Quiting cubing - any other great hobbies you guys have?

[tociva]

I am quiting cubing altogether. Yesterday, I got my first V-cube 6 and 7. I solved them a couple of times, and today I was happily solving the 6, when it suddenly exploded. Tried to reassemble it, but a piece was of course missing.

After searching two hours (literally looked everywhere), I finally got so pissed I raged and smacked my 7 against a wall and stomped on the *#!@ing pieces. The end to my hobby has come.

Now that I quit, I'll have a lot of time I'd otherwise spend cubing, which I have nothing to spend on now. I need another hobby. Anyone have some good suggestions?

 

[MrIndianTeen]

I like bowling. Would you be giving away any of your other cubes?

 

[NeedReality]

Quitting Thread

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[Chapuunka]

Learn to play the French horn.

 

[Forte]

yugioh gogogo

 

[uberCuber]

I raged and smacked my 7 against a wall and stomped on the *#!@ing pieces.

You should try yoga and meditation and other calming activities as a hobby.

 

[Olji]

penspinning, fingertutting, mind manipulation (eff yeah)

and maybe some lessons of handling aggression, just a thought ._.

 

[ianography]

You should try yoga and meditation and other calming activities as a hobby.

I second this.

In all seriousness, you could just email V-Cubes saying you lost a piece and they would be willing to give you a new one...

 

[oddlespuddle]

I tried that, they will not. The only people who sell v-cube pieces is sara's toystore, and then only v-cube 7 pieces. After buying two pieces from sara's toystore, I found my missing pieces and put them in, before the package arrived. Just give it some time, as physics states, energy is never lost. And as I state, cube pieces are never lost. Good Luck.

 

[Jukuren]

Poi is fun...

 

[andrewgk]

Cross-country running and mountain biking.

 

[Yuxuibbs]

I am quiting cubing altogether. Yesterday, I got my first V-cube 6 and 7. I solved them a couple of times, and today I was happily solving the 6, when it suddenly exploded. Tried to reassemble it, but a piece was of course missing.

After searching two hours (literally looked everywhere), I finally got so pissed I raged and smacked my 7 against a wall and stomped on the *#!@ing pieces. The end to my hobby has come.

Now that I quit, I'll have a lot of time I'd otherwise spend cubing, which I have nothing to spend on now. I need another hobby. Anyone have some good suggestions?

will you give away any cubes? my parents will only buy me a rubik's 3x3 and won't agree to buy any more cubes. i'm stuck asking people to buy cubes for me and paying them with my own money (not old enough to have a job, don't get an allowance, can't really earn a lot of money so its kind of hard to get cubes)

hobbies: pick something you've always wanted to do or something you have an interest in. before i got into cubing about 9 months ago i was just designing random things and trying to pen spin

i can't really help you because when im not at school, doing homework, studying, or cubing, im usually trying to find more notes for the club im in or watching tv/videos....

 

[TiLiMayor]

penspinning, cupstacking (if yuu already have the timer) cube giveaway organizer.

 

[Shamankian]

You could do Origami, but... I'm thinking with your rage I can imagine you ripping your 100 sheets into pieces because you creased it wrong and had to START ALL OVER!!!!111oneoneeleven!

 

[asportking]

Juggling and unicycling can be pretty fun...

 

[sa11297]

its been 2 hours, so have you calmed down yet? if you are going to quit everytime something unfortunate happens, you are going to need quite a few hobbies.

try yoyoing, pen spinning (they are cheap!), or juggling (if you get easily frustrated then pen spinning isnt going to work and just forget about juggling.)

 

[masteranders1]

I like bowling. Would you be giving away any of your other cubes?

Bowling. Is. Epic.

Besides bowling, I like to play guitar and do some programming. Specifically, I like programming using Visual Basic or C++, but Java works as well. You can download those from the Microsoft website, learning the programming language can be a bit daunting, so you might want to start out with Python or Ruby to learn the fundamentals. I personally just jumped headfirst into learning Visual Basic. I have been playing guitar for about 3 years, kind of took a bit of a break last July. I had 1.5 years of awesome lessons and being in a few bands, and it brought a lot of memories. Might get back into it again sometime soon. There's also stuff like Guitar Hero and Jamlegend that I like to do a bit, but Jamlegend I think is ending next week, but there's probably a lot of other cool music gaming websites. As for guitar hero, I don't play it a ton anymore, but I really liked Rock Band 1 and Guitar Hero 3. That kind of stinks that cubing as your hobby has to come to an abrupt halt, V-Cubes are very annoying when it comes to popping and reassembling. Unfortunately, getting angry at cubes and struggling to put them back together is a part of cubing, and it's just something you have to deal with when you cube.

 

[sa11297]

you dont have to deal with them (6x6 and 7x7). for a long time there were cubers and no 6x6s anywhere. (practice 2x2 and 3x3 but not a lingyun, lol)

 

[masteranders1]

you dont have to deal with them (6x6 and 7x7). for a long time there were cubers and no 6x6s anywhere. (practice 2x2 and 3x3 but not a lingyun, lol)

Yeah, but you're going to probably find that problem with 2x2 or 3x3 as well. I was rather annoyed with a 2x2 I bought when I first started cubing, and it sort of made me think that maybe cubing isn't for me... basically the problem is sort of difficult to avoid.

 

[sa11297]

but its not as bad. they dont contain hundreds on pieces. and the lunhui wont pop.