Hobbies You've Grown Out Of.

[trollnystan]

Watching anime and reading manga. Used to be a HUGE nerd for both of those - you might even have called me a weeabo - but now I'm mostly indifferent. Occasionally there'll be a series or a film (especially Ghibli or the odd Satoshi Kon) that'll grab hold of me, but I don't really go looking any more.

Still practising my Japanese though. Love the language!

 

[Shoggoth2588]

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)

I started going to TGWTG because of Nostalgia Critic but at this point he isn't even in the top 5 for why I stay there either. My number 1 is still Linkara followed closely by Film Brain, Nerd^3, Mike J and, Rap Critic. Also love E-Rod the Blockbuster Buster...

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I've grown out of (or rather stopped) doing quite a few things. For example...

* Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh and, Magic the Gathering. I only collected and tried playing the former and later (whereas I didn't even bother with Yugioh outside of the GBA game). My problem was I couldn't find anybody else to play with. The only time I'll buy cards at this point is if I see a tin or box in a thrift store.

* Starcraft. You can count this one as being dead in the cradle though since I was never able to play online for any significant amount of time. The most I ever did with this game was put it on a bot-match where I would either Zerg-Rape the map or, be one Terran against 7 other...teams and just cheat myself into nuclear victory.

* PC Gaming in general. Once again, this was something I did years ago. My problem is being shit with computers. I don't really know how to build or repair a PC, I don't know what is required to make a PC or Laptop play games from the decade in which said PC was built, etc. Back when I was a kid though, I did have a PC that played Starcraft, Time Commando and, Duke Nukem 3D. At this point, I have a PC that can barely play Megaman X Street Fighter or, Minecraft. I realized I was into consoles far more than PC gaming when I came to the realization that I was being completely serious when I claimed that Duke Nukem 64 was my favorite incarnation of the game (and still is)

* Drawing. I've drawn since I could hold a pencil but in recent years, I've basically slowed to a stand-still if not outright stopped. The last time I tried to draw something it really hurt and, strained my hand. What's worse is how snobbish I am when it comes to the things I've drawn personally. People tell me I'm good but it won't earn me any money and I'm just generally dry when it comes to ideas for drawings and comics. Been that way for a couple of years now anyway.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I've never totally and completely given up on a hobby. I like to keep up with it now and then. I guess I grow less passionate about it, is all.

Star Wars. I had everything Star Wars as a kid. Not just the movies. Action figures, sticker albums, a Milennium Falcon spaceship, a trivia quiz machine I got at Disney, an R2-D2 cassette player, the SNES cartridges, books on SW characters and other whole books on SW spaceships... until the prequel trilogy.

Lord of the Rings. I read The Hobbit, the LOTR trilogy, Unfinished Tales. The Silmarillion. Twice. I even read some non-Middle Earth Tolkien. After the movies came out I sort of drifted away from it. Unlike SW, I liked the "new" movies, but these signalled the end of something for me, anyway.

Greek mythology. I read and re-read Robert Graves' greek myths collection, and all other kind of greek myth books and encyclopaedias. I drew my own family trees of the gods and demigods. Don't remember what the cut-off was. Maybe it was norse mythology. Or that I got a girlfriend in high school.

Pokemon. Blue, Gold, Trading Card GB games. Trading cards. Sticker albums. Board games. Watching the anime over and over. Trying to move that damn truck. I stopped following Pokemon after Gold-Silver, but I still give the GB games a go now and then, when bored.

Video games - sort of. I still buy them and I still play them and I'm still fanatical about them. I do a lot of binging and replaying and dusting off old consoles like the PS1 and PS2. I just don't play as much as I used to. It was easier in high school. Now

 

[smearyllama]

Reading, a little.
I still read a lot, but not nearly as much as when I was a kid. Whereas I pretty much read wherever and whenever before, now it's mostly at school, since elsewhere there's video games and the internet to distract me.
Handheld games, too. I still love my 3DS, and I play stuff on my Android tab, but I find myself just sitting there listening to music on busrides and car trips.

I feel all sad and nostalgic now... <.<

 

[ThisGuyLikesNoTacos]

Tennis.
It stopped being fun for me and I disliked the group I was in.

Donald Duck comics.
You've read a few thousand stories and you've read them all.

 

[TayVans]

I'd like to say Lego but I'd be lying. I thought I'd moved past it but ever since I had to dig it all out I don't think I ever went past. I guess that's what you can say when instead of moving into a new room I sat and built a spaceship... oh well...

I used to draw a lot, pretty much was all I'd do. Now if you gave me a pen and paper and told me to draw I'd come out with a stick man. It bores me now.

 

[Scarim Coral]

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.

Same here, granted I still buy the main games but the franchise no longer have a huge impact on me.

 

[Remus]

Playing videogames, reading comic books...oh wait I still do that. I guess role playing, but only out of necessity and circumstance since everyone I played with moved to opposite ends of the country just as soon as high school was out.

 

[LadyTiamat]

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.

I used to collect stuff, but I have moved on to books and obscure video games but doing this has made my back log for both obscene.

 

[Ryan Hughes]

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.

Video Games will be a hobby I will "grow" out of if the next generation is something of a repeat of this one. The predominence of the Shooter Genre just turns me off. I have never liked shooters, and probably never will. Though I did like Spec Ops, it was not for the shooting action, but rather its story.

I used to love RPGs, but I do agree that they are becoming a waste of time. I am old enough to remember an article in Nintendo Power about Final Fantasy II (IV in Japan), that stated something like: "The game is so well-balanced that you will barely have to fight around to gain money or experience at all!" The term "grind" had not been coined yet I guess, because RPGs had little in them that did not involve plot or characters.

I suppose though, it is more like the hobby is reverting rather than I am growing out of it.

 

[Myndnix]

When I was a kid I'd collect tons of Lego sets (primarily Star Wars ones), then build them and put them on display in my room, but I kinda stopped doing that when I was about thirteen.
Oh, and I still have a huge collection of those Lego Bionicle things (I can't remember which ones, it was so long ago). I used to collect and build those too, I had at least thirty of them, but I just...sorta stopped. I can't really remember when, though.

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

Reading fiction. It just doesn't interest me anymore and hasn't for a few years. All stories are the same really, and I don't seem to care about a bunch of characters doing stuff as I used to. I don't know if I can say I've grown out of it because I might get back into it, but you can say that about anything you grow out of. I still read a lot of non fiction.

 

[Mr.PlanetEater]

Gaming, though I suspect that's less me growing out of the hobby and more me being hella busy during the school year.

EDIT: 777 posts, jackpot!

 

[DasDestroyer]

I used to do a ton of Bionicle(you know, those LEGO robots). I had a couple of large boxes of parts, and I'd constantly be building and rebuilding something. I didn't grow out of it per say, but first of all they stopped releasing them, which was a damn shame, and second of all I moved across the world and bringing a couple of boxes worth of LEGO parts overseas just sounded stupid. I once even made a life-sized robot, although no matter how I tried, he couldn't support his own weight, which I believe was about 4 kg, and that was just the skeleton, which I never got around to covering with armor.

 

[AgentLampshade]

I spend a fair amount of time photoshopping fake video-game/movie covers and uploading them here. [http://vgboxart.com/designer/AgentLampshade/][footnote]apologies for advertising the page, I just want you to understand how much of a hobby this was to me.[/footnote] Recently though I've just not had the motivation, nor have I found any games I enjoy enough to make a creative twist to.

I'm slowly stopping opening photoshop altogether now. It's a shame because I was really into it.

 

[Detroit]

I used to draw and doodle a lot. Now it's just a doodle from time to time. I keep thinking about stuff that'd be awesome to draw, but I'm just too lazy and procrastinate the whole thing.

 

[Mr. Omega]

Collecting things. I got to a point in my life where I was moving every couple months, so i had to minimize the amount of actual stuff I had besides the essentials and my game consoles. I had trading cards, LEGOs, comic books, all sorts of fun stuff. Thing is, with comics going digital and I found ways to play my favorite card games online. I just gave away most of my stuff. I didn't grow out, I just got rid of the physical items.

There are other things that I don't necessarily grow out of, just really go on "on again, off again" phases like pro wrestling and anime. I tend to just go on a binge or get into it for a few months, then just leave it alone for a while.

 

[Icehearted]

Anime. I was into it big time for years, but since it became really popular in America the selections have been so watered down it's now impossible for me to tell one from another. It's all very generic and boring, and I see a lot of the same things repeated such as themes and character types, jokes, dialogue; it's the same people in slightly adjusted stories. Last one's I saw were Wolf's Rain, which was just awful, it dragged and ended with an "oh so deep" conclusion that wasn't thoughtful, just a silly idea, and Onegai Teacher was worse, never managed to finish that one. How many times can two people have awkward moments together before shit stops being awkward, which of course sums up about 60% of all anime at minimum.

I just started Elfen Lied. Two episodes in and it's every predictable anime formula imaginable. I just can't get excited anymore.

 

[Dangit2019]

I used to do this:


all the time as a kid. As you could probably infer, I was quite the womanizer.