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What's your go-to way to spend a rainy day off?
Reading, watching, playing, tinkering. Do you still go out or do you stay home? Do you brew a hot drink or make a sandwhich for yourself?
Reading, watching, playing, tinkering. Do you still go out or do you stay home? Do you brew a hot drink or make a sandwhich for yourself?
I'll post mine as well:
Nice pot of tea, probably something outside of my default black tea with lemon, brewed with extra care. Some chocolate digestives for dunking, and either an episode of Anime, a video game, or some programming.
Internet (Tildes, Discord, some Reddit until it gets totally unusable, æsthetically pleasing content, plus many things not done under the @MetArtScroll identity). This applies to any day off.
What's there to do on Discord? What interesting channels (is that what they're called?) are you on?
There's a bunch of public Discord servers, you can just walk in and start having conversations with online strangers if you like. There's even an unofficial Discord server for Tildes, among other, less active chats, which I like hanging out with in downtime.
On Discord, I am in the unofficial Tildes Discord server mentioned in the OP's reply to you as well as on some servers created by members of several Reddit communities (when Reddit dies, the activity will most probably move there). I consider the Tildes server primary to the extent that my Discord avatar is Tildes-themed.
What kind of hobby projects do you enjoy?
Oh how neat. I spent a summer designing a tabletop RPG with a friend a handful of years ago. It was kind of in the vein of Apocalypse World but with a sci-fi theme. Mechanics were at a minimum and the campaign was made up on-the-fly, with minor tweaking it could've been played without a DM at all. It worked surprisingly well as long as you had a party that knew sci-fi tropes and could lay down some solid technobabble.
Ideally, a nice warm meal, cold beverage, and video games. A rainy day is my favorite day to just lounge in Azeroth or some other fictional location. Crack a window just enough to really get that sound of rain. Especially if I’m in a zone that’s raining as well. Get that immersion going
Rain in video games is always so nice, almost makes you forgot how not nice it is to walk in the rain in real life :P
You'll find me practicing guitar (I mainly play blues and bluegrass on a Recording King resonator) or binding books while watching an easy-to-follow series like Supernatural, if I'm doing something active. I'm about to order a big shipment of bookbinding supplies, which is super exciting to me! I also spend a lot of time reading or researching metaphysical or occult subjects. Past that I'll just be watching YouTube or browsing media aggregators.
Binding books? As in empty books? Or books you've filled yourself? I'm curious now.
Right now I'm binding blank sketchbooks and journals. I make a lot of miniature ones. Here are the two most recent ones I've done. I'm especially proud of the one on the left for how neatly I put it together. All I've done so far are leatherbound books with simple stitching, but my next shipment of supplies is going to be stuff to do hardback books with fancier binding. It's very soothing and meditative to do, and I love how there's just no upper end to how complex and intricate you can make a book if you so choose. I wouldn't mind doing this for a living.
Nim looks pretty cool, but what drew you to it?
Cup of strong coffee and either read a book, play a video game or do some coding.
Good book and hot tea, or video game and chips.
I really like going hiking in the rain. Everything is at its prettiest, and you know there won't be other people around. Plus, getting home and relaxing/warming up is all the better. For me it's one of those things where getting a little wet is annoying, but if you decide ahead of time that you're just gonna get totally soaked, it's all fine.