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A few cubic yards of comics, and action figures. Too damn many action figures.

Playing guitar, reading, and smoking are my other 3 hobbies.

I once designed a club that shoots lasers from its eyes.

CCG - collecting MTG since like '95, used to play Doomtrooper and Star Wars too
Roleplaying games - used to play D&D and Vampire the Masquerade, now we play our own system with my group
Non-miniature based board games - not much, but I have Battletech and Talisman at home
Video / computer games (non MMORPG) - lots of them; action games, 90s turnbased strategies, RPGs
MMORPG games - I played World of Warcraft for a while but never got addicted on it

LARP always fascinated me but I never found a good group I would like to play with (Im mostly interested in modern fantasy/horrors)

ow, and as Im an occasional DJ, I collect lots of vinyls

Lots of video games over all sorts of consoles

Pokemon cards and a fairly small game called ufs

And I read the occasional comic

I make airfix models,play the Wii,I suppose Lego aswell

A bit of gaming(PS3 and PC), wood/metal work. And I debate.

binky wrote:
@chromedog I also like the darker stuff too, but is the selection of stuff you enjoy limited because it's a guy thing? Im assuming so cuz you have actually watched the afore mentioned movies. It seems men as a general audience don't appreciate fluffier disney-esque or romantic shtick

Mostly I don't like a lot of them because I just don't get the BESM thing (Big Eyes Small Mouth) mainly. Never have, not since the Kimba the Apartheid lion* days.
I didn't read a lot of superhero comics as a kid (well, not Marvel/DC - I was more a 2000AD kid) and this had 'harder' more SF violent stories and this may have skewed my attitudes, but I never really liked 'fluffy bunny' stuff either.

I am aware there is 'girl oriented' anime and guy oriented stuff as well. Most of the 'guy oriented' stuff is as unwatchable to me as the girly stuff or daytime soaps. It's generally the juvenile level of humour in the 'guy stuff' that turns me off. 'Guy says stupid stuff, girl belts him with something' sort of thing.
I'm an ex-soldier (amongst other things) and a military hardware nerd.

As to whether it is a general 'guy thing' to not like the 'chick stuff' I can't say. I do know some (straight) guys who will watch it happily, and some girls/women who prefer GiTs/Appleseed.

*Running joke with my friends and I. We were watching "Science Ninja Team Gatchaman" or "Macross" when our peers were watching "Battle of the planets" or "Robotech".

@ chromedog Well as far as asthetics go - your allowed your opinion. In fact Kimba is a good point, however the cutsey style is appropriate sometimes.

I grew up with the hardcore stuff, as a child I was watching Ninja Scroll and Vamp Hunter D when Pokemon/Sailor Moon was still popular. And I love it!

(Appleseed is pretty tame by my standards and more of a love story - I still like it though)

My point was that the cheesy chick stuff is still good and all types of anime should be appreciated - that's all I was trying to say is viewers shouldn't limit themselves to one sub genre of animation. That's all - I completely agree with the stuff you like - I'm just saying be open-minded.

Gatchaman? That's before my time dude.

oh forgot, as well as said things im also into karate,console games, and and books like 39 steps, and mister standfast..
am i weird?

lets see here....
currently ...
2ed ad&d twice a week
40k twice a week
video games in my free time - RPG's ( final fantasy rocks ) shooters and Racing sims are my favs
I read alot of fantasy novels ( RA Salvatore is the best, if you dont know drizzt .. you should )

I use to play...
alot more d & d lol
TCG - MTG, lunch money <---- which is an awesome game btw
Anime - bubblegum crisis, Vamp D, initial D
Lots of old xman and spiderman comics
and lastly I played way way too much everquest to be healthy

Non nerdy stuff ...
Roman grecko wrestling
jiu jitsu
Football .. watch not play
also an avid Heroes fan .. which maybe nerdy now that i think about it

Muay Thai is basically the only thing I do outside of work. Six times a week - got a fight this Sunday so it'll be five hours a night training this week (although an hour or so of that is getting ready, chatting to people, using the toilet etc).

I play lots of video games and I'm rather good at Company of Heroes (if I do say so my self)

Other wise me and my firends play Axis and Allies every now and then, we have some huge rivalries and jokes, especially about leaving russia alone for a few turns...

I play a lot of computer games. Very into Oblivion 4 at the moment (old but very good), and in my time I have done a lot of X-com, worms, Master of Orion (1 and 2), C&C (all of them though mostly red alert).

And although I don't any more I still listed collectable card games and MMORPG. The reason is because given the chance/time I would be all over them again (WoW and MtG).

I also do a lot of reading. I'm more into fantasy (David Gemmell...read nearly all his books) than sci-fi when it comes to that department, but on the table it's 40k all the way. However I found Lee Child's "Jack Reacher" series to be very good and I would recommend them to anyone who enjoys reading.

I'm a super-nerd.

Collectable card games: MTG and Chaotic.
Roleplaying games: DnD, D20, Wierd War etc.
Non-miniature based board games: LOADS!
Video / computer games (non MMORPG): Atari 2600, NES, SNES, Mega Drive (Mega CD), N64, PS1, PS2, Xbox 360, Game Boy, GBC, GBA, DS; well over 1000 games.
Action figure collecting: About 150 Generation One transformers and counting. ~70 Armada 'formers (for sale if anyone's interested)
Comic book collecting: Hundreds of comics, spanning all lines. Real bag'n'board nerd too. Recently picked up 1st edition DC run of V for Vendetta.

I play and collect guitars. Electrics.
When I was a kid I had quite a collection of Marvel comics, but through my own stupidity most of that is gone.
Same for my collection of Star Wars figurines and vehicles.

Video Games and Comic Books (mostly DC Vertigo) for me.

Well beside 40k Warhammer, I play paintball for my college here at Valdosta State and do Shotokan Karate.

Model Railway FTW!!!

I love 40k, its like the boardgame risk but better.

CCG: Yu-Gi-Oh & Warcraft CCG

Games: I would list Video Games as my main life skill :p currently playing MW2.

MMORPG: WoW so I can play alongside the missus ^^ and I'm partial to a bit of EVE Online also.

Comics: The Red Star!

Anime: Not the biggest Anime fan, but I do love FMA, FMA Brotherhood and Avatar (it counts dammit!)

Roleplay: Only played Dark Heresy, thought it was cool :p

DVD: I have in exces of over 1000 DVD's, I is a bit of a colector :p

Record Collecting: mmmmm, tasty vinyl goodness

I just collect 40k and play the bass, I don't have much time for other hobbies .. or pointless stuff like learning or homework

Video + PC games:
COD, Gears of War 1+2, Gmod, Left 4 dead+ Left 4 dead 2 demo(!!), DOW2, stuff like that.

I got myself a huge collection of comics, play my xbox 360 nearly every day, my PS3 less so, have a lvl 80 Paladin and a lvl 30 Hunter on WoW and generally revel in my geekiness.

In another geek-like hobby, I'm a huge wrestling fan too.

Of course this all happens when I'm not working or drinking

I was so tempted to check off model railroading, cause that's what got me into gaming in the first place. To bad we had a house fire when I was 13 and we lost our huge layout (covered most our basement). Some day, I'll get back into it....

Now a days, its d&d every other week, computer games during the week (DDO and DoW2) and coming up with business ideas.

Paintball is my number one hobby, with wargaming close behind. I am also into a wide variaty of video games but Oblivion has got to be my favorite

I am sure if it is called a geeky hobby, but next to collecting warhammer 40K I am a student in architecture/engineering.

Going to university next year.

These days I'm only indulging in Warhammer, 40K mostly, but over the years since I was a kid I've indulged in many of the things on the survey list including:
- Civil War reenactments. I was in a reenactment group for 3 years in high school.
- Historical simulation boardgames (e.g., Avalon Hill, SPI)
- Magic The Gathering (casual only, mostly with my spouse and a few friends)
- PC Video Games (last one was DoW Dark Crusade)
- Wii console games (still do that one on occasion)
- RPGs. After getting into D&D and Traveller in college, I played and refereed RPGs with the same group of friends for 18 years. As the group was starting to split up as careers and moves finally interfered, I jumped into Warhammer since I was buying the miniatures to use with the RPGs by then anyway.
- Model Railway. When my son was small he loved the wooden railway and I spent hours playing with it with him so I'm going to include this on my list here too.
- Action Figures. Never much or seriously, but I've bought a few here and there for fun over the years.
- Board Games of a non-fantasy or wargame nature. I've always loved board games and still do. Favorites at my house are Scrabble, Sorry, Clue.

I used to play MTG competitively, now I just come up with the ocassional weird deck (shaman-wolves being the last one) with my friends.

I have so many comics that my floor will crumble one day as well xD

And if that doesn't brings all down, I have tongs of leather, wires and steel sheets for my armour making stuff xD

In the meanwhile I play role playing games (say, World of Darkness mainly).

And as an active soldier, I'm not attracted to modern warfare as a hobby, I guess that having them at work spoils my fun with it xD

Roleplaying, absolutely. I have too many books, which means most of the Vampire, Werewolf and all Wraith books from the old World of Darkness (new one sucks!). Also have Dark Heresy and picked up Rogue Trader the other day. Seems to be alot better than Heresy in my book!

I also reenact German Fallschirmjäger WWII (no nazi! O_O) which has recently forced me to ignore the new Skaven since I need some new equipment. Have to settle for the old rats for now |=p

Vargtass wrote:I have too many books, which means most of the Vampire, Werewolf and all Wraith books from the old World of Darkness (new one sucks!)

Ah, a like minded individual, nice to see.