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    Maybe this isn’t a hobby but just hanging out. Video games, movies, road trips, or any type of activity without it being a big deal. No agenda or expectations. Just being social. I miss that from my younger years. Now everyone is busy, tired, and getting together takes a lot of prep.

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      Basically being single, and 18 to 25 years old, about 20 years ago. I remember those days.

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      Once a year, my friends from high school and I go up to a cabin and do just that. Play games (board and video), D&d, watch movies etc. Now that we’re older we also throw some nice cuts of meat onto the smoker and eat fancier. But the nice part is being isolated from our responsibilities. We’ve been doing now for 25 years.

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        I’m currently making an Astro theme to make static sites way easier and then after that I’m probably going back to working on the API viewer I was making with Svelte, Tauri, and Rust. (Think of something like Postman but way less bloated.) I mainly just need to finish the settings and redo the data input form and then it should be ready for a first release (but it’ll still obviously be far from finished.)

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    I wish there were more normal people who play magic. Going to any shop to play is always a gamble, half the time the people you end up playing with smell bad or are socially inept, sometimes both. It’s a fun game if you have actual good people to play with.

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      I don’t play Magic, but that issue definitely overlaps with tabletop gaming. Early into my start into the hobby, I played in a public campaign at my FLGS and the whole table was kind of sad stereotypes. Thankfully on my way out that night, I met some other folks who were looking for another player in their private game and they were all more socially adept, sanitary, and welcoming.

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      I unfortunately had to stop going to our local board gaming meetup because of this.

      Most people were fine but there was this one creep who kept making weird comments if I did something like, you know, be a woman and dare to bend over to get something from a bag. And then a guy who smelled like pretty much the worst thing I’ve ever smelled and always wanted to be in the same games as me.

      I was so excited to find the group but I did not last long there.

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        I feel ya man. I refuse to play with “my mat is literal Hentai” people and “I don’t shower ever and think it’s okay to subject other people to that” people. Don’t show me your weird fetish porn when we are playing games, and don’t gas me out with your filth, because I will absolutely say something and you won’t like it.

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    Juggling. Friend decades ago taught me how to group juggle with other people. Lots of fun. But I’ve learned never to admit I’m into juggling, cuz apparently it’s serial killer weird

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      I can juggle 3 balls but no more, its quite intuitive once you try! I know 3 is basically nothing, I just learnt it when I was like 10 and never took it up.

      But that is a great hobby man, join a circus or smth idk.

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      Surely not! I play chess and I meet people who play chess everywhere, it has a sudden boom every couple of years. The queens gambit, duck chess etc.

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      Chess is everywhere now, not too long ago I saw a group of around 10 year olds all huddled around a chess board taking turns playing each other. This was in a somewhat rough neighborhood too. Was crazy, good crazy though, was a happy surprise. I’d have never have seen that growing up.

      At work we also have some college kids (15-17 yo) that do work experience with us, they’re always playing chess. And my partner works as IT at a school and she says they regularly have had the dilemma of whether or not they block chess.com because kids regularly play in class, but feel like blocking it outright would send the wrong message.

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      I have the same thing but with Go. I barely know the rules but wish I knew someone who would like to practice and learn the game together with me.
      No one in my offline life is really interested :(

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        I had a moment were i really wanted to get into fo but i could only go so far without having real life friends wanting to play

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    Learning languages. It’d be nice if I could meet people irl who are interested in learning different languages and it’d probably keep my motivation up as I’ve been slacking.

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        A few years ago I was in some discord servers for language exchange, but I had to put it all on the back burner to focus on job hunting and I lost motivation ever since, but I’m trying to reignite the flame.

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    Not claiming that there aren’t a ton of people who are into RC trucks,but no one I know is into them. Bought one about a year ago and had a blast bashing it around on the beach. It’s always cool to see others with similar interests and all the times I took it out, never saw anyone else into it.

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        Yeah it is expensive, but like a lot of things, it is as expensive as yiu want it to be. Can you go hog wild and spend many thousands? Absolutely. Do yiu need to? No, definitely not.