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What Are Your Non-Gaming Hobbies/Interests?
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Rabulias
the Incomparably Shrewd and Clever
I collected comic books but the costs go too high in the late 1990s so I stopped.
Motion picture soundtracks have been my hobby since Star Wars. I have over 1900 soundtrack CDs.
Like many others here, I have the typical geek hobbies: reading, TV shows, movies, science fiction, and computers.
Motion picture soundtracks have been my hobby since Star Wars. I have over 1900 soundtrack CDs.
Like many others here, I have the typical geek hobbies: reading, TV shows, movies, science fiction, and computers.
GrimCo
Hero
I design/modify 3d models of minis and print them in batches with different themes ( wild west, ww1/ww2, astronauts, dinos etc), then we (my older one and me) play with them in sand (i built sandbox for kids at our vacation home in the country).
Most of the free time i have, i try to spend doing fun stuff with wife and kids. Since we bought vacation home 30min from our city, i started doing some landscaping and gardening, we planted some stuff ( blueberry, chokecherry, raspberry, blackberry and strawberry, we also have 2 old cherry trees and 8 big old walnut trees).
Training mma 3 times a week, futsal once every 2 weeks if weather is ok.
Come summer time, i do fishing (mostly squids), some underwater fishing with speargun, some surfing and every summer at least a week of sailing. We are lucky in that both wife and i can work remotely, we have house by the sea in small island village and my parents are retired, so we spend almost entire summer at seaside. I have few friends in the village, we have small waterpolo setup and play waterpolo at least 2 times a week and 2 times a week we play bocce.
Most of the free time i have, i try to spend doing fun stuff with wife and kids. Since we bought vacation home 30min from our city, i started doing some landscaping and gardening, we planted some stuff ( blueberry, chokecherry, raspberry, blackberry and strawberry, we also have 2 old cherry trees and 8 big old walnut trees).
Training mma 3 times a week, futsal once every 2 weeks if weather is ok.
Come summer time, i do fishing (mostly squids), some underwater fishing with speargun, some surfing and every summer at least a week of sailing. We are lucky in that both wife and i can work remotely, we have house by the sea in small island village and my parents are retired, so we spend almost entire summer at seaside. I have few friends in the village, we have small waterpolo setup and play waterpolo at least 2 times a week and 2 times a week we play bocce.
MoonSong
Rules-lawyering drama queen but not a munchkin
I'm likely younger than you, so my period of collecting is in the late aughts. Back then, the amount of money I spent each month would at first buy 5 comics. Then four, and three, eventually just one, and now less than one. Part of it is our parity with the dollar getting worse, but the rising price is the biggest concern.
Still, I stopped at the time of the new 52. I was into DC for the ongoing soap operish drama and they stopping with that and going for a reset killed all of my interest. More recently, I went back to buying Gwenpool (the first series) but the pandemic basically made me stop. (It also interrupted my collecting of a manga, both collections remain sadly incomplete to this day)
If computers are allowed, I'm also into coding. My Dad taught me to code on an Atari ST and I'm a fan of basic and assemby. Right now, I'm thinking of coding one or two games for the PET.
Motorcycling, riding a lovely Moto Guzzi these days.
Hiking, trail running, high intensity workouts.
Reading, constantly. I’ve slacked off recently (running too many RPGs), but I used to read an average of > 120 books a year.
Visiting botanical gardens, one of my absolute favorite things. Sometimes with a book in hand too!
Hiking, trail running, high intensity workouts.
Reading, constantly. I’ve slacked off recently (running too many RPGs), but I used to read an average of > 120 books a year.
Visiting botanical gardens, one of my absolute favorite things. Sometimes with a book in hand too!
roger semerad
Explorer
I collect transforming toys.
It started as my love for the Transformers growing up. I was born in 82 and the original show was my first love. Getting an Optimus Prime for christmas is even my earliest childhood memory. But as time passed and I got older I moved on from toys, it was the expected thing to do in the 90s. Toys are kid things, time to move on. Even so, I never completely stopped thinking about Transformers. I had all my old toys out on display in my room and transformed them every once in a while. So my family did know me as "the Transformer guy". One day after a christmas my nephew brought his movie 1 leader Optimus Prime toy to my house and asked for my help. He already lost his instructions and he and his father couldn't transform it. So I worked on it and figured it out for them. I hadn't picked up a transformer since Beast Wars Ultra Megatron, I didn't know how much they'd advanced over the years. I was very impressed with this toy. So much so that I actually looked in a few stores to buy one for myself. They were already gone at that point and I let it go. Fast forward a few years and I do see a big Optimus Prime toy for the Revenge of the Fallen line, but it looks different from the one that impressed me before. I was curious if they changed the toy that impressed me so I looked up a transformation video. Yeah, they changed it, it was the most mindblowing thing I'd seen in years. I bought that toy and quickly got myself up to speed on the franchise and toy collecting in general.
I still do love the Transformers franchise (although mostly for the toys), but my interest goes well beyond that. I am deeply in love with the engineering that goes into a transforming toy. It's a magical thing to see something fundamentally change right in front of you. Having something transform without removing parts puts limits to what you can do, but that has just made toy engineers get more and more creative with their transformations. I haven't been collecting for the past few years because I haven't had much spare income, but I still pay attention to what is releasing and watching reviews. Even if I can't afford to buy a toy, a still love watching them transform.
Here's a review of the toy that brought me into modern transforming toys.
and here is a few more of my favorites focusing on the transformations themselves. there are more thorough reviews out there if you're interested.
It started as my love for the Transformers growing up. I was born in 82 and the original show was my first love. Getting an Optimus Prime for christmas is even my earliest childhood memory. But as time passed and I got older I moved on from toys, it was the expected thing to do in the 90s. Toys are kid things, time to move on. Even so, I never completely stopped thinking about Transformers. I had all my old toys out on display in my room and transformed them every once in a while. So my family did know me as "the Transformer guy". One day after a christmas my nephew brought his movie 1 leader Optimus Prime toy to my house and asked for my help. He already lost his instructions and he and his father couldn't transform it. So I worked on it and figured it out for them. I hadn't picked up a transformer since Beast Wars Ultra Megatron, I didn't know how much they'd advanced over the years. I was very impressed with this toy. So much so that I actually looked in a few stores to buy one for myself. They were already gone at that point and I let it go. Fast forward a few years and I do see a big Optimus Prime toy for the Revenge of the Fallen line, but it looks different from the one that impressed me before. I was curious if they changed the toy that impressed me so I looked up a transformation video. Yeah, they changed it, it was the most mindblowing thing I'd seen in years. I bought that toy and quickly got myself up to speed on the franchise and toy collecting in general.
I still do love the Transformers franchise (although mostly for the toys), but my interest goes well beyond that. I am deeply in love with the engineering that goes into a transforming toy. It's a magical thing to see something fundamentally change right in front of you. Having something transform without removing parts puts limits to what you can do, but that has just made toy engineers get more and more creative with their transformations. I haven't been collecting for the past few years because I haven't had much spare income, but I still pay attention to what is releasing and watching reviews. Even if I can't afford to buy a toy, a still love watching them transform.
Here's a review of the toy that brought me into modern transforming toys.
and here is a few more of my favorites focusing on the transformations themselves. there are more thorough reviews out there if you're interested.
MoonSong
Rules-lawyering drama queen but not a munchkin
I was looking for this picture:
I grew up watching the first Japanese trilogy and Beast Wars. I was also exposed to a bootleg toyline that was all animal-based. The cool part was that half the figures were female characters. My first official transformer was an Airazor, and as an adult I've collected mostly female transformers. (I also have some of the usual suspects, but they are peripheral. There's a Megatron, a BW Megs, an Optimus, a Hot Rod/Rodimus, Galvatron, Sixshot, Magnus, Ginrai and others)
I'm mostly done, I just want a good Elita1, Slipstream, Windblade and a Tigraton (to pose with Airazor), possibly a Silverbolt to go with BlachArachnia. Though the changes to customs make that harder than it used to be.
roger semerad
Explorer
I was looking for this picture:
I grew up watching the first Japanese trilogy and Beast Wars. I was also exposed to a bootleg toyline that was all animal-based. The cool part was that half the figures were female characters. My first official transformer was an Airazor, and as an adult I've collected mostly female transformers. (I also have some of the usual suspects, but they are peripheral. There's a Megatron, a BW Megs, an Optimus, a Hot Rod/Rodimus, Galvatron, Sixshot, Magnus, Ginrai and others)
I'm mostly done, I just want a good Elita1, Slipstream, Windblade and a Tigraton (to pose with Airazor), possibly a Silverbolt to go with BlachArachnia. Though the changes to customs make that harder than it used to be.
Nice, it's always a pleasure to talk to another transformer fan. I'm glad that the Transformers line is getting more female transformers lately. It really adds to the variety out there and expands the appeal to new fans. My favorite female transformers in the main lines so far are Prime first edition Arcee and Revenge of the Fallen deluxe Arcee. I also really want the third party Metagate Red Fantasy(Bumblebee movie Shatter).
What's it like to have an end to collecting in sight? For me I just love everything that transforms so much that I'll never stop collecting. I've got transforming sushi, letters, shapes, baseball caps, obscure japanese combiners and more. It does eat up a lot of money deep diving like that, but it's worth it to me.
Sacrosanct
Legend
There are 2 types of motorcyclists: those that have gone down, and those that will.
The first is why my wife won't let me ride any longer lol. That, and this graphic. But man, sometimes I miss by bike. I'm very much a cruiser guy and not a sport biker though.
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