Cooking/baking: i got told i am better than my mother BY MY GRANDMA!! And i do it all rythmicly and its very theraputic

Gardening with carnivoures plants: they kill wasps and mosquitos and look pretty while at it! :D

Programming: Joy and frustration is so close by each other. Especially mod creation for eu4 frustrates me how redtrictive and cumbersome it is! Had to redo one mechanic 8 times because i cant do dynamic lists and other things!!!

Music: the vibe and letting lose becoming one

Biking: the feeling of freedom

There’s no end for computers.

I’m with my Linux build. Co-worker is proud of their windows 11 build. We can still nerd about new upgrades/optamising our separate work flows.

My hobby is building cosplay weapons/props or just building shit in general. I get to look at the thing I made and go “holy shit, I made that with my crafting skills and my own 2 hands!”. I made Guts’s sword from Berserk before and I get to swing it around. I tend to enjoy hobbies that requires hands-on work the most like woodworking, helping my dad fix engines/car/boat stuff, playing with legos, and such.

It challenges my creativity because I also like doing prop design in visual development/drawing/illustration. So when I design my own weapon(s) and I can make it into 3D art for display. My whole room will be filled with cardboard swords and guns one day.

I finally know why I am the weirdo at parties.

I wouldn’t call model railroading my main hobby, as I only touch it once in a while. But that’s also what I do love about it. You leave it packed away in a closet for YEARS, then one rainy day you stumble across those boxes & decide to unpack them. And they still work like you remember as a kid. It’s like reconnecting with an old friend.

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

Cooking: I love having friends or family come over for lunch or dinner and serving them something that they rave about.

Hiking: The quiet, still moments when there’s no-one else (other than my wife who I usually hike with) around and we can absorb the sights and sounds of nature.

Role-playing games: When the story we’re all creating together comes together perfectly.

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

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.

I basically unlock new superpowers as I work on self-servicing infrastructure

The primary technique is stabbing.

I make felt sculptures.

The people.

Boardgame fans are often very smart and aware.

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.

Making something nice out of junk and repairing things is immensely satisfying. Lately I’ve turned a fallen tree into wood shingles to clad an outbuilding and installed a reclaimed ornate window.

Getting into cooking, which is most rewarding when done with family and friends. Today’s recipe is spinach and ricotta pasta.

I love programming and there are endless things to build in that world. Currently making a log burning stove control system using an Arduino, sensors and servos.

The rest of my recreational time is spent gaming on a pc, World War Z right now, love a co-op.

Plants don’t have opinions and flowers are pretty.