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Besides video/computer games, what do you do for fun or relaxation?

I watch some anime(such as Robotech, Gundam and Eureka Seven) on DVD, Paint my assembled miniatures, walk my dog, reading Novels(Battletech based novels obviously), browse the net(dur!), drawings/artwork, listen to music, and making levels/missions for various games(does this count?), making websites. That's all I can think of.

Fun? Relaxation? What's that?


Seriously, though.... I design websites for relaxation. I build database management systems for fun.

Quite sad, isn't it?

Play guitar. Read. Write code. Friends. With friends I go bowling or shoot pool or barhop, or hang out at each other's houses. (It's nice when you get old you have your own place)

I mostly draw and listen to music. Sometimes I write. Believe it or not, I also post to bulletin boards - it's great fun!

Music - anime - manga - BSing on IRC/AIM/ICQ/Forums - books - studying Japanese - movies - fixing computers - watching star trek on TV once in a while...

do 3d stuff, watch anime (naruto and bleach at the momment), helping with the cosplay stuff for ikkicon, making fun of MD-2389, and cooking wings in a deep fryer.

Badminton at open gyms with friends.

I watch TV, I discovered Scrubs a week or so ago. My god this show is funny. I read a novel at night. I'm almost done Nemesis by Asimov. I also do graphic design work on the computer.

Not only that, but I'm addicted to youtube. Save me.

Pool roller blade, mountain bikewatch hocky or F1 in hdtv

Watch the CSI marathon with my girlfriend (We're addicts), Play with the puppy dog, Read... other stuff that I can't discuss in the presence of minor's...

A lot of my past time is with Computers and Gaming though, but this thread isn't about those past times.

Ride my bike. Interval training is the best tension eliminator I know. In the spring, I am going to start racing at Dick Lane Velodrome here in Atlanta.

Fix Computers, bass guitar

Masturbate.

My favorite hobbies right now are listening to music, playing guitar, and learning Japanese. I also spend way too much time in front of the computer, reading lots of stuff.

Hmm...
Reading articles on gaming, programming, drawing, preacticing on piano, talking to girlfriend on MSN, learning Japanese, I think I'm learning Japanese, I realy.... sorry.

Read books.

Play tin whistle.
My 7 year old son is learning piano and we like to have jam sessions, he makes up part on the piano and I make up part on the whistle or fife. You, uhm, really wouldn't want to hear it, but we have a lot of fun!

Play non-computer games. Chess, Monopoly, Risk, Bonkers, Go-Fish, Memory, Cathedral, Groo, Scrabble, Yahtzee, Battleship, Checkers, Mancalla, Chinese Checkers, Stratego, Clue, Dominoes, etc.

Puzzles. Got a new 3D castle we've got to put together but we haven't finished the roof of the 3D \"Lord of the Rings Edoras\" puzzle we started on before Christmas.

Talk. It's amazing how much fun you can have just sitting around and talking to people.

You can combine the \"read a book\" and \"talk\" fun easily by getting together a group and reading a book together and then discussing/arguing about it. I do this almost every week, LOTS of fun!

The old fashioned sit around the living room with real people kind of fantasy role playing games.

I'm learning Java. So yes, I'm insane, I work at programming all day, then program in the evenings for \"relaxation\" just because I think it's fun.

And, occasionally, I participate in online forums...

Eat. Go to the bathroom.

Play guitar, work out, write, listen to music, drink/smoke with my homies. I'm also a beer pong champion.

I like playing football and baseball, camping and going to the shooting range when the weather's warm.

It's weird, I live in Denver and I'm not really big into skiing/snowboarding.

Beowulf wrote:It's weird, I live in Denver and I'm not really big into skiing/snowboarding.

I recently moved to Denver, and I'm the same. I enjoy skiing (I have yet to try snowboarding), but it's not a huge deal for me, unlike some people out here.

Kilarin wrote:Talk. It's amazing how much fun you can have just sitting around and talking to people.

You can combine the "read a book" and "talk" fun easily by getting together a group and reading a book together and then discussing/arguing about it. I do this almost every week, LOTS of fun!

Wow.
And here's me thinking that Bettina was the only woman on this forum...

TIGERassault wrote:And here's me thinking that Bettina was the only woman on this forum...

I know it's difficult for the modern guy to believe, but having significant discussions used to be considered the exclusive purview of males.

Now we've not only allowed the women in, but moved the guys out. No discussions above the level of sports debates allowed for typical males. Alas.

Fortunately, no one has EVER mistaken me as being a typical anything.

We got a lot of guitar players around here. Rock on.

I received a bird feeder for Christmas, so I set it up outside a window. It's very pleasant to watch the birds eat. Cardinals are the best looking.

De Rigeur, what kind of guitar do you have? It looks like an PRS CE or something.

For those interested, I own this guitar:

http://www.revelatorguitarworks.com/VIN ... BLUEJ.html

Hmmm:
Play guitar
Play bass
Play drums
Play pooter games
Kinda excersize
Goof off with my friends
Goof off with my girlfriend
Eat tacos y burritos muchos
Pet my cuddily kittens
Write poems to my girlfriend
Code a videogame mod
Sleep
Run
Blarg
Listen to music
Listen to loud music
Watch House MD, Red vs Blue, etc
And probaly other stuff I am not thinking of now

Firewheel wrote:De Rigeur, what kind of guitar do you have? It looks like an PRS CE or something.

I have a PRS Swamp Ash Special, but this one is a custom built job that I got off ebay. It has Duncan PU's and LR Baggs piezo bridge. Pretty versatile.

Ah, very nice. I've never been a huge PRS fan, but those Swamp Ash guitars look nice.

School.
Check emails.
Jog (half hour every other day).
Maybe meet at mall or run errands.
Wash clothes.
Supper with daddy.
Study (putting big dent in D3).
More emails.
Study again, sometimes with friend via webcam.
Talk on phone, then bed.

Thats pretty much it...

Bee

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Sleep.

Yeah there are a few other things when I can.

Dakatsu wrote:
..Blarg

You too huh?

Kilarin wrote:I'm learning Java. So yes, I'm insane, I work at programming all day, then program in the evenings for "relaxation" just because I think it's fun.

No no, Java is fun.

I also play guitar... Guitar Hero that is!

uh.. that emote doesn't look like he's playing the guitar.. o_0

Don't forget to cup the balls.

Duper wrote:uh.. that emote doesn't look like he's playing the guitar.. o_0

It looks better against a white background... no really!
http://home.comcast.net/~jeff250/smilies/guitar.gif

Kilarin wrote:I know it's difficult for the modern guy to believe, but having significant discussions used to be considered the exclusive purview of males.

Now we've not only allowed the women in, but moved the guys out. No discussions above the level of sports debates allowed for typical males. Alas.

Fortunately, no one has EVER mistaken me as being a typical anything.

Sarcasm, Kilarin. We call that sarcasm.

I run way more than is healthy (training for a marathon right now), play guitar (I remember asking about guitars way back when here, and I finally bought one a year ago and love it... I'm really abysmal though), I am a voracious reader (currently 1030 pages into Cryptonomicon), I like to fish too.

Too much exercise is almost always better than too little.

Reading. Writing fiction. Guitar (acc). Kids. Wife.

And Man Utd of course. Who are gonna assrape Tottenham in four hours whilst i become an intoxicated neanderthal with the boys.

Sirius wrote:Too much exercise is almost always better than too little.

you would think that, until you break your shin from running too much...