Preferably something easy not too expensive.
Triangle.
I tried learning 3 different instruments, first a flute as a kid, e-guitar a few years later, and then now I'm learning to play on a keyboard. I found the first two extremely frustrating and not worth, even though I thought I would be motivated to learn them simply because I liked listening to music made with those instruments, I gave up on them. Keyboard/Piano, however, was and is a a lot better experience. It's not only more intuitive to me how I have to do things, but it's also more fun to me. With guitar you'll have to learn for a long time until you play something interesting on it, with the piano you'll have earlier and more moments of success, in my opinion.
A keyboard is relatively cheap compared to other instruments, but you shouldn't be too much of a cheapskate about it. For instance I bought a keyboard with only two octaves and only sound output when connected to a computer, for around 20 eurobucks, but I figured that this is not enough if you actually want to play some interesting songs, not just plunk around. My recommendations is to buy a keyboard (preferably with more than two octaves and it's own sound output) and a beginner keyboard guide book for adults, if you don't know what instrument to play. Like I said, most instruments are either too easy (>>2) or too hard (e-guitar) for beginners and will probably only make you give up on it.
It maybe depends on what kind of music you like/want to play. I taught myself guitar first but I think a keyboard is good for beginners. They say you get a better visual idea of how notes and chords work together from learning keyboard first compared to other instruments. Like >>3 said, go for a slightly bigger one, because you'll feel limited with less than 4 octaves. You can probably find half-decent Yamaha and Casio keyboards in pawn shops or the like.
You can get other cheap instruments that are fun to jam with, I like to play my melodica along to reggae and ska tunes, and jam along to the Pogues or the Dubliners with my penny whistle. I found an old banjo in a charity shop and learned Farm Boy from Final Fantasy 7 and was very satisfied :3
>>3
I can probably rent a keyboard and see how it works. There's a free to play piano in one of the public squares here. I guess I'll try it out and see how things go before buying one. But I've also been thinking of just making electronic music from samples and stuff.
>>4
I mostly listen to jazz fusion, folk music, and electronic crap etc. so part of me is thinking of some kind of flute. They are relatively cheap and should be easy to handle. I guess I could go with a harmonica too maybe?
Just mix beats with the computer
There are few solitary late night hobbies more accessible and humbling than watching the heavens. The beginner needs nothing more than clear weather and a notebook, while there are a plethora of gadgets and tools for the enthusiast. The newbie can take his time to learn the constellations and positions of the stars with only a free printed map and his hand to take accurate measurements. The veteran can hunt for faint clusters and galaxies.
Tonight’s targets:
Moon
Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter
The Big Dipper
Polaris
Arcturus
Spica
Tonight’s equipment:
NightWatch by Terence Dickinson
Astronomy would be a lot easier if you could do it from inside. Many nights it gets too cold to go out and gaze at the stars, especially during winter. That makes Percival Lowell a sad panda.
It isn't too bad if you're well prepared. I usually start by picking out 5-10 targets that'll be high enough in the sky at whatever time I plan to go out. Since I snowboard, I have enough kit in the form of wool socks, thermal underwear, and gloves that allow finer dexterity than most. Definitely doable for an hour or so
Checked out the super moon this past Sunday. The actual full moon was Monday, but lunar features are more pronounced when there's some shadowing. The ridges on the western limb near the terminator were majestic, though the seeing was at best 3/5.
I really need a moon filter. It was so bright in my eyepiece that light was still washed out in my observing eye even when I went back inside!
Where's SCORPIO?
I managed to spot Venus last night. Its not that hard to spot being the brightest object in the sky that isn't the Moon. I don't know anything about star gazing or astronomy but it was fun. Cool hobby.
met a guy at my school's astronomy club with $3000 worth of gear for astrophotography. he had a refractor telescope attached to some fancy CMOS sensor with a tracking mount and a wireless transmitter connected to his ipad. He showed me crispy clear (stacked) pics of hard-to-capture Nebulae. I decided then that when I make it in life I'll build a similar system. Its been 3 years now and I am utterly worn out, devoid of any motivation. I'd like to own a system like that but I'd rather have it pre-made, without it costing an arm and a leg. Any ideas on how I should go about it?
>>17 Get a job to get the money to buy one
>>18
I don’t think money is the issue here. It’s more “what do I buy, where from, and how do I put it together?”
>I'd rather have it pre-made, without it costing an arm and a leg.
Recipes without photos of result feel so wasteful.
>>36 not everyone has a camera, mr web 2.0!
>>37 I HATE IMAGEBOARDS, I HATE IMAGEBOARDS
Making sandwiches is also cooking!
You'll need:
2 slices of whole bread
2 tomato slices
Semi-hard salty cheese
1-3 mint leaves
(Optional) Some black pepper, if you prefer your sandwiches slightly spicy
Put them together like this:
[BREAD]
MINT
TOMATOES
CHEESE
[BREAD]
I just found out lettuce goes really nicely with chicken :)
I just wanted to share a little cooking tip with you. If you get a tin of soup (this works with any kind of soup) and put it in the microwave for 2 minutes (based on 800W microwave - you may have to adjust the time if your microwave is more or less powerful), take it out and sprinkle in some ground black pepper. Give it a stir then put it in the microwave again for 1 minute. Then let it settle for a minute or two before eating. The black pepper really gives it a nice little extra kick!
>>41 Please stay on-topic when posting in threads.
Special goyslop recipie
Take meat, it can be chicken, sausage, pork, or tuna
Make a bowl of rice fresh like always
Fry your meat in a pan with some korean barbeque sauce and sesame oil
Put the meat into the rice
Add some kewpie mayonaise and okonomiyaki sauce
Mix it all together and optionally add a fried egg to the top
it will look gross but taste great
This is a recipe for "Belgium cake", which as far as I know was made by my great-grandmother. It's a soft, sticky and sweet fruit cake. No, I don't know what it has to do with Belgium.
Ingredients:
Directions:
The Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie
The trick to this recipe is the technique. If you don't use a heavy duty mixer (to cream the butter, sugar, and eggs, as directed) and don't let the cookie dough rest in the refrigerator overnight, these are just regular chocolate chip cookies.
1 C unsalted butter (2 sticks)
1 C brown sugar
¾ C granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 ½ tsp. vanilla
½ tsp. salt
2 ½ C flour
1 ¼ tsp. baking soda
2 C walnuts coarsely chopped
3 C chocolate chips (18 oz.)
Measure all ingredients. Let butter warm to room temperature. Sift the dry ingredients together a few times.
When I was a kid, I played the standards like Monopoly(does anyone ever read all the mortgaging rules?), chess/checkers, or battleship. Then I got a PC and largely ignored them for a long time. I recently learned about Go and Settlers of Catan, and have had a lot of fun playing online. It's piqued my interest in board games again, and I've found several that look interesting but it's so hard to find someone to play with, especially for the quirky games like the ones from Cheapass Games.
Lockdown killed my mahjong club and it never really recovered
>>29
I play riichi mahjong in person with a few friends on a weekly basis, and that started BECAUSE of lockdown. I think that while it does take a while to learn, it always feels fresh to play.
Other games I enjoy are History of the World, Hanamikoji and Galaxy trucker. I love tabletop RPGs, but we only ever really play d&d 5e and 3.5e. I want to try cyberpunk at some point.
>>30
I've only played riichi by myself with computer in PC-98 games and I still don't know how to play despite beating a few opponents. The best I could do was count.
Not knowing how to play mahjong is a good thing. Knowing why you shouldn't play mahjong is a better thing. Real mahjong is usually played by 4 people, and you can never know if the 3 people playing with you agreed to prioritize you. Even without actually cheating they can "rob" you.
>>32 it's pretty difficult to engage in a coordinated attack in mahjong without agreeing on it beforehand. There's a 1/27 chance that every player deliberately targets you if they are choosing randomly.
Even if they did agree to target you, if you are playing "real" mahjong like hong kong old style people don't have much control over the flow of the game. In Riichi, which is the main ruleset played by enthusiasts on the internet nowadays, defensive choices like Beatori are your friend if you are paranoid - there's almost no way to deliberately target players (why we have rules like headbump, temporary furiten, kuikae, etc).
Cheating is also very difficult if you have a somewhat decent play environment (and practically nonexistent if playing online). In fact, if you're worried about players acting maliciously at all, I would recommend finding new people to play against.
But what this all really means, though, is that you, >>32, should just stick with Rummikub.
Anyone here play Magic: the Gathering?
i have been playing dnd with my friends and it has ignited my love for analog fantasy games. its honestly more fun than most AAA games out there. partually because it gives you a form of freedom you cant get out of those vidya games
Hey ya'll.
I've been playing guitar for about two years, but I am not very skilled at all. I need some fairly easy, but good sounding songs to learn.
And how much would a bass guitar cost? Would I need a seperate amp just for it? I have a good amp for my Electric.
You can use a electric bass on a guitar amp. just don't use it too loud, because THAT is what fucks up the amp. using your guitar amp for gigs and such is completly out of the question.
If you're buying a bass to begin learning how to play, I guess you could slightly wreck your guitar amp trying to find out whether you want to play it or not. After a few weeks, if you find that you like playing bass, I suggest that you invest in a bass amp. It's the frequency of the sound of the bass that ruins a guitar amp; volume affects this but is not the only factor. Just because you turn down the volume does not guarantee that the guitar amp will not be destroyed.
Incidentally, in buying a bass, I recommend a 4-sting passive, preferably secondhand as you are not yet sure whether you will pursue this hobby.
And for the record, learning how to play the bass is quite different from the guitar. The strings are thicker, the techniques (slapping, popping, tapping, etc.) are different, and plucking is different as well (and is not a very common technique).
The best way I've improved was by listening to many different styles of music. For 4 years, I've played nothing but punk and some mainstream rock bands, and I had never really gotten better. It wasn't until I started listening to and playing blues, classic rock, and heavy metal that I got better, quicker.
Although learning these songs may help improve your technique, looking into learning scales, chords, and basic music theory is very important. Out of these, I'm most knowledgeable on learning scales (my failure as a rhythm player is due to my lack of knowledge on more complex chords and most music theory). Start with the minor pentatonic scale (http://www.jamcenter.com/minorpentatonic.html). There are a number of sites that provide lessons on becoming more familiar with this scale (http://www.worldguitar.com/warmup2.html). Once you know the scale through the fretboard (not necessarily mastered), you can start learning to improvise. This takes a lot of time and practice. The best way I learned to do this was by listening to a lot of blues musicians (I listened to a lot of B.B. King, Hendrix, and Stevie Ray Vaughan) and learning guitar licks. I use these licks in my playing, but I eventually learned to create my own which would eventually shape my own style of playing. These things will sort of come naturally to you once you get started on it. Also, don't be afraid to jam with other guitar players. I learned a lot from a man who I met and jammed with at Guitar Center. He was one of my main inspirations for playing the blues.
Explore the Jam Center website. It has a lot of free lessons that you can use.
If you decide to learn bass, get ready for lots of painful blisters on your fingertips if you get serious. They hurt like crazy, but they're the fastest way to get calluses, which make your fingers more resistant to blisters and pain.
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If you can play a bit of guitar already, bass is really easy! Also, guitar amps aren't designed to handle the bass guitar's lower frequencies, don't risk it!
been trying to play guitar and bass more, I wanna start a band
I had no intent on eating grilled cheese and tomato soup for dinner, but this is what I am going to do. Alas I do not have any Challah bread, but I will check some bakeries nearby and get a loaf if they have it. If not, I will find something I can nonetheless use. I have never tried honey on a grilled cheese and it sounds unusual, but intriguing. This is the perfect easy meal to enjoy while playing video games on this particularly windy and snowy day. Thank you for the idea, anon.
Cheese toasties have become a cinch since I got one of them George Formby grilling machines!
>>10 Why not try a dash of Worcestershire sauce on the cheese, very very tasty 👍
EARL GREY TEACUPCAKES Recipe ==========
2 Earl Grey tea bags
1/4 cup boiling water
1/3 cup milk
100g of sunflower oil (or melted butter)
2 eggs
160g white sugar
190g self-raising flour, sifted
1 teaspoon of baking powder, sifted with the flour
Preheat oven to 180C (my oven was a bit hot--try 170C next time?). Oil-spray a 6-fer muffin pan.
Empty the tea leaves from the tea bags into a cup and add the boiling water. Set aside for 3 minutes. Stir in the milk and then transfer to a large bowl. Combine and wisk the wet ingredients, eggs, and sugar together well, making sure any sugar isn't missed.
It took me 37 years to realize that canned sardines are actually great. So if you've never tried them, here's an easy way to try: a simple sardine sandwich. We'll use the "recipe" I just did.
You'll need canned sardines, bread, not iceberg lettuce (any greens work too such as arugula, spinach, young dandelion leaf) mayonnaise, olive oil, butter (optional), sea salt, black pepper and optional lemon. Get a fresh loaf of sourdough bread of some sort, as long as it has a nice crunchy exterior and soft interior. Slice yourself two slices approximately 1 to 1.25 centimetres thick. Toast it so it is just ever so slightly browned on one side, then carefully drizzle olive oil on one piece (or use butter if you prefer). Add mayonnaise to both sides. Open a can of sardines. The sardines can be in water or oil, but if they are canned with oil then omit the olive oil from the earlier steps. Place them whole on the bread or crumble it up with your fingers. Do not mind the bones, though if any of the spine feels a bit too crunchy you can remove it although they are safe to eat and nutritious. Add sea salt, black pepper and a light squeeze of lemon juice if you desire.
Enjoy! If you have any other ideas for sardines pls respond. So far this is the only way I've had them prepared, though they are also just nice out of the can as well.
>>13
Sardines are great but this sounds disgusting. Just cook the sardines in sauce and add them to some nice fluffy white rice you boiled earlier. Then, add some soy sauce and Chinese salt and you are good to go my friend.
Here's a link to the "easy" thread that OP mentioned: https://4-ch.net/4ch.html
Yesterday I made my own Lasagna Sheets by making dough and rolling it very thin. It was surprisingly straightforward and tasted great, though I'm not sure it was much different than using store-bought sheets. I used one of these those hand crank pasta rolling machines though, so that probably took out some of the hard work.
>>15 link fail here is the correct link: https://4-ch.net/hobby/kareha.pl/1149780313
Cancer got the best of me. Airsoft fans especially, come say farewell.
This guy is sadly still not dead...
Keep fighting Ollie, You'll make it! Thoughts and prayers to you! I hope our doing okay!
he gone.
fly high bud.
he'll come back
a comment on his latest video:
@Matt_MD93
9 hours ago
In-case anyone is wondering, Ollie thankfully is still with us (long may that continue!)
It was his birthday a week ago, so here’s to a happy belated birthday to you ollie 🎉 🎂 keep going strong!
Judging by the comments on his channel, he is still with us but they are preparing for the end now. I hope he’s doing ok.
He's finally dead
Sometimes I wonder whether Ollie might have known about this place.
:(
>>20
Probably not but it was for the best.
rip bro
Is there anyone else who likes to listen to shortwave radio? Either listening to regular old shortwave programs or listening to oddities like beacons, weather & time signals, over the horizon radars, data transmissions, of course the famous number stations and so on?I've loved this hobby for many years and have owned a lot of radios, but just casual interest which meant I would usually sell the radios eventually.
I recently bought a little handheld (Tecsun PL-680) and plan to build a good longwire antenna outside, buy a few more little portables (like pocket sized) and buy a SDR at some point since having access to waveforms and waterfalls on the software would be nice, though I still prefer actual radios. Unfortunately I live in a city with millions of people and have some high voltage powerlines right outside my flat so that fucks reception, but I still plan to build a new antenna.
This week I was not listening much, but I did manage to pull in a Korean radio station (which is impressive, since there is a lot of jamming there), something from India and a Chinese station, but I don't know which one. Of course there is always Brother Stair and other batshit insane religious folks and a lot of right-wing preppers/MAGA/retards that pollute the radiowaves. The other night I listened to some woman who sounded like she had been smoking since she was 10 years old, talking about how Joe Biden was a pedophile and the usual crazy nonsense that crowed of people is obsessed with. That stuff is not interesting at all but unfortunately the signals for that are strongest in North America. Ever since stations like Voice of America and Radio Canada International stopped broadcasting on shortwave...most of what you hear is that sort of garbage.
Also I've listened to Radio Nikkei a lot. This is actually a great way to practice Japanese if you have been trying to learn it. They have a lot of talk radio programs so it's nice to listen in if you can manage to tune in such a distant station. The talk radio is good for vocabulary practice and shit. I think they also have a program for Japanese people to learn English. I've never caught that one but it's probably entertaining to listen to if you do.
This sounds like a fun hobby I might try it. I haven't used radio in nearly a decade.
You could get a nice introduction buying a cheap handheld receiver for very little money and scan the shortwave bands that way. Reception depends on your antenna, but the built in one is sufficient to get started. There are other ones you can build for cheap, such as what we call a longwire antenna. It is as the name implies: a real long wire you connect to it. Well, there's more to it but you can really just attach a bit of speaker wire to one and you'll hear a lot more.
Or what a lot of people do now is just use WebSDR aka Software Defined Radio. This works using a little digital receiver that basically has its "ears" open to a shit ton of frequencies, from a few MHz to GHz. A device like this can be bought for as little as 30-40 USD and is super cool, but requires its own antenna. However there are a lot of WebSDR websites available. Here's one located in Georgia, USA which is I guess run by a high school radio club. Try it out, click around and see what you can tune in. It will let you hear everything from FM radio, shortwave, amateur/ham radio to I think even things like satellites.
Listening to some cool oldies radio program on WBCQ out of Maine, USA. Normally this station only plays boring Christian bullshit since a lot of them lease airtime out in order to keep the transmitters on (it's expensive to broadcast on shortwave), every so often they play regular stuff. Distance just under 1000 kilometres. Listening on an RTL-SDR v4 since I'm outside. My Tecsun PL-680 was barely picking it up, which is odd. Using roughly a 16 metre longwire antenna. That's just under 600 miles and 60 feet for the Amerifats.
Right now it's "Pirate Joe Extravaganzo" on 7490 kHz. SINPO is probably a 4/1/3/2/3 meaning there is a lot of noise and fading. This is likely due to the time of day (16:50 Eastern) because propagation blows during sunlight hours. The fading has gone down compared to 20 minutes ago, but there is still a lot of noise. It's still listenable, though.
Here's how it sounds to me: https://vocaroo.com/1fOgdgfC8Gai
I gather you're not from North America, but over here CB is still moderately used. There is a famous guy on Channel 19 that goes by the name Mud Duck, Mud Duck in the Desert or Fine Tune CB. He is known for broadcasting seemingly 24 hours a day on a 500 gazillion trillion billion watt transceiver meaning you can hear the retard across the entire continent whether you're in southern US, central Canada, the deserts and mountains in the west. He doesn't really talk to anyone in particular, he's just always there on Channel 19 talking and talking and talking. Most people hate him. He can be fun to chat with sometimes, other times he just gets aggressive. Total idiot.
Anyway for shortwave, the best way to get into it these days is an SDR/software defined radio. They offer a really good way to get into shortwave radio without spending 150-200 dollars or Euros on an actual shortwave radio. The nice thing is they aren't only for shortwave. For example, the RTL-SDR v4 is a cheap USB dongle you can get that can receive anything between 500 kHz to 1.7 GHz meaning you can do a lot of shit on it. Here are some examples of what you can do with an RTL-SDR:
I use a Tecsun Pl-880 I got used with an AN-80 antenna I hang in my room.
I've managed to get QSL cards from NHK-World on 6105, WWV on 1500, CHU on 7850, WINB on 9265, and Pop Shop Radio on 5950 (WRMI)
Sent reports to WWCR, WRMI, and Radio Havana Cuba
Also, I learned that Radio Romania and New Zealand no longer QSL.
I'm gonna QSL China, Exterior de Espana, Turkey, WTWW, Radio Rebelde, and World Christian Broadcasting
I recommend listening WRMI, since it has a diverse range of music, such as Cruisin' the Decades (UTC 2-3 Sun), The Mighty KBC, Encore/Radio Tumbril, Pop Shop Radio (UTC 1-2 Mon), Alt Universe Top 40, Imaginary Stations (when that comes on - seems kinda random to me idk), and DEFINITRLY Radio Catface (UTC 3 Mon), because it's the only indie-type music on shortwave that I can find so it's a really unique listen.
Does The Report of the Week still have a show on WRMI? I know he kept wondering whether or not to cancel it because he didn't know if people wanted to listen. I kept encouraging him to keep going with it. This was years ago, so by now he has a fair bit of wealth and could no doubt keep it going. It would be a shame to lose a unique program like that, especially on WRMI...half of what they broadcast is just religious garbage.
Hey guys, I am new to smoking and I was wondering what brands I should try first.
>>63
years of shitposting will addle your brain, shill. save yourself!
check 'em
still weed increases appetite, and tobacco only rtemporarily lessens feeling of discomfort, but not discomfort itself. weed is awsome.
>>67
weed used to be awesome until it made me think too much
>>60 Keep posting, retard!
>>69
shill, if you are not a retard, then why are you a shill? weed would make you love people and get better job.
>>70 I smoke like Willie Nelson, I have lots of friends and I have an awesome job. You can only communicate with zoomer buzzwords.
will making fanart actually sells lol
im trying to start the game biz thingy
but i either start original which should be
legally safe or do i rob existing franchise
like probably everybody ha
why bother
You can make fan art and sell them at conventions or take sell commissions online. I doubt you will be able to make a living unless you are really good, or if you make porn
A friend of mine has saved up for a house by selling art at conventions. But he's been building up an online presence/persona for 10+ years
tf2
30000+ money double spelled team captain
