Mine is comics. It was a fluctuating hobby since childhood but it finally ended for good this year. I just couldn’t get into them again and didn’t dedicate any amount of time to indulge on what I had around me. Like I used to have a stack of Hellblazer comics, I had a couple of Spider-Gwen graphic novels, a few Batman ones including A Death in the Family and Frank Miller’s Dark Knight graphic novels.
But regardless, nothing stuck anymore. I’ve actually grown exhausted by how overwhelming the comic ecosystem has gotten, even when trying to take it in moderately. I got tired of continuity fractures in many characters that I liked, I got tired of the pointless power-leveling debates between which versions of characters, I never really liked overpowered characters to begin with and I haven’t even scratched the surface as to how politically and socially involved comics has gotten into. And I’m so over with overly redundant story tropes and all of these multiverses and alternate universes that are just used as lazy writing pathways to excuse writers who’ve cornered themselves and are afraid to stick to bold, coherent arcs of some characters.
I hadn’t even touched also on the many, many movies that we’ve been seeing released. Not to mention how many blown chances that has happened because of politics and shit.
So many things that contributed to me just exiting myself from comics entirely, I donated nearly all of the comics I had and then some. I still stick with manga volumes because those are a little different to me than traditional comics, so I have a handful of those around.
I don’t foresee myself coming back to the comic universe any day soon.
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I was super into the Star wars unlimited tcg, but I’ve really fallen off. Just didn’t find the play lines interesting. Now I’m getting back into Netrunner which you can play for free online.
Omg netrunner is the best card dueler I’ve ever played! I only played the physical version for like 2 years but it blew me away with it’s level of asymmetry and innovative mechanics that blended right in with the theme.
Not a huge fan of how bloated the card pool became and how they shifted away from the bluffing aspect of the game in later sets.
Hope they do an official reboot at some point!
Me with ADHD: Where should i start? Alphabeticly, Chronologicly, Amount i spend on it? deep breath
Animation Drawing Painting Gaming Steampunk propbuilding Making a study of why union numbers are down in germany and is there a link to american culture influence Classic theater acting and playing instrument (i just dont find anywhere and for the last 4-5 years didnt have time due to job so i dropped it but to get back into it i have to train my entire lip tension back up, also i noticed last year as i unpacked my insttumend for one hour to see if i still go it, i apperently positioned the mouth piece wrong all those many 14+ years! Nobody ever corrected me!!) Sound design (but i might pick that back up due to creating video games and mods) Cosplaying Singing Story writing
I’ve defintely stopped reading the comic universes because it gets too much. You can’t just grab a new issue and read it anymore. Doesn’t matter whether marvel or DC. Every comic is connect to 20 other comics and you need to read Deadpool, Dr Strange and 10 others in order to have the back story of one Spiderman issue. When I read comics it’s the independent artists that can finish a story within one or two volumes. Same goes for SciFi and Fantasy novels. Too many SciFi novels out there that are this epic 20 volume complex world building saga. Just give me a story that is finished in one book.
Also knitting. Good yarn has become so expensive.
Stepmania but only because I need a new pad now that the old one is too much a pain in the ass to fix and have it working properly.
Any ideas where to get a good pad? I had ordered one but the pads were actually depressable buttons so it was kinda hard to actually play on it, super tiring.
I highly recommend L-TEK if your budget allows: https://www.iamats.com/
I have one for DDR and one for PIU, both have been great.
I’ve been looking at them for months and I still don’t understand the difference between the three models, prime, core, pro.
Any advice would be appreciated
The main difference seems to be that the Prime model includes start/select buttons. I use a keyboard for navigation so that hasn’t been a big deal for me, mine is the EX Pro. There’s a detailed comment here for additional differences (sorry it’s on reddit): https://old.reddit.com/r/DanceDanceRevolution/comments/1iqrrtn/new_and_clueless/md33x8k/
Thanks that was very helpful. So the pro is a previous model with core and prime being the current ones.
I also use a keyboard for navigation, I guess I’ll be fine with the core then. Thanks again, I’ll probably get one soon.
I’ve had my eye on a L-tek recently
I haven’t played airsoft in a couple of years. Mostly because I don’t have the time anymore. I used to play about once a month, but then I had to move to a different town, so now my preferred field is ~80 miles away.
If I’m using half a tank of gas just to go there and back, I want to make it an all-day thing. But I also travel for work nowadays, I’m only home most weekends. Taking my guns and gear on the road with me isn’t really an option; space on my work truck is at a premium, and it wouldn’t look good if DOT or customs agent were to stumble across an M60 machine gun during a level 1 truck inspection. I also have yet to find any airsoft fields that allow 18-wheeler parking. My truck couldn’t physically fit on the driveway to my preferred field.
Spending a day playing airsoft means I’ve only got one other day, if that, to do my chores and run my errands for that week, to say nothing of how physically demanding the game is. If I push myself too hard while playing (something else that happens when I’ve only got a couple days at home per month), I end up needing the following day just to recover.
I’d pick it up again if I ever get a regular 9-5 job though, or at least something that gets me home every night.
I really liked the larping aspect of airsoft. I might consider getting back into it if there was a group of only adult players but the average age in the local events is probably like 13 and I can’t handle that.
Oh yes, larping is my favorite part too. I like to get a bit weird with it though, milsim events are a bit too serious for my liking. Same with speedsofters.
My go-to garb is a thrift shop 3-piece suit, and my most-used guns are pistols and small SMGs. I stick out like a sore thumb playing outdoors.
If you’re ever anywhere near Dallas, D14 is a solid field for outdoor games. I’d also recommend CavTac or Alternate Arms, both near Fort Worth, for indoor games.
Magic the gathering. I haven’t really been much interested in playing current stuff since they started doing universes beyond. I’ll still keep my cube put together, and I still think commander is fun. I just am really not interested in playing what’s essentially just ads for another IP.
Also the sheer amount of sets WoTC is putting out nowadays, it’s insane! A new release used to be a big deal and worth looking forward to, now it’s just exhausting.
None.
I mean, nearing my 60s, I’ve already trimmed down a lot of my hobbies. For example, since my childhood I have been on and off into plastic models (small plastic planes and vehicles to glue and to paint) but I let go of that hobby completely maybe 4 years ago. It still liked it, I just had to decide where I really wanted to spend that time, and I had other things to do.
What won’t go away, for as long as I’m able to at least, is reading/writing, sketching and painting (watercolor), long walks, listening (playing too, but barely) to music, and making stuff with my hands.
I don’t foresee myself coming back to the comic universe any day soon.
I don’t know your age but don’t be surprised if that does not go as planned. I will stick to my plastic model hobby: I had been off for almost 20 years at one time, I was just too busy after College but then, one day, out of the blue, and certainly not thinking the slightest about plastic kits, I stumbled upon a shiny box in some shop, looked at it and felt a familiar thrill in my spine, thinking this, I would like to build and paint I put it back on the shelves, could not resit going back to look at it after I finished shopping, put it in the cart with some glue and paint and, well, I was back at it ;)
Magic the Gathering. I love the game but it just seems that something always take priority. Hanging out with my wife, working on the house, or playing video games with some friends of mine.
I’m glad that I’ve stayed away from the release cycle of a new set every month. That would have been tiring.
I mean I guess technically racing motorcycles. However it’s more of a circumstance thing, getting back into it would take, pretty easily, almost $10k. So I’m getting into MTB and BMX instead now. I absolutely will be back into it the second I’m able to though, up until very recently, I’d spent more years on a motorcycle than off of one. Age 4 to probably 23 I raced. 0-4 and 23-35 I haven’t. Miss it dearly every day, but I’m still very involved in it when I can watch it in-person.
Anything to do with Warhammer 40k after being into it for decades, even playing competitively, going to the big info dump events, weekly gaming with friends, etc.
I still have all my models, tens of thousands of points in multiple armies, just lost all desire to play with the newer rulesets as they became too simplified and even more focused on buffing the latest new shiny models stats. Plus latest models are often very limited poses, sure the overall detail is up but the scope for personalization is way down without major work.
Then due to infighting the Horus Heresy line of rules and models got intentionally road blocked after Blighs death, which I had been relying on as a more crunchy outlet and to protect my investment in my models.
Oh, and they started the long road to sunset normal Marine models, which when you have over 50k points of marines you collected and painted over the past 35 years stings more than a little.
For the company its been an enormous success, sales are hugely up, so I don’t begrudge them too much after the mismanagement of Kirby post LotR.
movies, performances, restaurants, basically anything involves going out and spending money
they all go way too expensive to justify anymore. everything is like $100 minimum to leave the house. even a coffee and a pastry is now 10-15 dollars and all the cafes near me have like 15m seating time limits they enforce.
i miss being able to spend an afternoon someplace for like 20 bucks. so now i’m either in the woods, which is still free, or at home cooking and watching TV
15 minutes sitting time limits, wtf. In Spain they would go broke in a week.
Gaming, though im trying to get back into it. I used to be an ultimate raider in ffxiv. Some of my friends are starting back up so i might join them. Time has been harder to find as ive been slipping into work all the time aa more and more gets thrown at my plate.
Same. I’m either working at work, or doing chores, or doing different work on the house / car partly as a hobby, working out, hanging out with friends, whatever.
I feel like I can’t fit it in here anymore :-/
I wish we all had more time to be human.
Gaming, it’s so hard not to view it as a complete waste of time at my age. But all my social life is driven through it. So I’m playing games to hangout with friends but the entire time I’m bored of the game and resenting spending my time and energy on it.
I’ve found that it’s specifically long games I hate. I don’t have 60 hours to devote to some JRPG anymore like I did in high school. I walked away from both Baldur’s Gate 3 and FF VII remake for this. Also in BG3’s case, they frontload a ton of decision making, specifically character creation, that I can’t be bothered to slog through, especially when I have no idea what half the options are.
Now I love playing games I know I can finish in one or two sittings. Gato Roboto is an excellent example of a game that doesn’t overstay its welcome. Old NES and Game Boy games as well. The first Portal is also nice and compact.
I dont play my bass hardly anymore. My hands got bad, and idk. Used to play for hours each day, and now I pick it up twice a year.
Used to hike twice a week at least too, but I havnt gone in years at this point.
I do, yes, feel like im dying. Been putting music on while im home alone more often, its helping a bit, least ive started to dance again.
I stopped playing bass seriously about 8 - 9 years ago. Small child and renovating an old house while working full time with a 45 minute commute.
I only picked upy bass from time to time to play a song or riff or two. During the last year or two I often thought “I should do this again”, but never followed through.
A few weeks ago a colleague of mine said his band is looking for a bass player and would I be interested. I told them that I was more than rusty, but if they’d give me a chance I would listen to their stuff and learn a few songs. In an hour I leave for the first meeting and rehearsal. This was the push I needed, I don’t know if I would have started again on my own.
As for the hiking, a “outdoors youtuber” I like was just talking about this, people not going outside anymore. He said to put a date in your phone calendar and then actually go on this date - for him this works because it gives him this little nudge.
Hang in there, hopefully the dancing is just the start.
I dont go hiking because of laziness. I no longer have a car to get anywhere.
good shit for your bassist inspo, thats dope!
This year I’ve hardly watched any movies on my own so far. I think my other hobbies simply demand more time and there is nothing I urgently want to watch currently. Even the movies I only slightly desire to watch are just some of my favorite movies like Akahige that I haven’t seen in a long time.
