Hello bretheren,
I'd like to know what you guys do in your freetime. maybe we can share experiences and learn about new activities to do.
I shitpost and play vidya, I'm really just waiting to die.
I enjoy drawing birds and playing piano. My favorite birds to draw are passerine birds, because they are small and cute.
Also, I am a cute girl so no one makes fun of my hobbies.
>>25266349
birds are not that important
i'm the intellectual equivalent of hansel
>>25266349
>Also, I am a cute girl
>>25266367
obsession with importance isn't important, filthy normalshit
Vidya and movies.
I play guitar, make music with a laptop and work on my car (it's a shitbox, nothing interesting).
Programming, computer stuff, video games, cooking, baking, and anime
>>25266317
I like to just stroll around the woods. I do it sometimes to feel like i'm alone in the world.
>>25266367
Birds are cute and also a lot of them eat bugs.
I write background lore about my cats. Like about how my cat who disappeared one night when we left him outside was a street racer. He was challenged to a mountain-pass race one night by a coyote, and went over the guardrail.
Anime/manga (1% is cute stuff)
YouTube
4chan /r9k/g/k/pol
Article websites, good reading for boardness
Vidya games
Oh, and about two years ago, it might be one, I had an iFunny profile I posted loli art on, and soon became part of a group chat for lolicons so I talk to those guys too. If they're on,
>>25266444
>Programming, computer stuff
can you elaborate?
>>25266461
>Birds are cute and also a lot of them eat bugs.
That's what qt lizards are for
>>25266475
Lizards are okay but they are kinda stealthy and they are probably telepathically communicating because they want the human race to cease from existence. They are plotting something.
>>25266465
This is an outstanding one, very creative
can you recommend me some horror games?
>>25266517
Dead Space 1 and 2 are pretty great. Silent hill up to the 4th game. The first 3 resident evil games.
Siren series. There tons and tons of more great games, but these are the very first that come into my mind.
Play guitar and write songs, play sunday league, go out to pub on a night and clubbing sometimes on the weekend. Not much else to do apart from shitpost here.
t. king failednormie
>>25266472
So I like to create programs and contribute to open source projects. For example I am currently writing a library to parse markdown. For computer stuff, I like to use GNU/Linux and have stuff like a raspberry Pi to play around with.
Smithing
lifting, listening to angry music, and shitposting.
>>25266494
>implying my bearded dragon is up to no good
Somehow I doubt you're as cute as you think
>listening to music
>making music (i haven't really heard any negative comments yet)
>collecting cds (this is a new hobby)
>i sometimes play vidya but i don't really like most of it
>does posting here count?
>>25266974
Oh yeah and watching movies but i don't do that as much as i used to
>>25266974
well, seems nice actuallly, you're more of the music guy, posting here counts i'd say
I do 3d art sometimes.
>>25266610
I can tell you are not cute because you saved that image to your pc. I just know.
I collect vinyl but it's murdering my wallet
dota
cooking and baking
masturbation
exercise
watching anime
music, collecting records and CDs
it's very hard to talk to women, i've only ever had one girlfriend and i suspect she liked me for my food
>Watch anime / Read manga
>Browse 4chan, forums and science/tech blogs
>Read
>Vidya
>Youtube
>Coursera
I write fake notes about me stalking and killing teenage girls and milf widows that I know in my life.it's pretty cringe if I do say so myself
Pictures I post are pretty much related.
I try to do some things when I'm not being an emo pretentious faggot.
Really like drawing, painting, reading and film.
I think a bonus point goes for reading because it can cover all my interests.
masturbate, shitpost and play video games
>tfw im only on /r9k/
No other sites
No other boards
Just listen to music and shitposting in this miserable corner of human lifei love every minute of it
Mostly magic the gathering, video games, movies, long boarding, shitposting on /b/
>>25266317
vidya
anime
cartoons
movies
series
books
drawing
music
saxophone
mtg
melee and anime pretty much
>>25267201
most of these are not hobbies, just interest.
watching TV isn't a hobby, so saying anime and cartoons is a hobby doesn't really make sense.
I'm a volunteer EMT and amateur actor.
Vidya
Programming
Fapping
Shitposting
>>25266317
Armorer for a local GS. Hunt, collect and repair old pocket watches...
Fuck me
homebrew
leather working
marksmanship (archery, firearms, throwing axes/knives, slinging
fishing
>>25267129
Wow, this is creative! nice
>>25267166
try something new for a time. please, do it for me.
>>25267341
Would you like to read a sample paragraph?
>>25267230
i don'T know what a hobby is then
>>25267364
why yes of course! gimme some bro!
>>25267364
yes i want to read a sample
I play guitar and sing, I do some drawing and painting, I watch a lot of films and listen to a lot of music and try to read at least a book a week.
used to draw but now it's only vidya and shitposting
I'm creating a comic. A bit of manga and western comic mix, for my own personal use of course. I'd never release it.
I also do 3D animation.
I do embroidery.
>>25266317
I garden and I trade stocks/currencies. Wanna trade commodities but I'm 2scared.
I draw gfur comissions
>>25267486
what do you embroid? got any photos of your work?
>>25267532
I found some thread and a hoop in a box after my grandmother died and I took it, so I started with sewing and moved to embroidery. I don't have any pictures because it's not very good. Just because i can do it does not mean I can do it well.
Used to play guitar, now gave it up and play piano instead. Mostly Baroque, Romantic and anime songs. Played guitar for some EDM home recordings with a friend, was pretty fun but turned out kinda shitty.
Learning languages. Japanese for reading porn games and German for reading philosophers and beat generation authors.
Read.
Take walks in the forest.
Meditate.
Tried to draw but I suck at it.
Share feels with permavirgins and post cute anime pictures on 4chin.
Seems pretty fedora now that I typed it all out but oh well at least I do something.
Hobbies are my life.
I study physics, theology, practice Zen meditation, play video games (mostly competitive arena shooters and CRPGs), study Japanese, and occasionally read novels (mostly classical and postmodern).
Basically, these are the same hobbies that an 18-year-old would have in the late 90's and early 2000's. But I'm now 31, so I've gotten pretty fucking good at most of these. I've just never dropped them.
Let's see...
>play guitar
>MTG
>vidya
>make chainmail
>rune reading
>make shitty youtube videos
>>25267639
Studying isn't a hobby, everyone studies at one point or another.
>>25266317
>lifting
>boxing(i dont do this anymore)
>photo editing
thats about it.
>>25266349
post bird pics pls
I play the piano.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1Gw1eIAy11R
I work with music for a living, and there are gray areas where music is both hobby and work.
>playing mandolin or guitar
>juggling
>skateboarding
>writing sometimes, reading a lot
>coffee, really into different methods of brewing coffee, tons of notes, different beans, etc
>cooking when I can eat
>drinking a lot of alcohol
>Vidya
>r9k
>walking to mcdonalds
>smoking
>anime
-4chan/anime/video games (probably doesn't really count)
-fishing
-hiking
-running/lifting
-playing bass guitar (poorly)
-mineral collecting
-playing football
>>25267639
black science guy tier popsci "physics" isn't actual phyics, just informing you before you start spouting shit about le quantum physics xd
t. someone with a phyics diploma
I really like music and occasionally watch anime. I'm pretty boring, maybe that's why I have no friends or gf / bf.
>>25267659
>make chainmail
What's that like?
>>25267666
It is a hobby when you're a lawyer working 60 hours per week, and your job has absolutely nothing to do with theology or physics. Then it is a hobby.
Sorry, bro, but not all of us are undergrads taking gen ed requirements.
>>25267826
I barely have any idea what you're saying. Work on your communication skills, friend.
Anyway, I read undergrad and graduate-level physics texts and do the problem sets. For example, a few years ago I completed Jackson's "Electrodynamics," and I'm currently working through the Feynman lectures. I do not simply read mass-produced books by Hawking, etc.
Any more criticisms?
>>25267808
How did you into collecting minerals anon? Do you have many in your area or go somewhere? I really like minerals and crystals a lot but not sure where to start.
>>25266317
Reading/translating Latin, mostly Cicero and stuff form the Latin Vulgate (took it in college and continued)
Learning German
Bass guitar and guitar, but thinking about trying violin in 2016
Anime, I guess
Reading books, mostly ancient Philosophy and about religion/mythology
Play guitar and banjo trying to learn mandolin, but it's difficult. I'm also really into birding and surfing, Canadian so waiting on my gun license to be approved then I'll start a small gun collection. Life's pretty good desu
Wish I had more hobbies, but basically I read blogs, vidya, drinking, handyman stuff, and investing. Not super-interesting.
I'm in danger of a layoff, so I'll probably need to develop something more than just that soon.
>>25267762
That's pretty nice anon. How long have you been playing?
>>25267881
mailleartisans.org
Great resource. As for what it's like...
I walk around and scavenge copper off of people's electronics. I cut the copper out of the wires, and then I wind it into a spring, clip rings off of it, sand off the burrs, and then knit them together. If I wanted to make an armor grade piece, I would have to flatten them, pierce a hole in the overlap, and rivet them shut.
It's very time consuming, and it's a lot like knitting, but with metal. Also, it gives me a way to make some extra cashbecause I'm a dirty hobo
>>25267966
Started when I was ten. I'm 22 now, and finished my degree as a piano teacher this spring. Now studying choir conducting while working as a teacher in grade school, and composing for piano and choir as a hobby.
>vidyagames
>walking
>flying quadcopters
>kayaking
>>25267901
>lawyer working 60 hours per week
>shitposts on /r9k/
btw I'm a 40 years old heart surgeon
>>25267947
unless youre a really quick learner and have a lot of energy dont bother with violin. itll be like a month of regular practice before you can even bow a note
>>25266317
I study Japanese, having finished Chinese a couple of years ago.
I also write critical articles relating to early American literature (and one historical article about Japanese thespian traditions).
>>25267049
I can tell you're flat because you saved that image to your pc. I just know
>>25268088
damn. I figured it'd be hard, but not that hard. By bow do mean just playing a note that isn't flat or sharp?
>>25268063
Wish I did something productive when I was 10 instead of playing vidya.
How does it pay? Is it a meme that musicians are poor?
>>25268144
bowing straight is really difficult even if you practice in a mirror. youll get a lot of squeaks and squacks and terrible sounding notes
vibrato is really weird and difficult too even if your left hand dexterity from guitar transfers over
getting notes correct isnt all that hard if you practice with a tuner and use your ears
violin is something that kids can learn to get good but i dont know if adults can unless they have some burning passion. you cantj ust pick it up and learn stuff real quick like guitar, you wont be able to even bow a note that doesnt sound like shit for awhile
>>25267934
Well i spent 2 years in a geology degree so i started liking it there. Whenever we had field trips, i collected small samples of rocks and crystals (boring stuff like Mica/quartz/basalts/granites aswell as fossils (really dig those too) I also attend the annual mineral showroom and buy some prettier stuff there (expensive, so i only have a couple of exquisite ones)
I'm in southern europe, but i heard that in some places in america you have DESIGNATED quarrels or smt where you can go dig up Opals, tourmalines and other cool things
>>25268183
oh yeah this is coming from a guitar player who got a violin. i still suck ass but i dont have adderall anymore so i cant practice or do anything for that matter
also dont buy retarded 90$ violins on amazon. the first one i got was literally unplayable because neck was fucked up when it was manufactured so that high notes on the D and A string could not possibly be bowed. that is, if you actually wanna still buy one anyway. it'll take you a longggggggggggggg time before you can play anything probably. it's not impossible for adults to learn but i think violin is something only kids can have the effort for (and lack of reward because youll suck ass for 10 years)
if you want to pick up a classical instrument of sorts piano is probably 1/8th the difficulty of violin and there's cheat ways you can learn stuff like synthesia or whatever
>>25267739
I didn't really feel like drawing but I made a quickie 2 minute sketch for you anon.
Hardware based video art
>>25268212
Cool. Care to post some pictures of your collection?
>>25268183
this is true. The progression shown in this video is only attainable if you practice with discipline every day and are really dedicated. EVen then I'd say few would be able to make this good progress in only two years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaugRxMz7tw
>>25268168
Supply and demand. If you are a good musician on an instrument that is in demand, you will be able to make a living. If you are willing to work as a teacher, you will make a living. If you are willing to play gigs that are boring (weddings, funerals, corporate parties etc.) you will make a living. Only musicians who are mediocre on an over saturated instrument (read: guitarists,, pianists, violinists and female pop singers) who refuse to work as a teacher, end up poor. To make a living, you either must be willing to teach, or you have to play an instrument that is in demand, or you have to be exceptionally good - better than everyone else. The "a music degree is a waste of time and money" depends on these factors. It's mostly correct to quote: "If you're in doubt of whether you can make it as a musician, you won't make it."
I genuinely don't do anything beyond video games and watching movies, and even then I don't do much of either of those. I have OCD which makes me really anxious about doing stuff that I should enjoy. So for example, I start watching a movie, I start panicking about if my room is tidy enough for this, if I am in the right mental state for this, if I'm actually enjoying it, lots of doubts and questions like that. I usually give up on whatever I'm doing 10 minutes in because the doubts become too much. So yeah, I don't do anything in my life besides work and 4chan. It's fucking misery.
>>25268253
Neat. I've tried drawing, but I'm awful at it
>>25268141
winner
fembot btfo
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i think about math in my spare time
The usual. Video games, browsing imageboards, anime, movies...
I also play guitar. Sometimes I exercise, sometimes draw. I have a bunch of talents so if I feel like it I'll do something new. Also smoke tobacco and weed almost daily.
I sell shit on the internet sometimes. That allows me to kill some time, go outside, interact with people, get rid of shit I don't need and make money. It's pretty productive.
>>25268447
>if I am in the right mental state for this, if I'm actually enjoying it
I have this too. Constant doubt if I should enjoy it or be critical, if I actually understand the meaning etc. Those thoughts make it hard to watch anything besides anime which is usually too dumb to dig deeply into.
Didn't know it was a part of OCD. I'm starting to believe I might actually have it.
>>25268468
Everyone can draw, you just need to practice. Don't give up!
>>25268405
Thanks for the explanation. Do you think you could be a teacher without a degree if you are good at your instrument and know theory? A private teachers perhaps?
>>25268521
I'm taking SSRIs for it, which help, but the effects wear off after about a week. I fucking loathe this condition.
>>25266317
These probably don't count as hobbies, but I read, listen to a shit ton of music, dabble in language (both learning languages and some pleb tier linguistics), philosophy occasionally...mostly things I can do alone. Sometimes vidya. Want to get into cooking because all I can do now is scrambled eggs (granted, they're delicious) and oats.
>>25266380
I like most of your band list, tripfag. Who the fuck enjoys both Rand and Sartre, though?
>>25268625
people that don't chain themselves to one philosophy. Or on the other side people who can't commit.
>>25268577
You definitely could, although I personally find great value in my degree. Here's what it gave me:
>university provided me with three practice pupils; two children and one adult
>mentor teacher with 20+ years of experience teaching kids and adults gave weekly lectures to me and the other piano teacher students
>came to observe my lessons every second week and gave feedback
>this is a crucial part of becoming a good teacher; have others observe your teaching methods and discuss their effectiveness, not to mention your behavior towards students and how they respond
>also had psychology, music pedagogy and didactic lectures (what does it mean to "learn music"? What does it mean to "teach music"? How can I best facilitate the learning of music in my lessons?)
>also forced to write a 15 page essay on a self chosen topic, which I recommend every scholar simply because of "scholarly hygiene" in lack of better terms
I play competitive smash bros on my days off.
Before I moved to this small town I enjoyed pickup basketball everyday, but nobody is ever at the gym to play with.
In the summer I like swimming in the river.
>>25268873
Thanks again for the detailed response. I see now how helpful the degree can be, though it's late for me to get one. Good luck to you in your career.
I do wood carving.
I'm not very good, but it is really relaxing.
I just finished the first movement of my string quartet
>>25269051
That's a cute snowman.
>>25269056
I so desperately wish I were capable of writing music. Let me live vicariously and tell about it anon
>>25269056
Only part 4 left huh neety?
>>25266317
Games, anime, building computers from plug and play parts and having autistic normies think I'm a hacker.I also like to work, its fulfilling.
>>25269141
I made it for my mom.
Pretty sure it earned me a few GBP.
>>25266349
I am girl I am girl I have vagina I have vagina fembot here fembot here (you) want me (you) want me
*queeeeeeeeeeeef*
>>25266317
normies cant cav
>>25269153
It's in C-sharp minor, allegro, common time. Sonata form. If it will sound how I imagine it (midi files can't compare to human performance) then it's very dramatic, it ends very darkly. I tried to make each instrument part interesting and more than just accompiment for the first violin, but this is my first time writing for an einsemble. The second movement is in E major, 2/4 time, an andante in ternary form. The third movement is a waltz in F-sharp minor
>>25269190
Yes, only the 4th movement is left.
>>25268548
I don't have anyone to draw for. Myself included
>>25269153
just download a copy of ableton and make a shitty beat and use a lot of reverb and talk about using drugs anyone can make music now dude
I play WoW and watch tv
I know, I'm such an interesting person
Lockpicking
Firearms
Outdoors
Disc golf
Vidya
Drinking
Smoking
Friendly reminder that vidya and animu are not hobbies.
>>25269527
>Friendly reminder that vidya and animu are not hobbies.
>hobby: an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation
rekt
anyone else /snowmobile/ here? A few robots and I go all the time in the winter.
>inb4 normie, this is the only activity we participate in outside of our rooms
>>25269377
this right here.
this is the best, i don't know why. but it is.
I like drawing, and I also play the viola. I've always wanted to learn the guitar for fun but I have no idea where to start. I'm not sure if I should start learning to read music in the treble clef (as I can read the alto clef) or just learn tab. Anyone here who plays guitar who can offer tips? Maybe a good tutorial YouTube or website?
>>25270226
you and "A few robots"? whut?
>>25267049
I never claimed to be cute though.
I'll leave that to my lizard friend
>Literally a complete NEET loser
>Female, but 290lbs and only 5'4 so not exactly a catch
>Have no hobbies
>Decide that getting a hobby might help me control my emotions and move on in life
>Want something creative
>Decide after some research to start making smoothies
>Seems cheap, easy, and beneficial to my health
>Go to the store the next day excited to grab some fresh fruit for my smoothies
>start walking around the fresh fruit section
>smells weird
>people looking at me funny
>eventually give up and retreat to the chips, chocolate, candy etc
>have only made really unhealthy smoothies and gained 4lbs
Just for reference pic related is the folder of recipes I have come up with so far. I am so close to giving up.
making future music shit
vidya
piano i guess (mostly chopin)
realizing that im boring as fuck
>>25266317
just bought a dj controller (pioneer ddj-sx2) and am currently playing around with it
>>25270708
Just stop eating whore and you'll lose weight
>290lbs
How do people eat that much? Fuck
>>25269337
Not exactly the same as writing a string quartet, now is it? ;:^)
>>25269321
Sounds like something I'd like anon. Making the third movement a waltz...that's interesting. Isn't it usually a minuet/trio?
>>25268253
You are not good at what you do tbqh.
>>25270866
Something something crabs in a bucket something
>>25270708
>I am so close to giving up.
You should give up on these smoothies, I'll tell you that. Have you taken a walk today? If not I'd advise you to do so, it's a great way to clear the mind.
>>25270866
It is a bad drawing but I left my notebook at my moms house so most well done ones are missing for now.
I'm a glitchop artist
>>25270836
Yeah it's usually a minuet or a scherzo, but sometimes it's a waltz (like in Tchaikovsky symphony 5), I had heard the waltz from Dvoraks serenade for strings and I really liked it so I wrote it inspired by that
>>25266339
second that familia
>>25270866
I like it.
It's cute in a childish way
>fap
>read
>play vidya
>go drinking and try to get pussy
>go to gym
>do nothing other than internet
>go shopping
>I goof around with photography and film development
>I collect Mondo posters
>I'm learning electronics and automation
Current project is building an automatic film developing tank
>>25266317
Shitpost on R9k as 15 distinct personalities until I convert this board into a watered down safespace /b/
I post here and masturbate. There's nothing else in my life at all.
>>25270934
>Dvorak
My nigga. I haven't listened to him in a long time but I always liked his quartets/piano concertos. This Serenade is really nice, too.
Godspeed on that last movement anon, hopefully you'll post it somewhere when it's doneand probably copyright it before you do that too
>>25270552
This pic actually triggered me.....
>>25271131
Thanks, I don't think I could get it published or would otherwise have to copyright it though, at most I would hope to get an amateur group together to perform it. The theater I'm working at also does music lessons and I talked with the owner briefly about doing just that, so maybe some day
>This pic actually triggered me.....
Does this mean something new now?
>>25270866
b-but it's just scribblin around anon
Guitar, drums, 420blazitfgt, DOTA2, and manga/anime
>>25272464
guitar piano bass master race
