/hob/ - Hobbies

showing my books :3

>>68320
Gilgermesh

any of you read one of the best BD ever made? Corto Maltese

I'm finishing read the OG Thrawn trilogy from Star Wars, very well made and fun adventure, highly recommend for people that like Star Wars books.

>>68295
Mostly Murakami Novals.

>>68358
just keep in mind he is not a wizard
he said in one video that he would kill the succubus we was having sex with if she got pregnant and didn't agree to an abortion

YES, I know, He is just comfy to watch

>>67098
Filthy Frank aka pink guy

I've returned to fanfiction thanks to ai.
I know it's common sense that writing things yourself is better than having "some machine doing that for you."

To make a long story short: this is a severe exception if you've unfortunately read the bigass fic I wrote a decade ago of which it serves as a prequel to..

Also I wrote another story that practically needed ai, even if sparingly, to perfectly encapsulate an effect I was aiming for.

>>67991
Doing the same but in an adventure-like fashion, roleplaying as my own character in a set universe like Star Wars or else.

I like to collect old phones and PDAs. I have spent hundreds of dollars on these obsolete devices. They're pretty cool though

>>49409
is that image supposed to be pareidolia? becuase it kinda looks like a face from the distance.

>>67900
Love? Well each person is different. To me it's a prison. I call it the 'prison of just enoughs'. Just enough fun to make you not quit. Just enough imagination required to make you dedicated. Just enough tactics to make you pay attention. Just enough for you to care. Just. And it has the odd property of eternally diminishing fun without ever reaching zero, again, just enough to make you show up session after session, month after month, year after year. To me it became this bizarre lingering experience, a looming haze perpetually distorting my days, folding my mind into moss infested corridors, lurking monsters and magic artifacts. I don't even consider quitting anymore because it's better than nothing, again, just enough to make it worth it.

What I mean by if I quit the game dies I mean exactly that. This group I'm in doesn't have the open table mindset and can't even consider bringing someone new in. They are extremely averse to change and newcomers. It's 3 people laser focused on churning fantasy dungeons, there's a rhythm, a comfort and a delicate dynamic we've built through countless hours of gaming together. A year ago when I tangentially suggested bringing in another player it was like I was asking them to commit murder, one of the guys even got offended, like I was trying to destroy a sacrosanct inner circle or something. I don't know, maybe I was. Fucking gamers. And so that's what it is. A prison of just 'enoughs' just for us 3 guys, which is fitting I suppose. Fucking gamers. Fucking troglodytes. Fucking dwarves and wizards and old relics. Next session is in a couple of days. I'll be there early to write the recap and organize the gear for the hirelings. One of them leveled up recently but lost a couple of fingers.

>>67910
A lovely prison. Thanks for the reply.
So 1 GM and 2 players… indeed, it would probably mean the end if either of you quit.
Well, I hope you have fun next session, and make it to name level one day, if you guys haven't already.

>>67913
NP, I was quite surprised someone decided to respond to this thread. And thanks, it's probably going to be fun. We have a party at name level working for a king but right now we're dungeon crawling with a thief focused chaotic party, little bit of an evil campaign of sorts.

>>67914
Hello anon,
I'd love to hear about this game again.
Any new development? Is it still going? Did your feelings towards the game change?

>>68418
Thank you for your interest. Last session we found a monster deep inside a crypt (yet another monster, yet another crypt, yet again, yet again…) but it turned out the monster was dead. Despite being dead, it was making a whistling noise, indicating there's a monster inside the monster's carcass (or something like that). This monster's carcass is located on top of a large stalagmite surrounded by open chasm (another chasm, chasm n. 100000th) and we spent the entirety of the last session hiring workers and gathering materials to build a bridge. Wood, nails, climbing equipment, scaffold parts and whatnot.That took about 4 hours to put together and the bridge will probably be ready for the upcoming session. Then we'll proceed to stab, shoot or befriend what we find there, carry the loot, if any, back to our base, and use it to support a rebellion that is trying to overthrown a particular duke that have accused us of egregious crimes we have accidentally committed. We killed an important individual during a rogue mission for someone else and he's very angry about. So, in order to clear our names, the duke must die. Currently, his army is after us, and we're trying to dismantle his political power through this rebel movement.

Yes, it's still ongoing. My feelings towards the game have not changed. I spend most of the week despising it. I find gaming a frivolous, intellectually and spiritually backward practice and I'm ashamed to be part and engage in it. It's a repetitive, vacuous, frivolous, execrable hobby. It's a bunch of adults who have handed their imagination to the lowest, childish form of distraction. These are not the elegant air castles of literature or the higher arts, it's a group of avatars living in a synthetic, crude world where cheap events are lined up and pushed through so primitive decision making and random chance gives us increasingly expected results. I have often considered that perhaps staring at the ceiling has more value than gaming. Excuse my self-loathing.

Then it's gaming night and all is forgiven. I have a great time, I get to talk with other human beings I don't actively despise, I get to build things out of thin air and exist vicariously in a world where pain, death and poverty are weak forces of superficial and even amusing consequence. We get to be strong, smart, cunning, capable forces in a world of high fantasy.Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

I romanticize all old computer UI between 2000-2010. it felt friendly, bubbly, there was attention to detail. overall just looked beautiful. it is not something I can say for what I am staring at right now.

>>68413
>>68414

Frutiger Aero | The Promised Future We Never Got
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcsDhbtyzjw

Moved to >>>/b/1004362.

>>68326
Was interesting as a pilot but not so sure the project will go anywhere.

>>68326
Preview of ep one

This is really a charming movie, but his new fandom is awful. According to them Ann is lesbian for Babette, Andy is a troon, and they despise the poor captain. This is just a cute and comfy movie without any political commentary

Someone remembers Mona the vampire. I liked that show a lot when I was a kid, and I see in it now the memory of a world that no longer exists. You're not going to see a single kid with a phone in his hand. I like that the show plays with the idea that some of the things mona deals with are real as in the ending of the fisherking. I've always liked fictional works that don't differentiate between reality and fiction.

>>68407
I watched a little bit of it, but eventually lost interest due to it being ok but not great, while also having a ton of ep.

What is the worst fantasy or science fiction book you have ever read. For me it is Dying of the Light. The most pathethic thing i ever read

>>68398
In the past few years, I guess The Handmaid's Tale comes to mind.
The plot was retarded, the world building was retarded, the MC was 100% passive throughout, and the overall story craft was abysmal.
The only thing remotely decent about it was the competent prose. Which was like throwing cheap glitter onto steaming turds.

Oh, also the vast majority of weeb web novels are atrocious. Like someone tricked me into reading a chapter of Shadow Slave. It was sad how bad it was. To see someone write that much yet never get better at their craft is tragic.

>>68399
Because succubi like that book so much. What is the reason for the fanaticism. I have seen news about succubi crying, because they think that now The us will be like in that book.

>>68406
many succubi think men around them are potential rapists just waiting for the opportunity, and that hitler trump will make america rape again
it's as stupid as the book

>>68406
>What is the reason for the fanaticism
Probably because it appeals to the female version of fantasies about extreme desirability for just existing.
Sort of like a succubus version of those shittier harem anime where the MC is totally plain and doesn't really do anything the whole show/manga but for "reasons" is treated as the most desirable being in the universe, with extremely powerful and desirable succubi willing to fight to the death just to be by their side.
Although even those trash anime don't usually have scenes involving ritual worship of basic bodily functions, lol.

> I have seen news about succubi crying, because they think that now The us will be like in that book.
That is just overly emotional retards whipping themselves up into a fervor but lack something reasonable to frame it, so they go with whatever pop-culture reference come to mind. These are the same kind of people who would have been in hysterics crying about the devil and end of days being near because the label on their favorite brand of soap changed if this was 30 or 40 years ago.
Now since they don't have Jesus they compare everything to shit like marvel movies, Harry Potter, and if they are really heated they bring up the one part of history class they remember and call all bad things the same as nazi.
When it comes to Handmaid's, I guess I wouldn't begruge it that much if it just stayed a shit book I didn't like. Even people liking what I think is trash doesn't bother me. But it's these kind of retards who lack other frames of reference who then latch on to such a ridiculous book as a political statement that really annoy me.
You don't see the dudes into those shittier harem anime I mentioned above act like it's a portent of reality in anyway shape or form. Even the unhinged ones accept it's just gratifying fantasy and escapism.

I don't know if the retards would be better off or not if they found Jesus, but they certainly would be better off if they found better books to read.

>>68152
Not as good imo but still worth reading.

>>68156
Ah ok

Anya's Ghost (2011)
Oh, Miss Brosgol ;_;..

Great Expectations (2010/1861) Charles Dickens and Brigit Viney

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>>67399
learn 2 inject code so you can fix all of your favorite games

I've never coded before and I am attempting to learn Lua. It probably won't go well but I haven't given up yet.

the problem isnt learning to code, since i know how to read and write code to an extent now,the problem is,how do i inspire myself to actually create something and how do i create something that would be worth creating?

>>68400
That's part of the problem I face
The uh standard answers is you
-solve simple everyday problems that arise in your computer use
-solve standard challenges like idk advent of code, that kind of shit
-do something for your own amusement, like a game or shaders
-learn a lot about languages and never actually write programs just argue over their design over the internet

>>68400
I have been stuck at that point for years, mostly because the things i really wish i could make are only suitable for highly skilled developers. I feel like there is a gulf between what i can make and what i could be passionate about making. I think it is the same for artists that struggle to enjoy making art while their skills are still developing. Perhaps the only solution is to push through it and make things for the sake of learning until inspiration strikes and you think of something you can do and want to do

>>68360
Nonsense.

pepper

>>68365
>shade the sphere, copy the LOOMIS head, only draw what you're looking at instead of pulling from imagination
t. left-dominant pattern repeater who can't draw a coffee mug unless he has one in front of him

I dunno, looks like coomer sama to me.