If I'm not playing games or watching anime, I spend most of my freetime tinkering in RPG maker and doing related work (writing, trying to get better at drawing and spriting). Never finished a game because I always aim high though, and I've only in recent years realized how important it is to properly plan before starting to develop random bits of a game. As such my current project is doing quite fine in comparison to my cancelled works of the past, but development is super slow because keeping my studies of japanese up is more important to me right now.
I used to enjoy working on websites, but I haven't had the time or interest for that in years.
ZacharyB wrote:But I have been playing around with Ruby programming via RPG Maker. I successfully created a first-person maze engine several months ago.
That sounds awesome. Is it for a personal project? If it's a public thing I'd like to see it.
blog - scores - collection Don't worry about it. You can travel from the Milky Way to Andromeda and back 1500 times before the sun explodes.
I'm into MTG. Like an old mistress, this comes and goes. I decided not to sell my stuff anymore when it goes...
Scotch Whisky.
Retro gaming, mostly Duo, NES and SNES.
I'm also heavily into movies. I used to keep count and write short reviews somewhere, but I don't anymore. I've watched several thousand movies in the last few years, movies ranging from the 20s to now. I stopped buying movies recently to fund my other hobbies (still have a big collection...)
That's it! =)
Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento...
Artist: I make fan art and draw random things. I love to draw and I love making gifts for my friends. I also do art as a job but it makes me happy drawing fan art. So I will list fan art as a hobby.
Knitting/Sewing: I can make little plush toys and scarves. I am working on making a bunch of pokeball hackysacks to sell at an upcoming convention.
Cosplay: I re-entered the world of cosplay in the last year. It was something I used to do in my teen years but now I'm back and I've step up my game to a whole new level. It's insanely fun and I love the people I meet when I am cosplaying. It's also taken me to new places and on new adventures.
Jonst wrote:Skateboarding: I got back into this last year. I lost a fair amount of interest in this for a long time, believing it to be firmly in my past. It was my life through my late teens/early twenties. I've given up and started again a few times, it never truely leaves you.
Same with me. I haven't skated regularly for 15 years, but every summer I think about buying a board again. But I can't picture myself (35) skating with the teens populating the small local skatepark... I might go Rodney and pick up flatland stuff.
anyways, my hobbies:
1. Gaming:
I play a lot of different genres on all kinds of consoles. I play mostly arcade style games now, as I'm a father to 2 kids, so I don't have that much free time no more. I also like to make Youtube videos in danish. It's a niche audience, but I like to spread awareness on arcade and retro games.
2. Movies:
Started a film club, "B-Movie Marathoners", with a couple of friends back in 2006, and we have weekly showings about a marathon every other month where we watch 7-10 movies in one sitting. We mostly watch 80's horror in our marathons and classics from all time periods during our weekly showings.
3. Motorcycles:
Got my license in 2011 and have had the fortune to ride one of my dads bikes for the last couple of years. This summer I plan to aquire my own.
Rangers hockey
Board games
Card games
Cooking
Nutrition
Body weight exercises
And obviously video games. I would say 90% of the time I am either playing a shmup or a fighter (used to play SF competitively). Run n Guns and Beat em ups are in there too.
Cheers!
You're sure to be in a fine haze about now, but don't think too hard about all of this. Just go out and kill a few beasts. It's for your own good. You know, it's just what hunters do! You'll get used to it.
Satan wrote:I bought them both off a local guy about 18 years ago for £150 each and also got an SH101 for £100, no one gave a shit back then.
Ha, I figured you got them back then when they were cheap as chips. I have an SH101 as well. Was actually a gift from my mom's husband. He was a music teacher in the 80's and got it for demonstrating synthesis - used it like 5 times and put it in storage for 30 years. Still pristine and works like new.
I was thinking about getting an 808 a few years back, but realized I'm good with my Machinedrum UW. They are just too bloody expensive now, espeically if you want one in good shape and a clean bill of health. Plus with a bit of programming knowledge you can get most of the way there with a Machinedrum, and that's without even touching any samples.
Back on topic - almost forgot, I'm big into horror movies and movie soundtracks too. I listen to more movie soundtracks than actual 'music' these days, mostly old horror stuff.
Video Games: well of course, mostly shmups and j-rpg's are my thing.
Video Games Hardware & Emulation: I now consider it a separate hobby, since tinkering with scalers and emulators takes a lot of time which is not gaming (but still fun). This completely took over audiophile stuff.
Movies & Anime: it's slowly becoming a hobby, I think that thread is kind of pushing me into it, I'm more and more into the 20th century stuff. Also looking into older anime stuff.
I'm afraid I'll end up buying more home cinema-friendly hardware if this goes on.
Gardening and Building: why yeah, my parents have a big house and garden and since they're getting too old for this shit, they're asking me to help with more and more stuff, which is tiring and dirty but curiously very satisfying.
I just built a huge wall in natural stone, fucking hard, but it looks soooo much better than concrete and I'm glad I'm the one who built it.
Other benefit is it helps staying in shape after all those computer hours.
gaming - the obvious. Mostly shmups. Try to get most of the games I want in PCB form if available (and not killer in price). Other than that I still have a sizeable SFC collection (Love me some platformers & puzzle games).
muscle cars - me and my father are currently about halfway through completely restoring a 1972 camaro split bumper.
sports - getting intoxicated , cooking multiple dead animals on the BBQ, and screaming at the television during NFL & NHL games is a regular weekend tradition at my place (or a friends)
music - used to play the drums way more than I do now, but I still love attending live shows when artists of interest come within a few hours venture of where I live.
Mister Midnight wrote:btw, cant trust them Koreans; remember Pearl Harbor
Reading - I usually read 3-4 books a week on average, and I have no intention of cutting back.
Audiophile stuff - My setup is generally on the low end when it comes to hardcore audiophiles (Cambridge Audio 651A integrated amplifier running a pair of bi-amped Polk RTi12's and a PSW 125 sub, Pro-ject Debut Carbon turntable, Teac A2300-SX reel to reel that was completely overhauled by a guy who worked as a Teac technician for 30 years). I'm also a fan of some of the new 200g audiophile pressings, although sometimes it can get a little too pricey for me (e.g. http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/11482 ... nyl_Record). The room I have my stereo setup in also has no TVs or computers, and that's the way I like it. I do try to be reasonable, though; there's no way a $45,000 turntable sounds 100 times better than mine.
Music stuff - I play bass trombone and tuba primarily, mostly jazz (yep, jazz tuba, it's a thing). I also dabble in electronic music from time to time, although my perfectionism and obsession with form usually keeps me from releasing tunes.
Teaching - Since this is my job, I'm not sure if it counts as a hobby, but unfortunately a lot of college professors are more interested in furthering their own careers than helping their students. In a lot of ways, I feel like college is mostly a ripoff these days, so I at least try to give my students their money's worth.
Films - my tastes gravitate towards either end of the artistic spectrum. I love really artsy films and the schlockiest of horror.
Diabolo (do all types of juggling but specializing in this awesome prop) since 11 years old. Used to practice a lot more heavily than I do atm but looking to up it to consistant time again thanks to recently getting a gymkey for free. Along with games my lifelong interest. Future dream would be to setup a club/school and teach it hardcore with gymnastics/dance involved as I've always lacked physically. In a sucky little town with nothing to do people should have all the more motivation to practice individual and creative stuff (I know I do).
Guitar. Recently picked it up. Am crap at it and don't practice much (and never have any nails to work anyway with due to sticks crushing them because of above interest)...but it's still fun.
Running/stretching as it ties into primary interest.
Reading/learning random shit just because...
Also with a bit of help from my father just this winter took a few days to make a "desk" inspired by Kraylix stand to act as a "kitchen cab" of sorts. Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOAVS-1mzrw
Mine is nowhere near as good but still happy with it. Screen/speakers not purchased yet (pics to follow of the whole thing) but woodworking is something I'd like to get into now because of that. Along with other handy skills (maybe knitting as it looks gtk) want to take on small projects. Found the Instructables website...
Strikers1945guy wrote:NHL games is a regular weekend tradition at my place (or a friends)
You're not on HF Boards by any chance are you?
You're sure to be in a fine haze about now, but don't think too hard about all of this. Just go out and kill a few beasts. It's for your own good. You know, it's just what hunters do! You'll get used to it.
Watching TV. Well, not much, except when I watch the news, anime and tokusatsu with this one.
Video Games. Most obvious, especially shmups. I often record my superplays and playthroughs when I have the confidence to do so and if I am good enough. I am also into first-person shooters as well, including Doom series and some Wolfenstein 3d mods. (In which most of them were free-to-play) I am currently playing Left 4 Dead 2 coop in the Steam servers.
Photoshopping. Hmmm, I also used to make memes and other fun stuff with this one.
Anime Trading Card Gaming. Currently my run for money right now. I was playing a Japanese TCG called Weiss Schwarz, and I am currently having fun with it. It involves bringing your opponent to a higher level while dealing clock damage to your opponent.
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- Music: mostly prefer instrumentals over songs. Also, it's some kind of a snowball of what i'm listening to nowodays. Ten years ago i only had a small bunch of CDs and audiotapes, including Era, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Alphaville, Rammstein and Radiohead. Later i felt strong thirst for music and begin researching different genres and styles. Deftones and Slipknot were my entries to nu-metal, then i went for hardcore/post hardcore (The Blue Letter, Me And Him Call It Us, Suis la Lune, Mesa Verde), mathcore (Psyopus) and grindcore. Guitar-based music didn't feel heavy enough for me so i looked into electronica. Sweet thing i digged is speedcore project Passenger of Shit which lead me to breakcore genre, and in first place to Venetian Snares. I still love VS music much more than, say, Aphex Twin or Autechre (both are called idm usually though). Thanks to V Snares i stopped searching ultimate harshness but founded beauty in complex structures; as for instrumental music - i switched to post-rock (I Hear Sirens, And So I Watch You From Afar, Magyar Posse), shoegaze (Romance of Young Tigers, Infidel? Castro!) and - a wonderful style - math rock (Tera Melos, Ahleuchatistas, Maps and Atlases, Stage Kids etc.). Then suddenly i meet maybe the strongest influence (after Radiohead which i abandoned kinda) - damn John Zorn. Real mastermind. In his music you can meet anything - blend of jazz and grind, chamber orchestra and cartoon music, noise and ethnic easy listening; many projects with many faces. That's for "instruments" music - but of course i still continued digging electronica too. After falling in love with modular synths i started learning early electronics (Pierre Schaeffer, Stockhausen, Morton Subotnick, Klaus Shulze) and modern experiments too. Anyway i never stricted myself to certain genres and continuing finding wonderful artists. Like, for example, ambient/neoclassical composer Worrytrain, portuguese avantpop/fado band Mler Ife Dada or japanese gothic rock from 80s named Kokushoku Elegy.
- Movies and anime: While i still watch some on purpose, i have a habit randomly switching channels on TV until i find something interested and continue watching.
- Videogames: i have a huge backlog and dunno when it will be filled. I'm not stable - sometimes there are weeks and months when i dont touch a game and in opposite there are times where i sacrifice sleep because of smth that cought me so well. Oh, and i've listened more soundtracks than i played games.
- Books and magazines: Not that often, but still. Have 1-2 of zines i buy from time to time cause i dig editors' vision in their articles. And for literature: still love Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonriders of Pern", R. Zelazny's "The Chronicles of Amber", K. Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions", R. Sheckley's short stories, Ray Bradbury and others.
B: Glimpses of productivity:
- Well, music again: Started with guitar and later switched to electronics. Dreaming of having a modular one day.
- Mapping: Nothing serious yet, tried creating levels for first person shooters back in time, now trying learn UDK.
