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I saw this thread a couple days ago, and I"v ebeen giving it a couple days of thought, and I think I just now came up with the succinct answer:
Woodworking lets me get what I want.
Just about anyone making videos about woodworking talk about “what I want” a lot. “I mixed a little bit of aniline dye into the stain, and that gave me the color I want.” “I’ll use the cove bit for the first pass, then use the roundover bit on the second pass, and that will give me the profile I want.”
Building things myself lets me get what I want, not settle for whatever someone else built down to a price.
To borrow an old classic, I don’t have hobbies. I have interests. Hobbies cost money, but interests are free.
Cooking/baking: i got told i am better than my mother BY MY GRANDMA!! And i do it all rythmicly and its very theraputic
Gardening with carnivoures plants: they kill wasps and mosquitos and look pretty while at it! :D
Programming: Joy and frustration is so close by each other. Especially mod creation for eu4 frustrates me how redtrictive and cumbersome it is! Had to redo one mechanic 8 times because i cant do dynamic lists and other things!!!
Music: the vibe and letting lose becoming one
Biking: the feeling of freedom
There’s no end for computers.
I’m with my Linux build. Co-worker is proud of their windows 11 build. We can still nerd about new upgrades/optamising our separate work flows.
It’s so ruinously expensive that I can’t afford any vices.
Is it a horse, a boat, or warhammer 40K?
A fixer-upper century house, so at least on paper I’m not losing all that money.
Been there, done that. It’s not the destination, it’s the skills you gain along the way
I mean, it’d be nice to have all three bedrooms functional at the same time, since there’s five of us living here.
Ouch, living in the works area can be taxing for family life. Kuddos for pulling it out!
My hobby is building cosplay weapons/props or just building shit in general. I get to look at the thing I made and go “holy shit, I made that with my crafting skills and my own 2 hands!”. I made Guts’s sword from Berserk before and I get to swing it around. I tend to enjoy hobbies that requires hands-on work the most like woodworking, helping my dad fix engines/car/boat stuff, playing with legos, and such.
It challenges my creativity because I also like doing prop design in visual development/drawing/illustration. So when I design my own weapon(s) and I can make it into 3D art for display. My whole room will be filled with cardboard swords and guns one day.
That I don’t need to do it if I don’t want to.
The primary technique is stabbing.
I make felt sculptures.
While its technically correct to call fondled, dead people taxidermy “felt sculptures,” it still doesn’t seem right.
Before the fondling they’re called pre-felt.
That’s a joke for my felting homies.
How many times have you stabbed yourself? Or is that a mistake you only make once?
I’m essentially a pincushion now.
I’ve been golfing (yea, I am aware that the majority of Lemmy hates golf) a lot more recently. I enjoy that it’s something that can be done with people of varying skill levels while still being fun. Ultimately, the competition is just with yourself to keep improving.
I just don’t like paying that much to suck at something so hard
Yeah, it’s definitely not the cheapest sport. I’ve got a buddy in Texas who uses an app that finds him cheap golf for a like $10-$20 a round. Apparently if you don’t mind playing at shitty courses in hot weather at 1:00PM on a Tuesday, you can play on the cheap.
Lemmy hates golf? Never noticed. Weird.
Golf courses and some golfers I could see
It’s the golf courses I would imagine, and you can’t really have golf without them.
I finally know why I am the weirdo at parties.
One of my biggest hobbies right now I’d better explain before I answer. I make Saturday morning cartoon clipshows for my wife and kid, which has been going for about a year and a half. I have a whole spreadsheet of almost 90 shows and a roughly equal number of indie animators I follow. I also grab occasionally like, old Fleischer studios stuff. Last weekend I included “Bimbo’s Initiation” for example. My spreadsheet tracks what episode we’re on, when it was last shown, and various notes for when I want to arrange shows together by some theme, e.g. giant robots or animal characters. I also sometimes sneak weird little videos into the commercial breaks. I have a media server with about 6Tb of shows, shorts, music videos, and misc footage.
My favourite thing about it is a bit of two different things - I get to share my TV with my kid, and I also end up seeing a lot of new shows and gaining an appreciation for the great work being done still, which keeps me from being jaded. It tends to concentrate nearly all our screen time into a single block during the weekend, so the TV we do watch is extremely varied, thoughtfully chosen, and always fresh. The first season of Owl House took us about a year to get through. Even though we could, we do nearly zero binge watching. My kid’s media diet is probably more interesting and varied than anyone’s I’ve ever met, and it’s because I spend hours every week gathering, planning, editing, and rendering highly curated content. And we make it an event, with big bougie brunch style breakfasts and a projector that takes up the whole wall. It’s fucking peak, man.
Hi parent! It’s me, your long lost child. Can you give me our home address so I can be there this weekend?
And I am their brother. See you Saturday!
I wouldn’t call model railroading my main hobby, as I only touch it once in a while. But that’s also what I do love about it. You leave it packed away in a closet for YEARS, then one rainy day you stumble across those boxes & decide to unpack them. And they still work like you remember as a kid. It’s like reconnecting with an old friend.
Plants don’t have opinions and flowers are pretty.
i became obsessed with succulents a while back, when i was still in subs for identifying plants/succulents. really wanted to grow some but.
It’s straight forward you just run
The learning curve is closer to unlearning sedentary habits and “re-remembering” a primal activity your body is ultimately designed for.
If you can keep the runfluencer culture at an arms length, it’s wildly accessible and stress-relieving
It saves me thousands of dollars that are immediately spent on tools!
Breaking even
