For example, I play the drums and tend to think of myself as a drummer. Do you love games, consider yourself a gamer? Are you a chef, a bodybuilder, maybe an artist? What is it that you love to do?
I just wanna get high. Skydiving, paramotoring, base…
Ahh… So that’s why your face is red.
Does it help to run at the birds?
Or does it help to run from birds with cameras?
“bird photography” implies otherwise, sir or ma’am.
Shush. Don’t confuse me with facts.
I’m an archaeology & history enthusiast. I like the term “past-o” but I live in the US and few people get a deep cut reference to a british comedy show.
I just love the variety of human responses to existing in the world, I can’t help but bring it up all the time and I feel like it colors my perspective of the present and what’s possible.
I’ve never heard past-o before but I kinda dig it! I don’t know the reference at all though, so I totes get why you wouldn’t use it much 😅
That’s a Peep Show reference, right?
Regardless, that’s straight up my all-time favorite show - especially as a fellow past-o. Mark’s historical references to his own life are fantastic. It’s crazy that the show isn’t more popular here in North America. My wife got me into it years ago, but literally no one I’ve mentioned it to in person has ever even heard of it.
Yeah, especially with Olivia Coleman’s popularity and consistently amazing performances, I’d think it’d be more popular. It’s a lot of neurotic English awkwardness to withstand though, I suppose.
Mark’s historical references are all so funny. Johnson and Super Hans are both hilarious - every single word they say. My wife and I love how awful Elena is, she’s just the worst.
The WW2 re-creationist episode and the wedding episode are some of the best written episodes of TV I think. Right up there with the Simpsons’ Cape Feare or Futurama’s War is the H-Word for me.
I study rhetoric as a hobby and think of myself as a writer sometimes.
Outdoorsman here. I’ve tried a lot of things outdoorsy but never hunting. Fly fishing is my passion now. Used to be overnight backpacking or paddling trips but it gets harder as I get older. The great outdoors gave me a purpose when I badly needed one thirty years ago
I really identify with instruments as well, my drummer friend. I would call myself a guitarist, mainly, but I can play drums and produce music as well so maybe I could expand that title to just ‘musician’. Keep on slamming those skins.
Oh hell yeah! Guitar is my second instrument, I’m not nearly as good at it as drums but it’s really fun too! I can’t produce at all though yet, my experiments there have been a disaster 😅
I’m curious though, what kinda music do you tend to gravitate towards?
Honestly, metal and hardcore music is my bread and butter, but I am pretty ADHD when it comes to music. I’ve also made hip hop beats, and edm tracks. I listen to just about anything except pop and country(I love some bluegrass and hyperpop though).
I am like the opposite to you where I am not nearly as good at drums as I am on guitar, but drums are so much fun. What kind of music do you like to play and listen to?
It’s mostly just metal or rock for me lol. I don’t branch out much to be honest, I listen to some punk, hip hop, and pop too, but not a lot. I don’t think I really dislike much of anything though, I’ve gotten a lot more tolerant of country after being made to listen to it in the car a bunch 😝
Kite flyer, kite maker.
I’ve been flying multi-line, controllable sport kites for over half of my life. I attend kite festivals very frequently and occasionally travel throughout the US or internationally for kite festivals.
About 6 years ago, I started building my own sport kites. Now days, I have a workshop with 5 sewing machines, 2 3d printers, and other equipment, all of it revolving around kite making.
I can’t really imagine my life without kites involved.
Neat! With a workshop like that is it your job too or does it remain hobby/side pursuit.
I know a few people who have setup workspace for fishing and fishing related thing (lures, rods, etc) but still do it on the side.
It’s still a side pursuit. I have a full time job as a software engineer. I do sell the kites I make on occasion, but I have no intention of making it a proper source of income.
Oh awesome, that sounds super neat! If you have the time and energy at some point I’d love to hear more. Especially about what you do with fire, I’m intrigued 😁
I’m a nerdy hippie! I love video games and random facts, but I’ll talk for hours about psychedelics and go to music festivals and talk about how opening it is. I play percussion, but it feeds into the hippie vibe I try to convey. :)
I love to ride and rebuild motorcycles. It’s so satisfying getting a crusty old bike and making it a reliable machine again.
It does influence how I think of myself. I’m proud of being able to disassemble and reassemble an entire motorcycle.
It’s an amazing feeling going down the highway on two wheels, knowing that the machine underneath me used to be a pile of parts in boxes.
The Zen and art of motorcycle maintenance.
I totally get this one, my dad had a motorcycle shop before he retired. I’ve heard a lot about working on motorcycles growing up, it sounds really rewarding.
I need to get a bike again, I miss riding. Way more fun than driving a car!
My main fixation is developing a tabletop role playing game. I’m not a game developer by profession, but I’m definitely one by practice at this point.
After a year of work, our game is getting close to release, and I’m so excited to see what I do with my time after it does.
I have a lot of hobbies, so I’m not worried, but I’m looking forward to whatever comes next. I hope to keep up with game development, but I think it’ll be a relief to change things up.
If anyone’s interested, the game has a community at slrpnk.net/c/fullyautomatedrpg .
I collect flashlights and am registered as a flasher…
Hell yeah, same same. I think my favorites are the Lumintop FW3A and the Reylight Lanapple.
I love password generators, and so I use them to generate unique usernames for everything online.
