I have gotten to the point where I have googled hobbies on the internet trying to find something but soooo much out there seems uninteresting, requires friends interested and/or is expensive and requires initial investment
I've got little artsy ideas to try and do for fun but I get easily frustrated and give up
Coode. It will ruin your brain and can potentially make you a venomous antisocial misanthrope, like me, but its satisfying! Its also good because one day it might be useful for a just cause (that program that we used to annihilate kellog's job application site was made by someone who knew how to cooode).
I took a couple coding classes a few years ago and it's sadly not me :(
huge respect to the Coders of the World!
Over on :reddit-logo: they occasionally have askreddit threads about cheap hobbies, quick skills to learn,or things you can do for free that are interesting. I'd search askreddit for learn or hobbies, just to get the juices flowing.
just start playing roleplaying games and theyll come to you like a dam opened which was containing a stream of hobbies
I have always wanted to get into tabletops but in the situation where I'm at right now I don't have any friends living nearby to learn with and I'm probably gonna have to socially isolate all over again
you can do tabletop gaming online, this is the golden age of that actually. I hate to plug but DM me if you're interested- I haven't done anything like this in ages and it could be fun
Cooking is a good one to start with because it's also just a useful skill and you'll get to eat tasty things - and usually save money doing it.
Finding hobbies is just trying stuff that sounds like it might be fun until you find the things that actually are. You can also build a new hobby around something you already enjoy doing.
What kind of stuff are you unsure about investing the time or supplies into? There's definitely a few hobbies where people reccomend the gold standard items for beginners and its just silly how unnecessary that can be when you're an idiot like me who ruins brushes, spills paint and breaks airbrushes the cheap stuff is much better.
Yeah there's a lot of online hobby spaces overflowing with patronising rich kids who won't think you're serious unless you have a spare five grand to spend in a single afternoon. And then if there are any corporations that have taken over the hobby it will have also invented nonsense rules and protocols that reinforce the rich kids tastes.
As someone with ADHD, I have a hard time sticking to hobbies unless there are other people involved holding me accountable. Two that have stuck for me so far are 1. Playing D&D and 2. Volunteering for my local community theatre (as a stagehand)
One of my hobbies is reading and learning about different hobbies but never getting around to trying them out
fuck around with blender, it's free, can run on most computers if you stay low poly and lets you make funny lil 3d stuff. I've got no visual arts background whatsoever, and can make pretty decent poseable fursonas after a couple years of doing it for probably less than an hour a week on average
I ALMOST got into it once... but I do like photoshop and have been thinking of digital painting... main issue is if I need a trackpad/stylus combo which seems to make sense
exclusively used a trackball so far because my desk is tiny, but starting to feel the need for a stylus for texturing lmao. totally viable to just use photoshop collage or even physical media too, saw a guy on the blender :reddit-logo: who scanned in hand drawn papercraft for textures
