Please no doomer responses.
I’ve been playing my guitar a fair bit. Relearning the solo dem another brick in the wall pt 2 because I never learned it right whe I was in high school and really wanna get that 5 fret bend down right. Havent learned a solo in a while, pretty easy reintro to solos.
Been getting my old anet 8 3d printer working again for a project for my girlfriend. Pretty fun iterativeprocess.
Also fucking around with retro games on an old pi I had sitting around. Contra hard corps is hella fun.
So what do you like doing? What have you been having fun with? What do you like?
Touring Japan. Just got back from Kusatsu after a 2 night stay at an onsen ryokan. Currently taking the bullet train from Little Edo to Tokyo Station because the insanely expensive JR Pass would go to waste if I didn’t go for an overkill ticket for a roughly 40 mile trip.
Got into Magic the Gathering (MtG) a few months ago because I have no other social hobbies lol. Surprisingly fun! Not the cheapest hobby… but good way to spend disposable income I guess. Had I known I’d enjoy it (should have figured from my Slay the Spire game hours…) I should have gotten into it quite a bit earlier, cards used to be cheaper back then. There’s a local game store which has weekly events so there’s that
Recently there was a new set (Star Trek) where I played the prerelease, and there was a guy at the prerelease who is a massive Trekkie and wanted to collect highly thematic cards (which I traded quite a few with him), so I was happy
I listened to a fantastic audiobook this week, I’m one book away from reaching my goal of 50 this year!! I hadn’t seriously taken up reading since high school so before this it was maybe like 2 books a year if lucky. I joined a book club and made new friends. That’s been great.
I’ve also been practicing video editing for the group I organize with so that we can up our social media game. That’s been a huge learning curve but very fun.
Wildlife photography; lizards and birds mostly.
Check my profile for the ones I’ve been happy to post so far.
Noice!
Preparing to run a puzzle hunt this weekend: https://g8.glyph.wtf/ (if you join, find me and let me know and say hi!)
Except I’ve not really been doing enough of that due to being away on holiday (in Australia) and at a wedding.
Jo mama
Same thing we do every day, Pinky, listen to music, have fun with the kids, snuggle hot wife, and try new coffee beans.
Gazing longingly upon the new chest freezer and meal preping.
Also playing Heaven’s Vault.
- Running might be my most fun and healthiest hobby recently.
- Really into running public and local servers but it’s sort of arrived at the stage where I don’t need to touch them much.
- Got into my PSVita, Gameboy, and iPod again. iPod is by far the best because it has a week of power so I can always have music. Also have been keeping a small camera on me as well. Diff vibe than phone photos and longer battery.
Barbecue. I got a lightly used offset smoker/ grill that wasn’t working right. The install on the firebox was wrong and it took all of fifteen minutes to fix. The pit works great now.
I’ve made baby back ribs and chicken tenderloins on it a couple of times now. It takes five or six hours to do the ribs but it’s a good reason to be outside since I have to tend the fire, plus it gives me time to read.
The chicken to a while to figure out how to do properly but the ribs have been amazing every time. I use a dry rub or salt, pepper, and garlic. They’re great with barbecue sauce, but they don’t need it.
Jiu-Jitsu! It’s rough, but tons of fun. Builds friendships really quickly too. Not for everyone but it’s a ton of fun for some of us.
Playing piano. I started learning almost 4 years ago and have a chance to play Scott Joplin’s Bethena on a grand piano next week if I can get it ready in time.
It’s a little rough right now but I’m having a blast practicing it so I’m happy either way. I haven’t been challenged in a way I enjoy like this in a long time.
One of my only regrets is not learning piano when I was young.
Luanti, the free and open source survival game engine formerly known as “Minetest”!
I’m pretty late to the party on this one, because I’ve been hearing about this project for years. But I’ve finally gotten into trying it out and it has been a ton of fun!
At a basic level you can think of it as a free and open source reimplementation of Minecraft. But there’s actually a whole lot more to it than that because Luanti isn’t just a single game with a single set of entities and rules, but actually an entire platform for making a wide variety of voxel-based games. It’s extremely modular and all written in Lua, so there are a lot of opportunities to customize the experience and every server you join can be wildly different. There’s everything from classic Minecraft-esque survival and create experiences, to Factorio-esque automation games, and even weird little experiences and silly PvP servers.
So there’s a lot of stuff to explore in the Luanti community, and I’ve been having a lot of fun with it. I’ve joined other people’s servers, I’m self-hosting another one for my friends, and I’ve even started hacking in some mods that I think will make the game even more fun for our group.
I can totally recommend it to anyone who has even so much as a passing interest in Minecraft-like games.
Outside of that I’ve been enjoying other video games lately, including Zelda Ocarina of Time Switch 2, Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition, and Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart.
Got an old computer that a friend gave me up and running. It’s much better than the crappy one I was using, so I handed that one off to my Dad.
This will let me get back to a couple of personal projects I was struggling to complete on the old computer.
Also indulging in political news again, which I had to swear off for a couple of years for my mental health.
A little weird maybe, but…exercise.
A nice workout session gets my brain to making the happy juice.
Other than that, the usual…modular synthesis, beats, poetry…
