What Other Hobbies Interest You Besides Gaming?

[Triumphant]

On 9/8/2023 at 7:44 AM, Greycat said:

Yes, this thread was SO IMPORTANT it had to be necroed THREE YEARS AFTER THE LAST REPLY.

C'mon, man.  Don't misrepresent.  The reason we did it was specifically to annoy you. 😁

 

My Hobbies:  TTRPGs and Board games on Roll20.  Films and Television.  Listening to NPR.  Hiking/walking my dog.  Reading.  Science.  Philosophy.  Brooding.  Misanthropy.  

[Techwright]

One consistent hobby of mine is chasing regional history.   I've had to curtail this over the last year, due to the needs of caring for an elderly relative with medical issues, but I'm hoping to get back into it after such time as we're able to place the relative with a good assisted living program.

 

Each Independence Day week, I've a habit of trying to visit someplace with a national historical significance, preferably a first-time visit, and all the better if it is not well-known or understood in my circle of friends.  I don't only travel around July 4, but actually visit many historical places year round.

 

Here's just a few of them:

 

Star Fort (earthen remains) at Ninety-Six National Historical Park - The town of Ninety-Six, South Carolina (the 1700s SC backwoods had towns, roads, rivers, and hills named for their mileage distance from the Cherokee town of Keowee, roughly where Clemson, SC sits today) was the critical village in western SC, and was protected by a star-shaped fort.  Multiple battles were fought here during the American Revolution.  Only the earthen base of the fort remains ( the grass edge before the tree line), though reconstructions of the siege towers and artillery locations have been erected.  Other features related to the town and reconstructions can be seen elsewhere on the grounds.

 

Carl Sandburg Home National Historical Site - Connemara, the last home and death site of the famous poet and Lincoln biographer, Carl Sandburg.  The house can be toured, and the grounds are fairly large and are covered in flowers in spring and summer.  An international, award-winning milking goat farm, founded by Sandburg's wife, resides on the property and descendants of the original herd still reside there.  

 

 

Burt-Stark House, Abbeville, South Carolina - it was here that the leadership of the Confederacy ended.  On May 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis and the remaining leaders of the Confederacy, on the run, met at this house for the last formal meeting.  The next day, they separated, each trying to flee to Florida and escape the Union from there.  It was here that Davis finally acknowledged the end of the Confederacy.  Legend says that, with the dissolution of the government, the Great Seal of the Confederacy was destroyed or cast down a well somewhere nearby, though it has never been found.  Ironically, the leaders of the town of Abbeville are credited with being the driving force at meetings in the state capital for South Carolina to be the first to separate from the Union, so there is a certain symmetry that Abbeville would be the site of the last meeting of the Confederate president and his remaining cabinet.

 

[Billbailey96]

Oddly enough gaming is my hobby/ passion. I play board games, have a steam library that I really need to go through, collect TTRPGS (currently at 100+ systems), collect and build various tabletop wargames (including Warhammer and its spin offs). Games make me happy.