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 No.70652[Reply]

A slightly unusual hobby for a wizardly man, but I've always had an attraction to it.

What I like about it is the extremely large variety of tricks that can be learned. It's like the Path of Exile skill tree in the sense you can pick a direction and learn that way. You can build up your foundations, or you can go the straight and narrow all the way to learning your favorite trick. The large variety of tricks also mean there are a ton of easier ones to learn, and learning these tricks provides such a strong feeling of accomplishment.

Cruising is very nice too, I intent to get a bigger old school board with soft(?) wheels for nice and easy transport.

The art on skateboards is also quite nice, there's something for everyone. Also you can buy blanks and draw on it yourself. I think the level of creativity in all aspects of this hobby is so amazing.

All things skating related welcomed, I'll try my best to answer with great care to everyone.

Thank you for participating
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 No.71081

>>71066
I find it funny and I would collect them if I had the money to spare. Hard to justify when you can get good boards in my country for 10~30USD

>>71076
Martial arts only seems to improve very specific movements which I guess requires a fight in the first place. Maybe higher level techniques will grant similar benefits to skating, but skating day 1 is improving your fundamental balance which is such a great skill. My mother needs it, she is short and overweight and leans forward when she walks like an anime character, this leads to her falling over once a month or so. She gets seriously injured and I freak the fuck out on her for it. She doesn't learn. Sorry tangent.

>>71076
Goodness I'm so sorry to hear about that. Is there a particular reason people are so awful there? General culture issue, bad area of the country? Some skateparks in my country and listed as no go zones on google reviews with comments stating that youth gangs will harrass you etc.. Hard to catch a break in this modern world.

Wonderful I wish you the best and a healthy life, perhaps I should be more healthy.

Oh god yea life seems to have always been shit one way or another and many tactics have remained the same.

 No.71083

>>71081
>She gets seriously injured and I freak the fuck out on her for it. She doesn't learn. Sorry tangent.

you can teach her by holding both her hands while she tries to balance on the skateboard and pushes and rides. you just walk along holding her hands that way when she falls, she can either catch herself or you can make her land so slowly that there is no injury. i did this with my father.

another thing that i did also works: i threaded a rope through his belt loops so that i can walk behind him holding the rope, that way he can use his arms for balance while i hold him close so when he falls i can decelerate his fall by just pulling the rope backwards.

>Goodness I'm so sorry to hear about that. Is there a particular reason people are so awful there?

when you can do something that is difficult and impressive in public, people have a wide range of needy nonconsensual behaviors that they feel a compulsion to exhibit. they want to meet, they want to stare, they want to ask questions, they want to get to know you, they want to impress you back, they want to have sex, even gay sex, they want to create monetized internet content, sometimes as hidden camera content from in the bushes, they want to follow you home because they want to know where you live, they want, they want, they want.

>that youth gangs will harrass you etc.. Hard to catch a break in this modern world.

i have not encountered many youth gangs here, where i live the young people are drowned in artificial problems and are carefully kept depressed by the compulsory education system. young people who aren't camera-assholes usually don't mess with me, they are too busy recovering from being traumatized.

>Wonderful I wish you the best and a healthy life, perhaps I should be more healthy.

i did it over the course of ~8 years, lots of experimentation with what to eat and what else to keep this body in peak condition. i would try to live a certain way and then go back to my previous lifestyle for the most part and forget how much better i felt. i was missing a good way to deal with information in this overwhelming state of infinite information, which i have recently found.

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 No.71087

>>71083
Oh my mother is basically disabled, she could never ride a skateboard. If she falls she will likely break bones due to her weight and 25+ years of being on a medication that weakens her bones (long story).

Ah I see. The typical jealous normie. When I was a kid/teen I got the same treatment, they would run in my way, throw balls at me to try and make me fall. It's all a gimic to provoke me which gives them an excuse to attack me 5v1 or even get their parents involved. Fucking savages. I haven't experienced much of that now but laregly due to local parks being a lot more of a ghost town compared to 15~25 years ago. I'm sure in the main cities it would be worse.

Have you noticed how much more important it is to eat healthy now we are older? I'm only 29 and I feel like shit most of the time. Had some very painful issues that scared me but a better diet fixed those. Pain in abdomen was killing me. Still need to cut out all the beer and junk food :p very dumb of me to consume so much of it.

It's like school, school never ends. a lot of wizards spent most of their energy avoiding all of the bullies whether their were students, teachers, parents, random locals. I'm quite sharp on judging people with bad intentions, it does help they make it so damn obvious

 No.71100

>>71081
> I would collect them
How many of them do you have?

 No.71108

>>71087
Oh my mother is basically disabled, she could never ride a skateboard. If she falls she will likely break bones due to her weight and 25+ years of being on a medication that weakens her bones (long story).

my father bought one piece of exercise equipment used, an elyptical machine. he uses is every morning for 5-10 minutes until he sweats and it has ben a difference of night and day for him. the human body needs exercise regardless of age, find a way go get your mother to exercise if you want her to be around for a few more years, it's up to you!

>Have you noticed how much more important it is to eat healthy now we are older? I'm only 29 and I feel like shit most of the time. Had some very painful issues that scared me but a better diet fixed those. Pain in abdomen was killing me. Still need to cut out all the beer and junk food :p very dumb of me to consume so much of it.

yes! i was exactly your age when i finally realized. i wish i knew sooner. this was 10 years ago. when i was 29 i would gently dial down all the unhealthy stuff. and eat sandwiches that i put a boatload of cucumber, bellpepper and every other vegetable i could stand on. then when i hit 30 i switched to mostly eating fruit. you can tell by comparing me to the people my age who eat junk, i am a different species because of this.

>It's like school, school never ends. a lot of wizards spent most of their energy avoiding all of the bullies whether their were students, teachers, parents, random locals. I'm quite sharp on judging people with bad intentions, it does help they make it so damn obvious

you are well on your way to finding out how to survive as a prey animal. i just got better at anticipating where they are at what time, being ready to avoid them before they even made their first chess move. for example i can go anywhere around 9:00, at 16:00 i wouldn't go to the supermarket, supermarket is best at 7:30.


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 No.63254[Reply]

Any of you guys wargame? I've tried getting into old school ASL recently and am finding the pure infantry combat of early starter kits pretty underwhelming without the artillery and armor expansions
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 No.71086

>>71085
I think the physical war games depends on the certain rulesets and how seriously people take them. From what I've heard there's often a couple books and a judge involved in serious matches. Seems very confusing. I just like to collect and paint - though struggle to find motivation. I will encounter one hiccup building a model and mess it up slightly, which kills my enthusiasm to build more. Especially for the more expensive stuff. If one regular 10 piece soldier gives me grief, how will I build those 100~200 piece flagship models? It's very overwhelming

 No.71091

>>71086
>I will encounter one hiccup building a model and mess it up slightly, which kills my enthusiasm to build more.

when you mess something up, you can correct it through lore. when you paint one eye too low, that's an unfortunate accident in the cybernetic surgery for the occular augmentation one particular soldier had the misfortune of suffering from.

 No.71094

>>71091
Oh certainly but for some models I do want them built correctly. I have one warhammer unit with his should and top of the arm not connecting by like a 1/4 inch, it looks totally off but I intend to make it a gory mess of battle damage

 No.71103

>>71094
you could get one of these manual 3d printing pens like the youtuber '3D Sanago'. with that you could fill in missing material and do-over mistakes by adding a blob of plastic on them and then with a set of tiny files give it the right shape.

 No.71107

>>71103
Its even smaller stuff too, the book ttells me to make 85% of the model and I do, then it asks me to place a tiny piece in an awkward spot. Idk wtf thte retards are thinking when designing the instructions. too me 30 minsutes and a messy result to glue one dumb piece on


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 No.68295[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Book discussion. Tell us what you're reading.
Previous threads:
>>64932
>>60032
>>54504
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 No.71073

>>71056
I remember reading this book together with the Hagakure when I was a teenager and going through that classic samurai phase. I guess I was hoping for some life advice, but instead I got a pretty straightforward manual on swordsmanship. There's some good (but basic) advice on things like footwork, etc. more than there is advice on life in that book.
And don't even get me started on the Hagakure. I was hoping it was going to be the Japanese equivalent of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (although I cam to dislike that book too) and instead I got a bunch of nonsense about the extremely contrived social etiquette of 17th century Japan written by a bureaucrat LARPing as a samurai.

 No.71088

>>71073
Be careful what you read

 No.71102

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How the fuck do I read this? Should I use a companion reader, or should I she'll out the duckets for an eng lit degree?

 No.71105

>>71102
Imbue your soul with Sectarian Paddy rage and it will become clear

Also knowing stuff about the Odyssey helps

 No.71106

>>71102
it was quite a ride. i read it last year not knowing what to expect at all. i checked notes and resources online about half way through and had to re read entire chapters over and over again
being esl didnt help lol


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 No.68063[Reply]

I always played around with it in a very disengaged, uncommitted manner. Well, on September 2nd, just a few days ago, I decided to really learn Linux to the point I could truthfully add to my resume to help me find a position somewhere. For that reason, I picked Ubuntu, possibly the most popular, all-purpose Linux distribution out there. I began doing the edx's version of the Linux Foundation's Introduction to Linux course because of the bells and whistles they have there in terms of exercises and whatnot. Unfortunately, they peppered the whole course with unbelievably idiotic mini videos geared towards morons. Imagery of douchebags with designer haircuts typing away at a laptop with some coolcorp background and annoying music.

So I said fuck it, and instead I decided to read the Linux Bible. But then I found out there's an Ubuntu Linux Bible by the same author, and so that's what I'm reading now. Straight to the point, concise, has exercises, not as many as I would like, but I can come up with variations on my own. Today is the third day I'm following the book, and I intend to make a daily post, briefly talking about the stuff I've learned on that day.

The first day was pretty much just going through the fluff. What Linux is, history of Linux, Unix, GNU, what open source is, etc. That's the first 20 pages of the book's 718 pages.

The second day I read about the X Window System, desktop environments, GNOME desktop, Nautilus file manager, and ways to run Linux (live medium, permanent install, etc.). The exercises consist of messing around with the GUI pretty much, something you would naturally do in a fresh install of an OS. I also had to install Ubuntu because I was running Windows. I got lucky because Ubuntu 24.04.1 came with some broken packages for Nvidia drives, and that of course fucked my shit up, which was a very excellent opportunity to do some tinkering and learning. I got it to work, it only took me an hour or so. I read people saying this is the most broken Ubuntu update in years, which I take as a good sign for my timing. And then I broke Light Locker while changing to Xfce as my desktop environment.

Anyway, third day, today, I finally reach the meat of the book and begin messing around with the shell, trying different commands, pretty simple stuff, whoami, pwd, ls, cd, command syntax, hyphenated options for command's behavior, locating commands, and really, just getting comfortable to mess around in the termPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.71064

>>71057
I would like something like this, but I use my stuff outside often and only the ipad pro has a screen with 1000 nits SDR brightness in my price range (used 5th gen). The standard 300-500 nits is basically useless outside.

 No.71071

>>71064
>I would like something like this, but I use my stuff outside often and only the ipad pro has a screen with 1000 nits SDR brightness in my price range (used 5th gen). The standard 300-500 nits is basically useless outside.

yeah i think you'd be disappointed if you tried to use it in broad daylight/ sunshine. not using dark-theme helps but it is still a little disappointing and draws the user into the shadows.

because i have had it with this shit i am currently assembling a computer that uses an e-ink display as a monitor specifically for when it is very bright outside. i already have all the parts and just struggle with creating some kind of enclosure where everything can go inside.

other then that i really like the yoga and i don't care that the keyboard makes it bulky, i put it in a backpack anyways and it is light enough. it is a touchscreen tablet (even with drawing pen!) where you can get regular linux on, and not this stupid mobile ios/android babbies-first-computer modern consumer interface.

 No.71074

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Coolio, my old Linux thread got bumped. Welp, since you guys brought it up I'll update my rig situation. I still have the server running on Debian. It's hosting a few services like Jellyfin, Kavita, Navidrome, Radarr, and a couple of others. I'm using Homepage running in Docker as a dashboard for that stuff, it's pretty neat. It's like having a computer for your computer. As for my actual computer, I'm currently using Arch with Niri, a Wayland compositor. Niri is really damn good btw, for everything except gaming apparently, though I have never had a problem with that. I've been using it for a couple of months now and I'm keeping a KDE Plasma setup handy just in case.

Recently, I set up Pi-hole on my home server to handle local DNS and block network-wide ads. Overall, I've been trying to maintain a very lean system and watch the installed packages like a hawk. I'm thinking about trying Nix, but if I ever get serious about it, I'll try to follow a tutorial to set up Linux From Scratch on an old laptop. That should be fun.

 No.71077

interesting to see you followed a book, looking forward to reading the whole thread. when i started i tried to follow along a 7 hour tuorial video, i don't remember if i finished it all the way but i think i regret not bothering with a book. i wasn't into books when i started linux but now i am because i have seen so much internet video already.

if someone was asked me today on how to start with linux today, i'd say find/buy/borrow an old laptop, go to the library with it, leave all other tech at home, install a simple linux distribution on it while checking the books on linux that are in the library and just spend time looking at everything and clicking every button, look in every menu, do every exercise.

i started with manjaro, now i am on fedora, most likely i will go to debian in a few years because the frequent updates annoy me or break stuff for me. i took turns trying xfce, gnome and kde for long periods of time, ended up liking kde the most, i use it with widgets on my desktop that always display system_information. temperature, ssd read/write, network up/down, usage percentage of cpu/gpu/ram/swap.

 No.71078

I switched to it around 8 months ago and found AI specifically command line stuff like claude code made it much easier. If I ever wanted to know how to do something I could just ask or it could just do it for me if it wasn't dangerous. Really like customizing it it's very easy now to have a bunch of custom stuff


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 No.61466[Reply]

Are any wizards interested in astrology? I've recently got into it and become very passionate about it. It's definetely true, and i've also started to developing my own theories that i'm hopefully going to refine with time.
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 No.71016

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

 No.71017

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

 No.71020

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>>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.

 No.71021

>>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

 No.71023

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


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 No.41822[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

what language are you learning and what tools do you use to learn it?
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 No.70967

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

 No.70996

>>61746
Jaja

 No.70997

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

 No.71008

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

 No.71009

>>46336
What's the point of that?


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 No.69387[Reply]

What's everyone's opinion on keeping a journal? I've been keeping one for 3 months now and it's a nice pass time.
I can write done my worries and look back on all the things I've accomplished
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 No.70879

Go Buckminster Fuller and document every day of your life.

 No.70936

>>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.

 No.70976

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

 No.70978

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

 No.70981

>>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.


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 No.70914[Reply]

I get so depressed about the absolute state of my country and the state of the world politics generally that I prefer to detach and imagine myself observing history in action like an entomologist would observe an ant colony. Just taking an academic interest in what is happening and using historical patterns to guess about what will happen next.

This approach has led me to an interest in the study to futurology. I like to think about the future in terms of
Scientific and technological advancements
Political changes
Changes in culture/art/creativity

I write down a lot of my ideas and seal them. I hope to live to 2100 (106 years old) and then reopen them.
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 No.70923

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

 No.70924

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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.

 No.70939

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

 No.70972

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.

 No.70977

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.


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 No.65927[Reply]

Here we discuss and speak of dreams that we had or the kind of dream that we would want.
We don't discuss of lucid dreaming.
I wanted to make this kind of thread as i do control them in how they will work but once inside i let the dream go and work his own doing.
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 No.70731

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>>70577
pff pff pff

but i would never ever ever ever hire one

 No.70802

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.

 No.70804

I've mostly been dreaming about work

 No.70847

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.

 No.70943

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.


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 No.64175[Reply]

anyone do this?

i burn discs, title them and then put them back on the spindle, so they stay in good condition

external hdds/sdd don't last very long
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 No.70896

>>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.

 No.70897

>>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.

 No.70898

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?

 No.70941

>>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.

 No.70942

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


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