Hobbies for game developers

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I spend a lot of time on music (guitar mostly nowadays) and photography/videography. Of course both of these things get sucked right back into computing in the end, but they are still very different experiences overall and I find that they're both valuable to me. The photo/video stuff feeds heavily into my game development work too.

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Playing the piano is a nice way to clear the mind. Other than that, no, I don't do anything else, but I don't consider that to be a bad thing. After all, being extremely focused on one particular thing is the strength of a geek, and is what enables us to do what we do.

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Not every hobby I have involves a computer, but a good chunk do!

Non-computer hobbies:

Playing Magic
Playing Guitar/Piano

Reading

Writing short stories (ok, arguably that's mostly done on a computer, but a lot of my writing I do inside of notebooks first, then transfer over)

Photography (again, editing/uploading is done in a computer, but the initial shooting is the most enjoyable part for me)
Videography (see above parenthesis ^^^)

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Seems like music is a big one. I know a lot of programmers who are also good musicians. It must be the way our brains are wired.

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I took up photography a few years ago. It has been very satisfying (and quite a money sink as well).


presently i got none other than programming (except online-chat talking) though maybe i should stop a bit cause im often feelin bad, in the summer i was usually biking but this also started to bore me, and now im feeling lost

hobbies;

guitar

basketball

businesses.

weightlifting/fitness training

mainly to fight back against the side effects of sitting in front of a machine for hours each day


businesses.

What do you do with businesses for a hobby?

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I dont get how can knowing to play a musical instrument be way more common than knowing how to draw.

Every children will have access to pen and paper, everyone knows how a pencil works.

Now to play an instrument, theres so many complexities involved, and its so not intuitive to convert what you hear to figuring out how to reproduce on the instrument.

Now if you fart on a corner, 60% of the ppl who will smell it will know how to play an instrument, and 2% know how to draw. At least on my personal experience is how I perceive.

How can that be?

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