What Are Your Non-Gaming Hobbies/Interests?

[payn]

I do "cowboy" historical reenactment. I write published historical articles about Old West history. I give lectures on Old West topics. I do a podcast on the Old West. I do non-competitively shooting. I drink whiskey and smoke cigars.

 

[Kaodi]

I am not sure I really do enough of any non-gaming thing for it to count as a hobby. I mean is watching the MCU a hobby at this point? Does reading the Times of Israel and getting mad at events and the comments section (which even after like thirteen years I have consciously avoided signing up to use) count as a hobby if I do it like half the days of the year?

 

[Kaodi]

I did not mean to kill the thread. I am genuinely curious as to how media consumption fits in with the "hobby" designation.

 

[Reynard]

I did not mean to kill the thread. I am genuinely curious as to how media consumption fits in with the "hobby" designation.

I think media consumption can be a hobby, especially if it is bundledwith discussion or criticism.

 

[trappedslider]

Scale models

 

[dbm]

More an interests than a hobby, I suppose, but I love the theatre. We try to go and see a couple of new plays or musicals each year. Live music too, nothing beats live performance.

My other interest / vice is fast cars. Every car I have ever bought has been a performance car of some stripe or other.

Spoiler: Current daily

 

[The Soloist]

Drawing, painting, photography, sculpting and garden design.

 

[jdrakeh]

I did not mean to kill the thread. I am genuinely curious as to how media consumption fits in with the "hobby" designation.

In my case, I seek out giallo - primarily Italian, but also some Spanish and French, dating back to the mid-1960s (some of them are very difficult to source on DVD or in digital format, and must be procured on VHS or even film). I haven't gone as heavy on this as I did back in the mid-2010s when I was actively seeking out those giallo available only on tape or film and digitzing them for personal viewing. Now I just watch them when I can find them (I'm no longer actively archiving them).

 

[overgeeked]

Let's see. Reading, writing, gardening, cooking, language learning, history, philosophy, listening to music, comedy, improv, cats...lots and lots of cats, and watching TV & films.

 

[Bedrockgames]

I did not mean to kill the thread. I am genuinely curious as to how media consumption fits in with the "hobby" designation.

I think it is like anything else, if you are sufficiently obsessive about it, it becomes a hobby. For instance if someone was really into noir and made a point of reading EVERYTHING and collecting EVERYTHING. That is probably a hobby. I collect HK action movies, wuxia movies, kung fu films, watch them a lot, read a lot the source material, write reviews, do podcasts on them. I mean there are people for whom the Venom Mob alone is a hobby. Or you could be extremely into a genre of music. Or a general film buff (I know someone who loves cinema, reads all about it, watches every classic movie he can, collects as much physical media as he can, and knows a ton of very obscure information.