Yeah same here. My family doesn't even have any hobbies
As someone who has more hobbies than time, I seriously don't understand how people can have no hobbies. How do these people live? How do they find fulfillment? What do they do in their spare time, only entertainment?
We're too tired. That's the answer. It's not that watching TV is my hobby, it's that I'm burnt out and don't have the mental energy to do anything. My old hobbies feel like chores. New hobbies seem like so much work
I feel you and I’ve been fighting this. I feel like personally I’m a lot happier and find it easier to do things when I actually do my hobbies… It’s kind of like exercise. You often don’t want to do it when you’re busy and tired, but if you do it consistently you usually have more energy and feel better in the long term. Totally understand it can be a luxury to even consider doing a hobby, and I definitely don’t know your situation, but I hope you can push through and get to a better balance! Life’s too hard sometimes :(.
They watch TV/movies/news.
I'm also a person with a million hobbies. I've got TV or audiobooks on in the background as I do woodworking, smoke meat, play instruments, record music (ok, there's nothing on in the background while I'm recording), go sing karaoke, rock climb, work on motorcycles, garden, or one of the other million things I might be doing. My family passively sits and watches television.
As far as I'm concerned, that's fine. If it makes them happy then I'm happy for them. I couldn't be content that way but it takes different strokes to move the world.
3D Printing and homelab. I run a lot of services at home on my server (things like a personal streaming service, smarthome, security camera software, and more).
Are you me?
This is me. I figure I do the homelab stuff so they don't have to.
Boardgames. Especially big, rules heavy games like Mage Knight and Twilight Imperium. I'll happily spend a day playing a boardgame and my family just don't get it at all.
My family were doing a dog sledding trip and my brother came off and hit his head. We ended up putting him on my sled, with my job being to keep him awake in case he had a concussion. So I asked him to explain the rules to Twilight Imperium to me which, luckily and unluckily, took. Hours.
I've never hated, but been glad for, a game I've never played more...
(but I'm glad that you, and my brother, and other people get so much enjoyment from them!)
I'll play Mage Knight with you. I own it. Never played it, but I own it.
Take a day to learn the rules (yes, a whole day) and play through a solo game. It’s one of the best solo games ever!
It's not a big game, but I fell in love with Nefarious (specifically a translated version) after encountering it in the wild. Fast pace, simultaneous turns, short games, simple rules, no eliminations leading to people waiting for others to finish, and at the same time has some interesting decisions leading to multiple strategies... And then you add two twists every game, changing the rules, meaning you have to adapt your strategies, keeping it fresh.
All of them unfortunately.
It was LARPing, but then I got clever. Once my wife was pregnant, it was only a matter of time. Now my kids have grown up in the hobby, and they love it as much as their old man.
Lemmy!
RC cars, amateur radio, sailing, 3d printing, cooking/baking, sewing, camping...probably more.
I'd say my kid has a mild interest in some of these, but probably wouldn't if I wasn't also doing it. My wife and I mostly just watch tv together.
Your wife doesn't try to get started any of those activities?
She's willing to go camping and will ask me to 3d print stuff for her, but doesn't really have much interest in being more involved in that.
Generally speaking, she is supportive of all me doing all of these hobbies, just not interested herself.
Interesting. Same with me.
I don't think I could live without any hobbies
Bonsai, target shooting, motorcycling
You ever consider combining these hobbies to make yourself into a badass, modern day samurai? Consider adding poetry to the list.
There's a 1% chance that the weird cousin who never comes to family gatherings might be a furry. That's absolutely it.
The idea of having hobbies in common with family members seems alien to me - which i think, to quote the meme phrase, Says A Lot About Society.
I'm the only one who is into dank memes and chatting online with strangers.
My siblings are into video games... But not the same ones I am into.
My siblings love D&D; I prefer Shadowrun. (I mean. I like D&D too but not as much as Shadowrun)
My sister is taking game design classes; but has never actually programmed (even for a class yet). Meanwhile, I have a ton of mods I've made for various things up on Steam workshops and the Nexus, as well as programming a few utilities for tabletop games. Because I like it and taught myself for the fun of it.
Video games. None of my family gets it at all.
3D printing and miniature painting. You could say electronics as well since my dad no longer messes with that stuff.
Music. My parents weirdly never listened to music. When I was a kid, the most they would listen to was a Queen greatest hits album and another greatest hits from this 80s band from my country. But like, only on road trips.
I don’t know why, but ever since I was very young I loved music. One of the first birthday presents I remember choosing myself was a copy of Dookie (Green Day). I didn’t know what it was, but I loved the cover. Less than a month later we were back to the record store and I bought this brand new album by a band I had never heard before, In Rainbows by Radiohead. And that was it. I was hooked forever. Music was to become the most constant and important part of my life.
I spent years finding and listening to music. Trying to understand the history and development. Music really was my main hobby in high-school, like listening to music.
Nowadays I also play guitar and produce a bit, but I still listen to music as a hobby.
And my parents still don’t listen to music at all lmao. Even after enduring years and years of me hogging the AUX cable and forcing them to listen to everything from Wu Tang Clan to Burzum and Sufjan Stevens and Nirvana… but I love them. The most they would say is “wow this is very heavy” as I blasted black metal lol
I feel the same way. When I was a kid, my parents had a pretty small collection of tapes of religious music, and that's the only stuff they would listen to. Once I got my first internet connection around the age of 12, a whole new world opened up.
Today, I listen to music all the time, while working, while driving. It was so weird (and depressing) to go on a trip in my sister's car who doesn't listen to music.
Washing dishes
Cool, tell me more about this thrilling hobby of yours.
What does a washing dishes hobby entail? Do you have like a personal best or a preferred strategy?
LARP, and costuming/crafting for it. Amusingly, even among larpers I get a few weird looks when I explain my husband made my clothing, and I made his crossbow.
I met a woman on FB years ago. She's super effeminate, and tiny, and no one would ever guess that she forges swords in her backyard on the weekends, and I absolute love her.
am programmer
3d printing , electronic , welding , gaming etc..
Electronics, radiantism (HAM radio operation) and programming. for the first two i'm actually the only one in my town; which is sort of heplful for electronics since people bring broken equipment to me that i either fix or scrap for parts; while it is kind of a bummer for radiantism.
I do pictures for people who have lost their furries over the rainbow bridge.
Props
I've lost... Too many this year and I cannot imagine being more immersed in that absolutely depressing industry (pet death and grieving in general). Well that and I can't draw
Important work though, I'm sure it helps people immensely
rpg and video games. unless you include stupid phone games. honestly anything considered nerdy/geeky from the past except for what is totally main stream. Like they use computers and have see super hero movies and animated movies. Honestly im pretty sure if work did not require it they might not use computers outside of smartphones.
Photography, gaming.
translating garfield comics
Everything. My family just sits on their ass watching tv all day.
Basically anything I enjoy except cooking. They're not the biggest tech/photography/software/3d printing/... enthusiasts.
(Western concert) flute. Playing, maintenance/repair, collecting, different mechanics and other deviations from the norm, history.
Tea. All teas camellia sinensis/taliensis, and different cultural habits around it. Teapot collecting addiction.
3D modeling and printing.
Accountability.
all of them except my brother also plays video games? do you and your family all have the same interests
All of them.
Yeah same here. My family doesn't even have any hobbies
As someone who has more hobbies than time, I seriously don't understand how people can have no hobbies. How do these people live? How do they find fulfillment? What do they do in their spare time, only entertainment?
We're too tired. That's the answer. It's not that watching TV is my hobby, it's that I'm burnt out and don't have the mental energy to do anything. My old hobbies feel like chores. New hobbies seem like so much work
I feel you and I’ve been fighting this. I feel like personally I’m a lot happier and find it easier to do things when I actually do my hobbies… It’s kind of like exercise. You often don’t want to do it when you’re busy and tired, but if you do it consistently you usually have more energy and feel better in the long term. Totally understand it can be a luxury to even consider doing a hobby, and I definitely don’t know your situation, but I hope you can push through and get to a better balance! Life’s too hard sometimes :(.
They watch TV/movies/news.
I'm also a person with a million hobbies. I've got TV or audiobooks on in the background as I do woodworking, smoke meat, play instruments, record music (ok, there's nothing on in the background while I'm recording), go sing karaoke, rock climb, work on motorcycles, garden, or one of the other million things I might be doing. My family passively sits and watches television.
As far as I'm concerned, that's fine. If it makes them happy then I'm happy for them. I couldn't be content that way but it takes different strokes to move the world.
3D Printing and homelab. I run a lot of services at home on my server (things like a personal streaming service, smarthome, security camera software, and more).
Are you me?
This is me. I figure I do the homelab stuff so they don't have to.
Boardgames. Especially big, rules heavy games like Mage Knight and Twilight Imperium. I'll happily spend a day playing a boardgame and my family just don't get it at all.
My family were doing a dog sledding trip and my brother came off and hit his head. We ended up putting him on my sled, with my job being to keep him awake in case he had a concussion. So I asked him to explain the rules to Twilight Imperium to me which, luckily and unluckily, took. Hours.
I've never hated, but been glad for, a game I've never played more...
(but I'm glad that you, and my brother, and other people get so much enjoyment from them!)
I'll play Mage Knight with you. I own it. Never played it, but I own it.
Take a day to learn the rules (yes, a whole day) and play through a solo game. It’s one of the best solo games ever!
It's not a big game, but I fell in love with Nefarious (specifically a translated version) after encountering it in the wild. Fast pace, simultaneous turns, short games, simple rules, no eliminations leading to people waiting for others to finish, and at the same time has some interesting decisions leading to multiple strategies... And then you add two twists every game, changing the rules, meaning you have to adapt your strategies, keeping it fresh.
All of them unfortunately.
It was LARPing, but then I got clever. Once my wife was pregnant, it was only a matter of time. Now my kids have grown up in the hobby, and they love it as much as their old man.
Lemmy!
RC cars, amateur radio, sailing, 3d printing, cooking/baking, sewing, camping...probably more.
I'd say my kid has a mild interest in some of these, but probably wouldn't if I wasn't also doing it. My wife and I mostly just watch tv together.
Your wife doesn't try to get started any of those activities?
She's willing to go camping and will ask me to 3d print stuff for her, but doesn't really have much interest in being more involved in that.
Generally speaking, she is supportive of all me doing all of these hobbies, just not interested herself.
Interesting. Same with me.
I don't think I could live without any hobbies
Bonsai, target shooting, motorcycling
You ever consider combining these hobbies to make yourself into a badass, modern day samurai? Consider adding poetry to the list.
There's a 1% chance that the weird cousin who never comes to family gatherings might be a furry. That's absolutely it.
The idea of having hobbies in common with family members seems alien to me - which i think, to quote the meme phrase, Says A Lot About Society.
I'm the only one who is into dank memes and chatting online with strangers.
My siblings are into video games... But not the same ones I am into.
My siblings love D&D; I prefer Shadowrun. (I mean. I like D&D too but not as much as Shadowrun)
My sister is taking game design classes; but has never actually programmed (even for a class yet). Meanwhile, I have a ton of mods I've made for various things up on Steam workshops and the Nexus, as well as programming a few utilities for tabletop games. Because I like it and taught myself for the fun of it.
Video games. None of my family gets it at all.
3D printing and miniature painting. You could say electronics as well since my dad no longer messes with that stuff.
Music. My parents weirdly never listened to music. When I was a kid, the most they would listen to was a Queen greatest hits album and another greatest hits from this 80s band from my country. But like, only on road trips.
I don’t know why, but ever since I was very young I loved music. One of the first birthday presents I remember choosing myself was a copy of Dookie (Green Day). I didn’t know what it was, but I loved the cover. Less than a month later we were back to the record store and I bought this brand new album by a band I had never heard before, In Rainbows by Radiohead. And that was it. I was hooked forever. Music was to become the most constant and important part of my life.
I spent years finding and listening to music. Trying to understand the history and development. Music really was my main hobby in high-school, like listening to music.
Nowadays I also play guitar and produce a bit, but I still listen to music as a hobby.
And my parents still don’t listen to music at all lmao. Even after enduring years and years of me hogging the AUX cable and forcing them to listen to everything from Wu Tang Clan to Burzum and Sufjan Stevens and Nirvana… but I love them. The most they would say is “wow this is very heavy” as I blasted black metal lol
I feel the same way. When I was a kid, my parents had a pretty small collection of tapes of religious music, and that's the only stuff they would listen to. Once I got my first internet connection around the age of 12, a whole new world opened up.
Today, I listen to music all the time, while working, while driving. It was so weird (and depressing) to go on a trip in my sister's car who doesn't listen to music.
Washing dishes
Cool, tell me more about this thrilling hobby of yours.
What does a washing dishes hobby entail? Do you have like a personal best or a preferred strategy?
LARP, and costuming/crafting for it. Amusingly, even among larpers I get a few weird looks when I explain my husband made my clothing, and I made his crossbow.
I met a woman on FB years ago. She's super effeminate, and tiny, and no one would ever guess that she forges swords in her backyard on the weekends, and I absolute love her.
am programmer
3d printing , electronic , welding , gaming etc..
Electronics, radiantism (HAM radio operation) and programming. for the first two i'm actually the only one in my town; which is sort of heplful for electronics since people bring broken equipment to me that i either fix or scrap for parts; while it is kind of a bummer for radiantism.
I do pictures for people who have lost their furries over the rainbow bridge.
Props
I've lost... Too many this year and I cannot imagine being more immersed in that absolutely depressing industry (pet death and grieving in general). Well that and I can't draw
Important work though, I'm sure it helps people immensely
rpg and video games. unless you include stupid phone games. honestly anything considered nerdy/geeky from the past except for what is totally main stream. Like they use computers and have see super hero movies and animated movies. Honestly im pretty sure if work did not require it they might not use computers outside of smartphones.
Photography, gaming.
translating garfield comics
Everything. My family just sits on their ass watching tv all day.
Basically anything I enjoy except cooking. They're not the biggest tech/photography/software/3d printing/... enthusiasts.
(Western concert) flute. Playing, maintenance/repair, collecting, different mechanics and other deviations from the norm, history.
Tea. All teas camellia sinensis/taliensis, and different cultural habits around it. Teapot
collectingaddiction.3D modeling and printing.
Accountability.
all of them except my brother also plays video games? do you and your family all have the same interests
All of them.
Atheism lol
Smoking crack cocaine
Explains your comments and posts lol