Pointless Views: Dealing With Hobby Funk
January 3, 2020 by crew
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Very interesting to gear part of your issue with enjoyment has been what others, or the internet, has brought to your particular fandom. I get quite irritated when I hear the constant calls about the imminent collapse of Comic book movies as a genre, a call that’s been echoing for about 10 years at this point, though fortunately for me it’s not made me feel despondent as you describe, I will enjoy what I enjoy, pick a Comic off my shelf, go opening night to see Black Widow, Binge watch the next Comic based tv show that drops online (maybe… Read more »
Like a medicine ball with teets. Appreciating the Mighty Boosh reference beyond words
Hey @avernos ever drink Bailey’s from a shoe?
Yes, it’s Aurebesh and it spells: REBEL. The Rebel insignia could have been a give away @warzan 😉
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Ennui does hit from time to time. The reality is that the hobby *is* at its heart totally pointless. What *is* the point of painting up tiny fighting mens and rolling a few dice around? Nothing is achieved at the end of it directly. No cancer has been cured. No hungry have been fed. Exactly in the same way as sport is entirely fruitless in its aim – who gets across the line first, or knocks a ball into a net more often than the other guys. From time to time I just can’t be arsed to do stuff because… Read more »
Very well put.
Hobby resolution: Paint 2 minis for every mini bought. 😉
That is an excellent strategy I have employed for some time now. I also don’t buy anything I’m not going to (in part at least) paint/build immediately. I must admit that the Burrows and Badgers as well as the Triumph of Death minis have put me behind in my goal. lol
yeah… I fear for the release of Skyrim hitting at a time where Legion get’s a bit slower for me 😉
I don’t find Hobby Resolutions in January to be useful at all. Indeed, I think January is probably the worst month to try and change anything in your life… The weather is shit, still dark most of the time, people tend to be more miserable than normal… Fuck that for a game of soldiers, waiting to spring is probably a better idea. And I am not proud to admit it but I can be one of those negative Star Wars cunts on the internet, but at least I realise that and I’m trying to change. I’ve never watched all of… Read more »
Avoiding spoilers for GOT, even after this long time, is completely justified (anyway, but especially) because the last books haven’t been published. I don’t want the last series to spoil the last books. However different the series became from the books i expect they’ll still be some spoilers, not least ‘the ending’.
I doubt he’ll keep the same ending considering the ripping it got, to say it was a let down doesn’t begin to describe it
As i recall David Benioff and D. B. Weiss said they got ‘the ending’ from G. R. R. Martin. Of course this might have changed, what they mean by ‘the ending’ might be less significant or have a different significance in the books, and many of the threads leading to ‘the ending’ and the closing of the saga as a whole will be (and are already) different in the books, but none the less there may be a keystone or corner stone in there. I don’t think i’d want G. R. R. Martin to (re)write the ending of the books… Read more »
Oh I remember him saying that as well, and I can’t for the life of me see him keeping it after that debacle.
Wow. That bad huh? Not that i want you to let me know, but it sounds like they must have all ‘woken up and realised it was all a dream’ or somesuch. I’m almost curious enough to watch season 8 to see how big this car crash was.
I stand by the preferences i gave in my previous comment though.
I’d wait for the books. The series will always be there
I would love to see an large-sized storm trooper!
The endless critisms of stuff is definitely more than a little annoying, because it also makes regular criticism impossible as you get lumped in with the ‘hates everything’ crowd. And yeah, the endless side commentary and ‘backstage’ documentaries have become so normal that they kind of deflate the dreamworld that movies try to create. It’s like being told how the Force is caused by midi-whatsits. We didn’t need that info. It should have been a mystery or left to our own imagination. This obsession with both fans and creators of having to explain everything (either within a movie or its… Read more »
@warzan – grey boxers and go as the worm from Empire that almost eat the Falcon… just a thought!
not sure the grammar is quite right there… hohum
lol
As for cosplay… I am more surprised that Warren doesn’t already own a batman costume or are his days of jumping off the wardrobe over?
depends on the build quality of the wardrobe mate 😉
If it was IKEA I bet Justin could get one up for you fairly quickly
How I deal with the hobby funk: I switch from minis to terrain, from painting to building/crafting. I also create my own pocket universes for my minis, as in I make up their background and the events that lead them to where they are. That way the universe others have made is reduced to framework, background, and I’m way more invested.
The Prequels are still shite, except three, that was not bad. With the new movies, TFA was not bad, Rogue One was ok, the rest is shite.
I think it’s worth considering that the festive diet, or something else not (directly) related to the hobby, might be the cause of this ennui. For example, alcohol is a depressant. I recommend walking; a constitutional, as it were.
Don’t worry about your size (or lack of it) when doing cosplay.
Yes, there’s going to be people (especially on-line) who will tear you down for not having the exact perfect match of whatever or whoever you are cosplaying.
However there’s plenty of people who will appreciate the effort and the guts of putting yourself out there.
@warzan you must let us know what COLOUR is 2020, what do you think 2020 will be like good or bad???
Perhaps @warzan, you are missing the gaps – as in “gaming in the gaps”.
SW: Legion does seem quite specific, with all of those named characters. Even 40K looks to have reduced the area for finding a gap, I remember previous editions where there were lots of options in a codex to build your leader how you want to. Now the options appear to be reduced, making things a bit more prescriptive.
The number of times research was mentioned in the vid had me thinking that you may be experiencing a problem in finding “the gap”.
Totally agree with you Warren, had flexi days to take over Christmas due to my 12hr shift work and thought right i will get this done and that finished even set up a table for a game off Bolt action solo on the 15.12.19 and looked at it each day and its is still bloody sitting as was today 03.01.2020. But what i have now realised i need to just focus on just the system and periods i want to play in and stop looking at others and thinking yeah that would be good. So has off this year i… Read more »
Wow walls of text today
For Hooby funk and I think we have all suffered from it at some point the reason I find for it is the realisation that the ruleset your using is a bit poo and you need a change from it
Is it time to renew my subscription to Horse and Hound, It seems our leader is getting into dressage.
Just remembered the “Over 30’s Cosplay” group on Facebook of which I am a member. I don’t Cosplay and haven’t done any re-enactment for 20 years now, but it’s still enjoyable being a member, if only to see that I am not the only ancient nerd out there!
My hobby resolution is still 1920×1080, my hands aren’t stable enough to paint at any higher resolution……….
Ok. For real, I’m going to continue what I started halfway through last year and try to do some hobby everyday. I mostly started this when I ran into more physical health issues and it is helping me deal with it and learn to accept it.
@warzan Jek Tono Porkins
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Jek_Tono_Porkins
I think when I hit “the funk” the fix is always to get some games in doing something new. If I’ve been doing loads of Historicals, I’ll switch to fantasy/Sci-Fi (and vice versa). Sometimes all the prepwork for a game can overload you (and the hobby becomes a grind), so it’s good the remember the point of all this prepwork at times and just get some games in. I do sometimes feel that my enthusiasm for Sci-Fi/Fantasy wanes as I get older, the inner child can no longer marvel and the grognard in me starts to criticize (I basically decided… Read more »
you will be a fantastic Jedi @warzan