/hob/ - Hobbies

>>69405
all same as you, are you me?
I look up real estate and day dream about living there and how I can fill the rooms, sometimes its comfy

>>69408
Right. The idea that these lifestyles are truly accessible to us is a false one. To truly make it work, you need to be wealthy, not just rich. Not 7 figures, but 8 figures or more. Need to have people working for you and taking care of all that maintenance and hassle.
Otherwise, you'll be paying the difference with time and stress.

i have been doing so for two years maybe, lately i migrated to an online blog. previously i used obsidian, which all in all was better but i wanted to learn how to create a website from the ground up.
now i am kinda bummed out about not being able to write super personal stuff. maybe i will write regular thoughts offline, then share a toned down version online. the site is more like twitter, anyway. it is both my creative work and a place to share all other creations of mine.
>cringe fuel
oh, definitely. especially when you are bipolar and vent in your journal. but it is also a proof that a day happened. that those 24h werent lost just because your memory fails. it is also meditation and helps clear distraught thoughts.

Tried it several times in my life.
Never stuck to it.

Had interesting results when I kept a dream journal, mainly getting better at remembering my dreams and holding on to more details.
But even this wasn't enough for me to keep doing it consistently.

Thought maybe it was because I didn't like writing things down so tried making audio logs.
Did it like twice and never again.

Deep down, writing when I am likely the only one to see it feels utterly pointless to me.
I mainly/only write as a form of communicating ideas to others.
I don't really use it as a way of logging mundane memories. If something was memorable then I would remember it without needing to write it down.
If a memory fades then it's probably for the best that it faded.

>>69388
Cringe tho it may be at times I have figured out some important stuff reading through my journal and analyzing it, stuff I would have missed

what is that local community that you speak of?

I was reading Journey of the Fate Destroying Emperor.

>>69292
where do you live?

>>69368
>>69340
Arab.

What's the wizzies consensus on Revered Insanity? Kino or thrash?

>>63392
>>63393
I'm European and I got 49% in 4:10

Is anyone here aware of a gamified learning site like seterra but for other subjects? I kinda 'completed' seterra and want more.

>>63302
anyone playing geoguessr here? bought the game yesterday and played like 100 duels since then, Its fun but the enemies tend to be pretty retarded on lower rankings

>>69369
I meant the actual geoguessr where you guess the location based on google street view of course

>>63302
still need to work on asia, got less than 50% on africa before

I've been playing weiqi and shogi for five years and chess for longer, but recently decided to stop. I don’t really want to stare at a screen all day anymore and it’s impossible to find a game with a long enough time control where I can make moves on a physical board, and I'm tired of playing correspondence. But beyond that, I think that AI has fundamentally changed the nature of these games and the culture surrounding them to the point where they no longer appeal to me. I think I’ll keep studying old pro games on a physical board, at least.

I was going to link a subbed NHK Cup game, but I just learned that they've all been copyright claimed apparently. This sucks.

>>65898
There seems to be a misconception that because the rules are simple and about surrounding things, the game must be straightforward and peaceful, but in reality, most weiqi games devolve into complicated, high-stakes fighting. I think it's a very intriguing game once you understand how the stones interact with each other.

I like the game but I can't play it.
What I mean is that I suck, and I don't get any better however much I play or try to read go books. I do enjoy it but I also feel tense as I have to keep myself from making impulse moves and think my moves, but reading different variations gets very taxing and I end up making a mess..
I like the fights, though. I like breaking into a seemingly safe territory and living.

so wizzies did you try learning go?

>>69349
Few years ago. Watched a anime about it and got curious. Learned a bit more about the rules and basic strategy then played online a bit. Found it kind of boring and full games tedious so just stopped.

At this point I am pretty sure I forgot all the strategies I learned and most of the rules.
Also never played once in real life or even knew another person in real life who knew how to play it.
With chess it was mainly a way of bonding between my father and me, so it will always have that connection even though I have fallen out with the game. But with Go there is zero connection for me in my personal life. No strong memories.

>>69350
I see, I want to learn chess and go too

>>69109
I get what you mean, 11' is the most comfortable for sure, which is why I like it, to draw and play in bed it's great, but 13' feels a lot closer to drawing on a full sized piece of paper, maybe if you can find something in between, I'm not sure if you have a big preference for iOS or Android, Apple or other brands, etc. An iPad is always a good and safe bet, Apple invented tablets as we know it and they're still the best at it from both the hardware and software stand point, and I say this as a Samsung fan, the A16 iPad with an active stylus, Apple Pencil or 3rd party, will probably give you a better experience than what I have, so I'd go for it.

I hope you manage to find something that works good for you, anon!

>>69112
I love that pic. It is exactly what I looked like when I found out my math exam is online.

>>69112
>I hope you manage to find something that works good for you, anon!
Thank you. I wish these things would be a lot more straightforward than they are.
I always struggle with buying new tech, mouse, monitors etc. and it always ends up being meh-to-bad in some ways, but I usually deal with it.
I'll make up my mind sometimes this week hopefully.

>>69113
I kek'd.

>>69114
I wish you the best! I'm a lot like you, I'm also quite flimsy with things, so I prefer to avoid more expensive stuff out of the fear of me dropping it or breaking it somehow in a few weeks or months, or after the warranty ends if there is any, so getting the cheap and/or used option tends to make me feel safer, because if I don't like it, or break it somehow, it's fine, I didn't lose much money.

>>69114
How's it going, anon? Managed to get into any hobbies so far and/or buy something that might help out?

I like this one a lot too.
It has a swirl where it looks like he just got done painting it.

Sure.

>>69193
shiny hawlucha japanese edition

mawile
I got more but for one reason or another I haven't taken pictures of them

>>69196
bought these today

>>69071
Vintage toys are fun. There's absolutely sovl there. I don't care for the modern toys- no diecast, rubber wheels, chrome, gimmicks.

I used to have a diecast gobot that looked just like a hot wheels and could actually fool most people. It's so much cooler than having a cartoon accurate goober.

>>69064
Only virgins collect this shit.

>>69121
Yes, and?

I make pocket money by reshipping toys for collectors in the UK like Lego Pirates, Hot Wheels (die-cast model cars more generally), He-Man/MotU, and Transformers.

beast wars neo (japanese cartoon version of beast wars) unicron prototype (possibly will be released soon), and G1 unreleased unicron prototype

Buying cheap aliexpress junk or playing old games.

>>69014
theres no such thing as celtic.

>>69014
If you want to continue playing video games, without spending a ton of money on the new stuff coming out, I genuinely suggest playing titles from the 2000's or even 90's and 80's through things like emulation, it's cheap, often free even, and there's literally enough video games to keep you occupied for the rest of your life without you having to spend money on any new ones, it's nice…

Have you ever tried this out, OP?

>>69014
Take the emupill and just play the zillions of great retro games on a decent PC. Even a very budget build with a Ryzen 5 5600 and RTX 3060 can emulate pretty much EVERYTHING here, even PS3 games:

https://myrient.erista.me/files/No-Intro/
https://myrient.erista.me/files/Redump/

Recommendations for great classic games:

https://vsrecommendedgames.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

Get started with emulation:

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page

>>69014
Pirate old video games. Most of them are never re-released anyway so have your fill. If you do that you will have enough to play to last this whole tariff war out.

>>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

>>68735
Sorry, I was taking a break from Wizchan for the past couple of months to focus on other priorities.

I used to enjoy penny hunting too. I would always run a magnet over the rolls first and then open any that were magnetic and take out the 1943 cents, then go through the rest. I mostly got mine through coin dealers instead of banks, so it was mostly wheat pennies with some Indian heads mixed in.

Washington has not changed as far as I can tell, but I believe that they are using a new die. Probably changed out the die for the "Crossing the Delaware" quarter. They should have stuck with Washington themed quarters, kind of like the Life of Lincoln pennies from 2009. Unfortunately, I do not see these sort of special series in common denominations returning aside from the succubi of color quarters, which, as far as I can tell, nobody really likes.

Personally, I would change the dime, though. I prefer Mercury to FDR (I have the gold Mercury dime from a while ago), so I would like to see a return to that, but if it had to be a president, then Theodore Roosevelt or Ulysses S. Grant would be my choices and would give some good opportunities for different reverses (early life, military careers, etc.).

I wish you the best of luck in finding a job. I won big on scratch-offs, so I am pretty okay, despite also not having a job at the moment. My last job I quit after 11 months because it was off the book and paid comically low. I usually do well with off the book jobs (usually $20-30k/year with no taxes), this job was $1200/year because the boss kept charging "expenses" (it would have been $30k, but the boss took 97% of it away and gave me a list of bullshit reasons). What you get when you work off the book, so I cannot be upset (though I did work over 4000 hours for the money, which works out to be a little under $0.30/hour).

I guess I could sell all my bullion and coins and be able to live for a few years on it, but I would rather wait a little bit longer before then.

>>58042
Got a job across the country years ago and was interesting to see the different mint marks. never seen many S marks east of the rockies. ended up finding
>4 war nickles
>1 steel penny
>handful of silver dimes
>$2 in silver quarters
>3 40% half dollars
at the time, 2019, i figured the odds of finding silver quarters in rolls was at least 1:10,000. the steel penny was the coolest though. always heard of them but never seen one in the wild

>>58120
Krugerrands are very nice, they're cheaper than U.S or Canadian and they're very recognized, also they're an alloy so they're scratch resistant