Hobbies that keep you from being a a monster

>>34167159

How long have you been skateboarding ? When did you start ? Advice for old(20 something) beginners ?

mountain biking during the day, night walks at night

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>>34167436

i am also a fan of converse, OP

roleplay and writing

I play guitar
Sometimes i go a year without playing a song though so i don't progress that much

4chan

originalolo

>>34167374
Been doing it since 08 man, Id say get a good small board and learn your stance firstly

>>34167159
Isnt mongo pushing a sin?

>>34167159
>skateboards in converses
Damn you must suck complete ass and probably can't even ollie.

>>34167159
if you can do more than just cruise on a skateboard your a fucking normalfag skater fag

>>34168039
Lol converse makes skate shoes and sponsors skaters

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>>34168039
i blame supreme skate team

>>34168510
>he's wearing a Chuck Taylor's
Those aren't skate shoes. And just because they sponsor people doesn't mean their shoes aren't shit. Go to any skatepark and you will hardly ever find anyone wearing a converse shoe. The only people that wear converses to skateboard are posers and beginners. Everyone wears either Nikes or Adidas.

Mine is music. I played around with it when I was little but I didn't really expect anything from it. I joined choir but dropped out cause it wasn't fun much. I would've just gone home everyday and eventually kill myself but a friend said that I should play piano for the jazz band. I joined the next year, and then joined the concert band the next semester. I didn't think I'd love it so much and I'm glad that I found it.

>>34168628
Youre a real fucking dumbass. Majoritybof skateparks i go to I see vans so what if i rock cons too dipshit

>>34167521
how long have you been playing?
I do the same for 5 months now, wanting to join a band cause just playing on my own is getting boring

Music, mostly guitar and singing. Really cant go more than couple of days without playing. Drinking by myself and playing Elliott Smith is like meditation to me at this point, feels wrong when i dont do it. Drinking is actually the less important part, but it sets the mood just perfectly

reading
hiking/nature walks
drives

>>34168039
>>34169503

Most shoes are ok if you are just cruising around. But if you're doing tricks then converse probably isn't the best shoe type.

>>34169503
That's because you skate with posers. Vans are even shittier. Do some kick flips with vans for 2 days and tell me how big the hole in your shoe is.

>>34168616
>mfw i still dress like the supreme kids
>mfw noticeably overweight

>>34167159
That sounded aesthetic as fuck OP

>>34168628
a lot of hipster skaters wear them cause the good toecap for trendy tricks the trend was huge in 2016

>>34170831
>>34170919
>>34168039
>implying chuck Taylors are shit for skating
https://youtu.be/05gZufEpvG0

>>34168628
There are pro skaters that exclusively wear chucks eventho they could use cons

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I also like to skate. Down hills with my longboard, I just use a pair of old nikes to skate in. Curving up wide roads is my jam.
I do a bit of drawing, but nothing post worthy.

>>34170919
Ok im not trying to argue. What shoe to you suggest I use. Is cruise mostly in my cons and then do tricks and learning with my vans. My vans are wrecked to hell but I keep patching them up

>>34167159
i go to church every sunday despite holding athiestic views. I do not pray or anything. Just sit and listen.

Not really a "hobby" because it takes so little time, like 5hrs a week but i guess you could call lifting a hobby.

Its pretty addicting to see the progress

>>34171117
guess i was wrong lol

>>34167159
I go for runs, read books, play shitty guitar

most shoes are "fine" for skating, but they get tore up within like 1 sessions of actual tricks.

any shoe if fine if you're just pushing around the board.

pros can ride any shoes because they're probably all free anyways.

>>34171151
Buy a fucking suede shoe.

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>>34171169
how much can you bench, anon?

>>34171270
shoe goo exists faggot

>>34171117
Skate a pair of Chuck's and tell me how many days until you have to buy a new pair. It will be less than two weeks.

A good shoe has longevity. That's why chucks and vans are shit. They are made out of canvas and get destroyed by skateboarding.

>>34167159
Art and music

I almost had a gf because of both those hobbies but I autism'd out of it

>>34168628
One of my good friends is a sponsored skater, and legit one of the best in my state, he almost wears converse exclusively

You sound 16, I bet you smoke spice too

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Cars an shit

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>>34171335
just learned how to tre been skating these for a month no holes thanks to applying shoe goo before skating the toecap is amazing this is my 4th pair of chucks I've skated

>>34167159
Where'd you get that board? Walmart??

>>34167436
I am currently on a drunk night bike ride. Went along the canal in my town, smoked a spliff, got spooked by kind of canal police, threw about $20 of weed in the canal and ride off at light speed. Why do I go outside?

>>34167159
Filmmaking. I do vfx and stuff. Also I'm dabbling in making a nujabes, type of album but I've still got a long way to go in music but that's fine because what else am I going to do?

So far everything mentioned in this thread costs money. And I don't have disposable income.

Excel documents
I don't do it much anymore
But it feels great to forget the world and delve into something I'm trying to systematize

>>34171573
>throwing it in the canal

you could have just thrown it in a bush or some shit and came back to get it later

ya goof'd

>>34167159
Those shoes are far to clean and not fucked up for you to be anything but a fucking wood pusher.

>>34171708
You can push my wood bb

>>34171167
I want to do the exact same thing, but am also atheist. How do you join a church?

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Porn. Thousands of photos organized. I love organizing them

>>34171447
>skating for a month
>tread on side of shoe isnt smoothed over
???

>>34167159
Why are there children on these boards?

Martial arts.

O0r1g1n4l

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>Longboarding

so peaceful. during those summer nights, boarding on the main roads at 2am, when there are no cars. my trucks are extra loose so it feels like I'm surfing

>smoking weed

keeps me off edge. anytime I'm going through a crises and I smoke, the problem never seems as serious as it once did.

>Vyvanse

makes me more social, gives me energy, helps me focus

>FL Studio

i want to make music

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>>34172833
>Longboarding
FAGGOT NORMIE ALERT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>>34172833
Drug use is a hobby? I guess, some people smoke marijuana like it's a hobby.

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>>34172905
Longboarding is my main form of transportation. You discover so many new roads and paths that you never would've even considered if you were in a car. It's a great workout, and when I put my headphones in, it feels exactly like OP described. Like I'm skating away from all my problems. I would highly recommend it, anon. That is implying you aren't a fat, lazy, shit who doesn't enjoy being outdoors.

>>34167159
singing
marijuana
weightlifting/swimming
memes and 4chan

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>>34172997
WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE YOU NORMIE FUCK

>>34171424
Youre fucking retarded firstly vans are the best damn shoe for skateboarding. Literally since the fucking 60s, also nike is trash for anything but sports.

>>34172967
yeah, desu. it's a hobby and a lifestyle. i love buying new pieces, learning new ways to roll, picking up different strains, seeing how high I can get, cooking different foods with cannabutter, comparing different brands of papers and blunts, buying attachments for the pieces I already have, building things like waterfall bongs and gravity bongs. the list goes on and on. I just purchased a plasma lighter that is wind resistant so I can spark up outside. yes, drug use is a hobby. ive been smoking for six years now. some people smoke weed but never really get into it, to each his own.

>>34172178
You don't have to join a church you just show up for Sunday mass.

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>tfw normal methods of escapism aren't working anymore

I've had two breakdowns in the past week where I started crying uncontrollably. Trying to find ways to take your mind off suicide is a life long endeavor

>>34173064
I've been here since 2013. I know exactly where I am. That doesn't make fat people any less disgusting. I'm a robot, I hate myself, but I refuse to take the route of NEEThood obesity. I connect more with nature than I do with people. Deciding to get into boarding was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

I write a lot, short stories, fan fiction, excerpts of novels I'll never finish. Feels good to dive into a world separated from the pain of real life, where I can be and do anything I can imagine. I just wish I could focus in on one idea and maybe I could make something of it, maybe I'm so disillusioned with reality that I have to keep creating new worlds to stop remembering how shit my real life is.

Also I'd love to get into music production, I play piano pretty well but the skill wall is so high...

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>>34173158
>goes outside
>doesn't cry himself to sleep in his crusty cum covered sheets
maybe if you just walked everywhere you would be fine but you had to choose the gayest form of transportation

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>cheap easy hobbies for NEETs?

I need something to get me out the house and meeting people

>>34171335
Kek all this hate on skating cons is totally justified too. I wore through not only the sole but the side, toe and part of the heel protection in around a week and a half. Total waste of money.

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>>34167159
I love gardening. I raise cacti and succulents and love them as if they were my children.

Winter is a bad time of year for my succulents so the one in the pic is leaning, but these guys have been around for nearly 3 years and have been pretty happy. Maybe I'm a lunatic for talking to them and loving them so much but fuck me, it keeps me from going over the edge.

Shooting guns
Reading historical stuff
Chilling with catto
Maybe trying calligraphy soon

>>34171692
In my country the police retrace your steps with you if they think you've ditched stuff

Doesn't matter anyway, nobody approached me so I needn't have thrown it away at any rate. Maybe it is a sign to give up?

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>>34173516
Oh yeah and I also really like older comic books, gothic lolita, casual video games and horror movies.

Seems like almost the entire thread is skateboarding, though.

>>34171665

Night walks and reading sure are expensive

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>>34173516
>gardening

I walk through nature with my headphones in, it keeps me pretty sane. Also lifting/running on a regular basis keeps the suicide away

>>34173516
Why don't you own a peyote

>>34167374

First. Worry about size and weight.

If you're over 5 8 in height. Get a 8" of you're lower than 5 8 get a 7.5" board.

Now about the weight. Are you going to be doing tricks or just to cruise ?

Next. Google good brands. I'd say not to waste more than 120.

Picture related was my first board and I loved it nly problem was that it's a 7.5 I needed a 8

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>>34173890
Schizophrenia runs very, very strongly in my family so I'm never going to try hallucinogenics as a precautionary measure.

I could definitely raise some just for the hell of it, though. You're right, why the fuck don't I have one?

A combination of various forms of entertainment, a drive for physical fitness, nihilism, spending time with and essentially fathering my young brother in our broken ass home is what keeps me ticking.

>>34173516
Cactuses, of all things? Why not look after some of the more needier variety of plants, as well? Or maybe even a low maintenance pet like an arachnid of some kind?

I have had the bottommost one on my windowsill for like 10+ years and the most I do for it is water it like once a year. Thing's doing fine.

Reading
Writing
Watching films
Forcing myself to enjoy increasingly gross porn interests
Holding sustained arguments with myself to the point where I can tell which is my actual opinion

I play video games. Specifically, Smash bros.

The community makes me feel special and loved.

>>34174171

can't*, not can

>>34174145
One day I'll have a garden with flowers of all varieties, carnivorous plants, cacti, the works, but for now I have enough on my plate that I don't want the stress of knowing that if I'm too depressed to water my plants for one day that they won't make it. Cacti work for me man.

>>34173966
>old photo of photos
???

See now this is a proper /r9k/ thread, anons talking about their hobbies and interests.
I really want to learn the electric guitar because I love listening to guitar solos. I don't have too much money so can anyone tell me if a "Squire Standard Strategy" is a good choice for a beginner? From what I can tell its a 1:1 replica of a normal strat but with lower quality components

>>34174227
Welp thanks for making me aware of my cactuses existence, lol

>>34174281
Sorry Stratocaster autocorrected to Strategy

>>34167159
>What do you do to keep yourself preoccupied with living?

Music. I play multiple instruments and I'm building a recording studio in my basement. Gotta go work on it now.

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>>34174408

Yeah a Squier strat is fine.

Key points for buying any type of strat:

- You want it to be alder wood body
- You will want at least one pickup to be a humbucker. A humbucker is a dual coil pickup that reduces hum when you distort the guitar. For example, the attached as a humbucker (dual coil) near the bridge and two single coil pickups near the neck.

Make sense?

I wouldn't buy new. Go on Kijiji. You can probably find a good Mexican strat for a cheap price. People are always buying/selling guitars.

If it doesn't play well when you buy it, take it to a guitar store and pay them $20-50 to set it up for you (go over it and tweak/adjust it).

>>34174279
pothos is the name of the plant in the picture, my dyslexic friend

>>34174288
post pics of them

How the fuck do I get good at bass? Whenever I pick it up to play something shit comes out. Now I just play rocksmith

>>34171335
youre a retard, they also make suede shoes

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I will start taking classes of Muay Boran the next month.

Never been to a gym and even less in a martial arts teaching place.

I'm just putting my last bet in whatever may change my life for good, and I'm actually thinking that learning combat skills can forge some discipline in me, if I can't beat sandness by doing this at least I can achieve a nice body and habilities to kick some serious ass.

i play ssb4 on my 3ds more than 4 hours per day

>>34176263
btw, i play offline bc i dont have friends to play with them and For Glory and For Fun are fucking garbage

>>34171117
They are. Any canvas shoe will get destroyed in like a week if you actually skate (read: not just cruise around).
Pros obviously don't care about the longevity of stuff they're wearing because their sponsor is providing them with everything.

>>34173516
cute hobby
I want to get into gardening too please help
where do I get plants or seeds especially mid winter?

>>34171117

is it just me or has the standard for being pro dropped significantly. i mean mike mo iirc went pro with his fully flared part then sean pablo goes pro and i cant name one standout trick from him ever.

chucks, overly cuffed dickies and tucked in tees is a trend that needs to fucking die. been skating on and off since 04 and caught the tail end of the baggy pants era, to skinny jeans, the fully flared effect and now its every kid in dickies doing wallies listening to bauhaus thinking theyre SO DIFFERENT.

half cabs were my go to shoes for a long long time, recently been trying out the 112s and crocketts.

>>34173948

its 2017 mate 7.5 is a fucking toothpick, 8 is a good all around size. 8.5 or bigger is what i go for. shoe size and height may play somewhat of a role in sizes but telling someone under 5'8 to go 7.5 is dumb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMRidR3MxSc

that real shit

>>34176563
If you have a local shop, check it out, they are usually stocked year-round with seeds and plants that thrive in that season. If you're shit out of luck on that end, just get them online. It's extremely important to know what zone you live in and what seeds can be shipped to you, so do a little googling before you get started to figure out what plants are right for where you live and your skill level.

I recommend succulents for beginners because they're extremely low-maintenance, almost impossible to kill and there's one for pretty much every environment. Go with whatever you'll actually want to care for.

>>34176810
what sort of shop? there's a lowes in the area, but I also think a nursery on the other side of town

if I find a qt plant I will love it because I love plants

>>34167159
I've never had one particular hobby that I would say stands above anything else but in general it's escapism. Playing vidya, watching tv/anime/movies. Anything where I can indulge in someone else's life in detail keeps me happy. Recently I started lifting and that hour where only being able to do the next rep matters is pretty nice.

>>34176810
>>34176864
I am thinking of getting aloe vera because they are pretty and interesting
also do you think it is possible to grow mint indoors?

>>34173669
no shame in goth waifus, they're top tier

Any piano players here?
I always wanted to play but all I have is some garbage electric keyboard I got for Christmas like 10 years ago

osu!, lr2. music in general, ever since i was an angsty teen

>>34177429
if you're in the northeast I'll sell you a digital piano for 275

>>34167159
I skate, play vidya, make music (don't wanna post it though), and I'm not sure if nightwalks count
Sometimes when I skate and theirs a truck behind me I pretend I'm that first level from sonic adventure 2 battle

I play sims 3 and sims 4. I have graphic sexual mods and create my crushes as sims and watch them have sex.
I'm able to easily create material for my fetishes too.

>>34177491
I live in NY but I'm too fucking poor
thanks anyway, would I still be able to learn on what I have? or do I really need a full keyboard to do it?

>>34173516
Are you a batman villain?

I play drums, am learning guitar, listen to music

Try not to play video games cause that's for fucking virgins tbqh family and I like to pretend I'm not

i also drink

>>34177641
shit, I'm in CT
you don't need a full piano but they weighted keys are helpful for sure

>>34169118
that's great to hear anon (no pun intended)

>>34171381
Music is definitely one of the sexiest hobbies. If u can move a QT with your music, you will have it in the bag

>>34172833
dam that sounds chill af

>>34174071
bro did you ever post on the MDE subreddt? think I've seen u there