I am a tech, foss & privacy enthusiast 🥹
All of them.
Yeah same here. My family doesn't even have any hobbies
As someone who has more hobbies than time, I seriously don't understand how people can have no hobbies. How do these people live? How do they find fulfillment? What do they do in their spare time, only entertainment?
They watch TV/movies/news.
I'm also a person with a million hobbies. I've got TV or audiobooks on in the background as I do woodworking, smoke meat, play instruments, record music (ok, there's nothing on in the background while I'm recording), go sing karaoke, rock climb, work on motorcycles, garden, or one of the other million things I might be doing. My family passively sits and watches television.
As far as I'm concerned, that's fine. If it makes them happy then I'm happy for them. I couldn't be content that way but it takes different strokes to move the world.
We're too tired. That's the answer. It's not that watching TV is my hobby, it's that I'm burnt out and don't have the mental energy to do anything. My old hobbies feel like chores. New hobbies seem like so much work
easy, I don't find fulfillment. yup, only entertainment. maybe a bit of gaming here and there, mostly with friends.
there are other reasons to suspect that I am depressed, though.
Game development. I do the coding, 3D art and animation, everything. I don't know if I'll ever even finsh another project, and it's incredibly time-consuming, but I enjoy it.
3D Printing and homelab. I run a lot of services at home on my server (things like a personal streaming service, smarthome, security camera software, and more).
Boardgames. Especially big, rules heavy games like Mage Knight and Twilight Imperium. I'll happily spend a day playing a boardgame and my family just don't get it at all.
My family were doing a dog sledding trip and my brother came off and hit his head. We ended up putting him on my sled, with my job being to keep him awake in case he had a concussion. So I asked him to explain the rules to Twilight Imperium to me which, luckily and unluckily, took. Hours.
I've never hated, but been glad for, a game I've never played more...
(but I'm glad that you, and my brother, and other people get so much enjoyment from them!)
I love the World Rally Championship, but it's a pretty niche sport as it is, I doubt there are many fans in my whole town!
But to answer your question, probably wanking
Now, I don’t know the man personally, but I’m pretty confident to state that your dad enjoys a good wank every now and then.
Poor cunt's dead 😂
Well. ‘Used to enjoy’ then.
LARP, and costuming/crafting for it. Amusingly, even among larpers I get a few weird looks when I explain my husband made my clothing, and I made his crossbow.
I met a woman on FB years ago. She's super effeminate, and tiny, and no one would ever guess that she forges swords in her backyard on the weekends, and I absolute love her.
Music. My parents weirdly never listened to music. When I was a kid, the most they would listen to was a Queen greatest hits album and another greatest hits from this 80s band from my country. But like, only on road trips.
I don’t know why, but ever since I was very young I loved music. One of the first birthday presents I remember choosing myself was a copy of Dookie (Green Day). I didn’t know what it was, but I loved the cover. Less than a month later we were back to the record store and I bought this brand new album by a band I had never heard before, In Rainbows by Radiohead. And that was it. I was hooked forever. Music was to become the most constant and important part of my life.
I spent years finding and listening to music. Trying to understand the history and development. Music really was my main hobby in high-school, like listening to music.
Nowadays I also play guitar and produce a bit, but I still listen to music as a hobby.
And my parents still don’t listen to music at all lmao. Even after enduring years and years of me hogging the AUX cable and forcing them to listen to everything from Wu Tang Clan to Burzum and Sufjan Stevens and Nirvana… but I love them. The most they would say is “wow this is very heavy” as I blasted black metal lol
RC cars, amateur radio, sailing, 3d printing, cooking/baking, sewing, camping...probably more.
I'd say my kid has a mild interest in some of these, but probably wouldn't if I wasn't also doing it. My wife and I mostly just watch tv together.
It was LARPing, but then I got clever. Once my wife was pregnant, it was only a matter of time. Now my kids have grown up in the hobby, and they love it as much as their old man.
All of them unfortunately.
Pretty much everything. The only people I can really talk to about my hobbies is a friend I talk to maybe once every two weeks. Even then, it's hard getting a word in
Rubik's cubes and puzzles like that . But that's a very niche hobby anyways . I have a collection of probably 30 or so different cubes/ puzzles.
As someone who used to be into cubing, I find it immensely amusing that it's one of the few hobbies where the Chinese off-brand is actually better than the original name brand. My main cube was a Moyu Weilong GTS2M.
There's a 1% chance that the weird cousin who never comes to family gatherings might be a furry. That's absolutely it.
The idea of having hobbies in common with family members seems alien to me - which i think, to quote the meme phrase, Says A Lot About Society.
I play tabletop RPG games, and everybody I'm related to, parents, my brother, aunts and uncles, cousins, all think it's silly and won't ever touch a set of dice.
House/techno DJing - I've got decks and about 800 records, but very very rarely have any time to practice as it's nobody's cup of tea! Oh well :-)
Electronics, radiantism (HAM radio operation) and programming. for the first two i'm actually the only one in my town; which is sort of heplful for electronics since people bring broken equipment to me that i either fix or scrap for parts; while it is kind of a bummer for radiantism.
I'm the only one who is into dank memes and chatting online with strangers.
My siblings are into video games... But not the same ones I am into.
My siblings love D&D; I prefer Shadowrun. (I mean. I like D&D too but not as much as Shadowrun)
My sister is taking game design classes; but has never actually programmed (even for a class yet). Meanwhile, I have a ton of mods I've made for various things up on Steam workshops and the Nexus, as well as programming a few utilities for tabletop games. Because I like it and taught myself for the fun of it.
Video games. None of my family gets it at all.
3D printing and miniature painting. You could say electronics as well since my dad no longer messes with that stuff.
Lifting weights, and exercise in general. My whole family enjoys cooking, though.
I collect mid-2000s PDAs!
How do you collect personal displays of affection from 20 years ago?
I'm guessing photos!
Ah nah, Personal Digital Assistants! They're basically Smartphones with half the smart and none of the phone. Pocketable computers that do a lot of what modern phones can do - but worse because it's 20+ year old tech.
Boardgaming, kind of sort of. I think the other family households have some boardgames in their houses, like the usual ones that most people have, but I've got a boardgame and ttrpg collection that I've sunk thousands of dollars into worth of games and shelving for. It's just on a different level.
3d printing , electronic , welding , gaming etc..
Photography, gaming.
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