/hob/ - Hobbies

Do you have one? We'll define it pretty loosely, so something like an intricate world created for a story would count as long as there is more to the world than what happens in the storyline. Bonus points if you believe your mythology to be actually true.
Pic related. People assume it's meant to be God, but it's actually the demiurge "Urizen" from William Blake's mythology.

I keep eating ready meals which are starting to taste stale and I can't imagine the lack of nutrients and fresh ingredients being beneficial for my health. Also it's expensive.

People will tell you that cooking is easy but I have so little energy that I can't even get myself to follow those cooking recipes that require many steps and different ingredients.

I tried just eating frozen vegetables with salt and butter but they taste bland like that. Tried to improve it with some premade sauces but they all taste terrible.

So anyone got some REALLY easy to make meals?

Since torrents are in decline and Google has tweaked the hell out of its search algorithm to weed out pirated shit from search results we're still left with few options for getting things for free. This thread will serve as a place to willingly share FTP servers that are still active and have a decent amount of content on them.

Also, give a short description of what's on them so there are no surprises for the end user.

Movies

ftp://cpe-75-183-153-186.sc.res.rr.com/volume1/Media/Movies/
ftp://c-73-169-106-157.hsd1.co.comcast.net/AiDisk_a1/Movies/
ftp://cpe-72-178-148-148.hot.res.rr.com/MOVIES/Movies/
ftp://cpe-98-150-151-91.hawaii.res.rr.com/Seagate%20Backup%20Plus%20Drive/Movies/New%20Movies/
ftp://53-112.34-65.panhandle.res.rr.com/volume1/Movies/ (folders for A, B, C, etc.)
ftp://pool-173-77-153-64.nycmny.fios.verizon.net/Plex/
ftp://cpe-23-242-42-52.socal.res.rr.com/Movies/

Games

ftp://183179192249.ctinets.com/Game/ - Contains CoD 4 & 5 (both uploaded very recently)
ftp://134.249.172.210/Obraz/Games/

Porn (obviously NSFW)
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Or, A Song of Ice and Fire, as it is properly known.
This was the only place I could think of where I could ask this and get a proper answer. To anyone who has read the books, are they anything like the show? Does GRR Martin actually write about all that unbearable feminist bullshit, or is that just a product of the show writers?

I'd like to know before committing to them.

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Please post any photographs of yours which you wish to share.

>implying any other kind of traveling would be encouraged here.

I made up my mind. I'm free from wageslaving for about two weeks and I've decided I'll travel somewhere. I'll use a car, and I plan on an approximate one week travel through my country. I haven't picked destinations just yet, still floating some ideas around.

Does anyone have experience with this? Any tips, things I should prepare for, that I should be extra careful with?

Anyone else hete that has tobacco as their hobby? I enjoy smoking cigars and pipe tobaccos.

here we go

Hello wizzies, i want to improve my english. I understand spoken english and some basic grammar but my pronunciation is not good, what should i do to improve it? Already tried languages exchanges around here but being an asocial wiz its pretty hard to find people to teach you for free

Let's try our hand at this. I know there are a lot of wizards here filled with imagination and creative impulses but it can be quite hard to start a thing on your own, to carry all the process by yourself. Having no direction or initial spark to work with can be a huge impediment as most of us here know. This thread is an attempt to fix that, giving you an initial buildup to start with. There will be a few rules in order to keep things from getting too wild and out of hand but other than that you can do whatever your heart desires. I'm planning this thread to have several projects, the first one will be a test run to see what works and what doesn't. It's actually quite simple. I'll write down the beginning of a story. Some characters, some events, a place where things are going to happen. From that you can pick whatever you want and add to it. We'll try to write a story together here, plain and simple.

First thing is, don't be shy. If you have any idea you want to add, post it. If you want to post a finished paragraph or several, you're most welcome. If your idea is not polished or put into narrative format and you just want to brainstorm a bunch of events, characters or whatever, you can do that too. No idea is too big or small. If you're feeling insecure about the tone you should take or if it should be in dialogue or plain narrative, just take a deep breath and write like you would be telling your idea to an acquaintance. Keep it simple if you like and try to get your idea across. Other wizzies will come and eventually work things up. Second thing is, don't get too attached to the stuff your adding here. People will come and change it and some times you may not like it. But here's the cool thing. Now you have a direction to what you want to do, and you can keep writing, on your own or in here. The important thing is that the story keeps going and we all can have some fun and distract ourselves from life a bit.


Here's a few rules to go by. They are mostly common sense but it's better to give a heads up to everyone.
1 - This is a thread to write a story together, not to criticize other wiz' posts. If you think the idea someone posted is not good, then make it good with a contribution of your own.
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