What hobbies do you have?
24d 19h ago by lemmy.world/u/DependentFeature3028 in GenerationZ
Books. I’m rediscovering the joy of reading before bed.
I'm on a Stephen King spree, man that guy can write
Can he stick the landing though
My back catalog is so big that I might not find out
I always wanna mention about how your public library (if applies) works with apps (usually libby and hoopla) and they let you check out books for free. They have books, audio, comics, and more. Everyone should check it out. I read the invincible comics and I'm super excited for the final seasons.
Go to your local library website. Make an account. Use that account info in the app.
Running. Or walking. Take your pick.
you can even try jogging and sprinting if you're brave
But be aware that strolling and trotting are advanced techniques that shouldn't be attempted by novices.
What about lollygagging??
That's sometimes frowned apon
god, yeah good point. I tried strolling once and it killed me.
I got better though.
Pick locks shoplift stalk the wealthy and their renfields security us a fun rewarding exciting and potentially profitable hobby
When I'm not working to get our house and garden into some sort of shape, I read: mostly sci-fi and fantasy. Sadly, many of my favourite books are now only available digitally, but you might find copies in charity shops. I also read modern stories; a few suggestions from both old and modern are listed below:
I already knew Aaronovitch and Zelazny, and now have two new authors! Thanks!
Oh boy! you're going to love Julian May! She's my favourite author and her two most famous series (Saga of Pliocene Exile and Galactic Milieu) are utterly incredible. They form a sort of Ring Cycle, so you can either start with The Many Coloured Land (SPE) or Intervention (GM) and you'll end up in the same place.
I heard that Amazon were considering filming SPE but went for The Wheel Of Time instead. There's some great concept art here.
Edit: link doesn't work as a shortcut.
https://manycolored.fandom.com/wiki/Saga_of_the_Exiles_(adaptation_project)
As a fellow SciFi fan, I wanted to pass along this awesome short story. Sure the premise has been done before, but I just love how its written.
I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility
There's a updated version linked on that page, but I haven't had a chance to read it yet, only the old version from 2007.
Thank you!
This is my process:
- Find a book or series that I like
- Enter that in to StoryGraph
- Use the "Find Similar Titles" function
- Add some of those titles to my To Be Read list (TBR)
- Go to second hand stores, flea markets, and used book stores - find copies of the books and buy them for a couple of dollars.
When I finish the book, I turn it in to a local second hand book store that gives me credits for turning in books. (You can do this online with things like ThriftBooks)
Rinse and repeat.
Self-pleasure. It's all I can afford.
and exercise
Acoustic guitar. My first guitar was €50. After that, you only need maybe a pack of strings every now and then and maybe a pick or two.
Pretty cheap entry as far as hobbies go but, like most hobbies, you can throw obscene money at instruments if you want to. You can also just stick with your first cheap guitar for years.
On top of reading, I've been recycling out-of-date Kindles.
Here's a link to Kindle Modding
You can get a nigh-indestructable e-reader for very cheap, recycle something in the process, and it holds over a thousand books.
Hell, it's so satisfying I've been handing them out to friends and family.
Also you get to rip intellectual property right out of Jeff Bezos hands! What's not to like?
Hello old friend or family! So nice to see you!
I wish I could be shipping 'em out but I live in the US and Bezos has Air Support and snipers :(
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Have you heard about our Lord and Savior, disc golf?
but in diy?
Observation and listening.
Learning bird ID with a second hand book. Learning all the different calls and how they change throughout the day and year.
Plant ID. Where do they grow, flourish, struggle? When do they flower? Which grow together? Which are the pioneer species when land is cleared? What do they look like when they're first sprouting?
Take some identification books and some scrap paper with pencils.
Came here to say this. It gets you outside getting fresh air and exercise. It also teaches how nature is always changing, birds migrate, plants flower and wilt. I also ID and photograph aquatic insects and track which ones are hatching. Trees are another thing to ID.
D&D or other TTRPGs. There are plenty of free systems and those that use only d6s, so the materials are trivial. Check out Mini Six Barebones Edition for a good starter system. You need like 2 friends to play with.
Just picked up A Perfect Rock and it looks like it'll be an interesting world building game even solo. https://www.deepdark.games/rock
Came here to say this. With the right group d&d can make life worth living, nothing better than having fun with your friends.
Havey you considered crack cocaine?
Meth is better for weight loss
How is it on teeth?
How important is tooth retention to you?
Teeth?
There's a thing called meth mouth. Biggest cause is that you don't make saliva and it fucks up your teeth.
I second this
Warhammer 40k has entered the chat
Cheap hobby
Looks inside
Warhammer 40k
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May I suggest simple crafting, like whittling, ancient/native pottery, wood carving, paper basket weaving, origami, crochet (or the slightly more addictive and expensive knitting), braiding, weaving, macrame, yarn spinning, decorative knotworking, flower pressing, dyemaking, hand dying, flower arrangement, make walking canes, etc?
Or maybe an instrument? Someone mentioned guitar, but why not harmonica, ukulele, bongos, simple percussives, or why not take up singing, there's typically a choir almost everywhere, or you could try solo, or whistling, or yodeling.
Or maybe take up gardening/growing? In pots, hydroponically, maybe on a growing lot, or someone's yard?
Or take up community projects, like either sanctioned or guerilla gardening, greening, forestry, litter picking, maintaining communal spaces, volunteer, start a community project (pollination diversity, bee keeping, growing lots, food drive, food forestry)
Or take up a cause? Build community, take affirmative action, demonstrate, protest, coordinate, communicate, with an established org, or on your own?
Maybe the outdoors could entice? Take up walking, ornithology, watch bats, discover new insects, take up chabana/ikebana, learn to forage, learn survival skills, go hiking, stack rocks, track animals, learn trapping, get into scouting, make bark boats, learn to skip rocks, climb trees, jump in puddles, pretend (or practice) animistic rituals, feel rain on naked skin, sleep under a bare sky, learn to forage, pick skulls, horns and bones to craft with.
Perhaps create stories, tell stories, write poetry, learn magic, juggle, poi, take up clowning, go swing/country/folk/traditional/ballroom/social dancing, try Butoh, write sketches, join a theatre, start a business, take up decorating, or just embrace whimsy?
I can also warmly recommend trying a new thing every week/month/period and see what sticks and not.
Modular synths
Oh sorry, you said cheap...
Books have helped me with this in the past year. It's easy to slot it in where you'd usually reach for your phone. Those 30-60 minute blocks with nothing to do, like before bed, or waiting at the doctors, or just waiting before leaving somewhere, I found it beneficial to read a book then.
It technically involves a phone, but I took up Walkscape.
It’s addictive enough that I went from walking an average of 3000 steps a day to 10,000 Fun, step-based crafting game
What do they do
I've been a daily player for a year. You set an activity in game, then your daily steps grant you progress. I set it to cut trees, and it gathers wood. Then I travel back to town, get the hemp out of the bank, and make bow strings. Then I craft a bunch of hunting bows and hope I get one with extra bonuses. Then I equip the bow and go hunt wolves.
It makes it so that you look forward to your steps each day and can plan out your game progress based on how much you walk.
Photography and knitting
Cheap small offline eink reader and, well, there are quite a few ways to acquire basically endless amounts of books.
Rubik's cube, should keep you busy for a while. Get a 7€ magnetic Moyu and begin with the tutorial that's on the Wired YouTube channel
Get a cheap keyboard or guitar (or bass).
If you're in England: Morris dancing. Seriously. It's experiencing a resurgence. More young people than you'd expect. More queer people than you'd expect. I pay about 30 quid a year in dues to my team, and it'll get you out of the house at least one evening a week and probably several days dancing out at folk festivals through spring and summer.
I'm in England, how the hell is Morris dancing getting a resurgence? I have only ever known them as the punchline for any joke themed around "silly traditions".
Glad that you and others are enjoying it and I'm not going to deride something harmless and fun that people enjoy, I am simply surprised that it's growing.
As someone who's in that community, what do you think might have caused a resurgence?
Hard to say, really. In my team I think the stated reasons are most often "I saw it at a folk festival and it looked like fun, so I gave it a go" or "my friend saw it at a folk festival and thought it looked like fun, so they gave it a go, and then they made me give it a go". In my case, it was because I was quite into folk music first, and then when it became necessary to actually start getting some exercise, folk dancing seemed to dovetail quite nicely.
I think part of it is that to some extent anything that has a reputation for being a bit naff tends to draw in people of a countercultural bent. And part of it ties into the fact that folk in general seems to be having a bit of a resurgence. I suppose another part of it might be what I hear the kinds these days are calling whimsy-maxxing.
I can't speak much to why folk in general is having a resurgence, but in my case it's because of complicated feelings about Englishness. A lot of English people these days seem very concerned about patriotically "preserving their culture" and as far as I can tell what they mean by that is drinking in pubs and football hooliganism. Either that, or harkening back to the glory days of empire when men had stiff collars and stiff upper lips, and women baked cakes and knew their place. In contrast to Scotland and Ireland, where their traditional music and dance is much more visible, England seems to be actively embarrassed by anything that's uniquely English that you wouldn't find in an Agatha Christie novel. I, and I think others, want a way to connect to my heritage that is kind of in opposition to that kind of conservatism, if you get what I mean?
(No judgement intended on people who are into football, ale, or vintage stuff in a healthy way, though.)
Pickleball!
I'm a numerologist, meaning I see spiritual patterns in numbers. These come in the form of regular numerology (this is where numerologists can know about someone based upon their full legal matrix nym and date of birth), gematria (turning letters, words, phrases, and names into numerical values using specific mathematical addition formulas), or even date numerology (mathematical formulas for any date in time).
This is how I determined that I was to be a multimedia guy, and I was like that off the rip.