What's Your Hobby??
Dan Poole
United States
Goldsboro
North Carolina
Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!!
We're charging our battery. And now we're full of energy. We are the robots. We're functioning automatik. And we are dancing mechanik. We are the robots
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Everybody here loves board games, but what else interests us? Folks here are generally bright, interesting people. As a whole, we are usually in a group outside of the cookie-cutter pop culture of today. Therefore, I suspect many of us have interesting hobbies. Thus it would be interesting to hear about such hobbies from all gamers from across the world (at least indulge me here)
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Adam Lott
United States
Hanceville
Alabama
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I have been exploring caves (vertical and horizontal) for several years. But I do seem to game more, scared of Trolls.
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Philip Thomas
United Kingdom
London
London
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D&D. Which isn't a board game. I run a PBEM campaign set in my own world. When I'm not processing turnsheets or writing the news, I like to flesh out the world with extra history, geogrpaphy and so on. Setting is vaguely Crusades but one PC is working on gunpowder weapons... anyway as I said under Sci-Fi books, I read about the real Crusades and the middle ages generally for inspiration.
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Karl Benisch
Sweden
Stockholm
Stockholm
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I climb whenever there's time to do so.
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On Monday mornings, I'm dedicated to the proposition that All Men are created jerks.
United States
Stratford
Connecticut
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I collect old radios. Mostly I acquire small, plastic table radios, but my wife just helped me pick out an old wood console radio for Christmas. I'm picking it up this weekend.
Here's a pic:
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Board Game: Duell
[Average Rating:5.93 Overall Rank:4482]
John Mitchell
United Kingdom
Enfield
Middlesex
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Fencing. Started while at school, kept it going for 20 years up until the early 90s, and last year took it up again (prompted by my elder daughter taking it up). I don't claim to have any great skill, but I'm pleased the hand and brain still know what to do after all these years, and that I am still fit enough to fight people a third of my age.
Now my children are teen or nearly, I have more spare time and have been able to resurrect the hobbies had when younger. Gaming is another of these.
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Board Game: Bang!
[Average Rating:6.76 Overall Rank:448]
Brett Pierotte
United States
Visalia
California
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Most weekends find me at the local shooting range trying to improve my marksmanship. Haven't worked up the nerve yet to enter any of the local competitions though.
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Matt Sears
United States
Adrian
Missouri
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I brew my own.
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Luke Morris
Japan
Nagoya
Aichi
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I collect a series of comics...."100 Bullets"
I started as the premise sounded cool (man goes to someone with a briefcase with a handgun and 100 untraceable rounds and a picture of someone who has wronged them in the past) and there's only going to be 100 'episodes'.
It's up to 67 and I've got all of them except a few between 8 and 18....
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Luke Morris
Japan
Nagoya
Aichi
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I love movies. Especially Asian cinema (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hong Kong, Thai, English films (28 Days Later, Dog Soldiers, Croupier, Trainspotting, Gosford Park), and 70s cinema (like Alien, Apocalypse Now)
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Luke Morris
Japan
Nagoya
Aichi
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The chosen game is for a reason.
Yes I love to play cricket and until I moved to Birmingham I used to play cricket for a club and trained also. I'm looking for a club up here at the moment.
But until then I have to fulfill my cricketing urges by playing International Cricket Captain on the PC and watching as much cricket as possible from my, you got it, armchair!
My county of choice is Kent (I was born and brought up there) and country-wise it's obviously England and also South Africa (dating back to the days when two thirds of the team were Christians, including the world's best fielder Jonty Rhodes who's autograph I proudly have)
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Robert Martin
United States
Atlanta
Georgia
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I got a cool dart board for Christmas, so I'm getting back into an old hobby. It's a good hobby in that it goes well with beer.
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James & Sharon Derbyshire
United Kingdom
South Ockendon
Essex
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I'm into extreme sports. Being winter and all, this currently means snowboarding.
Off to Colorado in a couple of weeks 
Then, back in UK (if I'm still in one piece) I'll be out on my motocross bike.
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Les Lauber
United States
Topeka
Kansas
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I enjoy collecting fossils, rocks, and minerals.
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Everyone wants to be Chad Thriftington III
United States
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
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I enjoy photographing old neon signs, both functional & non-functional. Neon is a very interesting signage type that is some areas is being well preserved but in other areas is being driven out by local government. Some of the signs I photgraph have been preserved & restored, others are doomed (DOOMED I SAY!!) You also meet a lot of interesting people since a lot of the vintage neon is normally found in older parts of town.
In Denver I listened to a motel owner for 30 minutes tell me how Denver passed a law when a business w/neon signage is sold, the sign has to be taken down & changed. A gentleman in Idaho Falls explained how businesses get a tax break if they repair & keep the old neon signage. Salt Lake City has some wonderful neon (& lots of it) but sadly a lot of it doesn't meet current codes (too close to the road, too big, too whatever) & if it is damaged, cannot be replaced. Tulsa seems to be tearing down everything.
I have been chased down the street by drunks in Ogden thinking I was taking pictures of their brains and sent my photos to a motel owner in VA as proof that his sign was working prior to a city work truck damaging it.
A lot of my photos are on my website http://dwayne.blog-city.com
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Neil Mason
England
Horsham
West Sussex
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Watch (both NHL and local English Premier League team) and play rec hockey
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Skip Franklin
United States
Oklahoma City
OK
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I'm hot about the history of World War II. Currently I'm reading The Siegfried Line Campaign by Charles B. MacDonald and Hitler's Last Gamble by Trevor N. Dupuy. (Well HLG is HIA until after the library book is finished, TSLC.)
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james napoli
United States
Westwood
New Jersey
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My wife and i really enjoy traveling.
usa, mexico, canada, domican republic, iceland, japan, italy, france, netherlands, england, belgium, czech republic, austria, spain, korea, poland, indonesia, thailand, hungary, slovakia, port_authority_nyc, malaysia, germany, singapore
The bulk of these countries we played games in and ate at a fridays =D
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Richard Minson
United Kingdom
West Sussex
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Skiing - but my profile name probably gives that away
Skied Chile & New Zealand back in August/September
Just spent New Year in Serre Chevalier in France
Off to Utah at the end of January for 2 weeks
Plus I have trips to Austria, France & Austria again planned before the end of the season.
Some people might think I have a problem ...
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Jen Kuipers
United States
Woodbridge
Virginia
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I spend WAY too much time online playing MMORPG. In a guild that manages to get server first boss kills on most newly implemented content. I think the most fun is figuring out the strategies to initially defeat those encounters. We were the first on our server, and one of the first 10 or so groups to kill the bad-boy in the picture in-game.
Being an RPG head, my other hobby is Live Action Role-Playing.
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Joe Childers
United States
Dayton
Ohio
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I'm an amateur astronomer, and this fall I'm going back to school to start towards a Ph.D. in astrophysics and making a career out of it.
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Joe Childers
United States
Dayton
Ohio
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I've also loved studying the Pacific theater of WWII ever since reading a book on the Battle of Midway in 3rd grade.
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Board Game: Armati
[Average Rating:6.56 Unranked]
clay stretch
United States
louisville
Kentucky
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I also collect and model 15mm ancient armies for use with the Armati battle system (2nd edition). Two whole armies fit on my dining room table with the playing mat (64in X 40in). I really enjoy the research, the painting and collecting as much as the actual battlegame....I also BASS FISH! ............. Clay
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Bob McMurray
United States
LaGrange
Illinois
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As my username may suggest to some of you I am a single malt Scotch whisky enthusiast including starting my own tasting club - think wine tasting but even snobbier!
For the curious - here's my club's web site:
www.keepersofthequaich.org
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Board Game: Bookworm
[Average Rating:5.00 Unranked]
(The Artist formerly known as) Arnest R
Germany
Munich
Bavaria
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I have a *cough* little problem with books. Lots of comics, but that´s not nearly where it ends.
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Bob McMurray
United States
LaGrange
Illinois
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I love playing tennis - mostly doubles actually. My area is a hot bed of tennis so I continue to enjoy competitive leagues and tournaments despite being long removed from high school and college teams.
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Took up the much safer sport of surfing after I broke some bones on my KDX200.
Until now it has stayed only in Europe though there is a large variation in this single continent.
though i do have a charcter or two that i play very occasionaly.
