[Cthulhu_]

What are your hobbies? Serious question, what do you spend your time on outside of work and obligations, and how many hours have you collectively spent on it?

Everyone needs a hobby, for many that's video games. For some of those, a single / specific game becomes their singular hobby. See also: special interests.

I for one have been in a specific video game community for twenty years now even though I haven't engaged with the games much myself. But I know people who have, who tore the game apart, found unused content and are making mods to restore it [0], who retranslated the game(s)[1] , turned them into novels [2], D&D campaigns [3], play a poorly received spinoff over and over again for years to finish some levels in seconds [4], etc etc etc.

I think it's a bit sad to pooh-pooh other people's passions tbh.

    [0] https://www.shinraarchaeology.com/retransmod.html
    [1] https://thelifestream.net/category/lifestream-projects/translations/
    [2] https://www.patreon.com/posts/52273334
    [3] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ydIyBrJ0diEYzWz28_4y7Z38rzWCvYXQ/view
    [4] https://www.youtube.com/@Shademp/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=3