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Frazzled wrote:

Darkness wrote:Black Powder shooting, which is evolving into Mountain Man competitions and Action Shooting competitions.

How is that different than Western Action Shooting, or it the same?

Action Shooting is Western Action Shooting. Mountain Man is a bit more involved. Almost like LARPing TBH. You need a persona and everything has to be period. Its a weekend thing that has everything from ax throwing, to shooting to skinning.

My persona, the Colorado Kid

Well I play D&D 4e and CoC.

Video Games.

I study cultural dance for fun (Hobby Dance Ethnologist) and help my wife run her dance studio as her assistant. Travel a lot as a result of this as well, so travel is another one of my hobbies.

Make costumes.

Write.

reading
electric guitar
working on my new house
painting (on canvas lol)
sports when I get the chance (volleyball, soccer, biking)
vid games, but rarely these days
chilling with the wifey and friends

ProtoClone wrote:
I study cultural dance for fun (Hobby Dance Ethnologist) and help my wife run her dance studio as her assistant. Travel a lot as a result of this as well, so travel is another one of my hobbies.

That is one of the more unique fields of study I've seen listed. Do you have a formal education in anthropology or just self interest/taught?

AgeOfEgos wrote:

ProtoClone wrote:
I study cultural dance for fun (Hobby Dance Ethnologist) and help my wife run her dance studio as her assistant. Travel a lot as a result of this as well, so travel is another one of my hobbies.

That is one of the more unique fields of study I've seen listed. Do you have a formal education in anthropology or just self interest/taught?

Only for hobby, or fun I should say. I don't have any real formal education in ethnology and because there are a lot of cultural dances out there you kind of have to go out and educate yourself on them.

I was browsing through my photos and found a pic of my "arsenal" (taken before I got the Mauser, I don't have any pics of it yet)

Thought I'd share

From left to right: AKM, PSL (aka FPK Dragunov), and Ruger mini 14

If I posted Pics of my arsenal, I would have the Feds knocking on my door. 4 Gun lockers filled and still probably need 2 more.

lol ah americans...

one of my favorite nights was driving out into the desert in tucson and shooting an old vcr with a czech made ak from 100 yards out...

Not much chance of that happening at home in Montreal lol

Honestly Work and School take half my time away. I love going hiking and writing songs and playing on my drums.

Wargaming takes about a quarter of my time.

Darkness wrote:If I posted Pics of my arsenal, I would have the Feds knocking on my door. 4 Gun lockers filled and still probably need 2 more.

lol you would get along very well with my friend. He's actually on Dakka, his name is Havoc1331, only thing is he's a lazy assclown and hasnt bothered to make any posts or update his personal info yet

Shadowbrand wrote:Honestly Work and School take half my time away. I love going hiking and writing songs and playing on my drums.

Wargaming takes about a quarter of my time.

Yeah I have arange of hobbies but wargming takes up soem time .Schoo ltakes up a big portion , homework from it aswell and revision lately. I paly music myself guitar . I am wanting to paly a range of instruments and do a trent Reznor were he palys all the instruments himself for the recorded album.

Thought I'd post an image of my car to share with you all. It gets lots of positive comments since I painted it...

Link is broken, Demogerg.

- competitive MtG (yeah, like wargaming isn't expensive enough)
- I'm in art school, which takes up a lot of your time.
- a girlfriend that needs attention every now and then.

I need to play more videogames as a preparation for my internship, don't know how I'll ever have time for that though.

TiB wrote:- competitive MtG (yeah, like wargaming isn't expensive enough)
- I'm in art school, which takes up a lot of your time.
- a girlfriend that needs attention every now and then.

I need to play more videogames as a preparation for my internship, don't know how I'll ever have time for that though.

Video games are evil .XBL takes up lots of my time

MtG on the side (Stopped doing it after I got into 40k though...)
Video games/Epic Frugalness (Go go midweek madness on Steam! Gotta love full-length games for 5 bucks )
Work
Watching TV shows at said work

Video games
Reading - WH novels and WD mostly
Bass guitar
Workin' with the band
Screwing around with mates
Rugby - only school stuff though, too lazy to join a team
Mooching around in my underwear (is this a hobby?)

S_P

Golf
HoN!

not even a little bit of MtG as I might deduce from your name?

TiB wrote:not even a little bit of MtG as I might deduce from your name?

Played MTG for over 10 years, got in shape, lost weight, cared about my hygiene. Then got tired of being sandwiched between 2 300 lb guys who probably dont own a toothbrush, Washing machine, or a stick of deodorant, in a room that normally doesnt have adequate ventilation or space for said people. So i stopped.

At least with wargaming I can have a nice 4 foot buffer.

ShivanAngel wrote:

TiB wrote:not even a little bit of MtG as I might deduce from your name?

Played MTG for over 10 years, got in shape, lost weight, cared about my hygiene. Then got tired of being sandwiched between 2 300 lb guys who probably dont own a toothbrush, Washing machine, or a stick of deodorant, in a room that normally doesnt have adequate ventilation or space for said people. So i stopped.

At least with wargaming I can have a nice 4 foot buffer.

haha forge world stanf at games day nuff said

Yeah, from what I've experienced, wargaming is even worse than MtG. Because the wargaming hobby is a bit more 'intense' (what with the modelling and painting) than the tcg hobbies, a much higher percentage of the people playing is so 'hardcore' that they have even less time for general hygiene/cooking balanced meals/wives or gf's to keep things normal etc.

+ they're also older so add balding to the list.

Working Out
Magic the Gathering
Cooking
I ST 2 games (Storytell, fancy word for DM)
I play in 2 games
Collect Comics
Build other models (I really like giant robots)
Hunt
Fish
Football
Work
School

are the things I spend pretty much all day on (well 1 maybe 2 a day)

I enjoy writing in my spare time. Also do a little airsoft (shooting other people in battles that is), dabbled in paintball, and do this freaky thing called miniature painting (insane, I know. What kind of nerd would spend hours hunched over an inch-tall plastic man painting him?)

TiB wrote:Yeah, from what I've experienced, wargaming is even worse than MtG. Because the wargaming hobby is a bit more 'intense' (what with the modelling and painting) than the tcg hobbies, a much higher percentage of the people playing is so 'hardcore' that they have even less time for general hygiene/cooking balanced meals/wives or gf's to keep things normal etc.

+ they're also older so add balding to the list.

Well dont be too harsh not everyone is that way .i mean peopel would think me being a girl and being into gaming ect I would be a steryo type but I am really not. i enjoy so many different hobbies . I never knew my cousin who is like 20 years odler than me was into gw . The only time I knew was when I saw him at conflict North 05 ( oo how I miss conflict) . He is soo "normal" aswell lol. I think peopel need to understand a hobby is a hobby .

- Walking in the mountains
- Skiing in the winter
- Hunting
- Reading
- Beer
- The missus also takes time

My MSc course takes up most of my non-hobby time at the moment, however I do also play video games and the ukelele

Video games do take up a lot of time to be honest. Since online gaming was introduced people have been button mashing thier lives away . Oh well at least it gets all your anger out . Well it does infuriate you even more at times, especially the amount of lag. ( how was that for typing much better me thinks )

Personally, I would argue that I don't really suit the stereotypical gamer image, I keep my WH40K hobby out of the way compared with the rest of my life; ie. I seperate my geeky side from the rest of it.

My other 'hobbies' include:

- Socialising/Clubbing/Parties
- Dogs
- Pub
- Sports
- Being with friends/ more-than-friends...
- WORK.
- Experimenting how far away from the toilet I can pee accurately...

Just Dave wrote:Personally, I would argue that I don't really suit the stereotypical gamer image, I keep my WH40K hobby out of the way compared with the rest of my life; ie. I seperate my geeky side from the rest of it.

My other 'hobbies' include:

- Socialising/Clubbing/Parties
- Dogs
- Pub
- Sports
- Being with friends/ more-than-friends...
- WORK.
- Experimenting how far away from the toilet I can pee accurately...

I would probably have to agree. I am into music , drama and art , so I am more of the artsy type. I am big into gaming aswell but I do not think I let that get out of hand .Games and such are just abit of fun with mates.