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What are your special interests? (lemmus.org)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Worldbuilding (I had reason to export my onenote worldbuilding notes to a pdf recently, turns out it's over 600 pages)

Datahoarding, specifically ebooks (have over 34,000, fiction and non-fiction, classified into folders and mostly individually selected on the basis of quality although there are a couple of pre-built collections integrated in there too - nowhere near satisfied with my collection as even if you only want the best examples of something, every fictional genre or nonfictional field has subfields and subsubfields). But also to some extent emulatable games and TV shows. TV shows less so (would be happy with only a few dozen complete series, am probably getting close to "complete" to my satisfaction), but I guess my game collection is pretty big - I think I have most games up until about 1994, plus hundreds after that.

I'm currently in the process of getting an official diagnosis, which is why I have some somewhat prepared answers on the intensity level of my interests.