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I love to gate keep! But it's not going well.
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
Alcoholism and masturbation.
Improv, ukelele, marxism
Marxism as a hobby?
3d printing
Crochet
Painting
Miniatures (I'm building my niece a dollhouse)
Baking
Robotics/Arduino
Sewing
I do have Adhd and no money, as you can imagine
any resources you'd recommend for getting into 3d printing?
It's always good to join 3dprinting@lemmy.world but the best resource is Youtube. There are a lot of different creators that talk about different parts of the process. From which machine to choose, to calibrating it for the first time.
The "getting into" part of 3d printing is buying the machine the rest of the time is you trouble shooting wtf is going wrong lol so there isn't one specific place.
Watch voidstarlab, get excited, buy a bambulab printer, watch slant3d, learn some cad software, profit.
Gaming, weight training, reading, nail painting, just getting started on lock picking.
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.
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.
- Automobile repair
- Magic the Gathering
- Model trains
Hecc yes, another train person
Well, shit, there's 2 of us. I believe we're now contractually obligated to form mutually exclusive model railroading communities here. ;)
The pact is sealed.
Sign me up. It's been a few years, but I still have a few modules of my N scale teenage budget build in the basement. Now I actually have the budget for model railroading, but I no longer have the time. My favorite stretch of rail is the Spessartrampe in Germany. It's one of the older stretches in Germany and until recently, they were still using a helper engine to push freight up the grade because it exceeded the maximum load on the couplers. Such an interesting operation!
Is Gear Acquisition Syndrome a hobby? Lol
Origami and making clothes. I'm decent at the former, not self confident enough at the latter.
Cooking, baking, home canning! Gardening when it's the season! Knitting when I remember!
Reading random wikipedia articles about whatever comes to my mind
- I read a lot, mostly fantasy, science fiction, and mysteries, plus some non-fiction.
- I play and run non-computer roleplaying games. I started in 1976 and have been at it ever since.
- I have recently taken up playing the recorder, mostly tenor. My wife and a friend play with me.
Gaming, programming, nail painting, 3d printing, and any random bs crafting idea that crosses my field of vision.
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)
Cooking. Being gigantic means ya boi eats. So why not enjoy what I eat? I never understood the protein shake drinkers.
Some people don't mind bland food or eating the same thing all the time. As someone trying to lose weight, I envy them.
Healthy food doesn't have to bland. One of my favorite things is a spicy red cabbage slaw with lime juice and apple cider vinegar. I'm currently eating carrots with ranch made from Greek yogurt. Denying yourself flavor is not a strategy for long term success.
This is me. I like using my morning protein shake as a kind of coffee creamer. Then I don't eat til dinner. Then I eat burritos, which I like. It's a pretty easy way to stay lean
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.
Boardgaming!
I own a modest company collection, run weekly boardgame nights, and demo boardgames at conventions for a large publisher. It helped me meet a lot of fantastic people. Boardgamers are some of the coolest nerds out there.
Making stuff with my 3D printer and CNC milling machine. And petting cats.
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Cooking
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Reconditioning old audio equipment
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Tabletop Role Playing Games. Rolled my first character back in 1978.
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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.
Megagames!
They're a cross between role playing games and board games, for many players (30-50 or higher, my max is 250). Watch this video if you want to know more: https://youtu.be/hN71v9H_gg8
This is my jam. I'll be exhausted but there's so much going on, it's insane. They're 1 day events, and having a beer with the other players afterwards is where loads more stories come out. I've done serious crisis simulation, whimsical fantasy games, historical games, war games, and all kinds of games in between. If this appeals to you, there's a calendar of upcoming games here https://www.megagameassembly.com/megagame-calendar
- Reading
- Gardening/plants in general
- Bunnies (yes, caring for my buns is a hobby)
- Board games and Magic the gathering
- Video games, although it’s mostly just wow
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 make gaming terrain out of cardboard and other household junk! ...not very successfully. But every attempt is better than the last.
Many many.
Music, motorsports, computers, gaming old and new, climbing, rc cars, CRTs, fixing up music gear, reel to reels, records, CDs, mild programming, board games, reading
I wish i wasnt interested in everything!!
Being broke
Same. Plenty of free hobbies exist though. Hiking, learning a language, identifying plants (check your local weather service if you can contribute your findings), geocaching, streetcomplete, attending a communal board game night or gardening group. Libraries hold all kind of events for all walks of life.
Some sort of political engagement can also be fun and additionally help find friends. There's cryptoparty to teach about privacy. Some environmental groups host day trips with volunteers to clear or repopulate strips of land. You can ask your library if you can offer a workshop of some skill you possess.
There is honestly so much free stuff that I didn't know about yet a couple of years ago.
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Video games
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karaoke
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fucking
I hope one day to do all 3 at once.
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Rock climbing
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DIY
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Fucking
Also stoked to do all three at once. In a three way, of course.
Modern boardgames and cardgames.
(For a good time with friends, here are the keywords: Inis, Netrunner, Innovation, Port Royal, Targi, and Jaipur.)
Latest hobby is photography, I had a camera for Christmas after not having a camera with interchangeable lenses in decades. I like that it gets me out the house as like nature/landscape/train photography.
Long standing hobbies are mechanical keyboards and coffee, espresso and pour over.
Keyboards I have really slowed down my purchases to just two or three new keyboards each year.
Coffee I have not purchased anything other than beans in a long time, but I still want to upgrade my espresso machine (marax) at some point.
- Reading
- Geneaology
- Cycling
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