Hobbies You've Grown Out Of.

[Soviet Heavy]

I'm not saying that clinging to certain hobbies implies an inability to grow, but I want to talk about hobbies or fixations that just don't hold the same interest or appeal that they once did.

Nostalgia Critic is a big one for me. Especially after I started investigating other critics and reviewers on his site, I've really lost interest in any of Doug Walker's work. I find it hard to go back to his old NC episodes for a laugh anymore, and his new stuff I either hate (Demo Reel), or just tune out to (his current Disneycember. I don't know, he just seems to nitpick on things I consider petty)

His schtick was screaming at the Camera, something that other people I've seen do better, (Spoony's Ultima retrospective), while also having much more in depth analysis of their subject matter. I could listen to Paw or Sage or Welshy discuss music, anime and films for hours on end, while I can't gather up the enthusiasm to see what screaming mc-talentless hack dregs up next.

Collecting Warhammer 40000 miniatures. Just too damned expensive, and with Games Workshop's price gouging going up every year, i doubt I'll go back. I get my 40K kicks from Relic and Black Library now.

So I've moved on. What sort of things have you really focused on, only for your interest to wane as time passed?

 

[Rose and Thorn]

Collecting things. As a kid I would collect crazy bones, pogs and card games. *Like Pokemon and the like*. Now I am the opposite, I hate owning to many things and prefer to de-clutter my room all the time by throwing things out.

I guess you could say I collect clothes and body stuff, like lotions and scents. I feel this is stuff I use and can admire better, rather than something that is hidden away.

Gosh I must have had 300 Pokemon cards, not counting the element cards and item cards. I can't recall what happened to them, perhapes I gave them away to someone else, or maybe they are still lying around somewhere in my mothers house.

That is really the only thing I have "grown out of", although many people my age still collect things so I wouldn't phrase it as growing out, just something I am no longer interested in...that happened as I grew older....shut up. I just picture someone in their 40's collecting star wars figures and me saying, "Oh I grew out of collecting things". Seems a little arrogant.

 

[DoPo]

I suppose scale modelling. I ran out of space for my models (not that there was much to begin with...) so I just stopped making them. I bought one last model I never even touched, and finally ended up giving away. When I had the space for more, I just didn't feel like building them. Also, I made the space by clearing out the old ones - some I throw out of the window, others I blew up with fireworks, one ship I had (well, the only ship) I hit with a hammer repeatedly before throwing it out of the window with some fireworks strapped on. Although, it's possible I kept a couple around, but it's been so long, my parents may have thrown them away.

With that said, I actually do want to start again. At some point.

 

[Zhukov]

I used to read a few comics up until my early teens. Even at age 9 it was something of a guilty pleasure, but now I can't so much as glance at one without sniggering.

Let's see, what else... does TV count as a hobby? Huh. That sounds kind of pathetic. "My hobby is watching TV". Perhaps "pastime" would be a better term. Anyway, I don't watch TV anymore. Haven't since my mid teens. It's just so crappy. I'm sure there's good some good stuff out there (recently watched a DVD of Battlestar Galactica, it was okay if a it cheap looking, shit ending though) but it's few and far between.

As a kid I used to enjoy making model ships and planes. That just got old. Also the glue smells bad.

All my other hobbies have remained pretty consistent. I still like to read, draw, write and play games much as I did when I was little. Of course my tastes within those activities have changed over time, but that's to be expected.

 

[Dags90]

Origami. I was big into it when I was like 10, and it lasted probably through 13-ish. I had a few books with some actual origami paper. My mother apparently missed the memo on this, because she still gets me the occasional origami book nearly a decade later and now that the internet is all new and improved and perfect for finding things like origami how-tos.

Drawing. I used to have reasonable talent at drawing, and got lessons first from my mother and then as part of after school care. My brother definitely had more innate talent at it than me though, so it didn't seem like a worthwhile pursuit. Also stopped around 13-ish.

 

[feeback06]

I'll say card games. I gave Pokemon,Magic, and the DBZ game a shot when I was younger, but somewhere along the line I just stopped.

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

Video games surprisingly.

Average out 2 hours - 1 hour a day, as opposed to the 6-7 hours I used to when I was a kid.

It also means I find RPG's amazingly boring and time-wasting nowadays.

This, except RPG's are one of the few genres I still enjoy (I binge game) and with far less gaming on average. I also watch way less anime than I used to, though I think I still watch enough to call myself a fan. I also read less, which is dissapointing and a very poor choice considering I want to write for at least part of my living.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

I used to love lego. I'd spend all my time just building spaceships and having imaginary battles.

 

[xshadowscreamx]

well Pokemon cards and WWE. all left in the past now. i remember when wrestlers where memorable. maybe CM punk but that's about it. kane does not count cuz i watched him in the glory days.

 

[Angie7F]

Me too. I used to collect everything, especially books. But now i want to throw everything out.
I just threw out eight huge bags full of stuff out in one day. Even my evangelion collectibles had to be thrown out. I guess I just realized that I am too busy with work & having many things makes it difficult to house-keep. The result is a very decluttered house, long working hours, and no hobby.

 

[Vault101]

Nostalgia Critic is a big one for me. Especially after I started investigating other critics and reviewers on his site, I've really lost interest in any of Doug Walker's work. I find it hard to go back to his old NC episodes for a laugh anymore, and his new stuff I either hate (Demo Reel), or just tune out to (his current Disneycember. I don't know, he just seems to nitpick on things I consider petty)

he was definetly getting stale..I did like his stuff but it got boring and repetitive. Then I discovered Nostalga chick and she is seriously awsome, funny, informative and entertaining (seriously I really really REALLY like nostalga chick in the most non-creepy way possible) oh and Oancitizen

I used to read a few comics up until my early teens. Even at age 9 it was something of a guilty pleasure, but now I can't so much as glance at one without sniggering.
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comics is new-ish one...anyway thats a shame because there's alot of good stuff out there these days

anyway, as for me I wouldnt say I've "grown out of" gaming (not by a long shot) however I game less because I'm focusing on more "productive" things like drawing and (mabye) even learning some piano it all takes time

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Pokemon, I used to love the games, tv series and even played the card game. But as soon as I became a teenager my interest in it just sort of faded away.

 

[Yellowfish]

Fisrt of all, Pokemon. The card game held my interest for several years after I stopped caring about the rest of the franchise. I was a kid back when I watched the anime (the Pokemon TV series can be considered anime, right? I mean, it's animation, it's not CG and it was made in Japan), and I sort of got tired of Pokemon or switched to other things as I started to grow up. I had around a thousand of the damn cards. Used to play the game with my friends whenever we got bored of other tabletop games. No idea where all those cards disappeared, tough, haven't seen them for many years.

Superheroes in general. "Dudes wearing underpants over circus costumes beat up criminals" sure sounds cool when you are seven years old, but it gets sillier and sillier as you grow older. I still watch the occasional superhero movie, but I just grew to dislike the whole concept.
Also, Batman: the Animated Series is awesome anyway.

Oh, there was also the obsession with anime and all things Japanese. I gave away most of the DVDs I had except for a couple of things I really liked. I still watch anime, but I pick carefully what exactly I watch.

 

[Smolderin]

Actually, being 21 I still have alot of hobbies that have carried over from my youth. Pokemon, being one of them. I still love playing the games, though I no longer collect the cards. Everything I had collected I had given to my little sister (which I immediately regretted since she took a permanent marker to all of them for some goddamn reason). Oh! I got one, Beyblade. I used to be heavily into those spinning toy tops when I was in middle school, but I grew out of them in high school. For what it was worth, they were a ton of fun.

 

[Quaxar]

I used to collect all the Lego Star Wars sets and loads of other Lego things. But nowadayas I haven't bought new ones in years and what I have is at my parents' cottage because it became so much I didn't have space anywhere. I still love Lego though and sometimes get the urge to build something big but it's kind of hard to reach if you've got to drive four hours to do so.

 

[Melon Hunter]

Warhammer figures, although in my case, it was Fantasy. Empire and Wood Elves, to be specific. I just couldn't spare the outrageous cost, and there were a bare handful of opportunities for me to even use them in a game a year. I did enjoy the lore and the painting, but it was such a huge time and money sink I eventually gave up.

Another one was Scouting. I was part of it since the age of five, when my parents coaxed me into joining the Beavers (which I enjoyed immensely, but by the age of fifteen or so, I really just couldn't be arsed any more and it faded away. Seeing as I'm now too old to be anything other than a leader, it was inevitably something I would grow out of, but I still look back fondly on the days where I was young enough to enjoy it properly.

 

[The Funslinger]

Sword fighting. I used to be fairly decent at that. Though my last fight was only a few months ago, it was my first in years.

A friend of mine got a hold of a pair of blunted sabers, and shit went down. Culminated in me going slightly overboard and breaking his nose with the knuckle guard.

 

[viranimus]

With the way the community keeps allowing the industry to go and the repercussions of such neglect, I see an industry that proactively punishes its supporters and is strangling itself to death, be it motivated by corporate greed or player apathy. So with the state the industry keeps pushing towards and how it makes it harder and harder every year to be a gamer (despite dumping hefty sums of cash into it) It seems more and more that gaming is going to be a hobby I might well outgrow. If it happens it will be truly truly disappointing because I was one of the vanguard. I was practically born with a controller in the crib and even "wrote" my first game on a cassette player that used special magnetized cassettes in place of hard drive or solid state memory before I was even in first grade.

But if the industry is determined to pander and bank on childish philosophy, then for me it will be the time to leave behind such childish things.