/hob/ - Hobbies★

>>58298
It's been over a year since I wrote this post and I still haven't gotten a new job and still haven't restarted this fun hobby yet.

I remember in 2019 and 2020 I enjoyed getting brand new quarter rolls, because some of the new ones had the West Point W mint mark, rather than the P or D mark. I had relatively good luck finding at least one for every handful of new quarters.

In 2021 I probably could have found more if I had kept up with the hobby. Now in 2022 I haven't encountered a single one. I regret not coin roll hunting these past two years, I could have built a good collection of those W quarters (which I think can sell for $5-10 on Ebay a pop, depending on their condition).

I mentioned in my previous post that I liked collecting paper currency with interesting serial numbers. Well I went broke recently and finally had to spend these bills. I should have tried to at least sell them on Ebay. But the same depression/anxiety combo that prevented me from keeping my job and going to banks for coin rolls also prevented me from even bothering to try. And the fact that I no longer have those neat bills makes me hate myself even more. I had a $10 with a number 01000010, a $1 with number 66606660, and a $20 with number 45454455, among others. And a couple dozen rare star notes. Now they're all gone because I'm a lazy, mentally ill retard.

>>63131
I've spent every single wheat penny, every silver quarter, every silver dime, even the neat silver proof quarter I had. Spent that one on ice cream for my mom.

The last cool coin I had was a 1885-S Morgan dollar coin. A few weeks ago I pawned it for $20 which I then spent on an ounce of kratom and a benzedrex inhaler and a Coke.

I only bump this thread in the hopes that maybe I'll eventually be inspired to fix my life, and then reignite my interest in coins, and then as I rebuild my collection I'll actively post in this thread and get other people interested as well.
But I'm much more likely to kill myself before anything like that ever comes close to happening.

This was the best hobby I ever had and the only silver lining is that it wouldn't technically be THAT hard for me to rebuild my collection. Given enough time, I could get 95% of it through coin roll hunting and would have fun doing it. I could use my electronic microscope and upload closeups of neat coins and show differences between things like, 1982 small date and large date pennies.
But I'll never do anything ever. Never have never will.

>>65424
Updates, mage?

I might as well share that I have a 1928 Peace Dollar, I am kind of proud of that. I also have every 5 oz Silver Quarter 2014-2021 before the swapped them out for the succubi of color quarters (which will never become valuable, at least for the foreseeable future, since numismatics is a hobby with a lot of conservatives).

>>68173
>1928 Peace Dollar
That's neat, I looked in my old "red book" (bought it when I was collecting coins several years ago), and only like 360k were minted that year. Apparently, even in relatively-low-quality, it could be worth over $200. Whereas the ones minted for like 4-5 years before that one would be between $20-40 in the same condition.
(You probably already know all that about your coin though…)

>succubi of color quarters
So THAT'S what the new designs are on the reverses of my new quarters. I noticed they weren't doing states or national parks now but couldn't figure out what was going on.
Also, why did they change the Washington portrait on the obverse of the quarter? The older portraits look better!

>Updates
Well, I still have no job and still am broke and still haven't gotten back into collecting. But I have a glimmer of hope; every month my family gives me a little bit of cash now. I think I'll buy a box of pennies or something soon: pennies would be only $25 for lots of rolls, and I always enjoyed penny-hunting because of all the different changes in composition over the past century.
I used to collect the pre-1982 copper pennies, too. I know it's not really a *good* "investment", I just thought it was fun amassing rolls and rolls of older, slightly heavier copper pennies.

I also had a dumb idea for a project I will most likely never work on: some kind of weekly coin-related video series or podcast or something. Every week I'd take a coin (US or foreign) and would research it and give interesting facts. BUT, not JUST facts about the coin itself! I'd also talk about where the coin was made, how its design was chosen, other history about its place of origin, AND maybe some other events that happened in its year-of-mintage.
I'd never bother trying to monetize this hypothetical series so I guess I could say whatever I wanted and make each installment as long as I wanted.

But, such a possibility would probably have to wait until I have a job some day.

I need the coin with the Jersey flag to complete my gibraltar Charlemagne collection, don't know which coins I'd like to collect next

>>68724
>>68725
>>68726
God fucking damn it.
Why can't you be normal?

>>68727
this isn't exactly the place to say that

>>68729
This also isn't the place to lust over some raggedy children cartoon character like a degenerate.

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2) Focusing
The ability of focusing is lost in the 21st century. Learning without focusing is time wasted so you have to improve your ability to focus. Average attention span of a young adult is 72 second[1].

Benefits and use of focusing skill:
-High level of productivity
-The ability to learn hard things faster

So, how do we work without distraction? There are various methods:
-Pomodoro Technique: A good technique for entry level and quite popular. Work for 25 minutes without any distraction (no phones, and if possible no internet). Give a 5 minute break and again no phones, no social media no music.

Even though pomodoro is a nice technique, it doesn't improve your focusing skill, you can't work 25 minutes for your entire life. Thinking deeply means working with the same focus by constantly increasing the hours. which brings us to monastery technique.

-The Monastic Approach: Study like a monk, without internet and any sort of social interaction. For most of you this is not a viable method, you shouldn't have any other responsibility than your main focus.

A more viable approach that is better suited for most people is to study like a "monk" for 3 or 4 days of the week and use internet moderately the rest of the days. Still requires very careful planning.

-The Rhythmic Approach: Determine the time and the place you will work. Examine a week of your life and determine the best time for study, and work in those hours every week. I think this is the best approach for beginners.

-The Journalistic Approach: Switching into deep work mode whenever possible, even with an unpredictable schedule like you are a journalist. Requires a high level of discipline and mental agility. This is very hard for beginners.

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one thing i realized about "learning" is that it's not a simple linear process and usually the most mainstream "common sense" approach is always misguided in some way and you have to tinker and experiment and dig deep into successful people's descriptions of what they did in order to find what exactly got them to that point. the reason people fail to learn is because the instructions are generally bad, they're based on some idea of how things are supposed to be learned. you sit down, open a textbook or go to class and then you learn, but it's never as simple as that. to learn math, you need to go beyond the textbook and really gain an intuition of the objects themselves and then, if you're successful, the formal crap takes care of itself because it flows downstream from a good intuitive understanding. if you want to learn how to play an instrument, you don't start by memorizing a bunch of music theory, you have to ultimately tinker until you find a feedback loop that actually works and lets you improve. if you want to learn a language, you don't study grammar, you gradually build an intuitive understanding by exposing yourself to simple sentences and working your way up to more and more complex language until you acquire it subconsciously. that's the kind of shit that you only figure out through trial-and-error and experience.

which leads me back to focus and discipline, things that people try to brute-force even though a lack of focus and discipline just means that your "learning" method is frustrating and isn't bringing you tangible results. once you find the right method, the work becomes natural and compelling, no need to fight yourself and keep hitting your head against the wall. when things work, it's easy. when things do not work, change your approach until it's easy.

>>68096 (OP)
I dunno setting concrete goals only makes me less motivated generally. I will just look at it and think "woah I have to do that much?" and lose heart. If I just keep it vague I will feel okay as long as I make any sort of progress, instead of comparing with the specific end goal.

>>68684 (OP)

the whole of clavicula salomonis, which I think is just what the wiz above posted

>>68607
>going uphill momentarily?
yes, a river crossing a mountain going uphill and then go down

>>68607
like this

Some dharma studies can be quite esoteric, very practical in use especially when dealing with suffering and loss in life. -

From experience I suggest just read up and apply the basic teaching and master that. The basis of dharma is practical life advice that can bring you to a state of skillful means and attunement with subtle magic.

>>67595 (OP)
As for today nobody has been able tell how kabbalah could ever best this.
>yea i'm shilling
>thanks to this i lost the anxiety for getting a slaveplace
>i stop chasing their crap
>after they told me stupid rabble like "why do you want to work with us" or "i don't see you quite motivated"
>i even had to publicly scorn a mid-management sucker in front of everyone because he mobbed me
>it felt damn great, i even got paid and extra not like normies who stayed there sucking cock or just resigning because they could stand the douche
>and i got paid after being fired for that
>still running on this, it's lifechanging
>you can tell it's great because of much hatred it gets from wizmods and soyfags around here

>>68675
I checked this Human Design thing out, and it seems that the only thing that matters in this is your date and time of birth? That's really not convincing, it's just a different kind of astrology. What about early births, or medical situations where the child had to be prematurely extracted through c-section? Does Human Design account for that, or should those people add a few days or weeks to their date of birth?

Just like with astrology, the info they give is applicable to almost everyone, I mean everyone will think "this about me so much fr fr" upon reading the results. And if a trait doesn't match, you could make the argument that it's a hidden trait that hasn't yet manifested itself.

Sorry, but no.

>>68639
I found this group I'm playing with years ago using Roll20. Maps and dice are handled through Roll20 but we use Discord for audio. I'm not sure why they don't use the audio from Roll20, this group had this roll20/discord thing going before I arrived. I know ib users despise discord and perhaps with good reason, but considering purely the technical side of things, using discord for audio is very convenient. As for the game system, we switched around a couple of times but the most fast paced, easy to learn (because, really, there's almost nothing to learn, you roll a d20 for basically everything) is a game called Old-School Essentials which is a rewrite and cleaning up of D&D BX, a very straightforward, no nonsense system. I hope you guys get together to play some, it's a fascinating experience. In my case it became a prison and that's why I'm harsh about it, but you shouldn't pay too much attention to it, it's mostly self-loathing like I said in a previous post.

>>68643
>>68647
Well, I've thought about it, and I don't think it would work well on wizchan. It would be too slow to be enjoyable, and would require so much simplification that it would just be interactive storytelling.
I encourage you to look into play-by-post games, I'm sure you'll find an opportunity to try it, entirely over text. There are websites and forums dedicated to this.

[ 1d100 = 82 ]
If 88, we will start a Myfarog campaign (no succubus player characters)

>>68659
>Myfarog
based

>>68659
May God save us from paying for rentals like those subscription games, what a cuckery.

>they give you access
>you give them some money
>deal comes to and end
>they have the game and the money
>you have none of them anymore

foul!

Gave myself some sort of back injury doing squats with poor form and going up in weight too fast now I'm having to not go to the gym for a week to recover. At least my gym has a pool I can go to for some cardio that's light on the joints. Remember to be careful wizards.

>>68133
Spinal decompression should be done before and every heavyweight back and leg sets. Just 15 seconds of hanging from a bar can help

>>68115
I thought that mixed grip was more liable to cause a bicep injury in the arm that's supinated.

>>68670
It is. Reverse grip has no benefit. If it's the only grip that is comfortable then there is something wrong with your wrists, and endangering your entire arm isn't worth making a HIT exercise more comfy.

>>68671
Mixed grip is used to lift more weight during dead lift when not wearing straps. It has nothing to do with comfort.
>>68670

Usually it's a trade off between making it easier to bail to avoid leg and back injures, but there is a slight increase in the risk to bicep injury.
This is in the context of lifting very heavy, like near or even at the very limit of your strength. So no matter what you are dealing with a risk of serious injury. Mix grip is a way of mitigating certain risk for a lesser one.

>>68768
>>68754
I don't see the diffrences

>>68769
Half the white is shaded over in the first but I didn't do the same for the arms and legs

>>68770
I see now thank you

>>68771
Then all is well

>>67111
And now for someone to either bump a thread or interrupt with something for ultimately insufferable means…

>>68500
>using spanish as a way to mock me instead of using the english term "chilean"
I am CELIBATE, you spiritual weakling

the fuck is arg

>>68499
>>68506
to be fair, this dude's itch might be scratched if he just went to an "escape room" or LARPed or whatever. plenty of groups/orgs out there that are a mere web search away.

honestly not even sure what he's on about with all the other shit though lol

>>68496 (OP)
temple ov blood jumpscare

>>67952
heh

Ive made a apple cake it was yummy :3

todzy I tried doing a chocolate cake but I donnt know why some parts in the middle aren't cook, yet I cooked it 40min, weird, anybidy knows why?

>>68583
looks like a "heavy" cake with a large amount of eggs or liquids
40 minutes is not that long for this kind of cake
i would suggest baking it at a slightly lower temperature, like 160 C, and for a bit longer, like 1 hour
while it's still in the oven, you can check if the inside is baked with a skewer - if it comes out wet, the cake needs more time
then near the end of baking, you can increase the temperature to give it a crust

>>68584
thank you, maybe its because put too much milk and three eggs. I should have let it cook 1h at least like you said (youre right)