/hob/ - Hobbies

>>70773
>I watched the first race of this season and have had zero desire to watch any more.
If you don't find something stimulating you should stop watching it.

>>70791
Silverstone GP yesterday with it's high speed corners and straights immediately showed how bad the battery situation is. Hamilton slowed to a crawl and lost his position to Antonelli on the Sprint and the GP. Later, Max went into the wall from a rear wing issue which gave him massive understeer. Whatever difference the regulations changes made seems marginal to me.

I'd like to see the cars relying more on the engines than the ERS. Not just because they'd sound cooler. I feel that it would allow for cleaner racing & less back and forth positions due to ERS deployment. And I think most drivers would agree with this.

I don't know anything about f1 but

My neighbor was a driver and became a paraplegic

His son then was a driver and is now a paraplegic

They live together in a mansion

I've never spoken to them

>>70825
By driver you mean racing driver or regular driver?

Racing

>>70685
That's a respectable run. You can get a lot done in six months. Most online games don't last four sessions, let alone several months.

Man I tried solo games but I just can't do it. The wealth of bizarre shit that happens when five nerds get together to play these games just can't be matched by solo play. At least not for me. In many ways solo is the best way to play it because you don't depend on others. I really like that part. It's basically a video game. Pick up and put it down whenever you want. If only I could get into it.

Anyway, I already caved and found another group. We'll be playing through a module this time, about 20 sessions, so about the size of your campaign. Not enough time for me to start hating on rpgs which is good. I can't wait to delve into musty corridors and throw some dice. We start next week. I'll report back.

>>70686
I'm eager to hear your report.
If you don't like it, at least the module will end at some point.

Well I said I would report back so here I am. I had my first game with the new group. It was rather strange, as I'm not used to playing with newbies. My usual experience with gaming is with grognards, and the game very quickly gets into a rather smooth operation: go to the dungeon, kill the monsters, fetch the gold, bring it back for XP, rinse, and repeat. Roleplay is present but secondary, it's a game, not a narrative. The characters are tools for combat and exploration first, not people. It's just a different way of playing, is all.

Now, with the newbies coming into roleplaying after the Critical Role phenomenon, it's different. They all want to elevate their characters to some literary figure. I sat through a 10-minute argument between two players because they have PCs whose "personalities" clash. These players have pet characters that they intensely protect from all danger, to the point of being a detriment to the game itself. They don't want to go into the cave "because there might be something too dangerous inside." Well wtf man, that's the whole fucking point, is it not?

The DM is aware of the problem and was privately messaging me days before the session, telling me he was hoping that I would stir the other players to action. I have never had that happen to me before. Usually, DMs are control freaks who want to have complete control of the world and the players somewhat. This guy is apparently too afraid to be candid about the pet characters that are paralyzing his game and is trying to recruit me as his hatchet man.

Welp, I'm happy to inform you that I embraced the task. We saw some action and a character got killed, although it was an excruciating process that took several minutes of arguments. But before that, let me tell you about what we did in town before going out into the caves.

One of the players actually had his character looking for work AS A FUCKING BARISTA AT THE LOCAL INN! Holy fucking Christ Jesus, man. Here we have a game where you can be a hill giant, a devil, a paladin, a rogue, a demon prince from hell, or a fucking dragon if you want to. And this guy takes a 15-minute side quest to try and get his character work waiting tables! There was nothing particularly important about this inn, either. It's just an inn.

And it's not like we were short on money either. This is a Monty Haul DM and each of us had enough money to afford food and board for like a whole year. Besides, we can just hearPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>70730
Glad to hear you had fun! Indeed, it seems there is hope ahead, if not for a good game, then at least for interesting interactions.

I came across an old article recently discussing this exact difference in philosophy, the divide between the "game-players" and the "role-players." I always assumed the latter style of play took root in the late 80s, but it was happening even in 1977, only three years after the release of Original D&D.

So there have been misunderstandings since the very start. The game is supposed to be about acquiring treasure, magic items and XP, building a stronghold, having your own army and claiming a piece of the land as your own. If your character isn't interested in any of that, then they shouldn't be an adventurer.

>The player who lost his character got into an argument with another player because that player didn't come to his aid when he was the only one who could've done something.
I bet/hope one day, in the not too distant future maybe, this player will look back on this moment and realize they were actually having fun. This sort of interaction is more real than anything narrative-based games can create.

>>70782
You're right, this thing probably began with the game itself, it's just that my personal experience is different. But the worst part of pet characters full of personality, besides having to sit through a 10 minutes argument between two imaginary bozos, is the impact this stuff has on the DM.

I'm pretty sure he's prone to fudge and pull punches because of this. The game just gets smoother if nobody dies. I asked if he could have his attack and dmg rolls in the open and he said he prefers to keep it a secret to 'keep up the tension'. Bullshit. The dice gives you a probability, that's where the tension is. I can just tell he's pulling the teeth from the monsters. I hate toothless monsters, fuck. I don't even blame him honestly, the players are whiny bitches and he's afraid to lose them.

>>70117
I'm trying to find testimonies of hikikomori but can't find

>>66929
I like pdfs

Does anyone have the cookbook some wizard posted ages ago?

>>69750
Not exactly that but similar enough maybe.

>>70781
you always have that wallpaper or did you only put it to show it?

>>70788
i always use wallpapers like that, i change wallpaper frequently because im bored and jaded all the time

>>70789
I see. I couldn't use a wallpaper like that even one time.

Bazzite here. Closest thing to SteamOS as we're gonna get. Been great at running games for me.

>>70612
it's religion, not philosophy

>>70616
In philosophy of religion, it is called classical theism.

>>70533
> Socrates didn't right anything

Plato wrote the Socrates' thoughts anyway

>>70732
He wrote in a way to suit his own purposes.

It's illegal in my country. Everything you put in the trash is automatically considered property of the town/State and they even put trash bins with government issued smartcards to open them.

>>70698
Sounds more like a proper way to refrain people from getting poisoned with some rotten spoils and alike, but… a law's a law

>>70703
I think it's probably a half assed way to track if you throw the trash and if you do so correctly for tax purposes but it's not well implemented yet. They could have just reduced the opening of the trash bin to avoid people dumpster diving but they also added this card shit on top of it.

>>70698
Be Gay, Do Crime

>>70513
Try Yerba mate. Taste of a tea, caffeine dosage of coffee.

>>70514
good suggestion

I used to have green tea when someone gifted me a sencha bag from japan but now i just have black tea because the only decent brand in markets around here is Twinings. So i just have the earl gray or the breakfast red one with some milk and no sugar but some biscuits instead because i don't like water with sugar

anyone making their own tea? would be cool

>>70702
>anyone making their own tea? would be cool
I'm growing a mint plant. I've started taking clippings of it, hanging them to dry from a string, and then making it into tea.

>>70663
what do you want to grow?

>>70664
tomatoes, potatoes, pepper so yummy , salad, cucumber, squash, pumpkin, corn (maybe), melon, ginger, aromatic plants, strawberries, peaches, cherry, green tomatoes, cabbage, leek, onions, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, apple, carrots, pear, eggplant, wallnut, nuts, almonds, olives, mango yeah!, and seasonal vegetables and fruits.

>>70663
I bet you would get some visit from some gov egghead enforcing regulations fining you for not exclusively eating GMO food from the supermarket

>>70672
>I bet you would get some visit from some gov egghead enforcing regulations fining you for not exclusively eating GMO food from the supermarket
If it's on his/his parent's property, I would assume there's nothing they can do? That being said I'm assuming he's in the usa. If he's in a cucked country like uk, yeah they just make shit up from what I've heard.

>>70696
>If it's on his/his parent's property, I would assume there's nothing they can do?
If only you knew how bad things really are. ALL of the seeds are GMO now. They are modified to inflict these modifications on to other plants. They were made to be diseased and spread that disease.

watch this if you like sad movies

>The Tale of the Fox (1937)
An old stop-motion animated film that still holds up today. From what I've read, the director used puppets of different sizes, including three life-size ones, depending on the scene. While the film has some technical flaws, such as some scenes being out of focus or too dark, and a strange script — the protagonist isn’t an antihero, but practically a sadistic jerk — I still enjoyed watching it. You can watch it on YouTube and many other websites.
>Porky's (1981)
My boss wouldn't stop talking about this movie, so I decided to watch it. Aside from the setting and a couple scenes—the one in the showers and the one in the principal’s office—I thought it was terrible. All the characters were either uninteresting or downright annoying. Plus, the dramatic scenes felt out of place among all the dick jokes. I guess it’s just not my kind of comedy.

I feel like every A24 movie, and especially the horror ones are all the same.

>le mysterious plot that makes no sense
>some body horror at the end for le spook

This studio is so dumb, its like what a dumb person thinks is intelligent film.

>>69229
That looks like a really shit copy, plus why would you watch a dub?

Still, great to see someone has taste here, it's usually just bullshit like >>69564

is this bumping?

>>70636
>Isn't it dangerous to only strength training with no cardio at all
How could anybody possibly come to that conclusion? Someone must have a pretty warped definition of the word "dangerous" to make any sort of assumption like that.

>>70636
At some point a valid consideration - seems like balance is in order and probably healthier.

>>51839
> I know they're probably all laughing at me on the inside because I'm an overweight virgin
Nobody cares bro!
t. regular gym-goer

>>70636
running and walking are boring
i don't do them outside of walking to the store to get groceries

>>70639
>Nobody cares bro!
This is wrong in two diametrically opposed ways and right in one way.

On one pole is the fact that I and many people would rather not be afflicted by the smelly air and stinky sweat of the obese. It's universally understood that fat people are unclean and their very skin excretes poison. Like cooties but for fat people. Foodies. For the sake of everyone besides him, I hope that sometime in the past 5 years that user has lost his excess bodyfat and he's no longer a pollutant. It's why I wipe the machines BEFORE I use them.

On the other pole, many who go to the gym have come to learn how good it feels to exercise and be fit so they become happy when they see others working towards feeling good. These empathic normaltards mentally invest in the hope that the fat guy loses his fat for the sake of his own health. Care is had that another unhealthy body becomes healthy for the mutual benefit of the beholder and the onlooker.

The way it's right is that there are a lot of people who just don't care, and that itself is split in to to opposed reasons. These people either don't have the cognition to process the quality of people they're sharing space with, or they've transcended beyond judgement all together. Neither afflicted nor benefited.

t. regular nighttime gym-goer