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For example, I play the drums and tend to think of myself as a drummer. Do you love games, consider yourself a gamer? Are you a chef, a bodybuilder, maybe an artist? What is it that you love to do?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Nerd. I just do a ton of nerdy things, s'all. I can program, design in CAD, play PC games, design electronics, work in IT security, work on 3D printers, grow mushrooms of all kinds and the list goes on. For the most part, I just like to learn about all kinds of engineering things. Learning about quantum physics is my newest endeavor, but not at super high level of course.

What has happened over the years is that I have just learned to exploit my ADHD and all of my hobbies tie into each other somehow. It's more efficient and it helps if I start to lose interest in one of them for a bit.

Edit: Even my profile here is filled with a ton of random information. I just have researched a ton and done a metric fuck ton of things, s'all. It quite literally is a mental condition. Lulz.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Hello cousin. I feel where you're coming from.

I'm not a "Senior Process Analyst" or even a lawyer.

I'm a dad and a maker and a nerd.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lol. A dad and a maker here as well. Just saying "maker" would have summarized everything much better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Too much gaming and The Expanse and arguing about Star Wars online to say I'm only doing productive nerdy things, but even back to high school and college, long before I ever heard the term, sometimes the urge to "just make somethin'" would become overwhelming.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Are we all just too proud to start identifying first and foremost as a masturbator?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It's definitely allowed. I've met lots of people who gave me the distinct impression that they were wankers.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm a weed farmer for sure. It's a fun hobby and at the end, you get to get baked!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have a few friends that grow weed, I've heard it's super rewarding, and you get tons of flower to smoke! Nice choice, I'm glad you're having fun with it 😉

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I collect flashlights and am registered as a flasher...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I’m a cyclist and I wouldn’t really use a noun for it but I am very involved in a bdsm community and it does impact my self perception

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So during the day you like a well lubed chain and at night you like to get well lubed with chains?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

What can I say, I like to make my ass sore in a variety of ways

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Honestly that's awesome that you have a community that works for you!

Totally no obligation or expectation, but I wanna plug c/[email protected] here, we'd love more contributions from rad kinksters 💜

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I love to ride and rebuild motorcycles. It's so satisfying getting a crusty old bike and making it a reliable machine again.

It does influence how I think of myself. I'm proud of being able to disassemble and reassemble an entire motorcycle.

It's an amazing feeling going down the highway on two wheels, knowing that the machine underneath me used to be a pile of parts in boxes.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Running and bird photography. Both of them are more than incidental hobbies. They shape how I see myself

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does it help to run at the birds?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or does it help to run from birds with cameras?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

To be fair, I've never encountered a bird that was using a camera!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I call myself a film nerd. I particularly enjoy movies with surrealistic or psychological elements. I prefer older movies or movies that depict older periods, such as the ~1880s-1980s. I had a fixation on the 20s-40s a while ago and discovered one of my favourite actors, Charles Boyer. Watched a bit of Ingrid Bergman, too. Currently, I am fixating on the 2018 show Das Boot (the first 2 seasons at least…).

I hold movies dear to my heart. I have ~250 movies on hold in my “watchlist,” and I seldom find the motivation to sit down and absorb new materials. However, once I do discover something I like, chances are I will incorporate it into my personality or daily life some way. I feel that movies encourage creativity within me, as I often take inspiration from movies / shows / characters when creating my own work (I write in my free time).

I have never met a person in real life who is just as passionate about this as I am. I don’t really have anybody to talk about movies with for hours, so I turn to the internet. Even then, it’s difficult to find such people, I think.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm a performing artist. I do fire, sideshow, and burlesque.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I guess maybe mushroom hunting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I understand why other people try to put me into categories but why should I do this shit to myself?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Hey, you totally don't have to. If you wanna use this as an excuse to gush about your hobbies though, I'd love to hear about them! 😊

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm a cat lady if my cats count as a hobby (and I count them as a hobby). Also I play a lot of video games but have been socialized not to call myself a gamer because of gatekeepers.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Video games are so much more my hobby then anything else, any other one feels kind of fake. Unfortunately calling myself a gamer is basically a red flag, so i avoid it at all costs

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Years ago I adopted the identifier 'Cascadian' as I fit most of the stereotypes.

(Referring to those of us that live in/around the Cascade mountain range.)

I know it's not 'a hobby' but being native to the PNW, it really is a lifestyle. We're out playing in the wilderness, hunting, fishing, enjoying the rain. We smell a little like moss & dirt with a hint of patchouli. We grown our own food and prefer our animals over people most of the time. I'm about to move across the country and I have no idea what my life will be like. I spend 90% of my free time outside in wilderness where most of my 'hobbies' take place.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I would say gamer, but that doesn't really mean ttrpgs these days. Maybe storyteller, but its been awhile since i was in the ST chair.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Good point. To add to that, even as a person whose main hobby is playing computer games, I'm often reluctant to refer to myself as a "gamer." I feel like the term has been stereotyped a bit toward toxic incel-types, though maybe that's just my own perspective. Nevermind that literally half my IRL "gamer" friends are leftist women.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I don't have much experience with it (one super awkward d&d session), but ttrpgs seem super cool! I think you can still say gamer, just because your game isn't electronic doesn't mean it isn't awesome and fun 💜

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"Jack of all" I had a lot of jobs in my teens to my mid 20s. Got married, had a son and divorced in 5 years. Started climbing towers in 2000 and haven't looked back. But all the jobs I had before and all of the different things that come along with communication towers.....I know a little about a lot.

Edit: I guess that I should have read the rest before commenting. But it is kind of the same. I like art, animals, nature, we have a few out of the ordinary pets, I like bladed weapons, lock sport, leather work, archery. So, yah, Jack of all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

My main fixation is developing a tabletop role playing game. I'm not a game developer by profession, but I'm definitely one by practice at this point.

After a year of work, our game is getting close to release, and I'm so excited to see what I do with my time after it does.

I have a lot of hobbies, so I'm not worried, but I'm looking forward to whatever comes next. I hope to keep up with game development, but I think it'll be a relief to change things up.

If anyone's interested, the game has a community at slrpnk.net/c/fullyautomatedrpg .

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Wood. I fancy myself a carpenter, and I'm officially allowed to, that was the trade I originally learned - and never worked an hour later as one. But when my house would burn, I'd rescue my Japanese tools first. Then my family. Don't tell them...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Snowboarder. It's just my favourite thing to do going on 15 years now. It's influenced where I chose to live, the friends I've made, sparked a passion for outdoors that lead to also being a backpacker, climber, mountain biker, and realize my whole thing is really just having fun flowing through nature.

Photographer. All that time in nature puts me in pretty places so I wanted to take landscapes. That's still my favourite genre, but I also go for random photo walks, am my social groups go to wedding photographer, document my own kid and family, collect and shoot old school film cameras, develop my own film even. I'm that random weird friend always walking around with a camera.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I'm an archaeology & history enthusiast. I like the term "past-o" but I live in the US and few people get a deep cut reference to a british comedy show.

I just love the variety of human responses to existing in the world, I can't help but bring it up all the time and I feel like it colors my perspective of the present and what's possible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I've never heard past-o before but I kinda dig it! I don't know the reference at all though, so I totes get why you wouldn't use it much 😅

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Kite flyer, kite maker.

I've been flying multi-line, controllable sport kites for over half of my life. I attend kite festivals very frequently and occasionally travel throughout the US or internationally for kite festivals.

About 6 years ago, I started building my own sport kites. Now days, I have a workshop with 5 sewing machines, 2 3d printers, and other equipment, all of it revolving around kite making.

I can't really imagine my life without kites involved.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I study rhetoric as a hobby and think of myself as a writer sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In my late teenage years, I got really into hitting my friends with sticks - competitively.

Am now in my forties and still use the same damn username.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

My current interests are yoga, succulents, reading and painting but having adhd makes this list ever changing. I think yoga has stuck the most, seventeen years and counting, but I don't think of myself as a yogi.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I really identify with instruments as well, my drummer friend. I would call myself a guitarist, mainly, but I can play drums and produce music as well so maybe I could expand that title to just 'musician'. Keep on slamming those skins.

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