

>>70888
I've been self-educating via Kahn Academy and a little bit of Google Gemini for a year now, I've made it all the way from 5th grade to highschool Geometry so far.

Alledgedly, Deepseek is the best for raw math ability, and it's got extended thinking on the free version, but I find Google Gemini is best for it's vast character-limit and ability to read PDFs and images I send well.

They're both good for conceptual explanations as you mentioned, but be very careful to not trust them to organize a full curriculum for you, as they'll leave out tons of critical lessons while telling you in full confidence they have covered absolutely everything with you. I actually just lost a week to that when I finally gave them a shot at that due to the vast drilling and bloat in Kahn Academy's Geometry class. So far I have found nothing wrong with their explanations, but this hasn't been falsified much.

i was thinking about making a game out of parsing expressions using postfix notation. it could maybe start with simple math and increase in complexity until the player is parsing Forth code. the only pieces needed to play the game would optionally be some plastic numbers and symbols but it could of course be played with pen and paper only.

i feel like at a basic level, it could be played by elementary schoolers but it would teach them a (arguably useless) skill that often isn't taught even in a college math course.

>>71163
Anything but skateboard shoes, because I'm not a conformist

>>71164
They look great anyway

>>71108
Sorry to reply so late. Work has been killing me as they forced me to become a manager.

My dad is using a runner machine, it's working good for him as he's still able bodied. My mother is a total lost cause. Body is an overweight blob. bones made of brittle wood. Mentally ill. Just impossible, best to let her die as peacefully as possible at this point.

Very interesting. I really must do the same. 29 too. I eat like a kid with essentially no parental guidance. I feel my body rejecting it now though.

Oh yep it's a skill we all must learn. These days people are so brazen it's unbelievable. Every set of traffic lights has a gang of people asking for change and intimidating people. I learned that driving an ugly car that has moss growing on it has them not bother with me unless they're bored or particularly assholey. I hate how the world is going.

Please do share anything new, I'd love to read it

>>71163
I've bought a bunch of DC ones as I could get them all for like 20~30USD a pair WITH free shipping. They seem way worse than they were a decade ago, but whatever, same price if not lower than unbranded shoes from the store so I'll use them. There was one pair I used once when I was forced to go to a work course, 6 hours of causal wear and the logo inside the soul was all crumpled up?? Bad sign? Lol. Either way the ones I've used for actual skating have held up decently well but my version of 6 months of skating vs 10 years ago is so radically different

>>71232
>I learned that driving an ugly car that has moss growing on it has them not bother with me unless they're bored or particularly assholey

you are getting it, yes! this is how you can minimize the unwanted predator attention, leaving only those that are specifically targeting you personally, awkwardly positioning themselves in your path where it is most convenient for them. you can't have nice things because assholes look for people with nice things. you can't look strong or healthy. this will only encourage them to take advantage of you.

>I hate how the world is going.

me too. the older i get the more i suspect the past to be nothing but generations of these easy-life-having violent group-assholes (politicians, crooks, soldiers, thugs, rapists, policemen, prisonguards, spies, whores, mafiosi, investors, heirs and teachers) all taking part in the trickle-up to take advantage of peaceful and honest humans who aren't into violence. they treated the best of humanity as a resource to enslave and their children are out there trying to do the same to you.

>Please do share anything new, I'd love to read it

hmm the amount of options you have keep decreasing over the years, which is both depressingly demoralizing though it is also something you would choose naturally if you did spend the time to keep up with what is best for you, not that having options denied to you is in your best interest.

example: it's nice to go in restaurants, just pay people to sit there and have tasty food be brought to you after a long day but the more you think about it, each meal you consume is so vitally important to choose wisely based on how healthy it is that you wouldn't leave it up to these amateurs in the restaurants who most likely hate their job and their life to make sure that you get good food inside you. so it would be better if you never went to the restaurant and manged all your meals yourself with love and care for yourself. so if the restaurants get too expensive or you can't go because of covid on the one hand that's an option you are losing but it is also a choice you would have made if you bothered to give this life your best. especially once you find access to your inner wealth, you will more easily find the good inside awful siPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>71180
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>>71176
>Books like these
If you want another book related to Psychonautics and funny experiences without drugs like RAW books, go read
>Stoned Free / Free Rides: How to Get High Without Drugs by Douglas Rushkoff and Patrick Wells
This book teach you a lot of techniques, maybe it can be kinda old book with a lot of pseudoscience woo-woo beliefs kinda new ager minded but the techniques still work and there's no need to take a dogmatic belief of the books (i still to rational and i know that a lot of the techniques work based in mind-body-suggestionability relationship and not a woo-woo occult force, the book is in a way like this with more focus in experimentation)
>Also
Be warned that maybe some techniques are dangerous for your health but you can get how to manage that with a little investigation of these topics in modern internet.

>Shogun
>Dune
>LotR
>ASoIaF
Currently reading these four, or trying to at least. Feels like it will take forever, but I'm determined to finish them all.

>>71255
If you enjoy asoiaf, you should read some of the stuff Joe Abercrombie wrote. He still publishes and is working on a new trilogy unlike GRRM who hates his fans.

I read a book that was reccomended by a friend called "The Power of One" about a British South African during apartheid. Its like a white savior story where the British descendants unites all the tribes of Africa and defeats Nazis. 0/10 would not reccomend. It has a few impossible to ignore plot contrivances that dont get resolved in a very satisfying way.

What should I reccomend my friend read as punishment?

>>71255
Wouldn't it be better if you read them one at a time? Especially if they are long.

Just bought Tender Is the Flesh

>>70730
Glad to hear you had fun! Indeed, it seems there is hope ahead, if not for a good game, then at least for interesting interactions.

I came across an old article recently discussing this exact difference in philosophy, the divide between the "game-players" and the "role-players." I always assumed the latter style of play took root in the late 80s, but it was happening even in 1977, only three years after the release of Original D&D.

So there have been misunderstandings since the very start. The game is supposed to be about acquiring treasure, magic items and XP, building a stronghold, having your own army and claiming a piece of the land as your own. If your character isn't interested in any of that, then they shouldn't be an adventurer.

>The player who lost his character got into an argument with another player because that player didn't come to his aid when he was the only one who could've done something.
I bet/hope one day, in the not too distant future maybe, this player will look back on this moment and realize they were actually having fun. This sort of interaction is more real than anything narrative-based games can create.

>>70782
You're right, this thing probably began with the game itself, it's just that my personal experience is different. But the worst part of pet characters full of personality, besides having to sit through a 10 minutes argument between two imaginary bozos, is the impact this stuff has on the DM.

I'm pretty sure he's prone to fudge and pull punches because of this. The game just gets smoother if nobody dies. I asked if he could have his attack and dmg rolls in the open and he said he prefers to keep it a secret to 'keep up the tension'. Bullshit. The dice gives you a probability, that's where the tension is. I can just tell he's pulling the teeth from the monsters. I hate toothless monsters, fuck. I don't even blame him honestly, the players are whiny bitches and he's afraid to lose them.

>>70823
Hello anon!
How is the game going? Are you still playing with that group? Did your comrades manage to grow some appetite for wealth and glory?

>>71297
Yes, we're 17 sessions in. And yes, the party is taking risks now, though one of the players made a claustrophobic character who refused to go inside the dungeon and literally spent an entire session watching the game happen while his character took care of the horses back on the surface. A claustrophobic character. In a DUNGEONS & Dragons game. I shit you not. By next session the character predictably managed to overcome his fears without any psychiatric help and joined the dungeon crawl.

Other than that, after my aggressive tutelage during the first four or five sessions, the game is progressing smoothly now, and handholding is no longer needed. Dungeon crawling is almost just going through the motions at this point, and everybody has their own little thing going on back in town. Everybody's happy. It's been an OK, fun game with a good group, but I've done this one million times before. Way too many times. It's hard to get excited about watching one more monster drop, adding one more imaginary gold coin to the purse, and so on. One more piece of intrigue. At least this adventure has an ending, though I don't think we'll get there for at least another couple of months' worth of sessions.

I dunno, I fucking hate this game I guess, but I have nothing else to do, and I've been gaming for so long that it's become this strange habit at this point. I think it's like those people who hate their jobs but have been doing them for so long that they miss the office during vacations. It's not just gaming, either. I despise all my little hobbies. Meh. Anyway, not bad overall. Probably doomed to game, I guess. Jesus fucking Christ.

What about you? DMing something?

>>71299
Ah, so it seems you're back to that ambivalent state of kinda dreading it, but still finding enough bits of enjoyment during it to keep going, similarly to your previous game. I guess that's normal to some extent, given that this hobby can sometimes be like a chore, especially now that every other form of entertainment is so low-effort and instantaneous. But you mention despise for other hobbies, do you think this is because you expect too much out of them? Or perhaps they don't feel stimulating or productive enough?

Nothing new for me in terms of RPGs, but I have been playing this play-by-email wargame that turns out to be quite enjoyable. You have to submit your orders every 2 weeks, and you control a nation in Middle-Earth. It's team-based (Free Peoples vs Mordor, we're the latter), so there is a lot of strategizing and discussion during each turn. I think it really scratches that itch I had about hard rules and clear success or failure. The mechanics are simple and elegant, yet quite powerful in all the situations they can create, and there is a chess-like quality to the whole thing. Your only direct interface with the game are your characters (commanders, agents, emissaries and mages) to whom you give orders each turn.