What's your hobby or pursuit that influences how you like to identify yourself?

Nerd. I just do a ton of nerdy things, s'all. I can program, design in CAD, play PC games, design electronics, work in IT security, work on 3D printers, grow mushrooms of all kinds and the list goes on. For the most part, I just like to learn about all kinds of engineering things. Learning about quantum physics is my newest endeavor, but not at super high level of course.

What has happened over the years is that I have just learned to exploit my ADHD and all of my hobbies tie into each other somehow. It's more efficient and it helps if I start to lose interest in one of them for a bit.

Edit: Even my profile here is filled with a ton of random information. I just have researched a ton and done a metric fuck ton of things, s'all. It quite literally is a mental condition. Lulz.

Are we all just too proud to start identifying first and foremost as a masturbator?

I'm a weed farmer for sure. It's a fun hobby and at the end, you get to get baked!

I collect flashlights and am registered as a flasher...

I love to ride and rebuild motorcycles. It's so satisfying getting a crusty old bike and making it a reliable machine again.

It does influence how I think of myself. I'm proud of being able to disassemble and reassemble an entire motorcycle.

It's an amazing feeling going down the highway on two wheels, knowing that the machine underneath me used to be a pile of parts in boxes.

I’m a cyclist and I wouldn’t really use a noun for it but I am very involved in a bdsm community and it does impact my self perception

Running and bird photography. Both of them are more than incidental hobbies. They shape how I see myself

I call myself a film nerd. I particularly enjoy movies with surrealistic or psychological elements. I prefer older movies or movies that depict older periods, such as the ~1880s-1980s. I had a fixation on the 20s-40s a while ago and discovered one of my favourite actors, Charles Boyer. Watched a bit of Ingrid Bergman, too. Currently, I am fixating on the 2018 show Das Boot (the first 2 seasons at least…).

I hold movies dear to my heart. I have ~250 movies on hold in my “watchlist,” and I seldom find the motivation to sit down and absorb new materials. However, once I do discover something I like, chances are I will incorporate it into my personality or daily life some way. I feel that movies encourage creativity within me, as I often take inspiration from movies / shows / characters when creating my own work (I write in my free time).

I have never met a person in real life who is just as passionate about this as I am. I don’t really have anybody to talk about movies with for hours, so I turn to the internet. Even then, it’s difficult to find such people, I think.

I'm a performing artist. I do fire, sideshow, and burlesque.

I'm a cat lady if my cats count as a hobby (and I count them as a hobby). Also I play a lot of video games but have been socialized not to call myself a gamer because of gatekeepers.

I would say gamer, but that doesn't really mean ttrpgs these days. Maybe storyteller, but its been awhile since i was in the ST chair.

"Jack of all" I had a lot of jobs in my teens to my mid 20s. Got married, had a son and divorced in 5 years. Started climbing towers in 2000 and haven't looked back. But all the jobs I had before and all of the different things that come along with communication towers.....I know a little about a lot.

Edit: I guess that I should have read the rest before commenting. But it is kind of the same. I like art, animals, nature, we have a few out of the ordinary pets, I like bladed weapons, lock sport, leather work, archery. So, yah, Jack of all.

Video games are so much more my hobby then anything else, any other one feels kind of fake. Unfortunately calling myself a gamer is basically a red flag, so i avoid it at all costs

I guess maybe mushroom hunting.

Years ago I adopted the identifier 'Cascadian' as I fit most of the stereotypes.

(Referring to those of us that live in/around the Cascade mountain range.)

I know it's not 'a hobby' but being native to the PNW, it really is a lifestyle. We're out playing in the wilderness, hunting, fishing, enjoying the rain. We smell a little like moss & dirt with a hint of patchouli. We grown our own food and prefer our animals over people most of the time. I'm about to move across the country and I have no idea what my life will be like. I spend 90% of my free time outside in wilderness where most of my 'hobbies' take place.

My main fixation is developing a tabletop role playing game. I'm not a game developer by profession, but I'm definitely one by practice at this point.

After a year of work, our game is getting close to release, and I'm so excited to see what I do with my time after it does.

I have a lot of hobbies, so I'm not worried, but I'm looking forward to whatever comes next. I hope to keep up with game development, but I think it'll be a relief to change things up.

If anyone's interested, the game has a community at slrpnk.net/c/fullyautomatedrpg .

I understand why other people try to put me into categories but why should I do this shit to myself?

In my late teenage years, I got really into hitting my friends with sticks - competitively.

Am now in my forties and still use the same damn username.

I really identify with instruments as well, my drummer friend. I would call myself a guitarist, mainly, but I can play drums and produce music as well so maybe I could expand that title to just 'musician'. Keep on slamming those skins.

Wood. I fancy myself a carpenter, and I'm officially allowed to, that was the trade I originally learned - and never worked an hour later as one. But when my house would burn, I'd rescue my Japanese tools first. Then my family. Don't tell them...

Snowboarder. It's just my favourite thing to do going on 15 years now. It's influenced where I chose to live, the friends I've made, sparked a passion for outdoors that lead to also being a backpacker, climber, mountain biker, and realize my whole thing is really just having fun flowing through nature.

Photographer. All that time in nature puts me in pretty places so I wanted to take landscapes. That's still my favourite genre, but I also go for random photo walks, am my social groups go to wedding photographer, document my own kid and family, collect and shoot old school film cameras, develop my own film even. I'm that random weird friend always walking around with a camera.

I'm an archaeology & history enthusiast. I like the term "past-o" but I live in the US and few people get a deep cut reference to a british comedy show.

I just love the variety of human responses to existing in the world, I can't help but bring it up all the time and I feel like it colors my perspective of the present and what's possible.

Kite flyer, kite maker.

I've been flying multi-line, controllable sport kites for over half of my life. I attend kite festivals very frequently and occasionally travel throughout the US or internationally for kite festivals.

About 6 years ago, I started building my own sport kites. Now days, I have a workshop with 5 sewing machines, 2 3d printers, and other equipment, all of it revolving around kite making.

I can't really imagine my life without kites involved.

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I study rhetoric as a hobby and think of myself as a writer sometimes.

My current interests are yoga, succulents, reading and painting but having adhd makes this list ever changing. I think yoga has stuck the most, seventeen years and counting, but I don't think of myself as a yogi.

I just wanna get high. Skydiving, paramotoring, base...

I love password generators, and so I use them to generate unique usernames for everything online.

I’m a nerdy hippie! I love video games and random facts, but I’ll talk for hours about psychedelics and go to music festivals and talk about how opening it is. I play percussion, but it feeds into the hippie vibe I try to convey. :)

Bass player. It's just what I do.

None of my hobbies overwhelm my identity to the point of being a lifestyle. I switch modes in and out of them and when I’m “on” I am 100% into them, but by default I’m just a regular type dude.

Versatility and an ability to step back even from a deeply held hobby are important things.

Outdoorsman here. I've tried a lot of things outdoorsy but never hunting. Fly fishing is my passion now. Used to be overnight backpacking or paddling trips but it gets harder as I get older. The great outdoors gave me a purpose when I badly needed one thirty years ago