What are your hobbies, other than gaming?

[LHZA]

Writing (a little each day, mostly fiction, some non-fiction)
Gym (4x a week)
Acting (I've been in 4 plays now. I also review local theatre for a blog, which relates to my hobbie for writing)
Reading (mostly news articles, but read novels when I'm not in school)
Movies (total film buff, particularly 70's cinema)

 

[RobDaBank]

Muay Thai Boxing. Already an instructor, looking to open a club more local to me since theres nothing for people to do in the area.

Jogging, now the weathers picking up I'll be out alot more.

Though I have no mechanical knowledge, I love cars, more specifically (tastefully) modified cars. Am looking to buy a VW Transporter and convert it to a street van with a TV and Xbox360 in the back for my son to play on. Already built this kinda stuff before, just for paying customers, not myself.

Finally Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Or at least I was untill my friends stopped playing years ago. Keep seeing booster packs and thinking 'Maybe I should search for any players online' but never get round to it... maybe I'll do it now. pm me if you're in the Barnsley area of the U.K folks!

 

[ks1234]

Hmmm... Let's see-
I guess first and foremost, my biggest hobby is working out... I love to workout and change my body, set new goals and achieve them, it's the most addictive thing ever.
Second, I love to cook, I can cook a lot of different stuff as long as it's healthy and I can make said health food taste suprisingly good.
Third, Probably building computers, I really do love building my own PC's or working on others computers... it's quite fun.
Fourth, Although I don't do this as much as I used too, I love reading novels... I just don't have the time anymore, I should get back into doing that. lol
Fifth, Listening to the radio (talk shows mainly)
Sixth, Cleaning the house... I dislike for my house to be dirty.
Seventh, Running and biking but that's kind-of covered in number one.

 

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

Warhammer 40k: Obviously has a huge presence on the site. I used to have a large points, artillery focused Imperial Guard army, which is no more due to economic concerns. Lately I've been looking to get back into it, however.

I do admit the Dawn of War series has peeked my interest, but only in the design of the units and such.

Magic: Started this fairly recently, around the release of Innistrad, but I've been sucked in. Admittedly, my decks aren't terribly good yet, but I have good fundamentals and I do extremely well in closed drafts. Can't wait for Avacyn in a few weeks, finally have the impetus to make a mono white deck for standard. Like 40k, this is expensive as hell.

Lolwut?

Anime: Another popular one. While I have always had a liking for series such as Fullmetal Alchemist and Trigun, it was only the last few years I became a truly hopeless Otaku. I've devoured the last few seasons of content, and I no longer have the bias that led me to favor dubs in years previous. I find I no longer have the patience to wait for a series to be dubbed in any case. Regardless, thank Tzeentch for Crunchyroll.

Lol, no.

Science Fiction and Fantasy: I read an average of thirty novels a year, and the vast majority are Science Fiction and Fantasy. ASOIF, Wheel of Time, Harry Turtledove, SM Stirling, John Birmingham, damn near every Warhammer 40k book you can imagine. I love nothing more than a well thought out world and great characters, and just behind those are the great ideas that propel the true classics of the genres.

The only fictional universe I've been able to immerse myself in was Mass Effect. I do induldge myself in my own fantasies though.

Tabletop RPGs: I imagine that this one has the widest visibility to played ratio. While many gamers know a great deal about Dungeons and Dragons and the like, from what I've seen it is a much smaller fraction who actually partake. Myself, I currently DM Dark Heresy for my friends every few weekends. Its great fun, and there is nothing like going to the crit chart only to tell the party's combat specialist that his plasma gun just exploded in his hands, killing him and knocking down everyone else, to be eaten by angry Daemons in the next turn. Good times. The game seriously has the best crit charts ever written.

Again: lol, no.

Writing: Now this is not only my hobby, it is also my chosen profession. I have quite the stable of short stories and novellas I've written over the years, and one or two might even be sent to a publisher one day. Writing is therapy for me, as much as anything else is. I just get lost in it, and hours later I often find myself in strange places of my own creation. Its pretty happy there, usually, despite it generally being a blasted warzone or a neo-noir dystopia. Whether anyone else would agree, well, I suppose I'll find out some day. And then I may well become a professional waiter, if it's not the answer I need.

I hate writing. I do though, as mentioned above, induldge myself in my fantasies


Other then video games my hobbies include:

Correcting my friends grammar on Facebook

Silently judging people

and

Thinking about the origins of the universe and the meaning of life.

I'm terribly exciting arent I?

 

[Drummie666]

I'm a snare drummer in a Scottish pipe band. I'm also one grade level away from professional level solo competition. Of course, at that level it's supposed to kinda stop being a hobby and more of a way of life. I'm still able to hold on to the hobby level, but probably not for much longer.

This year I'm going to start writing. Mainly the script for a game I've been thinking of for a few years.

I'm also going to start video reviews this year. First up is Prototype 2, which may not be a good choice as I'm very likely to enjoy it, which is never a good thing for ratings on the internet.

 

[Strazdas]

movies, music, books, technology, fantasy (like creating your own table top games with friends) and communicating with people on the itnernet (like atm)

 

[Kaltazraza]

Collecting coins.
Collecting and sorting Magic cards.
Baking.
Photography.
Reading.

 

[Zenomorph]

Mostly reading graphic novels/web comics, playing the occasional game of MTG with my friends but when its warm enough outside I usually spend some time practicing with my Bow, crossbow, and my throwing knives .... on a piece of plywood or a cardboard box and not to boast but I'm a pretty darn good shot with my bow and crossbow! I'm a decent shot with the knives especially if the target is below me and within 4 meters ... hehe so yeah Id be the scourge of feet during the zombie apocalypse if i had my knives..

 

[Parkway91]

Playing guitar in my bands.
Exploring single malt scotch whisky.
Film (currently developing my sic-fi viewing)
Fitness/Weights

 

[KefkaCultist]

Lets see...
-Magic the Gathering
-Surfing teh interwebz
-drawing
-anime
-playing guitar
-playing piano (poorly)
-archery
-collecting dragon statues
-listening to music
-going to concerts
-reading books
-reading manga
-creative writing
-d&d
-watching movies

I think that pretty much covers the main ones.

 

[Sunrider]

Music is like 80% of who I am and what I do. My main instrument is (are?) the drums. I play guitar somewhat, and a little bass too. Just recently bought a keyboard, and I am devoting as much time as I can towards that.
I'm gonna call my parents and yell at them for not forcing me to learn the piano earlier. It's pretty much the perfect instrument.

 

[Something Amyss]

You know, I've always wanted to learn the Guitar, but I have all the musical abilties of a drunk walrus. Couldn't even do the recorder in middle school, heh.

I have to say that it wasn't that hard for me to pick up guitar, even with my annoyingly crappy left hand. I'm never going to shred, but whether or not you can pick up what you want to do depends largely on what you want to do in the first place.

 

[Suncatcher]

watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (and looking through fanart and occasional high-end fanfics)
watching anime, reading manga
reading sf/f novels
playing RPGs, particularly Traveller and older editions of D&D

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

Science! Namely space science

Spoiler

Its so unreal.

Singing and Music

TV shows (Dexter, Big Bang Theory, Bones, How I Met Your Mother, Criminal Minds, Face Off)

Movies (They are making Enders Game with Asa Butterfield playing Ender)

Spoiler

Hes perfect

I also do a lot of video editing in my spare time. After Effects and Avid Media Composer mostly.

 

[doomspore98]

Watching every single zombie film ever
playing violin (been playing for 9 years)
surfing the internet
biking
reading

 

[Suncatcher]

Science! Namely space science

Spoiler

Its so unreal.

That is a thing of beauty, isn't it?