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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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
I stopped doing Brazilian JiuJitsu after I got injured like 3 times over 6 months where as I’ve been lifting weights for 15 years and haven’t gotten injured once. It was fun but I don’t want to do it at the expense of my health. Also there’s always the one guy who takes it too seriously and ruins it for everyone else.
Gaming is another one. I get into it for a month about once a year but I’m just not particularly drawn to it anymore.
Tabletop RPGs. I’m sick of DND. Hard to find good groups for other games. There’s a meetup I go to every once in a while but I want a regular group building a big story together
Depending on what you’re parts of D&D you’re sick of Pathfinder 2e can be refreshing and relatively easy to find groups for, otherwise I’ve found if you want to play something else you probably have to run it yourself.
I hear pathfinder 2e is a big improvement, but still has some of the stuff I’m sick of.
- rolling a single die means flat probability. Equal odds of getting the worst or best possible outcome
- spells per day is anti-fun for me. I want to do cool stuff, not feel pressured to hold onto it “in case I need it later”
- class and level is very coarse, and makes some concepts impractical, impossible, or awkward to execute
- I’m not as interested in “numbers go up big” anymore, and that’s kind of the default.
- I’m not really in the mood for fantasy. I’d rather do modern day occult
For the first point, you could use a random generator and make it pick from a Gaussian or Poisson or other probability distribution depending on the situation.
For the rest, I do not know. I have been wanting to play a tabletop game with my board game group. But knowing them, I would have to be dungeon master and that seems intimidating since I have never played before.
For the first point, you could use a random generator and make it pick from a Gaussian or Poisson or other probability distribution depending on the situation.
Many RPGs that aren’t so closely related to DND use a dice pool. Instead of like 1d20, you might roll 3d6. Now you’re more likely to get an average result. Only one way to roll 3, but a bunch of ways to roll 10.
The nWoD games you roll d10s and count how many come up 8,9, 10. Very fast, and once you’re good at a task you know you’ll generally succeed. It’s more a question of how well you’ll succeed and how strong the opposition is.
I’m not mathy enough to talk beyond that, but I find it much more satisfying.
Playing under someone more experienced can build confidence, but the only way to learn how to run a ttrpg is to start running one. Find some one page RPGs with really simple rules that can be learnt in a few minutes and played over an hour or two. No one has to invest in anything, you can switch between different ones to find what people like, and there’s no pressure to keep running a campaign if you find it too much. Once you have an idea of what it’s like running a game you and your friends can decide if you want to play a long adventure.
PF2e does a surprisingly good job at both unequaling the odds with it’s degrees of success mechanic and making class and level a much more flexible system through feats, but probably not to the degree you’re wanting, and I can’t argue with the rest.
Delta Green isn’t a perfect fit for your requirements as it uses a single die, but it’s degrees of success system also unequals the odds, so it might still work for you. VtM and it’s relatives are probably a better fit, but I personally find them a bit melodramatic. I’ve found it pretty easy to find a VtM group by hanging around Goths, but haven’t had any luck with Delta Green yet.I had a really fun game of Vampire back in like 2016. I’d love to have another go at that, or Mage. The dice pool system always felt simple but exciting. Characters started out competent and being able to buy individual skills or powers was more satisfying than waiting for whole levels.
I’ve heard good things about Delta green, but never looked into it.
Alas, my college days where “hey you look nerdy you wanna play vampire?” are long gone.
Are you me? I played a ton of dnd, got burned out, now trying smaller different rpg systems. I particularly like Lancer right now and there is a strong online presence for it
Gaming
It’s not even because of a bad thing there, it’s just that my now wife and I spend so much time together that we don’t really have time for much else
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.
