/hob/ - Hobbies

>>71098
>>71101
good luck

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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.

I feel like i can break down figures down into simple shapes with ease, but all those shapes are flat. I can draw from life and draw what I'm seeing, but i feel like it's just me breaking things into flat shapes again. I can't feel, or visualize or express things in a 3d space.

I feel like it's hindering my ability to shade properly, hindering my anatomy, and is making me completely incapable for drawing anything complex like a body in different perspectives (like top down)
Yes i do studies from life pretty often, ranging from simple shapes to human figures. I have attempted drawing each frame of an object rotating before, but it still doesn't help me visualize
Is there ANYTHING i can do to address this problem that doesn't default to "study from life" or "do still life", because rest assured i already try to do those as a part of my consistent practice. Is there anything i can do to face the problem head on, or do i continue studying and hope that one day my brain will finally start working with me?

I also problem with drawing bodies in general I can do the head decently but the rest of the body specially the arms and shoulders always look unnatural and odd to me when I draw them

I am just deeply afraid that I will never reach a level of drawing I truely desire and I everything I draw will always be mediocre and never good as some Japanese artist on Pixiv because my own brain is against me

>>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

>>67655
>>chan
>install
>i can only assume these two things going together means some sort of pedo shit going on
What could this possibly mean?
>>67657
It's an imageboard software running with PHP and Javascript. The "Install" is done through PHP once prerequisits are met and is done in order to create the appropriate databases and tie everything together without the operator needing to move things around or manually rename repeating assets when a new board is added.

>>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.

>>70601
So if you steal from your enemy, he wins? What if he's using the bike as a tool for evil? What if you have an opportunity to be the distributor of karmic justice to punish him for his misdeeds? What if in stealing his bike, the happiness in the world increases?

>>70600
I simply despise such behavior

>>70599
It isn't my job to exact justice on bad people and I have no interest in such activities, in a functional society bad people would be locked up anyway.
As I already said I despise stealing, especially if it's something in the price range of a bike or lower

>>70605
But this is not a functional society

My problem with a lot of these "designed" boardgames is that a lot of them are just "chess but the pieces move different". Now I'm not huge into the boardgame design scene, so I'm sure there's some innovation, but that's sort of my impression as a dilettante. Another thing is that there's often times no digital versions of these games which makes trying them out nearly impossible. So, it reduces the game to an intellectual curiosity rather than a proper game you can actually play and invest your time in.

>>71072
>no digital versions of these games which makes trying them out nearly impossible

i'm trying to think which widely available program could be use to play them. something like a simple mspaint/kolourpaint might be too crude since there is only one layer of paint so moving pieces would include moving the background the pieces are on as well.

there is a tabletop simulator on steam, this might work, i have been waiting for it for 10 years for it to be cheaper during a sale, no luck so far.

i guess powerpoint/LibreOfficeImpress should work, you could use paint to cut out pieces and paste them into powerpoint, each remaining a individual, clickable, moveable image you can drag around with the mouse

>>70950
>I sometimes daydream of some sort of board game where AI actually can't win.

this is probably the guy to talk about the dream lol

>>71075
You're learning to use Python. It's what primary school students are taught so they can create small programming projects, like little games.

>>71080
99% of people on earth alive right now have no idea what even "coding" is.

so wizzies did you try learning go?

>>69349
Few years ago. Watched a anime about it and got curious. Learned a bit more about the rules and basic strategy then played online a bit. Found it kind of boring and full games tedious so just stopped.

At this point I am pretty sure I forgot all the strategies I learned and most of the rules.
Also never played once in real life or even knew another person in real life who knew how to play it.
With chess it was mainly a way of bonding between my father and me, so it will always have that connection even though I have fallen out with the game. But with Go there is zero connection for me in my personal life. No strong memories.

>>69350
I see, I want to learn chess and go too

>>65914
I hated Chess so much
>>69349
I'm going to try purchasing a set if it's cheap

>>65873
You may enjoy fanorona OP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanorona