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?
Terry Pratchett. Discworld sepcifically.
I’d only read a couple of random ones, and I’m getting older and there are like 40+ Discworld books so I decided I should get on with it. I’m alternating, so every other book I read is a Discworld one. Almost a quarter of the way through and I’m having a blast so far.
I know it said no doomer responses but I’ve been continually having fun with my xbox right up until last night. It did a “lets look at all your stats wont that be nice” thing. Told me id played for 23,600 hours. Since 2007. This isnt even my first account…
Now I’m gonna look through this thread and see if anything grabs my interest. If I’d spent that long on anything else I’d be a grandmaster by now.
Trying to get back into reading daily. The TBR pile on my bookshelf has been languishing in purgatory for too long.
Learning Japanese. The online classes are only once a week so there’s not much pressure, and you can study a bit more during the week on your own if you want.
Reading up on Zavalishin’s work on the Topology Preserving Transform. My life is absolutely thrilling, and I’ll briefly look slightly disapprovingly at anyone who claims otherwise!
ive been jerking off a lot
Wrong month bro
He didn’t say he nutted. Bro is just edging for a straight month.
I’ve learned all about a lot of open source projects for my new homelab. Immich to replace google photos, homeassistant for a lot of the smart home stuff to control them locally, and the most recent thing is setting my matrix homeserver for my friends to chat on.
I’ve planted watermelons about six weeks ago. Until now I’ve always failed at these -tomatoes, melons, kiwano… none have survived. So this time I read up on the ideal growing conditions and immunized the buds against common threats (snails and chickens mostly) by building a mini enclosure. So far it seems to work :
That was 3 days ago, the plants have already doubled in size since I took these pictures ! I visit them everyday.
I’ve never managed to get anything to grow, but I think I’m gonna try again. Thanks for the inspiration
aha !! amazing ! let’s go !
gourd family plants grow extremely fast. thats why they can become weedy. seen one grow to several feet within 1-2weeks.
Retro achievements. https://retroachievements.org/
Now, I don’t think seeking all the achievements is the best way to experience a game in most cases, especially if you’re playing it the first time. But games I’ve already played, maybe multiple times? RA adds goals which often make me aware of content or possibility within games I’m already familiar! Also, retro games run on modest hardware.
I’m currently trying to “master” Solar Jetman, an NES game I’ve always loved. The achievements have made me appreciate the game even more. I was like “wow, there’s more to appreciate in this game than I imagined.”
Video games. I got back into gaming and honestly my depression and anxiety have gone down. I been playing Boltgun 2 lately and despite how vicious the game is, it honestly does make me feel better.
I’ve been working on my skeleton animatronic. I’ve wanted to do this for years, so I finally am. I have the design pretty well locked down. Printer filament ordered, parts trickling in as deliveries arrive from around the world.
I got the Bottango Solar board to drive the servos. Eyes pan and tilt, jaw jaws, head tilts and swivels, plus two hands that open and close and one arm that extends.
Do you have a how-to on YouTube? I’d love to see how you did this. Halloween is my favorite.
I won’t make a step-by-step tutorial, but I will document a few steps along the way and publish my design when it’s complete. The only thing I have IRL for now is the thumb I printed and assembled. The hand design is the part I’m least confident in. And, the head is the most complex part, so those have been taking all the time till now.
There are plenty of tutorials online for this sort of thing. From modifying store bought models, to kits people make, to old-school casting plastic parts from self-made molds, to designing and 3D printing. I’m using Blender for the design, because I already know Blender, that’s a lot of previously-earned knowledge. I also have a lot of experience building things myself from previous jobs, and hobbies. I’m watching videos for the details I’m less certain of. The skull and skeleton are free downloads, but require extensive modification on the inside to this purpose.
The parts I can’t make and need to buy are stupid-expensive these days. The universal joint for the neck is only sold in pairs, but I only need one, I suppose to make it worth selling, were $15. The two boards to drive everything were $160 plus the two micro SD cards were another $22, but I went with a purpose designed solution, rather than an Arduino solution. There’s the servos ($45), the struts ($9), the turntable bearing ($7), a ball bearing for the jaw ($7), a box of tiny screws ($8), etc. It all adds up fast. Alibaba Express helps, but not much, buying enough at one store to get free shipping helps. Plus, of course, the 3D printer which I already have, but was $1000 six years ago, for a Prusa.
Heeeeey!
This is a very cool doot. More skele-matronics is a good thing.
Not intentionally trying to be a doomer. I guess I was just answering the question, but… nothing.
I’m not really doing anything with my life. I don’t even have time to play video games, at least not for any meaningful amount of time. I’ll squeeze in a few runs of Balatro on my phone whenever I have some downtime, but that’s about it.
And now that I’ve actually thought about this for a little while, I realize I really do need to find something to do that interests me outside of family, the kids, and work.
My God, I wasn’t trying to be introspective. Thank you. Thank you so much.
Tbh, I kinda asked so I could be exposed to more ideas when my current void-fillers wear off.
Just learned that you can make metal press tools with 3D prints. Even just PLA+ works pretty well.
I stamped these in 22 gauge steel with a 20 ton press and the dies looked fine afterwards. The dies are about 3mm deep and the pressing came out just under 3mm. Looks surprisingly professional for my tooling.
Removed by mod
Resident Evil 4, 5, 6, & 4 remake
I used to avoid the franchise like the plague because I really don’t like horror. But after playing the action focus games & watching some lore videos, I’ve been quite interested. However, I wouldn’t interact with the fanbase or play any of the horror stuff. I’ll just enjoy it on my own terms
