/hob/ - Hobbies

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>>70173
My father fell off a horse and got stepped on the face, had to undergo reconstructive nose surgery, I'm surprised it wasn't worse.

>Neptune finally going to leave Pisces

the woke libtard era will finally end, but neptune will enter aries, and the last time neptune was in aries was during the american civil war…..

I've been doing astrology for many years now, since I was 12. It used to inspire my imagination and I've developed an interest in astronomy as a result. But I've always felt disastisfied by the default tropical reading that everyone does. I never related to a Sagittarius Pluto due to repeated themes in my life being the opposite, I never related to a Libra Sun because it had traits I didn't objectively possess. Something felt unfinished.

I'm the sidereal fag from another thread, I turned to sidereal somewhere in 2020, and I was shocked by how accurate everything was, especially with the equal house system that orients around the midheaven. The true vernal equinox is actually 29° Aquarius, not 0° aries that tropical orients around. But this is a complex system that isn't for beginners lol. I experimented with the ayanamsa and set it to the 1950 IAU's standard, before setting it roughly at the galactic equator.

I recently discovered that I failed throughout my life because minor planet 9 Metis is 0° conjunct my Virgo Sun. Metis demands maximum optimization of every move and resource, making the most of everything that is immediately available to me, like a chessmaster. Conjunct sun, it physically prevents you from making wasteful moves which manifests as strain and frustration. I often wondered why, thought I was doing something wrong, wasted my life overreaching for distant dreams instead of focusing on what I had in the moment. Discovering this was a breath of relief, honestly. It explained many personal things.

Some of my best days happened when Saturn was in sidereal Scorpio conjunct natal Pluto, this was in 2017. I miss those days very much. I remember setting personal structures that I thrived under, and I had a very powerful sense of identity. Now it's in sidereal Pisces and I seem to be reorienting myself again, after years of burn out and losing my sense of self.

>>69622
Sun signs aren't useless, they're just highly misunderstood, oversimplified and removed from context. From my experience, the Sun is how you want to express your conciousness, or what your needs are as a concious living being. Idk yet tho, I'm still learning.

>>61881
Vedic and sidereal get confused alot. Vedic is a pajeet style of doing astrology which Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>70285
It's very easy. Just search for a simple natal birth chart generator, observe patterns you see in your birth chart and search for what they mean on google. That's how I got introduced to astrology.

>>70317
Pisces and Taurus are surprisingly violent/territorial signs. WW1, WW2, Yom Kippur war and 9/11 all happened when Saturn was in sidereal Taurus. In my chart, pisces often manifests as this overwhelming oceanic force, even though its largely empty. Neptune was in tropical Pisces when the Israel/Palestine conflict amplified violently. I like to use the fish analogy to understand this sign.

>>70320
Pisces is a dreamy dreary addict sign, its all about art and empathy, and addiction and being lost in the fog. not knowing what is real and what is not.
when neptune was in Pisces we got the woke social justice warrior and we got music that sounds nostalgic and dreamy like lana del rey and mac demarco and vaporwave.

I can not fucking wait till neptune enters aries, the start of the zodiac, this will be a new beginning

>>70308
Alright this is the part where I think the symbolism went over my head. What's up with Benjamin and the Thon? I think Benjamin was waiting for a Messiah of sort. Idk what the messiah is supposed to save him from in this case, his loneliness? His burden? He came to verify if Thon Thaddeo, which I assume represents science and progress, is the messiah for him and determine that he was not. So science and learning is not the savior he is looking for but again savior from what? War as an extension of the original sin? Thon Thaddeo make a speech about how the path to ignorance being replaced by truth is going to be bloody and violent but the world is already violent as it is. Is the author's message here that humans are doomed to their original sin, that is to always wage war, regardless if they live in primitive ignorance or high tech enlightenment and that science will not be the one to save them from their sin? For Benjamin, to save himself from his burden of carrying the history of his people, which Dom Paulo equated to the original sin of humans? That is my best interpretation of the event so far. There is definitely something meaningful in the interaction between characters. The poet probably represent something too I am not sure. Sounds like he is just pointing out the absurdity of everybody.

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"No, no—Twelve centuries ago, not even the survivors profited. Must we start down that road again?"

The cycle of humanity goes through is fully exposed in this chapter. Rebirth and destruction, or, to quote a video game that appropriated a lot from this book; War. War never changes.

We're reading A Canticle for Leibowitz.
You can find several editions available to borrow here:
https://archive.org/search?query=A+Canticle+for+Leibowitz&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22

I’ll be using this one, simply because I like the formatting better:
https://archive.org/details/canticleforleibo0000unse_d5n4/mode/2up

>>70309
This one has a lot of narrative about Poet again. If you're looking for an auxiliary reading, check out this site; https://www.coursehero.com/lit/A-Canticle-for-Leibowitz/. It gives you a summary of each chapter with an analysis to go along with it, pretty interesting stuff. I'm using it myself.

>>70313
I get the feeling the author hates the fact that scientists are not political enough. He's sounding like one of those "We can all solve this problem, if only YOU care!" activists.

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Whereas a certain foreign prince, one Benedict XXII, Bishop of New Rome, presuming to assert an authority which is not rightly his over the clergy of this nation, has dared to attempt, first, to place the Texarkanan Church under a sentence of interdict, and, later, to suspend this sentence, thereby creating great confusion and spiritual neglect among all the faithful, We, the only legitimate ruler over the Church in this realm, acting in concord with a council of bishops and clergy, hereby declare to Our loyal people that the aforesaid prince and bishop, Benedict XXII, is a heretic, simoniac, murderer, sodomite, and atheist, unworthy of any recognition by Holy Church in lands of Our kingdom, empire, or protectorate. Who serves him serves not Us.

Religious and secular powers clash for dominance. There's a direct reference here to Henry VIII and the Church of England. There are lots of little things going on in this chapter, and I quite like it, especially the vultures part.

We're reading A Canticle for Leibowitz.
You can find several editions available to borrow here:
https://archive.org/search?query=A+Canticle+for+Leibowitz&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22

I’ll be using this one, simply because I like the formatting better:
https://archive.org/details/canticleforleibo0000unse_d5n4/mode/2up

>>70315
I have scientists in my immediate family and I don't think people fully grasp how being a scientist really is just another crummy desk job. Fiction have completely distorted the picture.

>>70321
>I don't think people fully grasp how being a scientist really is just another crummy desk job
Make sense. This chapter like the science vs religion debate commonly seen in like early 2010s internet. In this case the debate are between advocate or activists. Priests on the side of religion and science champions on the side on science. In reality most scientists are probably closer to the rank-and-file monks that just do their jobs and obligations in the abbey. They are probably biased towards their side but not as invested as the abbot or Thon Thaddeo or the science vs religions debaters.

>>69430
thank you,are you going to make another game now?

>>69432
I just started this one, it's far from complete.

>>69433
ok good luck🍀

>>69433
I would like to post about my own game development once i have something good to show. Would that be okay?

>>69282
should share source code. other wise assume it is malware

>>70250
Something happened after this post. I realized why I don't want to draw. I treat it not as a drawing project but as a escapism tool. I judge the drawing based on how well it can 'pull' me. It is stupid. I can draw wizards. I will draw

>>70288
shit, I understand.

Pic: Sinclair-themed real pixelart

Thats exactly why I neuroslop fake pixelart or "pixelated art" or "yukkuri" or … stuff based on anime and such.

Just to see some kind of another world. (which is counterproductive in terms of getting through my load of RL)

>>70289
>which is counterproductive
For me it is when I can't 'feel' my drawing the way I can with other people's art, I treat it as shit. I will try another approach.

>>68877
What's everyone drawing today? I'm drawing Spider-Man, thinking of going for Superior Spider-Man, though as this piece goes on I'm thinking more and more of turning it into a Japanese Spider-Man piece, the Emissary From Hell.

>>70310
Hot succubi from my favorite videogames, as always. Can't really draw anything else. I use art as a means to release my excessive libido energy since I am nofapping most of the time.

>>69666
quite a number, huh?

>>60826
Junkie fucks just ruin everything they touch. The thought of a beautiful briar being ruined by one of these idiots pisses me off.

Pipe tobacco is good for putting in cigarette tubes and papers, good for packing your own cigarettes.
I prefer the brands without anything toxic.
Love to be off of arsenic and cyanide, because of pipe tobacco.
Arsenic and cyanide actually fucking killed me.
Prepacked cigarettes aren't worth it; they're drenched in death, poison, severe retardation. And severe general impairments and severe general disabilities.

Pipe tobacco smells great, because it's non-toxic.
Tastes better, too.

I get Gambler brand tobacco.
Inexpensive, cheapest on the store market.

>>60825
Smoked many a pipe. Try a pipe with a wider bowl. You can create more smoke. You'll feel like a dragon.

I had a dream where I was browsing the Nintendo 3DS e-shop even though I haven't done that in maybe 10 years. Somehow I found a way to browse games by their developer and I was just going past a bunch of shovelware devs until I suddenly hit one that triggered a remote code execution exploit and infected my 3DS with malware.
The e-shop closed and my top screen started showing live footage of the inner camera while the bottom screen was some weird picture that somebody stitched together in Photoshop. There was a TTS voice telling the developer to make a desert-themed game. When that voice finished there was a sudden jump scare which played at maximum volume despite my volume slider being low. It scared the shit out of me. Afterwards it showed a popup saying that the video of me being jumpscared was being uploaded to their servers and that I should not power off the system while it was doing so. I tried using the internet slider to turn my 3DS' wifi connection off before the upload was complete but that didn't work.
After that I tried turning my 3DS off and on again but instead of going to the home menu the same exact sequence was just played again. This time the popup after the jumpscare said that this will now happen every single time I turn my 3DS on. All I did before I woke up after that was panick over the fact that some guy somewhere had a video of me being jumpscared.

My fellow wizards, help my please! Hear my plight!

Years ago I nearly died of disease (Covid19) and being bedridden for a month period with little to no food or water my ability to dream has diminished to the point of being nearly completely wiped from my skill tree. Is there any way to get this ability back or am I doomed to just go to the void every night?

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Lets try this. This day, you can use some AIs to generate images by prompts… chat… stuff.

We have 2 threads for AIfying your …
https://wizchan.org/hob/res/63372.html
https://wizchan.org/hob/res/63915.html

oh. wait. AH. So you can't see dreams when you sleep? Ah.
>or am I doomed to just go to the void every night?
Hold on. Are you trying to tell us you see "void" when you sleep? Because I pretty much used to see dreams too (when I was younger) but now I can't remeber nearly any.

anyone ever have a dream about just thinking, with no plot or action in it?

I did the thing where I questioned the reality of my dream characters and they immediately turned silent and disappeared. I was sitting at a diner with a man and a talking dog and I said to them, "I wish I had writers like you two who gave me witty things to say. It's hard coming up with my own material. Wait, it's all just coming from my subconscious, isn't it?". And they just stared for a moment and then they were gone. There were some background characters in the diner but they acted like video game NPCs and had indistinct dialogue and only conversed amongst each other. The dream lost any sense of narrative after that.

As if to say fuck you, the dream booted me out and now I am wide awake at 2:00 AM. Not even my dreams want me.

>>61224
Yes, its possible to developed caffeine addiction, I had a huge caffeine addiction when I was young, I would get headaches if I didnt drink coffe and I had trouble to sleep. Its not that hard to lose the addiction, you just need to reduce the quantity of coffe that you drink. Also, avoid to drink coffe at night

>>49426
I dont like to put sugar in my tea, but I do like tea with milk

>>47407
I got for christmass a big 1.5l thermos and more often than not I start my day with making shitload of tea that I'll drink by evening. Highly recommend.

Lately I've also been experimenting with masala chai and I had a great time. I'm not a fan of just tea with milk, but this combo is delicious, definitely try it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fQAxZahx_U

>>67958
eeeeeeh?


you make it with or without a teapot?

>>69451
I like reading news 1 hour/day

I used to watch netcams a few years back since I couldn't afford to travel. The exciting part was finding snow on the ground or people watching.

>>70133
whats the most memorable thing you saw?

>>70134
Nothing worthy of shock videos online or anything, but more of a life/outlook observation: strip back the systems of control - government, religion, wealth (and wealth disparity). What's left are people just trying to get through their day. They probably won't be anything great, and after a generation or two most will be forgotten. I'm cool with that and aspire to non-greatness myself.

>>69451
can you share the link to watch that place?
I want to watch places up close but the ones I found weren't

>>69514
Depends on your goals and proclivities.

Like I workout to make myself better at my hobbies and make my work feel easier.
I don't need to be the biggest most strongest in the whole world for it to be worth my time.

>>51836
>Does anyone also have tips on how to feel full and not feel the need to eat food?
>drink lots of water
>compensate lack of carbs with fiber and lean(ish) protein
>consume only good fat, no vegetable oil at all
>take most of the carbs of your day in the pre-workout meal (if a full meal, eat 2 hours before training), so you feel energized in your training session and to use the consumed energy effectively
>cut off stupid "food" like candy and soda, use your sugars strategically

A useful diet tidbit. If you're a food enthusiast, transform your meal into a delish by using different seasoning and adapting existent recipes to your goals. For example, I make yakisoba with extra meat and vegetables and less noodles.
A huge beef or chicken thigh with great seasoning and some BBQ sauce (here's your strategic sugar) as a full meal, for instance. If you think the sodium is too much, chug down your water. Impossible to feel empty. And an idea for a snack:
>ground lean meat (80%)
>oat powder (20%)
Make meatballs with those ingredients, go light on the seasoning and store them in the freezer. Whenever you crave for crap food, shove some of these bad boys in an air fryer and you're good to go.

>>51836
I don't deadlift because I am too tall and have slipped discs in my back. Wish I could tho.

I wont be reading all the replies but I am also addicted to eating and how I go about not eating all day is drinking a lot of water and tea. Makes me feel full and drinking a cup of tea almost gives me the same feeling as snacking. And if you really want something to eat just eat rice cakes, celery and stuff like that

>>51836

>Right now I'm 80 lbs overweight and need to stop eating so much food. The problem is I'm addicted to food and since I'm a 28 year old virgin, it's not like I have much else to do

>it's not like I have much else to do

>it's not like I have much else to do


Random, VERY RANDOM piece of advice from a 30-something fatty who gets his food from a bakery/from his mum



If you're like me - as in not designed for high education - you really, REALLY ought to try to upgrade yourself to a cook, who *professes* at spending his time to process fine stock into fine food.

I mean, a proper *trades school* cook - if you are a NEET - would give a job that allows you both a earn $$ salary (not $ poor, not $$$ rich, but have some room for fun) AND you'll probably get a chance to recycle undemanded food as your extra calorie supply, kekw.



Middle ground: learn *some* tricks from "Well Cultured Anonymous" free e-book
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I been doing zercher deadlift (for the warrior larp ngl)

2 times per week firts day 3x10 and second 5x5, i wanna get 315 in a few months

(i feel fine in the lower back btw)