My initial thought is video games, everything has pros and cons, sure. However, it feels like anyone not into video games views them extrodinarly negatively. Any other hobbies parallel to that in your opinion?
My initial thought is video games, everything has pros and cons, sure. However, it feels like anyone not into video games views them extrodinarly negatively. Any other hobbies parallel to that in your opinion?
Wargaming or anything that brings people to a hobby shop. Trains, RC vehicles, and kites are most acceptable and understandable to people on the outside but still looked down on.
The Satanic Panic never went away. I still deal with it on occasion.
Apparently Hell is full of gay people playing dnd and other tabletop games. Sounds like a fun place, honesty!
Having known many, many religious people all my life, when my time is up, I want to go wherever they aren’t.
My husband’s parents were deep into that and forbade him from continuing to play D&D.
Really wish they hadn’t passed before I met him. I met him when we played Call of Cthulhu together. At the local game store. Lol.
Ohh I had that first edition, was one of my first steps outside Gary Gygax’s domain, along with the Marvel RPG rule set. I still remember the distinct way each of those books smelled.
I tried going to a hobby shop a while ago to get some servos and batteries for my RC planes … but they had nothing I needed. Much easier to just order it online.
Yeah, I feel for the hobby shops because there’s only so much inventory a shop can hold onto and display and sell. How long do you think they gotta display servos before somebody comes looking for them? Compare that to the big Internet stores and I don’t know how they can compete.
I look at model trains as an addiction I might not come back from.
I always feel that I am just waiting one more day before I give up my basement, free time and money to it. (Only respect to people who use the same technique to hold off serious addictions. It just also happens to work for model trains…so far.)
Model trains are a hobby that I love for other people to get into. I want to see your trains and tracks and little villages you’re proud of. I just need my basement for all my other activities!
Yes! I want to keep my basement for other uses, but I love to hang out with someone who went all in on the hobby!
It’s kind of like having a friend who owns a boat. All the fun, without the work.
Trains in particular probably are at about the level of nerd stigma as Warhammer.
I guess it depends on who you talk to.