Gorgeous shot. My favorite times of day are just before sunrise and sunset, sometimes you get the most spectacular light and color. Where did you take that from?
I am asking because I stream really boring streams all the time. People are welcome to tune in and check out, and there is no expectation of interaction at all. If someone gets some joy out of watching someone fly in a flight simulator listening to chill music for hours at a time, that's great.
Personally, I enjoy making neat, easy to follow step-by-step tutorials for my various interests and forwarding them to people who want to learn something I know about. Growing up, I didn’t have anyone to show me things and it was often overwhelming having to figure everything out on my own without a clear starting point, so I don’t want anyone else to feel the same way or to feel ashamed for not knowing something.
I love languages so I would also offer free translation for people’s projects upon request and would also translate song lyrics when translation software was much worse than it is now.
When I can, I donate anonymously to causes I support and donate blood too.
It's two days off, paid, up to a maximum of 10 per year in Croatia. You give blood five times a year, aim for a holiday and can nicely round up a two week vacation.
That's pretty rad. We just possibly get a T-shirt (I never have lol), sometimes tickets to shows or something, and definitely added to a phone list of "WE URGENTLY NEED YOUR BLOOD" robo-calls from half a billion numbers.
...But I try to get over my needle-phobia long enough to do it occasionally.
I learned my blood type that way. That could save valuable time in a future emergency! Lol
That being said I haven't been able to for 6 years now, the organisation that handles it (EFS) does not let you give if you have spent some time in Mayotte (among other places), where I live. Concerns about malaria I think
I almost passed out just listening to someone talk about the benefits of donating blood, blood tests and vaccines result in temporarily losing colour from my vision and needing to lay down for a while to recover. Did register for organ donation back when it was opt in though.
Yeah I'm not a fan of sharp things entering the body at all. I'm okay with vaccinations. I look away and let them do their thing. But like, people getting stabbed and stuff, that gives me chills. And stuff going into the skin close to where there are bones, like the hand and foot. Like an IV e.g. Yuck.
I’m the exact opposite. I’m okay with knife wounds, they get my adrenaline pumping but it’s a problem to be solved, so whatever stress it brings can only be focused into taking the steps to solve it. But needles are way more subtle, the concept of this thin little thing slipping between skin to sneak stuff into the body or pull blood out, leaving barely a trace that anything changed. Logically I know they’re great, and I’m very pro-vaccination (ironically part of my job is importing vaccination records for a school district for nurses to track) but the subconscious part of my brain cannot handle it. Needles just give me the heebie jeebies. I’ve been squirming nonstop the entire time writing this.
The scary part about knives for me is how actually dangerous they are. Like people getting stabbed can die just as easily as from a gunshot wound. Knives wreck one's insides. And when people stab people they usually don't just do the one stab. It's often really going all in. 😭 And like, the feeling of having been stabbed and losing your life semi-slowly. So scary to me.
Yeeee absolutely! I always wash my hands when I go back inside my house anyway, so if I’m heading back and on-foot, I’ll pick up random stuff if I see any.
If anything sharp is where feet or tires will be, I’ll always go out of my way to pick it up though, even if it’s not convenient. No good!
Just don’t let it get out of hand. My friend has been out of the hospital, dry and on librium for three days and still can’t pass a field sobriety test.
I hear you, brother, and I hope your friend gets well. But I've been doing this for decades. I have a wife, kids, and family. I know my limits, Amigo. Be well.
Depends how many beers you’re drinking in those three hours. Three to five, that might be okay if you’re not drinking the rest of the week and keep your vitamin levels up. In my drinking days I could easily put away eight or more in that time though, and that is excessive to a damaging degree if done weekly. Maybe you used the term “to excess” more as a stylistic flair to an internet comment, but it draws to my mind the latter scenario more than the former. I do think it’s very interesting that you gave a time frame instead of a drink count, which is the more typical measure of how much one drinks.
I'm thinking Saturday or Friday night, early evening, finishing at bedtime. I often meet friends on one of those days, and we do get drunk. I should probably add that I'm Scottish. It's pretty normal where I'm from. I'm not saying it's good for you (it definitely isn't).
I create open source apps (mainly for my own needs). All of them have zero forks and zero stars, but I don't mind. I love architecting apps and who knows if someone might find any of them useful someday.
I started playing bass guitar on Rocksmith about 5 years ago. I'm in the top ten on most songs on the medium difficulty, and have almost 1000 hours in the game.
I've never actually played bass in front of anyone other than my ex, and I've never really tried to play without the game.
At first I thought I wanted to get good enough to join a band, or at least play along with my family, all musicians, when they get together, but it turns out I just really enjoy spending a Friday night with a half pint of whiskey and jamming alone with headphones.
Link? I have a similar thing at samartean-rares.com/. I post whatever info that felt relatively hard to get to me, practical work or whatever I think people may find useful. And yea I don't think anyone found my website so far but it's whatever.
I do quite a bit of unauthorized trail maintenance. I guess helping other people is a big motivation for it but it's not like I get any credit for it as nobody is there to see me do it. It's just something I do because I then feel good about having done it.
Exercise. Partly because I've gotten into a sport, but I also just enjoy seeing myself get into better shape even though I'm getting older. Things that felt physically impossible to do 90 days ago feel like a breeze now. Being at my desk for 8 -12 hours out of the day is way more exhausting than spending 2 - 3 hours at the gym.
Gaming, often retro but not limited to. I don't need achievements or tell others about what I achieved, but converse about the experience. Admire the design and dive into worlds and have fun!
Same. Last night I spent hours on an SNES emulator, playing Donkey Kong Country 2 all the way up to Kreepy Krow in Gloomy Gulch. I wasn't doing it to achieve anything, just for the fun of it. The music, the visual aesthetics, and the nostalgia connected to it made it such a satisfying play-through that I haven't done in ages.
Playing guitar. It’s just tops. A lot of people know I play since I’ve been doing it forever, and I’m pretty fucking good at it these days, but I’m pretty sure my brother is the only person to have ever heard my songs since I last played in a band, and that’s only because he asked to hear them. He describes my sound as prog-doom-metal, which makes sense given my influences.
Hiking: There is a small state park about 4 miles from my house. I go there on my lunch break and take at least a 2 mile hike. If it's a day where I'm not busy I'll go as much as 4.5 miles.
I've loved hiking since I was a teenager. It's my "me" time where I put in my earbuds and listen to an audiobook and just disengage from the rest of the world.
Worldbuilding. I love imagining weird worlds and figuring out how stuff works in them. I have no idea how to share my worlds with others in a way that would be interesting to anyone, so the only person who knows about my projects is my girlfriend.
Gaming. I don't understand the appeal of competitive games, like at all. Even when I was fighting with other players in Dark Souls 2, I was more concerned with having fun than winning. I disabled achievements in Steam and tend to seek ways to remove achievements from other games if at all possible.
Reading. I know people read like hundreds of books per year. I start less than a dozen books a year. Maybe I'll finish one or two lol. I don't care. As far as I'm concerned, reading Wikipedia and other articles on the internet also counts as reading. And if a book keeps my attention all the way to the end, great!
Try play-by-post roleplaying games? Or whatever they are called in english. You get the best parts of creating with others, but you don't have to interact with strangers irl. It's more like writing stories together though - I've found TTRPG players don't really understand if you speak about it as rpgs since at its best it's freeform and not really rule-based at all
I make drawings, well, just with black ink/ fineliner on paper. I have a box full of them and even have some on my wall. Never tried to sell them or even post them. The only people who know it are my husband, my parents, my brother and best friend. Only abstract, maybe tattoo-ish.
Have done this since.. highschool. Comes and goes in phases. When the mood strikes. Have always loved that my hand-eye coordination is so good, can make fluid lines and it almost looks like it's printed. But well, I guess it'll keep going unnoticed. ;)
My latest one is probably the last one though, the plan is to just continue developing it and expanding it. It's a Slow-RPG, so there will always be new things to invent and add.
Almost everything I do is either out of a desire to so, or because I have to do it. As a kid, I was already too stubborn to worry much about validation, getting old (now nearing my 60s) did not help much in that regard.
Say, writing (and reading) is something I do because I love doing it and, to grossly summarize, I could not care less about people (dis)agreeing with what I write (edit: and read). I mean, I do care but only in the sense that I will listen to their remarks and objections when they they have some, while I don't care about their feelings and emotions or whether they like what I write (and read), or not.
Compared to, say, filling my tax form, which is another form of writing for which I do care a lot about how it will be read and received... but is also not something I write out of passion :p
I've been repairing a 25 year old Golf 4 1.4. Everyone has been telling me it's not worth it, dad wanted to buy a "new" one at some point (read: newer SH car), my grandma thinks I spend way too much money on it.
My biggest spend was the 750 euro paint job (bodywork was completely messed up). Besides that it's been only minor work. I still have a slightly rich running issue to fix.
Nobody thinks I should be doing this but damnit I am not buying a newer car. It will be just as if not less reliable but cost twice as much to repair stuff on it. No thanks.
Behold the cringe that is The Lonely Galaxy. It's my worldbuilding and conlanging project. Conlanging is by its nature a hobby that you can only do for its own sake, as there's no way to get nonlangers interested in your work without being talented at some other art like drawing or writing.
We used to stream and YT vids for the love of it but got burned out. Now we’re trying to get back into YT but this time with animation. We’re not very good at animation mind you, but we’ll be trying regardless x)
Everything I post about that is video game-related. I do post sometimes but I don't think I really did it for validation (not that many people look at it anyways)
I knit because I find the process enjoyable and because I can make exactly what I want or need. There's no recognition in it, and it doesn't save time or money, but I find it satisfying.
I make music as a hobby. It's one of the few things that I enjoy doing and have been consistent with. I like to hear how my sound has changed over the years, I started with making trap beats now I'm into bass production. There is soo much depth to the art, there is essentially an infinite amount of knowledge and skill to obtain.
Another thing is house plants. I like how beautiful they are, and seeing them grow, and taking propagations. I've also grown trees from seeds, in fact I just picked up a bunch of maple seeds this week that I'm going to plant, now I'm waiting for some acorns to drop.
whistling. singing to myself. walking around. usually with my dog so sorta a reason but I decide where to go (somewhat). video games. consuming media (meh not sure love fits there. kinda a background or filler acitivity)
I post and share photography. Some of my works that I think are mediocre get a lot of attention, and some of my most-loved works are nearly ignored.
But I post for me.
I enjoy seeing your photography and outfits in my feed. You’re a great contributor here :)
Thank you! I put my whole self out there.
Gorgeous shot. My favorite times of day are just before sunrise and sunset, sometimes you get the most spectacular light and color. Where did you take that from?
This came off the Tilikum Bridge over the Willamette River in Portland last night!
I am asking because I stream really boring streams all the time. People are welcome to tune in and check out, and there is no expectation of interaction at all. If someone gets some joy out of watching someone fly in a flight simulator listening to chill music for hours at a time, that's great.
It reminds me of this youtuber, who has thousands of videos with almost no views.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheImprovyssey
Keep doing what you are passionate about ❤️
Personally, I enjoy making neat, easy to follow step-by-step tutorials for my various interests and forwarding them to people who want to learn something I know about. Growing up, I didn’t have anyone to show me things and it was often overwhelming having to figure everything out on my own without a clear starting point, so I don’t want anyone else to feel the same way or to feel ashamed for not knowing something.
I love languages so I would also offer free translation for people’s projects upon request and would also translate song lyrics when translation software was much worse than it is now.
When I can, I donate anonymously to causes I support and donate blood too.
Donating blood has got to be one of the things one does that is just absolutely selfless.
If someone does it to brag or to rizz, they could just lie and say they do it. But actually doing it? 🤟
I tried out to become a donor but my iron levels were too low. 😭
It's two days off, paid, up to a maximum of 10 per year in Croatia. You give blood five times a year, aim for a holiday and can nicely round up a two week vacation.
Wow, that's a luxury. We don't get that here. Great incentive.
That's pretty rad. We just possibly get a T-shirt (I never have lol), sometimes tickets to shows or something, and definitely added to a phone list of "WE URGENTLY NEED YOUR BLOOD" robo-calls from half a billion numbers.
...But I try to get over my needle-phobia long enough to do it occasionally.
I learned my blood type that way. That could save valuable time in a future emergency! Lol
Happy cake day!
Down voting positivity 😆🫰
I do it for the biscuits at the end
That being said I haven't been able to for 6 years now, the organisation that handles it (EFS) does not let you give if you have spent some time in Mayotte (among other places), where I live. Concerns about malaria I think
Out of curiosity, what does EFS stand for?
Établissement Français du Sang
https://www.efs.sante.fr/
Society of French blood suckers. ;)
I almost passed out just listening to someone talk about the benefits of donating blood, blood tests and vaccines result in temporarily losing colour from my vision and needing to lay down for a while to recover. Did register for organ donation back when it was opt in though.
Why did you pass out? Phobia of blood or similar?
I don't seem to have any problem with blood in any other situation. Probably more from needles under the skin.
Yeah I'm not a fan of sharp things entering the body at all. I'm okay with vaccinations. I look away and let them do their thing. But like, people getting stabbed and stuff, that gives me chills. And stuff going into the skin close to where there are bones, like the hand and foot. Like an IV e.g. Yuck.
I’m the exact opposite. I’m okay with knife wounds, they get my adrenaline pumping but it’s a problem to be solved, so whatever stress it brings can only be focused into taking the steps to solve it. But needles are way more subtle, the concept of this thin little thing slipping between skin to sneak stuff into the body or pull blood out, leaving barely a trace that anything changed. Logically I know they’re great, and I’m very pro-vaccination (ironically part of my job is importing vaccination records for a school district for nurses to track) but the subconscious part of my brain cannot handle it. Needles just give me the heebie jeebies. I’ve been squirming nonstop the entire time writing this.
That's so crazy how we can be so opposite 😄
The scary part about knives for me is how actually dangerous they are. Like people getting stabbed can die just as easily as from a gunshot wound. Knives wreck one's insides. And when people stab people they usually don't just do the one stab. It's often really going all in. 😭 And like, the feeling of having been stabbed and losing your life semi-slowly. So scary to me.
An excellent human.
Picking up trash when i am walking.
I don't do it everytime. But sometimes when i see trash on the ground and there is a trash can in the near I will pick it up.
Yeeee absolutely! I always wash my hands when I go back inside my house anyway, so if I’m heading back and on-foot, I’ll pick up random stuff if I see any.
If anything sharp is where feet or tires will be, I’ll always go out of my way to pick it up though, even if it’s not convenient. No good!
Drink beer. To excess, at least once a week.
friend of mine is coming off a bender, after two nights in the hospital. Don't do this. google "wet brain."
"Google wet brain" feels a bit like responding to "I enjoy a bacon sandwich" with "Google triple bypass surgery."
If you said “I enjoy five bacon sandwiches a day,” I’d tell you that, too.
Fair point. But there's a gulf between daily alcohol dependency—pounding hard liquor all the time—to three hours of beers on a Saturday evening, no?
Just don’t let it get out of hand. My friend has been out of the hospital, dry and on librium for three days and still can’t pass a field sobriety test.
I hear you, brother, and I hope your friend gets well. But I've been doing this for decades. I have a wife, kids, and family. I know my limits, Amigo. Be well.
Depends how many beers you’re drinking in those three hours. Three to five, that might be okay if you’re not drinking the rest of the week and keep your vitamin levels up. In my drinking days I could easily put away eight or more in that time though, and that is excessive to a damaging degree if done weekly. Maybe you used the term “to excess” more as a stylistic flair to an internet comment, but it draws to my mind the latter scenario more than the former. I do think it’s very interesting that you gave a time frame instead of a drink count, which is the more typical measure of how much one drinks.
I'm thinking Saturday or Friday night, early evening, finishing at bedtime. I often meet friends on one of those days, and we do get drunk. I should probably add that I'm Scottish. It's pretty normal where I'm from. I'm not saying it's good for you (it definitely isn't).
Holding the door.
It's just the bare minimum we should be doing for each other.
I create open source apps (mainly for my own needs). All of them have zero forks and zero stars, but I don't mind. I love architecting apps and who knows if someone might find any of them useful someday.
Well give us a link and let's see if they are useful to any of us!
You're awesome. <3
I started playing bass guitar on Rocksmith about 5 years ago. I'm in the top ten on most songs on the medium difficulty, and have almost 1000 hours in the game.
I've never actually played bass in front of anyone other than my ex, and I've never really tried to play without the game.
At first I thought I wanted to get good enough to join a band, or at least play along with my family, all musicians, when they get together, but it turns out I just really enjoy spending a Friday night with a half pint of whiskey and jamming alone with headphones.
we need to jam though
that same feeling with some cool peeps is the fuckin bees knees man
watching where the music goes
hell yeah i need to get my drums back together!
Welcome to Lemmy!
I have websites that provide technical information on several subjects.
I don't have ads, I don't SEO. I just enjoy sharing free knowledge on the internet.
Link? I have a similar thing at samartean-rares.com/. I post whatever info that felt relatively hard to get to me, practical work or whatever I think people may find useful. And yea I don't think anyone found my website so far but it's whatever.
jackin off
Drawing, I did a drawing recently of my persona Mew. I saw a movie with a drawn character and I became inspired enough to sit and draw for once.
I do quite a bit of unauthorized trail maintenance. I guess helping other people is a big motivation for it but it's not like I get any credit for it as nobody is there to see me do it. It's just something I do because I then feel good about having done it.
Donating to KDE and Signal. Though now that I've said it, it'll sound like I do it for validation...!
I donate a small amount to Wikipedia every month
Alright here is your validation
I make endless dadjokes irl. I don't care if anyone laughs or reacts. They make me happy
Exercise. Partly because I've gotten into a sport, but I also just enjoy seeing myself get into better shape even though I'm getting older. Things that felt physically impossible to do 90 days ago feel like a breeze now. Being at my desk for 8 -12 hours out of the day is way more exhausting than spending 2 - 3 hours at the gym.
Gaming, often retro but not limited to. I don't need achievements or tell others about what I achieved, but converse about the experience. Admire the design and dive into worlds and have fun!
Agreed. This and making music
Same. Last night I spent hours on an SNES emulator, playing Donkey Kong Country 2 all the way up to Kreepy Krow in Gloomy Gulch. I wasn't doing it to achieve anything, just for the fun of it. The music, the visual aesthetics, and the nostalgia connected to it made it such a satisfying play-through that I haven't done in ages.
Playing guitar. It’s just tops. A lot of people know I play since I’ve been doing it forever, and I’m pretty fucking good at it these days, but I’m pretty sure my brother is the only person to have ever heard my songs since I last played in a band, and that’s only because he asked to hear them. He describes my sound as prog-doom-metal, which makes sense given my influences.
Hiking: There is a small state park about 4 miles from my house. I go there on my lunch break and take at least a 2 mile hike. If it's a day where I'm not busy I'll go as much as 4.5 miles.
I've loved hiking since I was a teenager. It's my "me" time where I put in my earbuds and listen to an audiobook and just disengage from the rest of the world.
Worldbuilding. I love imagining weird worlds and figuring out how stuff works in them. I have no idea how to share my worlds with others in a way that would be interesting to anyone, so the only person who knows about my projects is my girlfriend.
Gaming. I don't understand the appeal of competitive games, like at all. Even when I was fighting with other players in Dark Souls 2, I was more concerned with having fun than winning. I disabled achievements in Steam and tend to seek ways to remove achievements from other games if at all possible.
Reading. I know people read like hundreds of books per year. I start less than a dozen books a year. Maybe I'll finish one or two lol. I don't care. As far as I'm concerned, reading Wikipedia and other articles on the internet also counts as reading. And if a book keeps my attention all the way to the end, great!
Collaborative games and a desire to share your worldbuilding... sounds like you might enjoy DMing a TTRPG.
Unfortunately, no one in my circles is interested in TTRPGs and I'm not comfortable with strangers.
Try play-by-post roleplaying games? Or whatever they are called in english. You get the best parts of creating with others, but you don't have to interact with strangers irl. It's more like writing stories together though - I've found TTRPG players don't really understand if you speak about it as rpgs since at its best it's freeform and not really rule-based at all
Sounds like an option, I will give it a try!
Taking photos.
expanding my large collection of porn.
I don't need the recognition, I do it for the love of the game.
Mostly sleeping.
I make drawings, well, just with black ink/ fineliner on paper. I have a box full of them and even have some on my wall. Never tried to sell them or even post them. The only people who know it are my husband, my parents, my brother and best friend. Only abstract, maybe tattoo-ish.
Have done this since.. highschool. Comes and goes in phases. When the mood strikes. Have always loved that my hand-eye coordination is so good, can make fluid lines and it almost looks like it's printed. But well, I guess it'll keep going unnoticed. ;)
Fellow artist who sometimes gets impostor syndrome from time to time: I would love to see your work if you ever want to share.
Programming games.
My latest one is probably the last one though, the plan is to just continue developing it and expanding it. It's a Slow-RPG, so there will always be new things to invent and add.
Almost everything I do is either out of a desire to so, or because I have to do it. As a kid, I was already too stubborn to worry much about validation, getting old (now nearing my 60s) did not help much in that regard.
Say, writing (and reading) is something I do because I love doing it and, to grossly summarize, I could not care less about people (dis)agreeing with what I write (edit: and read). I mean, I do care but only in the sense that I will listen to their remarks and objections when they they have some, while I don't care about their feelings and emotions or whether they like what I write (and read), or not. Compared to, say, filling my tax form, which is another form of writing for which I do care a lot about how it will be read and received... but is also not something I write out of passion :p
I've been repairing a 25 year old Golf 4 1.4. Everyone has been telling me it's not worth it, dad wanted to buy a "new" one at some point (read: newer SH car), my grandma thinks I spend way too much money on it.
My biggest spend was the 750 euro paint job (bodywork was completely messed up). Besides that it's been only minor work. I still have a slightly rich running issue to fix.
Nobody thinks I should be doing this but damnit I am not buying a newer car. It will be just as if not less reliable but cost twice as much to repair stuff on it. No thanks.
I don’t really do anything at all for validation. I’m old and simply don’t give a fuck about that.
Writing sci-fi and making music
Y'all are getting validation?
Is that like a dish of some sort? Never heard of it.
Ride my bike to work
Jacking off.
Your mom never complimented you for a good jerking?
No... but yours did.
(To be fair you kinda walked yourself into that one.)
Dad?!
Son?!?
Behold the cringe that is The Lonely Galaxy. It's my worldbuilding and conlanging project. Conlanging is by its nature a hobby that you can only do for its own sake, as there's no way to get nonlangers interested in your work without being talented at some other art like drawing or writing.
Read.
Woodworking - I'm not very good at it (yet) but I keep at it and I'm convinced someday I'll make something really cool.
We used to stream and YT vids for the love of it but got burned out. Now we’re trying to get back into YT but this time with animation. We’re not very good at animation mind you, but we’ll be trying regardless x)
Yeah man, I just started a shitty little motion graphics based YT shorts based on serial killers and true crime, I love making those picture move.
Ooo can we bug you for a link? Always love finding new story animations in yt :3
Sure, but it's just little motion graphics based in my own shitty voice. https://m.youtube.com/shorts/nnh4x3De6uc
Everything I post about that is video game-related. I do post sometimes but I don't think I really did it for validation (not that many people look at it anyways)
Exercise. I mean I hate it but I crave it and I am not a skinny person by all means so it is something that I do for me and how it makes me feel.
Take my dog for lengthy walks, cook fabulous meals, create hilarious performance art, drink heavily
Fishing. I taught my 5 year old how to fish aswell. Its makes for a nice relaxing day even if the bite is slow
Semantic sidestep: Is gratification a necessary consequence of doing something for the love of it?
Because if so, there's validation of a sort from within.
And if not, that's an interesting thing to ponder.
I knit because I find the process enjoyable and because I can make exactly what I want or need. There's no recognition in it, and it doesn't save time or money, but I find it satisfying.
Take my canoe out on the nearby lake.
Write little web apps that no one but me uses.
Well, strangling animals, golf, and masturbating.
I make music as a hobby. It's one of the few things that I enjoy doing and have been consistent with. I like to hear how my sound has changed over the years, I started with making trap beats now I'm into bass production. There is soo much depth to the art, there is essentially an infinite amount of knowledge and skill to obtain.
Another thing is house plants. I like how beautiful they are, and seeing them grow, and taking propagations. I've also grown trees from seeds, in fact I just picked up a bunch of maple seeds this week that I'm going to plant, now I'm waiting for some acorns to drop.
whistling. singing to myself. walking around. usually with my dog so sorta a reason but I decide where to go (somewhat). video games. consuming media (meh not sure love fits there. kinda a background or filler acitivity)
CAD
Staying alive, apparently.
playing piano, painting
Write fantasy TTRPG content. I've yet to make a cent from it in 10 years. You basically can't if you aren't a big publisher.