So we’re all here because of a shared interest, myself included. We’re all here because we play video games. But what else gets you going? What’s your hobby that isn’t video games?
Me, I have a couple. I’m a pretty avid reader of manga. I never got into the comic book thing but I love manga for some reason. Some of my all-time favourites are Slam Dunk, Pluto, Hajime no Ippo and Solanin.
I play a lot of sport. Well, I played a lot of sport. Used to play soccer, I did martial arts for a while. Now I’m fairly exclusively into rock climbing.
I also like to cook, although I don’t get much time nowadays with work, parenting and rubbish adulthood stuff. Also: I love porridge. Porridge is my life.
What about you guys and girls?
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157 responses to “Off Topic: What’s Your Hobby That Isn’t Video Games?”
Mine’s 3D modeling and animation. Technically not video games, but video game related in many ways!
That used to be my hobby, then I worked in the industry for 11+ years…it’s no longer a hobby or an interest. 😉
heh yeah industry work killed it for a while for me. things are getting interesting now though! 🙂
I hear you buddy. That’s why I build giant robots instead, nowadays.
I like DJing, with a regular gig at the local Myer store lol…. loves me the cheesy EDM
Since when does Myers have DJ’s in the store?
To be fair it’s probably been about 10 years since I set foot into one.
some of them do. in sydney, the one in the city had one, as well as chatswood, as does the one i go to. gone pretty downhill though, people half the time dont give a crap, or hate me lol…but at this point, im just happy to have a regular gig
Favouriting tweets on twitter! YOURS COULD BE NEXT!
I heard this one guy got favourited by DC, and he won the lottery the next day.
I don’t wanna say that @dc’s a Sun God, but he favourited one of my tweets, and the next day? The sun rose. You do the math.
LOL!
Mountain bike riding/cycling, snowboarding, hiking, traveling, photography, shooting video and playing my guitar and singing. I’m so busy. Need more time for having a game session.
Drawing.
I really like pool, but don’t play as much as I used to.
I played D&D last week for the first time in around seventeen years. Really enjoyed it. Could become a new hobby.
Away from games though, listening to music is my main hobby. Mainly metal, but definitely not the only genre that piques my interest. It has the added benefit of making something absolutely awful like housework almost bearable.
D&D is awesome. Do try out Pathfinder if you can though. I didn’t really care for D&D 5th Ed, and the less said about 4th Ed. the better!
Making video games!
Although if you want to discount games altogether, than scale modelling. Specifically Gunpla (Gundam model kits).
Cars.
Films my friend. Watching all the films. Also making films. And photography, and photoshop, and messing around with making music, and playing drums.
I really need to specialise, is what I’m trying to say.
How do you go when you get caught by the cops? when im filming people they always seem to have issues with it “sir you cant be naked here”, “you cant film people without there permission” 😛
Ha ha, you just have to learn how to decamp when you hear the sirens coming. Once people start screaming and running is generally a good time to make yourself scarce 🙂
I’m with you man…a fellow drummer! Nice to see one 🙂
I enjoy playing in my band and pretending I’m a real musician.
My big three are cooking, reading and movies. Though I love to play golf and tennis I just don’t have the time with two whippersnappers kicking around
playing bass badly in the hope that I one day become less bad.
Playing guitar badly in the hope that I one day become less bad. All we need is someone who can kinda sing, and someone who can barely keep time on drums, and we’re set! I’m guessing by our usernames, we’re after a 49 and a 56? 😛
I’m a guy who can barely keep time on drums!
I can air drum ok 😀
I picked up my girlfriend’s bass shortly after moving here and can jam out a few RATM songs. Trying Queen but John Deacon’s a lot more talented than people realise. I also got Rocksmith but picking up guitar is going a lot slower than picking up bass was
I’ve pretty much been learning through Rocksmith 2014 – picked it up last November, first time trying electric guitar (tried acoustic several times, but couldn’t maintain a proper schedule to learn it) and still playing the hell out of it. Not sure if my guitar technically counts for “non-gaming hobbies”, as I’ve been playing almost exclusively through RS. I really should get an amp at some point 😛
Buying miniatures (warhammer, Flames of War, etc) with the goal of painting them… though this never happens. I guess making props and stuff. Tis fun.
I have a shit ton of Reaper, Anima Tactics, Malifaux, Hasslefree, GW LotR and 40K minis hidden about my house and garage. About 1% are painted but the rest are mostly mint in box 🙁
I got on and then off the Warhammer bandwagon. I think the idea of doing it is sometimes better than actually doing it.
I eventually realised that I enjoyed building terrain more than assembling and painting the miniatures. It got to the point where I was just making terrain for games we didn’t even play, just for kicks. Maybe it just foretells a life of building dull landscapes for depressingly large model train sets.
TAY
That is all. I’m a boring old bastard.
It’s a valid lifestyle choice!
Sports for me including Cricket, Golf and AFL. A bit of sparring and self defence. Don’t mind fishing every now and then and yoga, the stretchy bit not the spiritualist no science bit.
Music! Well. Used to be. Hardly touched any of my instruments for most of this year, save for this weekend just passed when a friend came over and jumped on the piano for a bit, and he got me to jump on with him and we goofed around for a little while. Kinda stuck at the moment, I’ve been playing mostly the same songs for years upon years now and don’t really know how to find new stuff/generally can’t concentrate well enough to learn new ones. Or lately, even well enough to feel like playing. Hence why it’s falled on the backburner this year.
Dunno if I’d really count rock climbing as a hobby of mine, but it’s a thing I do once a week. Otherwise my only other non-gaming hobby would be wasting time on the internet, reading things and chatting with friends over Skype. I do that more than actually playing games anyway.
Designing and implementing video game systems (ie. Combat systems, dialogue systems, UI, etc.). It’s not playing them so it should count. Other than that, I write occasionally, try to learn to draw even more occasionally and dabble in sequencing even more rarely. I also watch anime and read manga like every stereotypical geek/otaku should.
Astronomy, gardening and cooking would be my top 3 things to do when not working or gaming.
Football, football and more football. Cambridge United fan so watch them on TV as much as possible. Also play 5-a-side every Thursday which has shown me how much out of shape I’ve gotten over the years although I’ve lost a few kilos since playing so I’m happy.
Also music although I’m nowhere near as into music as I used to be. I used to go to gigs basically every week or two and keep up with every new release (in the metal world) but since coming to Australia it’s only in the last year or so since 2008 that things have really started to pick up with smaller international bands coming over again and that’s gotten my interest up again. Now I just have 6-7 years of new releases to go through at some point
Other than that, my grandad and my dad were big into model railways so I inherited that enthusiasm and have recently gotten back into it and planning a layout somewhere in my house
I’ve seen Opeth a few times, Dream Theater (soooo much love for their earlier stuff), Megadeath, Children of Bodom, Mastodon, Devildriver and Trivium.
Of those, Opeth and Dream Theater are the class acts (though to be honest they all put on good shows). Opeth tour Australia quite frequently, I’d highly suggest seeing them next time if you can.
My most favourite ever gig was seeing Opeth supported by Decapitated and Without Face in London just after Deliverance had come out (first gig playing that album). Made brilliant that I love the supporting bands but Opeth were amazing and unfortunately haven’t come close live for me in the gigs I’ve seen since 🙁
I’ve recently just packed away all my gig shirts into boxes as they were taking up too much space in the cupboard. All of them bar 1 or 2 of them were gotten from gigs although I didn’t get a shirt at each gig and I’m definitely missing a bag of them somewhere, but there’s at least 100 shirts in there. To say being in England/Europe is to be spoiled for live music is an understatement, especially when you know the prices of gigs compared to over here. GBP37.50 to see Ozzfest back in 2002. Ozzy, Tool, SOAD, Slayer. You’d be paying 2-3 times that over here just to see one of those bands on their own 🙁
Keen for Suffocation and Decapitated next year though. I haven’t seen Decapitated since Vitek died so it’d be interesting to see what they’re like now.
Yeah I’ve gone and seen Opeth 2-3 times in brissy, best was a double act with Danzig, that gig was all-time in my books.
I am envious of you, sir. Would love to see Children of Bodom. Chances of them coming to Perth are slim and fuck all.
Working on my car and baking. I like restoring the exterior of my car, and just bringing it back to original quality, since the previous owner didn’t look after it too well.
Baking is fun for me too- I got into it through watching Yakitate!! Japan, and I recreate some of the bread/other things on the show. I also like cooking, Japanese food is a favourite of mine to prepare.
Warmachine (tabletop wargaming). Although recently I’ve been getting the feeling like I wish I never started…
Also I might be getting into video making and such.
Is it turning into an arms race? That’s partly why I’m not keen on 40K anymore. I do like some smaller titles like Malifaux, Necromunda, Blood Bowl, Anima Tactics etc.
Oh I wish. Instead I have to play with a group of people who won’t even bother putting their figures into their carry case unless they are assured victory without effort. If not, they don’t play you at all.
To quote that Nova Corps guy from Guardians: ‘What a bunch of A-holes.’
So guess which players get the most games? The new guys just getting into the hobby. Because they don’t know the rules yet.
But I’m guessing they’re less inclined to be jerks, have rage explosions, tweak the rules, or generally make the experience negative? Clearly I have been convinced that gaming groups/clubs can be kind of toxic, which might explain why I’ve never tried playing with strangers. That’s probably a shame.
Aside from mistakes from people mis-reading the rules, there’s only been one guy who actually had rage explosions, tweaked the rules and made the whole experience overall negative. To the point that some people were considering quitting. He got me worked up that I threw my miniatures into my car when I left after a game that he pissed me off with.
I’m a rather new player. I’ve only been playing for a few months, and I have played with quite a few people who have raged and cheated. It’s a shame, because the game can be fun, but it is best played with someone you’re already friends with. And it is way to overpriced in Australia. Seriously, 30 bucks for a single model… WTF
Reading. Lots and lots of reading.
Game of Thrones series in 61 days apparently.
https://blog.blinkboxbooks.com/how-long-would-it-take-you-to-read-game-of-thrones/
I haven’t read a book in a couple of years I’m sad to say 🙁 I recently pulled all my boxes out of the cupboard and put them up in the bookcase and now I have a hunger to go through the Wheel of Time series again seeing as I got to the final book but never finished it off. After that I might go through the Malazan books again 😀 Then I’ll start on Game of Thrones…
That is VERY fast to get through GoT books. Took me the best part of a year.
I’m tempted to read them all in one go to see if it’s true. I did read a couple when on holidays and they took 2-3 days each but that’s ignoring all else!
I also do a great deal of reading – these days, mostly from my tablet, as when I finish one book there’s always a few more on there. Usually I’m in the middle of reading a couple of books at any given time.
Having picked up most of the Baen Webscriptions over the last few years means I have a huge supply of legal SF & fantasy eBooks.
Book recommendations? 🙂
Ooooh, not easy! It depends what you like to read. I tend to dabble a bit here and there, re-read a few favourites, and mix it up a bit by reading classics (recently got round to reading the Sherlock Holmes stories). At the moment I’m reading a lot of crime novels and am on the final stretch of reading all of Ian Rankine’s Rebus books from start to finish (19 or 20 of them I think).
I play drums on and off (have done so for the last 8 years). I’m not bad, pretty solid and good timing, just some of the advanced touch needs some work. Good enough to just randomly jump on the kit if others wanna play and have a good time (most of my mates are musos, and much better than me).
Other than that – breadmaking! I LOVE making bread, made my own sour dough starter and cook bread every weekend. Recently made bagels and they came out awesome. I’d encourage everyone to try their hand at bread making. There’s something so satisfying about working with a live organism and the feeling of quality dough…
Edit: Oh almost forgot! Fishing, lots of fishing. I’m so determined and do it most weekends with poor results. Really need a boat to make the most of it, but i guess it’s a good indication of my level of patience.
Bread is awesome went through a phase last year but couldn’t find anywhere to get fresh yeast. Still do lots of pizza dough
Photography (my job, albeit doing it for the Government), and I recently took up 40K again for the first time since I was about 12 years old (its now 12 years later and still a ridiculously expensive hobby)
That’s why you play Warmachine instead.
You can’t pass the 40K universe for lore, though. Shame GW know it and murder everyone on the price.
Toy photography, mostly with ThreeA 1/6 scale toys, and building Gundam kits.
Love watching movies and reading. Karate. I’m trying to learn how to play the guitar. Watching the footy (Crows! 😀 ).
That’s about it, really.
Following cycling and various fantasy league type games along with that
Board games and trivia
Consumption of fine beers
Craft beer scene has exploded over last few years it’s freekin great. Got any favorite brews?
One of my good mates and his few in his circle got right into the home brewing. They have made some damn nice drops. We went beer adventuring while camping up at arapiles, went through about dozen different beers of all different styles. W#as the best camping experience I’ve had.
One of the bars I used to frequent had a house beer that was locally produced and amazing. I never had it confirmed but I am pretty sure it was a test run of the McClarne “Vale Ale” range. Was a really nice beer when it was half the price of normal tap beer.
As for favourites, I can’t go past anything from wychwood brewery, so so good.
Of you common local stuff I do enjoy a White Rabbit dark ale. Although not really the weather for it now
Any recommendations?
The beer scene here is awesome (wellington) and by far the best from here is a brewery called garage project. Had one from ballast point brewery called victory at sea, it’s coffee porter done right. Few times I’ve gotten together with friends and we’ve all brought about 3 different beers then shared them around, good way to try new stuff
I tried a few of your beers but don’t think I tried those
Spent a bit of time at The Brauhaus, not sure if you go there. If you do I highly recommend the chicken strip things. Of the kiwi beers I did enjoy tautara.
Your craft beer scene is actually better than ours right now as our tax rates and licensing rules make it almost impossible for just a little microbrewery to make any money. There have been some movement but as with anything government related it is slow.
That sucks, more beer the better. Yea been there a few times and go to the tuatara brewery regularly with workmates.
Can I suggest both the Lord Nelson and the Kosciusko Pale Ales. Although I haven’t seen them on tap.
I’m a massive fan of the dark beers all of a sudden. Being from Tassie I grabbed a 6-pack of Cascade Stout just because I wanted to kick back of an evening and take my time “chewing” on a stronger tasting beer. I love White Rabbit Dark Ale as well but after going through the limited selection at nearby Bottle-O’s I think my favourite has to be Monteith’s Black Beer. Problem is those one or two became so tasty that it has now become my beer of choice and i drink it like I do any other beer (not so much of a problem really…).
But seriously give Black Beer a try.
Another thing I’ve gotten into is Craft Beer “Boilermakers.” This was introduced to me last year at Beer Lover’s Week, which precedes Beerfest in (Massive event in Tasmania each November). The idea is to match a craft beer to a single malt whisky and meld the two together in your mouth. Get the pairings right and you’re on to a winner.
So the original boilermaker “cocktail” is what old factory workers used to do to get pissed quicker – shot of cheap whisky into a beer and drink. But if you pair a nice dark beer with a nice sweet single malt (eg. White Rabbit Dark Ale with Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban) you may discover something beautiful. Have a mouthful of beer, don’t swallow, then have a sip of single malt and let the flavours come together in your mouth. My other favourite is matching a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale with Talisker 10yo. It can be trial and error but you figure it out pretty quick!
Endeavour Amber Ale
Music. Mainly guitar, but I mess around on bass and ukulele as well. Or anything I can get me hands on. Keyboard, drums, banjo. I kinda suck at them all though.
And I’m a massive horror movie buff. Loooooooooooove me a good (or bad for that matter) horror movie!
I’m an unpublished author about 150 pages shy of completing the final edit of my first book 🙂
I also sing, cook and watch movies.
What sort of book?!
Sci-fi/fantasy with a strong horror tone and socio-political bent. It’s called Darken Earth and I’ll post proper details in TAY if/when it gets picked up.
Brewing delicious beer.
i love eating out
Most men do.
i logged in just to upvote this
i was hoping for that follow up. i practice on le snacks. throw the biscuits away of course.
Reading, basically. I used to be into tabletop RPGs and tae kwon do but I haven’t done either for a long time.
watching NBA and cricket, pinball and sometimes warhammer but not much anymore besides painting.
I write books and run Kickstarters!
Breaking/Breakdancing. I started many years ago and have recently started going to classes again. It’s a lot of fun, good exercise too. Other than that I’d have to say running, though my last run was probably about 3 months ago.
Opportunity missed to add Breaking Bad, either watching the show or actually cooking up blue meth with your fancy, yet woefully underused, chemistry ninja skills.
Love watching movies, analysing voice actors cadence and rhythm so I can be a smug bastard and pick up on when lines are cut together from multiple takes and biking, although I’m far to self conscious to actually pedal anywhere so I bought a motorbike
cactus
I do lots of running – up to 22kms now and aiming for full marathon next year. I also play low-level competition tennis and am playing in the season grand final tonight. I also do ballroom dancing and am doing my bronze achievement in the Cha-Cha this coming Sunday.
I’m also a bit of a game developer and was working on a project with 3 others before my son was born 2 years ago, hoping to go back to it and finish it next year. Not enough time for games 🙁
Listening to music, mostly hip hop. A bunch of albums coming out in the next few days which I’m really excited about: Wu-Tang, Ghostface and PRhyme (Royce & DJ Premier collab). Need to get KRIT’s new one as well.
Also started learning the guitar a few months ago. Can memorise some chords now, still finding it hard to change chords though.
Had allot of hobbies come and go, video games has always stuck, Guitar, Dirtbikes, Paintball, Mountain Biking, Skating, Rollerblading, Indoor Cricket, now I read and listen to Death Metal.
Motorbikes.
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and cycling
role playing games all kinds DnD, shadowrun, the new starwars. i love just making up new characters, most of them never see game time but its fun just making them up.
Oh yeah! I used to love it from a min-maxing perspective, but now I do full character bios and paint a mini for the character etc. I’ve had some really awesome characters that have yet to see the light of day in a game, but their time will come!
less the min maxing more the character bios. i once made a character for every faction in werewolf:the apocalypse just for shits and giggles. not one of them ever got played but filled in a slow weekend
Video Game collecting.
Piano – Not much into it now, it fluctuates as a hobby.
Drawing – Same as the Piano, ebb and flow of activity.
Reading – Strictly Fantasy and short story anthologies.
Music… this is probably everyone’s hobby I guess.
I love photography, especially macro. I also enjoy gardening and Kotakuing.
I build and repair guitars. Great fun, a bit frustrating at times, but I can build all the guitars I could never afford. About to start build number 6, my first original design. 🙂
Trolling right wing blogs, making lace doilies and self flagellation. I’m also trying to eat a Toyota Hilux 4×4.
I have a vague interest in board gaming. It doesn’t come up often.
Lol Trjn you cheeky bugger 🙂
archery!
I like to go to a harshly-lit, poorly air-conditioned room full of sweaty, grunting people to lift heavy things up and then put them down again.
Costco? Campbells Cash & Carry? Walmart? Target?
Or is it Parliament? I crack me up.
Movies and anime for me I guess. Video games are the biggest time sink of my spare time.
Does pushing the human limits of chilli consumption count as a hobby?
RE: Chilli consumption: Perhaps it doesn’t, but I think you’re pretty cool.
I was thinking of creating a profile for online dating the other day and it got me thinking about this. I came to the sort of depressing conclusion that I really don’t have any other hobbies. I mean I do other stuff and have other interests but it’s not really stuff I’d class a hobbies. I go to the gym for instance and I enjoy working out but I wouldn’t call it a hobby. I hang out with friends but it’s just sort of general. We’ll watch a movie, have some dinner, chat, etc but it’s not like we’re all big sports fans getting together to watch a game.
The thing is I’m really happy with that. I don’t feel like I’m over invested in the gamer label, really my interest in gaming doesn’t stretch that far from just playing games and enjoying game design, but it’s a really strange thing to put your lifestyle into bullet points and have most of your free time come out as some variant on ‘hanging out playing Nintendo’.
Mainly fishing, i used to play guitar quite a bit but because of my damn short stubby fingers i never got to any stage of being good at it.
Mountainbiking, motorcycling, restoring Rotary’s, motorsport and Videography. I like to make sure nobody can generalise me as any 1 of the things I regularly do 😀
Reading comics, Inhuman and letter 44 are a couple of my favourites at the moment. Also basketball. Me and my brother try to play a game at least twice a week.
Sitting on my hand until it goes numb then touching myself
I love Lego.
My wife and I play board games a bit too and have board game nights with some friends.
We walk too. We live very simple lives truthfully.
BTW: Mark, can you please do a “that’s no how you make porridge” sound byte??? Pretty please!
for the last few years ive been creating a fantasy world to tell stories in and to hopefully one day make games in aswell. some anime, chiptunes and bands covering game themes, watch NFL and NHL when i can. and a small guilty pleasure: im a wrestling fan and still train with some guys who wrestle alot around australia. that can be a hobby, i guess lol. i also collect 8 and 16 bit games and systems.
archery and knife collecting
SOLANIIIIN <3 #latetotheparty
I like cooking when it’s not making dinner at home. Baking is good. I’m currently getting my fix with christmas cake and pudding. *nomnom*
I’ve also taken up sewing, despite absolutely hating it when I had to do it at school. Slowly teaching myself via youtube videos. Mostly clothing and costumes/cosplay. I wouldn’t say I’m good at it, but I’m not terrible anymore either.
I used to do Dragonboat and Outrigger paddling (competitively, I have medals!) and I might get back to it one day. My paddles sit waiting patiently in the corner of my bedroom. For now, parkrun is my fun exercise activity (and I am very terrible at running).
Archery. Been shooting 2 years now and coaching for 6 months. Got a bunch of arrow components on the way for a set of woodys for my flatbow, can’t wait.
I tried out shooting recurve for a month or 2. You really find out how weak your back muscles are when you have to shoot 90 arrows or more. I plan to go back at some point, but I think the fact that the club discouraged you buying stuff straight away kind of cooled my eagerness a little bit (even though it was probably really good advice).
What can I say, I kind of like things with a lot different setups and options and colours and going on the internet and reading reviews and weighing up pros and cons and argh! Okay, I suppose I’m a little fetishistic and enjoy buying things.
Yea it’s kinda funny watching the newbies struggling to pull a bow but soon gain the strength. Our club recommends finishing a beginners course before getting anything and getting coaches advice.
I’m the same love researching stuff find out what’s good and will give you best value for money.
I restore 35mm movies that haven’t had a decent bluray release, or that have been meddled with before being released. It is a lot of work, scanning and painstakingly restoring the movies, but some would be lost forever otherwise and it is very satisfying.
Eats up a metric shitload of HDD space though.
Changing nappies.
I assume this was a hobby you were volunchosen for.
Drinking, girls, reading, chess.
Drinking girls and reading chess?
Interesting…
Astronomy and music and reading
Restoring a 1965 Mustang and Movies. Both are taking up more of my time than Video games at the moment.
does collecting videogames and hunting down rare consoles / collectibles count? haha
I read a lot, prefer non-fiction and fantasy novels. Popular science writings, historical accounts, autobiographies, currently re-reading Game of Thrones. LEGO is my other obsession, making little pretty houses with gardens and pots of flowers on the windowsill.
Motorcycles. old school and retro ones.
Let’s see. Pathfinder with my mates in Newcastle once a month or so (or failing that other board game nerdery). I also like collecting 1/8 scale PVC figures from my favourite videogames. Reading (I’m in a book discussion group once a month) general fiction and sci-fi/fantasy. Learning languages – love listening to French, Chinese and Japanese music. Swimming (I did the Manly – Shelly Beach swim for the first time the other day). Oh, and collecting and painting (mostly collecting) miniatures for use in RPGs or tabletop games when I can.
D&D and miniature painting. Strangely enough, these 2 hobbies have yet to cross over.
Watching movies, reading books, watching football (SFC mostly, I refuse to pay for foxtel)
I’m an acoustic guitarist and have been playing for 24 years or so. I started on Metallica, Testament and Extreme but for the last 15 years have been exclusively fingerstyle and mostly play stuff from artists on the Candyrat lable (check it out), particularly Antoine Dufour.
It’s my closet passion and I’m kinda freakishly good (not being a twat, that’s the first time I’ve said that anywhere)!
I also love watching NBA and I’m extremely jealous of all the commentors who play RPGs irl. I pkayed Shadowrun, Paranoia, HoL and D&D a lot when I was younger. Now with 2 kids, job/life, I barely have enough time for gaming and guitar, let alone an RPG.
I like drawing, and reading comic books (I don’t draw comic books). Also, a bit of tennis on the weekends never hurt, except for that one time my friend sprained her ankle. And my dad pulled a hamstring. A couple of weekends ago my friend got hit in the face by a tennis ball.
Hmmm I think I’ll stay inside now.
The time consuming, money suck that is cosplay.
T_T I need less expensive hobbies.
Cool, how about Warhammer, Custom PC building, car-tuning, shooting, or travelling?
Wait a second… 😀
I need to rebuild my PC, I can’t do shooting (guns or archery) because of an injury, I already travel WITH cosplay…
Can I just sit in a corner and breathe? Is that a hobby?
I read books and love music (Mostly heavy metal). But my true passion is health, nutrition and weight lifting/strength training. After losing 35kg many years ago and noticing how much better I feel, I have dedicated a huge part of my life to improving myself physically. It’s a great goal to constantly be working towards.
I know kung fu.
Plastic Crack… uhhh i mean Warhammer.
Though I have been learning some app development lately.
Music. Big music fan and guitar player. I jam with a band regularly. Got a 1960 Gibson 125 tdc, Rickenbacker 330 (getting a pair of toaster pickups switched into it this weekend), Airline Tuxedo, Fender Deluxe Reverb, Fender Tweed Deluxe clone in a varnished pine cabinet with NOS tubes and an original tweed deluxe speaker, a buttload of pedals. I like to mess around with recording heaps too, I became pretty inspired with producing when Lonerism by Tame Impala came out.
I really like cooking, reading, and I’ve seen more movies than pretty much anyone who doesn’t watch them for a living.
I also love hiking. I used to do ultra long distance hiking. My longest hike was over 1200km. It took a month and a half.
Cycling (watching and doing).
Reading books and comics.
Watching sport (Melbourne Rebels, Carlton, Melbourne Victory, AFC WImbledon, cricket, tennis, whatever).
Trivia.
Beer.
Movies.
Building PCs.
Star Wars. Very much so.
Paintball. As in, own your own gear and guns (you need a firearms license, FYI), don’t pay as much for paint, play in scenario games and tournaments, and there is an actual pro circuit.
Sure, it’s not as easy to play as in the States, but after a little bit of red-tape grinding, you are introduced to a pretty cool hobby/sport.
There’s 2 subsets: speedball/tourney (level, marked out field with jumping castle bunkers— for Xtreme rockstars) and bushball (pretty much like skirmish you play for bucks parties or corporate team building, but with better gear and people who know what they’re doing— for gritty weekend warriors).
I was thinking about making the comparison to PC vs console gaming, but both types of paintball have similar aspects to gaming (I am going to make super generalisations here, so don’t hurt me):
– speedballers are always looking to upgrade to the fastest and flashiest marker on the market(PC); bushballers want reliable guns that you can just pick up and shoot (console)
– bushballers like to make wacky custom gear and augment their markers (PC); speedballers like things light and compact and want marker maintenance that basically consists of firmware updates (console)
– there are only a few major players on the bushball scene (console); new companies regularly emerge with a new electro markers, and the dominant companies release a new version of an existing product every year (PC).
I also enjoy (but my wife hates) the constant gear upgrades and new flashy gimmicks that I medically need to spend money on. It was easier to choose this over something like cars, because why spend $700 on a new muffler when a new hopper or set of goggs only costs $150? You also get to shoot at people and not go to jail.
Though no one cares at this point, I also enjoy comics, movies, basketball, board games, and renovating/building shit/accumulating power tools, I guess (because I’m old, and about to have a kid, and I’m getting crazy long ear hair).
Trivia and anything general knowledge based. I used to enjoy writing stories/drawing as well but i am hopeless at both so don’t do it as much now. Also love studying Geography and researching (when i get the chance) all of the countries flags. My biggest though is probably basketball whether it is playing, watching or just studying the history i cannot get enough of it.
I read and watch videos about video games probably more than I actually play them.
I play beach volleyball, I go to the gym, I mountain bike,
Reverse engineering science, maths and computing principles and theories to better understand them…with anime.
Music – Mainly Hard Rock/Metal but love a lot of other genres that have a good beat too.
Drums – since I was 10. Used to play in a pub band which was the most fun. Gotta get back into that scene.
Photography – DSLR amateur trying to take/edit professional-looking photos with increasing success.
Sport – playing and watching (footy, cricket – backyard, indoor, outdoor, toey, etc, tennis, gym, beach)
Cooking – manfood. Bacon Jam is amazing. 1kg of bacon compressed into a jar with chilli, maple syrup, onion and tomato.
I brew beer…no not that rubbish you get in tins from wollies…but PROPER beer! I get malted grain, add water, hops ect ect ect full temp control on a fermentation fridge, cultured yeasts to suit and two kegs in the fridge when its done 😀
Skiing in winter, mountain biking in summer. Video games comes somewhere after those too. At various points I’ve done a bit of climbing and surfing.
Skiing is the best thing in the world though.
Yeah, my memories of it are good aside from the times when: overzealous/drunk lift operators crack you in the nads with the Poma lift thing; someone gets theatrical when getting off the T-bar and it whips around and misses killing you by cms; there is the constant danger of groin tears through poor ski control; and trees, goddamn trees. They’re everywhere!
my hobbies beside video games, reading comics, manga, self-help books, novellas; watching movies, tv shows, animation, anime; Karate, Swimming, Getting physically fit and eating healthy nutrition; EATING ITALIAN FOOD esp. PIZZA AND PASTA! and meeting new people and getting paid which i is not valid since i have not found a job yet lol
Podcasts, Prowrestling, card games and comic books