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Hobbies and interests - members lists

zone_tripper
over 13 years ago

I just thought I'd start a topic about what interests and hobbies we have.  Here's some of mine...

  • Tabletop roleplaying games, especially "Doctor Who" (the FASA, Virgin, and Cubicle 7 ones), "Serenity", "Victoriana" and "GURPS".
  • Re-enactment and LARP events.
  • Collecting Doctor Who inspired LARP props.
  • Collecting replica historical coins.
  • Collecting fake pound coins.
  • Video games; mainly, Fallout 3 and GTA at present.
  • Voluntary work; for 15 years, I have been volunteering for a local nature conservation charity.
  • Reading; mainly non-fiction (although I do like Dr Who short story books and collections) such as the Victorian era/1800s, the UK home front during WW2, UK home defence during the Cold War, NBC warfare, special forces, Special Operations Executive, the Goth subculture, amongst others. 
  • Drawing (when I have the patience).
  • TV programmes such as Doctor Who (been a fan since the 1980s), Firefly, Torchwood, Time Team, QI, Have I Got News For You, etc. 
  • Music - Carl McCoy/Fields of the Nephilim/Nefilim, Last Rites, The Eden House, Katie Melua, Midnight Oil, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, etc.
  • All things Goth and the Goth subculture.

 

 

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  • over 9 years ago

    My random list of stuff, since I seem to be unearthing various old topics.  It tends to vary over time depending on my randomly selected obsessions of the moment, but currently:

    • Music: mostly Electric Six at present, as they're underrated and amusing.  Other than that, lots of early '80s stuff, since the time when I grew up of course had the best pop music (!), early-ish goth (nice to see the Neph mentioned, for example), and specifics being Stereolab, Ladytron (great band, shame about the name), Hawkwind, The Stranglers, etc.
    • Video games: Western RPGs for the most part, with a handful of the more interesting shooters.  So much of the past year has been dominated by Divinity Original Sin, Inquisition and Bioshock Infinite (latecomer there, I had to have a good sulk about its daft save system before I played it).  Other than that, the Elder Scrolls series, Mass Effect (except for that ending), the recent Fallouts and so on.
    • Telly: don't watch it much, but I still enjoy programmes like Jools Holland, Game of Thrones and the odd drippy period drama like Poldark.
    • Stuff That Involves Actually Doing Stuff: playing bass, which I've done on and off for the past 30 years.  I'm mostly not very good at it because I'm clumsy and too lazy to practice, but I have my moments.  My favourite bass is a Fender Precision, which is apparently why I've never owned one.  I don't really understand that either.  Other than that, photography (which I'm really not much good at: my other half is much better), cooking (which I'm much better at than she is!) and, er, stuff.
    • Stuff That Makes Me Look Questionably Sane: weapons.  I'm fascinated by swords and stuff, and own a bunch of modern reproductions (I mean proper ones, not the awful stainless-steel "sword like objects").  Also firearms, though more from an academic point of view since I'm a terrible shot and can't really be trusted with anything more dangerous than a butter knife.  Yes, I'm aware that I said that in the same paragraph as admitting to owning a bunch of very sharp swords.
    • Stuff I've forgotten: I'll unforget it once my obsession decides to revisit it.
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  • over 9 years ago

    My random list of stuff, since I seem to be unearthing various old topics.  It tends to vary over time depending on my randomly selected obsessions of the moment, but currently:

    • Music: mostly Electric Six at present, as they're underrated and amusing.  Other than that, lots of early '80s stuff, since the time when I grew up of course had the best pop music (!), early-ish goth (nice to see the Neph mentioned, for example), and specifics being Stereolab, Ladytron (great band, shame about the name), Hawkwind, The Stranglers, etc.
    • Video games: Western RPGs for the most part, with a handful of the more interesting shooters.  So much of the past year has been dominated by Divinity Original Sin, Inquisition and Bioshock Infinite (latecomer there, I had to have a good sulk about its daft save system before I played it).  Other than that, the Elder Scrolls series, Mass Effect (except for that ending), the recent Fallouts and so on.
    • Telly: don't watch it much, but I still enjoy programmes like Jools Holland, Game of Thrones and the odd drippy period drama like Poldark.
    • Stuff That Involves Actually Doing Stuff: playing bass, which I've done on and off for the past 30 years.  I'm mostly not very good at it because I'm clumsy and too lazy to practice, but I have my moments.  My favourite bass is a Fender Precision, which is apparently why I've never owned one.  I don't really understand that either.  Other than that, photography (which I'm really not much good at: my other half is much better), cooking (which I'm much better at than she is!) and, er, stuff.
    • Stuff That Makes Me Look Questionably Sane: weapons.  I'm fascinated by swords and stuff, and own a bunch of modern reproductions (I mean proper ones, not the awful stainless-steel "sword like objects").  Also firearms, though more from an academic point of view since I'm a terrible shot and can't really be trusted with anything more dangerous than a butter knife.  Yes, I'm aware that I said that in the same paragraph as admitting to owning a bunch of very sharp swords.
    • Stuff I've forgotten: I'll unforget it once my obsession decides to revisit it.
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