/hob/ - Hobbies

to me astrology is all about vibes and moods, sometimes a transit will happen and on that exact date or year something big will happen, like the Saturn Neptune conjunction in Capricorn in 1989 coinciding with the fall of the berlin wall and end of the soviet union. sometimes it takes years for the mood to shift, like Neptune in Pisces happening in 2011, leading to the whole world slowly taking on a victim mentality with the rise of wokeness.

Personally im also into what is called mundane astrology, i find the other astrologys boring for the most part. im more interested in cultural, political, social shifts.

By the way, 2026 is a big mondo year in mundane astrology, all the outer planets shift. Pluto in Aquarius, Neptune into Aries, Uranus into Gemini, Saturn into Aries. having all those planets shifting in the same year is unprecedented, there is going to be a major vibe shift this year

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

>>64302

Wear covid-era maaaaask
and scarf

normies'll assume you have

a) common cold
b) astardy edginess
c) o v i d

>>64305
thanks for your input, really

>>64308

huh… maybe, someday…
thanks for the idea.

>>64343
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>>64286
I like the fall. Summer is way too hot and makes normies run around and party outside. In the fall when it gets colder they already start to stay inside more. So I can take my time walking along the same path as always and admire the color of the changing leaves and wonder how many times I will walk this path before this time of my life comes to a close as well. Perhaps I will miss these mundane scenes one day. Perhaps I will forget them entirely. But for now I am comfy and enjoying the sights.

>>70010
Good call.
I think I should go for a walk in the park too.
Regards, >>70007

>>64294
But what about posting park lains?

>>47407
So, my friend told me yesterday his stomach rejects black tea, green tea is fine though.

Does anyone here both avoid black tea and enjoy green tea? Because I have no understanding of green tea; same for white tea/golden tea/obscure types of tea leaf preparation

>>70360
Dead site

I'm into Jin Jun Mei lately. Chinese black tea with a deep, mild honey-like taste, I can't believe the garish black teas drunk in the west are made of the same plant.

>>70362
Cool, thanks!


Meanwhile: i've been drinking some funny teas last winter: "Polar lights" and "1001 nights" were remarkable, "Nut Tart" - almost as remarkable as the two above.

I dunno where to get them *in a bag* and not in funny ½oz jars though. Can I trust online shopping here?

>>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?

Go to church(or what's your temple is), phone on Do Not Disturb mode

try praying, end up daydreaming powerfully
??????


notes

profit

>>70018
3.5

make sure you have a visualizer

watch the pattern closely

>>70017
how would including them in a font help if you don't have a key for them?

Just type them in latex in something that can process it. But if you actually want to learn math you will have to do it by hand, if the computer does it for you nothing will stick, period.

>>70353



interesting… thanks

>>70353


As for the first quarter of XXI century, online search is "in", so it would be obvious for a math grad student to use Google to look up what this or that math symbol normally represents in basic first semester of your average comm-coll calculus.

Problem is, mathematical symbols aren't represented properly in Unicode, so its a whole new can of worms to complete a quest to grasp the concept what NAMES this or that symbol may have, given many symbols look one like another sometimes.


I dunno, you can spam vaporwave font in unicode, you can zalgo-ify words like "HE COMES" to make said words creepy, you can spam 🙂s☹m🙂i🙂l🙂🙂e🙂y☹s🙂 yet somehow… no math symbols in Unicode??? Ugh.

>>70353
online symbols


alt+NNNNN (NNNNumber for an unique symbol)


I swear I should have studied something non-mathy to avoid dealing with this weirdness.

>>69432
I just started this one, it's far from complete.

>>69433
ok good luck🍀

>>69433
I would like to post about my own game development once i have something good to show. Would that be okay?

>>69282
should share source code. other wise assume it is malware

>>70316
>Give me full access to your programming work for free or I will consider it to be evil software and advocate against anyone downloading it

Sorry GNUtard, even if you had the code and managed to compile it through a decent C# compiler running on Wine, your castrated Thinkpad T240 wouldn't be able to this game.

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More than five tons back there. Eighteen centuries back there. The blast had broken open the crypts, for he noticed a few bones caught between the rocks. He groped with his free hand, encountered something smooth, and finally worked it free.

The living meet the dead in the cycle of life. I think this novel is a long way of saying there's nothing new under the sun. It's the pessimistic side of Christianity I suppose.

We're reading A Canticle for Leibowitz.
You can find several editions available to borrow here:
https://archive.org/search?query=A+Canticle+for+Leibowitz&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22

I’ll be using this one, simply because I like the formatting better:
https://archive.org/details/canticleforleibo0000unse_d5n4/mode/2up

>>70339
Good to see you're back. Just in time for the shortest final chapter I've ever seen in a novel.

>>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

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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.

>>69666
quite a number, huh?

>>60826
Junkie fucks just ruin everything they touch. The thought of a beautiful briar being ruined by one of these idiots pisses me off.

Pipe tobacco is good for putting in cigarette tubes and papers, good for packing your own cigarettes.
I prefer the brands without anything toxic.
Love to be off of arsenic and cyanide, because of pipe tobacco.
Arsenic and cyanide actually fucking killed me.
Prepacked cigarettes aren't worth it; they're drenched in death, poison, severe retardation. And severe general impairments and severe general disabilities.

Pipe tobacco smells great, because it's non-toxic.
Tastes better, too.

I get Gambler brand tobacco.
Inexpensive, cheapest on the store market.

>>60825
Smoked many a pipe. Try a pipe with a wider bowl. You can create more smoke. You'll feel like a dragon.

>>70307
Lum being a smoker, ай-яй-яй

looks classy tho

>>69451
I like reading news 1 hour/day

I used to watch netcams a few years back since I couldn't afford to travel. The exciting part was finding snow on the ground or people watching.

>>70133
whats the most memorable thing you saw?

>>70134
Nothing worthy of shock videos online or anything, but more of a life/outlook observation: strip back the systems of control - government, religion, wealth (and wealth disparity). What's left are people just trying to get through their day. They probably won't be anything great, and after a generation or two most will be forgotten. I'm cool with that and aspire to non-greatness myself.

>>69451
can you share the link to watch that place?
I want to watch places up close but the ones I found weren't

>>69514
Depends on your goals and proclivities.

Like I workout to make myself better at my hobbies and make my work feel easier.
I don't need to be the biggest most strongest in the whole world for it to be worth my time.

>>51836
>Does anyone also have tips on how to feel full and not feel the need to eat food?
>drink lots of water
>compensate lack of carbs with fiber and lean(ish) protein
>consume only good fat, no vegetable oil at all
>take most of the carbs of your day in the pre-workout meal (if a full meal, eat 2 hours before training), so you feel energized in your training session and to use the consumed energy effectively
>cut off stupid "food" like candy and soda, use your sugars strategically

A useful diet tidbit. If you're a food enthusiast, transform your meal into a delish by using different seasoning and adapting existent recipes to your goals. For example, I make yakisoba with extra meat and vegetables and less noodles.
A huge beef or chicken thigh with great seasoning and some BBQ sauce (here's your strategic sugar) as a full meal, for instance. If you think the sodium is too much, chug down your water. Impossible to feel empty. And an idea for a snack:
>ground lean meat (80%)
>oat powder (20%)
Make meatballs with those ingredients, go light on the seasoning and store them in the freezer. Whenever you crave for crap food, shove some of these bad boys in an air fryer and you're good to go.

>>51836
I don't deadlift because I am too tall and have slipped discs in my back. Wish I could tho.

I wont be reading all the replies but I am also addicted to eating and how I go about not eating all day is drinking a lot of water and tea. Makes me feel full and drinking a cup of tea almost gives me the same feeling as snacking. And if you really want something to eat just eat rice cakes, celery and stuff like that

>>51836

>Right now I'm 80 lbs overweight and need to stop eating so much food. The problem is I'm addicted to food and since I'm a 28 year old virgin, it's not like I have much else to do

>it's not like I have much else to do

>it's not like I have much else to do


Random, VERY RANDOM piece of advice from a 30-something fatty who gets his food from a bakery/from his mum



If you're like me - as in not designed for high education - you really, REALLY ought to try to upgrade yourself to a cook, who *professes* at spending his time to process fine stock into fine food.

I mean, a proper *trades school* cook - if you are a NEET - would give a job that allows you both a earn $$ salary (not $ poor, not $$$ rich, but have some room for fun) AND you'll probably get a chance to recycle undemanded food as your extra calorie supply, kekw.



Middle ground: learn *some* tricks from "Well Cultured Anonymous" free e-book
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I been doing zercher deadlift (for the warrior larp ngl)

2 times per week firts day 3x10 and second 5x5, i wanna get 315 in a few months

(i feel fine in the lower back btw)