Programming. I don't like where it's heading and I don't like the culture
I used to be a software engineer, but moved into infrastructure instead, so I haven't really been programming much for few years. But all the vibe coding I see around me is making me yearn for coding the old-school way. And I've been searching a bit for something to apply that drive to...
I used to get so much enjoyment out of video games. I could play for entire weekends. Now I sit down and play for an hour or so and start to get bored.
This is only the first stage.
Next you'll stop gaming completely, but still enjoy watching others play.
Then even watching gets annoying. That's where I am now. I don't know what's next.
Next stage is some amount of time away from video games.
The stage after that is nostalgia: someone will mention one of the games you loved back in the day and you’ll think “That was when I was happiest. I should find out how to play that again.”
Then you’ll find some way to play it, whether by cobbling together some emulation software or buying some As Seen on TV handheld game that includes your game and a hundred others.
You’ll scratch a little bit of the itch, but decide to start checking out the current video game scene.
Once you realize everything now is too flashy and fast and annoying or it has some dreaded multiplayer requirement that you no longer have enough friends to fulfill and the public rooms of the game are filled with a bunch of children.
Eventually, you’ll stumble into the future’s version of Stardew Valley and be content just building quiet little worlds by yourself.
Unfortunately, the types of video games I can play has been severely limited in the past several years by muscle disease. I have tried to adapt with low-APM turn-based games like Slay the Spire, Into the Breach and chess. While I have developed a certain fondness for these games, they were never my first choice.
The recent release of Silksong has been especially hard on me because its predecessor was one of my favorites. I haven't been able to bring myself to watch a play-through of it yet.
Super duper looking forward to Mewgenics, though! Only 4 months to go.
Have you tried Balatro? If you like Slay the Spite there's a good chance you will enjoy it.
Definitely. Love that game. If it's turn-based and even remotely popular there's a very good chance I've played it.
Nice. Got any suggestions?
Also a very different kind of game but have you played citizen sleeper?
Never heard of it. Looks pretty interesting.
Lately I've really been enjoying Shogun Showdown. I made a post recently outlining a bunch of the games I like. I can vouch for all of those. Make sure to check out the rest of the thread too. I avoided repeating what others said.
I have ADHD. I've forgotten more hobbies than most people have heard of.
Video games, but not because I want to. I have so much on my plate right now that could make my life better. I need to exercise more. I used to run and lift. I need to spend time with my hands-on craft hobby. I need to bake more. I enjoy video games SOOOOO much but I feel my life would probably be better without them.
Electronics. Components are getting harder to get (internet orders makes hem expensive) and my eyes are no longer that good when soldering (even with glasses)
Motorcycling. I live in a dense urban area and the traffic here is nightmarish. It takes me like 2+ hours to reach good riding roads, and that's more time than I'm willing to invest these days. I'll still use it for short city errands but I've noticed a drastic drop off compared to say five years ago.
Maybe consider a bicycle? Similar enjoyment but better suited to dense cities because you're allowed to go on multi-use paths and other places motorcycles aren't.
I do bike, but it's not one of my passions. Very different experience than a motorbike :)
As a kid I had a friend who modified his bike to make motorbike sounds, could this provide the experience you are looking for?
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Appreciate the thought but I don't think so. The cornering and getting s knee down are the things I miss most.
Gaming.
I used to play every day with my best friend for 30 years until one day he threw me under a bus, so to speak, cut off all contact and I don't even know why
I have an awesome wife now with whom I spend every second and I don't really have any time left to play games
I posted on another thread about this a while back. Oddly, I have a weird mental block that stopped me gaming when I was 16 back in the 90s.
Basically, being a nerd in small-town rural Scotland was not something to be proud of after a certain age, and gaming was social kryptonite, so being an insecure teen I focused my energies on bands and drinking.
This was great for a while, but looking back, it would appear that I completely missed out on the Golden Age of gaming, and now it's me who is the odd one out at work, having never played anything beyond a sneaky stab at Portal.
I'm now 48 and in two minds about it. On one hand, some of the guys at work have failed to launch and live physically isolated lives and spend all their time gaming. On the other, I see my own kids laughing their asses off playing Fortnite with their friends, and they are clearly having the best time.
I did try playing with them briefly, but they're already leaving me for dust. So yeah, my plan is to maybe low-key get into gaming again when I retire in like 17 years' time. We shall see.
All hobbies that don't involve a screen. I've been having serious mobility issues, where standing for more than a few minutes is painful and I leave the house only in my wheelchair. It makes going to restaurants, concerts and events difficult. Makes going on hikes impossible or even existing in parks more painful than pleasurable.
Appreciate your legs y'all. :(
Table tennis is the one I miss the most, used to play it all the time with the other kids in the building I used to live, level was quite high since we even asked for pro level stuff to our parents. Was the only sport that I actually loved and practiced every week, but everyone grew up, moved out, and the closest place that has it to me is a 1 hour drive with traffic.
Music. I played piano since very young, started making tracks on 4-track and the Amiga around 10 years old, kept going deeper with the demoscene and playing in + recording bands. Went on to do a music degree, got a job making music...
Hobby became serious, then it turned into a ball and chain. I turned around, did a second degree and started working in a different field. Thought I'd keep music as a hobby, but now it presents a different face: no point in making tracks if nobody but me ever listens, nor is there point in producing other people for free with all the invested time most likely never being too fruitful.
I did find a new hobby though. Working out is the antithesis to working on art projects. Put an hour in, get an hour's worth of gains back. Love it :D
Aw me too :( coming to terms with the same feeling I think ♥️ glad you found something cool to do in its place.
Thanks for this 😊 It certainly wasn't easy to let the muse go, here's hoping you will manage it smoothly - or better, find a way to keep the flame going ❣️
I've recently gotten back into reading as a way to wind down before bed without using the phone, and it has done wonders for my sleep. Pair it with a kobo ereader and downloading, uh, free books means there's no pressure to read books you don't enjoy (I find with physical books they tend to loom at you from the shelf and make you feel guilty for not reading, which only makes things worse).
Anyway to get to the point reading can be a very low investment hobby if you want it to be.
+1 for the e-reader. As someone who consistently has three or four books in progress at the same time, an e-reader is how I manage to actually read. I tend to pick my reading based on a whim or mood at the time. If I’m leaving for work, I won’t know how I’ll feel once I have time to read. Instead of lugging all four books with me, I’ll tend to bring none. Which means I don’t end up reading throughout the day.
But with an e-reader, that situation is entirely flipped on its head. Don’t know what I’ll want to read? It doesn’t matter, because my entire library is on the kobo. My only limitation now is comics, because .cbz files tend to take up a lot more space than .epub files do. So I’ll consistently have my entire library, and also a few comics. But even the comics problem is largely solved, because I host my own Komga server, which my kobo can connect to and download new comics.
You should use an app like Topaz AI to upscale all your old dvds and watch shows in HD. I’ve recovered so many old series, like ALF, that will never be released in HD, now very watchable at 4x using the Iris2 upscaler.m settings and some parameter adjustments.
*I’m in no way affiliated with Topaz, only a user of the app from early days in 2020/2021.
New hobby for me!
Most common reason to give these up seems to be lack of time. Why has our amount of time changed? We still work the same hours, get purchases delivered, have the same families even with fewer kids so we should have more not less right? What is eating into our available time? Is it social media?
How long back do you want to go
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