/hob/ - Hobbies

>>70669
>>70670
What I like to do is to drink cheap wine while playing video games or posting on imageboards between 1AM and 5AM.

>>71028
It's preferable and needed in my opinion. The last thing you want to do is draw attention from normies who want problems. Avoiding anime clothing if there's any debate about it would be the best step, but it's certainly been normalized to the masses over the last few years in the western world. I think anime clothing is fine, it's more characteristic and fun than the other options for the most part.

>>71033
Do you wear those? I keep my opinion on them, but if you wear that, let me know your age and what people say about it. When I see people seeing someone wearing that, an expression is drawn on their faces, as if they just saw something childish and silly.

>>71028
>they don't stop looking like idiots with those clothes being adults.
You are gay! Stop typing!

>>71028
I'll be honest, that was my reaction even coming/going from comic shops… and that's the closest thing to nerd mecca short of going to a convention: it stands out even there.

>>71034
Gotta agree, hobbies are hobbies but target audience is absolutely in play. Like my uncles and their hotrod t-shirts is one thing, but if they pop on a ninja turtles shirt (even as a retro play), people are gonna talk.

>>70667
He cute

>>70962
>>70963
Believe me, I know.

>>70899
I can tell you are skilled but there is too many distracting colors and subjects for my peanut brain to process the image. Do you post your art outside wizchan? It looks like something some people would really like and pay for.

>>70911
This is cool actually. It can be a monster in a video game. Unless it's supposed to be ero-guro then I am sorry your fetish is pretty gross.

>>70667
This is crazy good, especially considering the software.

>>69464
That looks awesome! I love doing paper animations. Here is an old one I did years ago of a little Wizard making tea. Originally it was going to be longer but i got burnt out.

>>71025
Finally watched Alien: Romulus. But before watching it, I went back and watched all the Alien movies. I'm a huge fan of the original and can pretty much quote the entire thing from memory. It took me a week to watch them all. Here are my unsolicited opinions on each.

Alien (1979) — Almost a perfect horror film imo. The plot is nothing to write home about, but the set design, the alien design, and the atmosphere are perfect. It's one of the most hauntingly beautiful labyrinths to ever grace the silver screen. The amount of detail in every inch of the Nostromo and LV-426 is amazing. The idea of having blue-collar characters made the whole thing work. One of my favorite movies of all time.

Aliens (1986) — A generally fun, competently made, but ultimately dumb blockbuster movie. Compared to the original, it's a downgrade on every level. The characters are flat, samey, and uninteresting. Obvious bad guy doing bad guy things. The design of the ship and interiors is functional, but not nearly as beautiful or interesting as in the first movie. It's not a bad movie, but it pales in comparison to the original. The "perfect organism" is also shown to be completely pathetic, stupid, squishy things.

Alien 3 (1992) — If Aliens is a competently made movie with boring ideas, Alien 3 is a movie with some good ideas but clunky execution. The characters are interesting for the most part, and the dialogue is way better compared to the second movie, but it's mostly the formula of the first movie: a monster killing the cast one by one while everybody else runs around inside a sci-fi labyrinth in despair. It doesn't really add anything to the universe either. Still, it has some cool ideas in there.

Alien Resurrection (1997) — Awful, shitty characters that have nothing interesting to say. Ripley is basically a new character played by the same actor, and the new character is shit. It's full of goofy moments and idiotic plot points that make no sense. The special effects and set design are mostly OK, but the dialogue and plot are garbage. Characters have to constantly drop exposition dumps just to make sense of whatever is going on. The only interesting character in there is Gediman. They really drove Ripley into a corner with this one. No wonder they pretty much dropped the whole thing and started making movies set in other points of the timeline.Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

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.

>>70691
>>71015
>Can you elaborate on this, wizzy?
This

Sure but it's mostly nonsense especially the western stuff, it's wishy-washy garbage that gets regurgitated by little old ladies repeatedly, especially new age crud

I'm more interested in the fixed stars now, the more ancient schools of astrology, like the ancient chinese considered the fixed stars

>>64591
I found this book about Astrology by Aleister Crowley, still there are more book about Aleister Crowley about this topic and are very enjoyable bacause looks kinda old and traditional to me without new age woo-woo.

>>71020
I remember reading this, it wasn't very memorable except the usual 'psychic inference' (pulling nonsense out the ass) about the newly discovered planets and their effects

>>61466
I've wanted to read Ellic Howe's writings on the subject, but I'm not really interested in astrology generally

>>70810
Have you read Oblomov?

>>68974
I did not enjoy this book.

>>70969
no. should I?

>>70983
Maybe. It’s not that similar to à rebours, but I read it around the same time as à rebours. It’s also about a NEET nobleman who refuses to participate in society and spends a great deal of the the book in his bed. It features a succubus and a love interest tho.

>>71013
'to kill a mockingbird' is also a book about NEET I think

>>61740
Сдаешься? Ты че пидар? Ану учи русский язык, волшебник.

>>61746
Jaja

>>69844
Im here. Do you want to talk with me? :)

>>41853
It has been a few years, how did that go?

>>46336
What's the point of that?

Go Buckminster Fuller and document every day of your life.

>>69387
I have a backpack with a journal I keep inside it amongst other things, and I tend to journal from time to time whenever I feel like it. Tends to help clear my head when it becomes brain soup.

I used to keep one but I came to the conclusion that it is more detrimental than beneficial if you are under prolonged isolation and I mean actually isolated no internet "friends" do not count as isolation you dumb zoomer tranny.

If you are isolated, journaling is doing your brain a further disservice, it heavily skews your already inaccurate self and external perception.

>>69390
>writing when I am likely the only one to see it feels utterly pointless to me
bingo

why would I? I don't do anything in the day that I could record.

>>70976
>internet "friends" do not count as isolation you dumb zoomer tranny.

"Internet friends" are just as valid as IRL friends. If you have online friends, you're not at all isolated.

>>70958
If no one is saying that (or looks like that) then why even bring up ai in the first place? Its a nonsequitur at best.

>>70959
>I sometimes daydream of some sort of board game where AI actually can't win. Even a card game would be adequate. I don't know, maybe poker is humanity's last stand?
>don't do anything because ai can do it
How is this not a non-sequitur?

>>70960
Oh, I thought it was just generally understood that ai can easily cream any human at any board game. I thought what you were saying was people shouldn't bother playing games because ai will beat them. But yeah, I hate to have to say it but no such game exists, mastering strategy games is just the kind of thing ai is best at.

>>70933
>I don't know what suggested I am "very intelligent" here.
playing board games is always thinking within some fixed rules and if it's something popular like chess there's already a mountain of knowledge and approaches to it
designing board games itself forces you to think how rules themselves come together to create the game, this also requires creativity as you are thinking up new games
I don't think you'll find a lot about how rules come together outside maybe some mathematics papers

>>70966
like I say, making games is 1% inspiration and 99% pretension. Look at something like Boop. Anyone could have come up with it and its one of the most popular abstract games. I do make it more of a cerebral exercise but its not necessary. Anyway thank you for the kind words.

Ageing population will really start to fuck some countries in East Asia. Shit will hit the fan with that. European countries

The thing I find interesting about the future is the possibility that technology sends us back. In the sci fi series Dune, they invent Holtzman shields that block fast moving projectiles; as a result, soldiers have to go back to melee combat with swords. In the Dune universe, artificial intelligence (thinking machines) becomes so advanced that take over and have to be fought against. Thinking machines (even calculators) are banned and replaced with human mentats to do large calculations.
Two examples where advancements in technology either
1) make other high technology redundant so you have to go back to low tech
2) becomes so destructive it has to be completely banned and technological progress has to go in a completely different direction.

In my profession now, certain letters have to be written by hand stamped and posted to confirm that it was written by a person; it cannot be written by a large language model. The large language model forces us to abandon the word processor and makes us go back to writing.

There is significant evidence now that the smartphone correlates strongly with a huge collapse in birth rates and other things. I also wonder if certain communities that are anti-tech (The Amish) will end up coming out on top.

I hope that in the future there will be a good distribution of wealth

Ageing population will ruin East Asia and parts of Europe.
We will go back to a Victorian socio-economic model in which wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few and most wealth comes from the inheritance of assets.

In some ways I found peace in this. I used to stress about not voting hard enough, not fighting overreach and surveillance harder, and not making huge philosophical or scientific strides… woke up and realized I'm just some guy that can't save the planet and I feel way better about it.