I don’t regularly watch any of it whether normal weekly show or special event, but wrestling. I still read up news and stuff about wrestling but I can barely consider myself a fan.
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Dating and relationships.
Used to be something I put a lot of effort into and it was kinda fun, now not fun anymore so there is no point in putting effort in.
Formula 1. Watched it religiously for many years then the regulations got weird so my interest started waning. I check in from time to time but the last race I watched was around 5 years ago.
World of Warcraft, I think? I think I outgrew it in a way because currently thinking of playing WoW feels better than actually doing it.
Retail wow kinda sucks it’s just one big chore. I am actually looking forward to wow forever. It seems so chill.
I dont play Rust anymore but I do watch some Rust YouTubers to help remind me why I don’t play rust anymore
Same with DotA for me. Used to play a lot, but then it just became a chore. The community was (is) shit, Valve doesn’t care about DotA, and the meta doesn’t change often enough. The game is slow and lacks innovation. There’s only one supported e-sports version of DotA and it barely changes.
Now I just watch once in a while, but mostly it’s in the background to make noise.
I tend to circle back to stuff but have like a million things open that aren’t what I’m into right this moment
That being said, what a fucking excellent question, 10/10
Cars. I used to know all the models and their figures, like combustion chamber volumes. Now I still like cars as kinda closed, autonomous systems that are super complicated but an amalgamation of design and functionality. But I also hate them because they are loud, dangerous and because of them our cities and landscapes are plastered with concrete and tar that heat up, are ugly, prevent plants to grow and make cities less walkable.
video games in general. there was a time when video games were my number one hobby by a huge margin. if i had free time i was playing a game, and the only times i would do something else were when i burned myself out or finished something and didnt have anything else to play yet. im not entirely sure what changed over the past decade or so but i slowly stopped finding games engaging enough to hold my interest. i kept trying new games hoping something would hit the way it used to, and sometimes id find that for a while, but now most games i cant play for more than an hour before i get bored and drop them forever. its kind of sad because i used to get so much joy from video games and now i just dont.
Same here, could be just depression or having other stress in life. Every now and then though I do find an absolute gem of a game I can sink hours into (before dropping it again).
This weekend I actually managed to finally get some people together for Meccha Chameleon and we had a blast, played for about 5 hours :)
I used to be on a bowling team with my mates. We’d bowl 2 or 3 times a week, (practice and league)
i moved to another city and dont really have anyone to bowl with so i basically havent played for years.
But i still keep tabs on the latest tech and professional results. Still on a bowling subreddit since there’s nothing on the fediverse
I keep telling myself i will get back into it.
I haven’t played R6 Siege since around Ace and the secondary hard breach. Still following a few Siege News channels to see what the game is like nowadays.
Building PCs. I used to find cheap PC parts and throw together a slowish, but functional computer for the fun of it. I built a few computers for “word of mouth” customers.
I got into other things, and lost touch with the previous clients.
I decided to get back into it a few years ago because my parents needed a new machine. I had to do quite a bit of research, and things were way more expensive than they had any right to be (this was even before the RAMpocalypse), but I got it done. It was still fun, but I realized it’s not something I want to spend a lot of time doing anymore. I still try to follow all of the tech news/tips/reviews, just in case, though.
Similar. I am/was the go to for my family regarding technology. Last year my uncle asked me about laptops for her daughter that was about to enter college and I had no idea. I have been using an inexpensive core i3 for the past 7 years with linux for my personal laptop and my work changes me my laptop wave 2 or 3 years but it is so bloated that it never feels fast and I no longer have any idea about the trends or requirements nowadays
I used to have 2 custom PCs and upgraded them little by little every time I found something interesting on sale
bio field(although i never tried to get into plants bio, i keep up on new discovery of specific type of plant lineages
). RS, not old, i dont like playing that version(i played it when it was only rs out there and dint like the grindy nature), i got burned out from just doing premiere early in the pandemic to about 1-2years ago, then the dailypocalypse happened and theres less motivation(they dint exactly replace it with something of equal value, just because people wanted mtx gone, the unintetionally side effect was eliminating all “time gated content”, could not start another game to play long term due to current issues.
i used to follow some youtubers once, but once they turned heel and thier channel declined most of the fans left, but we keep tabs via the sub on how they are declining overtime.
D&D. I’d love to play again, but reality is, I haven’t in years. But I do enjoy keeping up with the culture.
It’s such an awesome hobby, but I burn out way too quickly, especially as DM. You prepare each session for several hours, then the session itself takes 4+ hours easily. Super fun, but on a schedule it starts to feel like work.
That’s the hardest part. Good luck finding a consistent 4-6 hour window that is convenient for everyone.
As someone who learned on AD&D 2nd Edition, I gotta say, I find the 5th Edition rule sets (very annoying that there’s two versions. again) painfully slow and tedious to play. The rule set and focus has shifted from large-scale battles with dozens of participants and 3-4 armies to smaller encounters of only two teams and 4-6 participants on each team. Just one large-scale encounter on the 5e rule set would probably take multiple sessions.
The culture and the way people play has also changed dramatically. Pencil, paper, and dice used to be all you need, but is seen as “inadequate” now. Terrain, D&D Beyond, and miniatures are the new standard. Everyone uses a tablet or laptop and browses Reddit between turns. Every turn is treated as an opportunity in the spotlight to have their big moment of the session.
I hate to sound like a boomer, but this new stuff ain’t it.
As someone who also knows how to calculate THAC0, I respectfully disagree. I won’t argue with anything you said, because those are valid points. Just a difference in play style.
Back in the day, we simply skipped, simplified or avoided any of the more complex formulas. We wanted to keep the party moving, and I think the new rules do that better. Roll a 20, high is good, low is bad. That’s all you need to know, and you can focus more on coming up with creative, fun solutions rather than worrying about all the modifiers and restrictions that limit what you can do.
I don’t think we ever ran any real large scale battles, or, if we did, they just got zoomed in. (There’s a massive battle going on around you, this is the tiny portion of it on front of you, and the DM will tell you how the rest plays out).
I think that’s just the consequence of popularization. Everyone watched Critical Role and expects production quality from their DMs. I play Pathfinder and still just use paper and pen. They call it “theatre of the mind” now lol
I used to be big into cars, but they got too complicated, expensive, and I just need something that works reliably, and I don’t have space for a project car. Also I think new cars are way too expensive, but I still like seeing the new tech and what different manufacturers are making.
I used to shoot and reload ammo multiple times a week. I still have everything, but it mostly collects dust. I go skeet shooting maybe twice a year and deer hunting for a week. Besides also getting pretty expensive, the majority of people I run into are, shall we say, not my type of people these days. So I typically don’t want to spend time around anyone at the range. My club membership is like $30/yr, is 5 minutes from my house, and I can bust clays with my brother now and then and make sure the deer rifle is sighted in, and that’s good for me.
I still enjoy watching histories of weapons and ammo development because I learn a lot of world history and see some cool engineering. Most GunTubers also suck though.
I follow a lot of music production and guitar things to see all the new gear. I only ever learned the basics of guitar and bass, and now I play piano and the linear layout of things makes more sense to my brain. Guitar has by far the coolest gear and gizmos though, so I still check out all that stuff. I’d like to check out all these amp modelers, but I don’t own a computer, so there’s that. 😂
Making music. I’ve been collaborating with a buddy off and on, but I used to have a strong drive to work on music daily and now I’m just passively consuming media and generating little creative output. I watch from the sidelines when cool new tools warrant a look, but I wish I still had the drive.
:( Same here. I have slowly been trying to get my gear set up in a new space again, but have trouble feeling the drive to actually write/record anything.
Playing instruments. Too tired, and it’s always a pain to set up. If I had everything right there ready to play maybe I would do it more… but piano keyboard needs a lot of space, and configuring 3 finicky software on my connected PC each time takes time (custom sound font and falling notes instructions app)
