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What does everybody do for hobbys aside from minis? me myself i'm a gear head(american muscle puts the brits to shame )

Guns
Comics
Other board games

Sports cars, tuning and sprints. Also building gaming PCs

Food! Eating! The theater!

By which I mean that I love to cook. That's my main other hobby.

I read a lot, play guitar and dabble with keyboard, listen to loads of music and write all kinds of fiction/poetry and the odd essay.

I suppose my other hobby is 'knowing stuff'. Rarely will I be content to just hear about something that interests me, I have to go and research it more.

Guns
archery
martial arts

PC Games >>> Anime > Tabletop > TV series > Books >>> movies are my nerd pastimes. Sci-fi and fantasy pervade them all extensively.

Interests in economics, politics, (lack of) religion and many other "important" topics also interest me for discussion and hopefully the education and improvement of society.

Noticing a few "guns" responses from our American friends. I have the interest in them (and all military hardware) but of course cannot participate as easily. I do have a nice compound bow that I enjoyed practising with for a while however!

Collecting DVD's
Books (books all the way back to when Dragonlance hit the shelves)
Magic the Gathering (don't play but collect them from all the way back to Beta; yes I know I am sitting on money)
Project cars
Fire Arms
Diorama's (scale models)
Coffee
Cooking (learn a lot when on deployments)

Cycling (Light CX and road), motorbikes, cars, shooting (target and occasional bunny hunting) and cooking.

Crimson Heretic wrote:
me myself i'm a gear head(american muscle puts the brits to shame )

Until you get to what we call a "corner". They go both left and right and help you go somewhere that is not in a strait line

Marathons and general fitness.

Cigars (nothing like burning money away)
Guns
Computer Games.

Honestly right now my money goes into bills, with what little I have left going to cigars, so my hobbies are limited. If I had more space and money I would get into model railroading, and buy more expensive cigars.

I read. A lot. I write a lot to.

And I spend too much time on the interwebs;



I remember when this was fresh and not completely worn out to the point it's only funny because of how funny it was before it ceased being funny.

 Steve steveson wrote:
Cycling (Light CX and road), motorbikes, cars, shooting (target and occasional bunny hunting) and cooking.

Crimson Heretic wrote:
me myself i'm a gear head(american muscle puts the brits to shame )

Until you get to what we call a "corner". They go both left and right and help you go somewhere that is not in a strait line

ah really never heard of them, in the USA we just drive in straight lines wherever we go

 Yonan wrote:
I do have a nice compound bow that I enjoyed practising with for a while however!

Nothin' wrong with a bow. A bow is a man's weapon. Rambo used a bow. So did them Duke Boys.

As for my hobbies...

Tabletop RPGs, vidya games, internet pr0n, anime, sarcasm, watching British television shows on PBS, and writting (though I don't do as much of it as I would like).

 03mark87 wrote:
Guns
Comics
Other board games

This. With the addition of

Cigars
Historical Scale Models (I suppose this could be cheating.. but they're non-gaming minis)
history/history books
Rugby

I don't have much time/energy/money for a ton of hobbies since i run a small business and have a corporatejob so I guess they are....

Watching bad movies
Reading non-fiction books
Surfing the web

Rowing.
Photography.

I collect Pez dispensers.
Rough it in the woods
Make knives and soon learn how to weld so I can build heavy duty yard/garden tools.

Cooking (baking mainly)
Reading
Writing
Video games

Food and Booze.

I used to weld but not any more :/

Eat steak.
Women.
Men.
Eat more steak.

...Is what I would have said if I could afford steak.

Or women/men.



*Buys another game on Steam*

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Boxing
General Fitness
Airsoft
Firearms
and the Occassional Video Games

Mountainbiking
Sailing
video games

Whatever we say that's cool....Kronk will out do us all

Too many to list over the years but at the moment modelling and painting mainly 40k but iv loads of Airfix type models too.

 Jihadin wrote:
Whatever we say that's cool....Kronk will out do us all

I thought Kronks hobby was being all the Kronk he can be.

Reading, listening to music, working all the hours whatever deity is up there sends, watching pointless YouTube videos , walking the dog and searching for abandonware on the iMac.

Curiously I have had zero time for gaming over the past 4 months or so. But might be playing some Deadzone next week. This will all change when my wife and I finally buy our new house before Christmas. Then I get space and some extra time and cash to start my long overdue 2nd Ed Eldar army

In no particular order:
Reading,
Video games,
Brewing beer,
Baking (really, cooking in general),
Camping,
Electronics (as in making stuff, not buying it),
Programming.

Bit off topic....

How the heck did you guys/girls deal with with the piss poor quality molds of 40K when they came out...

Received a whole lot of old school 40K mini's with like four layer of paints on them

 LordofHats wrote:

I remember when this was fresh and not completely worn out to the point it's only funny because of how funny it was before it ceased being funny.

Even better, the joke is so tired that attempting to seriously mock it for being tired is also tired.

Anyway, I had a CompuServe account in grade school and remember a time when a 28.8 modem and a house with more than 1 phone line were godsends. Count yourself lucky if Over 9000 is the oldest of your old man internet memories.

As to hobbies:

Rugby.
Hockey.
Videogames, particularly FPSs, RPGs, and fighters.
Various forms of training.
Various forms of extraneous academic reading.
Annoying my girlfriend.
Travelling.

 Avatar 720 wrote:

...Is what I would have said if I could afford steak.

There is always human steak. If fish can provide steak, then so can humans.

Shame I can't post this directly. NSFW, but only for limited profanity.

Multiple edits: I'm a moron.