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  • rustyfish@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Circumstance, really. Some things just stuck with me.

    Went for a walk. Liked it. Walks got longer and longer while the equipment got better and better. Ended up with trekking.

    “Hey, this card game looks pretty cool. Can you explain me the rules of it?” The bane of my wallet, Magic the Gathering, entered my life.

    After oven pizza #2947294 “This tastes like shit. What am I doing to myself?” Learned to love cooking.

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    Knitting: My mom gave me a knitting book when I was little and I just kind of never stopped. I knit/craft on and off now.

    Video Games: I guess I was just raised around them. My mom and grandma had a Nintendo, and my grandma had a Sega Genesis (she really like sonic). They were just always there in some capacity.

    Birdwatching: I bought a bird feeder to give my cat some “cat TV” and now I’m just heavily invested in them for some reason. Merlin Bird ID is my pokedex ❤️

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    I have a flower garden because I like taking pictures of flowers and bees and butterflies and shit.

    I have a camera because I wanted to have original photos of textures and objects to practice CV and photogrammetry techniques on. (I still haven’t really done that much of this, lol.)

    I think the CS stuff generally was from a Stanford course on YouTube?

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    TTRPGs: first system playing in college, I’ve been playing and running games for various groups over the last ~13 years.

    Video games: played so much Donkey Kong Country with my dad as a little kid. Never truly stopped ever since.

    3d modeling/animation: It’s my job, and I use it for personal reasons.

    Cooking: Learned along side cooking with my parents and watching food network before it was overrun with competition cooking.

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    While trying to poop (think pee anxiety with number two instead), it used to ease my mind to read instructions on the bottles found in my childhood bathrooms. I later found that I enjoyed the way rules worked and the emergence of role playing games through reading cover-to-cover The Players Handbook for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (not while pooping).

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    Guitar: as a kid I just thought it’d be awesome to shred. Now I mostly play acoustic fingerstyle, but shred some. Interest has ebbed and flowed over the years, but been playing forever.

    Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: I wanted a challenge and to get good at something new. It’s hard, but I like it and just keep coming back. Been doing it for a couple years and am a blue belt.

    Hiking: did it as a kid, now I do it with my wife who pushes me to hike more than I would otherwise which is good

    Tech stuff: coding, piracy, stuff like that. Dad was in IT and taught me to look for solutions with tech. Never stopped. I’m not a fantastic coder, but use it for work and also to solve personal challenges, enter piracy.

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    Brewing- my dad taught me, I could drink everything I made. Underaged me really liked this arrangement until I found out how much work it is, then I started to like it and now it is my job.