Mine is comics. It was a fluctuating hobby since childhood but it finally ended for good this year. I just couldn’t get into them again and didn’t dedicate any amount of time to indulge on what I had around me. Like I used to have a stack of Hellblazer comics, I had a couple of Spider-Gwen graphic novels, a few Batman ones including A Death in the Family and Frank Miller’s Dark Knight graphic novels.
But regardless, nothing stuck anymore. I’ve actually grown exhausted by how overwhelming the comic ecosystem has gotten, even when trying to take it in moderately. I got tired of continuity fractures in many characters that I liked, I got tired of the pointless power-leveling debates between which versions of characters, I never really liked overpowered characters to begin with and I haven’t even scratched the surface as to how politically and socially involved comics has gotten into. And I’m so over with overly redundant story tropes and all of these multiverses and alternate universes that are just used as lazy writing pathways to excuse writers who’ve cornered themselves and are afraid to stick to bold, coherent arcs of some characters.
I hadn’t even touched also on the many, many movies that we’ve been seeing released. Not to mention how many blown chances that has happened because of politics and shit.
So many things that contributed to me just exiting myself from comics entirely, I donated nearly all of the comics I had and then some. I still stick with manga volumes because those are a little different to me than traditional comics, so I have a handful of those around.
I don’t foresee myself coming back to the comic universe any day soon.
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Comics aren’t just Marvel and DC. Check out Image, Boom Studios, Ablaze, Oni, and whatever the hell Vertigo is now. Pick up Something is Killing the Children or Department of Truth (both by James Tynion, but I like most everything he does). Look for Hopeless Savages and We Only Find Them When They’re Dead. Go read Scott Pilgrim, Locke and Key, Deadly Class, Resident Alien, Die, or Phonogram. There is so much out there that doesn’t have to do with dudes in tights fighting each other. You’ve got a lot to explore once you get away from Summer Crisis Events.
No.
Gaming, it’s so hard not to view it as a complete waste of time at my age. But all my social life is driven through it. So I’m playing games to hangout with friends but the entire time I’m bored of the game and resenting spending my time and energy on it.
I’ve found that it’s specifically long games I hate. I don’t have 60 hours to devote to some JRPG anymore like I did in high school. I walked away from both Baldur’s Gate 3 and FF VII remake for this. Also in BG3’s case, they frontload a ton of decision making, specifically character creation, that I can’t be bothered to slog through, especially when I have no idea what half the options are.
Now I love playing games I know I can finish in one or two sittings. Gato Roboto is an excellent example of a game that doesn’t overstay its welcome. Old NES and Game Boy games as well. The first Portal is also nice and compact.
I stopped doing Brazilian JiuJitsu after I got injured like 3 times over 6 months where as I’ve been lifting weights for 15 years and haven’t gotten injured once. It was fun but I don’t want to do it at the expense of my health. Also there’s always the one guy who takes it too seriously and ruins it for everyone else.
Gaming is another one. I get into it for a month about once a year but I’m just not particularly drawn to it anymore.
Magic the Gathering. I love the game but it just seems that something always take priority. Hanging out with my wife, working on the house, or playing video games with some friends of mine.
I’m glad that I’ve stayed away from the release cycle of a new set every month. That would have been tiring.
I’ve defintely stopped reading the comic universes because it gets too much. You can’t just grab a new issue and read it anymore. Doesn’t matter whether marvel or DC. Every comic is connect to 20 other comics and you need to read Deadpool, Dr Strange and 10 others in order to have the back story of one Spiderman issue. When I read comics it’s the independent artists that can finish a story within one or two volumes. Same goes for SciFi and Fantasy novels. Too many SciFi novels out there that are this epic 20 volume complex world building saga. Just give me a story that is finished in one book.
Also knitting. Good yarn has become so expensive.
I was super into the Star wars unlimited tcg, but I’ve really fallen off. Just didn’t find the play lines interesting. Now I’m getting back into Netrunner which you can play for free online.
Omg netrunner is the best card dueler I’ve ever played! I only played the physical version for like 2 years but it blew me away with it’s level of asymmetry and innovative mechanics that blended right in with the theme.
Not a huge fan of how bloated the card pool became and how they shifted away from the bluffing aspect of the game in later sets.
Hope they do an official reboot at some point!
I mean I guess technically racing motorcycles. However it’s more of a circumstance thing, getting back into it would take, pretty easily, almost $10k. So I’m getting into MTB and BMX instead now. I absolutely will be back into it the second I’m able to though, up until very recently, I’d spent more years on a motorcycle than off of one. Age 4 to probably 23 I raced. 0-4 and 23-35 I haven’t. Miss it dearly every day, but I’m still very involved in it when I can watch it in-person.
Tbh, more less gaming
I would game all day and night but these days , I just have no energy for games and would blatantly decline invitations regarding it ()
I feel the same. Not the energie, more that i cant be bothered anymore. Even single player doesnt feel fun anymore. And it just…happened out of no where
Gaming.
Don’t have the mental energy for it anymore… depression…
I’ve been away from ham radio for a while now. Thanks to hanging out with primarily older hams I know this is a common thing. I know folks who got licensed as kids, got out of it for 30 years, then came back after they retired. Unfortunately the hobby is extremely expensive so there’s a a temptation to force myself into it because I spent all this money. Right now I’m just looking at other areas within the amateur radio space that I haven’t explored, like radio direction finding (aka fox hunting).
As for comics, I can’t possibly imagine enjoying them. I like deep, and more importantly consistent, worldbuilding more than characters, so the constant reboots and alternate continuities would frustrate me. I bounced hard off of Transformers because it’s merch driven and it shows in the messy lore.
I’ve only seen one Marvel movie (Iron Man 2) and I’m still exhausted by osmosis. Luckily it seems like this nearly two decade long trend is finally dying. I count the start of the superhero movie trend with the first X-men movie. The fad was already getting old in the mid 2000s, and I can’t believe it managed to last this long.
I’m quite currious (not enough to get into the hobby) what does one do with Ham radio? Is it just talking to other people over the radio or what?
Mostly, though you have to remember ham radio is the progenitor of all the other electronics hobbies. RadioShack was founded all the way back in the 1920s, and is named thus because a shack is where you put your radio equipment, even if it’s just a table in the corner of the living room. Casual intercontinental communication was out of reach of most until the internet, and casual mobile communication until CB radio, which was itself repurposed spectrum formerly occupied by hams. Older folks are still in it for the “talk around the world” angle, but younger hams have other motivations now that it’s no longer novel.
It’s a broad hobby. I myself enjoy satellite communications as well as packet radio. I got a web server working over VHF AX.25. There’s also AREDN and other mesh networks like Meshtastic.
In the end the best way I’ve heard the hobby summed up is “It doesn’t matter what we’re communicating, only that we communicate”. Having a robust globe-spanning network of stations that uses no intervening infrastructure has an appeal all its own. I like the fact that I can generate a varying voltage in a long copper wire that induces the same varying voltage in another long copper wire somewhere halfway around the world with no cell towers or satellites.
I haven’t been on the air in a while either. My dipole antennas are out of commission right now because the stakes came out of the ground, and now I have my antennas tangled in the tree and I will need to take them down in order to untangle them.
If you are into HF, we are basically at solar maximum right now, so it is a great time to get some DXing in.
Anything to do with Warhammer 40k after being into it for decades, even playing competitively, going to the big info dump events, weekly gaming with friends, etc.
I still have all my models, tens of thousands of points in multiple armies, just lost all desire to play with the newer rulesets as they became too simplified and even more focused on buffing the latest new shiny models stats. Plus latest models are often very limited poses, sure the overall detail is up but the scope for personalization is way down without major work.
Then due to infighting the Horus Heresy line of rules and models got intentionally road blocked after Blighs death, which I had been relying on as a more crunchy outlet and to protect my investment in my models.
Oh, and they started the long road to sunset normal Marine models, which when you have over 50k points of marines you collected and painted over the past 35 years stings more than a little.
For the company its been an enormous success, sales are hugely up, so I don’t begrudge them too much after the mismanagement of Kirby post LotR.
movies, performances, restaurants, basically anything involves going out and spending money
they all go way too expensive to justify anymore. everything is like $100 minimum to leave the house. even a coffee and a pastry is now 10-15 dollars and all the cafes near me have like 15m seating time limits they enforce.
i miss being able to spend an afternoon someplace for like 20 bucks. so now i’m either in the woods, which is still free, or at home cooking and watching TV
15 minutes sitting time limits, wtf. In Spain they would go broke in a week.
I may take long breaks, but I’ve never fully given up on a hobby.
Stepmania but only because I need a new pad now that the old one is too much a pain in the ass to fix and have it working properly.
Any ideas where to get a good pad? I had ordered one but the pads were actually depressable buttons so it was kinda hard to actually play on it, super tiring.
I’ve had my eye on a L-tek recently
I highly recommend L-TEK if your budget allows: https://www.iamats.com/
I have one for DDR and one for PIU, both have been great.
I’ve been looking at them for months and I still don’t understand the difference between the three models, prime, core, pro.
Any advice would be appreciated
The main difference seems to be that the Prime model includes start/select buttons. I use a keyboard for navigation so that hasn’t been a big deal for me, mine is the EX Pro. There’s a detailed comment here for additional differences (sorry it’s on reddit): https://old.reddit.com/r/DanceDanceRevolution/comments/1iqrrtn/new_and_clueless/md33x8k/
Thanks that was very helpful. So the pro is a previous model with core and prime being the current ones.
I also use a keyboard for navigation, I guess I’ll be fine with the core then. Thanks again, I’ll probably get one soon.
i collected comics when i was a kid in the 90s. i quit because of all the “see issue #x from this totally different series!” footnotes. when i’m reading a story, i want the whole story. having to hunt down multiple issues from years ago (pre-internet, mind you) in order to be in the loop of what’s going on gets old quick.
i dropped comics, and then guitar became my new obsession for a couple decades. really want to pick it back up again
