Monday, July 24, 2017

Monday Question Day- Hobbies?


Today is question day:

Do you have any other hobbies?

Besides drawing I enjoy playing video games. Now that I think about it, I am just 8-year old me but in an adult body. At the time, I liked drawing Star Wars characters, playing with my Atari 2600 and collecting baseball cards. The only thing that has changed is that my art skills are more developed, I play video games with much better graphics and the cards I collect don’t get thrown against walls or stuck in bike spokes.

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  1. Recently... I've gotten into building Lego sets.

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    1. My son has always been a Lego builder, we were fortunate when living in the Valley because there was a Lego store in our local mall. I have always enjoyed building sets with him but my favorites are the Star Wars sets. It is too bad that they cost so much more than basic sets.

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    2. It's a slippery slope. Every now and then I go on a shopping spree and pick up some sets. I'm chilling right now. As soon as they release the next wave... I'll go through them and decide on which ones I'll target.

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  2. I went through a period where I played a lot of video games. My wife and I played World of Warcraft pretty heavily, but when our first kid was born she stopped playing and I quit about six months later.

    I collect comic books. I (used to) paint miniature figurines for wargames, which I would like to get back into soon. I like riding motorcycles, although I haven't ridden mine in a while. I love collecting and building LEGO sets.

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    1. I played WoW from time to time but I never signed up, I have a problem with purchasing a game and then having to pay to play. I love a good RPG or FPS game, I am playing through the Batman Arkham series now.

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  3. Fantasy baseball... I don't play in money leagues, but the amount of time I put into it would probably say otherwise.

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    1. I recently joined a fantasy baseball league, purely out of chance. Someone had posted a thread on a forum about a new league so I signed up and it is a bit different than a typical league but enjoyable.

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  4. No other real hobbies. Some day I'd like to collect old signs but right now I feel priced out from doing so. I'm a huge Star Wars fan but don't really collect it. I did complete the full original Marvel run of 107 comics many years ago - my personal favorite SW expanded universe.

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    1. The problem with collecting Star Wars is that there are so many options and if you aren't careful you end up getting pulled in to a variety of collecting. I think Disney uses this to their advantage when they release so many action figure lines, books, comic books, television shows and so on. They expect you to like a movie or show and then you chase the cards, the figures and the books.

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