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Weird or unique hobbies. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've always loved flashlights. Yes FLASHLIGHTS with an A!!! Anyway, apparently not many people share my rather niche interest.

So I ask you, fellow Lemmites, what are your hobbies and weird obsessions that you can ramble on about for hours?

Please feel free to ramble on about your passions here. Maybe you'll find some likeminded individuals!

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 10 months ago (3 children)

            
              Packing: backpacks, bags, organizers, compression sacks, all kinds of things like this. People loathe packing while I just love to play Tetris with my perfectly organized stuff. I have too many bags.
Role-playing games: it is weird because I mostly collect them since there's no time to play (nor to learn new rules).
Automation: why spend 2 minutes manually something when I can spend 2 hours failing to automate it?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Oh man do I feel that roleplaying one. That was me for like 8 years until I got a new play group again. We don't meet as often as any of us would like but when we do meet up that's when the shenanigans start. Now I could gush for hours about various DnD stories I've gotten with this group

Also the automation one is great too, I spent 2 hours setting up a spreadsheet that tracks my finances (mostly) automatically. It will even tally up totals for the whole year. It's great.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Hah yes. Packing.

We were allowed one trunk to take to school. Regardless of weight, you could take whatever you could fit in the trunk.

Needless to say, that when a family member complains they can’t fit any more into their bag, generally I’ll be able to repack it with loads of space left.

I too, have too many bags. And I managed to get my camping base weight down to about 8kg. Am not rich enough (or mad enough) to go full ultralight. This is with creature comforts.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Role-playing games: it is weird because I mostly collect them since there's no time to play (nor to learn new rules).

Im the same, I love a good universe. Im not so enthralled with the game or the system, but the worlds they are in get me every time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

So are you like just reading about the lore around it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yep. Frigging White Wolf sourcebooks are the worst for me. I'll just read the whole thing as if it were a standard fiction book. The entire setting just gnaws at my mind. I wish there were long forms of the little blurbs you get in them.