/wiz/ - Wizardry

Another survey thread on the board for srs discushunz?

>>224869
not a survey, asking out of curiosity

>what do you usually do beside
your mom
lmao

Bad jokes aside, probably the same stuff as NEETs only with significant less time and a much higher budget.
Basically hobbies and a bit of imageboard use.
Some youtube as background noise when don't feel like doing much of anything.
Maybe go for a walk while listening to music or a audiobook if the weather is nice.
That type of stuff.

I like to sleep a lot, way more than what's normal. I wish I could sleep eternally

>>224890
I also like to sleep and wish to sleep more
>>224882
what are your hobbies?

>>224893
>what are your hobbies?
Vast majority of the time just the normal consumption ones.
Gaming, anime, movies, maybe a show or cartoon here and there.
Sometimes I write.
Sometimes I get a crazy idea for a project and do that for a few months.
Used to do martial arts but not so much anymore.

>>224895
nice, can you tell us one of those crazy projects you had?

>>224868
When I lived alone I was just playing vidya and wasting time on youtube outside work.

>>224897
you went back living with your parents?

>>224896
One was putting together a moterized bike, which kept having broken parts that I had to order which slowly killed my intisuam for the project.
Eventually I got it running only for it to break again the next day and I just sort of gave up on the whole thing.

Or making a Vtuber model, which was pretty fun, but I don't like live streaming or even making videos so I don't really do much with it beside amuse myself making funny faces and short mo-cap animations. The tech is really cool, but my asocial nature means I ain't willing to put my stuff out there.

Or sometimes I go bike or kickbike touring. Nothing extreme. Usually just day trips along a sight seeing route, or a long ride to a point of interest/event. Last one I did was a very roundabout scenic path to the movie theater to watch Raiders of the Lost Ark that was 20 miles extra compared to just going directly there. Basically a mini adventure to get me in the mood for a adventure film.

Couple years back I got really into building guns and 3d printing in general. But interest died when I realized I didn't actually like shooting guns and going to the range regularly was a boring pain in the ass. Seriously, shooting is so boring compared to martial arts. Once you got down the basics of gun handling and can reliably hit the target everything else feels like larp involving shooting. You just point and shoot. It's boring. Tinkering, putting them together, troubleshooting issues, modifying, even maintaining the guns is more interesting to me. So much more complicated and satisfying.

>>224927
That sounds really cool man. I wish I had project ideas like that too and the drive to act on them. Usually whenever I have some idea I will just think about how much effort it would be, how much it would cost etc and I end up not doing anything. My ambition is to be more like you in that way, it sounds like a satisfying way to live.

>>224868
well hobbies, but it does dawn on you you have to take care of your house and lawn, which I feel very under-prepared for. I've seen one or two houses in my neighborhood fall into disrepair because I imaging someone like me inherited the entire property and did not no what to do with it or have the time maintain it.

I animate, though I'm currently out of commission right.
Cause believe me, it's more complicated than it sounds. To give an example I will spoil one animation I ended up shelving:
Around late March (after finishing another animation that was hard enough on its own) I started on this idea that was basically supposed to be me co-existing with my alter egos. Each alter ego was supposed to be represented by a different style of animation, from hand drawn to cel animation to even cg and maybe even stop motion. It wasn't going to be easy, but I wanted to finish it. However, here's the downside/condition to working on anything high concept, or at least with a ton of meticulous detail: you can't distract yourself with animations/videos from other artists.
Why?
Because it's like a house of dominoes.
And what tipped one domino towards the rest? Simple:
Prescient impostor syndrome.
Or to be concrete, and without naming names, another video/animation from a different artist had an idea about "alter egos" a bit too similar to mine. It wasn't 100% similar, obviously, but just enough to either make me fear I was ripping the person off or render the idea too convoluted to edit now due to the aformentiobed situation, leading me to shelve it.
>It's just a coincidence, the guy probably doesn't even care.
10 years ago I went through this exact same situation, yet I posted my finished work anyway, and the person took it by heart, so why take my chances?
Fortunately I ended up making two other shorter animations afterwards, and even started on a fairly long one, but yeah.
I'm taking a breather/hiatus now, mainly because I'm currently busy with other things on my plate this month. Though I do hope to continue later on this year, and maybe even release a conceptual (if not finished) cut of that alter ego animation someday.

>>225197
Artists are faggots with egos bigger than the milky way and more fragile than eggshells. I would never let an artbaby push me around like that. If I was a twitter artist I would definitely beef with everyone. What's that? You think I rip off your generic done a thousand time idea? Shut up before I draw your OC getting fucked by a black man.

>>225198
I am sorry that you feel that way.
Here is a calming song designed to relieve stress that was recently updated in 2023:
https://youtu.be/tNQmnP_Qt3k?si=nBGpQMjrBz7kaIDm