what are some hobbies you have that arent denpa otaku related? I'm nbored and want to try new things

Stealth camping is one of those hobbies that everyone thinks is cool but noone want tot do themselves because you have to be kind of a weirdo to do it. I would highly recommend it, it gives you a thrill and gives you an excuse to explore

what's the difference between a hobby and an interest?

>>3
i think an interest is something you study and read about. A hobby is something you actually go out and do. Criminals may have a hobby of doing crime, while people who read about true crime have an interest in it.

I like to consume sports media made for hardcore fans of that sport, even if it’s a sport I don’t like or care about. The only exception is soccer which I really hate. Right now, I’ve been reading lit on horse racing and baseball (two sports I find boring). It’s really amazing how these sports writers could make something so banal feel dramatic.

>>4
I don’t think criminal commit crimes because it’s their hobby. They do it because it’s their job. I mean, most criminals anyway. I’m sure there are retards and drug fiends out there who commit crimes for fun.

Necrophilia, but it's a fetish
Abusing dissociatives
Learning Ithkuil
Digital archeology (nostalgia + necroweb related)
Gaslighting normies

>>6
Ithkuil is rad
I tried learning Lojban in middle school but didn't get far. I had alright success with Esperanto but that language is so cringe that I don't like thinking about it

A fetish isn’t a hobby

>>6
Which dissociatives? Ketamine? DXM? PCP? I've only ever tried the first two.

>>8
Necrophilia is like masturbation to me, if you see me as dead to society and a narcissist.

>>9
Ketamine IM, DXO, Phencyclidine Hydrochloride (not Freebase, Oral route)

I record plunderphonics and illbient too, with a lot of sampling shit.

Sometimes i go to the shooting range and fire different rifles, like the M16 and soon i’ll be able to get my own.

I also mess around with software piracy for the warez scene - torrenting audio plugins, almost like hacking.

It just is.

knitting and pottery

I've been collecting beer and soda caps since I was a child.

I like bird watching

>>7
What's cringe about Esperanto?

Esperanto is gay and useless

>>14
It's eurocentric, has asymmetric grammatical gender, and it just feels dated design-wise

>>16
You say eurocentric as if that's a bad thing

if I'm learning a eurocentric conlang, I feel like I would pick one with better mutual intelligibility to random people and better overall aesthetics to Esperanto
like LFN or Interlingua (I like Interlingua's aesthetics the most, but something about LFN makes it seem like it's better designed, but I haven't put enough time into learning it to know that for sure)

I think I'm gonna learn toki pona this month, followed by Toaq (a lojban inspired language with a really pretty phonology)

>>19
toki pona li pona mute a!
toki pona li suli e lawa mi. mi wile e ijo sama tawa sina.

tenpo open mi pi toki pona la mi pilin e ni: mi ken kama sona ala e toki sin; lawa mi li lili ike...
mi pini kama sona e toki pona la mi pilin e ni: lawa mi li wawa; lawa mi li pona mute a! mi ken sona pona e toki sin!

might have buggered up a bit there but all those sentences are probably more complicated than they should be
Toki Pona really is fun and was a great stepping stone for me being able to learn more languages effectively just because it's so small and easy.

I do feel like some parts are deeply underspecified and there isn't a good corpus of works available so you can really get to grips with being able to understand it (a lot of Toki Pona text online is actually undecipherable due to either inexperience with the grammar or just not making a clear enough point), but it's not a deal breaker.

Stuffing my ass wit a bag full of jelly beans!

Does diy hrt count as a hobby?, I like fucking around with different anti androgens and estrogens to see how it affects my body.
Also I guess just reading forums and textboards too, although I guess that like inbetween hobby and social life, I like just reading text boards and forums cause that way I get a modern interpretation of whatever media I want without having to digest a bunch non layman stuff, although I understand that ends up becoming a filtered opinion out of another filtered analysis which ends up encouraging a surface level understanding of the worldview you adopt, but I don’t really see myself as much more but footsoldier so it keeps me from wanting to understand any further, but also I feel that I don’t want to be part of that since it always seems to miss a lot of empathy and starts sounding more like you just want to rule over people, I simply want to remain down to earth and people seem to hate that, it all ends up stuck in this big picture where you can’t take time to develop emotionally and end up lonely, it’s a big problem here but men seem to cope by just masturbating furiously and then spend the rest of the day mad at the world, please just engage for one second that’s all I ask, one tiny second, I promise not to hurt you, I can’t stand to see you all like this when I come on this board.

>>22
I'm pretty sure biohacking can be a hobby, yes. keep logs and journals to go fully autistic about it.

I have only done it once and can really only engage in it for a few months each year; mushroom picking. In particular psilocybin containing mushrooms. Last year I went out at night while it was raining around the neighborhood and to parks scouring the ground for mushrooms. I found plenty but none of the variety that I was searching for (Psilocybe subaeruginosa). Nevertheless I had a wonderful time. It was also a great tool to combat social anxiety. I was essentially snooping around in bushes in the dark all alone. At one point while I was in a bush on all fours examining the ground a couple walking past saw me and shined a torch at me before promptly walking off.

>>24
Foraging for subs, a classic. I remember being knee deep in a massive patch of hundreds, and of a rare and beautiful phenotype too that I have not seen before (they were also potent as fuck; intense blueing like you would not believe), taking photos and whatnot, and a family just stopped and stared at me. The kid seemed enthralled by the mushrooms and my interest in them; the parent though was watching in horror, gawking at this lunatic mushroom boy, practically rolling around in them. Very funny. Mushroom foraging is always a mystical time and good for the soul.

>>23

somebody get scensaeru in here!!

>>26
Speaking of biohacking and DIY HRT, I got myself a few vials of testosterone and have just been cruising 1500ng/dl test levels these past 3 months (the lab I used to check my blood has their testosterone range capped out at 1500, so really it could be way higher lol). Legit feeling like a god. On it's own, very high testosterone levels essentially shifts your entire state of being and attitude towards life to where you fear nothing and you have the drive and willpower to do whatever you want -- an aesthetic physique suddenly materializing in a week is a nice bonus too. Then I threw microdosing magic mushrooms into the mix on top of the maxed out androgenic signalling (>>25 was me btw), heightening neuroplastic processes which inherently has anxiolytic and antidepressant effects independent of psilocybin's mood boost, essentially modifying myself into a highly androgenic and flexible/adaptable human phenotype, and it's the closest thing to actual godmode we have access to. Literally /gamemode 1, gentlemen. I'd use pig brains but I ain't paying $12 per ampoule, so psilocybin will suffice.

I have nothing against it, as long as they know that it's truly something they want and know exactly what they're signing up for, but it's crazy to me that taking estrogen is so ubiquitous, and the idea of taking the opposite hormone and optimizing/enhancing yourself, and as a consequence experience a far superior lived experience of life, especially from a mental wellbeing standpoint, is still relatively obscure (assuming that most of us are males here with a preference for an androgenized expression). But maybe my perspective is warped given the places I lurk. To repeat, I have nothing against it and I only wish the opposite idea was more prevalent as I think it may solve a handful of problems for some dudes. Your mileage may vary though.

Not that good yet and nor really sure if it counts at a strange hobby or not? but I've been trying to get better at diy electronics and modifying electronics I just like softhard-ware hacking a lot

>>22
That's not a hobby? Its back alley medicine. I've noticed trannies who are beginning transition retain a lot of the youthful androgynous features I like so I wondered if this stuff would help me look better even if I have no intention of transitioning?

>>29
it can be a hobby. a strange one, one might say :)

but ya, spironolactone is pretty safe depending on many variables and has lots of "youthful" benefits but depending on personal biochemistry can result in estrogen dominance and thus things like breast growth for some.
finasteride is safer if you want to keep masculine features and not have potential for surprise booba growth, and is commonly suggested as a way to prevent male pattern balding.

>>30
Where can I read up on this? Is there like a basic guide to it somewhere? Yeah I don't want breast growth or anything. I've heard estrogen dominance can cause depression or something. I just want to keep the boyish androgynous looks I'm loosing as I age. Vain I know.

>>31
that's where the hobby part begins. there is a lot of discussion about finasteride in hrt circles because actually getting hrt can be a pain for many, so people will grasp for any straws they can, and discuss what does and doesn't work and why.
there are anecdotes around it not feminizing but rather preventing certain masculine characteristics from developing. but literally just searx "finasteride hrt" and start reading forum threads, you don't need to be trans to be interested in what they have to say, the reasons why trans people don't like it are the same reasons a cis person might. if you want scientific papers or a cis androboy guide about it, i don't know them but im sure some hrt hobbist might

>>29
I think anything can be a hobby if you have the desire to make it so. As long as you find the activity in question fulfilling and enjoy doing it to the degree that you'd refer to it as a 'hobby,' it 100% qualifies as a hobby.