I’ve been golfing (yea, I am aware that the majority of Lemmy hates golf) a lot more recently. I enjoy that it’s something that can be done with people of varying skill levels while still being fun. Ultimately, the competition is just with yourself to keep improving.

It’s so ruinously expensive that I can’t afford any vices.

Plants don’t have opinions and flowers are pretty.

Sailing, because it’s dozens of hobbies in one: It’s a competitive sport either with a team or solo, or it can be a relaxing diversion, or it can be a terrifying personal challenge. It can encompass skills such as sewing, woodworking, machining, plumbing, physics, mathematics, design, navigation, radio communication, astronomy, meteorology, geography, geology, environmental sciences, electronics/electrical engineering, history, linguistics, culinary skills, and more. You can basically always be thinking about it!

The primary technique is stabbing.

I make felt sculptures.

That I don’t need to do it if I don’t want to.

I can make up my own songs with lyrics that I want to sing.

Lately I’ve been working on one called “these people are nuts”.

It’s how I’ve made like 80% of my friends.

One of my biggest hobbies right now I’d better explain before I answer. I make Saturday morning cartoon clipshows for my wife and kid, which has been going for about a year and a half. I have a whole spreadsheet of almost 90 shows and a roughly equal number of indie animators I follow. I also grab occasionally like, old Fleischer studios stuff. Last weekend I included “Bimbo’s Initiation” for example. My spreadsheet tracks what episode we’re on, when it was last shown, and various notes for when I want to arrange shows together by some theme, e.g. giant robots or animal characters. I also sometimes sneak weird little videos into the commercial breaks. I have a media server with about 6Tb of shows, shorts, music videos, and misc footage.

My favourite thing about it is a bit of two different things - I get to share my TV with my kid, and I also end up seeing a lot of new shows and gaining an appreciation for the great work being done still, which keeps me from being jaded. It tends to concentrate nearly all our screen time into a single block during the weekend, so the TV we do watch is extremely varied, thoughtfully chosen, and always fresh. The first season of Owl House took us about a year to get through. Even though we could, we do nearly zero binge watching. My kid’s media diet is probably more interesting and varied than anyone’s I’ve ever met, and it’s because I spend hours every week gathering, planning, editing, and rendering highly curated content. And we make it an event, with big bougie brunch style breakfasts and a projector that takes up the whole wall. It’s fucking peak, man.

Gooning? It’s just a nice, relaxing way to spend 8 hours

Well I got to play my synthesizers on stage last night so that was cool

Researching arcane historical facts, to help make plot twists more plausible.

It’s straight forward you just run

The people.

Boardgame fans are often very smart and aware.

The fact that I can simply practice and aim high and slowly crawl my way forward improving technique and skill. (Guitar)

I’m 30+ now and feel just as capable as ever to learn new songs, solos and techniques.

I recorded this video a couple days ago after about an hour of learning the solo from square one. Mind you it’s a solo I’ve been listening to for over 20 years and can hum it like its second nature. Lets just say I started from square two then lol