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I've been spending a lot more time playing guitar lately. I've learned the solo to Whole Lotta Love, Iggy Pop's New Values (the whole album has incredible guitar work), and Highway Star by Deep Purple. So much damn fun and so satisfying. I've also started a free Harvard online class in critical thinking. I'd suggest everyone do that if you don't know it already. It really helps you cut through all the crap online and find out what's actually happening rather than just believing things that match your current belief system. Oh, understanding cognitive biases is also wonderfully refreshing.

turning stuff on a lathe is quite fun, calming and way quieter than most woodshop tools. i’m making spoons rn.

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.

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.

Recently got myself an AYN Odin 3. I'm having a blast with new Super Mario bros 2! Kind of know all these games from when they came out, but never had the hardware to play them. So I'm expecting to go through a lot more this winter.

Also coming up with some refurbishing/woodworking projects for the living room

Trying to get back into reading daily. The TBR pile on my bookshelf has been languishing in purgatory for too long.

ive been jerking off a lot

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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 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

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.

Trying to beat Turing Complete (I'm on the last two levels), and designing a parametric speaker stand for my coworker in FreeCAD.

1. Hiking, along with doing competitive hiking
2. Photography (mostly nature or photography that has anything to do with water) - i do it for fun, not a pro.
3. Found a phone along the highway and grabbed it to see if i can charge it and tinker with it.

My comouter is broken, so I'm playing bloons monkey city on my phone and watching my friend play deltarune

I've been playing a board game Re;Act - The Arts of War. It's a 1v1 asymmetrical game where you play as magical artists and try to punch the other artist 3 times. The game is focused around making a stack of reactions back and forth as players try to respond to each others actions. The characters are very unique and you can actually play the game for free on the developer's website.

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.