What is your gamer stereotype breaking hobby?

[Yokta]

Sadly, I am currently the living embodiment of gamer stereotypes. I'm socially awkward, unfit, unclean, bespectacled, surviving on junk food and the occasional sammich, living with my mother, and let's not forget the odd perversion here and there.
Check back with me in a few months and I might know how to make electronic music. I'm interested in an October course, so... there's that.

 

[SageRuffin]

I [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1B2oO6D1ps] listen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88uc-_nifAU] to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T6-AKpgxT0] copious [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPRKsKwEdUQ] amounts [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsO6ZnUZI0g] of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbEwHJX95QE] rap [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uRA3uO97Pc] music [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4o8TeqKhgY]. :3 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKTUAESacQM]

To add to all that, I'm in the military [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v602/Ruffin316/CeremonialSage.jpg] (US Air Force... that pic's like 5 years old), and I tend to dress [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v602/Ruffin316/DSCN1380.jpg] like [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v602/Ruffin316/DSCN1449.jpg] this [http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x326/SageRuffin/Magfest%20XI/DSC_0020_zpsb62111fe.jpg] on a daily basis.

 

[Asmundr]

I have a healthy social life, a girlfriend, I play sports, and engross my self in political, religious, and philosophical debates. I'm also and avid fisherman, love firearms, and enjoy exploring the natural world as much as I do the digital ones.

The latter comes in very handy when I do meet people that will try to box me in with a gamer stereotype. It is very funny when you have some poor guy cast disapproving eyes on me after overhearing me talking about playing Monster Hunter or EVE Online; only to then be surprised when I can jump into HIS conversation and hold my own with his own topic. Bonus laughs when this happens and I'm dressed in baggy clothes, have messy hair, a look genuinely like a few other stereotypes.

Gotta love shattering peoples preconceptions and misconceptions xD

 

[Zen Bard]

Looks like the majority of the Escapist Community breaks the stereotype.

Perhaps the new stereotype should be "Not Being Stereotypical of the Stereotype."

As for me, I'm forty, trained Muay Thai for years, currently practice parkour and have been playing guitar since I was twelve.

Oh, and I'm married to a cute blonde chick.

Suck on THAT, Gamer Stereotype!

 

[SilkySkyKitten]

Admittedly, gaming is probably the only thing I could call a "hobby" at the moment. That being said, though, I do also really like playing airsoft, building model cars/planes as well as faffing about with model trains. Plus I sometimes draw, and cooking I do enjoy from time to time.

As for interests that might not fit the "gamer" stereotype: I do have a strange fascination with trains. Plus, I can be a bit of an aviation nerd, and I do have a passive interest in cars. I also am a massive gun nerd, to the point that I sometimes irritate people around me with how I can nitpick every little tiny detail movies, tv shows, video games, etc. etc. get wrong in regards to guns. Plus, I'm a guy and have a boyfriend. Might not be too weird, but considering the stereotypical "gamer" is homophobic as fuck it seems, that certainly breaks the stereotype.

Oh, and I have a massive fascination with British microcomputers from the 80's like the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and the Commodore 64. Might not seem too weird since I mainly want to collect those things for gaming purposes. However, considering those three examples I used weren't very popular on my side of the Atlantic, and the fact that I wasn't even alive during the 80's; it still might be considered a bit odd.

 

[cojo965]

Well I airsoft. As a matter of fact, my gear is kind of like a car to a motor-head. Between excursions to the field I'm looking for ways to improve my loadout. It is fun.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

I'm really into rap. I'm recording with some friends who are trying to start up a production company with a bunch of rappers from my town. My rap tends to be political.

I play guitar too but I feel like that's more common among gamers.

 

[Darklord008]

Sports. All of the sports. I played football for 3 years in high school, and I still play golf and soccer when I get the chance. I'll watch pretty much any sporting event put in front of me, which makes this a good time to be me, with Confederations Cup and World Cup qualifying soccer, NBA and NHL finals, and it's the middle of baseball season.

 

[Artorius]

I go dj-ing in a local club every other month.
not to mention i occasionally stream some sets on the net

 

[HellbirdIV]

My hobbies include video games, tabletop games, drawing and writing.

I literally have NO hobbies whatsoever that do not fall under the "Nerd" umbrella.

 

[Arduras]

I Volunteer as an Emergency Rescuer and Spend time with my Girlfriend/friends.
Ohh and adventure sports

 

[NSGrendel]

Having sex with attractive women.

 

[NSGrendel]

Oh and I also post in internet threads without any expectations or interest in accrued popularity.

 

[thewatergamer]

I do prefer to stay home alot and just play games (but only because I don't know many people that actually play video games)

But I really enjoy reading, as well as I go for a walk every day with my dog,

not to mention I take care of a group of animals, including cats and chickens.

 

[comraderichard]

Political activism, I'm very vocal about my views on...everything so I guess in a way you could consider me the gaming equivalent of a preacher sans the religious aspect. I'm not sure if that's a good thing, but I like angry arguments and deep discussions so it's arguably fine in my books. I'm also trying to start a Summer business involving odd jobs focusing on menial work (gardening, moving things, digging up things, chopping things down, mowing lawns, weed whacking, etc.) and I don't know many gamers who do that. Sadly the reason I'm doing that is because I otherwise fit the gamer stereotype pretty well.

Oh, and I have a pet cat that I love and treat as my own son (if you own a pet you know this sentiment probably) annnnnd I just love interacting with animals that get along with us humans.

 

[TIMESWORDSMAN]

Can you believe some people don't want to cook?!

Madness. What sort of stuff do you cook? Also, who is hostile about it?! Are you especially young or something? At my age, it's not unusual to have an hour-long conversation about cheese.

I live in Montana, a state that was once called "The Land of the Bland". I once had someone ask me: "Why cook when you could go to McDonalds?". We do not speak anymore.

I mostly enjoy cooking meats, and experimenting with spices from all around the world. In practice, there's nothing I wouldn't try once.

What kind of cheese do you think pairs best with fresh apples?

 

[Shaun Chang-Time]

im a soccer fanatic i play for a local amateur team and play futsal, also love martial arts been doing different styles since i was a kid but at the moment training in brazilian jiu jitsu.....funny thing is though most people wouldnt even think im a gamer by just looking at me lol

 

[Jubilant]

Uhh... I... write? I also like gardening a lot...

 

[90sgamer]

I drive a race car as a hobby, with some light competition thrown in this year. I do fairly well.

 

[Wolfeyes555]

I like to cook.

And it's not a hobby exactly but I have an almost unhealthy obsession with Project Runway. I'm not even all that into fashion, there's just something about Project Runway I love. .... still bitter that Gretchen won season 8 and not Mando.