/hob/ - Hobbies

>>71098
>>71101
good luck

>>71044
I remember watching Glenn Vilppu drawing and feeling like I was beginning to understand what it means to "feel" form. Watching more experienced artist draw can help you too. I recommend Vilppu and Michael Hampton.
If you watch enough people figure draw, you'll notice that some people start with gestures while others focus on contours. There isn't a definitive drawing style, but by modifying your process, at least temporary, you can gain a new perspective on drawing.
I have been copying drawings from Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing From Life. His figures make it easy to see how the forms of the body interlock into each other.
Beyond that, I think it boils down to mileage. By studying and drawing a lot, the small bits of knowledge you pick up will add up and start becoming noticeable.

I am not much of an artist. These look wonky as hell.

>>71084
these are pretty cool regardless of your technical skill level wiz, keep at it. do some studying and i am certain you will become better

>>70899
Did a cartoon for the first time in a few years.

Kinda off-topic. I made a few TADC OCs a few months ago and posted them here. Today I made a cartoon using one of those designs I made.
Turned out pretty good. He isn't a cast member in the video, just really liked his design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55jWbkmX3lc

Took a lot out of me tbh.

>>71140
You're insanely talented, subscribed

>>62896
>>62894
>ortega


b u m p

whats the email for in imageboards?

>>62993
been there XD

I've been messing around with ollama. I vibecoded up some bullshit, and I've been playing with it to see if I could just make my own, private imageboard. I somehow am not bothered by it being just bots if I know it's my bots.
I'm starting to wondering if I could make a completely off-grid, local imageboard and Youtube.
I kind of wonder if at that point whether I'd even want the internet anymore.

>>71113
AIs a r e great for drunk prompting.

>>70605
But this is not a functional society

bicycles are O9Apilled

>>71111
no, but it's not my job to fix this

>>71136
>no, but it's not my job to fix this
Too many people harboring that attitude is exactly why we're currently in a situation of sorts

>>67574
Oh, and deep space 9 is good. Not as good as TNG but nearly.

>>67576
I never liked Deep space 9 but I did enjoy TNG and Voyager.

Part of the appeal of Star Trek to me is the exploration and adventure.
Sitting on a space station most of the time just didn't do it for me.

I'm currently watching Star Trek the original series after almost a year without touching any Trek at all. I needed the abstinence to enjoy this stuff again. Just finished watching Shore Leave from the first season. It's a decent episode, a rather quaint idea but way too padded out. I won't be commenting every single episode here, but will try to make a post summarizing my thoughts on each season.

I recently watched black mirror, I made a tier list of the episodes. General thoughts, I thought the first 4 seasons were really good. There's a massive falloff after that, for 5 and 6. Season 7 wasn't terrible but it's still not great.

Some random thoughts
Be right back - I think the scene on the cliff where she tells the ai to jump is really well done. Would be lower if not for that.
White christmas - I'll give this episode credit because it was first but they really overuse the cookies concept in later episodes
San Junipero - This one's just boring? I don't get why people like it so much
Hang the DJ - I actually liked the early parts of the episode. The whole idea of leaving romance to some system that can magically find your perfect match. I like the part where they're forced to be with someone they don't even like for a whole year to give data to the system. That's interesting. But then the ending happens. "It was just a simulation lmao". Am I supposed to be surprised or impressed or something? yay yippe 200 digital clones are dead. Also, good romance is hard to execute and black mirror is bad at it
Joan is awful - The concept of the episode is cool but holy shit is the execution terrible
Mazey day - This episode is so bad that it actually wraps around to being good
Bête Noire - Kinda boring and I think the idea of one person creating a quantum compiler or whatever to control the universe is too ridiculous for me to suspend my disbelief
uss callister: into infinity - good episode but they already did the living in someone else's head thing in dark museum. I wish it had a more unique ending

I'm slowly becoming a ST fan. I watched all episodes of TNG which I talked about it here, then watched all the TOS ones and the movies. I forgot I was posting about it here but yeah, TOS is pretty good too for the most part. I even liked Spock's brain. Gave up on SNW after the first season, now I just watch people on yt shitting on it every single episode. Apparently it's a mess, glad I fired it early. Watched a couple of Starfleet Academy and it was a joke, fired after just a couple of episodes.

I tried DS9 but didn't really care for it. It's not a bad show, just something I don't feel like watching it for now. Instead I went straight to Voyager and I'm enjoying it.

How the fuck do I read this? Should I use a companion reader, or should I she'll out the duckets for an eng lit degree?

>>71102
Imbue your soul with Sectarian Paddy rage and it will become clear

Also knowing stuff about the Odyssey helps

>>71102
it was quite a ride. i read it last year not knowing what to expect at all. i checked notes and resources online about half way through and had to re read entire chapters over and over again
being esl didnt help lol

>>70190
Do you know of any other anti-feminism books?

>>70190
Try Ballard's High rise. It's about the hate u give to succubi. Actually, its about a hell of a lot of things

>>71127
>>71126
I'm obsessed with Digital-ism being EVIL.
Yes, I know im on a forum rn; but its a means to an end…Eg; tomorrow I will buy a Dumbphone and seal away my old smartphone in a wooden box

yeah! i think this is very cool, there is for example a minidisc wiki that explains how to get into minidisc technology today. i wont participate in any buzzwords though. it is just older technology to me.

My backup PC from 2016 is the most vintage thing I have

>>71119
Antique technology is a cool thing to be interested in if you just enjoy playing with it and studying how it works
I think "replacing digital tech" with it sounds crank-ish. There are legitimate reasons to want to restrict or avoid certain technologies, but believing there's something inherently wrong with bits is a weird magical idea. The functions and impacts of the device are what matter

Recently I learned to love Friendship Is Magic and also much of the series that predate it. I actually hated it when I was a teenager (without even giving it a chance) because all of a sudden it was everywhere and I felt it had a lot of overlap with furries - the niggers of the internet. I took pride in never seeing even 10 seconds of the show by the time it ended. I decided to dip my toes in to it a few years back and now I really regret barring myself from it for so long. There were some periods in my life where I really needed the catharsis of CGDCT, but my canteen of applicable anime had run dry. I think of all the fun I could have had as a young adult with other bronies online, and how belonging to a group of fellow nerdy young guys online could have been good for me (not that I didn't turn out perfect anyway). Instead of dwelling on what could have been, I instead overall feel great after having watched the series and learning to love it, while also learning that the community is still thriving. It also seems that the undesirable people have proudly "outgrown" the fandom, so no more furries!

G5 was bad and I am not looking forward to G6!

I tried watching some of this just to see what it was all about but it is a show literally designed for like 4-5 year old succubi. It is infantile. Extremely stupid and saccharine. I can't imagine the kind of mind that is attracted to such a thing.

>>71121
Sad!

Wes Anderson fan so firing up The French Dispatch tonight; favorite W.A. film is probably The Grand Budapest.

>>71029
I'll throw 'em a bone, home theater nerds especially - some get pretty gonzo with their laserdisc/dvd/bluray hoarding and gear setups.

I have seen the first hellraiser yesterday, great movie,

The second in the other hand…
The first 1/5 is really good but the rest feels like a parody or a spy kids movie, is so bad that it breaks the inmersion a lot of times

The saga have 8 more movies and acording to people these 2 are the best ones…

I couldn't see shit because of how dark the movie was. it was a ok movie about witches and it depicted witches good

>>71040
Okay film. Should have been advertised as a psychological thriller rather than a horror movie tho

>>71038
Some of the sequels are SO BAD

>>71093
I resized and compressed a few more pics. Luckily there is a built in option in the windows picture viewer that does it.

>>71095
The one on top of the feeder was taken at a bit closer distance and with a shorter focal length I think. It came out a little sharper

>>71092
This is a really beautiful cat and a great picture. I know the shutter count is mostly meaningless for actual wear but it does give an indication of how much the camera was used at least.

One thing that keeps happening though is the buttons on the top left of the camera don't do anything most of the time when I press them. They're supposed to bring up camera menus. I don't know if the camera is actually defective or there's something I'm doing wrong.

I just bought a drone this morning because the government in the US banned chinese drones which are far and away the best and cheapest drones out there. Basically the way they're doing it is anyone who has a drone still gets to fly them and the current stock on the shelves is legal to buy and fly, but they won't be getting more and you also can't repair your drone through them if it breaks. The repair thing is potentially concerning, but I figure we should be able to get parts because there is a big enough demand for them someone will be making them. There are already boards you can buy to hack into batteries and override their cutoff mechanism that stops them from working if the case is opened. As far as I understand it, the reason they're doing the ban is because Trump's family members own some sort of drone company now and they're trying to get rid of the competition. I figure this nonsense will die down once the Trump crime family is out of office.

I always look at expensive purchases through the lens of what is the depreciation curve going to look like and can you afford the depreciation cost of trying something out and potentially not even getting into it and then selling your stuff later. I hate selling stuff because it involves interacting with normies, but I do have an ebay account in good standing that I use for that from time to time. If I don't like this drone I expect it to sell well because it was the top of the line consumer drone at the time the ban came in so it will probably be in demand going forward on the secondary market.

It looks like it might be a fun way to shoot some video though, and I want to try using one to do some 3D gaussian splats of areas sometime.

I took some videos today of some deer at 1080p 120 fps with my new E-M1X and they came out better than I was expecting. 4x slowmo looks good. I realize I probably need to get some sort of tripod though.