I have ADHD. I've forgotten more hobbies than most people have heard of.

I felt gaming slipping way from me for years, turned out I had killed my dopaminergic response with tiktok. About a year since quitting tiktok and I'm gaming more than ever again, AND enjoying it.

Magic the gathering is slipping as a hobby, mostly because I've been playing other games though

Books have always been rough for me, I need them to grab me instantly, cant bruteforce anymore, either way, my imagination is fried, so I swapped to comics, did junkfood reading webtoons/manhua,etc. for a bit, binged a ton of stuff, eventually wanted more, started reading comics again and this hobby has stuck for over a year, the visuals help me get into stuff I otherwise wouldn't read even if it's super wordy.

I haven't had a book phase since I started using tiktok, I blame that app. I used to binge read some high fantasy series once a year for at least a month, I miss the brain tingly feeling of stuff coming together, movies and tv shows give it rarely, some books sent electricty down my spine and I felt like I was physically on molly just rolling tits as stuff came together, like hiw ppl describe asmr, but since tiktok I just zone out instead of getting in to books, really want to read the most recent stormlight and gentleman bastards (if that releaed havent checked)

Drone flying.

There are far too many idiots out there that are downright dangerous, annoying, and ignorant. I worked on the "rescue helicopter"(HEMS) in the past and basically everyone of my former colleagues can come up with various near-misses. The rules are god damn easy,the smaller licences are easy to get and if you use a (free!) App for the tricky questions (flight areas) combined with some common sense you're good.

But people willfully don't do that.

Combine that with the massive rise in hybrid warfare drones here(Central Europe) and I have absolutely zero desire to continue with that hobby.

Funny enough it was a discussion I had here on lemmy (with another account) that was the final nail for me.

A group of posters basically refused to use a (free and GDPR compliant) flight area app as it was only available on Playstore, the web app (which is explicitly provided as an alternative) could not be used as it's source code was not provided (whut?) and therefore it's not their fault when they fly into a marked HEMS approach zone in a hospital.

Yeah. I don't want to associated with these people.

Tbh, most of my old hobbies I thought I had lost interest in came flooding back once I started running and exercising and eating better. It's actually been months now since I last worked out. I'm in the process of writing a story, and I love it. So....none, with a new one.

Comics.

I collected when I was a kid for a few years. That was probably 1990-1993. Lost interest after a while.

I came back to the hobby for brief periods in 2013 and 2017, picking up a few of the Bronze Age key books that I wanted when I was a lot younger. Now I was older and had the money to buy those books.

In the covid years there was a comic-boom, and I was caught up in that. There were a lot of things happening within the hobby and a lot of people making YouTube content around it.

The problem with getting too involved with comics is that they take up too much fucking space. Right now, I have around 4500 books in the collection. That number needs to come down to like 1000.

I’ve been working on a full run of the original X-Men series. I have 21 books to go until I’ve completed the 545 book run. I do still intend to obtain the remaining 21 books; but there’s no immediate plans for buying any old books that aren’t X-Men. I’ll keep those. There’s probably around 400 or so other books that I’d like to hold on to, and that’s how I’ve arrived at my 1000#. I want to get rid of pretty much 2/3 of the entire collection at this point. It just takes up too much space. I still buy new books too, but am finding it less enjoyable (relative to other options) since I’ve moved to a different state. There’s a lot more outdoors stuff for me to do in the new state, but the LCS is also a longer drive now.

Selling them is truly a major pain in the ass too. eBay has a limit of 250 free listings per month. I don’t want to exceed that, otherwise I spend $0.35 per listing, even if the (average buy it now price is $4) listing doesn’t sell. Whatnot is an alternative to eBay, but that really requires actively getting in camera and trying to sell stuff to people. That’s a huge time expense. There’s also other places like hipcomic that auction books but I have no interest in selling there. When I was more buying (rather than trying to sell) those sites always seemed to be overpriced, and so I stopped going. I imagine I’m not alone in that experience. I speculate they have low traffic, and so the juice isn’t worth the squeeze.

Wrapping up, yes… I’m falling out of this hobby but more so because I’m almost done with the original goal; but the current state of my coexistence with the beast of collecting is causing me a combination of both anxiety and resentment. The reality is that I’ll have to somehow, someway, spend a lot of time getting rid of these 3500 or so books without being totally ripped off in the process. Getting rid of them doesn’t sound fun at all. Dealing with people is annoying. I don’t enjoy haggling. I don’t enjoy taking 1000s of pictures of comics with my phone. I don’t enjoy salesmanship in any way, shape or form.

What started as a fun “chase that goal,” type hobby evolved into a “this is taking up a ton of space, and you now need to either pretend to be someone you’re not for a long time to get rid of them properly, throw them in the trash, or just get totally fucked over by selling them in bulk direct to some other reseller” type deal. No one tells you that when you get into comics.

Cooking.

I love to cook but my wife hates my food.

Unfortunately, the types of video games I can play has been severely limited in the past several years by muscle disease. I have tried to adapt with low-APM turn-based games like Slay the Spire, Into the Breach and chess. While I have developed a certain fondness for these games, they were never my first choice.

The recent release of Silksong has been especially hard on me because its predecessor was one of my favorites. I haven't been able to bring myself to watch a play-through of it yet.

Super duper looking forward to Mewgenics, though! Only 4 months to go.

I used to get so much enjoyment out of video games. I could play for entire weekends. Now I sit down and play for an hour or so and start to get bored.

Electronics. Components are getting harder to get (internet orders makes hem expensive) and my eyes are no longer that good when soldering (even with glasses)

Programming. I don't like where it's heading and I don't like the culture

Honestly, ALL of them. I used to make beer. Used to have one batch fermenting while another was carbonating, but it's been years since I even thought about getting all that stuff out. I really don't drink much anymore, so that may be part of it. I also have a closet full of board games, but just getting the pieces out and setting up the board just feels like it isn't worth all that effort.

Video games, but not because I want to. I have so much on my plate right now that could make my life better. I need to exercise more. I used to run and lift. I need to spend time with my hands-on craft hobby. I need to bake more. I enjoy video games SOOOOO much but I feel my life would probably be better without them.

All hobbies that don't involve a screen. I've been having serious mobility issues, where standing for more than a few minutes is painful and I leave the house only in my wheelchair. It makes going to restaurants, concerts and events difficult. Makes going on hikes impossible or even existing in parks more painful than pleasurable.

Appreciate your legs y'all. :(

Motorcycling. I live in a dense urban area and the traffic here is nightmarish. It takes me like 2+ hours to reach good riding roads, and that's more time than I'm willing to invest these days. I'll still use it for short city errands but I've noticed a drastic drop off compared to say five years ago.

Dancing and Theatre. I used to love doing improv and dancing Salsa. Now I can't find the time and energy.

Yeah, same when it comes to reading. All of my other hobbies involve making things, and I don't ever dedicate time for reading anymore. I don't have time for any other hobbies anyways right now.

I used to be involved in my local Warhammer/Wargaming scene. Like full bore painting, modeling, 3d printing, doing tournaments, having a bi-weekly club. Unfortunately I fell on hard times and then my baby brother had a baby. So had to sell most of my stuff. We live together that's why. Can't have resin printers around a newborn. That's a super hard no. I kept the paint because I used oils instead of acrylics, but that never turned into canvas painting. I sold all my armies across like 7 different game systems. The only games I have left are Infinity and trading card games. It's all just sitting in boxes in the attic right now.

I don't know if I'll get back to doing any of it any time soon. I got to get a job and a car. I wanna move to a new city, but unfortunately that city is turning into a fucking ICE stomping ground. One of my friends in the scene recently died and at his funeral almost our whole social group showed up. Sounds like we all scattered and haven't been participating in hobby as much. Most people found other things to do.

It was a great run. About 10 years of a social life and something to do. At one point you think it's never gonna end because it's so good, but life will find a way. I hope to get back to it some day.

Gaming has left me with this always connected, forced multiplayer so there's some fucking reason to justify the need bullshit. Diablo 4 is fucking garbage because of the need for engagement, ladders, endgame content, and I fucking hate it.

Just give me games I can obsess over for a month and beat and be done. And I probably still will replay it fifty times over the next decade because there's nothing as good anyway (Hi, Baldur's Gate and Skyrim).

You should use an app like Topaz AI to upscale all your old dvds and watch shows in HD. I’ve recovered so many old series, like ALF, that will never be released in HD, now very watchable at 4x using the Iris2 upscaler.m settings and some parameter adjustments.

*I’m in no way affiliated with Topaz, only a user of the app from early days in 2020/2021.

New hobby for me!

Most common reason to give these up seems to be lack of time. Why has our amount of time changed? We still work the same hours, get purchases delivered, have the same families even with fewer kids so we should have more not less right? What is eating into our available time? Is it social media?

I've recently gotten back into reading as a way to wind down before bed without using the phone, and it has done wonders for my sleep. Pair it with a kobo ereader and downloading, uh, free books means there's no pressure to read books you don't enjoy (I find with physical books they tend to loom at you from the shelf and make you feel guilty for not reading, which only makes things worse).

Anyway to get to the point reading can be a very low investment hobby if you want it to be.

Satellite and space tracking. Satnogs with some custom hardware.

I've done it for a number of years, helping citizen scientists all over the world. But because of the cuts and less and less people getting into the hobby, its been hard to keep being motivated.

Took down the setup a bit ago for some repairs and haven't put it back. Probably won't.

The piano. I used to play almost everyday and I got pretty good at it but I rarely play it now. Just yesterday was the first time I played it in a couple years