/hob/ - Hobbies

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!

>>71117
I like derpy. She is cute

The movie would've been solid good if they had given the Storm king and Tempest Shadow an epic fight at the end, with the Mane 6 teaming up with the latter.
Sure, they would've just copied the fight with Lord Tirek at the end of S4 on steroids, but Storm King resembled Tirek anyway, so they may as well have gone all out like they did with the fluid animation and tie-in Sia song..

>>68295
reading is such a Chad hobby

>>71176
RAW's works are based on pseudoscience and should be treated as fiction. They're not something to rely on for understanding reality any more than tarot cards or astrology.

>>71176
I see. That looks interesting. I won't can read that soon because I have so many pending readings.

I never read something like that anyway, so I'll put it on my list.

>>71179
>RAW's works are based on pseudoscience and should be treated as fiction.
Back in time i have the same opinion (i kinda atheist too serious rational), i know he uses a lot of hard fucking maybe quack joking jargon related to techno psycho babble, but when you start to do the exercises and read the books you gonna start to have the experiences. There's another book similar to Prometheus rising relates to altered states of mind and psychonautics.
>They're not something to rely on for understanding reality any more than tarot cards or astrology.
It not a religion or definition of reality, it for having fun experiences and turn more agnostic or have doubts of wathever is your firm too right reality tunnel, even if you are a too rational scientific mind like, christian born, buddhist, or a Atheist or a Thelemite smoking weed.
That's the whole purpose of the books, not adoctrination of beliefs or maps or system, but to see and gain new ways to think against the dogmatic or traditional way.
I gained new skills and a lot of funny trippy experiences with books like these, and back in time i was too much material rational mindlike. Now i more agnostic but still grounded against quacks and sectarian assholes of beliefs.
Take the psychonautic approach to experimentation and you gonna get it.
>Tarot and etc
These are just symbols to me, nothing more, wathever emotion or hypnosis belief you gain if is true, random or absolute true to you today or maybe some day or everyday if you want is your belief of the day.
That's the way to think in raw semantics.

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>>71176
>Books like these
If you want another book related to Psychonautics and funny experiences without drugs like RAW books, go read
>Stoned Free / Free Rides: How to Get High Without Drugs by Douglas Rushkoff and Patrick Wells
This book teach you a lot of techniques, maybe it can be kinda old book with a lot of pseudoscience woo-woo beliefs kinda new ager minded but the techniques still work and there's no need to take a dogmatic belief of the books (i still to rational and i know that a lot of the techniques work based in mind-body-suggestionability relationship and not a woo-woo occult force, the book is in a way like this with more focus in experimentation)
>Also
Be warned that maybe some techniques are dangerous for your health but you can get how to manage that with a little investigation of these topics in modern internet.

>>70652
I was never good at skateboarding (I couldn't even pop an ollie). Kids today would be better off doing truly fun activities like Pokemon and Yugioh than "skateboarding" (which is, really, a crime)

>>71149
>I was never good at skateboarding (I couldn't even pop an ollie).
Me too. A friend lent me his skateboard once. I had never used one before, and he explained to me how to do an ollie, so I practiced and never could do one, I even broke his skateboard while I was trying lol

What shoes do you guys use to skateboard?

>>71163
Anything but skateboard shoes, because I'm not a conformist

>>71164
They look great anyway

Neet ,Hiki content attractant the wrong types of individuals. Who seek to target & torture you for a preconceived idea you have it easier than them. It’s always from the mindset if I must suffer you must but if the shoe is on the other food they would find it comical. Good neet channels exist they are just not labelled as neet channels to fly under the radar

>>71170
It's been emerging that a lot of militant NEETs are only NEET because they have such a shit personality and can't socialize in a manner that would allow anyone else to enjoy their company. Forget holding down jobs, these people can't hold down even basic online friendships without their neuroticism taking the front seat. A lot of their desire to form NEET groups comes from them believing themselves to be superior for having the aristocratic advantage of living without a job, but this superiority complex then gets applied to members of their own group until they divide what should have been a unified sect in to a set fragmented castes based on the concept of who is and is not a "true NEET" and such. Then it gets worse when there are platoons of people online who fetishize sadness and make being a depressed outcast their entire personality, who will enter NEET groups just to bring others down. Crabs in a bucket.

Seek out friendships based on a shared interest; not on a shared economic status. Despite what some paranoid jerks who had a bad experience in school will tell you, "normal" people are typically receptive to engaging in cultural and subcultural discussion with "non-normals", but "non-normals" who seek out communication explicitly with other "non-normals" will always be on edge to make sure the people they're engaging with remain in a state of not just non-normal, but subnormal to themselves.

>>71171
>Seek out friendships based on a shared interest; not on a shared economic status.
Those amount to the same thing much of the time. There was a British prime minister who would befriend anyone who was as passionate about Shakespeare as him. How many poorfags do you think know Shakespeare or any literary corpus like that?

Your suggestion is not realistic. When you are severely mentally ill, usually your only option for friends is other mentally ill people.

>>71171
>Seek out friendships based on a shared interest; not on a shared economic status. Despite what some paranoid jerks who had a bad experience in school will tell you, "normal" people are typically receptive to engaging in cultural and subcultural discussion with "non-normals", but "non-normals" who seek out communication explicitly with other "non-normals" will always be on edge to make sure the people they're engaging with remain in a state of not just non-normal, but subnormal to themselves.
Yes

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>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.

>>71113
AIs a r e great for drunk prompting.

>>70605
But this is not a functional society

bicycles are O9Apilled

>>71111
no, but it's not my job to fix this

>>71136
>no, but it's not my job to fix this
Too many people harboring that attitude is exactly why we're currently in a situation of sorts

>>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

I'm slowly becoming a ST fan. I watched all episodes of TNG which I talked about it here, then watched all the TOS ones and the movies. I forgot I was posting about it here but yeah, TOS is pretty good too for the most part. I even liked Spock's brain. Gave up on SNW after the first season, now I just watch people on yt shitting on it every single episode. Apparently it's a mess, glad I fired it early. Watched a couple of Starfleet Academy and it was a joke, fired after just a couple of episodes.

I tried DS9 but didn't really care for it. It's not a bad show, just something I don't feel like watching it for now. Instead I went straight to Voyager and I'm enjoying it.

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>>71126
I'm obsessed with Digital-ism being EVIL.
Yes, I know im on a forum rn; but its a means to an end…Eg; tomorrow I will buy a Dumbphone and seal away my old smartphone in a wooden box

yeah! i think this is very cool, there is for example a minidisc wiki that explains how to get into minidisc technology today. i wont participate in any buzzwords though. it is just older technology to me.

My backup PC from 2016 is the most vintage thing I have

>>71119
Antique technology is a cool thing to be interested in if you just enjoy playing with it and studying how it works
I think "replacing digital tech" with it sounds crank-ish. There are legitimate reasons to want to restrict or avoid certain technologies, but believing there's something inherently wrong with bits is a weird magical idea. The functions and impacts of the device are what matter

>>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.

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.