/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.

>>70312
This is great, anon!

…do you ever jerk to your own stuff by the way?

>>70394
Thanks. No, but the process of drawing itself feels like that sometimes.
>>70383
Yes, same for me. If I keep drawing one thing, it gets boring and I half ass it just to get it done as soon as possible.

>>70310
I made another Spider-Man piece recently, it's just a fun character to draw.

>>70410
I see, I guess it makes sense though, it'd be like a drug dealer using drugs, probably not the best idea for healthy habits, and it would slow down work a lot.

how to you draw anime succubus hands and make them look natural? for me when i draw them they almost always look bad to me

>>70443
What have you tried so far? Did you discover any potential solutions through trial-and-error or by researching?

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

I used to be interested in this kind of stuff. It all starts falling apart when you start looking for something tangible, like a hard prediction. Or some real information about people's personalities. Then you notice they start coping with ascendant signs to explain why the virgo behaves like a sagitarius or moon signs when 2 people befriend each other but there signs shouldnt like each other.
It is just endless cope and fitting predictions. The personalities described are also so vague, I think you could see yourself in several signs. It is just a huge scam which has been going on since antiquity, I was once reading some texts from the 5th century warning about astrologers being a scam and a waste of money. I guess it is still cool to learn about the stars and the constellations and their terminology, but this would be called amateur astronomy.

>Humans bend to social pressure with ease

god I hate this about humanity so much

>>70427
with new tech humanity will find new lows, enjoy 👌

>>70426
>Half of /dep/ and /wiz/ is about how normies are npc subhumans
Half of /dep/ and /wiz/ are 18-year-old East Europeans who so far have only experienced life through a school environment.

Have you studied the military structure of the Eastern Front Einsatzgruppen?
it's a thing I personally am working on, even if it's super complex.

>>70340
War. War never changes.
It's the same theme of Fallout games though this book has a strong Christian message in it too. Rachel is supposed to be Jesus I think and is supposed to give a vindication to the abbot for staying true to God even with so much suffering in the world. He believes that God doesn't give a burden that they cannot bear and if you just remain steadfast there'll be a reward. The euthanasia in the last chapter seems to represent the opposite view of giving in to suffering and nihilism, the ethics of killing part is less important.

>>70340
Are you going to be doing another wizchan reading? I would like to try and join in next time. I missed the canticle of leibowitz one

30

The last monk, upon entering, paused in the lock. He stood in the open hatchway and took off his sandals. "Sic transit mundus," he murmured, looking back at the glow. He slapped the soles of his sandals together, beating the dirt out of them The glow was engulfing a third of the heavens. He scratched his beard, took one last look at the ocean, then stepped back and closed the hatch.

That's a suitable ending for a novel expressing cycle. Good point to wrap things up. Overall I enjoyed it. It didn't wowed me to be honest. The central idea, rise and fall of civilizations, is common currency in fiction. The first part is where it shines in my opinion, and then it was a slow descent towards the end. Still, pretty good, and it's a classic science fiction novel, definitely a must-read if you want to be well read in the genre.

>>70341
How did you like the novel?

>>70342
I wasn't planning to start another one right now, wiz. Maybe soon.

>>70343
>How did you like the novel?
It's the first novel I've read in a long time. There is more symbolism than I am used to but I seem to understand most of it. I think it may be a bit heavy handed with the moralizing but maybe back in 50s it was pushing new ideas. WW2 was still fresh in memory after all so people could appreciate anti war messaging more. This kind of non-partisan government-critical pacifism probably contributed to the hippie movement later. In any case, I think it was interesting.

Read The 400-Pound CEO. The only downside was that it was so short. What a brilliant thing. Other /r9k/ tier books like Whatever or Mars are more depressing, but really, they didn't speak to me like this one did.
It's not about wallowing in one's own misery, and it has some humor in it, but damn, I was really sad by the end. The main character is really pathetic, and it's crazy how Saunders aptly described such a kind of man. Maybe it was too on the nose in a few places, though.
I will read the rest of CivilWarLand collection now.

Had a dream

one of the picrelated kept looking at me with her signature look - "cold, piercing, but if you get to know her you'll know its not coldness at all".

She said something "normal", small-talky to me, but I didn't rush to a notebook to write it down so now… I have to say - I don't remember.

Any notable dreams from childhood? I probably had this dream when I was around 4.

I was alone on this deserted island made out of ice/snow. It wasn't cold, and I wasn't worried. I was alone which I loved. It started raining toys, and at the time I was extremely into my matchbox and hotwheels cars, also had water guns falling from the sky. Had to have been the best dream I've ever had

I sometimes get these dreams where I'm a giant spider crawling around old victorian mansions and stalking random people there. But I always wake up before I get the jump on someone.

>>70326
Comfy

Nightmare. Cute 2d happy succubus was dancing some classic dance solo at the stage. I was looking from the crowd. She looked like Saber (not exact). The crowd was cheering. It looked like she won something. Then a sofa appeared, it was there unnoticed. A man who looked like a pirate or some filthy baron from France of some past century with dark hair and maybe whiskers with a boner sat there and said something about liking her. Next I saw her standing bended over with her arms in the air incapacitated by a rope or something. She's crying in the dark near a window or a hole for a window while it's implied that's she's getting raped. Her first time too. It was gut-wrenching and painful to watch so I woke up.

I had this weird dream years ago where I was in this large pit kind of area, I was looking for a way out. The sky was red above, everything was basked in this dysty red glow. There was a dog with me that had a shiny mirror like coat of fur, i felt glad that he was there, he told me his name was 'murky' and it seemed important to remember his same for some reason

I think he talked to me telepathically but he was able to alter reality in the dream and I was able to escape thanks to that

>>70381
>china can make a car for $10,000
I know it's not glamorous but the used lots have $8-$13K units. I've had pretty good luck with them - they have all of the maintenance completed and it won't be a craigslist scam or anything either!

>>70381
>>70398
>china can make a car for $10,000
China can make a Chinese car of Chinese quality for $10,000. The price would explode if those bugpeople used real steel and incorporated basic safety features. Features that Americans had to literally die for before they became standard enough to not be considered premium features with premium price tags.

>>68029
I took my driving test at 23 after just driving my dad’s car around in a parking lot and then some back roads for a week. I went to the DMV and took the test which was just 10 minutes of driving the speed limit around town in basically no traffic, she then instructed me to back into a parking space which I failed completely and I still passed the driving test. I have been terrorizing the roads ever since

>>70400
US has 14.2 traffic fatalities per 100k. China has 17.4. For reference Sweden is the lowest major country with 2.1 and Zimbabwe is the highest at 41.2. So there's not really much difference between the US and China. China has actually implemented stronger standards recently too and competition in the marketplace is such that unsafe cars don't sell well.

>>68029
My car's dead, I live far from work, I'm broke, repairing it's really expensive, but buying a new car is impossible.

I hate living.

>>70385
>Really nails how dissociation feels like
I don't believe you understand at all what it means to "feel disassociation". It's not something that can be observed and as such it is not something that any actor or film can portray.

>>70386
It can be identified thus it can be observed mr smartass

>>65514
I never watch romance films bacause i think all are bullshit but i watched this film by accident
>Silver Linings Playbook
And i liked it, i feel it humanistic in a lot of ways.
Maybe bacause the feeling of that anyone get how you feel is in the entire film, all are assholes to protagonist and all put moralistic tags or bullshit on them. The protagonist feels lonely in a lot of ways, everyone feel distant to them in a not forced acting way.
There're some escenes that the dude and same the succubus turn full anxiety and i suffered that shit, i feel empathy for the protagonists so that maybe is a good camera and acting job.
I dont know if the book is more good.

>>70389
>more good
>crappy tastes
>low IQ

most likely indian

I watched "Redux Redux" two days ago. It wasn't terrible— just kind of a turn-your-brain-off movie. You throw it on, kick back, and let it wash over you. It's about a succubus with a time machine who keeps jumping between parallel universes to track down the guy who took her daughter away, over and over.

>>69708
it's lright, poemmaking by yourself > poemmaking via Eyyy Aiiii

>>69710
Why do you type like this?

>>69711
Both phoneposting and carelessness

>>69706
Let me be less of an asshole than >>69707.
What do you think of Notes from the Underground?

>>69659
How would it even work here?

>>70270
>Anny wizzie into MTB?
I made a weird move of using a mountain bike as my pointA-pointB bike. Not too comfy, buy not too shabby either. High quality stuff just wouldnt break.

>I've been trying out some trails where I live (I'm blessed to live in the middle of the Alps).

Whoa. I have some trails too. I'm gonna assume your Alps can be either Swiss or Français


0bviously. WEAR A HELMET
1. pressurised WD-40 or such to straight-up spray your bike's chain from dirt and rust
2. Your gear AND your chain both get very smooth over time so you won't be able to use your old gears with your new chain. Keep a chain repair kit in some kind of "bike stuff shoebox"
3. Make sure to keep a shoeboxful of little things for your bike. Never scatter your bike things across your house (even a 50 meter apartment can turn into a quest room if you hoard stuff without organising, in my embarrassing experience)
4. I am gonna assume you may live in Switzerland. I don't know, check your laws (local laws included) regarding headlights, rear lights, honk-honk klaxons vs bike bells vs neither. To my knowledge, Switzerland compared to Germany is what Germany is compared to *the rest of Europe* in terms of being eager to fine you for $$$ over a lack of a 5$ thingy

>>70411
The primary issue with ebikes is the same as that of electric cars. The current lithium ion battery implementation makes the longevity of both incredibly poor and also demands constant maintenance. An Ebike that boasts a 50 mile range without pedal assist may is able to give you such a range (on perfectly flat ground, with no wind ahead, and if you're as light as a malnourished Chinese factory worker). However, once the battery has been fully discharged once, the the individual cells will only charge up to maybe 99.95% of that capacity the next time. Then you discharge them again, and now they reach 99.90% of the original capcity. Then you leave the battery half charged for a few cold nights and some cells begin to trickle power away. You go to charge the battery to full but some of the better cells reach their new 99.85% max before those trickled cells do, so the BMS stops charging all of the batteries with those few still short in order to not overcharge the good cells. After a few dozen trips, a bit of cold and wet weather, and the typical 18650 inconsistencies, you're now only able to drive 25 miles without pedal assist.

So you'll need to drain the battery fully, then charge it fully in a warm dry place, and not let it sit either on or off a charger for long. You'll have to chose either the batteries dying because you're riding a lot or because you're not riding enough. The replacement batteries aren't cheap and frankly it does add quite a bit your nuclear bill whenever you do charge them.

There's also the question of [i]whyi]. Why let an electric motor drive you when you can just pedal yourself? That's not only free but you also earn good exercise. If your environment or the length of your commute demands some assistance, just get a cheap 49cc motor kit and throw it on a junker hardtail mountain bike. If those are illegal where you live, kill the people who made that law so.

>>70412
This is total nonsense. Battery degradation curves are not secret. You lose some of your total capacity with time but it's almost negligible. You can charge it hundreds of times and you will still be more than 90%. 90% of 50 is 45, not 25. Plus you can pedal with your legs if you want extra range, in fact that's kind of the point, to get some exercise while not killing yourself and having some fun.

You suggest pedaling yourself which makes no sense if your complaint is that the ebikes battery range will not be enough. Which is it, the bike doesn't provide enough help or it provides too much? Whatever your reason for objecting to ebikes is, it's not the ones you are stating in your post.

>>70413
>Battery degradation curves are not secret
The fact that Chinese lie about their manufacturing quality is not a secret.
>You lose some of your total capacity with time but it's almost negligible
No it's not. The natural loss with time and the inconsistent "safe" charging of several dozen Lithium cells with the cheap BMSs present in ebikes will quickly accumulate in to a very tangible decline in capacity.
>You can charge it hundreds of times and you will still be more than 90%
No I can't.
>Plus you can pedal with your legs if you want extra range, in fact that's kind of the point, to get some exercise while not killing yourself and having some fun.
The question is "are ebikes worth it" and considering the ones that actually function start at around $900USD, the added convenience of some battery assistance doesn't outweigh the negatives present in all ebikes. Exercise could be had for way less, distance could be achieved with way less, and fun could be achieved with way less. Longevity and versatility also cost way less when buying a regular bike.
>You suggest pedaling yourself which makes no sense if your complaint is that the ebikes battery range will not be enough
People who are interested in ebikes are usually the kind of people who don't cycle at all. It's safe to assume >>70411 is looking for an analogue to a car, and not to make the exercise and fun of his current biking hobby a little less physically rewarding.
>Whatever your reason for objecting to ebikes is, it's not the ones you are stating in your post.
You're right! I also object to them because they're for fags who think they own the road, the bike lane, and the sidewalk all at once. They're a great way for dealerships and people to send lots of money outside of the country in exchange for a poorly built bike frame with shoddy batteries glued on. After the display PCB gets wet, the BMS refuses to charge the batteries, and the aluminium frake cracks, the e-bike becomes e-waste which we all have to pay for.

>>70414
congratulations on being both racist and delusional.