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.
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 more and more as 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.
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!
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.
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.
Re: Comics
I’ve gone through phases of the same. Just give it time, something will come along that catches your eye. For me, it was a bunch of indie comics. Look into the more indie publishers, and you’ll find something you like.
There’s a lot of good stories out there, just not in the mainstream Marvel/DC universe.
Playing the piano. Not because I don’t like it. I just found it to be another thing I mostly do alone and I have more than enough hobbies where I do that already and enjoy more. Instead I picked up some hobbies to do with friends.
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
Tbh, more less gaming
I would game all day and night but these days , I just have no energy for games and would blatantly decline invitations regarding it ()
I feel the same. Not the energie, more that i cant be bothered anymore. Even single player doesnt feel fun anymore. And it just…happened out of no where
Comics aren’t just Marvel and DC. Check out Image, Boom Studios, Ablaze, Oni, and whatever the hell Vertigo is now. Pick up Something is Killing the Children or Department of Truth (both by James Tynion, but I like most everything he does). Look for Hopeless Savages and We Only Find Them When They’re Dead. Go read Scott Pilgrim, Locke and Key, Deadly Class, Resident Alien, Die, or Phonogram. There is so much out there that doesn’t have to do with dudes in tights fighting each other. You’ve got a lot to explore once you get away from Summer Crisis Events.
No.
All of them. My several kids are teenagers, my job is over an hour commute (and I can’t find anything closer) and my spouse is working full time and taking night classes. I am pooped.
I used to homebrew beer, bake bread, 3d print, and far more.
I’m in a similar boat. Over an hour commute, younger kids with afterschool activities 4 days a week. A wife has a full-time job, luckily, she finally finished her master’ so we reclaimed Saturdays and I’m not running the taxi service solo.
Shit is exhausting, but I am glad our daughters got to see their mom a accomplished something so huge, and I’m proud to have supported her along the way.
Now that you mention it, I think I still have a case of 3 year old homebrew in the basement.
Haha, similarly, I have 2 carboys in the garage that are over a year old.
I’ve been away from ham radio for a while now. Thanks to hanging out with primarily older hams I know this is a common thing. I know folks who got licensed as kids, got out of it for 30 years, then came back after they retired. Unfortunately the hobby is extremely expensive so there’s a a temptation to force myself into it because I spent all this money. Right now I’m just looking at other areas within the amateur radio space that I haven’t explored, like radio direction finding (aka fox hunting).
As for comics, I can’t possibly imagine enjoying them. I like deep, and more importantly consistent, worldbuilding more than characters, so the constant reboots and alternate continuities would frustrate me. I bounced hard off of Transformers because it’s merch driven and it shows in the messy lore.
I’ve only seen one Marvel movie (Iron Man 2) and I’m still exhausted by osmosis. Luckily it seems like this nearly two decade long trend is finally dying. I count the start of the superhero movie trend with the first X-men movie. The fad was already getting old in the mid 2000s, and I can’t believe it managed to last this long.
been away from ham for a while too. during covid i realized i could snatch up my very long dead grandfather’s call sign, so i went from one that shows i am tech no code to general, “n1….” to “ka1…”
i want to get a mobile in my car but its a jeep. easy to steal from.
and most of my radio work these days is as a firefighter on non ham bands anyway. :/
I’m quite currious (not enough to get into the hobby) what does one do with Ham radio? Is it just talking to other people over the radio or what?
Mostly, though you have to remember ham radio is the progenitor of all the other electronics hobbies. RadioShack was founded all the way back in the 1920s, and is named thus because a shack is where you put your radio equipment, even if it’s just a table in the corner of the living room. Casual intercontinental communication was out of reach of most until the internet, and casual mobile communication until CB radio, which was itself repurposed spectrum formerly occupied by hams. Older folks are still in it for the “talk around the world” angle, but younger hams have other motivations now that it’s no longer novel.
It’s a broad hobby. I myself enjoy satellite communications as well as packet radio. I got a web server working over VHF AX.25. There’s also AREDN and other mesh networks like Meshtastic.
In the end the best way I’ve heard the hobby summed up is “It doesn’t matter what we’re communicating, only that we communicate”. Having a robust globe-spanning network of stations that uses no intervening infrastructure has an appeal all its own. I like the fact that I can generate a varying voltage in a long copper wire that induces the same varying voltage in another long copper wire somewhere halfway around the world with no cell towers or satellites.
I like the fact that I can generate a varying voltage in a long copper wire that induces the same varying voltage in another long copper wire somewhere halfway around the world with no cell towers or satellites.
That does make it sound pretty fucking cool tbh.
I haven’t been on the air in a while either. My dipole antennas are out of commission right now because the stakes came out of the ground, and now I have my antennas tangled in the tree and I will need to take them down in order to untangle them.
If you are into HF, we are basically at solar maximum right now, so it is a great time to get some DXing in.
Gaming.
Don’t have the mental energy for it anymore… depression…
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.
Yeah, been wanting to try baldurs gate but I know I’m going to feel like its too much of a commitment and time sink. I mostly stick to indie games, short and often better than AAA for my taste at least.
I don’t know of any short games I barely play single player. For me the only games I enjoy are sandbox games and competitive multiplayer. I cannot deal with how boring it is to play against ai enemies but at the same time it takes so much regular playing and even some studying to maintain being good at a multiplayer game and when you switch the learning curve is brutal.
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 for me, if a 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.
I may take long breaks, but I’ve never fully given up on a hobby.
