• home improvement

• road cycling

• ethical philosophy

• videogame design

Game dev?

I'm a terrible drummer and worse producer, and I like to play games.

What's the latest in the bedrotting hobbisphere? Any new tips and tricks?

Ooh I got one, did u know u can scroll through Netflix for 15min and never decide on what to watch?

1. Cooking

2. Reconditioning old audio equipment

3. Tabletop Role Playing Games. Rolled my first character back in 1978.

4. Running... Kind of... I just completed Couch to 5K and am working on 10k now. I'm just doing it to help my health and not really trying to be a serious runner.

This works across streaming platforms! Peacock is a reliable one, nothing there is really worth watching, but what if you wanted to watch The Office again?

Modern boardgames and cardgames.

(For a good time with friends, here are the keywords: Inis, Netrunner, Innovation, Port Royal, Targi, and Jaipur.)

Piracy!

This is what sets the betrotting enthusiasts apart from the pros.
I can only do 2-3 minutes before I switch apps and try YouTube or lemmy.

Ah, so you have one hobby?

reading literature, history, and academic stuff. I have been reading several books about the creation of the MFA programs in the USA, for example. i also like studying languages and have studied 7. i also dig fountain pens and fancy pencils and stationary, makes writing and note taking a very enjoyable experience.

Mountain biking/cycling. I also do advocacy and education and trail building for this and have CPR/first aid wilderness certs I have to re-up every couple of years. hiking and camping too.

I also am into gaming, cooking, and DIY projects but that is touch and go depending on the season or other stuff going on. i mostly only game when it's winter or I'm injured/sick. I also love training my pets. My dog and I have done several training programs and my cat is basically a well-trained dog.

usually people think at least one of my hobbies is some social faux pas when they find out about it.

Improv, ukelele, marxism

Reading, creative and technical writing, tabletop gaming, miniature / fine art painting, photography, listening to and writing music (dungeon synth, extreme metal, folk, electronica), hiking, cinema

Why, you're doing it right now!

If you keep running that'd be a hobby in itself.

• Reading
• Geneaology
• Cycling

Gaming, weight training, reading, nail painting, just getting started on lock picking.

Music and chess, mostly

I study biochem/microbiology. Recently there's been a new(?) discovery about photoresperation actually being benificial to the plant. Photo respiration is when photosynthesis accidentally happens to an oxygen which creates toxic molecules and was always thought of as wasteful. Billions of dollars have been spent to 'solve' this problem when, unsurprisingly, billions of years of evolution have solved it already.

IMO it's why plants don't do as well as we expect with high CO² concentrations (iirc)... the paper is behind a pay wall though, so I haven't read the whole thing yet but the mechanism has unfortunately been called the Bloom Cycle and is set to confuse countless undergrads in the future.

Ahoy, matey!

Marxism as a hobby?

Im not sure I have them anymore. Downtime is to precious so what would be my hobbies at this point are relaxing and enjoying simple things. I mean I don't feel video games or watching media would be hobbies but if you ever saw my responses to what are you playing or watching you will see I don't exactly consume it a lot in a week. which maybe doing it less would make it more of a hobby in that case. I dunno. I do very much try my best to figure out what I can do among my options that interest me the most.

A hobby is usually something you enjoy.

The enjoying part comes after the running tho.

Drawing.

Also spending days rearranging files into more sophisticated structures, finally noticing that it's becoming horribly convoluted enough to be unmaintainable, and tearing the structure down again.

So the hobby is not-running.

Does that make not-collecting stamps a hobby and does the atheist community know?

I have a comic that I work on when I have the time and energy for. If not some random doodles or drawing maps and sometime NPCs amongst my prep for my dnd game. Some times I play videogames too but I find it hard to really sink into it the way I did when I was a kid.

• Reading
• Gaming
• Selfhosting
• Magic: The Gathering
• TTRPGs (D&D 5e, Shadowrun 6e, Midgard 5e)

I don't think OP is a sir 🤔

The trifecta.

Sure, but I could be doing it so much better!

Do not look up the history of Gynaecology if you wanna sleep.

GET BACK HERE!

Seize the means of recreation I guess? Lol

Cooking, baking, home canning! Gardening when it's the season! Knitting when I remember!

I think the hobby with collecting stamps is not mailing letters.

Alcoholism and masturbation.

1. I read a lot, mostly fantasy, science fiction, and mysteries, plus some non-fiction.
2. I play and run non-computer roleplaying games. I started in 1976 and have been at it ever since.
3. I have recently taken up playing the recorder, mostly tenor. My wife and a friend play with me.

Can I just copy your answer? I'll change the writing one to coding. And hiking to dog walking.

"I used salt instead of sugar and melted vaseline instead of egg whites. Tasted like shit, 0/5 stars for this recipe."

In terms of hobbies I would say photography, videography, generally messing around with computers and other electronics.
I also enjoy casually cycling and driving, as well as traveling to see new places in general. Usually I combine that with the photography and videography.

I hope this dark time passes relatively quickly for you, friend.

Riichi mahjong. Starting playing online about six years ago, started going out to play in-person two years ago. Recently took 3rd in a small online tournament, but I've yet to put up good IRL tourney results...

Gaming, programming, nail painting, 3d printing, and any random bs crafting idea that crosses my field of vision.

Cycling

Got into mesh networks (meshcore)