What are your hobbies /r9k/ ?
I am curious, because I literally don't have any. I don't enjoy anything really, I don't even watch anime or play vidya anymore.
Was briefly interested in programming and electronics but that quickly bored me too.
As a result I'm really boring person who cannot hold any decent conversation. I don't even post on 4chan often, I just don't have anything to say.
Pic related, I feel more and more like a Gondola - just observing the world and not participating in it
So, /r9k/ tell me about your hobbies, however weird they might be
Polite bump
Also
>tfw so boring no one even responds to my thread
Such is life of a robot
IKTFB.
>hobbies
I drive...
I also play some vidya but nothing anyone gives a shit about and don't really have anyone to play vidya with anymore anyway so fug it. Never cared much for anime. I'm boring af, too. Hoping to buy my first firearm soon. At least then I could go out to the range. I have experience with firearms and it's kinda fun so yeah, you could look into that. Also would recommend looking into autocross or kart racing.
what sort of vidya did you used to play OP?
also i dont have any hobbies outside of vidya. i tried looking for lists of different hobbies, but most of that shit seems simple and lame.
>>27310498
I will respond to your thread, anon, and make you feel a little less lonely.
My biggest hobby by far is playing guitar. I've dabbled with other stuff, like reading, self-pedagogy, watching art films, discovering new music, etc., but I've always come back to playing guitar. Something about it is so very mesmerizing. I can completely lose myself strumming chords or improvising licks or thinking up melodies and harmonies. Hours just fly by. I've overheard my roommates say, "How is he still playing that fucking song?" I get so into it that it feels like it's just me and my guitar, nothing else.
And this is something that's really incredible for me, because I've spent the last two years or so as a drug addict. The feeling of not being high makes me so anxious and irritable that I spend every sober second wanting drugs, tearing through the house searching for drugs, or figuring out ways to make money to buy drugs with. I'll take literally anything, even drugs like delirants that feel fucking awful, just so I'm not sober. But when I'm playing guitar, all that disappears. I don't even realize for a second that I'm sober. It feels like I'm fucking soaring, even though I'm not on anything. And what a fucking amazing high it gives! There's no tolerance, each practice feels just as good as the last. It's completely free too. Fuck, I spend hours and hours practicing and I don't even realize the drugs have worn off until I've stopped playing. If there is any ticket out of this junkie hell, it's going to be playing my guitar. Last summer, I had to be sober a few days since I was forced to go to the drug recovery ward in a hospital. Yeah I was feening pretty hard for some drugs, but honestly the biggest craving I had was to play some music and fret some chords and tinker around on those strings. It was like my soul was caged up and begging to be set free.
I've gotta ween myself off drugs and put guitar in their place somehow. Gonna be really tough.
3d modeling & printing, Mount and Blade mods, and metal detecting/collecting are my only hobbies now. All I feel is pain and vast emptiness
I used to hate myself a lot but I have really put an effort into trying to befriend myself in the form of assigning clones to each fragmented segment of my own personality.
>>27309447
This is really concerning me. I feel anhedonic and not interested in world. So I'm getting my dopamine back once and for all with drugs
>>27311094
Firearms is something that caught my attention some time ago, maybe will try to get into it. Unfortunately I don't live in USA so getting a gun is a bit harder
>>27311124
All sorts of vidya, mainly old school RTS (wasn't very good at them actually) and arena shooters
But I just can't enjoy it anymore
>>27311203
I'm jelly, I started learning to play guitar several years ago, could play few songs on it, but it just didn't work for me
I also try not to stay sober, fortunately I don't have money to buy drugs often. Don't think I would get into delirants, but holy shit, I would do some dissoactives right now. Just disconnect myself from the world
>>27311397
Same. The more they disconnect me from the world the better it feels
It's just that next day when
>there must be more to life
kicks in
>>27311330
>3d modeling & printing
Is it expensive hobby?
>>27311203
Christ, I fucking tear up thinking of all the times I've considered pawning my guitar to buy some drugs. Because as a worthless junkie, you're gonna be thinking about fucking selling your grandma out on the streets to get a hit sometimes. But I could never do it, I could never get rid of this fucking thing. It makes me so sad that I've even considered it.
I've grown a huge bond with my guitar, I feel like I love it more than I love my parents. It's got so many memories carved into it. There's the one broken peg that I snapped only a couple weeks after getting the guitar, and it hangs so awkwardly out of place, holding down the D string, right on the brink of letting go. That's me right there, broken and fucked up, just barely holding it all together while I'm surrounded by people who've got their shit in order. And there's so many splattered stains all around the body, the constituents running the gamut from blood to vomit to drug residue to grime. Spots on the frets are all worn out from sliding my fingers across them too many times. Couldn't sell this fucker if I wanted to, it's so beat up. But I love it.
And it's not just the guitar, it's inside my damn brain. I've spent so many late night hours with my nose pressed against the dusty music theory books from the library. I've studied so many musicians, from all periods and all styles, and I've worshiped their songwriting. I've torn apart songs note-for-note, trying so desperately to figure out what made them sound so special. I'm completely self-taught too. What I've learned is that it doesn't matter how much you read and read, in the end all it comes down to is sitting down and writing some fucking music. It's the only way to get anywhere. I get frustrated because I've got high expectations of myself and I'm never happy with music I've written, but that just keeps me working harder. I keep trying to outdo myself.
I'd love to be a real musician and go on tour. I can't seem to ever finish songs or write lyrics. I'd love to be a singer songwriter type person but it seems my fate is to be a band member of some sort.. If that...
http://picosong.com/AxQi/
Honestly, if you don't have an interesting hobby and you feel like a loser, just try writing. Obviously what you write in the beginning isn't going to be good, but as long as you know how to write proper sentences it can't be that bad. All it takes is practice too, any kind of writing will make your skill as a writer improve, and it honestly can only get better.
>>27309447
>What are your hobbies
Astrology, mbti, anime
>>27311398
There's such a steep learning curve for guitar, it's easy to understand why it didn't work for you. Honestly, the damn thing fucking made me boil with rage the first few months I played it. I couldn't get it to sound right no matter what I did. Then when I was finally playing some simple songs at least somewhat well, I felt so unsatisfied. It felt like such a monumental hurdle for such small rewards.
But then something just clicked for me. I'm sure everyone with a hobby has had like a big lightbulb moment where it was like, "Hey! Y'know, I think I actually like doing this thing. I like it a lot!" I was jamming out without even thinking, I flowed with the music and let it take me away. Felt amazing.
Dissociatives are fucking wonderful. MXE is by far my favorite drug. God, what I'd fucking do for another trip on that divine stuff. Absolutely breathtaking, completely mind-blowing. So warm, gooey, and lovey-dovey, like cookies from your grandma. DXM is pretty good too, but I'm sad because I don't feel the magic glimmer anymore. Used to have really nice trips on it, got addicted to it even, but recently it's just made me unpleasantly psychotic. Tried MXP too, but it didn't really take me flying through space like other disses, just made me really brain dead and zombified. The k-hole is on my bucket list, I gotta experience that at least once.
>>27311868
why mbti?
>>27311891
I'm going for deeper things like cognitive functions and enneagram, not like E vs I and etc.
/biz/ topics
i wanna fuck 9-10/10 whores every time i need
Boxing
Get to take out autistic anger and keep /fit/
>>27311923
oh, that's cool. anywhere in particular that you'd suggest learning this stuff from?
Any hobby that revolves around collecting is autistic.
>>27311830
I really enjoyed this with the exception of :24s. Reminds me of a twee band I cannot remember. Do you have a soundcloud?
>>27311939
You ever made some sort of profit?
>>27311961
To be completely honest there's no one site where you could learn a lot of it. Do cognitive functions and enneagram tests and look if they correlate. If they dont you could think in 2 ways - either you've done it wrong or you're one type with strong function of other.
>>27311889
I'm just un-talented when it comes to music, can't really get into it. Even if it sounded right I just felt my music doesn't have substance it should have.
It's cool you can get such an enjoyment from it, makes me think if I could go back to it and try again
DXM was my drug of choice, because it was cheap and easy to get. But yeah, after several trips it gets very unpleasent. I wonder if it reflects state of my mind somehow.
Tell me more about MXE, friend of a friend once mentioned it and I got interested. How is it compared to early trips of DXM?
1. Firearms. I have a few guns and i like to go shoot every now and then just for fun. I also like hunting, but i scarcely do that nowadays, i'd like to get into it more though.
2. Reading. I read a lot, mostly online. I read on wikipedia about ancient kingdoms and empires and authors and philosophies and stuff. I can spend hours on wikipedia reading about various stuff, like haunted houses or cryptids (legendary monsters) and folk-lore and religion.
3. Weightlifting. I've never been into any sport and when i went to elementary school i was always a skeleton. At a school dance when i was 14 i realized what a spooky skullington i was, and decided i want to work out, but i had no idea where to start because i didn't know anyone who trained. It wasn't until i was 18 that i learnt about muscle groups, nutrition, and how different exercises can target different muscles (most of this through a friend, and my own research online). Now at 24 i lift weights at 3-4 times a week with a PPL routine, and i guess its a hobby.
Also i'd like to get into some type of crafting, maybe carpentry. Because i have an interest in weapons, i have for a long time wanted to make my own crossbow, so i might get into woodworking in the future. Like most people on here though, i spend way too much time just browsing different boards on 4chan. I stay away from porn though ( i hide every porn thread i see ).
>>27311967
But I thought women couldn't be autistic?
>>27311967
What about collecting money and bitches?
>>27311970
One of my closer friends really liked that bit. It probably reminds you of King Krule, i bite his style a lot.
I've got a soundcloud but I'd rather not post it here, since it contains personal info
>>27311939
Is /biz/ quality board? I would doubt business skills of a bunch of NEETs
>tfw the only thing you do besides sleeping and/or wasting time is pinching your nipple hair before sleep
>>27312197
Does it feel good at least?
>>27312062
Hey, I read wikipedia too. Mostly about nuclear warfare and air crashes
At least I can provide some random facts during conversations
>>27312054
Well for starters, everything that sucks about DXM? Nausea, itchiness, wobbly walking, memory issues? Completely absent on MXE. You have a very clear head, able to rationalize and think pretty well. None of that brain fog, none of that forgetting the entire trip once it's done, none of that feeling of being completely retarded. Your mobility skills are unaffected up until very high doses. Sometimes those are things I seek out, but it's nice to have a /dis/ experience where you remain sane throughout the trip.
But the most powerful aspect is how you're just fucking filled with this overwhelming love for yourself and all of humanity. I was walking around the city and I got this great urge to kiss strangers, to kiss homeless people. It's like being on MDMA or something, but it hits you on a much larger level. You don't feel love for someone specific, or love for your friends, you fucking love every single person in the world. It's like being connected to this human network that stretches out to every single person on the globe. MXE fanatics let their imaginations go fucking nuts with this feeling, those guys believe in telepathy and astral planes and levitating shit in the air with your mind. There are a few MXE forums and they're filled with this crazy conspiracy shit and paranormal claims and spiritual mumbo-jumbo. I delved a little bit into the hippie dippie shit too, maybe gotten a little delusional (MXE makes you pretty wacky), but now I've closed that coffin because there's just some things man isn't meant to think about.
The body high is fucking killer. I could feel every thread in my clothes kissing my skin. It's the comfiest feel imaginable, very opiate-esque. Your whole body dissolves into this warm, gooey muck that tingles all over.
>>27312825
Another difference is that DXM doesn't really "hole", but MXE does. You feel like your being is shrunk to a pin, then it just disappears. It feels like you become an object, completely negated from existence. You cease to be. Time is stretched unto infinity, this feeling feels like it's all that's ever existed and all that ever will exist. You feel like you are everywhere, like you are everything. I hesitate to say this, but you become a fucking god, omnipotent and omnipresent. It's a very glorious, mind-blowing feeling that cannot be matched. I dream of holing on ketamine too, because I've heard that experience is even more mystical.
The closed-eyed visuals are really beautiful too. Makes all the other drugs seem lackluster, because those CEVs were kinda dull and simple comparatively. MXE's CEVs were like what you see in the movies when they show an acid trip. Fucking crazy shit morphing into other crazy shit, everything constantly moving and dancing in time to the music.
>>27312825
Sounds great. Kinda more like psychodelics not dissos. Would want to try anyway.
I once had short OOBE while on DXM, so I understand how people react to this kind of shit and make it all spiritual and astral shit. It's really amazing what your mind can produce while on drugs, but damn, that shit ain't real nigga
All I do for fun is watch anime, listen to music, and cook.
And calling it "cooking" is generous because it's more just "reading recipes for things I like and making it".
I collect guns and shoot recreationally
Pic related is newest acquisition
>>27312895
Have you ever tried weed + DXM? Best closed-eye visuals I can imagine. Shapes, colors, motion, everything so fluid. Wonder how MXE feels compared to that
I mostly read. I'm an independent scholar right now and produce some research in areas no one cares about.
>>27309447
> thinks video games and anime are hobbies
there's your problem right there son
>>27313528
independent scholar? That sounds pretty interesting, what are you researching?
>>27312950
I didnt know a prpject 90 can be loaded through there.
>>27313596
It means NEET who reads wikipedia at home.
>>27312945
I don't know, it's definitely a /dis/ experience. But it's very hard to describe that /dis/ feeling though, don't you think? How do you even describe something like that? The sublime sensation where you're staring at your body from five feet in the air, how fucking tiny you feel while huge monoliths lightyears across pass overhead, the wonky Lilliputian hallucinations that make distant objects huge and near objects so far away.
There's something so indescribable about the trip, something that can only be captured by going through it. I know people say that about psychs too, but like think of all the art, music, and literature that psychs have produced. And then contrast that with /dis/ media, where there's next to nothing. People can't really put it to words. I've heard a few references to ketamine in some songs, but they were songs that referenced ketamine and not songs ABOUT ketamine, you know?
I'm trying to write a few songs about MXE, but it's hard to get them right. I can't make them floaty and dreamy and crazy enough. I'd like to write some /dis/ /lit/ too, somewhere down the line. Mess around with the narrator's perspective or his relationship with the reader or fuck with the fourth wall or stuff like that. I always feel too grounded to start writing it though. I feel like I gotta be really fucking out of it.
>>27313039
Nah, never done them together. I'd like to try that combo though. I'd imagine it'd be more interesting and that the visuals would be better. It'd help with the nausea too. Kinda worried it would make my head even cloudier though. I really wanna remember DXM trips because I see some cool shit.
>>27313574
Both can be enjoyable time wasters tho
>>27313885
Oh, I know what you mean. You can't just describe that feeling when you wake and only thing you remember is something like "Whoa, I think I spent last two months floating in space"
/dis/ music would be something like this imo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH11a-S5jKc
Of course it does not capture the whole experience overall feeling is there.
I don't think you can really make literature about it that sober reader could understand. Of course you should try it, could be really interesting read
>>27312130
>Is /biz/ quality board?
/biz/ is a top quality board.
It's basically the motivated version of /r9k/
you have to ignore the cryptocurrency pumping shills however
Same here OP. I never have anything to talk about with other people because none of them are interested in my hobbies. It's the main reason why I'm an anti-social autist.
I would say that programming is one of my hobbies, but I'm not particularly good at it. I'm kinda good at Javascript and PHP, but it's not really enough to make any thing cool. Maybe I just need more practice.
>>27311478
It depends on what quality of 3d printer you build/buy preset.
The filament is a relatively good price for average quality, and if you wanna go full normie you can sell people's designs and ideas for extreme $$$.
I used to have hobbies like drawing, working on cars, electronics, robotics..in my free time
But then I grew up and got a job.
So now I basically do nothing. I'm slowly going insane.
>>27313720
No. I have a graduate degree and a job. Just not a job in academia. I wouldn't be a good teacher.
>>27313596
It's related to history.
>riding a horse
>snorkeling and scuba diving (only possible a few times per year at most)
>cooking
>getting drunk
>play guitar
>record music
>build and play levels in Trials Evolution
I wish I could be more into video games, but almost all of them lost their appeal a few years ago. Except for Trials. I'll never get bored of that game
Get into cars OP. It's something everybody can relate to on some level and everybody wants to know a car guy. I started browsing /o/ and watching some YouTube car channels a couple years ago. Slowly I answered every question I had and learned about all the things I didn't know. Then I slowly started applying that; changing my oil, rotating my tires, basic maintenance stuff. Now I'm rebuilding an engine one piece at a time, making sure I fully understand the function of each piece and how it all ties together.
>cooking
>fishing
>getting drunk and high
Does vidya count?
>>27311830
This ain't bad, man. I've been on multiple tours but I'd definitely stick around for your set. Just keep keeping on.
>>27309447
i havent done it yet, but i'm considering brewing beer, other than that i don't do much besides shit post
I started a garden last month. I've been growing radishes and cucumbers. After you plant it's really just daily watering and treating for pests. I honestly look forward to seeing my little dudes progress every day, and it feels like I'm accomplishing something.
I listen to folk music and try to fit it to my mood
listening to songs best on how you feel in the moment is a nice feel
I play some vidya and read as well but I really haven't been feeling it for the past few weeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6sddgRP820
>>27318420
gardening is a GOAT hobby anon, keep that shit up
I collect books. I know collecting is seen as pretty low-tier in terms of hobbies, but it's one of my favorite things and consistently makes me happy.
I'm keeping a photo diary of hauls now, which is also pretty fun. I've had 49 hauls since November 18th, ~150 books. I have about 1,150 total right now, including manga, which I recently pruned down. Pic is what came in the mail today.
I collect a lot of specific publishers, like Wakefield Press and Twisted Spoon Press, and also a lot of publisher series, like I'm hunting down all the Masterworks of Ukiyo-e series right now. I try to limit myself to spending $100 a month on books at most, or it'd get out of hand.
>>27309447
>What are your hobbies /r9k/ ?
none i stayed all day here on 4chan getting mad at baits
>Competitive Fighting Games
Specifically Guilty Gear and Blazblue.I spend time watching high level japanese arcade footage and taking notes. I go to tournaments....Im actually pretty decent.
>>27312062
>Now at 24
I'm the same age as you. Out of curiosity do you have a post-secondary education? Wondering how far behind I am and if I'm a lost cause>tfw can never outlift autism
>>27318968
how much do local tournies pay out these days? do they even have prizes?
>>27318420
I am both jealous and inspired
