Community theater can get pretty weird. (It can just as easily be not weird and awesome, though)
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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Competitive Super Smash Bros Melee, we won't ever die. And Nintendo has been trying to rub us out since 2008.
Nintendo has been trying to rub us out
"Stop, Nintendo. You're just mashing it."
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. And Nintendo has been trying to rub us out since 2008.
dedication like that... phew. impressive.
Politics, obviously.
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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Arch Linux
Pff hater, Arch users are definitely not cultists who are obligatory to share their divine wisdom and forcibly announce that they are part of this cul... Hobby.
I use arch btw
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I would say NixOS might be even more cultish. I am a part of that cult.
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Any sort of hypebeast scam. Labubu, pop up clothing companies with no real design or quality, beanie babies, most crypto, specific vinyl collections. It's only worth something if you know some deep dark lore about it which requires effort to research and understand, then you're hooked. It's post capitalism cult energy.
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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.
I don't think anyone would call their religion a hobby, though.
Many people engage with the cults as a hobby though. Many of my relatives would probably agree that's about their level of involvement, but then they pay in to the beast that does all of the culty shit...
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Religion. 🤌🏼
