All of them.

For a long time I followed my favorite NFL team. Eventually I just could not stomach how problematic it all was so I stopped. My favorite coach retired soon after. I used to spend hours on both their subreddit and a separate fansite arguing with people, looking up stats, listening to my favorite podcast by a former player.

Before that it was baseball. I spent a few years following our town’s team, keeping an eye on all the minor league teams and how prospects were doing, evaluating the results of trades years after they happened. Eventually I realized that it was purely a pay-to-win league, and my town’s team was never going to pay enough to win.

For a few years it was League of Legends. A friend of mine installed it on my computer when i hosted a Halloween party in 2013 and got drunk. I spent the next 3 years playing with him and other people, and playing fantasy LoL, watching all the professional matches of the biggest leagues in the world.

I spent a few years diving into cheap Chinese gaming handhelds. Then I got my Steam Deck in 2023and stopped. I’ve realized now from seeing new devices in my feed that I’ve been so out of the loop in that community that I have no idea what is going on.

I waa recently diagnosed with autism, suffered sone pretty severe burnout the past couple years. I think part of that was from just… No longer having any sort of special interest. Still trying to figure that out.