Some hobbies are widely shared and recognized as going with
the culture: science fiction, music, medievalism (in the active
form practiced by the Society for Creative Anachronism and
similar organizations), chess, go, backgammon, wargames, and
intellectual games of all kinds. (Role-playing games such as
Dungeons and Dragons used to be extremely popular among hackers
but they lost a bit of their luster as they moved into the
mainstream and became heavily commercialized. More recently,
"Magic: The Gathering" has been widely popular among hackers.)
Logic puzzles. Ham radio. Other interests that seem to correlate
less strongly but positively with hackerdom include linguistics
and theater teching.
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