/hob/ - Hobbies

Abigail

It's a pretty unserious horror film involving a vampire.
Was a fun viewing experience though some of the acting was poor and the writing was mid at best. Still, I enjoyed my time watching it. I think if you liked M3GAN you would probably like this movie too.

I give it a 3 out of 5.

I recently watched the latest 'The Monkey' remake. It was silly and ridiculous but I also found it quite fun. The humor was dry and dark and it was just an absurd little movie that didn't take itself very seriously.
4/5

Just saw bestsellers with Caine and Plaza.
Above average chick flick..

Recently rewatched some stuff and ended up watching some old ones that I hadn't seen yet
>No Country for Old Men (rewatch, great)
>Blade Runner 2049 (rewatch, good visuals only)
>28 Days Later (sucks)
>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (not my type of thing)
>Fargo (great)
>Matrix (surprisingly good, thought it was just a meme)
>Let the Right one In (on recommendation, is okay, vampire succubus is cute)
>Requiem for a Dream (I can't feel sorry for drug addicts, might rewatch it at some point idk)
>The Big Lebowski (rewatch, much better than I remembered)
>The Shining (good, I just don't like horror)
>Drive (rewatch, mediocre)

Well, with the death of Jim Lovell, it got me to thinking about the film Apollo 13. As time marches on, I gotta say, each passing year I love this film more.
I think this movie is the most stereotypical male movie ever made. Emotion and bullshit relationshit drama is RARELY the focal point of the movie. It's always a standoff one-off scene of his wife being sad for two seconds before getting back to another "WE SOLVE PROBLEM NOW" scene. In fact, those scenes are so short and so downplayed that they almost feel like a parody of those films from the 50s that would hammily shove them into the movie to say they had romance for the trailer. The only times I can think of where emotions actually happen with the main characters, it's immediately shut down. E.g., when they start blaming each other for the accident and displaying anger and Jim says, "NO ANGER NOW, WE SOLVE PROBLEM FIRST"
It's also a REALLY repetitive and simplistic act structure:
Act
Scene 1
THERE PROBLEM.
Scene 2
BRAINSTORM PROBLEM.
Scene 3
I DON'T KNOW IF SOLVE PROBL–WE SOLVE PROBLEM.
Scene 4
IMPLEMENT SOLUTION TO PROBLEM–WILL IT WOR–IT WORKED. NEED TO FOCUS ON NEXT PROBLEM.
And it's just that Act repeated over and over and OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN HOLY FUCK I DON'T CARE THAT IT'S REPETITIVE I WISH THAT ACT STRUCTURE WOULD'VE KEPT GOING EVEN MORE! Given the real Apollo 13 though, it could've, because there were actually MORE problems they solved irl and they had to tone it DOWN for the fucking movie!
I also love how self-directed everyone is. For example, Gene Krantz has that general meeting where he gives that Captain Jelicho speech trope of "I want men running every simulator, we need hands on every nut and bolt, I need people running double shift bla bla bla!" EVERY other time that speech trope is done, the leader character ASSIGNS tasks to people. This is the only piece of media where he's just giving the motivating speech, and in fact MID SPEECH you see actors moving around and leaving the room WITHOUT having tasks assigned to them. Like the moment he says, "Let's get simulators running the power-up procedure," you see a couple guys self-directed leave the room with no further questions. There's just this MASSIVE amount of non-verbal communication.
No toxicity.
No relationshit crap.
Just solve problems.
The movie is a form of male wish fulfillment.

Some shots I took in the past.

>>63915
why the hell can't I download it, or anything else from github? I get NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID

I can already do that with my imagination. You can see images in your mind, right wizzie?

I found a board in an alt chan dedicated to the same idea. They are obbsesed with emmy the robot. Some of them want tesla to create something similar. The should know Elon Musk is a cia agent and a nsa asset. That guy would be nothing without subventions.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/reports-teslas-prototype-optimus-robots-were-controlled-by-humans/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/

i will not be controlled by sex

>>65777
NOPE

t. has afantasia

>>68756
three words

Ozzy and Drix was a *dope* cartoon


WBs cartoons in general are cool

"Private SNAFU" was ebin even in XXI century

>>69574
sorry t_t


I wanted to post this


SOYUZMULTFILM


"France Animation"

Snoopy Webseries (2018–2019)
Snoopy in Space (2019–2021)
The Snoopy Show (2021–2023)
Camp Snoopy (2024-2034)
Snoopy Gives Me A Rusty Trombone (2034-2469)

I finally know why I can never be a professional cartoonist, like my heroes, Mike Judge or Bill Amend.

unlike both of them, I'm not a Physics Major ;_;..

>>69661
Wow that's smart. And for d6 numbers you could just use a base 6 number system.

>>69668
This is the first genuine complement I've received in a long time, and I think the first complement I've come across on a chan, ever. Thanks.
Sage because this post is sappy.

>>69661
I've put some thought in trying to make the system as bare bones as absolutely possible and this is what I have so far. Each successive iteration I've been stripping out more and more until this is what I'm left with so far. I still don't know if the categories quite make sense/work in my playtesting so far, even though I can force them to work…
My main issue atm are the action/theme oracles. In practice, I find I do need them to be that small so that the whole system "fits in human memory" without too much effort for a new player. By making them "multiplicative" I can capitalize on the exponential compression to really expand their power, e.g., you "roll" 3 times to get a word for each category, and the word combination defines the theme/noun or action/verb. This allows me to "fit" a lot more words into the same space. However, I find the theme/action oracle to still be really abstract to work with in playtesting so far. It's hard to bullshit up a MBTI/Compass system to define nouns/verbs.
The fate oracle I think works well when you play with the principle of "If you aren't willing to accept 3:7 or 7:3 odds, then don't bother with the fate oracle and just have it happen in the game."
Idk, I'm going to do a bit more playtesting to see if I can even out the action/theme oracle kinks.
I've got a more complete writeup I'm working on w/examples/etc., but I wanted to make sure I could at least get it not only on a single page, but on a single page with plenty of white space and DEAD simple (it's got to be done all in your head!).
Again, I don't know if I'll be arsed to finish up the full writeup, but whatever. I find the full writeup interesting as it not only explains all the design choices so far, but also explains what I've noticed in some other playtesting, which is that the system seems to have far more applications than just games.

>>69674
Draft v.1

>>69679
Been playtesting some more, and the main issue I've come across is using the theme oracle. There are the specific words I choose in the theme oracle are giving me..bad vibes.
It's also not just that I can "represent" as many things as possible with as few words as possible, but I have to make the weightings of those representations be things more likely to carry a story. For example, one time I was playtesting and hit "ethereal" like three times in a row and was like, "O.k., come on, I don't want to make a @#$!ing pantheon right now!"
I think I can fix it by choosing the word categorizations more carefully, and being more willing to completely avoid certain categories, but…I'm not an ontologist.
…
I just had a thought. If I incorporated toki pona's ontology, I think that might help. Also, if I gave the player choice at each vertex of the triangles between a word or it antonym, that might help too?

>>69230
>stop fucking
Never even started

>>69230
planning to live forever, are you?

fuck everyone here saying you shouldn't touch tobacco at all, been smoking for over 10 years and no health issues, been smoking pipes and cigars at least 3 times a week no health issues. cigarettes every now and then. all doctor exams came back normal no issues. enjoying a good tobacco ain't gonna fuck you, unless you're already fucked from other shit.

>>69502
Poland isn't part of the Eurozone, it still uses PLN.

>Do you have a driver's licence?
Yes. Car, motorcycle, and boat.

>If so, how did you managed to obtain it?
Car was government gibs. It's expensive, but you can save up over a year.
Boat licenses are cheap, exam is a joke.
Motorcycle was paid for by wageslaving.

I passed all my exams on the first try, but that's probably because I have tens of thousands of kilometres done on a bicycle, so I was used to operating within traffic.

I hate driving a car, you're always stuck in traffic and fun cars are expensive. Motorcycles I love driving, they are freeing, and you can get a very very fun motorcycle for just a few thousand euros.

caught the bus everywhere for eons before i finally got my license age 29. i think i'm a pretty good driver, i like running boomers off the road and blasting trance music when i speed around breaking all road laws
could not get the hang of driving when i was a teenager, then i tried when i was 25 but they actually made it so you had to be vaccinated to sit the driving test (not even kidding), which put me off and delayed me starting for 4 more years.

>>69364
it sucks major penis that society is set up around cars, but it just is. also all that stuff (mirrors) becomes second nature after you have driven for like 500 hours.

>>68029
I used to really hate cars and be all pro public transit/etc. and be all on that "It's terrible how car-centric our society is" kick.
But I just got more and more sick of having to constantly keep my guard up while using mass transit. There are a lot of other reasons everyone else mentioned already, but the biggest motivator for me to drive was just so that I don't feel like I'm on the verge of getting mugged or robbed on a daily basis.

>>68029
I drive all over now, i'm in florida and there is nothing walkable here. had to drive since i was 16 for work. ever since though when i worked overnight or daytime i after work I always enjoyed just driving around blasting music and smoking. stopping for coffee at a random gas station and keep on driving until i knew i was just about to fall asleep and just make it barely home.

Fuck my subhuman low iq retarded life. I'll never know how to parallel park in one go. I'll never learn reverse parking. I'll never not be stressed out of my mind just driving the street. I'm a subhuman neurologically challenged retardloser bitch.

>>69089
>>69091
>>69096
that's irrelevant to the discussion we were having because we were talking about time for schopenahauer who, being a transcendental idealist, sees it as being one of the forms of the mind and not of things in themselves.

>>69133
>No. You can have an a priori representation of space alone in geometry, for example.
oh yeah, that's a subtlety i wasn't considering when i asked. i had in mind empirical representation and not pure intuition. still, i think that's a strange chart to convey the basics of his system.

I think the whole backlash over AI is really just a clash of dualist vs materialist view of consciousness under the hood. I was thinking about why so many people are against AI. It doesn't make sense why even people whose jobs is safe from AI would still hate it so I hypothesize that they are offended because it challenged their worldview. They seethe because they subconsciously see it as a threat to their non-physical view of consciousness. Even the sub-100 iq working man who doesn't know anything about philosophy or humanities have a certain way of understanding the world. They may not be able to put it to words or even are aware of it, but the majority of the common folk are dualist and see the mind/soul and physical world as separate. Machines can do what the physical body do. They too can relent computers doing calculations. Most people are hates doing math anyway. The real realm of humanity is in our emotions, love, virtue, and the most straightforward of way of expressing these is through art and communication between each other. AI showing signs of simulating both art and verbal composition is an attack on this view. That's why they are so angry about AI and keep harping about soulessness while the people who support AI are materialists and they never care or believe in soul in the first place. AI is just a placeholder for human identity. It's like having simple-minded religious parents whose argument for god's existence is that the bible says so and then you share with them some atheistic argument you see on the internet. Of course they'll lash out.

Extremely condensed summary I made of Schopenhauer's World as Will and Representation.

>>69493
Yesterday, I was reading an article that forwards this answer:
>The philosophy is thus established as an art of existence to learn, precisely, how to live.
This makes me think that everybody can do philosophy because it is a way to face our everyday issues.
>if you're a brainlet you need everything be told by others
See above, I said "do philosophy", not "learn philosophy". I did this because I think the value of philosophy is not in what we are thaught, but in how we reflect.
The value is in the processing we do that then creates a change in how we face life. Note, that, if you take it this way, it doesn't really matter if you agree with the big shots like Plato or some Harvard PHd.
The same article then continues:
>It is, again following Hadot, a way of existence characterized by three fundamental aspects: spiritual peace (ataraxia), inner freedom (autarkeia), and cosmic consciousness (megalopsuchia) or the awareness of belonging to the entire human community.
(translated by chatgpt btw)

>>69634
Updated version. I'd happily answer your questions about it.

Hecking bumperino for trying to learn about how to cook, or at least I started to try appreciate food more

>>69546
if you make something don't forget to show it us wizzie 👍

I will share my personal milestones here.

(I say milestones, but this doesn't mean the list is in a chronological order. I ordered it in a way I felt it would make sense. I think part 1, sharp knives, and 4, how to salt, are the most important parts, but I personally take great pride in becoming proficient in how to use a stainless steel pan without food sticking to it and burning)

1. Sharp Knives will make cooking 10 times more enjoyable, and the result is much better too, because you will not squeeze/damage the food. Put your knife on a fresh tomato and pull the knife without ANY pressure. If it doesn't cut the tomato, your knife is dull.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtCx7_hM8sc

2. Get a wooden board. Don't get bamboo. It has lots of glue in it, and I heard the surface is a bit too hard and will ruin blades. Don't get a small one, otherwise you have to put things in different bowls constantly. You can get rid of discoloration (green from herbs, red from paprika) and black spots (because you left vegetable pieces on it over night) with vinegar like MAGIC (I heard acid makes the wood brighter and bases make it darker)

3. If you learn to master stainless steel, you don't have to put up with any weird stuff they put on pans nowadays (If done right, a 'sunny side up' egg will float around in the stainless steel pan like if its ice skating, and if preferred can even stay totally white on the bottom side)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3laDpr4kvw
https://old.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/djprg3/how_to_cook_with_stainless_steel/

4. buy natural salts without funny stuff in it, and learn how to season with it. salt early, so that the salt gets into the food while it cooks, when it's done, you can salt it to taste again. Don't be scared of salt, salt is magic, salt is life. You will learn to taste it if there is not enough salt in it. And you absolutely will taste it if there is too much salt in iPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I never cook. I only eat out. Like the Ancient Romans. If you eat at home just for the peace and quiet, know you can call all ahead before dining and say: 'I have a hearing disability that causes extreme sensitivity to sound. Could you please turn off the music during my visit?' If they refuse, politely but firmly explain that under disability discrimination laws, they are required to make reasonable adjustments

>>69636
>politely but firmly explain that under disability discrimination laws, they are required to make reasonable adjustments
Where on Earth? Los Angeles? No business will fall for this lie. If someone is extremely sensitive to sound, their options are to either go out with hearing dampeners or just stay at home. Don't Jew out and try to shape the world to accommodate your mental illness.

I do the opposite. I buy old porn DVDs for a guy who upscales them and puts them on Empornium at higher quality than they were available previously.

>>69522
I first started by downloading dubs that i watched as a kid since it was the version i was accustomed, then i started watching new stuff with subs in my language until i got tired of being a second class citizen (slower releases, worse quality, shitty servers) so i bit the bullet and switched to en subs and started learning jp. Most series i can understand by ear nowadays

>>69567
When i started it was 480p, nowadays i download 720p since 1080 is just upscaled. I bought a box of those white envelopes for cd/dvds and those cardboard boxes that fit like a 100 of those. I just put the name of the anime and the episode count if it applies, nothing fancy

ooooof!


I still have some DVDRW machines.

I think i should burn some stuff. TY for reminder

>>69571
the nice thing is that for me a normal 4.7 dvd has the right size for either 2x12 or 1x24 episodes anime in h.265, so a normal season (which has around of 25-35 series i end up watching) fits comfortably in 15-20 dvds.

the only downside is the organizing. it's an eternal fight between putting 2 thematically close series that came in the same season in the same disk for then to find out that 2 seasons later the second season came out and now you have them separated.

Sometimes i keep series in my hdd for years because i'm sure a new season is gonna come out sooner or later but it ends up dead, like log horizon, and stuff that has no reason getting a second season comes out of nowhere, like the vending machine one.