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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.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.62503[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Any type of writing is allowed, from lyrics, to poetry, to essays, and anything in between.

Last Thread:
https://www.wizchan.org/hob/featured/res/46012.html

Some discussion starters for the thread:

>What are you writing right now?

>What's your favorite thing to write about?

>Is there anything important about writing that you wish you knew earlier?

>What literary devices do you implement in your writing?

>Is there anything that you're planning to improve on in your writing?
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 No.70912

>>70858

I can relate to this a lot. My writing is total garbage, and it would be a miracle in itself if someone cared to take a look at my short stories.

However, I can't write a book because I get so bored with my own texts. And I haven't taken any writing classes whatsoever.

 No.70928

>>62640
This is the most crab thing I've ever read lol.

 No.70931

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In an interstice, an internecine altercation alternates in creating an accretion in inaction and a certain clamorous arousal of the county's council (including that occlusive conclusion to the
"vilified vista" in question), caving in on a calumny of the alumnus in luminous undertones, undermined, inebriated! Already interred, invertebrates verily vibrate to berate the very bearing of the sinister barristers and sisters, insisting on enunciating anodyne astronomies at such an end as this.

 No.70932

>>70931
its more or less nonsense, vaguely speaking of some sort of fictitious political upheaval. The point is to have the phonemes gradually transform and ebb and flow while giving enough of a "plot" that its not just a bunch of random words. Should I keep going? I've had this idea for like 2 decades now and never got past "in an interstice and internecine altercation". I am pretty happy with what I got here though. Also does anyone know of a work that does this?

 No.70935

>>68644
ah, I can see you are a man of [common sense] like me


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 No.70906[Reply]

Uh… hey.

I'm Kode. I don't really post much here, but I figured I'd share something I've been working on.

This is my first real attempt at making an operating system called NEKO KERNEL. And yeah… I mean *attempt*. It's still early, things break, and half the time I fix one bug just to discover three more.

There's a video here of it actually booting and running. Surprisingly, it works more often than it doesn't, so I'll take that as a win.

It's 32-bit, which probably raises more questions than answers, but I wanted to start with something I could actually understand before making my life even harder.

Right now there's not a lot to do. It's mostly just me figuring things out, writing code, breaking everything, rewriting it, and repeating the process until something finally works.

I'm putting together a website soon so anyone who's interested can download it, test it, and tell me exactly what I managed to break.

So yeah… that's NEKO KERNEL.

Hopefully you like it.

And if it randomly crashes… just pretend it's a benchmark.

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 No.70907

here my web :D

https://nekokatkernel.neocities.org/

 No.70908

>>70907
>>70906
can't access none

 No.70909

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im sorry if you cant access :C here is image of system

 No.70910

>>70909
ok, thanks


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 No.70718[Reply]

Hey wizards,

Two other wizzas and I will be reading The Pastel City, a science fantasy novel by M. John Harrison, originally published in 1971.

We'll be following a schedule of one chapter per day. The chapters are about 10 pages long on average. After each day's reading, we'll come here and talk about it. I'll be posting a short daily commentary to help kick off the discussion, along with updates on our progress through the schedule. Of course, you're under no obligation to post anything if you don't want to.

We'll start on Thursday, July 2, so in just a couple of days. Check out the blurb for the novel:

A decaying world. Ancient powers long forgotten. An old warrior with one last battle to fight. The Pastel City is a mesmerizing journey through the ruins of a far-future civilization, where the remnants of lost knowledge mingle with myth and legend. Atmospheric, inventive, and unforgettable, it is a classic of science fantasy.

I'll be following along with this edition, which can be borrowed for free from Archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/pastelcity0000unse

You can choose a different edition if you prefer:

https://archive.org/search?tab=all&query=the+pastel+city&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22

To borrow a book from the Archive, you'll need an account. They only ask for an email address and password.

Come and join us for some whimsy literary fun.
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 No.70881

>>70878
>I'm also curious to know how many of you actually finished it.
I did finish it but I fell behind a little towards the end. I'm surprised I did this well actually, I assumed I wouldn't be able to get past the first few chapters given how bad my attention span is.

It was a pretty decent novel, but I don't think I'm really interested in reading the sequels. Although it would be nice to know what happens I guess, it does feel like the end of this novel is a set up for a continuation. But I'm not burning with curiosity or anything. Especially if there will be a different protagonist. I really liked Cromis, so without him I don't think it would be nearly as interesting.

 No.70882

>>70878
It's an okay experience

 No.70885

>>70880
Most of the way thru ch.2 and, I'm getting a good impression so far.

It's set ~80 years after the events of Pastel City which means most of that book's main cast are long dead, except Tomb and the Young Queen Methvet Nian who's now the Old As Fuck Queen.

One interesting thing that's changed about the setting itself is this religion/cult/philosophy called The Sign of the Locust taking over the City, which seems at least a little wizardly?
>Life is a blasphemy,” announced the Sign. “Procreation is a blasphemy, for it replicates and fosters the human view of the universe.”

 No.70886

>>70885
Derp, forgot to mention Cellur too, and by "taking over" I mean like the Sign's becoming harder and harder to ignore as their presence grows

 No.70887

>>70880
>>70885
>>70886
Happy to see you got so involved in the book that you're now reading the sequel.

>>70881
Well there you go wizza, congratulations. It seems your attention span wasn't as burned out as you first suggested. Yeah I'm not reading the sequels either, not right away anyways.

>>70882
Not the most amazing fantasy novel out there, but it's short and it doesn't overstay its welcome. This is a rare gift nowadays.


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 No.60825[Reply]

Pipe tobacco is a hobby, right? There's the element of collecting pipes and trying various blends, which resembles wine tasting in how elaborately some people talk about them. Any wiz pipe smokers here? Any favourite blends you'd recommend? Show me your wizpipe(s) (no homo).

Here's my pipe and some tobacco I'm currently smoking. The one in the tin is Old Gowrie
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 No.70307

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

 No.70324

>>70307
Lum being a smoker, ай-яй-яй

looks classy tho

 No.70866

ohhhhh I've been having so many desires to smoke! I see it everywhere around me! I cannot handle it anymore!

 No.70867

>>70866
Saem

 No.70874

>>70867
have you ever tried it?
I only smoked marijuana yet not tobacco. I say if I'm going to try tobacco, it won't be cigarettes but a good tobacco in a pipe, like op's pic


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