Personally: Hiking, biking, photography, DnD, and fixing things.
It sounds like a lot (because it is lol) but with ADHD having a group of hobbies I can orbit around (especially if they can overlap (like these ones))can help me avoid diving into too many new hobbies.
My hobbies are making things, growing things, and learning things.
It’s the only way I can keep it to only 3 hobbies.
what kinds of things do you like to make, grow, and learn?
Everything, pretty much.
Lol I feel this
Making things, mostly.
Lots of crafts like knitting, crochet, cross stitch, sewing, felting, origami, faffing about with clay, etc etc. And gamedev which I basically think of as the same sort of hobby because it’s just making a different sort of thing.
Making YouTube videos about all of the above, in defiance of the algorithm gods.
Reading any and all scifi I can get my hands on, plus the Discworld series just over and over again endlessly on a loop.
Also the amount of time I spend on Mastodon and Lemmy probably means it counts as a rather lame hobby at this point…
I start a lot of knit and crochet things but never finish anything. Excitedly start something, work on it diligently for the first half, begin to hate it, rip it, decide it was the yarn that i hated, buy more yarn, start over on another project. How do you avoid that cycle?
I think we all do that a bit, tbh. But when I get to the “rip it” stage I just put it in a timeout box instead, work on a new thing, then usually the desire to get back to the original thing will return eventually! If it really doesn’t I’ll also frog but that’s relatively rare.
Bonus of having so many craft hobbies I guess, there’s always some other WIP to switch focus to!
For years my main hobby was guitar but in the last year I started cross stitching and I am now hopelessly addicted to it lol! I never would have guessed that would be a hobby I’d take up but I saw a pattern I liked and decided to try it once and have been doing it ever since!
D&D, 3d printing, pen turning (making pens from wood and resin, not flipping them around on my fingers), MTG, and I dabble in woodworking and occasional metal working.
FYI: 3d printing pairs really well with D&D - minis, scenery, accessories, etc. Start with a cheap SLA resin printer to print minis on, then expand to filament when you’re ready to do scenery too. I have a resin printer and two filament printers.
3D printing is great and pairs well with all my hobbies. I’ve currently got 3 printers: 2 filament printers and 1 resin printer.
It’s been quite the struggle resisting getting a small CNC at this point but the biggest hurdle is space and thankfully I haven’t fixed that hurdle yet.
Ah, good to hear! I bought a tiny desktop cnc from microcenter for like $150 and apart from setting it up and doing a test cut, I haven’t used it once. Makes me a bit sad actually.
Hell yeah that’s a damn good deal on a desktop CNC
Which one did you get?
I think it was TwoTrees brand. Tbh, it’s pretty cheapass, and the slide bearings on the spoilboard mount suck, but it runs grbl and cut a dickbutt into a 2x4, so it works at least.
The amount of dickbutts that will be cut into objects if I get a CNC will be legendary
3d printing is useful for almost any hobby if you try hard enough!
We got really into making handmade dice for a while there, and used our resin printer to make custom master dice with our logo on. And I’ve used it to print out useful bits and bobs for cross stitch too. Someone I follow on Mastodon 3d printed a sock knitting machine, that was very cool.
Truly 3d printing is the hobby that keeps giving!
Same as yours, but instead of cultivating them, I spend my time doomscrolling.
Avoiding the doomscroll is so hard a lot of days
In no particular order:
Writing
Video games
Karaoke
Commenting on Lemmy
Writing
What kind of writing?
Creative. Mostly short stories.
16h of videogames a day… I’m learning to crochet but I’m not doing as much as I should
16h‽ Damn I can’t even stay awake for 16 hours straight
Oh im taking a nap too xD
How the hell do you have time for 16 hours of video games a day?
Maker stuff in general: Woodworking, 3D Printing (including a bit of single-part CAD), laser engraving, even Cricut. Recent projects have been all about handwired keyboards, which combines several of those, and finally got me to learn just enough soldering to get by. Woodworking is currently in a lull, but it’s always the one I go back to and the one taking up the most space in the garage. I really do need to make that desk I’ve been planning for a decade, though. The Ikea trestle table has seen better days.
Oh, some light gaming (rocking an ebay RX580 on a second-gen Ryzen 5 which I massaged to be able to run Starfield enjoyably enough at 1080p), fountain pens, the aforementioned keyboards, fantasy/sci-fi media, and I’m possibly outside the usual Lemmy demographic a bit in following football (soccer) and football (gridiron) !cfb@fanaticus.social .
Synthesizers/sound design, music from extreme metal to baroque to pop, learning about anything that interests me (e.g. geography, geopolitics, world history, pop science level physics/astrophysics/paleoanthropology, religions and philosophy), the Godzilla franchise, terrible horror movies, Pathfinder 1E, and a voyeuristic curiosity surrounding conspiracy theories/the paranormal/the occult
Do you have any recommendations for starting with synths/sound design? I have just recently gotten into it and have be playing with VCV rack & watching YouTubes (been enjoying Omari Cohen’s)…but I still feel completely lost. I’m eventually hoping to get towards the generative patchs but I don’t even confident in building basic synth voices yet
Sure thing. There’s a lot to take in, I know. Just keep in mind, as with anything, the more you do it everything will begin to make more and more sense. It’s important to get through the process though. When you’re able to move through synthesis with intentionality it’s like opening up a new world with endless possibilities only bounded by your imagination and the capabilities of the synth you’re using.
This isn’t a bad video for a beginner. It covers a lot of fundamental concepts. He speaks a bit fast, so slow speed by 10% if you’re having trouble following. It’s a long video because it covers so much ground, so be ready for that. I hope it helps in your process!
Much appreciated! Yeah I have need a better understanding of the workflow before jumping into hardware. Cheers!
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Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Trying to not become homeless in the USA while having cancer.
Sorry to hear that
I was homeless for 8 years and it was hella hard
I wish you the best of luck on your recovery and keeping that roof over your head
I’m happy to hear that you escaped homelessness that and that you now have time/money for hobbies! I hope to get back there someday.
Also, just thanks for being kind.
It was honestly the second hardest thing I’ve ever done, the only thing that beats it in difficulty was beating my alcoholism
There were times where it felt all hope was lost but having even a small spark of hope was what made it possible to make it to the other side of those times
Never lose hope
Thanks again, for kind and encouraging words. You’re a good egg.
Solo game developer (and fellow ADHD-haver) here. I do the coding, 3d modelling, animations, and even a little bit of sound design. It’s all incredibly time-consuming though.
Ooh what are you on with atm? I’m embroiled in a minimalist city builder thing and just got to the part where I need to learn to animate things, which I have been full-on dreading.
I use Blender for most of my animating needs. And using Houdini Indie has helped me to start thinking about asset creation in a more procedural way, which helped when I needed to make my own building generator.
This week I’ve been trying to figure out a way to load user-created characters and skins in a multiplayer game. My character setup scripts seem to work, but still a ton of hurtles to get over.
I do sports shooting and I cycle a lot on my road bike
chess
reading
watching tv shows
is the gym and running a hobby? Idk, I also do that
All the things you mentioned, except while replacing biking with what amounts to cryptography.
I make music, primarily, but i also bounce a lot. I really love writing, which comes easier than music tho i do it less. Past that hiking is like an “as often as possible or my mind will break” thing. Even our tiny local park is nice for this purpose, but i try to get around as much as im able. I like corrupting the advertisements i get in the mail with sharpies and make them look more blinging. And satanic. Or perverted.
