I’m a bit of a jack of all trades. When I work on a project I use anything from woodworking and sewing to chemistry and physics to human physiology and psychology. I also like reading up then chatting about random science and history and art stuff. I like working with computers occasionally, and I’ll just randomly throw some basic geometry or algebra into a project, but I was also an art student so I’m not half bad at making things visually appealing either.

I have a job where I often get a chance to use my various areas of semi-expertise when I pick up a side project, but that’s led me into getting waaay overinvolved in my work and neglecting my outside relationships. What hobbies or other non-professional things could I get involved in that would give me that same opportunity to flex my creativity when solving a problem?

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Any kind of RP is good for that. Personally I find LARP/Cosplay kinda cringe, but TTRPGs also encourage creativity in problem solving.

    • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.worksFrançais
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      1 month ago

      American ?

      I really have the impression that on this side of the pond larp gets well accepted. And it offers way more way to be creative/craft than TTPRG. But i understand that if you’re used to see people in Short-Tshirt fighting each other with pool noodle in a public park and calling it “LARP” you have a biased view of the scene

          • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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            1 month ago

            Yeah it does to me. Not trying to yuck anyone’s yum, I think it’s great that those people are having fun. But for me, cosplaying in general is just really lame. I never understood the appeal of dressing up. For roleplaying, I feel that it would hinder my suspension of disbelief to be looking at someone’s conception of what fantasy costumes look like for them.

            Also, roleplaying is an intimate activity in my mind. Not necessarily sexually intimate, but there is a trust component. I wouldn’t want to attend a larping convention for the same reason I wouldn’t want to play Pathfinder with a different group of people every week. In order to really be comfortable getting into someone else’s head, you need to be a bit vulnerable. And to do that, you need to build up some trust with others. Trying to roleplay a character at a convention full of people I don’t know sounds like my version of Hell.