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 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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 No.71352

Does pipe smoking count as a hobby?


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File: 1702905627519.pdf (14.18 MB, The Way to Live.pdf)

 No.66929[Reply]

Post rare/interesting pdfs

Does anyone else have a huge library of pdfs that they have collected over the years?
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File: 1783270735938-0.pdf (2.08 MB, alone forever.pdf)

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>>69750
Not exactly that but similar enough maybe.

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Does anyone have this book downloaded? Internet archive just lets you read a 9-page preview. The rest of the book is not available for borrowing anymore

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>>71363
It's Suicide: A Social and Historical Study if that helps

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>>70813
i like these pdf's

 No.71370

I sometimes use this free library called Project Gutenberg. It's a good idea to hoard pdfs as these online resources seem to appear and disappear somewhat erratically.


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 No.68295[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Book discussion. Tell us what you're reading.
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 No.71328

hi wiz today i want to share with you my favorite short story, ex oblivione by lovecraft

>When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water that torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim’s body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.
>Once when the wind was soft and scented I heard the south calling, and sailed endlessly and languorously under strange stars.
>Once when the gentle rain fell I glided in a barge down a sunless stream under the earth till I reached another world of purple twilight, iridescent arbours, and undying roses.
>And once I walked through a golden valley that led to shadowy groves and ruins, and ended in a mighty wall green with antique vines, and pierced by a little gate of bronze.
>Many times I walked through that valley, and longer and longer would I pause in the spectral half-light where the giant trees squirmed and twisted grotesquely, and the grey ground stretched damply from trunk to trunk, sometimes disclosing the mould-stained stones of buried temples. And always the goal of my fancies was the mighty vine-grown wall with the little gate of bronze therein.
>After a while, as the days of waking became less and less bearable from their greyness and sameness, I would often drift in opiate peace through the valley and the shadowy groves, and wonder how I might seize them for my eternal dwelling-place, so that I need no more crawl back to a dull world stript of interest and new colours. And as I looked upon the little gate in the mighty wall, I felt that beyond it lay a dream-country from which, once it was entered, there would be no return.
>So each night in sleep I strove to find the hidden latch of the gate in the ivied antique wall, though it was exceedingly well hidden. And I would tell myself that the realm beyond the wall was not more lasting merely, but more lovely and radiant as well.
>Then one night in the dream-city of Zakarion I found a yellowed papyrus filled with the thoughts of dream-sages who dwelt of old in that city, and who were toPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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>>71328
Hello.

 No.71366

Picked up the Defence of Socrates by Plato the other day. Basically he was executed because his mockery of a certain stupidity offended certain powerful people. The stated reason of going against the polytheistic religion was just the usual legal bullshit.

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>>71366
You don't mess with the City and expect to get out alive especially after Athens lost to Sparta

He had plenty of chances to save his life but wanted to take a stand and be martyred

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>>71367
I don't know much about the history of Ancient Greece, I'm only interested in the philosophy. Socrates mentions during his trial he was hearing voices, really shows how high intelligence goes paired with high dopamine/schizophrenia.


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 No.71353[Reply]

Does anybody here like pipe smoking? I live in London and feel that it helps me deal with my loneliness. If others would like to reach out and discus what tobaccos are your favourite then we can talk, right now Early morning tobacco and Cult tobbacco are my favoriats right now.

 No.71359

I used to smoke cigarettes but I switched to nicotine gum due to health issues

 No.71360

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford" -Dr. Johnson

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>>71360
Outdated quote

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>>71360
> in London all that life can afford
The more elevated thought an anglo can reach


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 No.51836[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Does anyone here do deadlifts? I'm thinking about working to get a god-tier deadlift. My first goal is to make it up to 405lbs deadlift and then see how far I can take it from there. Right now I can do 255 for 5x5. Any wizbros here with tips?

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 so it's gonna be hard to cut back on the food. Does anyone also have tips on how to feel full and not feel the need to eat food?
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>>70636
At some point a valid consideration - seems like balance is in order and probably healthier.

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>>51839
> I know they're probably all laughing at me on the inside because I'm an overweight virgin
Nobody cares bro!
t. regular gym-goer

 No.70640

>>70636
running and walking are boring
i don't do them outside of walking to the store to get groceries

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>>70639
>Nobody cares bro!
This is wrong in two diametrically opposed ways and right in one way.

On one pole is the fact that I and many people would rather not be afflicted by the smelly air and stinky sweat of the obese. It's universally understood that fat people are unclean and their very skin excretes poison. Like cooties but for fat people. Foodies. For the sake of everyone besides him, I hope that sometime in the past 5 years that user has lost his excess bodyfat and he's no longer a pollutant. It's why I wipe the machines BEFORE I use them.

On the other pole, many who go to the gym have come to learn how good it feels to exercise and be fit so they become happy when they see others working towards feeling good. These empathic normaltards mentally invest in the hope that the fat guy loses his fat for the sake of his own health. Care is had that another unhealthy body becomes healthy for the mutual benefit of the beholder and the onlooker.

The way it's right is that there are a lot of people who just don't care, and that itself is split in to to opposed reasons. These people either don't have the cognition to process the quality of people they're sharing space with, or they've transcended beyond judgement all together. Neither afflicted nor benefited.

t. regular nighttime gym-goer

 No.71361

>>51836
I don't do deadlifts that often, usually about once a week. I'm at your level currently, although I'm only 161lbs. In terms of tips I'd recommend starting off your workout with a light jog then going into deadlifts. I find it makes things a lot easier. Also don't forget to do a warm up set. Usually I just use the bar for those.

>Does anyone also have tips on how to feel full and not feel the need to eat food?
Have a glass of water before you start eating.


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I always played around with it in a very disengaged, uncommitted manner. Well, on September 2nd, just a few days ago, I decided to really learn Linux to the point I could truthfully add to my resume to help me find a position somewhere. For that reason, I picked Ubuntu, possibly the most popular, all-purpose Linux distribution out there. I began doing the edx's version of the Linux Foundation's Introduction to Linux course because of the bells and whistles they have there in terms of exercises and whatnot. Unfortunately, they peppered the whole course with unbelievably idiotic mini videos geared towards morons. Imagery of douchebags with designer haircuts typing away at a laptop with some coolcorp background and annoying music.

So I said fuck it, and instead I decided to read the Linux Bible. But then I found out there's an Ubuntu Linux Bible by the same author, and so that's what I'm reading now. Straight to the point, concise, has exercises, not as many as I would like, but I can come up with variations on my own. Today is the third day I'm following the book, and I intend to make a daily post, briefly talking about the stuff I've learned on that day.

The first day was pretty much just going through the fluff. What Linux is, history of Linux, Unix, GNU, what open source is, etc. That's the first 20 pages of the book's 718 pages.

The second day I read about the X Window System, desktop environments, GNOME desktop, Nautilus file manager, and ways to run Linux (live medium, permanent install, etc.). The exercises consist of messing around with the GUI pretty much, something you would naturally do in a fresh install of an OS. I also had to install Ubuntu because I was running Windows. I got lucky because Ubuntu 24.04.1 came with some broken packages for Nvidia drives, and that of course fucked my shit up, which was a very excellent opportunity to do some tinkering and learning. I got it to work, it only took me an hour or so. I read people saying this is the most broken Ubuntu update in years, which I take as a good sign for my timing. And then I broke Light Locker while changing to Xfce as my desktop environment.

Anyway, third day, today, I finally reach the meat of the book and begin messing around with the shell, trying different commands, pretty simple stuff, whoami, pwd, ls, cd, command syntax, hyphenated options for command's behavior, locating commands, and really, just getting comfortable to mess around in the termPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>71330
I'm poor and chronically ill now and stuck with a W11 machine, but I have used linux exclusively in the past for years in a row.
I mostly enjoyed using Debian-based distros with mate desktop environment on old thinkpads. I also liked Manjaro.

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>>71338
>I'm poor
Use linux then. Hehe
>I mostly enjoyed using Debian-based distros with mate desktop environment on old thinkpads.
That sounds nice. I used to have an old Toshiba laptop with arch linux and xfce desktop. It fit the old laptop very well, it had a windows 98 classic theme that was a delight to see with a Lain wallpaper. It was my main one indeed, and it was fun to use as well.

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After switching to Linux, i don't really respect people who use Windows.

Mac, i understand. It's actually a very practical OS in that it integrates well into your environment (if you have other apple products). MacOS doesn't have a lot of malware written for it. It's a clean operating system that simply works the way you want it to for the most part.

Windows is a clunky bloated piece of nonsense that forces you to upload all your data to a cloud. OneDrive isn't subtle about it either like Mac's cloud software.

Linux is free, and it's easy to download. Your data isn't getting stolen. You can copy and paste commands into a terminal and add any sort of cool features you want. There's a bunch of programs being written for Linux that allow you can get for free. And a lot of games play pretty well on Linux.

TBH i quit playing a lot of games if no one's developed a way to play it on Linux (which does happen and is unfortunate) but it's worth it to have a desktop that acts the way i want it to act.

 No.71354

>>71351
Linux is not that different from Windows in the sense that there is a lot of nonsense in the way it handles audio.

I mean, why do I need pipewire, a wrapper for pulseaudio, to finally have audio sent to ALSA? This is the state of affairs in Linux at the moment. And there is this stupid transition from X to Wayland

X also needs dbus to run without root, udisks2 for automounting USB sticks, packaged it on top of apt, and the list goes on

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>>71350
xfce is nice too


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 No.53574[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

What are some hobbies that don't involve consuming anything? You purchase a 1 time item and very rarely if ever have to replace it. Learning yo-yo tricks would be a consumptionless hobby in this case. There are obviously thinks like whistling or playing the spoons too. The idea is it has to make as little foot print as possible while being something you can develop and grow at. Drawing wouldn't count because you need paper.
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 No.71322

>>71320
if you were starting this hobby today but were hellbent on doing it digital and not do it in a physical notebook + inkpen + whatever_else_you_might_be_using … how'd you approach this craft?

i used paper index cards similarly for over a year but now i try to do it on digital because i found a drawing program that has an infinite canvas and i use it on a laptop that has a stylus that i occasionally use to draw on it.

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>>71322
I don't know about digital. I find using a fountain pen stimulating.

 No.71347

>>71324
i type so fast, when i try to express myself with a pen it feels too slow. i did it for many years with a pen but now that i started doing it digitally i don't think i can go back to anything else. i bring a big keyboard (meaning a regular keyboard with numpad, i love the numpad so much) into the cafe and i place it in front of the laptop (which is a convertible and i put it in tent mode, that way the built-in keyboard without numpad is out of the way)

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>>71347
sounds good

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>>53574
String figures are probably your best bet. You just need string and two (sometimes one) hand.


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 No.71340[Reply]

Is it late to get into magic at 20? I was always sort of interested but put off actively getting into it. It seems really fun but the inherently social nature of card games sort of puts me off.

 No.71345

I don't play mtg but maybe they have something like the yugioh videogames if you don't like social interaction?

 No.71346

>>71340
>20
it's not too late youre still young. you can play the game online

 No.71355

I got in at 30, spent $100's, sold the good cards a few years later for $150 to a card shop… It was fun enough I guess. The social part killed it for me too, I liked the machine/engine of building decks and playing them but don't really want to talk to people.

 No.71356

>>71355
>don't really want to talk to people
Isn't it the poit of all games?


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 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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 No.71205

Are you a wizard?

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>>71140
i love your videos, please dont purge your account, whatever that means

 No.71215

>>70962
okay mr. goebbels, we will not allow it to untergraben the völkische gemeinschaft

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i don't think this is worth a new thread so here is a shitty thing i have done while i familiarize myself with inkscape

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>>71084
looking good


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 No.64254[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Recipes:
https://ck.booru.org/index.php
https://www.wikihow.com/Category:Recipes
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 No.71291

>>69478
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>>69554
Different types of salt are mostly the same, the impurities just add color not any positive taste. The size of the grain is what will have the most impact and makes a big difference. It also impacts how much salt you need to fill up the same size spoon because bigger grains pack worse and have more air so use whatever type of salt they call for in a recipe. Also, don't forget to use iodized salt sometimes. There are people who cook only with these fancy non iodized salts all the time who end up getting iodine deficiency.

 No.71292

I made a pasta with 6 types of mushroom. It was really good.

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I'll see if I can cook something French after they nuke a certain marketplace there, all things considered XD…

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>>69636
I prefer peace and quiet during my meals. Eating out is crowded and noisy.


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