/hob/ - Hobbies

>>70656
Do you rate beers online? Do you think about homebrewing? Would you tour breweries?

>>70577
pff pff pff

but i would never ever ever ever hire one

I often dream of flight. I have big wings, like an archangel from Heroes of Might and Magic 3.
It feels so realistic. I feel wind on my face, humidity of clouds. Just soaring high and then resting a bit in high places just to continue on.
And then I wake up. No wings. Feel bad man.

I've mostly been dreaming about work

I had a nightmare that there were weird baby-head things in my house with spider legs and they were full of blood and would pop. Then I had a dream that my skin was slowly turning green, maybe even rotting but I didn't feel any pain. When I woke up from it I checked my arms to make sure it was not real.

I had a nightmare that I was stuck in a shitty apartment complex labyrinth and there was a naked obese man that would chase me down unless I specifically let him access all of my food. Whenever I asked him what kinds of food he would get angry and jab me with a fork/knife. I remember crying and resigning myself to falling asleep in the bathroom of my apartment while attempting to come up with a plan.

>>64191
DVD's use aluminum? I know the problem with writable CD's is that they actually have a dye coating, and when you are "burning" the CD you are really just chemically changing the dye. Then the problem is the dye is organic based and will decay regardless of how well you protect the CD, especially if you leave it in sunlight.

>>64208
Even magnetic tape is. You really can't fuck it up unless you put a neodymium magnet right on top of it. And if you are worried about heat you are more likely to boil water that bake the magnetic moment directions.

Invested in a lot of blurays and backups and storage only to realize I don't have anything worth caring about enough to ever bother backing up.
Honestly most stuff hoarded at random I'm probably better of losing.

What even are you guys saving?

>>70898
Biggest single one for me is copies of my Playstation/2 ISOs - because Sony can't be trusted and the hardware will wear and fade.

I can buy 10 512gb flash drives for 23 euro, think I'll do that instead

You sound very intelligent, a lot of people play a specific board game, like chess, as a hobby.
Designing board games itself is like on a higher level of reasoning.

>>70930
I don't know what suggested I am "very intelligent" here. Designing games (and by extension expecting people to abide by their rules) is mostly a matter of audacity, not intelligence. However I try to mitigate the audacity factor by designing games to be theoretically decisive. I wasn't the first to come up with this methodology, that would be John Nash strictly speaking, and then Mark Steere who brought the concept into vogue, creating the first finite mechanisms with his games Tanbo and Oust.

Finite mechanisms have become sort of a fixed idea for me and when I find a new one I like to see if I can shoehorn it into some sort of game. For instance, pic related is my chess variant Chiron. In this chess variant the trick is each piece doesn't just move forward, like many other games before, but rather there is an asymmetric movement pattern allowing retreats and this pattern fits into a <180 degree radius. The result is each piece is always advancing towards some corner of the board or is otherwise capturing. The pieces have some of this asymmetry ameliorated by having "capture only" movement which reflects the green "basic" movement (move or capture). And the symmetry is also improved by having lefthanded and righthanded versions of each asymmetric piece. Then there are some other shenanigans with the phoenix where it can exclusively capture on any cell behind it. The king must eventually pass the enemy phoenix and be captured.

So I happen to be somewhat intelligent but if you look at some games, there is no apparent sign of intelligence, just a lot of audacity.

>>70933
I guess I sufficiently doxxed myself, so I'll just post the rules

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/429155/chiron

>>70926
I also like to make games and rules for them since I was a kid too. card games are the one I prefer

>>70938
like a TCG? Or just ones with a standard French deck?

There are two books of dystopian fictions commonly assigned to school students in the English speaking world: 1984 and Brave New World. 1984 is Orwells take on rule through fear and intimidation. Brave New World is rule primarily through pleasure.

The future seems to be neither of these. In the current trajectory, totalitarianism and the removal of freedom will be achieved with literally nothing other than social pressure and the illusion of common opinion. Look at the way everyone copies the opinions and behaviour of others online. Almost no critical thinking.
All a government has to do is to create a million social media AI bots to all parrot the same behaviour and opinions and you can totally manipulate society. I suppose that is already happening. I think it will get worse.

>>70921
Brave new world isn't even about politics. It's a spiritual sci-fi take on finding meaning beyond the material in a world of abundance and pleasure. Aldous Huxley take on rapidly improving living standards of his time due to capitalist free market. Huxley was into the occult too I believe. People bring up Brave New World while saying "Wooo look at this evil government sedating people with pleasure to keep them ignorant." but the government in the book was never made out to be explicitly evil. They are just materialists and there is no hidden dark secret either. It only sucks if you believe too much material comfort is harmful but again, that's a spiritual and not a political issue.

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

>>69387
Sometimes vomiting out all my worries and neurotic thoughts on a page helps with acute feelings of anxiety or stress. But frankly I am too lazy to do this on a regular basis. Gratitude journalling has helped me notice small good moments in my daily life but that too requires discipline and I've fallen off. There's this quote that goes something like "How can I know what I think if I don't bring it to paper" and I guess there's truth to that, thoughts (with the exception of thought loops or rumination) are often quick-lived.

>>70868
>5$ diary/a 25$ moleskin
Yes, I noticed that many of those succubi use these expensive diaries

>>70868
>>70864
>>70873

succubi don't take journaling seriously. Real journaling is recommended by therapists, its been kept by many major historical figures, keeping one is mandatory for monks and religious people, who are often men. Lots and lots of writers, who are often male, keep multiple massive journals to record their ideas. Soilders keep journals to write about their experiences in battle. Priests keep journals to record their bible studies.

How is any of that feminine? Why would writing your insights be feminine?

But one thing I will say, have you noticed how succubi don't write anything personal or of value in their books? They spend so much money, I mean hundreds of dollars, yet fill it with crap? Absolutely nothing of substance. I think only that would be feminine. I've had the misfortune of encountering flip-throughs and they are some of the ugliest, most pointless crap I've ever seen.

Just buy a classic british journal, a fountain pen and go crazy. Don't think about it. That's what I do and I've come go enjoy it.

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.

>>70858

I can relate to this a lot. My writing is total garbage, and it would be a miracle in itself if someone cared to take a look at my short stories.

However, I can't write a book because I get so bored with my own texts. And I haven't taken any writing classes whatsoever.

>>62640
This is the most crab thing I've ever read lol.

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"vilified vista" in question), caving in on a calumny of the alumnus in luminous undertones, undermined, inebriated! Already interred, invertebrates verily vibrate to berate the very bearing of the sinister barristers and sisters, insisting on enunciating anodyne astronomies at such an end as this.

>>70931
its more or less nonsense, vaguely speaking of some sort of fictitious political upheaval. The point is to have the phonemes gradually transform and ebb and flow while giving enough of a "plot" that its not just a bunch of random words. Should I keep going? I've had this idea for like 2 decades now and never got past "in an interstice and internecine altercation". I am pretty happy with what I got here though. Also does anyone know of a work that does this?

>>68644
ah, I can see you are a man of [common sense] like me

>>67566
Dianna Troi was a mistake. Empaths were a mistake. I fucking hated every second that bitch was on the screen. Riker was also a shit character. Other than that it was quite good and enjoyable. I wish they would have done Star Trek Captain Worf. I always liked Worf. The stuff they did later in the series really fleshed out his character and I would have liked to see him as the lead. What we got after that was just disappointing. Janeway wasn't terrible, but just not very interesting as was the show itself. It was like TNG just watered down. Then Enterprise was just shit. I didn't get very far with that one. Couldn't force myself through it.

>>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

>>70899
looks cool but not enough lolis or loli tummy or just loli in general

>>70899
beautiful colors. can you draw a wizard, please?

>>68944
Neat

>>70911
beautiful, I saved it

here my web :D

https://nekokatkernel.neocities.org/

>>70907
>>70906
can't access none

im sorry if you cant access :C here is image of system

>>70909
ok, thanks