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Concerning Hobbies
Mortal Sky
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So everyone on SE ++ theoretically has things they do in real life for fun. I want to hear about these pastimes and hobbies. I'd also think it'd be cool to know what gear people use and which styles people do within these hobbies.
My big thing is skateboarding, and because of how hilly my town is the natural best thing to do is downhill/freeride longboarding, which is basically busting the speed limit on a plank of wood and then drifting out the corners. The freeride bit basically means that, much like in snowboarding, a lot of slides and drifts are used simply for fun.
These are my boards:
From left to right (the first bit is deck/trucks, wheels):
Clutch Lambchop on Hybrid Ace 66s, with Sector 9 Raceforms 78a - this one is my favorite board ever. Fast, comfy, stable, and fun. The graphic on the bottom is a surfboard-style fabric/resin job.
Jet Vulcan (Chopped w/ sicktail) on Paris Adam Coltons, with Metro Motions 80a - I got this deck for $20 and a pack of Marlboro Reds. This thing is janky as hell and I love it. The sicktail is literally just a trimmed skateboard tail bolted under the deck. Needs immaculate balance to master at speed because the shift of weight onto the front truck from the sicktail means she's twitchier.
Okinawan GBC Cruiser on Indy 169s, no wheels at the moment - this board has the biggest kicktail of any skateboard I have ever seen. Only a few exist because they're handmade by an Okinawan surf geezer. Rode this one almost daily in Japan. Silly anime doodles and graffiti because fuck da police.
Longboardlarry Komodo on Holeys, with ABEC 11 Flashbacks 78a (wheels not pictured) - big fun "dancer"-style cruiser. I don't ride this board too much but she's too pretty to sell. Mad fun on flatter ground, but not too great on hills for a few reasons.
My big thing is skateboarding, and because of how hilly my town is the natural best thing to do is downhill/freeride longboarding, which is basically busting the speed limit on a plank of wood and then drifting out the corners. The freeride bit basically means that, much like in snowboarding, a lot of slides and drifts are used simply for fun.
These are my boards:
From left to right (the first bit is deck/trucks, wheels):
Clutch Lambchop on Hybrid Ace 66s, with Sector 9 Raceforms 78a - this one is my favorite board ever. Fast, comfy, stable, and fun. The graphic on the bottom is a surfboard-style fabric/resin job.
Jet Vulcan (Chopped w/ sicktail) on Paris Adam Coltons, with Metro Motions 80a - I got this deck for $20 and a pack of Marlboro Reds. This thing is janky as hell and I love it. The sicktail is literally just a trimmed skateboard tail bolted under the deck. Needs immaculate balance to master at speed because the shift of weight onto the front truck from the sicktail means she's twitchier.
Okinawan GBC Cruiser on Indy 169s, no wheels at the moment - this board has the biggest kicktail of any skateboard I have ever seen. Only a few exist because they're handmade by an Okinawan surf geezer. Rode this one almost daily in Japan. Silly anime doodles and graffiti because fuck da police.
Longboardlarry Komodo on Holeys, with ABEC 11 Flashbacks 78a (wheels not pictured) - big fun "dancer"-style cruiser. I don't ride this board too much but she's too pretty to sell. Mad fun on flatter ground, but not too great on hills for a few reasons.
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warm tingles, all over.
Also I'm trying to start a new hobby; building micro robots. I put a couple of prototypes together in January but then haven't had any time for the past six months ... also someone else moved into my office so soldering suddenly seemed like an obnoxious thing to do.
agreed + same. furthermore
i bought a longboard the other year but it was around the time that i f'd up my knee snowboarding
and then i got distracted so i've never really learnt how to ride it and it kind of scares me
so it's just been sitting there
hmmmmmm i should learn
Got the LBL Komodo, threw it down a hill with no idea how to handle speed, crashed it nastily, and didn't skate for seven months after that
I got better.
Well I did, then I moved. I'm gonna be getting another tank though, maybe a little fluval spec for a betta. Start over small. Go for planted.
I also moved away from my Skull collection, though I plan to get those sent over, but I imagine it'll be a bit harder to find roadkill and boil it here.
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Aww now I super miss them..
skateboards do not provide the same luxury
Learn to pendy heelside or coleman - they're roughly the same slide in principle. It is the quickest and easiest brake you can do. Standing slides are faster to initiate. much scarier to start learning.
well
your first problem is that axolotls aren't amphibians.
Edit: but yes now I want to know about shrimp breeding. What species did you keep?
I have a bunch of pics that I can post up later. They're in a very lovely planted 7.9gallon fluval ebi. Never got to the point where I could start culling them out to try and get higher grades.
my hobbies are smoking pot, playing videogames, and being undeservedly pretentious about things
i am super boring
I'll put a couple of the ones I'm actually proud of under spoilers.
Nooo. Start with something small that you can handle. Oscars are not first time fish people, they're experienced aquarist fish. Because they get fucking massive, are violent, and can live up to 15 years.
I have actually talked a lot of new fish people through their first aquariums and can give you some advice and help you set up, if you're serious about getting into fishkeeping??
edit: oh god i just noticed you said cichlids as in plural, that's like, a 125gallon tank with some serious filtration oh lordy loo
I have pretty much always wanted an Australian blue lobster too. Those are cool looking.
man that ironclad dreadnaught and librarian are both quality, i'm seriously impressed
have you ever painted up any non-SM armies? you've got a good color scheme there and i bet you've got the capacity to do up another race juuust right
i've got an imperial guard army, a SM army with parts of it converted so i can use them as WH (with the combined imperium stuff so you can use guard + 'marines' using the SOB ruleset) and a nice ork army. used to have an eldar one too but i sold it to my best bud so he could play
warhammer rocks
good painting high five
Look dude, we all know your house is nasty but you don't have to call it a hobby
I have had a good four or five years with tropical fish and convict cichlids, plus six years with leopard geckos, but I just haven't done aquaria in a couple years after we moved. We kept the geckos until my cat knocked the tank over and then murdered the geckos while we were out one day about two years ago. The dwarf frogs were my personal ones (once the tank got going - we had bad luck with the ph levels at first and it killed off the first frogs - it went fine for a good while after that even though the frogs ate all the cleaner fish I gave the tank) while the tropical fish were a family project.
The fish project would be a year or so out. Buying the synthesizer took up my hobby budget for the year.
Thanks! I've been considering starting a new army.
Daemons and Tyranids are first in my mind for a new one, but I'm holding out for the Tau getting a new codex soon so I can paint Anime Mechs
I do not.
What recommendations do you have for mid-level, kinda cool but hardy fish? Or amphibians - I really enjoyed the dwarf frogs, so another frog aquarium of some kind might be fun? Shrimp are intriguing too.
Going from tropical fish and stuff like convicts to BIG FISH like Oscars is a big jump. I know it doesn't seem like it, but it's like.. they're fucking small dogs, honestly. Small ANGRY dogs. And yeah for 2 you're gonna need 125gallons minimum, then some massive fucking filtration, a fluval 405 or more, probably a sump as well. I know guys who keep Monster Fish. Switching from a hobbyist 20-40 gall tropical mixed tank where even if you fuck it up it's like meehhh a few fish died cause the PH got a bit woggly to keeping beasts is insane. I was never into it. It's serious fucking business and there's a reason the main dudes who keep them are like, mid 40's married dudes who have massive tanks in their basements. basements because once you get that much water your floor starts to go FUCK THIS NOISE.
Anyways it's a lot of money and time. Fucking changing the water in any tank above 50 gallons is SUCH a bear. Eventually you get used to it, but I've had a 75gall for my goldies and jesus christ. Even with a python for cleaning it out the thing was a bitch.
http://www.oscarfishlover.com/
sorry if I seem a bit antsy, there was just a huge problem in my fish community back in vancouver with people doing stuff like getting oscars and fucking pacus without realizing what they were getting into then trying to rehome them/sell them to us. The worst is craigslist ads where they're trying to get rid of them and the fucking tank is tiny and cloudy because they're terrible and waaaugh I just get upset about fishStuff.
And if it's always been your parents doing it, then you need to start small. Get a little 10 gallon. Keep everything alive, monitor your water, your temperatures, take a tank through a cycle, learn about bacteria. Learn what you're doing. There's a lot more than most people realize.
good luck, whoever