I just decided to start asking this instead of ‘what do you do?’ when meeting people. Figured I’d try it out on you folks.

  • adhocfungus@midwest.social
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    Resin dice, novels, 3D prints, paintings, video games, wooden furniture, RPG scenarios. I have way too many hobbies and maybe two hours per week to work on them, so in reality I create very little. But making something physical is incredibly helpful for keeping the worst of my depression at bay.

  • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I had a shop that made flaming nipple tassels, though I just closed down until the future is more certain. I also create sideshow and fire performances. My most recent one involves a drill and my skull.

    And finally, a lot of D&D content, such as an entire world setting inspired by the tarot deck

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    As a welder, I create a ton of shit. Today, I created a new handle for a lathe, cut off the old one, and bolted on my part so the lathe functions (mostly).

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    9 hours ago

    Duct tape and cardboard solutions to questions like “How do I get these two pieces of photography equipment to work together?”

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      Me: “If I make a new mascot platformer (gratis) with vertex colors, maybe someone would get me out of here? What are the chances and outcomes? Would I even have enough time to make something decent with current conditions?”

      The entire scene is low-poly with colors defined using the mesh itself,  also the image is optimized for color to reduce data, resulting in dithering patterns. In a gray room with black and white triangle tiles, there are 6 badgers of various sizes standing and facing the viewer. Similarly, there are 5 eyes floating in the air one of which is not fully opaque. There is 1 banana on the floor.

      Blender, Godot 4, player controller in Nim-lang via gdext-nim, and on top of the 3 hats I need to learn I don’t have many viable ideas.

      Also somewhat related to the social isolation thread in showerthoughts, I live on the edge of nowhere and don’t even want to drive.

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    13 hours ago

    Carbon dioxide. A metric [emphasis]-ton of dust. Other waste.

    Sometimes I write small Perl programs or Bash scripts, but that’s rare, and it’s mostly for my own benefit or amusement; even more rarely do I share them.

    Sometimes despair. Sometimes happiness. Hopefully a sense of being informed and/or entertained if not also a (weak?) sense of camaraderie by means of weird little text interactions with people online.

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    12 hours ago

    Various 3d printed items, Last week I sewed some dust covers for my HOTAS peripherals, scripts to help manage my media library, nonsense comments on Lemmy.

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    Lots of poo.

    A good bit actually though. I’m disabled, so no job. This means that while I’m on my ass recovering from the necessities of living like cooking and cleaning, I have a shit ton of spare time.

    Part of that is spent fucking around on lemmy.

    The rest is usually spent on some variety or another of writing fiction. Short stories, a few ongoing novels, that sort of thing. Here and there a poem or song will pop in my head.

    Then there’s a bit of panting, occasional drawing, that kind of visual art.

    I’ve also been known to run ttrpg sessions here and there, which is its own art form in a way.

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    14 hours ago

    I like to create software tools for people smarter than me to create bigger and better things.