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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.

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[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

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).

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 3 points 7 months ago

I have a comic that I work on if I got the time and energy (I usually don't).

I also DM and I make stories and maps for my table

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 7 months 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.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's a byproduct of our society to ask what value your work does rather than you as a person. A better question would be "what stuff are you interested in?" I bet taking that spin will actually make people stop and think a second not only because it's not the normal question, but people have lots of interests and now they'll have to pick one that they want to share.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 3 points 7 months ago

Your work is what survives after you pass. Your interests don't.

That's not a byproduct of contemporary society, always has been.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 7 months ago

maybe systems. my work tends to be getting one or more systems to do something a business wants.

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago
[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

That sounds interesting. What's the process for making it? What colour does it come out?

[–] Elwynn@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Shitty code

[–] TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Worldbuilding and video games! :(

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago

Have you read Vermis?

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

programs, music and baby

[–] kosanovskiy@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago
[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Ive always hated that question. Its usually asked to determine social status.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

People in manufacturing and r&d quite like the question, I'd reckon. I wouldn't relate it to social status.

[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you are from the same industry then yes.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

Same industry as what?

[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago

I definitely didn't read it that way from the post. I thought it was about your hobbies and creative interests. I guess you could infer social strata by whether the answerer has time and disposable income for hobbies. Some don't require much investment, but it's usually more than none.

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[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] Ludrol@szmer.info 1 points 7 months ago
[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

For the last year and a half I've been writing and drawing a fluffy, sapphic comic based on a very unserious British science-fiction show about a time travelling alien in a blue box (4 chapters so far). It's on AO3.

Has anyone asked OP what they create? What do you create, OP?

[–] erotador@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i found your comic, and im so interested to see where this goes thanks for everything <3

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Oh dear. This is uexpected, here of all places :D thank you for reading, this means a lot ヾ⁠(⁠・⁠ω⁠・⁠*⁠)⁠ノ

[–] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Solid comic!

I grow crystals all day. I have a cool idea for a video game so I've been learning Godot recently too.

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

It's been a while but I was learning to songwrite and record a few years ago. Been focusing on education lately so not as much time for it these days.

Listen to Carried Away by bootydharma on https://on.soundcloud.com/eceja

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