Ask Lemmy

Tbh, most of my old hobbies I thought I had lost interest in came flooding back once I started running and exercising and eating better. It's actually been months now since I last worked out. I'm in the process of writing a story, and I love it. So....none, with a new one.

Unfortunately, the types of video games I can play has been severely limited in the past several years by muscle disease. I have tried to adapt with low-APM turn-based games like Slay the Spire, Into the Breach and chess. While I have developed a certain fondness for these games, they were never my first choice.

The recent release of Silksong has been especially hard on me because its predecessor was one of my favorites. I haven't been able to bring myself to watch a play-through of it yet.

Super duper looking forward to Mewgenics, though! Only 4 months to go.

I used to get so much enjoyment out of video games. I could play for entire weekends. Now I sit down and play for an hour or so and start to get bored.

Electronics. Components are getting harder to get (internet orders makes hem expensive) and my eyes are no longer that good when soldering (even with glasses)

Programming. I don't like where it's heading and I don't like the culture

Honestly, ALL of them. I used to make beer. Used to have one batch fermenting while another was carbonating, but it's been years since I even thought about getting all that stuff out. I really don't drink much anymore, so that may be part of it. I also have a closet full of board games, but just getting the pieces out and setting up the board just feels like it isn't worth all that effort.

Video games, but not because I want to. I have so much on my plate right now that could make my life better. I need to exercise more. I used to run and lift. I need to spend time with my hands-on craft hobby. I need to bake more. I enjoy video games SOOOOO much but I feel my life would probably be better without them.

All hobbies that don't involve a screen. I've been having serious mobility issues, where standing for more than a few minutes is painful and I leave the house only in my wheelchair. It makes going to restaurants, concerts and events difficult. Makes going on hikes impossible or even existing in parks more painful than pleasurable.

Appreciate your legs y'all. :(

Motorcycling. I live in a dense urban area and the traffic here is nightmarish. It takes me like 2+ hours to reach good riding roads, and that's more time than I'm willing to invest these days. I'll still use it for short city errands but I've noticed a drastic drop off compared to say five years ago.

Gaming.

I used to play every day with my best friend for 30 years until one day he threw me under a bus, so to speak, cut off all contact and I don't even know why

I have an awesome wife now with whom I spend every second and I don't really have any time left to play games

I used to be involved in my local Warhammer/Wargaming scene. Like full bore painting, modeling, 3d printing, doing tournaments, having a bi-weekly club. Unfortunately I fell on hard times and then my baby brother had a baby. So had to sell most of my stuff. We live together that's why. Can't have resin printers around a newborn. That's a super hard no. I kept the paint because I used oils instead of acrylics, but that never turned into canvas painting. I sold all my armies across like 7 different game systems. The only games I have left are Infinity and trading card games. It's all just sitting in boxes in the attic right now.

I don't know if I'll get back to doing any of it any time soon. I got to get a job and a car. I wanna move to a new city, but unfortunately that city is turning into a fucking ICE stomping ground. One of my friends in the scene recently died and at his funeral almost our whole social group showed up. Sounds like we all scattered and haven't been participating in hobby as much. Most people found other things to do.

It was a great run. About 10 years of a social life and something to do. At one point you think it's never gonna end because it's so good, but life will find a way. I hope to get back to it some day.

Dancing and Theatre. I used to love doing improv and dancing Salsa. Now I can't find the time and energy.

Yeah, same when it comes to reading. All of my other hobbies involve making things, and I don't ever dedicate time for reading anymore. I don't have time for any other hobbies anyways right now.

Gaming has left me with this always connected, forced multiplayer so there's some fucking reason to justify the need bullshit. Diablo 4 is fucking garbage because of the need for engagement, ladders, endgame content, and I fucking hate it.

Just give me games I can obsess over for a month and beat and be done. And I probably still will replay it fifty times over the next decade because there's nothing as good anyway (Hi, Baldur's Gate and Skyrim).

I have ADHD. I've forgotten more hobbies than most people have heard of.

Table tennis is the one I miss the most, used to play it all the time with the other kids in the building I used to live, level was quite high since we even asked for pro level stuff to our parents. Was the only sport that I actually loved and practiced every week, but everyone grew up, moved out, and the closest place that has it to me is a 1 hour drive with traffic.

The piano. I used to play almost everyday and I got pretty good at it but I rarely play it now. Just yesterday was the first time I played it in a couple years

Music. I played piano since very young, started making tracks on 4-track and the Amiga around 10 years old, kept going deeper with the demoscene and playing in + recording bands. Went on to do a music degree, got a job making music...

Hobby became serious, then it turned into a ball and chain. I turned around, did a second degree and started working in a different field. Thought I'd keep music as a hobby, but now it presents a different face: no point in making tracks if nobody but me ever listens, nor is there point in producing other people for free with all the invested time most likely never being too fruitful.

I did find a new hobby though. Working out is the antithesis to working on art projects. Put an hour in, get an hour's worth of gains back. Love it :D

Most common reason to give these up seems to be lack of time. Why has our amount of time changed? We still work the same hours, get purchases delivered, have the same families even with fewer kids so we should have more not less right? What is eating into our available time? Is it social media?

I've recently gotten back into reading as a way to wind down before bed without using the phone, and it has done wonders for my sleep. Pair it with a kobo ereader and downloading, uh, free books means there's no pressure to read books you don't enjoy (I find with physical books they tend to loom at you from the shelf and make you feel guilty for not reading, which only makes things worse).

Anyway to get to the point reading can be a very low investment hobby if you want it to be.

Satellite and space tracking. Satnogs with some custom hardware.

I've done it for a number of years, helping citizen scientists all over the world. But because of the cuts and less and less people getting into the hobby, its been hard to keep being motivated.

Took down the setup a bit ago for some repairs and haven't put it back. Probably won't.

After a lifetime of reading comic books, and amassing a pretty large collection, i just... stopped. It wasn't so much losing interest as I'd gotten what I needed from them. I just don't need them anymore. Now I'm left with 50 some boxes of comics to get rid of...

Gaming.

I'm just shit at it now. I used to love FPS games, now I can barely hit anyone let alone get any kills.