I kill and butcher animals for myself and sometimes friends together with my boyfriend. Mostly pigs, some sheep and goats, poultry. Sometimes injured animals who are too injured or in too much pain.
The idea is to save the stress of transport to animals who are raised in good conditions as part of diversified restorative small-scale agriculture.
The killing and butchering is just one part of a circle of activities around the farm throughout the year, but probably the most unmentionable in any social setting other than among meat fanatics.
If I had a nickel for every time someone has been disgusted by the idea of me killing and processing animals, while they were eating meat, I’d have like 3 nickels. Which is way too many nickels.
You do realize this reads like the prolog for a serial killer novel. Innocent couple with a slightly odd hobby attracts the attention of a league of serial killers?
Spoken like someone who would rather their meat come plastic wrapped on a foam tray, where they can pretend that these exact things didn’t happen in a much less humane way for their convenience.
I know you’re just trying to be funny, but it’s like drawing an equivalence between grilling meat and torture.
Almost all meat is factory farmed. Almost all meat animals are killed at a fraction of their natural lifespan. Almost all meat is procured unsustainably, at the cost of the destruction of the biosphere.
Sure, grilling meat is not equivalent to torture, but in >99% of cases it absolutely is.
i’m a bit out of the loop now but the equipment is pretty advanced compared to tech deck. 5 ply wooden boards, special trucks, wheels with tiny ball bearings, it’s pretty cool
I really enjoy getting the most out of a computer/mobile device that I have. I love trying out different OSes, messing with a video game to squeeze as much as performance possible etc.
I feel like this is a lost art that was huge in the late 90’s. Everyone wanted to see how many fps they could get out of their toaster. Now, it’s not just the users but even the developers don’t care about optimization anymore.
I partly blame the manufacturers for this. With the turbo boost, CPUs and GPUs basically came pre-overclocked out of the box. You’ll just put a beefy cooler so that the turbo boost can be maintained indefinitely.
I still remember when I fried my dad’s CPU because I read a guide in a magazine on how to overclock a CPU.
Making gaming terrain out of household junk. Hey, wanna hear about the combat tiles I’m making out of cardboard and hot glue? No? No, I completely understand…
No specific game, but I hope to eventually use them to run generic d20 for my nephews. They’re made for the 1-inch scale (technically 1 1/4, to give room for adding walls). There are no pieces I’m most proud of. I’m still on my first project, which I’ve restarted twice. I’m committed to finishing this time, even if I turn the tiles non-euclidean by clumsy handling in the process.
I can see “random people” not caring much IRL, but as someone who plays skirmish stuff, I’m interested! I’ve seen some stuff online, but never bothered to attempt anything myself
Weather watching (not the extreme kind) - I basically note down the current weather and interpret my own forecast then later see if I’m right.
Lockpicking - it’s basically a tiny little puzzle and I can buy different solutions for a few bucks at any store.
Gardening - this is less obscure/quirky and more that I don’t want people to think that I’m bragging about how many tomatoes I have because I will in fact brag about how many tomatoes I have.
Weather prediction - Do you have any knowledge about how weather works or are you just random guessing? I would love to know more about how to predict weather, based on current and past weather.
Lockpicking - are you also trying to pick an actual lock. I am watching LockPickingLaywer on YouTube, it’s really fun to watch, because it’s really easy for him to pick a lock. But I don’t know where to start. I would love to at least try to pick some lock. Just for fun.
Gardening - that’s actually good experience to have. It’s not so easy to know how to garden and if you know that, good job. 👍
Are your forecasts just based on life experience or some weather research or some kind?
Also talking about your garden in any positive way just automatically sounds like bragging. For example my beans are monsters and are growing so tall and tying to take over the whole garden. I didn’t really do much, they just are.
I use resources on weather.gov for most of my personal forecasting. I know there are forecasts on there but I usually only need it for readings like pressure, humidity, and wind speed. Also I don’t own a Doppler radar which is a very useful tool for figuring cloud density and shape. I do want to get a lightning detector though. That sounds neat.
As for your beans, if you got some spare cans and like pickled things, assuming they are green beans you could pickle them and they’re pretty good. I like em that way at least.
Edit: I forgot to mention the accuracy of the forecasts. I have precipitation down pretty good. That’s just pressure, wind direction, and cloud cover/type of cloud. Temperature is effectively magic where I live so it’s hard to pin down. Still haven’t figured out that one yet.
I’m not into Gundam but I know of it. I was surprised when my boss and like 3 other coworkers, when we all started on a new team,l and didn’t know each other, started talking about their gunplas.
Not in Germany. It is not technically ilegal to go around naked. It is only ilegal to bother other people, but if you are naked and doing normal things like hiking or riding your bike, then the police can’t tell you anything. I have known 1 or cases where one person was fined, but they apealed (is that how you write to appeal?) It and the charges were drop
Edit: Of course if you do sexual things, then you can get arrested, fined and imprisonment for some years.
Honestly I have never had any problem with nudism, so im not sure what tips i can give. Maybe if you feel uncomfortable by being naked, try it firsr where is more normalized, like saunas or nude beaches.
I’ve fucked a lot with language generation. I’ve never been able to generate anything that isn’t uncanny in some way, but with the right prep you can get a language model to spit out a lot of text that almost seems like it’s from an actual work of art.
I’ll say me writting my homebrew DnD world. It goes in pair with me using ObsidianMD, I love the tool i’m using and i’m having fun specifically in the making of polical cities more than in the making of combat senarios. My mom knows about it and sometimes asks, Dad finds it stupid, and I don’t talk about it with anyone I used to atlk about what I write to two friends, but they are coming to my session in september so now I have no one esle to bring it up
Stick with it. You will find players. Try game nights at you local game/comic/fantasy shop. A lot of schools have a gaming club. Our son has been in one since primary and he is a high school freshman this year (9th year).
That’s cool. I make shit up in my head all the time but when it comes to actually writing it down it all falls apart. The same thing happens when I try to draw. People that are able to actually get their creativity out of their head are impressive to me.
Oh I am not able at all to draw too, I can’t make it if I don’t have an idea in my head (and then the technic is bad behind)
I started writing my DnD (Now Pathfinder 2) adventure/world because I was tired of waiting for someone to “maybe invite me some day” and I started very very simply
There is a King, he’s old, he was a hero, and he looks like the old guy in Atlantis (Disney). Ok, now what. I guess the guy has a Kingdom, but that’s really big and scary to write. So he has a big developed Greek City. If it’s Greek then he must have a Greek God. I don’t have any Greek gods made. So let’s make like one God Hmmm god of knowledge yeah, and to not have to make to much gods, let’s say it’s like the main god of the city. Even better, let’s say they made the city together ok So now there must be a big temple
And I continue and continue and continueto add one things after the other that’s basically it and what makes building for roleplaying games fun
I suck at creative writing too, but I bullet point stuff then whack it in chatgpt and that does all the creative stuff for me! Try it out, if you like!
Just finished building a TT02 for my kid and one for myself; so fun! We are waiting for our local track to reconfigure from buggy jumps to touring car flat track.
The club I help run is a Tamiya sponsored club and we host the PNW regionals every year. My first car that I raced was a TT02, and everything I race these days is tamiya because the other ROAR clubs are a bit more intense than I want to participate in.
My latest build was the new BBX which I won at regionals this year 3 weeks before it released. It’s a rad little buggy!
That’s fuckin rad. I thought about monkey branching into that, but then I realized it’s a 100% different hobby with almost zero crossover with racing RC cars, which put it right out of budget for me. Looks like a blast though.
this is the type of comment I was looking for ITT. most of the others are just shy people that don’t realize most people would love to have conversations about niche hobbies someone can communicate any passion about.
if you bring this one up, the inevitable followup is either they awkwardly disengage from the topic, or they awkwardly ask to see what you’ve made
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