Introverts: which ones have you enjoyed the most?

23 points
  • Lockpicking
  • Rubiks Cubes
  • Raspberry Pi stuff.
  • Narrative driven Video games, obviously
  • Cooking
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Are you me?

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Just cause I’m going through the magazines anyways!

@cubers

@RaspberryPi
@raspberry_pi

Oh god there’s so many for cooking lol. Most popular seem to be:
@food
@cooking
@food

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Cycling. Nobody to bother you and you can just keep going for hours. Even if you ride with other people, they’re won’t be much chatter during the ride. Going for a drink afterwards is optional. And even if you go you can just talk about gear ratios and spring rates.

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Yes! I just got back into cycling last month after not touching a bike for 10 years, did my first 40k yesterday. It’s just you and your bike for a few hours, I couldn’t be happier while riding

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I enjoy miniature painting, as it will let you engage as much (or little) with the various communities as you wish. Order paint online, and paint in the troll cave by yourself? Certainly! Make some small talk with the clerk and patrons at your local hobby shop, now that you share a common interest and have something to talk about? Absolutely!

Get obsessed with 40K lore, wonder where all your money and free time went, realize you have enough miniatures to paint for several decades, and yet you still can’t stop buying them and oh god those paints would go amazing with that color scheme you pictured so maybe just one more purchase —-

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Exactly the answer I had in mind. It’s something you can do on your own time and in your own space, but it also creates opportunities to interact with other hobbyists.

Something I hate as an introvert - and notice in many other introverts - is the pain of making idle small talk. Having a common interest as a reason to talk to other people feels much more natural to me and is great as an entry point for introverts wanting to get to know other people without it feeling forced.

You can do it for wargaming like 40K, but also for TTRPGs like DnD. Sometimes I just paint models for the hell of it that I never intend to use in any game. You can also branch out from making models to building terrain and scenery - there’s loads of great tutorials on YouTube.

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I tried miniature painting for the first time a few years ago. But I did the plastic miniatures that came with board games I liked. I saw a youtube video explaining how to play the game and he painted his. So I thought they looked great painted and so I painted 2 board games miniatures.

Gloomhaven Miniatures: The Cragheart Tinkerer With green Pack for his gadgets

Castle Ravenloft Players and Monsters

I’m not great at it and I don’t think I have the patients for it. But I’m happy I tried and I like the way they look now.

Kudos to thoes that have the steady hand and eyesight to get this done well.

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Came here to say this. I almost never play Warhammer, but I absolutely love making and painting the minis and putting together little dioramas to photograph or film. Since getting a 3d printer its been even more fun, as you can make your own villages and set up fun scenes!

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Do the Blender donut tutorial and learn 3D modeling. It’s free. It’s a great time sink. Amazing online community. Personally, I find it very rewarding. I learned during lockdown and it’s one of my favorite accomplishments and I still have so much to learn.

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What’s the doughnut tutorial? Been thinking of getting into blender for checks watch years at this point.

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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEaoINr3zgFX8ZsChQVQsuDSjEqdWMAD

I believe this is the latest version but it might already be outdated. Blender changes stuff around often so these get outdated pretty quickly. I did the version before that (came out 3 years ago).

edit: if stuff isn’t there or not working like it’s shown you can search “how to do [x] in [current Blender version]”

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@blender (kbin.social)

@3dmodelling (kbin.social)

@blender (lemmy.world)

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Definitely +1 on 3D modeling. It’s very cool to just be able to come up with a thing and then just create it :)

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I got into leatherworking during the pandemic and it’s been really rewarding. The actual act of cutting and sewing the leather is very zen to me, and in the end you have something new that you can use or give as a gift!

Getting started is fairly cheap (some punches, needles, thread, a sharp knife, and leather is all you really need to get started). I order everything online so no need to interact with people.

Lots of good tutorials online to learn (Carter leather, weaver, are both good YT channels)

I’d anyone is interested in trying it I’d be happy to help get you started 😊

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I found about leatherworking some weeks ago and I’d like to get started during the summer :)

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This never would have occurred to me, but it looks interesting. Thanks for the suggestion!

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