• MoonMelon@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    I paint. I sold through a gallery for awhile but it just wasn’t worth it when I could make ten times more for far less work doing my original job, so now it’s back to just for fun. Also I hate painting portraits of rich people but if you don’t do that it’s really hard to make money. I also hated the mandatory social media removed. Engaging in that ecosystem disgusts me.

  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    I cook for the family. It’s not the cooking that’s creativity for me, most of the time, it’s the menu planning that is the hardest to think through.

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      5 months ago

      Omg! I complain about this all the time! Deciding what to make is by fast the hardest part!

  • MissJinx@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Cook, bake, crochet, cross-stitch, oil paint, watercolor, party planning etc I hoard hobbies but don’t do any of them professionally since I already have a job. They are all hobbies I enjoy

    • Berttheduck@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      Do you have a game of choice? I’ve just finished running a Dresden files accelerated game which was a lot of fun.

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        D&D and Pathfinder are the main ones, and Genesys sometimes when I can convince my players to give it a try. Currently trying to maybe get something going with Cyberpunk Red.

  • KingJalopy @lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Music. I’ve played guitar for 30 years, can play drums, bass, piano, etc… never earned a dime. Played shows but I’m still in the hole as far as acquired shit.

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      5 months ago

      I thought I didn’t have much to tell, but turns out, I could have said the same. I did earn a tiny bit at one point when playing local venues and recording demos for local bands back then, but it was basically just gas money for the band most of the time lol

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    5 months ago

    I play music at home, sometimes recording it. I have zero interest in monetizing it. The most I’d like to do is collaborate and make music with others.

    I also ran a YouTube channel for a few years. Made about twenty cents from that.

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      Apart from the YouTube stuff, I’m similar. Writing, arranging, recording, mixing, etc. Simply because I enjoy it.

      It’s been a while, though. First came kids and other life-related things to take up most of my time. Plus I migrated to linux in 2014 or thereabouts. But I recently found a DAW that I like, and that works great on linux, so as soon as I find a decent drum and piano synth I’m back in (not doing) business.

  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    On Sunday mornings I fix bicycles at the local community center for free, we just charge the price of materials.
    For me is like Zen meditation, it makes my mind focus on one simple task in these crazy times where our attention span is all over the place. And it’s good for our community since most of the people that come there are broke college students, families having a hard time and in general people who want to spend time together. Our group is always growing, I’m expecially proud of two kids, children of immigrants, who came to learn from us two years ago and now managed to save enough money to open their own bike repair shop.

    • Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Do you make Gameboy music though? I used to really be into LSDJ. I know nothing about programming actual games though

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        I made a track for my game, yeah, but using UGEtracker which is built into GB Studio. It’s not the easiest to use tbh so it wasn’t that fun.

        LSDJ sounds very cool, have you checked out the DirtyWave M8? I ran the cheap version (Anbernic console with a dongle) but I couldn’t get over the learning curve. Now I have a Polyend Tracker Mini which I really like

        BTW I’m not really a programmer either, GB Studio simplifies things a lot and it’s free if you want to check it out

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          I haven’t kept up with anything chiptune related in prob 10 years or so, so no I am not too familar with any new tools for the GB. I did enjoy making music on it though. It fun to work creatively when there are a bunch of limitations!

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      5 months ago

      This is visually beautiful but makes me long for a few days ago when the weekend was ahead of me.

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    5 months ago

    I make instrumental music. I write, record, produce, and upload everything myself; but barely earn anything from it. 50k+ streams and I think I’ve only earned $170 so far.