Looking for new hobbies to pass time when I probably really need it.

[BasilABST]

A hobby you can get into that is very cheap is datahoarding/archiving your favorite online media [...] If you do decide to do this, I highly recommend you get a medium-large hard drive to start out with like a 500 GB-2 TB SSD/HDD

I would love to, but getting a hard drive right now is kind of the issue. Shipments are starting to clear up a little bit, but it still takes weeks or even months. I do have an archive of my favorite videogame series, though!

everyone here has so many cool suggestions that i might just pick up a few new hobbies myself! something i'm super into lately is mapmaking (and since it seems like you're already into ttrpgs this might be up your alley, too).

That is an excellent idea, thank you! And you're absolutely correct LOL, I actually have a campaign I'm in and these may help the DM. :o