/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.

>>66162
Damn, this is still going? I remember discovering it as a teen and irreversibly fucking up my sense of humor and sexuality. (Not like that ever ended up mattering, but still…)
It was also where the term "fapping" came from in the english lexicon, right?
>>66216
I remember reading that as well for a while, though some characters were kinda hard to swallow at times, they had this annoying aura about them.

I also liked reading The Noob Comic, and some other game related webcomics like a world of warcraft one with an undead and elf going on some wacky adventure where after hundreds of chapters of comedy it turned into a serious story or something. In that aspect I much preferred The Noob which just kept to doing jokes.

>>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.

>>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.

to me astrology is all about vibes and moods, sometimes a transit will happen and on that exact date or year something big will happen, like the Saturn Neptune conjunction in Capricorn in 1989 coinciding with the fall of the berlin wall and end of the soviet union. sometimes it takes years for the mood to shift, like Neptune in Pisces happening in 2011, leading to the whole world slowly taking on a victim mentality with the rise of wokeness.

Personally im also into what is called mundane astrology, i find the other astrologys boring for the most part. im more interested in cultural, political, social shifts.

By the way, 2026 is a big mondo year in mundane astrology, all the outer planets shift. Pluto in Aquarius, Neptune into Aries, Uranus into Gemini, Saturn into Aries. having all those planets shifting in the same year is unprecedented, there is going to be a major vibe shift this year

What about eastern astrology? The chinese zodiac thingy? Anyone got experience with that?

>>70370
I frequently notice things repeating every 12 years way better than our horoscope which always seemed like nonsense to me, but I have this obsession with noticing the 12 year cycle, it's fun. Fun fact, 12 years ago we had gamergate so I think this will be a bad year for game journalism, or maybe even for the media in general wouldn't that be something

>>70372
12 years is roughly Jupiter's orbit duration. It could be associated with that planet.

>>70373
hmmm intriguing

>>64302

Wear covid-era maaaaask
and scarf

normies'll assume you have

a) common cold
b) astardy edginess
c) o v i d

>>64305
thanks for your input, really

>>64308

huh… maybe, someday…
thanks for the idea.

>>64343
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>>64286
I like the fall. Summer is way too hot and makes normies run around and party outside. In the fall when it gets colder they already start to stay inside more. So I can take my time walking along the same path as always and admire the color of the changing leaves and wonder how many times I will walk this path before this time of my life comes to a close as well. Perhaps I will miss these mundane scenes one day. Perhaps I will forget them entirely. But for now I am comfy and enjoying the sights.

>>70010
Good call.
I think I should go for a walk in the park too.
Regards, >>70007

>>64294
But what about posting park lains?

>>47407
So, my friend told me yesterday his stomach rejects black tea, green tea is fine though.

Does anyone here both avoid black tea and enjoy green tea? Because I have no understanding of green tea; same for white tea/golden tea/obscure types of tea leaf preparation

>>70360
Dead site

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.

>>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?

>>70101
In my country JDM cars are the absolute top priority for theft. The other are cars easily broken into such as various hyundais, toyota aquas, mazda demios and lower value subaru imprezzas (less likely to be immobilized). Sadly even with a GPS tracker we won't get much help from the police. Also these shops work so damn fast, they can have a car in pieces in hours depending on how quickly they want to hide it. I've also heard they can kill GPS trackers, atleast they claim that. I really have no clue about all of this which is another reason I'm just avoiding it all together.

I'll just get a rough fun manual to drive.

>>70149
unfunny idea

get some *econobox* old car as in old Polo/old Golf/old Clio

since thos ecars are simple like brick, they're easier to fix (and to *tuner up* also - as a mean to avoid looking up for "normal" park by slamming something *aftermarket* into it).

>>70188
I can't even afford that… I'm struggling a lot financially, but I need a new car because mine breaks all of the time and its repair are killing me, and I live too far from work to use a bycicle or the bus..

>>70149
Our economy used to run on 500~1.5k cars, those same cars are 3k minimum now. Houses became too out of reach so people just say fuck it and take out massive loans for cars they like which drives up all of the other prices. I live in a poor area but people are paying off 100k sports cars and trucks

>>70194
like i said


get an econobox, that awfully simple, rather than some "necroluxury car"

>>69668
This is the first genuine complement I've received in a long time, and I think the first complement I've come across on a chan, ever. Thanks.
Sage because this post is sappy.

>>69661
I've put some thought in trying to make the system as bare bones as absolutely possible and this is what I have so far. Each successive iteration I've been stripping out more and more until this is what I'm left with so far. I still don't know if the categories quite make sense/work in my playtesting so far, even though I can force them to work…
My main issue atm are the action/theme oracles. In practice, I find I do need them to be that small so that the whole system "fits in human memory" without too much effort for a new player. By making them "multiplicative" I can capitalize on the exponential compression to really expand their power, e.g., you "roll" 3 times to get a word for each category, and the word combination defines the theme/noun or action/verb. This allows me to "fit" a lot more words into the same space. However, I find the theme/action oracle to still be really abstract to work with in playtesting so far. It's hard to bullshit up a MBTI/Compass system to define nouns/verbs.
The fate oracle I think works well when you play with the principle of "If you aren't willing to accept 3:7 or 7:3 odds, then don't bother with the fate oracle and just have it happen in the game."
Idk, I'm going to do a bit more playtesting to see if I can even out the action/theme oracle kinks.
I've got a more complete writeup I'm working on w/examples/etc., but I wanted to make sure I could at least get it not only on a single page, but on a single page with plenty of white space and DEAD simple (it's got to be done all in your head!).
Again, I don't know if I'll be arsed to finish up the full writeup, but whatever. I find the full writeup interesting as it not only explains all the design choices so far, but also explains what I've noticed in some other playtesting, which is that the system seems to have far more applications than just games.

>>69674
Draft v.1

>>69679
Been playtesting some more, and the main issue I've come across is using the theme oracle. There are the specific words I choose in the theme oracle are giving me..bad vibes.
It's also not just that I can "represent" as many things as possible with as few words as possible, but I have to make the weightings of those representations be things more likely to carry a story. For example, one time I was playtesting and hit "ethereal" like three times in a row and was like, "O.k., come on, I don't want to make a @#$!ing pantheon right now!"
I think I can fix it by choosing the word categorizations more carefully, and being more willing to completely avoid certain categories, but…I'm not an ontologist.
…
I just had a thought. If I incorporated toki pona's ontology, I think that might help. Also, if I gave the player choice at each vertex of the triangles between a word or it antonym, that might help too?

Go to church(or what's your temple is), phone on Do Not Disturb mode

try praying, end up daydreaming powerfully
??????


notes

profit

>>70018
3.5

make sure you have a visualizer

watch the pattern closely

>>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.

>>70353



interesting… thanks

>>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.

>>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.

>>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

>>70316
>Give me full access to your programming work for free or I will consider it to be evil software and advocate against anyone downloading it

Sorry GNUtard, even if you had the code and managed to compile it through a decent C# compiler running on Wine, your castrated Thinkpad T240 wouldn't be able to this game.