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What's everyone's hobbies?
I think that's a good way to start off this group. What do you all like to do in your spare time?
I think that's a good way to start off this group. What do you all like to do in your spare time?
My favourite hobby is mechanical keyboards, I love the way they feel, look, and sound. It's one of those things that seem really simple and shallow at first, but after you scratch the surface a little and get into it you find out there is so much to learn and so much to try.
Here are a few links to some mechanical keyboard communities if anyone is interested:
I love mechanical keyboards and sneakers. For some reason there's a pretty big overlap between those two communities
I think that's apt because people who are in the Mechanical Keyboards community spend way too much on keyboards, just like people who like shoes spend way too much on shoes. Also Mechs are highly customizable and people get really fancy with key caps and I think shoes are similar to that in regards to style.
The next time I meet someone who is into mechs, I'll ask them where they buy their shoes.
I'm a fan of mechanical keyboards too! I have the Coolermaster Pro M with brown switches (unfortunately I don't have it with me over the summer D:). In the future I'm hoping to build a custom 1800 or 96 key with some kind of clicky or even stronger tactile feel switch. Those layouts get at making the keyboard smaller without much sacrifice in how many keys you have, which I like.
I know I'm smalltime in mechanicals with one keyboard. What keyboard(s) do you have?
I'm also a big fan of the 96-key layout, but my favourite is the 65%, currently I have a Zeal60 board that I built with Zealiostotle switches and a Melody96 with Tealios. My next build will probably be a 65% with Zilents for bringing with me to use at school.
Someday I also need to get a switch tester and really try a bunch of switches. Cherry is good, but there's so much more out there. I have heard of Zealios, but never the two switches you mentioned!
Tealios are Zeal's linear switch, a little overpriced for what they are in my opinion but after lubing they are really smooth, but wobbly.
Zealiostotles are a mixture of an Aristotle stem (a really old switch that is terrible, but the stem has a great clicking mechanism) and a Zealio housing. They are by far to me the most tactile and nice feeling clicky switch.
And yea a switch tester is a great idea, but trying out a single switch is never the same as a whole board of them. If I were you I'd try to go to a local meet up next time there is one to try out other peoples boards and switches!
I do some of this as well! I DM a Pathfinder campaign set in a world that I made, which involves a lot of world-building. Do you have any particular plans for what you're making?
Yup! It's a lot of fun and very satisfying, though it can definitely be a lot of work. Following through is exactly why I like it though. I often have trouble finishing things, so having a couple other people that are expecting me to have stuff together every week or two is a good motivator.
Meme stolen from /tg/
EDIT: To reply to you seriously, I usually do a light amount of world building before I start a campaign, before expanding it based on what direction the players want to go in, and then abandoning the campaign when I get bored with it... You should probably skip that last part.
If you're world building as a DM, it can be fun to have your players define some stuff about the world as part of a "session 0" or what have you. It gives everyone a stake in the setting, and leads you in directions you wouldn't have gone in on your own.
I love to draw. I have only started doing it consistently for the last year though. I usually do it on pen and paper, but recently I got a tablet and started getting used to drawing on Photoshop. I feel like things come off so much better when you are able to fix pretty much everything you want to.
I just got into it a few months ago myself! I'm still kind of bad at it but I've already seen a lot of improvement since watching some tutorials. I want to make an animated short sometime in the distant future I just gotta keep training. What drawing tablet do you have?
I have kind of the same goal as you! My style is a bit simplistic, but I'm practicing drawing animatics, which is a good start to that sort of thing. I have a Huion H640P. It seemed to me to be the best bang for your buck.
Yeah I was looking at huion too! They seem pretty up there and far cheaper than wacom. I've been trying to study my favorite anime movies and the different teqhniqes they use in production. It's pretty interesting when you are actively looking for those kinds of things!
Anything. Everything. Draw what you love. Draw things you don't love. Some common and fun exercises are:
Draw your non drawing hand in weird positions.
Draw an apple, orange, or some other roundish fruit.
Crumple a napkin or a piece of paper and put it to the side of a desk lamp. Draw it just by shading the shadow shapes.
Draw a glass half full of water by sketching the shapes of the things you see through it.
Draw the negative space of an item - like you're outlining the air around it.
Take a picture that you like and turn it upsude down. Copy it that way.
And just have fun!
You just got to try and do some studies from life. I'm watching this great tutorial on different techniques in drawing. I helped me expand on what to draw but for now I'm just trying to work on shadowing and perspective.
Here's the link if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1HIh25sbqZnkA1T09UtVHoyjYaMJuK0a
You should totally visit ~creative when we have our next speedart! :D
I hear you on the drawing consistancy. Sometimes it's hard to give yourself the priority you deserve with all the other things going on in life.
I can't draw for s***, need to finish that drawabox course sometime after my exams are over
So... would you and @Buddy be interested in a poetry jam? I've been thinking of starting one lately!
Are you Hunter S. Thompson? :P
Today I was working on a dock right next to an inlet from the ocean (I'm a tree timmer and I work in Florida). Since it's Saturday, people were just boating around but what I found really strange is that a group of four boats was just floating in o ne spot. It was obvious that the people knew each other, but they were all on their individual boats just chilling next to each other. I found that to be, for lack of a better word, stupid. Is that something you do, or would do? Most of these people had kids so I can't imagine they were getting drunk, just sitting in an anchored boat.
It didn't seem dangerous. The people didn't really look like they were doing a great job of tying off their boats, but it was fairly calm today and they weren't that close together.
From what I could tell, though, they were just chilling on their individual boats and not drinking. I could understand if they were partying, but they were more or less just sitting there. Looked pretty silly. I'm very asocial and introverted, so if I were on my own boat I would rather cruise around and do cool boat stuff. A go-fast boat did pass us while we were working and it sounded awesome.
Maintaining my home servers, most of which entails media management at present though I want to branch out at some point to collect other things and maybe experiment with different operational tools. I have a Plex server (basically Netflix that you run yourself) that I share with a few friends and a steadily growing anime collection.
My biggest ones seem to fit well in other groups unfortunately, but I'll list them here anyway!
I love computer hardware, and since I can't afford to tinker as much as I'd like I watch a lot of tech videos on youtube. I also like to use my PC for gaming, programming, and fiddling around with Linux.
I am definitely someone who has to exercise to avoid going crazy, so I run and bicycle a few times a week.
I also like reading, and am currently working on How to Make a Spaceship, by Julian Guthrie. Space is why I am studying engineering, so I always love a chance to read a good space/scifi book.
I love computer hardware myself, my friend. I found a new love: used computer hardware. Here is a dual proc system I made a while ago. Cost fairly little to put together and it was a bunch of fun for me. I learned a lot while building that computer.
I also 'built' this computer for my wife. She does web development and before she was using the fucking worst all-in-one desktop ever that was slow as balls and really wasn't up to the task of web development.
I do like used hardware too! Some of my favorite youtubers do a lot of used hardware content, most notably Tech YES City. Those projects are super neat too.
Unfortunately I'm a student, so I move around a lot and don't have the funds and space for more than my laptop most of the time. Luckily my laptop is good for most of what I want to do. Once I'm out of school and have a steady job though, I want to always buy hardware a generation or two back so I can justify upgrading every time something new comes out :D
Tech Deals is another YouTube channel that has some interesting videos related to budget hardware. His videos are also kind of soothing to watch because of the way he talks. The rigor of his testing has some questionable aspects but he's pretty transparent and honest. Pretty great.
I can understanding about moving around. When I was younger I moved every year and it was awful. I'm thinking about moving right now, again, but I might move again soon after that in search of a job so I'll be settled for another year maybe.
I have developed a habit which turned into a hobby: complaining about life.
If I could do anything about it and actually improve my life I would, but until then I'm just going to enjoy it and ride the wave.
Are you my brother? I know you're not because you're a transperson and know how to use a computer, but are you?
I know it's offtopic, but my brother has, I'm hoping, finally reached rock bottom and is making an effort to improve his life. He's reached the point where he's either going to be a homeless drug addict for the rest of his life, or he's going to improve because he's honestly at the point where he can only improve where he's at now. Before that, all he's done is bitch about all the things that are wrong with his life, much like yourself. That was his hobby.
I'm quite into electronic engineering. Currently i'm trying to build a 3d printer with two other guys. I really hope it works out!
Currently I am painting, drawing, and reading in the doing things category. In the consuming category, I enjoy watching Asian dramas. :)
Right now, it's longboarding - I bought my first ever longboard a week ago and I'm learning some basic dance moves. The scene around here is pretty dead though, so if anyone else is into freestyle longboarding, let me know!
Other than that, it's story-driven video games, aerial fitness (pole and hoop), knitting (during winter), and whatever I see online that looks interesting enough to try :)
Long boarding as in skateboarding, or surfing?
skateboarding :)
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