Posted: 8th April 2003 22:56
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Engineer Posts: 396 Joined: 4/1/2003 Awards: |
Anyone have any hobbies besides video games?
I tend to mimic people alot. (hence the avatar) But I also do some writing, including short stories and poetry. I know theirs artists and writers that contribute, but surely there's some that havent mentioned it or don't contribute. (I could but I'm not to happy with it.) -------------------- Really Random Quote of the Day: "Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war." - Richard M. Nixon So if you're done reading this, you know I have nothing to say and you've wasted your time. Thank you come again. |
Post #10770
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Posted: 9th April 2003 00:04
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You're soaking in it.
-------------------- "To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN? |
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Post #10771
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Posted: 9th April 2003 02:05
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Cetra Posts: 2,397 Joined: 22/3/2003 Awards: |
I write, read, and I collect ancient-style weapons (swords, daggers, sais, stars, etc.)
-------------------- "I had to write four novels before they let me write comic books." -Brad Meltzer |
Post #10775
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Posted: 9th April 2003 02:17
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Disciplinary Committee Member Posts: 585 Joined: 30/11/2002 Awards: |
i love music more than anything else, and my dream was always to go somewhere with my music, so im always kind of saddened when i know i cant have that cuz im gonna be in the army for the next six years. i like to play guitar, bass, harmonica, and sometimes drums when i come across a set. if i could ever find someone who bootlegged one of my shows or if i had a good recording, i would make a site or something and post links if anyone was interested. i dont think lyrics or anything like that is welcome on the fanart/fanfic page, and i also dont want to offend anyone (particularly the webmaster or staff) because there is some rather harsh language in a few and somewhat violent subjects to a lot of my songs and i wouldnt want to offend anyone that didnt care for my views or ideas. im kind of an over-the-top kind of person, and not everyone likes that, so i pretty much keep it to myself.
i also work at a butcher shop, which although i get paid to do it, i would probably do it for free because its an easy job and you meet a lot of nice people and its a good skill to have i guess. im the only person i know who doesnt dread going to work 7 days a week, i actually look forward to it and count down the hours. stop thinking weird things about me. thats about it, i dont get out much. -------------------- You watch the world exploding every single night Dancing in the sun, a newborn in the light Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death Hello to eternity and live for every breath Your time will come... |
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Posted: 9th April 2003 10:53
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Hobbies, eh?
Music is THE most important thing in life. (aside from family, friends, etc.) From the moment I wake up until the moment I go to sleep, I'm listening to something which I tend to call "g00d music". Heck, I even go to sleep while listening to music. I collect cd's. At last count, I had 134. I like to buy a couple of different cd's every couple of weeks, hence the sig. Top 10 Bands- -Rage Against the Machine -Nonpoint -tool -System of a Down -311 -Red HOt Chili Peppers -Local H -Offspring -Stone Temple Pilots -Foo Fighters I also play music, as many of you know. I'm a professional ameteur at the bass (does that make sense?) I play in a band called Amoxicillin. Right now, we just do songs from other bands we like, but we've recently started to write our own stuff. Besides the bass, I'm a pro at the trumpet (ph33r my brass power!) Been playing it since the fourth grade. I also play set, though not good enough to be bragging. And I have some skills on the piano/keyboard. Sports also a big part of my life. I love playing basketball, tennis, golf, baseball, and roller hockey. And I'm an avid sports watcher as well. I watch nearly anything on ESPN or Fox Sports Net. I like to write short stories. To date, I have completed about 6 or 7 short stories (1 submitted to CoN) and have about 10-13 that are left unfiinished. I aspire to become a newspaper columnist when I graduate from high school. So writing is important to me. Between all that, school, (bleh ) and working at a movie theater, those are my hobbies. -------------------- "When I turn the page The corner bends into the perfect dog ear As if the words knew I'd need them again But at the time, I didn't see it." ~"This Ain't a Surfin' Movie" - Minus the Bear |
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Post #10788
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Posted: 9th April 2003 11:08
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Black Mage Posts: 159 Joined: 1/8/2002 Awards: |
I like to read, mostly fantasy. There's the whole video game thing. Right now I'm addicted to FIFA 2003. Love music and all that. Intramural season has just starter so I've started playing soccer again. Sleep has become a hobby of mine since it requires some ingenuity to get it in with my homework among other things.
-------------------- What would Zorro do?-Homer Simpson |
Post #10790
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Posted: 9th April 2003 20:24
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Wavey Marle! Posts: 2,098 Joined: 21/1/2003 Awards: |
oh man...
Hobbies, eh? Okay, here goes Listening to music- Linkin Park, D-12, Eminem, Drowning Pool, Ozzy Osbourne... Playing warhammer 40k- a tabletop wargame Discussing my hobbies online- obvious reading/writing i suppose are hobbies of mine watching footie (UK)- SAINT MIRRREN TILL I DIE! and thats my hobbies. oh, and endlessly making anti-french jokes. -------------------- "Only the dead have seen the end of their quotes being misattributed to Plato." -George Santayana "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..." -Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony. |
Post #10819
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Posted: 10th April 2003 00:10
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Cactuar Posts: 249 Joined: 11/12/2002 Awards: |
I like to write,photography,painting,sking,singing,cooking gormet meals stuff like that
-------------------- Things have not changed You have changed Henery David Thoreau |
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Posted: 10th April 2003 00:22
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Returner
Posts: 15 Joined: 4/4/2003 Awards: |
i do lots of things, dancing, swimming, skating, skiing, drawing, painting -(not saying i do it well)
-------------------- my mind works like lightning, one brilliant flash and then it's gone... |
Post #10843
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Posted: 10th April 2003 00:25
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Dragoon Posts: 1,706 Joined: 7/4/2003 Awards: |
The closest thing I have to a hobby is my writing and the occasional game playing; I don't do much with my life.
-------------------- ~Status Report~ * Completed... Dragon's Head * Completed... Soldiers of the Empire: Disciples (release pending) * In Progress/Undecided... Of Love and Betrayal * Planning/Assembly... Where it all Began |
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Posted: 10th April 2003 16:44
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Sports is my life, it doesn't count as a hobby. That said, my hobbies include:
Music. I love music, mostly concious hip-hop, also a little R&B and Jazz. I think I'll imitate Sabin and list my top ten artists/groups: Black Star The Roots De La Soul J-Live Mission Common Wu-Tang Outkast Pharcyde Tribe Called Quest Reading, Writing, Biking, and Chess also qualify, but a little less enthusiastically than music. -------------------- Hip-Hop QOTW: "Yeah, where I'ma start it at, look I'ma part of that Downtown Philly where it's realer than a heart attack It wasn't really that ill until the start of crack Now it's a body caught every night on the Almanac" "Game Theory" The Roots |
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Post #10887
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Posted: 10th April 2003 18:49
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Cactuar Posts: 249 Joined: 11/12/2002 Awards: |
I know you swim well Brenny..seeing how you have a pool and all lol
-------------------- Things have not changed You have changed Henery David Thoreau |
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Posted: 11th April 2003 00:00
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Magitek Soldier
Posts: 329 Joined: 5/1/2002 Awards: |
Hobbies. Let me lay it down in list form
-sleep (i'm a proffessional ) -GTA: Vice City (i'll kill you all, i guarantee) -chilling in my last 2 months of high school (major w00t factor) -womanizing (not so much anymore.. but i'm still a pro at it) -quality time with my AWESPME drum set (at least 3 hours a day... well, i try to) -chilling with mi amigos -spinning rock cuts at Neo's Clubbb (and that's my JOB! sweet!) -pumping iron at the gym and getting geared up for the Air Force in June that's me -------------------- Air force... if you ever join the militant wing, join the Air force Army = jockos Navy = seasick nerds Marines = show offs PeaceCorp = hippies AF is the way to go |
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Posted: 11th April 2003 01:38
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Disciplinary Committee Member Posts: 585 Joined: 30/11/2002 Awards: |
you play drums? i thought you played bass... damn who was that again?
-------------------- You watch the world exploding every single night Dancing in the sun, a newborn in the light Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death Hello to eternity and live for every breath Your time will come... |
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Posted: 11th April 2003 02:06
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I play bass! Something both Tim and I forgot to mention is that we're in the same band. I play bass and lead vocals, Tim is the drummer, and then of course we have a lead guitarist (she's not a CoN member, so you wouldn't know her). -------------------- "When I turn the page The corner bends into the perfect dog ear As if the words knew I'd need them again But at the time, I didn't see it." ~"This Ain't a Surfin' Movie" - Minus the Bear |
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Posted: 11th April 2003 02:54
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Engineer
Posts: 351 Joined: 7/5/2001 Awards: |
Making music -guitar, bass (play in a band that actually plays decent venues )
Video Games Listening to music - Beatles, Pink Floyd, Sublime, Bob Marley, Deftones, Disco Biscuits, 2 Skinnee J's Piercings - I am fascinated with body modifications, currently have 3/8" earlobes (stretching to 7/16") and eyebrow. Planning on doing tongue soon. I am fascinated with the anceint cutural aspects especially. My choice of piercings is related to the tribal signifigance of them (ask me in chat and I can explain ) -------------------- Old enough to know better Not old enough to care |
Post #10928
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Posted: 11th April 2003 03:11
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Engineer Posts: 362 Joined: 27/7/2001 Awards: |
I'm an eccentric person with boring hobbies ¬.¬ I like to: read and analyze children's literature (reading in general isn't a hobby; it's something I do...like breathing), Victorian fashion and culture, 1920's fashion and culture, T.S. Eliot, Tennyson, classical Greek and Roman literature, geisha culture, collect interesting poker cards, watch anime, critically analyze anime, write fiction, draw, follow certain illustrators and artists, indulge in Japanese pop culture, and be as strange as possible.
I'm an Asian Studies major now, so I also spend a lot of time looking at Japanese society, culture, and history, and especially at gender issues. So a hobby has turned into actual academic research. I'll be doing it for the rest of my life now ^^; -------------------- "Turd-cookies!...they're hot and soft, though..." Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on. - Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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Posted: 11th April 2003 03:15
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Black Waltz Posts: 859 Joined: 1/8/2002 Awards: |
my hobbies include sports mostly football, wrestling, and rugby (BGSU RUGBY SWEET 16 BOUND, wish me luck), coaching wrestling, playing guitar and writing songs, drinking and partying, and history especially the Civil War (I have visited many battlesites and will visit the greatest battlefield in American history this summer, Gettysburg).
-------------------- War is for the participants a test of character; it makes bad men worse and good men better. - Joshua Chamberlain U sir R a n00b >:-( - Cactuar |
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Posted: 11th April 2003 18:24
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Disciplinary Committee Member Posts: 585 Joined: 30/11/2002 Awards: |
ohhh... yeah it kinda hit me a little later that i had the wrong guy. at least i wasnt TOO far off, what with you guys playing together. -------------------- You watch the world exploding every single night Dancing in the sun, a newborn in the light Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death Hello to eternity and live for every breath Your time will come... |
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Post #10962
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Posted: 13th April 2003 16:08
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Crusader Posts: 1,405 Joined: 17/1/2003 Awards: |
My hobbies include:
TRYING TO write poetry (got great inspiration, but not enough percentage in the drinks ) Trying to invent/master new tricks with my playing-chain. Quake3Arena. I like playing with anime-originating models (Zero, Cloud Strife, Sephiroth, Oni Link, Fuchikoma, Vivi...) And looking up stuff in the internet ;> -------------------- "I fell off the mountain of words at around the 10,000ft mark. Tell my family...they owe me money." -Narratorway "If you retort against this, so help me God I'll shove any part of your anatomy I can find into some other part. Figuratively, of course." - Josh "We have more, can deliver tuesday." - Del S Good old CoN |
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Posted: 14th April 2003 21:31
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Disciplinary Committee Member Posts: 585 Joined: 30/11/2002 Awards: |
if you like civil war sites, i can assure you 100% that you will enjoy gettysburg, especially if you havent already been there. go to downtown gettysburg and look at all the shops and other buildings, they havent changed in over 175 years (theres even a building with a cannon shell sticking out of the second story wall). make sure to visit the bloody angle, the peach orchard and devils den in particular. im sure you will appreciate the town and all the battlesites. -------------------- You watch the world exploding every single night Dancing in the sun, a newborn in the light Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death Hello to eternity and live for every breath Your time will come... |
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Post #11057
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Posted: 14th April 2003 23:29
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SOLDIER
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hmmm....
drawing music breakdancing anime to an embarassing extreme ;/ |
Post #11059
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Posted: 14th April 2003 23:34
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Black Mage
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trying to get all the bob dylan songs on mp3, as well as being sorted
wandering sometimes, ill do more of that when it's warmer. reading Tom Brown Junior |
Post #11060
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Posted: 16th April 2003 12:38
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Red Wing Pilot Posts: 512 Joined: 5/12/2002 Awards: |
As a hallmark of my family, I do everything (though not at the same time). I try to focus on things which lead to a full, hearty life. Things such as music, liturature, learning, potatoes, and the great outdoors. I would have to say that the hobby which I take part in most often is thinking.
Edit: By liturature, I meant both writting and reading. |
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Posted: 16th April 2003 13:13
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Chocobo Knight Posts: 89 Joined: 5/12/2002 Awards: |
I mostly read but I also play Magic. I listen to a lot of music, not as much as Sabin, but it is still a major factor in my life.
-------------------- "The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings." |
Post #11134
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Posted: 17th April 2003 22:52
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Cactuar Posts: 249 Joined: 11/12/2002 Awards: |
potatoes? care to explain Iain. I didn't know potatoes could be a hobby
-------------------- Things have not changed You have changed Henery David Thoreau |
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Posted: 18th April 2003 05:43
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Cetra Posts: 2,397 Joined: 22/3/2003 Awards: |
I second that motion. Potatoes as in "Potato Gun" or "Couch Potato"? -------------------- "I had to write four novels before they let me write comic books." -Brad Meltzer |
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Post #11214
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Posted: 18th April 2003 13:02
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Red Wing Pilot Posts: 512 Joined: 5/12/2002 Awards: |
And Dark Paladin, don't tell me you'd waste perfectly good potatoes in such a way. |
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Post #11225
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Posted: 18th April 2003 18:12
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SOLDIER Posts: 810 Joined: 18/1/2002 Awards: |
I used to play Saxophone and Basson, but have since slacked off of my music playing. I also used to take karate, because my dad used to own a karate school because he's an uber-black belt-ninja-cop. White water rafting was fun, but I almost drowned doing that, so geh... I have plenty of books filled with old coins, since I used to collect them, but I haven't done it in years. Now I'm in the "websites and computer technologies own me" portion of my life. Oh how I love the internet.
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Post #11239
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Posted: 18th April 2003 20:52
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Cetra Posts: 2,397 Joined: 22/3/2003 Awards: |
Of course not! I have had people describe it to me, including my father (mostly middle school time-period ) I still don't get it -------------------- "I had to write four novels before they let me write comic books." -Brad Meltzer |
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