Don't forget the thousands of dollars in tools you'll be compelled to buy and never being able to throw out even the small piece of wood because "you might need it someday".

My foray into woodworking began and ended with figuring "sheesh, custom picture frames are so expensive, how hard could it be?!"...

By the end of that experience, nothing felt real anymore. Every foolishly pure mathematical concept, every platonic ideal - shameful indulgences of the young and weak. Our grand edifices of knowledge, little more than piles of tattered rags with which we clothe our nakedness, arrogant and hubristic in our vulgar conceits.

Don't do it y'all. That abyss gazes back.

My partner complimented my new shelf recently. Then she looked closer and realised it was a few boards stacked up on the cheapest engineering bricks I could find but rotated so the holes are not visible.

Only got a folding hand saw which I suspect isn't the best for making straight cuts, I had considered cutting up a railway sleeper for blocks instead of the bricks. Bricks worked out cheaper. Wooden blocks could look nice though.

That's my dream, except I want to complicate it by building guitars. So it actually has to work, not just look like it might.

After having worked with wood and son of a cabinet maker, I crave the strength and certainly of steel. I got into welding in a big way.some aluminium, but mostly steel. It's such a wonderful material. Cut it, weld it, grind it, bam, new and bigger steel. You can't make a piece of wood bigger.

LOL I learned so much from this, thank you.

And also: Fume and dust extraction is no joke!!

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... but you'll know

I just tell everyone where all the mistakes were.

Especially if you want to make "good" food. I'm not saying there isn't good food that is healthy for you. But if you want to make things taste like they do in a high end restaurant, it's probably going to require a shitload of butter/ghee and salt. And then probably cream. And also highly fatty meats.

It's usually just butter. So much fucking butter.

Same for cameras, axes and chainsaws...

Dice. Definitely dice.

There are moments when it can be n+2...

This is true for reptiles and snakes as well.

Except the number of pick and pull yards seems to be dropping by the day.

There’s never a local hobby/support group for it

This is the hardest part..

Is your hobby guitar lol i'm curious

"Meh, I'll upgrade the server RAM when I need it, zswap is working fine" <- clueless idiot from last year

Definitely applies to climbing. Technically more expensive shoes may help with certain climbs, it certainly won’t help a beginner.

This does NOT go for watercolor painting! While you certainly dont need a lot of colors and brushes. The quality of both is paramount for progress and a decent outcome! Paper is even worse. You need a lot and of the expensive stuff. Acrylic paintig is not as bad but still...

Not sure what hobby this is, but honestly it goes for almost every one of my hobbies. Especially photography. I could probably just get good with my Canon EOS 40D for digital and my Canon EOS 300 for analog photography. But collecting new gear is so satisfying. There's always something new to improve. "If only I had X, then I could really do Y well". Though I at least feel like I've somewhat contained myself. I haven't bought any new camera or lens that was more than like 500 bucks, and honestly with what I have now I don't really feel the need to upgrade.

Old SD cards are so convenient. Pair them with a small USB card reader and you can carry a bunch of temporary storage in your pocket without buying anything extra.

Some games still don't work emulated, or at least didn't used to, like wrath unleashed

My boss pushed us to research and acquire a resin printer a couple years ago. My coworker pushed the high-budget Form Labs direction due to his poor experience with resin printing in college. I had zero experience with resin (mostly only used Prusa FDM at that time) and pushed toward the relatively low budget Anycubic Photon direction, from the standpoint of "this is really not what we need to be doing with our budget, and this doesn't make sense for our use case, so I'll try to waste less money."

Now that my coworker's been gone for over a year, my boss thinks no one uses it because we don't know how. I know how, but FDM is just so much more approachable. I can swap filaments, click print, and walk away in about two minutes and trust that I'll come back to a usable part.

Changing out resin is its own special hell, and good luck if you have a print fail and have to clean off the bottom of the tray. I didn't get to a point of trusting prints to finish. Even when it does finish, you still have to wash and cure, and every part I ever made in resin seemed to be dimensionally unstable. Even the sample parts a Form Labs rep sent us were badly warped in shipping. The Photon hasn't been used in well over a year. CEO wants us to get rid of it, and I agree. Boss isn't letting go.

Meanwhile we just got two P2S printers that are cranking out parts like a champ. I would rather take a leisurely stroll across Eastern Ukraine than print with resin ever again.

I absolutely hate gunk on my hands, so I stuck with FDM.

I remember in college, when someone would get into MTG, we'd jokingly say coke's cheaper.

Now, when someone I know gets into 40k, I much less jokingly say "MTG's cheaper"

Then again, if you're just playing for fun against friends, a $200 3d printer is cheaper than any army I've seen. Still costs more than a $45 booster draft, but at least the printer's a one-time cost

To piggy back on this, don't chase the fucking meta. By the time you get your Exaction Squad and paint it, GW will balance it into being a total waste of your time/money/points.

Wait, you didn't know this before getting into it? That's the first thing I ever heard about it, and I've never owned any 40K anything.

Come give Warmachine a shot, army sizes are usually smaller and the rules are less "my rule book was published more recently, that means I win" (Plus the models are slightly cheaper).

I thought that too. That's why i bought a resin 3d printer and made it 1000x more expensive, toxic and time-consuming. yey me

Yeah, there really hasn’t been a good alternative for fabric. Lots of people were quick to jump on the “lol join the 21st century and just buy it online” side of the argument, but buying fabric is an extremely tactile experience. You need to feel it to know that it will have the correct texture, weight, see it will hang, which direction(s) it will stretch, how much it will stretch, how easy is is to stretch, etc for what you’re trying to make, because all of those qualities will heavily impact the end product. Those things are difficult to quantify, and nearly impossible to judge purely from photos on an online listing. Two fabrics that look identical online can have vastly different weights, stretch, textures, etc…

It's miserable. It was such a good store, Michael's doesn't compare for fabric yet. Hoping they get as much fabric as they've been sending me emails, might get a lot then lol

Move to Chicago, we have good local stores for fabric.

Find a good physical therapist. There are some good ones out there, I promise. But you might need to travel and/or pay out of pocket. And the best source for good PT recs is friends in the same sport - so make friends with some ultra runners and ask them.

Hit the gym and do yoga. A big part of a lot of knee pain is instability in the low back and hips.

Read up on psychosomatic pain, and integrate exercises into PT and gym time.

Ah, a fellow taxidermist! Pleased to meet you

Companion planting, friend! You can grow garlic and basil in the same pot. They all three work well together. Also, if it’s indeterminate, trim that thing. It doesn’t have to keep growing to produce. Learn to compost, too. Take care of your soil and it will take care of your plants.

This is why I went with herbs for my small garden. 3m² of tomatoes will last a week, but that area of rosemary and sage will last indefinitely.

I have a pretty addictive personality and I thank the stars that I've never enjoyed coke on the handful of occasions I've tried it. It just made me feel overly talkative to the point of being annoying.

Skill issue

I'm basically coked out by default, it would simply keep me from blacking out or bring me out of one when I used to use it. Otherwise no change, it's the same with alcohol, it takes a lot to actually bring on a change, most people usually think I'm still sober or barely drunk blacked out apparently. Never really felt addicted to either, weed on the other hand, apparently not addictive, but it forsure ruins my mood when I try to quit. (Haven't drank in over 6 months, and had a fat gap before that, don't think of it, haven't used coke for over 2 years probably, don't think of it either, weed + nicotine I still use daily) I'm not trying to quit them either, just not around fun ppl or things to do since moving back home after college, so I just never think to do it.

Hey! Long time artist here who paints all kinds of things, from metal lawn art to actual paintings. Rule number one- wash your bushes out in cool water, not hot or warm, as hot water can loosen the glue that holds the bristles in. Second get a small tub of brush restorer. A little goes a long way. Once the brush is dry, add a little brush restorer and reshape the tip and bristles. You can use sharp sizzors to clip and stray brush hairs that won't stay in place. And keep paining!

Yes, tabletop gaming is so much bigger and more varied than GW's games. I love 40k and Warhammer fantasy, but just as one part of the hobby.

The high pricing and FOMO churning is pretty perfected by GW. It is easy to fall into just thinking and buying GW products at MSRP. There are many ways to avoid it and play for much cheaper, but it means breaking out of the GW exclusive ecosystem. (I have many specific suggestions how to do this btw.)

I can't stand the modern tournament culture which has this sort of e-sports stink on it.

As a mild piece of good news OnePageRules seems to have decent traction and isn't too difficult to find groups who play in stores. It has its shortcomings, but at least the rules aren't subject to the constant market driven churning updates.