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QOTW: What's your biggest hobby aside from gaming?

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HMXsean  - 6 months 21 days ago 
Porn.
Devin3019  - 6 months 21 days ago 
Skateboarding big time!!
HungryBeaver  - 6 months 21 days ago 
I have lots of other activities but my top would defintetly be baseball. I am on two teams: a traveling team and an (as our city calls it) in-house team. I play almost every day per week. Some of my other hobbies would be roller hockey, some golf, basketball, and just hangin out with my friends.
JizzyB  - 6 months 21 days ago 
My hobby is Muay Thai, which is just modern kickboxing.
Eman7673  - 6 months 21 days ago 
My favorite thing to do by far (other then gaming) is lift weights. I have been at it for 7 years now, and it is my other addiction (besides games). I am an exercise science major and love reading about health and fitness. So there you go.
BurningSushi460  - 6 months 21 days ago 
My non-game hobby would probably be history. Don't call it boring, when you play all these games that are set in beautiful historical periods and scenarios you just can't help but want to know more about it.

My other one would also be taking guns out to the range and shooting. When Counter Strike to COD4 and Company of Heroes to Metal Gear Solid don't fall in one day, I just go to the desert back with some friends and pop some clips out of my AR22 and Ruger. Makes one feel a lot cooler than just FPS'ing all the time.
shockolate  - 6 months 21 days ago 
Fighting console wars on forums has to be my favourite hobby
mrmak  - 6 months 21 days ago 
Aside from gaming I try to run as often as possible and compete in road races. I also write for a few websites and am a photo editor of my schools newspaper. Deep down all I really want to do is game (all of the time!). But then I wouldn't have too many friends so I must pretend to like doing other things...
reroxas  - 6 months 21 days ago 
I say reading a good fiction book, manga, watching anime, and trying to figure out this odd, odd world we live in. Oh and listening to rock.
ProfessorBonk  - 6 months 21 days ago 
I don't exactly think of gaming as a hobby, so much as a passion. It's amazing how we can call gaming one thing in a whole, when so many games are so very very different.

As for the question, I'd say my biggest hobby at the moment is reading. I have a bookshelf that has a crack down it's side from the sheer weight of the dusty, yellow, and new books I've torn through over the past five years. Good fun, and it's peaceful. Game-based books are my favorite oxymoron.
CaptMcSpanky  - 6 months 21 days ago 
Inline hockey, fly fishing, hunting, skeet shooting(betcha Chris gets a kick out of that), leaning, adding things to a list "Acts of douchebaggery", and finally cancer charity work
curljerry  - 6 months 21 days ago 
Straight up, I'd say getting the punani, you know what I'm talking about! SMEESHING BITTIES! All day, everyday.
Rodrigo90  - 6 months 21 days ago 
I really like papercrafting. I don't do it a lot because I don't have that much time to spare nor the money to buy ink cartridges, but I've made (not designed, made) some really cool models.
It is a hobby that goes really well with videogames; since the models are designed not by companies but by... um.. dudes, you can find a lot of variety and things you like.
I myself have made a Sonic, an awesome X-wing, a Mario, a Kirby, an incredible Blizzaial robot (from front mission 4) and a Majora's Mask Link that's really spectacular
And you can find a lot of other models too.. WoW, Pokemon, Tomb Raider, Smash Brothers, MGS and a lot more, not only from videogames. How about a real-life size Lancer, or Master chief's helmet.
They're great for anyone who wants to havemodels if thee kind of these kind of things and they look really, really nice.

Chech out these sites to see what I'm talking about:
http://www.papercraftmuseum.com
http://www.nintendopapercraft.com
http://www.paperpokes.com
http://www.ninjatoes.com (I THINK that is the right link. Any way if it's not, look up "ninjatoes" on google. This guy's SSBM Link is gonna blow your mind, specially the double sized one..)
Denrok  - 6 months 21 days ago 
Imagine the polar opposite of video games. Reading books probably pops in the mind pretty quickly. Well I'm proud to say that reading is in fact my second favourite hobby. However, seaming as the story of a game is very important to me this makes quite a bit of sense. Also the fact that the genre doesn't really differ from games to books,(I mostly play fantasy RPG's and mostly read things like LotR and The Wizard of Earthsea) I suppose it shouldn't surprise many people at all.
flare149  - 6 months 21 days ago 
I really like rowing. I haven't gotten to do it much in awhile but rowing is an amazing support that not only uses a lot of muscles in the body and is good for your heart, but is a tranquil water sport where you can really just relax.
phoenix_wings  - 6 months 21 days ago 
I 'really' enjoy listening to music. I am only beginning to start to play it, but I have this great ability to piss the fuck out of anyone by making them unwilling participants in a game of "Name that Tune." I also really enjoy writing, but what is taking up an increasing amount of my time is being the chairperson for a town-council committee dedicated to road safety. Which is ironic, considering the first thing I do in GTA and Saints Row 2 is get in a car and head for the nearest pedestrians.
StupidFaceXD  - 6 months 21 days ago 
My hobby besides playing video games is playing guitar. Eh... Not great yet, but practice makes perfect, trial and error, no pain no gain? Can I throw in another cliche? You bet! Nah. Just kidding, I'm done. :P Anyway, guitar.
nik41507  - 6 months 21 days ago 
Now what do I do when im not playing games??????????????????????????
Oh yeah, now I remembered.

Most of the time when im not gaming I listen to music. Not ORDINARY trashy radio music. No way.
What I listen to is Hell March from the Red Alert 3 sondtrack (in the PREMIER edition. $15.00 more). Or some "Eye of the tiger" (GREATEST SONG EVER!!!!!!!! im listining to it right now on my ipod). And other than that, only one band can be my favorite. LED ZEPPELIN!!!!!
the immigrant song OWNS! Anf black dog and any other led zeppelin song. Other than that i do homework (blah). And eat and sleep. eating is my favorite.


also............ 77TH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AMayer  - 6 months 21 days ago 
I play drums in my off time from beating and re-beating any game I have because my Gold membership ran out. Also, because everyone plays guitar, so I'm being unique. If you ever want to be in a band make sure you play bass. Bass players are about as rare as finding four leaf clover. I'm in desprate need of bass players.
AMayer  - 6 months 21 days ago 
I'd like to add reading GR is my other hobby. Love you!!
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