Hobby share! (Backdated to before Silent Hill)

[mooninthewater]

Hello! Mizuki here!

If you all don't mind, I'd love to have a comprehensive list of everyone's hobbies? ⸜(⸝⸝⸝´꒳`⸝⸝⸝)⸝

I can start, of course. I really like to cook and eat food. I also have an interest in psychology, if that much wasn't obvious. But my number 1 hobby is definitely video games!

I'd like it if you went into detail about how you discovered the hobby or why you were drawn to it, but that much isn't necessary! Also if you don't want to share publicly, you can always come to the therapy building. I'm here basically all the time!

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Comments

[mooninthewater]

Psychology is a very broad scientific study of the human brain, but it tends to have a more specific interest in how one's thoughts correspond with their behaviors. Everyone has reasons for things they do, and it's so fascinating for me to figure out why. Especially people with free will!!!!! It's so interesting and I have so many questions that I need answered and it's fun to figure things out from there and learn about the mind.

Video games are a form of entertainment produced electronically by a computer program. They have a screen that displays images, and there's a very vast genre of different video games that you could do. Puzzle games, which sounds a lot like what it is - solving puzzles. Visual Novels, which are mostly reading material, but with an emphasis on art and making choices to obtain different endings with each playthrough. Combat, where you play characters who fight one another. Survival, which have you maintaining things such as hunger, thirst, shelter, and sometimes combat to try and live. Horror, which comes with a ton of its own subgenres, but has the umbrella genre to just mean "scary" or "creepy". Strategy, simulation, shooters, platformers, hack-and-slash, stealth, roleplaying, and sooooo many more. There's as many genres for video games as there is for things like books and theatre, and I'd argue maybe even more than that.

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Unless you're asking what hobbies are! Sorry, I rambled, haha!

[bluebasketballed]

don't most people have free will? [don't at him or any demon tbh --]

that didn't help at all. you look at pictures of stories and combat and puzzles? how is that a hobby?

[mooninthewater]

Mh. Yeah! Most! I still need to make the distinction, haha~

It's like... um, you control the narrative of the game. So, like, for example, if there's a maze, you have a controller to make yourself go through it. Stuff like that! If you're still confused, I would recommend coming to the therapy building to play one yourself. It's not all that easy to explain when you haven't seen one before...

[bluebasketballed]

[there's a long delay...]

if i go look at the video game you're not going to therapy me, right

[mooninthewater]

Do I give off that impression? I did not mean to, if I have. I would kindly appreciate you don't assume me some sort of boogeyman equivalent of a therapist~

You cannot force therapy on someone who doesn't want it. That's how you make things worse.

[bluebasketballed]

[..............]

is that a no

[mooninthewater]

That's a no.

[bluebasketballed]

alright. good

what sort of questions do you need answered so badly? it's pretty easy to figure out why people do what they do when you know what they think or need. if someone's hungry, usually they're going to eat by any means necessary. it sounds like a waste of time to pick apart the reasoning.

[mooninthewater]

They aren't questions I think anyone here has the answer to. It's something that I'm aware either does not have an answer or requires experiments to be had. It's less about the survival instincts of people. Those I understand well. It's the other stuff I get a little less. Why people are individuals with individual thoughts. Why they have different likes. Why they think differently and what free will means to them. What community is and what role it plays for humans. Why people with certain traumatic experiences have memories that are so bad that phrases, objects, people, and other such relations can bring those memories to the forefront and elicit extreme negative emotions as if they are actively reliving them. And why, relatedly, there is not the opposite for extremely good memories... I want to see if maybe there is. And if there is, I want to figure out how to do it.

And so many more, but we'd be here all day if I kept going~

[bluebasketballed]

you don't see something that reminds you of a good memory and get happy about it?