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What's something you always wanted to get into?
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By that I mean like a hobby, a sport, a pastime, field, industry, anything
For me it's surfing. There's some decent surfing a couple hours drive from me; I'm currently pretty close to passing my driving test and getting a car (don't ask lol) and when I do I think I'm going to join a surf school and mix it up a bit! I've done a bit before but would be cool to get properly on it!
Anyone else got any dreams hiding under the crust of late stage capitalism?
For me it's surfing. There's some decent surfing a couple hours drive from me; I'm currently pretty close to passing my driving test and getting a car (don't ask lol) and when I do I think I'm going to join a surf school and mix it up a bit! I've done a bit before but would be cool to get properly on it!
Anyone else got any dreams hiding under the crust of late stage capitalism?
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Oh also woodworking
not like, actually good or anything; but good enough to have a basic ability to play with people outside of button mashing. but my fingers are too stupid and despite trying on and off for years i just can’t do it.
i realize when presented with “anything” this is a very small ask but idk it’s what i thought of.
Model trains...
Don't give me a wedgie
god yes
My big stumbling block with it was always where to put all the stuff
I keep getting tempted by these z scale layouts that fit inside a hollow coffee table or a drawer or whatever
Can just put a table top over it for non nerd company, or a sheet of acrylic for nerd company
A legit great pastime!
mostly i write, but sometimes i think about what would’ve happened if i went hard into music instead
Another one would be film making
I'm full of different interests can you tell?
It's a real pain and that's why I looking to become a vampire, if anyone has any leads.
Carpentry/woodworking is pretty high up there
I also think I'd be okay at like, robotics or similar more hands-on technical engineering stuff given the space and resources
As it stands I've finally hit a point in my adult life where I have a few hobbies I actually like and am not just convincing myself I do, so that's a start
i've just never had the patience to sit down and seriously learn
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Same
I picked up a book nook diorama kit that I haven't tackled yet. That's another one where I'm thinking it both scratches the modelling itch while also having a ready made means of display/storage without them taking over my house
My hobbies have always been wargaming or video gaming related, I’ve never gone through with something else.
But I’ve wanted to since I played Guitar Hero but a combination of things put me off - perceived pricing, the fact that I have short, fat fingers, needing time and money to learn, etc.
A couple of months ago I decided fuck it bought a guitar and an amp and I’ve been slowly practicing.
edit: like, I can do some coin tricks and the basic transfers, but I want to wow people
Fuck yeah!
You can do it!
I've got short fingers too but don't worry too much about it most people's fingers will still work fine for most guitars, they are designed to fit the human hand after all even with the variance inherent to people.
Plenty of tutorials online, I recommend the YouTube channel Marty music for learning some songs or the website Justin guitar for more theory based stuff but you can often just Google that kind of things too (for now... AI...)
I should maybe start a new guitar thread for folks who are learning like us or already play and chat about playing guitar.
I have some animation software on my iPad that I purchased and I also purchased a course on how to use it. I just need to... actually sit down and do it.
Go on then, give us an audio clip! Your motivation is you’re the hero of hit anime Forum Poster Maximum!!! and you’ve got to give a speech about justice.
My Dad in his retirement cranked his interest in a model railway from "built a track on a board ostensibly for the kids to play with 30 years ago" to "had a whole brick building built in the back garden to house a train set"
It's made birthdays and Christmas easy because you can just go browse the N-Gauge section of any of the major model retailers and get him some stock, scenery or a vehicle. I let my son go wild and choose whatever catches his eye so my Dad has to find room on his very serious and highly themed 1950s layout for Panzer tanks, a crime scene investigation including tape and a chalk outline, an in-scale minion banana truck and an army squad with militarised jeep. I didn't let him buy the "ladies of the night" collection, though. I quickly clicked past that.
I think someone probably already uses that name
I've always wanted to make a little real music so my band is less fake
Most of my clothes
Playing trumpet in a “heavy metal horn” band
I haven’t played seriously in 21 years now
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Right now I'm settling for 3D printing.
the only things standing in my way are lack of time, money, and motivation
So like I'm not sure if I could easily hear a chord and tell you what it is, open chords in standard maybe but that's still hard. And I tend to think melodies are way more complicated than they usually are. And I focus so heavily of the shapes of the scales I don't listen for the different tones in it as much as I should.
I can pretty much hear unison, third, fourth and fifth intervals now though just not at speed so that's progress.
Also my sense of rythym is for shit
I've still got some lingering muscle memory even decades later, I can still walk on my hands pretty consistently (despite my body screaming at me afterwards)
Stunt work has always fascinated me too. The ability to convincingly throw yourself over a railing and down five flights of stairs and walk away ok is just the coolest fuckin' thing.
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But if I consider myself "into" those already, more academic pursuits. I'd love to know more about science and history than I already do but these days my attention span and memory for that area is shit.
But really, I'd say I want to be better about offloading the things I'm both no longer interested in and don't see that changing (so, so many card game collections just taking up space).
I wanna shoot an elk and use the hide to make a shirt and coat and the antlers to make sweet knives and the bones to craft armor. I'd like to take a crack at making butter and brewing weird backwoods ales from pine needles and hallucinogenic mosses.
I am not entirely joking with this post.
I grew up wishing I could play the banjo but at this point I'd be happy with the harmonica.
But these DAMN HANDS of mine...
(The 5th string is a "drone string" and isn't often fretted at all)
The hard part of banjo is the method of strumming it which is usually a technique called clawhammer in folk and bluegrass music. Rythym is very important.
Also key signatures don't make any sense at all but we haven't gotten to that yet.
I’ve barely started. I can play A major and E major and even got to swapping between them pretty quickly, but I’m mostly just playing scales and teaching myself pick control.
Last time I got to the point that I could use two fingers to do two alternating frets up the first 4 strings hitting each with an up and down stroke but getting to the A and E strings requires more than my fingers can stretch at the moment.