/hob/ - Hobbies

What’s a good hobby that can potentially make money, doesn’t require a ton of reading, and isn’t hyper competitive?

>>50397
Some sort of crafts shit. Basket-weaving or something on that level.

>>50397
Furniture making and wood working in general.
That said you probably need a truck/van to move large things, materials, and tools.
Jewelry making is also a money maker and doesn't require the truck, but still requires tools and materials.
Custom audio equipment is also one. Stuff like pedals and hand made headphones.
You can also do fabric crafts or leatherwork.

What are you actually good at or interested in generally speaking?

Datahoarding is my hobby, I stopped for a while but I have recently started collecting ebooks.

Anyone into birdwatching?

>>50397
i'm actually going to second this >>50399

i used to build A-frame signboards and sold them online, shit like pic related. it started with me looking on other websites and noticing they were overpriced. it's basically some thin sections of wood, with dato cuts along their length, a small piece of board slid into those grooves, and you glue it up. put top hinge on, then side hinges, then put rubber feet on. you could make like a dozen of these in a day and because they are flat they don't take up space. the actual chalkboard part is just a spraypaint coating on cheap hardboard. just add in options for the finish coating and people will end up buying it

Will it bow?

>>44460
>Seems like she wants your mana

What does it mean when a mother requires mana from her son?

I used to design abstract board games until I realized it was the least rewarding creative discipline of all because you could wait for years only to find someone has broken your game with some sort of strategic axiom, making it objectively bad. Moreover, you can’t learn much to ameliorate these problems in future designs, not only because the theory of designing turn-based games is an inchoate field of study (if even that) but because the principles you can apply are few and of limited effect. The problem with this discipline is that a game designer is necessarily competing against all the prospective players of his game but the game is highly asymmetric (the designer gets to design something one time but the players get to redesign their strategy continuously into perpetuity). Even if the designer can respond by “patching” or updating his game (meaning he found a small tweak to make to the same fundamental game), he cannot force the players to play the updated version in the way a vidya developer can. The only time I got drunk due to depression was guzzling my dad’s gin after a player of one of my more promising ideas proved that it was purely tactical, not strategic (ie every best possible move would be some kind of localized response to the previous one).

So these days I tend to regard any impulse to want to design games regard such impulse as an addiction or bad habit to be spurned. Many times I find myself thinking of game mechanics or a general day dream about a sort of kind of play I would find interesting and I just put it out of mind because I know I’ll probably get burnt again. I have an autistic love for graphical relationships so it is hard for me to not get sucked in again. I have found more and more that I’ve been able to sublimate my passion for such things into musical composition and theory. At least music has these sort of mathematical relationship and is also an art that can be judged, though not entirely, on a subjective basis. Furthermore there is more a composer can do to alter an existing piece of music than what a designer can do to improve a game. Right now I’m working on something I’m calling the Chord Board which shows a sort of grid-based piano roll map you can follow to get between any two tertian chords with single steps of minimal chromatic movement in the voice leading.

>>50515
Kinda, I volunteer as a trapper for the Department of Conservation and I always keep an eye out for birds while I'm in the bush. I see a lot of native Wood Pigeons and Tui mainly. I'm hoping one day they'll let me go up into the ranges and see the Kiwis, I've seen many dead ones because I help out with hunting dog aversion training but somehow I don't think a headless half frozen bird has the same effect as a living, breathing symbol of my nation.

>>52693
you can always use your ideas to program a simple graphics computer game. Yeah people will try to game it, but usually people who get really in to it will come up with conventions that would limit those power abuses and allow for much balanced game player. You can use probability theory to balance game play, but in the end you can't figure out how really balanced a game is till you played it a bunch of times.

>>42050
If people would offer there bodies to cannibals why not find people to offer their bodies for science? I'm sure you would get better results from someone willing to get these things done to them. It definitely would be hard to find someone willing to give a baby for that. It would definitely be really cool though.

Does anyone collects and trades unofficial concert recordings? (I mean "bootlegs" but they are not actually, ROIO - recording of independent origin are their actual name) Unofficial I mean it was recorded by audience member, taped from tv, radio, webcast.
I mostly have nu metal stuff that I traded, downloaded them.
I don't post list, etc since I don't want to dox myself.

im thinking of getting into autographs

>>53047
Any ones in particular?
What kind are you thinking of collecting? Sports heroes, celebrities, artist, authors, something else?

Bugs and spiders utterly fascinate me. I go outside looking for them, sometimes let them crawl on my arms, and photograph them. This is the first bug of the year: the painted woodlouse.

I saw a big red centipede earlier, but I couldn't take a picture because there were normies around and I was afraid of judgment.

I'm making music. I don't know anything about musical theory, song structure and related stuff, but I guess it is enough to produce something between harsh noise, experimental, field recordings and noisegrind, for which I use some distortion pedals, a cheap keyboard and a very old e-guitar.

I would say right now that it feels very satisfying for myself, when I created a new release.

>>53109
I wanna dance to it

>>55166
Musicwiz here. Made this track today. Good luck with dancing to it.

https://vocaroo.com/1mGlX1WT6x9w

>>53109
>>55170
Low skill low effort intentionally unpleasant irritating non-music is satisfactory to you?

Recently I had some money to spend, so I bought a beginner/small telescope to "stargaze" with. It's quite interesting to do, albeit I could see someone bore of it.

So far, I managed to see some of our planets and some sparkling stars with it. I also used it to to check out the nearby mountains and the city. It's quite a sight to see with one's own eyes (albeit very small) planets like Jupiter or Saturn. There's just something that I like about being outside alone in relative dark, and getting this hobby proved to also give that tendency a kind of boost.

I put gyroscopes in things

Horseback riding is fun, but owning and taking care of a horse is a lot of work. I don't have the means or motivation to own any myself, but I occasionally ride my relatives' horses.
>>42011
In my experience, horses can act very much like dogs.

I don't know if there's enough interest to make a thread, but I'm really into coffee. I have a FreshRoast SR700 and roast my own beans. Recently, I bought 5 lbs from a few different origins and I'm currently going through the Burundi (country in Africa) bag with a custom roast profile that I spent about a week tweaking. The one downside of the result is that it seems to be too light for my old Vario grinder to get down to espresso fineness. I don't really mind because I really enjoy the V60 cup it makes, though.

i ve reliazed i dont find graphic design, programing, writing or any other hooby appealing they just seem pointless but when i find something that is not right in the world i need to express my feelings… maybe because i was a spoiled child that would take every unfairness in life to his mama

I ride horses. It's fun, the horses are nice and I get out in nature a lot.

Glass Armonica

>>58347
He looks like a warhorse or destrier with that livery. The landscape is very idyllic too.

Wish I could live in a place like that.

>>58536
Now it's just to protect from bugs
This pic is from when I hit a bug sitting on a horse

>>58652
jesus what kind of bugs can cause that at horse riding speed impacts

>>58654
Wait is that his blood? I thought he just smashed a really big mosquito full of horse blood.

>>58655
Yeah it was sitting on the horse and I killed it.
It looked a bit similar to a fly but many times bigger and with stripes.

>>58667
Horsefly?

>>58668
Yeah maybe

Started growing flowers to press. There is certain flowers that you can mix in drinks to help with flues' and other stuff so for myself that is something i am indulging in

>>46748
I would really like to get into listening to the radio, but I lack any sort of equipment to do so. I messed around with radiogarden for a bit but it's really just not the same. Really, I'd like a nice analog tuner but they are fairly expensive, I'm not sure what would be a good re-entry apart from just buying a small portable radio from the thrift store, which just may end up in disappointment.

Does stationary deserve it's own thread? Lately I have decided I would like to go broke buying many different pens and inks after just starting out with a few. I bought a couple of Pilot Kakuno's in F and EF, which are certainly a better experience than the Pilot precise pens that I have been using for years. After, I ended up buying a converter and decided that experience is quite a bit more engaging than just replacing cartridges. Along with that order I did purchase an EF Kaweco Sport in iridescent pearl with a gold clip. Certainly a stellar looking pen, but the body material did leave a little to be desired. Regardless, it's very comfortable and smooth, save for the round grip rather than the triangular style that I prefer, but I'm still very pleased with it. After writing with a Kakuno for a little bit, I may have come to find the scratchyness of the EF tip quite endearing, it's sort of like a positive feedback mechanism.
I'm considering buying a Twsbi ECO-T with an EF nib now, but the jade color seems to not be available anymore, sadly. That particular color is available with the cylindrical grip, but I'm not sure if I want to get it. The mint blue is still available with a triangular grip, while the color is still nice, it doesn't really have the same appeal as the jade. Certainly it seems a little silly disregarding something as simple as a pen just for its aesthetic properties, but if I am buying a premium product, then I would like it to be appealing in all aspects.
Of course there would be more to stationary than just pens and writing utensils, but that is just what is on my mind at this very moment.

I smoke Cigars.
Is that even a hobby? I just consoom. Hardly a hobby but maybe worth a post in this thread I guess.
I started to smoke when I was 19. My father was a travelling company man (ala Jack from Fightclub) and I curiously asked for few cigars. It was just a curiosity I never smoked cigarettes before nor I tried any other drugs but somehow cigars stick with me. I smoked maybe 5-10 of them every year. There were years where I smoked 50 and years when I smoked none. I also started to read few books, tasted a variety of different brands and so forth. I think after 14 years I can say I developed a taste.
I absolutely detest the people who smoke cigars however. This goes beyond regular self hating or hating normies. The magazines about cigars have this retarded boomer alpha male thingie, similar to boomers riding Harley Davidson thinking they are hot shit. I never understood this association of masculinity with cigars, it is just another way of smoking tobacco. Nevermind the irony of putting a round phallic thing in your mouth is somehow "masculine".
I don't smoke pipes but they are far more chill and far less self conscious about this. You don't see a book about tobacco pipes citing Persian poetry for no reason.

>>41994
never trust a horse
they will always take you for a ride

I'm getting into electronics now. It's sad that I'm such a brainlet and have problems grasping electrodynamics.
I bought some tools like a soldering iron, a screwdriver set etc.
Today I tried fixing a old keyboard, but It didn't work. Hope being able to fix my own stuff soon.
I'm actually doing it so I can be qualified to be a mere computer technician in a few years. Wanna be able to troubleshoot pcs and maybe get the CompTIA A+ certification.

>>42050
How is your experiments going, wiz? It has been over 4 years since this post.

>>52693
you can get in sudoku games with custom rules.

>>63627
don't get cheap solder. Get 60/40 alloy, not 10/90. Get some flux too to prevent oxidation during solder. Only resort to high heat when necessary. I lot of shit will make you think you need high heat when it is just better solder and flux that you need, or your soldering iron is shit now from oxidation..

>>63627
Don't forget a fume extractor or at least a fan to blow away the smoke. I did some soldering once and my head hurt and I could smell the smoke on me for days. Also obviously wash hands after soldering since the solder contains lead.

>>63627
one time i was trying to upgrade my niece's pc for her, being a good wizuncle

but i scraped off a fucking tiny component lol with the screwdriver accidentally

i managed to solder it back on but wow for an unemployed wiz that was fucking risky im done messing with other people's shit if i cant afford to replace it if i break it

>>66689
>but wow for an unemployed wiz that was fucking risky im done messing with other people's shit if i cant afford to replace it if i break it
too late, now you are the computer guy who fix everything… FOR FREE!

I like finding small, obscure forums and sites like it. Here's a cool one I came across recently: https://forum.marianabay.com

I edit Wikipedia articles.

>>66773
I'm too dumb for subtle vandalism.

>>66774
Then you must routinely contribute a little to a ruse of your own over time. A little yang in your yin.

>>52693
This hobby sounds pretty cool. The fact you're able to get people to test and break your game at all is also pretty cool. Glad you've been able to somewhat move on to a more rewarding hobby, though.