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?
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.
It’s fun when it works
- Hiking, along with doing competitive hiking
- Photography (mostly nature or photography that has anything to do with water) - i do it for fun, not a pro.
- Found a phone along the highway and grabbed it to see if i can charge it and tinker with it.
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.
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.”
I just got a little retro gaming handheld to play at night and it’s kicking my ass. I was thinking of integrating those achievements, but I think Imna learn how to play older games a little better first.
You got any chill retro games you can recommend I can wind down with?
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.
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’m learning how to drive stick shift cause I already bought an old Jeep LJ. The adrenaline rush from surviving a trip from point A to point B with minimal stalling is nice.
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.
Trying to beat Turing Complete (I’m on the last two levels), and designing a parametric speaker stand for my coworker in FreeCAD.
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What instrument you been playing? Nothing is like playing music with people imo. Pulls something out of me
I’ve been enjoying as much time with my friends as possible, offering support emotionally and such. Playing games like Far Far West.
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
Lately, I haven’t done anything fun besides reading tons of yaoi manga and wondering why the hell my life can’t be like that.
My comouter is broken, so I’m playing bloons monkey city on my phone and watching my friend play deltarune
