Nazi hunting.
Motorsport, specifically drifting.
Mucking around in digital audio workstations.
Yeah, me too (with learning how to drift). Looks so much fun to do. That, and learning how to drive a motorcycle too.
Surfing and Taekwondo. I enjoy activities that are competitive and challenges your discipline. I’m incredibly burnt out during university, so not a lot of energy left after classes have pushed me to my limit this year. Took several advanced art/design classes in the fall, a winter class, a woodworking class and biology in the spring.
I have the time and money, but no energy to do anything. My body and mind wants to rest. And I need to prioritize my career plan in welding and uni first, before I can have fun.
Rally car racing. (or any motorsport that isn’t F1 or boats/planes, really) But I’m too broke for that.
Coding. I love gaming and I love mods for games, but even my best efforts don’t get me very far. I can’t fully grasp how it works, what it means, or how to ask for what I need to know. It’s not for lack of trying or exposure, I’ve been bullshitting my way through linux for about 16 years now and only recently learned how to use systemctl without without copy paste.
You want literally anything physical I’m your guy. This week I’m researching how to reflow the APU on a ps4 motherboard and it just makes total sense to me, but I’m struggling just to make the json files in a mod for vintage story. Totally lost when it comes to the C#.
CodeAcademy is pretty good for a free self-teaching tool, you should definitely take their course! The good news is that the stuff you learn in C# can easily translate to other languages like Java or Python. C# also has a lot of nifty synthetic sugar, it’s a fun language
Electronics and home automation - I used to do Arduino/ESP projects, but the room I have for doing this kind of stuff is so hopelessly cluttered with crap now, creating usable space to work in is a daunting project of its own.
Exercise. Even a little bit makes me miserable. And I’m not even physically disabled.
Honestly, I find it to be miserable at first too, which really sucks. I’ve stopped and started exercising multiple times in my life and it’s always difficult for me to get back into for this reason. However, I’ve found that if I comfortably push through I get to a point where I’m struggling less and it becomes more satisfying. That’s when I start enjoying it because I can start setting specific goals and working towards them.
I’m now of the age where building a miniature railroad city seems interesting, but I don’t have anywhere near the space.
N scale is pretty small though there’s not as much available as HO scale.
Make it really mini.
Flying. AVGAS100 is fucking expensive.
I’ve got quite a few hours logged, tho
Can I talk to you my lord and god… Skydiving?
Nothing you do in the air will ever be cheap, but jumping out of planes is a lot cheaper than flying them.
D&D. I’ve tried a few times, but I have no imagination so I can never really get into it.
Let me tell you, you dont need imagination. But a fun group is everything
I have the imaginations, but I have some total mental block on “role playing”. And I have kids, so no ability to be part of a regular group for anything.
Coding. I just can’t stick with it and can’t find anything I’d like to make that interests me. any cod3 class I take I can follow chapter 1 and then I fall off a cliff. It feels like I’m wasting time if i try. I guess in my head I feel like I really want to know it, but when I’m doing it I’d rather be doing other things. Its more so I need to have the understanding because I don’t like using things I don’t fully understand. It just is such a time consuming thing.
music making with sunvox
i dont know how to get started with musicmaking in such way i can also get better. Also i have imagination for it only in dreams or when i’m trying to sleep. when i open the program i dont get any ideas.
I wish I had the time to get involved with the hobbies I already have
I don’t think I’ve had a decent chunk of a few hours of time with the energy to actually be creative in like a year now…
I hope I’m on the other side of this soon, life is supposed to be for living
I used to be really into traditional archery. Throught my teens, Emphasis on the “really”, Pretty sure I spent more time on the range than i did at home. I trained myself to shoot accurately no matter which hand i used. I traveled to attend and perform at archery shows hosted by castles
But it’s difficult to find space to do it in a city.
Magic the Gathering. Seems fun but I can’t justify new video game prices for individual cards
Proxies my friend.
I’m in this same sort of boat. It’s not that I really want to play but I have a friend who wants me to play and I’m happy to go along with it. So like you, I can’t justify the prices for something that I might (and probably) won’t even like.
What I’ve found is what are called “proxys”. Basically you can just print the cards you want for free off the internet. I’m sure there are groups out there that aren’t approving of playing with proxies but if your group falls more on the side of playing and having fun rather than collecting and you’re not trying to pass off proxies as real cards then you should be fine.
It seems to me like a great way to get started and see if it’s something you like without much investment at all
You could play MTG: Arena for free, but I’d understand if online play wasn’t your thing.
You could also have a look at pauper decks, which are focused on being very affordable.
I must also admit that, as a longtime player, I can’t wholeheartedly recommend the hobby right now due to how the game is managed and the insane amount of releases they put out.
Yeah. I limit myself to sealed tournaments, Jumpstart, and a casual commander deck.
The joke about drugs being cheaper isn’t a joke. The joke is the pain your wallet feels
I joking tell parents to get their kids into Warhammer 40K, Magic the Gathering or PC gaming, that way they wont be able to afford drugs.
At work a long time ago they played mtg with fake cards, like home printed.
I don’t know if they had the same or whatever extra rules surrounded it, but I sure do know that the scarcity thing is just a dark pattern to rob players of their money.
Neither can I, and I have 9 Commander decks. Very rarely do I spend more than a few dollars on a single card, and even then it’s been maybe $15 at most.
Those cards that are that expensive are good (provided they aren’t just special printings of cards that are otherwise less than a dollar), but they’re absolutely not necessary in casual formats. Most of the time, there’s a <$1 card serves the same purpose. There’s even a format called Pauper where only commons are allowed.
Standard is where it gets excessively overpriced, and it’s a big reason for its decline in players over the past few years. If you want to play it, play Arena, which is F2P.
Not everyone needs to do the tournament thing. There is a format called booster draft where knowing how to build a deck matters as much as how well you actually play. But it works like poker in the sense that you buy in with a sealed booster pack and you keep the cards at the end. Depending on the local format, it can be winner takes all.
I mean, you don’t have to buy those absurdly expensive single cards to have fun. I bought my first cards in 1997 and have been playing on and off since then. I have only ever bought pre made decks or booster packs, not once have I even been tempted to buy some stupidly expensive single card.
You can buy a starter pack that comes with two decks for you and a friend to learn to play with for like £15 - 20.
I won’t deny some of the shit it out of control expensive but you don’t need any of that trash to both learn to play and have fun with it!
If you don’t care about tournaments and want to play with your closer friends then you can all build simpler decks with budget restrictions or you can even prepare a “cube” which is just basically an independant game that uses MtG rulesets. There’s tons of cheap cards.
