Please no doomer responses.
I’ve been playing my guitar a fair bit. Relearning the solo dem another brick in the wall pt 2 because I never learned it right whe I was in high school and really wanna get that 5 fret bend down right. Havent learned a solo in a while, pretty easy reintro to solos.
Been getting my old anet 8 3d printer working again for a project for my girlfriend. Pretty fun iterativeprocess.
Also fucking around with retro games on an old pi I had sitting around. Contra hard corps is hella fun.
So what do you like doing? What have you been having fun with? What do you like?
I’ve been playing a board game Re;Act - The Arts of War. It’s a 1v1 asymmetrical game where you play as magical artists and try to punch the other artist 3 times. The game is focused around making a stack of reactions back and forth as players try to respond to each others actions. The characters are very unique and you can actually play the game for free on the developer’s website.
Ocarina of time on PC. Haven’t played it in 20+ years, on N64
Started an intro to improv course last week, which was actually pretty fun! Going to have to sit tonight’s session out due to recovering from illness the past couple of days 👎
Beyond that, slowly making my way through a series of poker-card sized collages (trying this thing where, instead of just letting my dumb ideas float around unattempted, I actually commit to some of them and try to see them to completion. Outside of the collages, progress is meh). Next thing is to sit down and write more poems to read at open mics for shits and giggles (was on a bit of a roll for a bit, then slowed down significantly).
I bought a shit ton of RAM and installed LLM onnmy computer. Now I torture it with questions “What happens if USS Enterprise mets Warhammer 40k”
Ask it if it’s conscious/has a soul/is a P-zombie. By far my favorite thing when messing with LLMs. Bonus points for making it talk like a pirate or Morshu when answering.
Going to swimming pool with my kids is the highlight of the week.
That’s really sweet :)
I’ve started making a new game. Yes I know I have 3 unfinished games in the works. Yes I know that AI slop is drowning the indie game market. Yes I know there’s a very good chance that nobody in the world will ever play my game but me. Yet, I persist. This one’s going to be fun.
Starting projects is a valid hobby imo
Honestly there’s a lot I’ve had fun with lately in a lot of realms from gardening to running and teaching my kids! Been going to more local concerts with family and friends, finding community. My family has a band and we’re getting pretty decent for amateurs, maybe ready to do a show later next year. At least it’s fun anyway! Back to playing guitar, learning vocals by necessity, and laying tracks in Cubase again after not messing with it in almost 2 decades. Very helpful therapy.
With great election news brings a big sigh of relief (will savor this through the holidays and back to offline activism next year). Now if only I had more time and energy to do all the things I want to accomplish lol
I recently got a Game Boy cartridge reader. I’ve been playing around with using it to put together full color photos with the Game Boy camera. It’s really finicky, but fun when it comes out well.
Wildlife photography; lizards and birds mostly.
Check my profile for the ones I’ve been happy to post so far.
Noice!
Same thing we do every day, Pinky, listen to music, have fun with the kids, snuggle hot wife, and try new coffee beans.
I listened to a fantastic audiobook this week, I’m one book away from reaching my goal of 50 this year!! I hadn’t seriously taken up reading since high school so before this it was maybe like 2 books a year if lucky. I joined a book club and made new friends. That’s been great.
I’ve also been practicing video editing for the group I organize with so that we can up our social media game. That’s been a huge learning curve but very fun.
Got into Magic the Gathering (MtG) a few months ago because I have no other social hobbies lol. Surprisingly fun! Not the cheapest hobby… but good way to spend disposable income I guess. Had I known I’d enjoy it (should have figured from my Slay the Spire game hours…) I should have gotten into it quite a bit earlier, cards used to be cheaper back then. There’s a local game store which has weekly events so there’s that
Recently there was a new set (Star Trek) where I played the prerelease, and there was a guy at the prerelease who is a massive Trekkie and wanted to collect highly thematic cards (which I traded quite a few with him), so I was happy
- Running might be my most fun and healthiest hobby recently.
- Really into running public and local servers but it’s sort of arrived at the stage where I don’t need to touch them much.
- Got into my PSVita, Gameboy, and iPod again. iPod is by far the best because it has a week of power so I can always have music. Also have been keeping a small camera on me as well. Diff vibe than phone photos and longer battery.
I’m with you on the running - just got back into it after a ten year hiatus (injury, then laziness).
It’s a bit disheartening to remember my last trail 50k run while I’m getting winded and sore from a casual road 5k, but I do still love it… and my distance increases have been pretty steady already, so here’s hoping.
You’ll bounce back in no time! It’s very helpful to know you’ve achieved it before, and how to get there. Part of what’s hard about something like running is you don’t know what to expect if you’ve never been at that level before. Of course age will play a factor which you need to be realistic about, but that’s still a fairly marginal factor over a decade.
Jiu-Jitsu! It’s rough, but tons of fun. Builds friendships really quickly too. Not for everyone but it’s a ton of fun for some of us.
A little weird maybe, but…exercise.
A nice workout session gets my brain to making the happy juice.
Other than that, the usual…modular synthesis, beats, poetry…
