/hobby/ - Hobby

>>46553
>the Schwartz(tm)
Please say sike

>>46283
>>46294
Apparently they crammed like 4 seasons into one or something lol

>>46123
So I do this largely forum-based RP and one of the big things there is 'faction' RP, where there's a big emphasis put on geopolitical stuff. Since like 2019 I was doing RP partly as an exercise in social fiction. I also run a character who left the Jedi Order because it was full of idealist pussies and liberals. He has since become Mand'alor and rides a boomer-ass Basilisk droid into battle, it's kino shit.

The Solidarity started as a coalition of Outer Rim spacers, droids, and AGIs who rose out of a massive slave revolt during the Hutts’ collapse. By ~300 ABY, they’ve grown into a hyperstate of around 100,000 planets, running on a centrally planned economy and labor-credit system. Their alliance with the Republic is pragmatic: both need each other against the Sith, but the Republic also keeps ties with the Hutts, who are quietly reviving slavery as debt peonage.

Militarily, the Solidarity fields smaller but far higher-quality forces than their rivals, avoiding clone or droid armies out of principle; they uphold a “joint dictatorship of the organic and synthetic proletariats.” They’ve just finished a war that quadrupled their territory and can’t sustain more fighting, so their focus is political: undermining and delegitimizing the Hutts while preparing their own Force traditions alongside the Jedi.

This is great anon
>I ended up eventualy selling it on Reverb for a wee profit
The synth module too?

>>46715

Yeah I sold the whole thing as a standalone instrument.

Summer season ended, meaning I am back to having nothing good to wear. I literally struggle to find no print sweaters/tshirts in nice colour.

Also I want to bitch about how short the sleeves on short sleeve tshirts are these days, I can either buy oversized tshirt with decent length sleeves or fitting tshirt which doesnt even cover half the biceps.

Anyone else notice how shit the quality of store bought clothes are now (at least in the uk)? Like i used to buy tshirts and collared shirts from places like m&s and next but after a few wash cycles they go to shit (for collared shirts the fabric goes loose and starts leaving hug gaps around the neckline and tshirt collars become crumpled and warped).

Feels like you have to shell out shitloads of money just to get anything that'll last more than 6 months

these jean paul gaultier shirts look like how a twitter fanartist draws top surgery scars

>>46641
Out of curiosity, how did they find out that Serpent's Walk was authored by MAR Barker?

>>46690
this page talks about it:
>The Tékumel Foundation, who has controlled the Tékmuel IP rights since Barker's death in 2012, has known about the novel since July 2012, after an archivist turned up "the manuscript, the original cover art, the publishing contract, the photocopy of the payment check, and the proof copies of the book" amidst Barker's papers, according to the archivist; the archivist further says that two of the Foundation members knew about it previously.
>The first public hints of the novel appeared in 2018 when independent researcher Amina Inloes wrote an academic paper for The Islamic College of London, later published in The Muslim World (1911-Present) titled "Muhammad Abd al-Rahman (Phillip) Barker: Bridging Cultural Divides through Fantasy/Science-Fiction Role-Playing Games and Fictional Religion". In that article, the author referenced a "pseudonymous novel" written by Barker, refused to name it, and instead offered the following footnote: "Discussing this novel posed an ethical dilemma. The work is clearly Barker's — not only does his share his writing style and interests, but it is published in the name of one of his ancestors. … However, the novel explores potentially inflammatory political viewpoints, and it was impressed upon me that it was best to preserve the facade of anonymity. I thus will leave it to the interested reader to dig it up …". Discussion of this article seems to be what eventually revealed it to the wider public this year.
https://www.rpg.net/columns/advanced-designers-and-dragons/advanced-designers-and-dragons63.phtml
the tékumel foundation later put out a statement confirming his authorship
https://www.tekumelfoundation.org/post/the-tekumel-foundations-board-of-directors-statement-on-serpents-walk

>>46174
I think you can have both. The nature elves are the "wood elves," while the advanced, magical elves are "high elves."

>>46689
its funny that you mention the Covenant since I always thought they were one of better written default horde factions of p much any big video game franchise or at least the writers actually tried to develop the Covenant into an actual living breathing society with culture and history and motivations instead of just being mindless drones.

>>46698
Is the Covenant a "horde" though?

>>46686
>turned into pure fetishistic agp gender bender bullshi

lol bro when was it not that

>>46686
Is there specifically blanchardism in it or is there just genderswap / forcefem-forcemasc stuff in it and that's the framework you have to parse it?

>>46688
>Is there specifically blanchardism in it

Lol no

>>46688
it's agp in the sense that there's fetishistic narrative focus on the female body as something arousing to inhabit, and there are several characters that get sexually excited by inhabiting female bodies

>>46700
I mean that'd be like calling OniMai blanchardist.

Sorry if it's offtopic but the reactionary obsession with lotr is fascinating to me.

Why Is The Right Obsessed With Lord of The Rings?
by The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)
<Every fantasy franchise has an insufferable part of its fan base. But this one takes the cake. Powerful conservatives are obsessed with The Lord of The Rings. We know this because they name their military tech companies, surveillance companies and venture capital firms after objects in Middle Earth. Billionaire Peter Thiel has named 10 of his companies after things in Lord of The Ring, including Palantir, the Trump's regime's authoritarian surveillance company of choice. JD Vance has called himself a "Lord of the Rings guy," Elon Musk has hot anti-woke takes on The Rings of Power, and Jeff Bezos helped make that series by buying the rights to the franchise via Amazon. Even the far right even in Spain and Italy identify with the Lord of The Rings.

>>46620
Not a bad video

<Original – The Nine Sovereigns at Windsor for the funeral of King Edward VII, photographed on 20 May 1910. Standing, from left to right: King Haakon VII of Norway, Tsar Ferdinand of the Bulgarians, King Manuel II of Portugal and the Algarves, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King of Prussia, King George I of the Hellenes and King Albert I of the Belgians. Seated, from left to right: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King George V of the United Kingdom and King Frederick VIII of Denmark.
I wonder if this influenced the 9 rings for mortal men

>>46667
It's an interesting detail in that regard that they're all wearing riding boots.

Pretty good so far, another banger on Glitch's belt.

It was good and I can't wait for the whole thing to be released. But it just made me think, why can't Western animation do spacial consistency. Like it feels like the world does not really have distance and the characters just bend the rules of reality to get places. Most western animation has this kind of consistency / pacing issue. But yeah it was great.

>>46659
I hadn't the words for this until you said it, but I think you're right. With anime you sometimes get a lot more liminal / en-route scenes, like stuff is still happening but they aren't teleporting just to The Place Where The Next Thing Happens as often.

>>46659
>But it just made me think, why can't Western animation do spacial consistency. Like it feels like the world does not really have distance and the characters just bend the rules of reality to get places.
I've noticed that a lot, especially in GoT. Like in the 5th season one character makes a trip of thousands of miles in a sailing ship in a matter of days. Recently in alien earth similar disregard is shown for the time it takes to travel. The general tendency just seems to be "whatever the plot needs."

Imo it's part of a much larger writing problem that seems to be effecting media where little or no thought is paid to how things actually work or why. The only consideration seems to be how spectacular or melodramatic a particular scene might be in the moment.

>>44628
OP is right though. autistic or not.

The whole world is pretty much the same. People all do the same things, live in cities and drive cars to their boring regular jobs, everyone in the world eats Big Macs and watches Family Guy. The only escape you will ever find from this homogenous cultural wasteland is the sweet release of death. But feel free to piss away all of your savings on your cliche whitebread bourgeois journey for a feeling of catharsis that you will never find.

>>46616
>take psychedelics
Remember Lenin was a mushroom and Stalin is god

Have a nice trip 🙂

>>46463
I've been to Switzerland too. It's not that good uygha damn.
>Every place I visited looked like a fucking bob ross painting.
We got mountains all over America too if that's your thing. Switzerland was my favorite country I've been to in Europe, but like have you ever been to the Grand Canyon? Utah? Sedona? Yosemite? Colorado? C'mon.
> The people were kind.
I didn't really talk to them but I got more weird vibes from them. Whole place has Disneyland kind of vibes. I'll take your word for it.
> The people were kind. The quality of everything I ate was better than anything I've eaten state side.
The food in Europe is better on average because they have regulations and sheeit, but that's a ridiculous statement.
>The airport had smoking sections.
Vegas airport has smoking lounges.

So I mostly saw, like Zermatt and Lake Geneva, but I didn't even go to Geneva the city. I briefly stopped in Zurich and that place gave me a headache. Their roads seem to be designed by lunatics.

>>46489
>child pregancy bad
that was the point of the album you massive retard LOL

>>46503
it was at dashcon2 2025

>>46504
>that was the point
child pregnacy bad
the mods were chads
toby fox stinkyface

>>46503

ye

>>45547
Wouldn't even really need AI, just some way to check it isn't static, and something to check if it's unique would deter some more primitive bots.

>>45546
anon, I….

>>45546
Tbf I only go there when I'm high or drunk so I was legit angry someone was spamming the website for like 20 minutes while trying to jerk off.

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