With most of male friends, we have shared interests, and when I hang out with them, we usually spend our time on a shared activity. I got into chess a few years ago, and when I hang out with my male friends, we often talk and play some games. If it’s in the evening, we’ll grab some beers out of the fridge.

This year, 2 of my closest friends got into new hobbies: one got really into playing some old Smash Bros game and the other pool.

Obv I end up playing those with them, and I suck at both. To the point i could easily get 10-0’d in either one. I respect the time they’ve put in, but I have 0 interest in improving. Ive gotten a lot better at both out of respect for them, but I’m not going to spend my own time getting better at them.

They’ve both lost interest in chess (somewhat coincidentally i got a lot better and was winning more) and I feel like it shifted our friendship dynamics

Hobbyzoned

This a very real minor problem in my life!! Usually -zoned refers to women, but this is platonic.

yeah but this is normal behavior, friends are supposed to learn from one eachother new things, in this case, new hobbies, if you're not interested in that then cool but it's nothing to be getting personal about, unless they both quit chess for the same hobby and leave you out of it

smash with the bros

like, I used to be in a group of 3 friends, 2 of us had interests in beatmaking, so we got much more along, but the 3rd one was always around us too, practicing his own hobby (which was image editing)
does that mean we 'hobbyzoned' him? nah

hobbyzoned is a new one

Start grinding Smash and use Fox or Marth.

Practice techs, shield poking, offstage cheese, and dash dancing.

Well for pool just convince him to play 9 ball with you. Anyone can win that

Pikachu down + B is the noob equalizer

I can’t grind on my own because my laptops f***ed up and I can’t play online. I was maining Kirby and then Falco, before switching to Marth.

I don’t like playing video games that require coordination. Im starting from scratch in that department.

Tell me more about that hobby

It’s not super deep, but i tend to do their activity more as they want nothing to do with chess. It’s vaguely annoying to play Smash for three hours and lose every single game, snd every time i get close he locks in and curb stomps me!!

Just win

get good noob

Shut up I’ll rest your ass irl 🤬

Im TRYING

Transition into goon seshing

My friend says the same thing ab 9ball

That and cutthroat are fun. I was playing cutthroat with him and his girl, me and his girl would go on runs but choked every single game 🤬