/hob/ - Hobbies

>>70183


>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


ouch

sorry to hear that @ glad to hear he "tanked" most of the damage given how horses are capable of oneshotting humans.

>>70270
>Anny wizzie into MTB?
I made a weird move of using a mountain bike as my pointA-pointB bike. Not too comfy, buy not too shabby either. High quality stuff just wouldnt break.

>I've been trying out some trails where I live (I'm blessed to live in the middle of the Alps).

Whoa. I have some trails too. I'm gonna assume your Alps can be either Swiss or Français


0bviously. WEAR A HELMET
1. pressurised WD-40 or such to straight-up spray your bike's chain from dirt and rust
2. Your gear AND your chain both get very smooth over time so you won't be able to use your old gears with your new chain. Keep a chain repair kit in some kind of "bike stuff shoebox"
3. Make sure to keep a shoeboxful of little things for your bike. Never scatter your bike things across your house (even a 50 meter apartment can turn into a quest room if you hoard stuff without organising, in my embarrassing experience)
4. I am gonna assume you may live in Switzerland. I don't know, check your laws (local laws included) regarding headlights, rear lights, honk-honk klaxons vs bike bells vs neither. To my knowledge, Switzerland compared to Germany is what Germany is compared to *the rest of Europe* in terms of being eager to fine you for $$$ over a lack of a 5$ thingy

Are e-bikes worth it?

>>70411
The primary issue with ebikes is the same as that of electric cars. The current lithium ion battery implementation makes the longevity of both incredibly poor and also demands constant maintenance. An Ebike that boasts a 50 mile range without pedal assist may is able to give you such a range (on perfectly flat ground, with no wind ahead, and if you're as light as a malnourished Chinese factory worker). However, once the battery has been fully discharged once, the the individual cells will only charge up to maybe 99.95% of that capacity the next time. Then you discharge them again, and now they reach 99.90% of the original capcity. Then you leave the battery half charged for a few cold nights and some cells begin to trickle power away. You go to charge the battery to full but some of the better cells reach their new 99.85% max before those trickled cells do, so the BMS stops charging all of the batteries with those few still short in order to not overcharge the good cells. After a few dozen trips, a bit of cold and wet weather, and the typical 18650 inconsistencies, you're now only able to drive 25 miles without pedal assist.

So you'll need to drain the battery fully, then charge it fully in a warm dry place, and not let it sit either on or off a charger for long. You'll have to chose either the batteries dying because you're riding a lot or because you're not riding enough. The replacement batteries aren't cheap and frankly it does add quite a bit your nuclear bill whenever you do charge them.

There's also the question of [i]whyi]. Why let an electric motor drive you when you can just pedal yourself? That's not only free but you also earn good exercise. If your environment or the length of your commute demands some assistance, just get a cheap 49cc motor kit and throw it on a junker hardtail mountain bike. If those are illegal where you live, kill the people who made that law so.

>>70412
This is total nonsense. Battery degradation curves are not secret. You lose some of your total capacity with time but it's almost negligible. You can charge it hundreds of times and you will still be more than 90%. 90% of 50 is 45, not 25. Plus you can pedal with your legs if you want extra range, in fact that's kind of the point, to get some exercise while not killing yourself and having some fun.

You suggest pedaling yourself which makes no sense if your complaint is that the ebikes battery range will not be enough. Which is it, the bike doesn't provide enough help or it provides too much? Whatever your reason for objecting to ebikes is, it's not the ones you are stating in your post.

>>70413
>Battery degradation curves are not secret
The fact that Chinese lie about their manufacturing quality is not a secret.
>You lose some of your total capacity with time but it's almost negligible
No it's not. The natural loss with time and the inconsistent "safe" charging of several dozen Lithium cells with the cheap BMSs present in ebikes will quickly accumulate in to a very tangible decline in capacity.
>You can charge it hundreds of times and you will still be more than 90%
No I can't.
>Plus you can pedal with your legs if you want extra range, in fact that's kind of the point, to get some exercise while not killing yourself and having some fun.
The question is "are ebikes worth it" and considering the ones that actually function start at around $900USD, the added convenience of some battery assistance doesn't outweigh the negatives present in all ebikes. Exercise could be had for way less, distance could be achieved with way less, and fun could be achieved with way less. Longevity and versatility also cost way less when buying a regular bike.
>You suggest pedaling yourself which makes no sense if your complaint is that the ebikes battery range will not be enough
People who are interested in ebikes are usually the kind of people who don't cycle at all. It's safe to assume >>70411 is looking for an analogue to a car, and not to make the exercise and fun of his current biking hobby a little less physically rewarding.
>Whatever your reason for objecting to ebikes is, it's not the ones you are stating in your post.
You're right! I also object to them because they're for fags who think they own the road, the bike lane, and the sidewalk all at once. They're a great way for dealerships and people to send lots of money outside of the country in exchange for a poorly built bike frame with shoddy batteries glued on. After the display PCB gets wet, the BMS refuses to charge the batteries, and the aluminium frake cracks, the e-bike becomes e-waste which we all have to pay for.

>>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.

You guys, I discovered today that I prefer to draw multiple basic unfinished sketches first and work on them later. I derive more satisfaction that way, it gives me a blueprint to work on later without burning out my energy. Perhaps many wiz here might benefit from this approach?

Shat out a copy of a French soldier and his dog during WWI last night. I still can't bring myself to do much else beyond copying.

>>70312
This is great, anon!

…do you ever jerk to your own stuff by the way?

>>70394
Thanks. No, but the process of drawing itself feels like that sometimes.
>>70383
Yes, same for me. If I keep drawing one thing, it gets boring and I half ass it just to get it done as soon as possible.

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.

Had a dream

one of the picrelated kept looking at me with her signature look - "cold, piercing, but if you get to know her you'll know its not coldness at all".

She said something "normal", small-talky to me, but I didn't rush to a notebook to write it down so now… I have to say - I don't remember.

Any notable dreams from childhood? I probably had this dream when I was around 4.

I was alone on this deserted island made out of ice/snow. It wasn't cold, and I wasn't worried. I was alone which I loved. It started raining toys, and at the time I was extremely into my matchbox and hotwheels cars, also had water guns falling from the sky. Had to have been the best dream I've ever had

I sometimes get these dreams where I'm a giant spider crawling around old victorian mansions and stalking random people there. But I always wake up before I get the jump on someone.

>>70326
Comfy

>>70395
>What if the cute little anime succubus was actually a baggy-eyes, depressed, unwashed alcoholic smoker
Yuck.

>>70363
>rather than some "necroluxury car"
Ha, got a bud that bought a fauxloadedmoneybagsflossmobile and he spends $3,000 a year in repairs like a chump. Dealer's baiting a $2,400 repair right now.

>>70381
>china can make a car for $10,000
I know it's not glamorous but the used lots have $8-$13K units. I've had pretty good luck with them - they have all of the maintenance completed and it won't be a craigslist scam or anything either!

>>70381
>>70398
>china can make a car for $10,000
China can make a Chinese car of Chinese quality for $10,000. The price would explode if those bugpeople used real steel and incorporated basic safety features. Features that Americans had to literally die for before they became standard enough to not be considered premium features with premium price tags.

>>70400
Ameriturd products are trash
Cope

Moved to >>>/games/63406.

>>70385
>Really nails how dissociation feels like
I don't believe you understand at all what it means to "feel disassociation". It's not something that can be observed and as such it is not something that any actor or film can portray.

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

>>70385
that film came out 20 years ago, and I've seen clips and a whole Scary Movie parody of it. But I still have no idea what its about. something scary ballerina horror Meg.

>>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

what device do you use? or you use. your phone?

>>69521
Yo that's cool. What even is this place?
>>61342
Love the snow vs the warm inviting lights.

>>69821
>What even is this place?
A Halloween store. It's empty except for the month of October, where it gets full of cute succubus outfits for little with succubi, and anime cosplay. After Halloween, all of the employees are ground in to a fine paste and shipped to the shrimp farms as chum.

>>69820
Photos are taken with a camera. Phones are for ordering pizza.

>>70371
This one right? Looking for Group. If I am not hallucinating, they were done by the people who did "Least I Could Do". Was nice, but yes they went super serious. The undead not actually being undead or something?
I'm not sure if the creators always were, but I dropped them when they didnt hide their leftism. I thin a decade ago I kinda checked on them and saw that they turned the "suck of a buck" hooker in to a FtM Tranny.

>>66244
I also wanted to create comics just like this.

>>66244
>>70377
What holds you back? There are plenty of comics that arent perfectly drawn but still managed to get cult like status, p.E. Tails gets Trolled

>>70375
Yeah that one. And the elf being the king/hero of some prophecy or something, being forced to kill a child to save something greater, except the kid wasn't a kid but some illusion or shapeshifter who orchestrated it, because what the elf was supposed to "kill" was his "innocence". It was just getting too pretentious for me and I dropped it.

This reminds me of another 2 video game related webcomics.
- Goblins one which I dropped when it had a "pseudo rape" arc. Some bald human barbarian and lamia chick had a nice thing going, but lamia is cursed to forget about him and she prepares to leave him when he uses some magic item to make her stop which triggered her PTSD flashback of being raped by some other dude before. Then the artist dumped some huge ass sobstory on the website about how his mom was raped or something and even a small interview with her. I dunno if it was an elaborate joke or not but I just dropped it at that point.

- Order of the Stick. Was nice for a while but then at some point the story pivots to "but umm have you considered that goblins are only evil because of socio-economic factors and it's in fact humans that are bad?" which also caused me to drop it.

It's been a while so I may not be remembering this properly.

>>66162
Pretty degenerate. Thought he made a new webcomic because a lot of his original stuff had guest artists who were already integrated into his storylines. Didn't update or slowed for a while but I sent him a sympathy email when next to one of his comics he talked about being pushed out of a friend group because of a succubus. Then he did one or two more updates after that.
>>66244
>>66544
the GOATs. Don't think they update any more though, or I think Blastwave just did a spinoff and stuck with that.
>>70375
I found it reddit tier, like deadpool for fantasy.

One dumb comic I followed for a while (because it was something to follow) was a lego comic based on star wars and star trek.

>>63254
Define wargame. At various times I have played 40k, Battletech, Flames of War, and Warmahordes. As a kid I played Panzer Blitz and some other Avalon Hill games.

I've been running some Chainmail battles with some guys.
It's fun!

bump
I liked Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance as a kid who liked futuristic robotistic stuff at tge time

>>70367
additional info:
A turn-based wargame? I liked Heroes of Might and Magic III also.

I collect and paint models. Never played the games though, not sure if I'd really enjoy that environment as a wizard. My parents are from the era of board games, but would refuse to play anything more complex than monopoly.

I'll post a photo of 2 of the recent minis I've done, and compare them to ones I painted 10+(or whenever 5th edition first came out for 40k) years prior, It's funny how much better they look when you follow some basic instructions like thinning your paints lol. Also it helps that I have a real paintbrush now, back then I would chew a toothpick and use that to paint.

I'm bidding on a box of Hero quest, seems like an old one. Currently it's only at 2 dollars, hopefully I can get it for a steal.