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Hobbies that don't deserve their own thread Anonymage 02/17/18 (Sat) 19:55:05 No.41994[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Every other board has their own /general/ and it might be better to post about little known hobbies here, rather than have a new thread that gets 2 replies.

How about horseback riding?

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Anonymage 04/20/26 (Mon) 16:15:15 No.70496

>>70466
Try a variety of basic methods like highlighters used in layers as well as the typical pencil to sketch and a nice pen for outlining/inking. I also suggest using quickposes for gitting gud at body poses and proportions. https://quickposes.com/en

Draw daily, even if its a 10 minute sketch, and a couple times a month redraw some of your previous work to both fix it and see where youre improving.

Example of highlighter technique: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EOtnSxvu3rg

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Weird hobbies Anonymage 08/24/19 (Sat) 04:54:39 No.49409 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Anyone here have weird, niche interests? I’m curious about this kind of thing. I like hearing about people dedicating their lives to one specific strange thing. Post about them here.

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Anonymage 11/25/25 (Tue) 18:34:04 No.70142

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>>49409
guns are a fun hobby

Anonymage 11/26/25 (Wed) 21:38:11 No.70148

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>>49409
I post on imageboards that aren't 4chan, so I guess most outside of this place would consider it quite niche.

Anonymage 04/20/26 (Mon) 05:37:17 No.70494

>>70148
wow congrats faggot

Anonymage 04/20/26 (Mon) 15:13:56 No.70495

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

Anonymage 04/21/26 (Tue) 17:45:47 No.70497

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

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Drawing Thread 11 Anonymage 03/18/25 (Tue) 12:55:05 No.68877 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

All you need to begin drawing is a pencil and some paper

Feel free to post any drawings of yours in this thread. Illustration, doodle, traditional, digital - anything goes. Discussion on skillbuilding techniques and fair critique of other wizards' work is welcome.

Videos:

Tyler Edlin - https://www.youtube.com/user/TylerE2284
Proko - https://www.youtube.com/user/ProkoTV
Sinix - https://www.youtube.com/user/sinixdesign
Scott Robertson - https://www.youtube.com/user/scottrobertsondesign
Matt Kohr (CtrlPaint) - https://www.ctrlpaint.com/library
Aaron Blaise - https://www.youtube.com/user/AaronBlaiseArt
Vilpu (Anatomy) - https://mega.nz/folder/9Pw1lYaS#Me7LSwlSg59lNGmkj9tt4w/folder/lPoXEYxS

Poses/Gestures
QuickPoses -https://www.quickposes.com/en
PoseSpace -https://www.posespace.com/posetool/default.aspx
https://x6ud.github.io/#/ Animal Head Reference Finder
https://anatomy360.info/anatomy-scan-reference-dump/

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Anonymage 04/17/26 (Fri) 21:06:05 No.70485

>>70482
>>70483
>>70484
That's Lukyon, isn't it? Why does everyone like Lukyon?

Anonymage 04/19/26 (Sun) 14:52:04 No.70488

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I'm working on a Sonic piece now and it's been fun. It's crazy how I almost quit this hobby at one point, getting this tablet and stylus was one of the best decisions I could've made, it made drawing convenient again, which for someone as lazy as I can be is essential for me to actually get out of my way to draw. I love the way this piece is looking so far, and it's been fun!

Anonymage 04/20/26 (Mon) 01:12:59 No.70490

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>>70488
It's done!

Anonymage 04/20/26 (Mon) 01:20:40 No.70492

>>70490
very cool

Anonymage 04/20/26 (Mon) 01:34:50 No.70493

>>70492
Thank you, anon!

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Desktop Thread Anonymage 12/13/20 (Sun) 08:10:58 No.56336 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Post your desktop
I want to see what wizards desktops look like and what they use as a daily driver.

I use Debian GNU/Linux with a full suckless setup

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Anonymage 06/22/25 (Sun) 14:20:39 No.69446

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>>69445
Thanks, anon! I'd definitely recommend tablets as a portable emulation station, even my relatively weak and budget one can run up to PS1 pretty decently.

Anonymage 06/22/25 (Sun) 14:25:25 No.69448

>>69446
what game have you been playing? do you think you can play shafow of the colosus?

Anonymage 06/22/25 (Sun) 14:29:48 No.69449

>>69448
>Shadow of the Colossus
Now that's one my tablet definitely can't run.

I've been playing mostly NES, recently finished DuckTales for the 1st time and it was a blast, now I'm replaying TECMO World Cup Soccer on NES because this FIFA Club World Cup that's taking place in the USA got me in the mood for some soccer too.

Anonymage 06/22/25 (Sun) 14:53:23 No.69450

>>69449
enjoy your games. there are good games too that aren't sotc. also weird seeing a american wanting to play soccer

Anonymage 04/20/26 (Mon) 01:14:37 No.70491

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>>69438
I put the Edge Panel (A.K.A. Taskbar/Dock) on the left and now it sort of reminds me of Ubuntu with Android/One UI having both it on the left, and a top panel, even if said panel is transparent here. I don't know, I just like how it reminds me of my favorite Linux distro, and the iconic Unity DE, though even nowadays with GNOME they still go for this look somewhat.

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yugioh Anonymage 08/19/19 (Mon) 00:45:58 No.49308 [Reply]

Any wizards play yugioh?

I collect the cards, though I don't really play the game. I'm 26 and still live with my parents as a hikki, so my parents are trying to force me to get a hobby to get me out of the house so I"m thinking of playing the game at my local card shop

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Anonymage 12/29/25 (Mon) 05:50:46 No.70243

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>>49308
I finished playing Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters II: Dark Duel Stories on GBC. I love the simplicity in its structure and rules, and the artwork is stunning! I recommend it to any fan of the IP, especially those that prefer the classic stuff, shorter turns, and Duelist Kingdom styled rules, it's fantastic.

Anonymage 03/28/26 (Sat) 18:06:06 No.70447

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

Anonymage 04/03/26 (Fri) 15:54:24 No.70453

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

Anonymage 04/03/26 (Fri) 17:15:43 No.70454

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

Anonymage 04/19/26 (Sun) 14:54:16 No.70489

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>>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.

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Driving Anonymage 08/14/24 (Wed) 22:29:04 No.68029 [Reply]

Do you have a driver's licence? If so, how did you managed to obtain it? In Eastern Europe, it's pretty hard to get one, a long and painful journey.

It took me almost 1.5 years (including the COVID shutdowns) to get one. I also had to wageslave to be able to pay for the training, it's not cheap around here.

My motivation was that I live in a remote, hilly part of a small town, right next to a forest and there is no public transportation here. I was hold hostage up here, totally isolated. Sound good, but I was totally dependant on my parents to get into the town. I couldn't just go to the groceries, that would be a 2+ hour journey.

It's my single greatest achievement and I'm pretty proud of it. Driving is very useful skill, and one that is realistic and obtainable for NEETs, wizards. A way to make yourself more independent from your parents, others.

What are your thoughts?

(Pic related is not my car)

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Anonymage 02/15/26 (Sun) 09:19:09 No.70421

>>68029
I took my driving test at 23 after just driving my dad’s car around in a parking lot and then some back roads for a week. I went to the DMV and took the test which was just 10 minutes of driving the speed limit around town in basically no traffic, she then instructed me to back into a parking space which I failed completely and I still passed the driving test. I have been terrorizing the roads ever since

Anonymage 02/28/26 (Sat) 14:32:20 No.70428

>>70400
US has 14.2 traffic fatalities per 100k. China has 17.4. For reference Sweden is the lowest major country with 2.1 and Zimbabwe is the highest at 41.2. So there's not really much difference between the US and China. China has actually implemented stronger standards recently too and competition in the marketplace is such that unsafe cars don't sell well.

Anonymage 02/28/26 (Sat) 21:22:46 No.70432

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>>68029
My car's dead, I live far from work, I'm broke, repairing it's really expensive, but buying a new car is impossible.

I hate living.

Anonymage 04/19/26 (Sun) 10:15:03 No.70486

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Got rear ended and havent had a car since
miss her

Anonymage 04/19/26 (Sun) 14:48:56 No.70487

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>>68029
I hate how I hate to drive so much every day… often I get close to being involved in accidents and it reminds me that a small mistake can cause so much damage, I could become crippled or simply die because of a stupid error, maybe hurt or kill someone and ruin my life feeling guilty for ruining someone else. How do you guys deal with these odd feelings?

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Mathematics thread 1+1+1 Anonymage 04/09/23 (Sun) 13:14:05 No.64802 [Reply]

Recently I've become fascinated with tessellation and spent the past couple of weeks collecting pictures of mosaics from around the world. Eventually just looking at them was not enough and I want to go deeper, understand the geometric shapes and its secrets better. Not even sure why but periodic tiling feels like a brain massage to me, like I'm about to fall out of bottom of how I usually perceive the world around me. So I picked up the book Geometry by Cambridge University Press. Feel free to give a hollow laugh: I honestly thought I could just skip the math part of geometry (yes I'm an idiot) and appreciate its resulting surfaces. While you can do that, if you want to appretiate geometry even at a surface level, you need to know the bare minimum of maths. The book suggested a good grasp on the basics of linear algebra and algebraic structure. I thought 'OK, I'll read the wiki entries as a lazy primer' and quickly realized I forgot even the basics of mathematical symbols. I guess it's true after all, if you don't use it you lose it.

Long story short, I'm currently going through Pure Mathematics for Beginners. The good part of being dumb is when you learn a single thing it feels like a whole new world just opened up and it feels really good.

So yeah, maths thread.
Previous one; >>30554

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Anonymage 01/24/26 (Sat) 17:52:20 No.70353

>>70017
how would including them in a font help if you don't have a key for them?

Just type them in latex in something that can process it. But if you actually want to learn math you will have to do it by hand, if the computer does it for you nothing will stick, period.

Anonymage 01/24/26 (Sat) 19:11:07 No.70354

>>70353

interesting… thanks

Anonymage 01/25/26 (Sun) 13:18:27 No.70357

>>70353

As for the first quarter of XXI century, online search is "in", so it would be obvious for a math grad student to use Google to look up what this or that math symbol normally represents in basic first semester of your average comm-coll calculus.

Problem is, mathematical symbols aren't represented properly in Unicode, so its a whole new can of worms to complete a quest to grasp the concept what NAMES this or that symbol may have, given many symbols look one like another sometimes.

I dunno, you can spam vaporwave font in unicode, you can zalgo-ify words like "HE COMES" to make said words creepy, you can spam 🙂s☹m🙂i🙂l🙂🙂e🙂y☹s🙂 yet somehow… no math symbols in Unicode??? Ugh.

Anonymage 01/25/26 (Sun) 20:43:50 No.70358

>>70353
online symbols

alt+NNNNN (NNNNumber for an unique symbol)

I swear I should have studied something non-mathy to avoid dealing with this weirdness.

Anonymage 04/13/26 (Mon) 12:24:56 No.70474

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I like Gabriel’s Horn. Interesting idea that comes from calculus. Integrate the function of 1/x between the limits of 1 to infinity; assign a as infinity then find the limits as an approaches infinity. You should find the area is ln(a) so as an approaches infinity then the area approaches infinity.
Next do volume by integration. Should find the volume of the trumpet shape to be pi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel's_horn

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Magic Anonymage 04/08/24 (Mon) 08:55:29 No.67595 [Reply]

I invite all anonons interested in the occult to gather in this thread and learn the basics of magic. And if on the site there are more experienced people in this topic, please share their wisdom and help with neophytes and everyone

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Anonymage 02/02/25 (Sun) 21:29:49 No.68675

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>>67595
As for today nobody has been able tell how kabbalah could ever best this.
>yea i'm shilling
>thanks to this i lost the anxiety for getting a slaveplace
>i stop chasing their crap
>after they told me stupid rabble like "why do you want to work with us" or "i don't see you quite motivated"
>i even had to publicly scorn a mid-management sucker in front of everyone because he mobbed me
>it felt damn great, i even got paid and extra not like normies who stayed there sucking cock or just resigning because they could stand the douche
>and i got paid after being fired for that
>still running on this, it's lifechanging
>you can tell it's great because of much hatred it gets from wizmods and soyfags around here

Anonymage 02/02/25 (Sun) 21:44:03 No.68676

>>68675
I checked this Human Design thing out, and it seems that the only thing that matters in this is your date and time of birth? That's really not convincing, it's just a different kind of astrology. What about early births, or medical situations where the child had to be prematurely extracted through c-section? Does Human Design account for that, or should those people add a few days or weeks to their date of birth?

Just like with astrology, the info they give is applicable to almost everyone, I mean everyone will think "this about me so much fr fr" upon reading the results. And if a trait doesn't match, you could make the argument that it's a hidden trait that hasn't yet manifested itself.

Sorry, but no.

Anonymage 12/11/25 (Thu) 13:38:41 No.70185

>>68609
nah, rivers don't really go up, only down; that's the point of a flow

Anonymage 04/13/26 (Mon) 06:11:59 No.70472

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Anyone read Iamblichus?

Apparently, he is the go to for a classical defence and understanding of Pagan and magical practises. Iamblichus sees Gods and Daemons are real entities that exist on another plane of reality. We are joined to their will through the rituals. The gods are known through the rituals.

Rituals are known only through special revelation. Iamblichus has particular respect for Egyptian practises.

From an epistemological point of view, I have always wondered if there is knowledge (justified true belief) that can only be gained only through something beyond ordinary empirical experience or pure deductive logic.

Anonymage 04/13/26 (Mon) 12:19:24 No.70473

>>70472
Two different perceptions of magic. One is like Chaos magick - based on psychology and post modernism; the idea that you can manipulate your perceived reality based on the manipulation of your own beliefs.
The other is like Iamblichus. Your beliefs do not matter. What matters is the ritual and the accuracy of the ritual which aligns your reality with that of the God or spirit which is objectively real.

Iamblichus seems more exciting but Chaos Magick may be more plausible.

No idea really. I sort of wish I had (occult) knowledge of something. Something that regular experience and logic could not unlock. There may be something.

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Reading Thread Anonymage 11/17/24 (Sun) 20:30:39 No.68295 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Book discussion. Tell us what you're reading.
Previous threads:
>>64932
>>60032
>>54504

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Anonymage 01/20/26 (Tue) 10:18:03 No.70344

>>70343
>How did you like the novel?
It's the first novel I've read in a long time. There is more symbolism than I am used to but I seem to understand most of it. I think it may be a bit heavy handed with the moralizing but maybe back in 50s it was pushing new ideas. WW2 was still fresh in memory after all so people could appreciate anti war messaging more. This kind of non-partisan government-critical pacifism probably contributed to the hippie movement later. In any case, I think it was interesting.

Anonymage 03/15/26 (Sun) 12:05:56 No.70439

Read The 400-Pound CEO. The only downside was that it was so short. What a brilliant thing. Other /r9k/ tier books like Whatever or Mars are more depressing, but really, they didn't speak to me like this one did.
It's not about wallowing in one's own misery, and it has some humor in it, but damn, I was really sad by the end. The main character is really pathetic, and it's crazy how Saunders aptly described such a kind of man. Maybe it was too on the nose in a few places, though.
I will read the rest of CivilWarLand collection now.

Anonymage 04/02/26 (Thu) 19:43:50 No.70452

i didn't even check this board, what a fool i have been. so much wizzardry about reading for me to enjoy!

i made a thread about (ebook) reading and what a wonderful thing the modern e-ink display is. please come visit https://wizchan.org/lounge/res/323200.html

it is very pleasant to the eye and can be used in full sunshine. where i live they spray aluminium in the sky to block the sun as to make the people sick more so whenever there is a short moment of sun, i hurry and quickly grab the ereader and try to sit in it.

Anonymage 04/08/26 (Wed) 04:27:23 No.70464

Do audiobooks count?

Anonymage 04/12/26 (Sun) 19:28:19 No.70470

>>70464
>Do audiobooks count?

until i found my lord and savior the kobo ebook reader, i could only listen to audiobooks.

i tried to listen to an old book that someone bothered to make an audiobook version of with an ai narrator voice and it felt so awful and unsettling to listen to a robot that i thought "actually reading myself can't be worse then that"

… and it wasnt.

i still like audiobook read by the author but reading is nice to, especially in mild sunshine.

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tea thread Anonymage 03/03/19 (Sun) 19:00:37 No.47407 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

do any wizards like tea? specifically loose leaf teas? if so, any specific blends or varieties you like/recommend?

i recently got into gongfu brewing and it's pretty much the only thing i've been thinking about these days. i found this hole in the wall tea shop in the chinatown in my city and purchased a shou pu'erh tea cake that i've been picking away at.

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Anonymage 01/26/26 (Mon) 15:14:39 No.70361

>>70360
Dead site

Anonymage 01/26/26 (Mon) 17:19:15 No.70362

I'm into Jin Jun Mei lately. Chinese black tea with a deep, mild honey-like taste, I can't believe the garish black teas drunk in the west are made of the same plant.

Anonymage 01/27/26 (Tue) 09:31:50 No.70365

>>70362
Cool, thanks!

Meanwhile: i've been drinking some funny teas last winter: "Polar lights" and "1001 nights" were remarkable, "Nut Tart" - almost as remarkable as the two above.

I dunno where to get them *in a bag* and not in funny ½oz jars though. Can I trust online shopping here?

Anonymage 04/10/26 (Fri) 03:52:31 No.70468

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I love tea so much. In fact, I drink tea exclusively instead of coffee.
I am partial to Irish tea. Irish Breakfast with (non-alcoholic) Irish creamer slaps.

Anonymage 04/10/26 (Fri) 14:27:38 No.70469

>>70468
I like this post, you're a cool wiz

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