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I’ve been golfing (yea, I am aware that the majority of Lemmy hates golf) a lot more recently. I enjoy that it’s something that can be done with people of varying skill levels while still being fun. Ultimately, the competition is just with yourself to keep improving.
Lemmy hates golf? Never noticed. Weird.
Golf courses and some golfers I could see
It’s the golf courses I would imagine, and you can’t really have golf without them.
I just don’t like paying that much to suck at something so hard
Yeah, it’s definitely not the cheapest sport. I’ve got a buddy in Texas who uses an app that finds him cheap golf for a like $10-$20 a round. Apparently if you don’t mind playing at shitty courses in hot weather at 1:00PM on a Tuesday, you can play on the cheap.
It’s so ruinously expensive that I can’t afford any vices.
Is it a horse, a boat, or warhammer 40K?
A fixer-upper century house, so at least on paper I’m not losing all that money.
Been there, done that. It’s not the destination, it’s the skills you gain along the way
I mean, it’d be nice to have all three bedrooms functional at the same time, since there’s five of us living here.
Sailing, because it’s dozens of hobbies in one: It’s a competitive sport either with a team or solo, or it can be a relaxing diversion, or it can be a terrifying personal challenge. It can encompass skills such as sewing, woodworking, machining, plumbing, physics, mathematics, design, navigation, radio communication, astronomy, meteorology, geography, geology, environmental sciences, electronics/electrical engineering, history, linguistics, culinary skills, and more. You can basically always be thinking about it!
Plants don’t have opinions and flowers are pretty.
i became obsessed with succulents a while back, when i was still in subs for identifying plants/succulents. really wanted to grow some but.
That I don’t need to do it if I don’t want to.
The primary technique is stabbing.
I make felt sculptures.
While its technically correct to call fondled, dead people taxidermy “felt sculptures,” it still doesn’t seem right.
Before the fondling they’re called pre-felt.
That’s a joke for my felting homies.
How many times have you stabbed yourself? Or is that a mistake you only make once?
I’m essentially a pincushion now.
One of my biggest hobbies right now I’d better explain before I answer. I make Saturday morning cartoon clipshows for my wife and kid, which has been going for about a year and a half. I have a whole spreadsheet of almost 90 shows and a roughly equal number of indie animators I follow. I also grab occasionally like, old Fleischer studios stuff. Last weekend I included “Bimbo’s Initiation” for example. My spreadsheet tracks what episode we’re on, when it was last shown, and various notes for when I want to arrange shows together by some theme, e.g. giant robots or animal characters. I also sometimes sneak weird little videos into the commercial breaks. I have a media server with about 6Tb of shows, shorts, music videos, and misc footage.
My favourite thing about it is a bit of two different things - I get to share my TV with my kid, and I also end up seeing a lot of new shows and gaining an appreciation for the great work being done still, which keeps me from being jaded. It tends to concentrate nearly all our screen time into a single block during the weekend, so the TV we do watch is extremely varied, thoughtfully chosen, and always fresh. The first season of Owl House took us about a year to get through. Even though we could, we do nearly zero binge watching. My kid’s media diet is probably more interesting and varied than anyone’s I’ve ever met, and it’s because I spend hours every week gathering, planning, editing, and rendering highly curated content. And we make it an event, with big bougie brunch style breakfasts and a projector that takes up the whole wall. It’s fucking peak, man.
Hi parent! It’s me, your long lost child. Can you give me our home address so I can be there this weekend?
And I am their brother. See you Saturday!
I wouldn’t call model railroading my main hobby, as I only touch it once in a while. But that’s also what I do love about it. You leave it packed away in a closet for YEARS, then one rainy day you stumble across those boxes & decide to unpack them. And they still work like you remember as a kid. It’s like reconnecting with an old friend.
I can make up my own songs with lyrics that I want to sing.
Lately I’ve been working on one called “these people are nuts”.
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How cool some origami figures look once finished, specially those that can be folded in less than one hour.
I find amazing how all those shapes can be achieved just by folding.
The people.
Boardgame fans are often very smart and aware.
I really get to know the geography of neighbouring cities when looking for places to hide the bodies. I also get great exercise shoveling at night, I don’t need a gym membership.
Researching arcane historical facts, to help make plot twists more plausible.
of shows i assume? i have fun looking at wiki on various franchises from time to time.
The thing I love most about drawing is the ability to visualize the silly ideas and characters in my head exactly the way I want it to. I love seeing my pieces and the characters come to life in such a vibrant way. And I absolutely adore the entire world of character design, being able to tell so much with just the way a character looks and is presented is so magical, definetly my favorite part of the process.
