Which war games? Computer or board games? I still have a sizable collection of Avalon Hill games.
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What are your other obsessions?
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Smoking brisket, pork butt etc..
Golf
About to start sculpture classes
Travel- Went to Switzerland a couple of years ago and went to the Montreaux Jazz Fest.
Golf
About to start sculpture classes
Travel- Went to Switzerland a couple of years ago and went to the Montreaux Jazz Fest.
Most of the older classics can be emulated via Dolphin. While there is a part of me that laments having lost my Wii, I could still play Mario but now upscaled to 2k (computer permitting).I am a quite obsessive person, and frankly, bass is one of my most proeminent obsessions. I live in a country where good basses are 90% of the time imported ones (and the best luthiers charge hefty extras for 'nothing-special-instruments'), so it's really expensive for one to collect basses here. Even a cheap Squier is costly here. Given that my Lower-Middle-Class worker budget is quite limited, I am happy that I could afford some good basses today. Basses are one of my hobbies, because it's really rare a musician that can live a decent life only with money they make with music.
Yeah, I know...this is the 'other' obsessions thread...so, I am also quite obsessive about reading, I am an avid reader. I am long-winded enough to follow a whole long topic here at Talkbass and post something after going through it entirely. My full-time profession is about designing products and services, I am a full-time UX Designer for a R&D department in a local university, I am happy with my profession and the pay is not low, problem is exactly how expensive a bass can be here.
I have a couple of other obsessions: illustration, gaming (I still own a Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis today, but use emulators most of the time) and music production, which led me to base a Home Studio right in my day room.
Sports: Kendo, Badminton, I want to get into SUP and Yoga, maybe pickleball and some others
Fashion, photographer, fishing and gardening are sure my other ones I love. I guess I can count video games too especially city building ones or driving ones, oh yeah I do love reading history and building models of planes and tanks.
I wouldn't consider it an obsession now but I do love Concertina but haven't had hardcore motivation to play it with lack of Irish session groups around.
Fashion, photographer, fishing and gardening are sure my other ones I love. I guess I can count video games too especially city building ones or driving ones, oh yeah I do love reading history and building models of planes and tanks.
I wouldn't consider it an obsession now but I do love Concertina but haven't had hardcore motivation to play it with lack of Irish session groups around.
Parrots and baseball. We have two parrots that play a heavy hand in pretty much everything we do. Wonderful creatures. I start every morning with the MLB channel, and it helps to keep my mind off the slime oozing from the 800 other channels. I also like to collect bourbon, but that isn’t going so well. Sadly, my compulsion to thin the herd interferes with amassing any real assemblage.
I have been a photographer since the age of 12. I finally sold all my film gear including a B&W darkroom about a decade ago. The biggest changes from going digital are I almost never print anything and I don’t shoot in B&W at all.
My main subjects are musical performances (only where cameras are still allowed), flowers and birds because my wife is both a gardener and a birder.
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Last few years, I bought a few...you could say an obsession. Just last night, my wife was commenting on my Creed Aventus...not in a good way.
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Pretty fond of my crusty old '66 Charger. Put it up on jacks a couple years ago for maintenance and there she sits. Gotta get back to it.
Whew… my wife would kill me if I’d bought THAT much lol. Prada L’homme is nice. I see a Tommy Hilfiger back there and Club De Nuit Intense too. And Kouros? Never gotten my nose on that one. I’ve tried to like Aventus and its various clones. But it comes off like cat piss off my skin. Most fragrances with vetiver to that to me. I stay away from those. I don’t have a picture of my collection, but it’s nowhere near that size.
I haven’t bought anything for awhile now. I mostly stick with my favorites.
Dior Sauvage EDT (yeah yeah I know, but it works REALLY good off my skin and honestly I rarely smell it on anyone around town), Thierry Mugler Pure Havane, Prada Luna Rossa Carbon, Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille (my absolute favorite) and Versace Signature (which is amazing in hot weather).
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Rubbing cheeseburgers on grandmother's backs. I've been told by my psychoana...uh...some folk that sometimes there's a fine line between obsession and perversion. Yeah, whatev's, it's just fun for me. Unless the granny is on an electric scooter, then I lose interest after about the first half mile.
Another obsession is reading my horoscope everyday. Today's horoscopic divination is "Beware of sudden tragic dismemberment."
So far, so good. And cancelled plans to help my bud trim his trees.
Another obsession is reading my horoscope everyday. Today's horoscopic divination is "Beware of sudden tragic dismemberment."
So far, so good. And cancelled plans to help my bud trim his trees.
Ditto (re: mtn bikes...not the murdercycles):
which brings up another obsession: S.E. Utah
Used to be in that camp, but had to close our Dojo due to financial realities
Those and the Accutrons were my main focus. And quite a few other US designs from that era. Still have quite a few of them, all in good running order. Love the Accutron Spaceview - real one, not a conversion:
yeah, most stock systems do
Any entry-level (or higher) speakers from JBL, Infinity, Polk Audio, Morel, Focal, or JL Audio (off the top of my head) would surely make things sound better. Crutchfield is a great source - they'll tell you exactly what fits based on which factory system you have, offer the accessories needed to install everything and also give you vehicle-specific instructions.
Outboard amplification would make an even bigger impact on your system, and the addition of a DSP would make the biggest. But that's a rabbit hole that knows no end, financially or logistically LOL.
Sound deadening will also increase your system's efficiency by default by lowering road noise and vibration.
Ha awesome thanks. Not sure I want to go down the Rabbit Hole as I know I'll get sucked in.
But sounds great I'll check out Crutchfield.
Kouros is the KING.
My bottle is 2013 I think.
Been wearing Moschino Toy Boy Mixed with Aventus in the Winter and also like Santal 33 Le Labo right now. Got a DUA fragrance of Chanel Allure Blanche, that is killer...i could go on...
Lots of fascinating stuff here. Me:
Music in general, especially piano / keys.
Reading. A lot of that is music related too, esp. blues histories.
Gaming. Mostly table-top roleplaying games (we just called them "roleplaying games" back in 1979 ff. ... ): right now it's D&D5e, CoC7e, and I'm checking out the new Marvel Multiverse RPG. I'm also literally obsessive about chess on and off, but then go through long burn-out periods (like now).
Philosophy. I'm a professor by trade, mainly interested in ethics, aesthetics, and classical philosophy (Greek and Chinese in particular).
Music in general, especially piano / keys.
Reading. A lot of that is music related too, esp. blues histories.
Gaming. Mostly table-top roleplaying games (we just called them "roleplaying games" back in 1979 ff. ... ): right now it's D&D5e, CoC7e, and I'm checking out the new Marvel Multiverse RPG. I'm also literally obsessive about chess on and off, but then go through long burn-out periods (like now).
Philosophy. I'm a professor by trade, mainly interested in ethics, aesthetics, and classical philosophy (Greek and Chinese in particular).
Cigars
Reading (sci-fi & fantasy)
Denver Nuggets (following since 1991)
Reading (sci-fi & fantasy)
Denver Nuggets (following since 1991)
I do a lot of boating in the summer, which boils down to 2-3 months a year on Cape Cod. But really, it's just building basses, I do it pretty much every weekend all winter. This one finally ready for finish work after nearly two years of weekend only work.
- Rock climbing with a preference for moderate multipitch routes with a commitment grade of III or higher
- Skiing
- Running my recording studio as an engineer, a producer, or sometimes both
- Kayaking
- Camping, which admittedly is most often connected with rock climbing
- International travel, which admittedly is also most often connected with rock climbing as well
