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Mini painting not in either list.
It was almost worth seeing the rest of this just to see Funko in dead last.
MTG in this context stands for Magic The Gathering?
What?! But my Conspiracy Cube brings all the chicks to the yard!
I was wondering when Marjorie Taylor Greene became a hobby…
I feel like the hell been ‘reading’ and ‘comic books’ is a bit unfair.
I mean there plenty of written stuff that’s demonstrably worse than anything in comics.
And comics that are absolutely amazing, like Sandman and Persepolis
My favorite lately is Bea Wolf, a retelling of Beowolf. Oh! And Pebble and Wren.
Sandman isn’t flawless but it’s the best stuff not by Moore. Fables (the first story that ends around 12-16 at least) was a fun read after finishing Sandman.
I think they should’ve polled superhero comics separately from comics in general.
ITT: people missed to poke fun at “blacksmithing”
Who on earth is blacksmithing as a hobby? Is that even possible except if your occupation is actually being blacksmith? Like, would you set up blacksmithing equipment in your garage?
My brother-in-law does smith knives for fun at home
I have friends that 3d print and woodwork, plus one who was setting up a forge to smith when life threw some bad stuff at him (fire, car accidents, etc). It doesn’t seem strange to me. Lots of people like hobbies and smiting/knifemaking seems relatively popular, if a bit expensive.
On the other hand that woodworking friend had a whole lathe so a small forge doesn’t strike me as odd. A bit of googling suggests you can get some backyard forges between $70-300, and can just DIY and make your own. By contrast my camera (OM-D Em1 Mk III) cost me somewhere between $1.5-2k, with just one of my lenses also costing $1.5k.
My GPU also cost that.
Yes. One of my coworkers has done exactly that.
That’s good to know. But I can imagine the electricity bill.
Blacksmithing is mainly done with coal, not electricity. So just imagine all the dust in addition to cost for that instead =)
I don’t want to.
Propane forges are pretty cheap. The real money is in the anvils…
Interesting, I didn’t know these existed. Thanks!
Yeah! For sure. You can pick up a little 3 venturi one for knife making for under $200. I’m no expert by any means, but I have my fun.
Yeah you can easily set up a home forge.
looks at the apartment
I think my neighbours would prefer I didn’t
“Metal Fabrication”
To start blacksmithing you need a space to pile up some charcoal, hairdryer and a tube, a hammer and tongs + something that can be used as an anvil(i have used a piece of old railway on a log
Knifemakers typically.
Hobbyist blacksmith here.
I read a book on blacksmithing, built a small forge in the backyard, and put my tools in the garage. It’s fun, fascinating, and surprisingly approachable.
you should watch forged in fire. the best competition show ever
Where is Linux?! Surely it must be on the top, I be reading (manuals), “foregin” language (bash), writing (scripts). Right?
Reading the fucking manuals, no less!
I don’t think Karma Sutra teaches you how to code.
Man pages count, right?
Good news, honey! I have decided to look at porn less so that I will be able to spend more time arguing online.
Why can’t you just develop a drinking
problemhobby like a normal man!?“ArguingOnline” you mean, don’t you?
My friend, if you rephrase “arguing online” as “debating”, you will see your love-life improve dramatically.
Funko is considered a hobby?
It’s maybe one step up from Beanie Babies in terms of respectability
Up? It’s a plastic trinket. If anything, it should be way below Beanie Babies.
This is coming from a guy who has a Spider-Man figure in PC cabinet and would buy action figure of Death from Sandman in a heartbeat.
I had a friend with one small room dedicated entirely to them.
Reading, instrument, cooking, woodwork, paining - lol cars, airbrush, graphics…, writing - I have a whole sci-fi universe, gardening, photography, astronomy, I can fab nearly anything.
I’m just partially disabled, live under a rock, and need a rich girl to take care of me in exchange for a ton of love. I don’t even bother looking, but if you’re in SoCal, hit me up lol, I’m still a 30-something until tomorrow.
4 from the top 0-2 from the bottom
I have a large garden, love to cook, have a backyard forge, and have traveled to around 50 countries.
I don’t know if I’m in to comics and making cocktails enough to call them hobbies but they’re things I enjoy.
100, 25, 75, 50, 6 and 8.
Your target is… 592.…what? We arent playing countdown?
Is it Sean Bean in the Dictionary Corner?
“Surely you’ve had worse things spat at you, Susie.”
That sean bean impression was amazing every time haha
I’m genuinely sickened that 3%+ of respondents consider manosphere attractive
I never heard of manosphere before this post
They probably thought it was referring to spherical man butts
Who doesn’t love a good butt
I for one despise butts. Especially spherical ones 🤫
And here I thought we were friends, and now you’re telling me you hate an aspect of me 😢😂
Ehhh, take this upvote
My takeaway is that gaming is a neutral.
The secret is couch co-op
My wife used to think that a man who knew how to work on cars was sexy until I built a racecar in the garage, and she saw the parts invoices.
She also used to think a man who cooks is sexy until she learned that I am a GOOD cook and consequently that means I don’t want help, I want you the fuck out of my kitchen, don’t sample the ingredients they are weighed and portioned for a damn reason and if you put sweet baby rays on a $50 cut of steak again it will be the last time I ever cook for you.
if you put sweet baby rays on a $50 cut of steak
Monster!
Grabs Heinz 57
You can come over on burger night… with the mustard guy.
You might be right, but I don’t envy your wife.
I’m the primary cook in my family, and my wife loves it. But she also is a fantastic sous chef. She helps me out with everything.
It’s awesome having an extra set of hands in the kitchen and is also great bonding time.
My wife has 3 university degrees, she is significantly smarter than I am. She also reached under the blade when I was cutting to get a piece of carrot to snack on…
I can’t do a good job and teach and watch for harebrained dumbassery at the same time.
Hey I’m the good cook husband with a car problem too.
My wife never wanted to help cook though, she loves that I take it on by myself most times.
And I get the kitchen mostly to myself (though I’m sharing it with my son more now, which is slower, but pretty fun).
I taught my 4yo daughter to answer “Yes Chef!” When helping me in the kitchen. Its pretty adorable.
My 6 yo did “yes boss” for a while. But that’s less common lately. He still does it when we’re working in the garage sometimes though and it’s the best.
Yeah! You’re supposed to use mustard.
So I gather this not about the hobbies themselves being attractive but about what’s attractive for a partner to have as a hobby, or even specifically a male partner? What was the question exactly?
What are these hobbies???
Yeah my hobby is Arguing Online
Spoken like a madman
Drinking
???
But you can combine those two hobbies, it unlocks some form of super power!
One of my hobbies is “drinking”. I love craft cocktails and craft beer. I collect craft liquors and share them with my friends. I even make my own cider and beer sometimes. Maybe home brewing doesn’t fall into the “drinking” hobby as much.
Fuck you, those can be hobbies! *drains shot*
Hey, pass me the hobby!
As I thought somewhere in the middle…
i’m sorry blacksmithing? I mean it’s cool as fuck, don’t get me wrong, but have you seen that shit? it’s the LEAST sexy hobby by far.
Also, traveling is not a hobby, stop pretending it is. That’s like saying veganism is a hobby.
anyway, my main hobbies consist of playing minecraft or factorio like an autist, fucking around with linux, or philosophy, so i probably score, somewhere…
What’s with the anti blacksmithing sentiment? Most people just find someone’s genuine passion to be an attractive quality, wherever their interests lie.
nothing wrong with it, it just isn’t sexy or hot. The only “sexy” part of it is one of the less involved parts of it.
You still have to do a lot of cleanup and build work after the fact.
I mean i literally said as much in the comment lol
Not sexy? Perrin Aybara would like a word.
“this real life hobby isn’t hot?”
links a fictional universe:
Apparently you’re not sexy enough to understand
maybe not, but to be fair, i’m not really sure how many people consider smelling like coal and tasting like sweat sexy.
Throw in some steel and abrasive dust. And hooo buddy do we have a cocktail of… something.
My wife loved the idea that I was into wood cutting. What she didn’t realize was when I said woodcutting, I meant I studied the blade and practiced chopping wood with my anime sword.
based
I wonder if hobbies here may mean what people talk about primarily, because some aren’t hobbies unless it’s all you do or something. Like arguing online.
that might be the case, but i think this list is just… Poorly compiled to be honest.
Without knowing the prompt they replied to and how the scoring scale worked, its hard to take much from it.
Its like we took the useful and personal responses from each woman, randomized them and included outliers and things from other categories, and spit them out in a useless pile.
I’ve looked up the original article and some other articles, and one thing I’ve noticed is the ones here on lemmy focus more on what is highest vs lowest, while some articles focused on the comparison between men and women.
They had ~800 respondents, 48% identifying as women. They asked the same question, which I don’t know the exact question but the gist was what percentage of women found this hobby attractive. There are some disparities in perception, usually towards the more attractive than men think.
For instance, one article pointed out men assumed 7% of women found MTG attractive, whike women responded with 28.5%. There were also charts that focused on the largest disparities:
I’ve always made the distinction that traveling is just going to average tourist stuff, beaches, camping, hiking, stuff like that, while traveling as a hobby is more like actually immersing yourself in the culture
I think it’s more of what kind of people women are imagining as a blacksmith. They’re probably imagining a rugged man in their 30s/40s with practical muscle definition and enough financial stability to have the time/land for their own personal forge.
Likewise Travelling is just a proxy for “a ton of disposable income, and willing to take their partner to nice places”.
i guess from that perspective it makes more sense, but i feel like you could easily throw something like “yard work” in there it would be equally as strenuous and status based lmao.
Yard work is a chore. Gardening is on there though.
