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03-27-2018, 05:43 PM | #1 |
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Have you developed any new interests lately and/or dropped previous ones?
Straight forward question, pretty much.
I haven't watched anime in a long time, really. I wouldn't say I've outgrown it, but I just haven't completed an anime series since... 2015. However, I have outgrown pro wrestling some years ago. I just can't bring myself to watch WWE or any wrestling at all these days other than the occasional old WWF/WWE segment for nostalgia purposes. I also have been slowly losing interest in football/soccer. I no longer follow foreign leagues or keep track of big transfers. I only watch my team's games and tbh I've missed about half of them this season so far. I don't think I've gained any new interests recently, but I've been exploiting possibilities. What about you? |
03-27-2018, 05:44 PM | #2 |
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Nah all of my interests have been the same since when I was 10 though I do have a fondness for tv comedies.
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03-27-2018, 05:45 PM | #3 |
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03-27-2018, 05:48 PM | #4 |
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Well if we are going by tastes then when I was a kid I use to love flashy fight scenes and big waves of energy, now I prefer my fights to be more grounded or have a sense of strategy to them
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03-27-2018, 05:53 PM | #5 | |
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Speaking of anime, I think one of the reasons I haven't felt like watching an anime series in a few years by now is due to most animes being targeted at teenagers or very young adults(under 22). The older I get the harder it is for me to relate to an anime/manga character younger than 20. I have a similar problem with the Turtles. For most of my life the Turtles were either the cool older guys I looked up to or my peers. Now it's almost like I could be their older step-brother or cousin. One day I'll be old enough to be their father. |
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03-27-2018, 06:01 PM | #6 |
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I regained my interest to draw again after a year and a half of art block. Life is strange, but thank God I get to do what I love once more.
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03-27-2018, 06:04 PM | #7 | |
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As of late and the last several years, not really.
As for pending possible developed interests... Still contemplating trying martial arts, as I've thought about for the last couple of years or more. With the job ending soon and giving me more free time until I find something else (and maybe something that will leave me with a better schedule and more energy?), I've been thinking about it more. But I'm kind of afraid. Although it helps a tiny bit that I saw a review the other day that a woman left back 2016 for the place I've been considering. Openly stated she was terrified going into it, but it had been a good experience so far. I commented and she was nice enough to reply (and is still with it after two years) and encouraged me to try it out. So... we'll see. If only I could get someone to go try it with me. Quote:
Pretty much the only way I've gotten around this is collectively as a franchise I just tend to think of them more in terms of being their real life (franchise) age. (Obviously that can't be applied directly to versions such as 2012 that do seem young for once, so youngsters in an individual series, but in "real life"... a bunch of 34-year-olds.) Last edited by IndigoErth; 03-27-2018 at 06:20 PM. |
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03-27-2018, 06:07 PM | #8 | |
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Also, job ending soon? You're losing your job? That sucks. |
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03-27-2018, 06:26 PM | #9 | |
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I wouldn't be looking to do it competitively or anything like that, and the place I've considered doesn't really focus on that as a goal, which is a plus. Yup, company decided to close our store, along with over 100 others. |
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03-31-2018, 05:10 AM | #10 |
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Nothing wrong with starting martial arts unless you have a health problem that would prevent it.
I've had an on and off interest in doing Yoga and Pilates over some years but have now found a Pilates class I am going to dedicate to every week, I felt a lot of muscles pull in the first class so I'm going to stick at it Otherwise my new interest in recent years is TMNT. Last edited by newfan; 03-31-2018 at 12:22 PM. |
03-31-2018, 02:43 PM | #11 |
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I lost interest in anime a few years ago.
Haven’t paid much attention to popular music since 2016, though that was also the case even when I was younger.
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03-31-2018, 06:16 PM | #12 | |
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Lost alot of interest in modern video games, a different story back in like 2009/10ish when I used to play games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and the newest Grand Theft Auto for hours on end.
These days, the only video games I play are usually just the Gameboy Pokemon titles on my phone emulator, Super Smash Bros Melee on Dolphin and Counter-Strike 1.6. The only modern video games I follow semi-regularly is the news about Pokemon/Super Smash Bros on switch. I also check every November out of curiosity to see whats the title of the next Call of Duty, followed by me forgetting about its existence
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04-01-2018, 10:28 AM | #13 |
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Lost interest in modern video games, too. Most of them don’t interest me at all. Too many sequels and remakes, imo. The most recent game I’ve liked was Tomodachi Life for the 3DS.
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04-01-2018, 10:55 AM | #14 |
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04-06-2018, 11:42 AM | #15 |
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ALWAYS.
It's the story of my life. I had a "Dalek phase" before Utroms, and I'm pretty sure a "Rat Creature phase" (from Bone) before them. And it just keeps going on from there. My deviantART is a good time capsule for what I've been into through the years. I'll always keep interest on a lot of things, but 'big focuses' will generally never go away.
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04-06-2018, 12:06 PM | #16 |
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I lost interest in TMNT cartoons. I got slowly less and less interested in the 2012 cartoon and I am not ecstatic about Rise of The Turtles concepts at all. However, my Other Media TMNT fanatic with disinterest in the comics has flipped. Now, I am eager to read the next issue the moment I finish an IDW book and look into theories and everything related to the IDW incarnation. So I am still a big-time Ninja Turtles fans its just my preferences have been readjusted.
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04-06-2018, 02:56 PM | #18 |
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I've picked up an interest in Star Wars, actually. The polarizing responses to The Last Jedi really renewed my interest in the Expanded Universe, something I haven't read since grade school.
I'm enjoying reading through it, a book at a time.
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04-06-2018, 04:38 PM | #19 |
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Every single one and own every episode of the series on DVD.
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04-06-2018, 04:48 PM | #20 |
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My newest interest has been due to my boyfriend. He's yoinked me off into Dungeons and Dragons.
I especially like painting the figurines. I should share some of the ones I've done. And I've only really developed one character, but I love her.
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