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What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.

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[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hardly ever run into people my age who even play games. :/

This comment makes me incredibly curious about what age you are.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Online, I find loads of people. Not so much IRL. I would attribute it more to where I live.

[–] Sami_Uso@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm 33 but most people I talk to in my regular life only play stuff like COD or 2k, maybe a big release here and there like God of War but that's it. Most people aren't playing indie shit or RPGs anyways

[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then you probably have simply found yourself among strange people, for it's quite common for people in their thirties to play video games, statistics show that and my own experience too.

[–] Sami_Uso@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not saying they aren't playing games. They play games, they just only play the most popular stuff and anything else is weirdo shit to them. I actually think I work with some of the most normal people in existence lol

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It also generally isn't a primary hobby. It's something they do for like an hour at most at a time, specifically to kill time. You're not gonna discuss nuance and other, deeper things about gaming in general without having them glaze over.

[–] glau@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Exactly true with it not being a primary hobby for most people who game.

When I was a kid gaming wasn't as widely considered as an acceptable hobby in general, but as a kid you just didn't care what grown ups thought (games make people violent anybody?). By the time I hit university, people got shamed for it by non-gamer peers and I did a computer science degree too so it wasn't a group of non-tech people who did the shaming either. By my early twenties I learned not to talk about it and just mention gaming as a hobby if asked and never elaborate further...