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[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 days ago

Oh, a warhammer topic!

[–] 1234@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Warhammer - people at a local club have told me it is "heresy" to even refer to one page rules - a newish and very innovative wargame. That's the lifestyle players of course not everyone, the people who paint 20h a week while listening to Warhammer audio books play 8hs a week and do fuck all besides that. I have met loads of cool people in the hobby too, but omg those guys

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Y'all have some weird ideas about what a hobby is. Parenting as a hobby cracked me up, that's just having a family, you presumably grew up in one of those. Religion isn't a cult-like hobby, it's a hobby-ish cult.

On the parenting front though, I think those pageants are, those kids do it for a hobby and I would consider it abusive, and hard to exit once they are in.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

those kids do it for a hobby

The pageants are the parents' hobby. The kids are whisked into it at a vulnerable stage of development in which they don't have the agency to decide any of it for themselves.

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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Celsius energy drinks.

I had a coworker evangelize about them so I decided to try them out. Every time I got one and tried it some complete random would come up 'Hey! You like Celsius? Have you tried the [whatever] flavors? [Other flavor] is my favorite!'

I found them all gross.

[–] Guitarfun@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Their sugar free energy packets that you mix in water tasted like jello so I kind of liked those. I haven't tried the cans though.

[–] BabyVi@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Computer Keyboard Enthusiasts

[–] johsny@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Obsidian.md

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Buying used panties from onlyfans sites.

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[–] Donebrach@lemmy.world 119 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Anyone using Linux, based on 60% of the content on lemmy. Uh… maybe also lemmy.

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Have you not heard of our Lord and Savior glorious Debian?

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Heresy, the savior is Arch!

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[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 64 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I am not in a cult.

This is not a cult.

By the way since you never asked, can I interest you in a new way to use your computer?

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[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Religion IMHO is a hobby.

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

All of them if you delve deep enough

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Correct answer, pretty much any group will develop extremists after time.

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Mickey7@lemmy.world 60 points 3 days ago (18 children)

Adults going to DisneyWorld as if it was a sacred shrine

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

When I meet a chick in an online dating way, at the first mention of Disney I'm gone. Unmatch, block, whatever's fastest.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i read an article where a guy was going there almost everyday, or every chance because had nothing else to do. i think somewhere in that article mentioned that people were creeped or got suspicious because he is a man with no children at that place frequently.

[–] Mickey7@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Lots of people that live locally near Disneyland or Disney World have annual passes. Except for a few "blackout" dates you can go for free everyday. I can't imagine why you would even go more than, maybe every 6 months.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 0 points 8 hours ago
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[–] lukstru@lemmy.world 93 points 4 days ago (14 children)
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[–] ShawiniganHandshake@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 days ago (8 children)

There are two kinds of people who own a pressure canner - people who enjoy making preserves and fucking crazy people.

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 1 points 23 hours ago

Sometimes a person is both.

The only reason I still have any normal friends is that my raspberry jam is freaking amazing. But I use that as an excuse to expound on the class war. It’s how they pay me back for the jam.

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[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)
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[–] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know whether anyone has mentioned this -- gacha games. Like cults, it forces you to pay a lot of money, but never enough to satisfy them. It always leaves you in a state of frustration. Video gaming is supposed to be a hobby, but the level of attention and resources demanded by these games are insane.

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 64 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

so many people get injured from that.

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Competitive Super Smash Bros Melee, we won't ever die. And Nintendo has been trying to rub us out since 2008.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nintendo has been trying to rub us out

"Stop, Nintendo. You're just mashing it."

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[–] percent@infosec.pub 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Nostr. I think the tech is cool, but the culture seems like some sort of cryptocurrency cult

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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Definitely warhammer. Can't stand those punks. Have you noticed a lot of warhammer lore reaction videos

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[–] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 57 points 3 days ago (22 children)

Religion. All of them are cults. Every single fucking one.

Nothing. No other hobby even comes close to the death, genocide, rape, murder, and hate generated by that type of religious cult. It's every single year, too. Every single year religion tops its hate, greed, and pain inflicted on everyone.

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[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago
[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

At this point, trading card collecting and grading. Oh, a new series of trading cards for pokemon or yu-gi-oh or whatever dropped? Time for all the adults to buy out every single card in the store and then run home in hopes that their scam leaders like PSA will encourage their behavior by gracing them with a card they claim is worth money despite only being out for less than a week.

Card grading ain't nothing but a scam, cult, and great way to encourage the worst in people, while simultaneously gatekeeping trading cards from everyone with more than 2 braincells. Ain't nothing gonna change my mind about it.

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