I don't know that this even counts, but one of the most strange but wildly interesting things I used to do years back was randomly exploring defunct teleporters in Habbo Hotel.
For those who don't know about teleporters/teles in Habbo Hotel, there are probably tens of thousands of pairs of teleports that exist in the game, each of them connecting only to its pair. Since trading furniture is pretty much a currency in Habbo, a lot of individual teleporters get traded off or lost throughout the years, and often end up being parked in random rooms and vast furniture junkyards.
So I would often lay down several random teles from my inventory, or enter my own furniture junkyard, and try every tele in there until I got a live one. This would Bill & Ted me to fuck knows where. If I'm unlucky, it's just a dead end room. If I'm lucky, it's a room with even more teles. That's where the rabbit hole begins. Pretty soon you're ten teles deep into the weirdest, most liminal Back Rooms spaces you can imagine. Sometimes you even find a back door into other players' private rooms and get to explore like a cat burglar. The sky was the limit.
I haven't logged in for a decade or more, but I still miss doing that sometimes.
I included the best pic I could find online of what a tele goldmine looked like, except there would typically be a wide variety of styles and not all portapotties like these.
I have been under the impression (for a very long time) that habbo was defunct and I guess never decided to revisit that thought. Apparently it's still very much alive! I might need to actually check it out as I don't think I've ever played it
In Eve Online, when a capsule was destroyed, a frozen corpse was left behind.
I knew someone who would go around collecting corpses. A battle is going, he'd be out there scooping them up. He's running a hauler, and this was the day that when your ship got destroyed, every bit of loot went out in individual units, so when a pirate would try to shake him down he'd respond with "If you blow me up, you'll crash back to desktop."
That was how he played the game, gathering corpses.
This is EVE we're talking about. This is honestly one of the more benign if not weird habits.
This is the game where to join a corp you nearly needed a resume so people could make sure you weren't a spy because months to years infiltration processes happen in this game. Or just rampant piracy.
This is the thing i keep hearing about EVE player, they have the culture of running the game like in real life which sounds interesting, but i swear if i ever try this game i would be bored of it in 5 hours.
Isn't there's also a news channel that report on what happened in EVE?
I feel like EVE is the direction MMOs needed to go. It's why so many failed.
It's what worked for wow when it first came out. The sense of BEING in some other world where things are different is something wow did very very well. The problem is that nobody had any part in building that world, that the story quickly became convoluted and stupid, and that jumping theough the next arbitrary hoop in a fucking Skinner box isn't escaping this world.
Whoever finds out how to build an mmo where people can build things and make decisions and just fuck everything up if they're so inclined and make it accessible is going to make a fortune.
EVE is one of those games that early on it's tutorial was essentially 'Here's a spaceship, go fuck yourself.' When they say you can do whatever the hell you want, it's really not joking. There are people who live in JITA (most populace system) purely doing scams, or running markets. You have people who go into piracy or try to build massive empires.
I knew a guy who his entire playing of the game was making ammo to sell. There was a corp who's entire thing was doing PVP but with a bend to "Customer service", as in "Here is your complimentary missile delivery." and after blowing you up sending you a request to fill a survey on how the customer service was.
So it's a game that really is what you put in it. The reason I had to quit is it's a massive time sink. It's definitely not a game of "Oh, I've got about 30 minutes, let me hop on."
That's the reason i don't think i would like the game, it's a massive space sim that require a lot of time to get into. It just isn't a game for me, i think i would be confused by the lack of direction the game have, but i always enjoy the story people tell that happened within the game.
Some of us only pop in occasionally to admire the graphics, run a few quests, and improve faction relations. (I can longer train skills, I have reached max on too many, don't ask.) It can certainly be fun if you're fond also of overly complicate navigation puzzles that require you to actually mimic doing a probe mission.
I have a friend that I did some EVE work for once. Nothing dangerous or weird, just making tactical warpgate bookmarks; two above, two below, and one just off-grid for every gate in every system in a region. Paid well for something that could be done in a cheap frigate, just tedious as hell. They would then copy the bookmarks and sell them in packs on a per-region basis.
They eventually had ALL of the tactical bookmarks for all of nullsec. As it turns out, that many individual items is problematic for the game to display in a single inventory. Not because of RAM or anything, but the game itself would refuse to show an inventory with too many items and lock you out of accessing anything. I forget the exact reason but it wouldn't crash the game or anything. The number is also exceptionally high, to the point you have to be trying to hit it.
Because EVE Online players are bastards, they also found a way to weaponize it. Luckily, it was considered an unintended exploit so I was one of few (willing) victims to it. To this day, they have to warn people buying their complete bookmark packs that they can unintentionally brick their inventory unless they follow the directions they give to work around it.
I like watching people on the internet. 15y ago, I was using Shareaza, Kazaa, Emule as my music sources. For those who aren't familiar with those software: it's p2p file download. You install Shareaza on your computer, and give access to specific folder to the Shareaza network. Anyone using Shareaza can then download the files located on your shared folder. But, in the mid 00', even more than today, people weren't that tech savy and what happened, way too often, was that a user would give access to the "My Documents" folder or even worse, their whole computer. I was looking for those thoses and I was reading their MSN messenger history, looking at their pictures, their resume, their schoolwork... I was really enjoying learning everything about their life through their My Documents folder.
Fast forward to 2018. All those p2p software disappeared. But I found an alternative: 4shared. 4shared allows you to upload pictures and share them (like img). When you download the app, you can setup the app to automatically upload all your pictures (from your phone). But a lot of users don't know that, and they end up with all they smartphone pictures on the net, with a public settings. I enjoy going to 4shared, looking for those non savy users, and learn everything about their lifes.
And I don't even need that. I have hobbies, friends, I don't have issues meeting women or people, but I like stalking on those strangers on 4shared.
Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.
Inspired by Ben Wallace, I made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos! Watch them below, ordered randomly.
I guess it was on people who shared entire drives, or, can you trick nicotine to go folders above the shared ones? Like ../.
When I discovered SoulSeek I did something alike, I saw that I were able to explore other shares of the same user, and then you got me there doing some clicks to see how far I could went.
I once had a corrupt .dll system file, after trying for hours to find a copy to download it took ten seconds to find and download one on emule thanks to people sharing the entire system.
Closest thing to that I ever got was buying a hard drive from ebay.
They didn't format it. Best I can tell it was used by a teenager in texas around 2018. Who either went out with, or stalked a girl in his class. Hard to tell. Tons of pictures labeling her as his girlfriend, no pictures with them together.
I did find about 4 different folders of call of duty pc files though.
I did that back then with emule, I searched for any file that started with dcim or img0 and put everything on the download list. Lots of random shit. HAHAHAHA
In The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the titular character speaks at length of the peculiar hobbies and obsessions people have, which he calls "hobby horses". He even coins the term "hobby-horsical" to describe the concept.
We're on Lemmy, half of us find-it actually cool, the other half has weirder hobbies :)
Seriously, some of play flight simulator on VATSIM, some of us LARP, some of us are furries, or have other kind of exotic hobbies. hobby horse looks like a normie workout in comparison
Trainspotting (a now largely obsolete English hobby). Back when trains were a thing, nerds would gather at at the front end of the platform to write down the numbers of the engines. Exciting stuff. If you ever saw a movie called 'The Station Agent' with Peter Dinklage you kind of get the idea. Now a slang for a pointless, useless activity (which is where the movie about Scottish heroin addicts gets its name from).
Japan still has a lot of campaigns with special prints or characters on trains. Fans find their schedules and wait at stations to take pictures. Its quite fun to ride one of those trains and see tens of ethusiasts at every stop.
There are airplane and bus spotters too. I don't think it weird though, people geek out about all kind of things. Trains are cooler than cars anyway ^_^
Back when I worked on a school boat we had a German kid in to cruise ship spotting. Every time we encountered a cruise ship he’d run to the chart house with his special notebook and write down all the AIS info and whatnot. We regularly saw what were in my opinion way cooler boats like tallships and navy warships but he didn’t care about anything else.
If there's one thing I learned from being a siren enthusiast, it's that if it exists, there's a community and hobby formed around it. Neurodivergence is a helluva drug.
BNCO Mobil Directo (variant with a Wisconsin gas engine), a Federal Signal model 500-SHTT, and a B&M 20-AR-10.
Of course, this being a deserted island and all, the latter two wouldn't be able to function and I'd probably only have limited fuel for the Directo, but they're my favourites so it's better than nothing lmao
Okay, what I mean is the kind of siren that is made of metal and/or fibreglass, contains a mechanical chopper/motor or electronic speaker, and is most often found on wooden poles and rooftops and used for civil defense!
Unfortunately, I'm afraid the sea isn't too kind to warning sirens lmao
For a bit of maybe context, she was a paleontologist...but
Friend of mine from university was always ready to scoop up roadkill into her trunk when she passed it by so that she could render it down to the bones so she would have a skeleton to study/draw.
Biologist in university here....I know a person who has a dedicated garage freezer to store their roadkill and animal samples for dissection. That's...that's supposed to be the garage fridge filled with sodas for a tactical gaming refresh for the kids, no!
Counting counties aka keeping track of every county you visit. My husband has this hobby, and sometimes on road trips we drive way out of the way for him to grab a new county.
He uses a special website to keep track because apparently he is not alone in that hobby. But I like your idea! I’ve wanted to get into geocaching but never got around to it.
It's more commercialised than it used to be, but I do still get a subscription for the summer months and it's always worth it. I've done many great hikes and been to places I'd never have gone too. I also really don't mind not finding something, there's a very good reason why someone brought you there and I like to enjoy that more.
Do build up the difficulty and terrain when you start out, it can be treacherous past 3. As with any puzzle there're rules you can follow to make it easier. I'd recommend it anyone!
I dunno if it's really a hobby, but one time I heard about bug collectors. They're not people who go around catching insects, instead they're people who go around catching STDs. On purpose.
There’s a few who have a kink of spreading those parasites to unknowing people. Back when the internet was a village I made a wrong turn and can’t un-know this now…
Oh, yeah. I remember reading the celebratory posts about the first person to contract HIV despite taking the anti-catching-HIV-drugs (yes, I know the word prophylactic, I just think my words are funnier).
One time I was at a bonfire and a friend of a friend, looking like he was up all night, said he was up all night watching tornado siren videos on youtube
Siren enthusiast here, it's a surprisingly large community that's really started to blow up these past few years. There are so many models and sounds that there's always something interesting to find and I find them pleasant to listen to. Sirens are very powerful machines that move a ton of air, and they're capable of shaking the ground and rumbling your chest when you're near one. We have an annual Sirencon in Wisconsin every year where we bring our privately owned sirens (usually bought for cheap after they've been retired from service) and have a good time firing them up.
I personally enjoy learning the history of the sirens themselves and finding surviving units of rare historical models, especially those from between 1910-1950 when they were still trying to figure out what worked and what didn't. There was a ton of innovation and cool designs. A lot of people associate sirens with air raids, but their original primary purpose was to replace bells, air horns and whistles at fire departments that needed an audible signal to summon volunteer firefighters to the station upon a fire call. Being electric, the siren didn't need air pressure or steam which could run out, and couldn't be confused with church bells.
The fire alarm collecting community is larger than you might expect. I first got one recommended to me on New Year's of a guy setting off all 20 or so of his linked fire alarms when the clock struck midnight. He needed hearing protection the next room over.
I used to raise mystery snails and sell them on eBay and Aquabid. Margins were too thin. After shipping in their special bags, and worse if I had to add a hot or cold pack, only netted me about $5 a sale. Still, never met another that did that for kicks and the same couple of sellers were still active after 10 years last I checked Aquabid.
A weird hobby of mine used to be collecting pictures of camgirls balancing shoes on their heads. I misclicked the [ x ] on a camgirl popup ad, and discovered that it wasn't a big link to some site, but an actual chat room with a live girl. For anyone unaware, you can talk to them for free, while they try and lure you into paying for whatever acts you want to see. I told the first one I don't believe they are real because I didnt, and to balance a shoe on her head so I can see its not just a collection of prescripted gifs or something. She did it. Screenshot. Did it to a few more for the lols. I had a few thousand over a year or two before I finally lost interest.
Also telling them how cool it was they keep tarantulas as pets, because I just saw it go behind that poster on the wall.
I dont feel proud of myself now, they were at a point in their lives where taking their clothes off for a few quid on the Internet was a good idea, and I was just fucking with them. Was fun though.
This is only the second time I've heard about it. The first time, someone was talking about worm composting (vermicomposting), which uses worms to convert organic waste into nutrient-rich compost.
Railfanning is a massive hobby, especially in the states. You should see the crowds when Union Pacific 4014 (The "Big Boy", the largest steam locomotive in the world) rolls through town during its excursion runs.
I live near a river that has a lot of freighters that go through it. Boat watching is pretty common here. And there are a handful of people who watch for the different trucks that go over the bridge there (literally thousands go over every day).
Making murder porn your personality. There are people being killed and it's people's hobby to get a boner over the killer or digging through their personal life.
People who idolize serial killers....there's folks who buy and sell dirt from Dhamer's grave, the dark romance folks being creeps at cons asking writers/actors how they'd fantasize raping someone, the fangirling and marriage proposals sent to killers....
I don’t remember his name, but there was a guy who collected sex dolls. He had like over a hundred of them. I think his wife left him because of it. I wanna say I saw him on My Strange Addiction, but I don’t remember.
Edit: I looked it up and it’s not the guy from My Strange Addiction. He “married” a doll, but I think he just had the one. I don’t know where I saw about the other guy.
ugh. I love my city but I so wish I lived in toronto. its so like mine but like with sprinkles. can travel with your dog on train, still has lakefront airport beach with nudity.
This is definitely not true. Gooning usually means like multiple continuous hours of masturbation, usually with the purpose of entering some kind of zoned-out trance state. I think it is somewhat niche, as I'm pretty sure most people just masturbate for 5-15 minutes, just looking at porn but not by any means "entranced" by it. The term gooning has gotten so popular because the activity itself has gotten more popular. Personally I attribute it to people's strong need to dissociate from the world in a way that isn't expensive, and that isn't so harmful that you can't do it really frequently. It used to be that drugs would fill that void for the populace, but now people need more drugs to cope than they used to, and they can't afford it anyways. Plus drugs fuck with your ability to stay employed, etc.
Another major contributor to it, imo, is the deluge of horny-bait content on Tiktok and Instagram. Even things that aren't trying to market an onlyfans still are gonna feature people doing forced cleavage jiggles and whatnot. Sex sells, there's nothing new there, but nowadays it's almost like you NEED sex to sell. Basically anybody who is into vtubers or modern anime is an example of someone that just can't really engage with something unless there's constantly some ass or titties on screen, or some kind of horny undertone or subtext at the very least.
Ultimately I think gooning is a better form of "indulgence" and dissociation than the alternatives, but its popularity is a sad sign of the times. All humans like to turn their brain off once in awhile, but if a large subset of the population is basically crying out to have their brain off every day for hours at a time, and for it to be in every form of media and relaxation, I can only see that as a sad situation.
Depending on the social media in question, I'm not sure there's much difference! I may be misinformed about the state of Tiktok and Instagram though, as I don't use them myself. It's just my observations from seeing others on them
I don't know that this even counts, but one of the most strange but wildly interesting things I used to do years back was randomly exploring defunct teleporters in Habbo Hotel.
For those who don't know about teleporters/teles in Habbo Hotel, there are probably tens of thousands of pairs of teleports that exist in the game, each of them connecting only to its pair. Since trading furniture is pretty much a currency in Habbo, a lot of individual teleporters get traded off or lost throughout the years, and often end up being parked in random rooms and vast furniture junkyards.
So I would often lay down several random teles from my inventory, or enter my own furniture junkyard, and try every tele in there until I got a live one. This would Bill & Ted me to fuck knows where. If I'm unlucky, it's just a dead end room. If I'm lucky, it's a room with even more teles. That's where the rabbit hole begins. Pretty soon you're ten teles deep into the weirdest, most liminal Back Rooms spaces you can imagine. Sometimes you even find a back door into other players' private rooms and get to explore like a cat burglar. The sky was the limit.
I haven't logged in for a decade or more, but I still miss doing that sometimes.
I included the best pic I could find online of what a tele goldmine looked like, except there would typically be a wide variety of styles and not all portapotties like these.
Holy shit, this sounds like an absolute blast!
I’d watch this YouTube channel
This sounds fun.
I have been under the impression (for a very long time) that habbo was defunct and I guess never decided to revisit that thought. Apparently it's still very much alive! I might need to actually check it out as I don't think I've ever played it
But you've got my interest piqued!
It was a crappy NFT thing for a while, they only brought back the Hotel fairly recently.
In Eve Online, when a capsule was destroyed, a frozen corpse was left behind.
I knew someone who would go around collecting corpses. A battle is going, he'd be out there scooping them up. He's running a hauler, and this was the day that when your ship got destroyed, every bit of loot went out in individual units, so when a pirate would try to shake him down he'd respond with "If you blow me up, you'll crash back to desktop."
That was how he played the game, gathering corpses.
This guy isn't a weird, he's straight up dangerous
This is EVE we're talking about. This is honestly one of the more benign if not weird habits.
This is the game where to join a corp you nearly needed a resume so people could make sure you weren't a spy because months to years infiltration processes happen in this game. Or just rampant piracy.
This is the thing i keep hearing about EVE player, they have the culture of running the game like in real life which sounds interesting, but i swear if i ever try this game i would be bored of it in 5 hours.
Isn't there's also a news channel that report on what happened in EVE?
There's an excellent, albeit 5hr documentary about the history of EVE online, its absolutely incredible
EVE Online | Down The Rabbit Hole
I feel like EVE is the direction MMOs needed to go. It's why so many failed.
It's what worked for wow when it first came out. The sense of BEING in some other world where things are different is something wow did very very well. The problem is that nobody had any part in building that world, that the story quickly became convoluted and stupid, and that jumping theough the next arbitrary hoop in a fucking Skinner box isn't escaping this world.
Whoever finds out how to build an mmo where people can build things and make decisions and just fuck everything up if they're so inclined and make it accessible is going to make a fortune.
Foxhole?
What is foxhole?
EVE is one of those games that early on it's tutorial was essentially 'Here's a spaceship, go fuck yourself.' When they say you can do whatever the hell you want, it's really not joking. There are people who live in JITA (most populace system) purely doing scams, or running markets. You have people who go into piracy or try to build massive empires.
I knew a guy who his entire playing of the game was making ammo to sell. There was a corp who's entire thing was doing PVP but with a bend to "Customer service", as in "Here is your complimentary missile delivery." and after blowing you up sending you a request to fill a survey on how the customer service was.
So it's a game that really is what you put in it. The reason I had to quit is it's a massive time sink. It's definitely not a game of "Oh, I've got about 30 minutes, let me hop on."
That's the reason i don't think i would like the game, it's a massive space sim that require a lot of time to get into. It just isn't a game for me, i think i would be confused by the lack of direction the game have, but i always enjoy the story people tell that happened within the game.
Some of us only pop in occasionally to admire the graphics, run a few quests, and improve faction relations. (I can longer train skills, I have reached max on too many, don't ask.) It can certainly be fun if you're fond also of overly complicate navigation puzzles that require you to actually mimic doing a probe mission.
What does that mean?
The game would attempt to render the thousands of corpses all at once, which presumably would overload the game engine and cause it to crash.
Exactly this.
He had so many individual pieces of loot on board, blowing up his ship would overload the players ram and crash the game.
I have a friend that I did some EVE work for once. Nothing dangerous or weird, just making tactical warpgate bookmarks; two above, two below, and one just off-grid for every gate in every system in a region. Paid well for something that could be done in a cheap frigate, just tedious as hell. They would then copy the bookmarks and sell them in packs on a per-region basis.
They eventually had ALL of the tactical bookmarks for all of nullsec. As it turns out, that many individual items is problematic for the game to display in a single inventory. Not because of RAM or anything, but the game itself would refuse to show an inventory with too many items and lock you out of accessing anything. I forget the exact reason but it wouldn't crash the game or anything. The number is also exceptionally high, to the point you have to be trying to hit it.
Because EVE Online players are bastards, they also found a way to weaponize it. Luckily, it was considered an unintended exploit so I was one of few (willing) victims to it. To this day, they have to warn people buying their complete bookmark packs that they can unintentionally brick their inventory unless they follow the directions they give to work around it.
I carried my own corpse around until I got into trouble crossing a Concord border with it.
Memorising door colours of every house and flat in a small Scottish town of about 30,000.
Yes, the hobby-ist was on the spectrum.
Anvil firing
You get 2 anvils
Pack some gunpowder between them
Light a fuze
Run
The top one shoots off into the air
And you try not to looney tunes yourself.
Thank you for reminding me about this classic
men really love to explode stuff lol
Women too! Kari Byron salient years blowing shit up.... And she would do it again!
A close second would have to be those guys in Mexico that put gunpowder on sledge hammer and slam it on an anvil or steel beam causing ridiculous explosions.
That reminds me of a Dave Barry column I read discussing people who would competitively vacuum up gasoline.
https://walzr.com/IMG_0001
I guess it was on people who shared entire drives, or, can you trick nicotine to go folders above the shared ones? Like
../.When I discovered SoulSeek I did something alike, I saw that I were able to explore other shares of the same user, and then you got me there doing some clicks to see how far I could went.
Yeah, some people share their entire drives, so the people who share system files are likely to have their private files there as well.
I once had a corrupt .dll system file, after trying for hours to find a copy to download it took ten seconds to find and download one on emule thanks to people sharing the entire system.
That's just the NSA Agent-in-training, don't worry about it 😁
Closest thing to that I ever got was buying a hard drive from ebay.
They didn't format it. Best I can tell it was used by a teenager in texas around 2018. Who either went out with, or stalked a girl in his class. Hard to tell. Tons of pictures labeling her as his girlfriend, no pictures with them together.
I did find about 4 different folders of call of duty pc files though.
I did that back then with emule, I searched for any file that started with dcim or img0 and put everything on the download list. Lots of random shit. HAHAHAHA
I'm surprised no one has mentioned hobby horsing yet.
I was just scrolling down to see if anybody had mentioned it
Oh boy, this is actually the perfect example.
In The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the titular character speaks at length of the peculiar hobbies and obsessions people have, which he calls "hobby horses". He even coins the term "hobby-horsical" to describe the concept.
It's even an option virtually!
We're on Lemmy, half of us find-it actually cool, the other half has weirder hobbies :)
Seriously, some of play flight simulator on VATSIM, some of us LARP, some of us are furries, or have other kind of exotic hobbies. hobby horse looks like a normie workout in comparison
Trainspotting (a now largely obsolete English hobby). Back when trains were a thing, nerds would gather at at the front end of the platform to write down the numbers of the engines. Exciting stuff. If you ever saw a movie called 'The Station Agent' with Peter Dinklage you kind of get the idea. Now a slang for a pointless, useless activity (which is where the movie about Scottish heroin addicts gets its name from).
A close second is commenting on the internet.
Japan still has a lot of campaigns with special prints or characters on trains. Fans find their schedules and wait at stations to take pictures. Its quite fun to ride one of those trains and see tens of ethusiasts at every stop.
That’s a bit different hobby, though. Since it involves photography
Wholesome!
There are airplane and bus spotters too. I don't think it weird though, people geek out about all kind of things. Trains are cooler than cars anyway ^_^
Relevant song! https://youtu.be/wOzDRzSRBiY
Back when I worked on a school boat we had a German kid in to cruise ship spotting. Every time we encountered a cruise ship he’d run to the chart house with his special notebook and write down all the AIS info and whatnot. We regularly saw what were in my opinion way cooler boats like tallships and navy warships but he didn’t care about anything else.
If there's one thing I learned from being a siren enthusiast, it's that if it exists, there's a community and hobby formed around it. Neurodivergence is a helluva drug.
Quick! You can only take 3 sirens to a deserted island with you, which three do you choose!?
BNCO Mobil Directo (variant with a Wisconsin gas engine), a Federal Signal model 500-SHTT, and a B&M 20-AR-10.
Of course, this being a deserted island and all, the latter two wouldn't be able to function and I'd probably only have limited fuel for the Directo, but they're my favourites so it's better than nothing lmao
You know your interest is obscure when it throws Google for a loop:
Yeah, AI has absolutely no clue when it comes to sirens lmao. The Air Raid Sirens Wiki is where you want to go if you want to learn about sirens.
like loud things or fish people?
Loud spinny devices that do loud things.
Sea sirens are loud and can swing in circles, so they still count
Okay, what I mean is the kind of siren that is made of metal and/or fibreglass, contains a mechanical chopper/motor or electronic speaker, and is most often found on wooden poles and rooftops and used for civil defense!
Unfortunately, I'm afraid the sea isn't too kind to warning sirens lmao
i don't care what you do with your mermaids, but stuffing them with that stuff, even if its for civil defence, sounds unethical.
Yes?
Isn't every man a psiren enthusiast unless they have access to wax?
For a bit of maybe context, she was a paleontologist...but
Friend of mine from university was always ready to scoop up roadkill into her trunk when she passed it by so that she could render it down to the bones so she would have a skeleton to study/draw.
Biologist in university here....I know a person who has a dedicated garage freezer to store their roadkill and animal samples for dissection. That's...that's supposed to be the garage fridge filled with sodas for a tactical gaming refresh for the kids, no!
Was your friend's last name dahner?
How did she do the rendering?
depends on what you use, I recommend blender, it's free and open source. when plenty of tutorials
A blender seems like overkill, there won't be much left to draw.
Do you say "will it rend? That's the question" everytime you use Blender?
you gotta say "its rending time" before rending all over the place
Honestly never asked. I presumed she just boiled off the flesh and then left the bones out in the sun to dry.
Counting counties aka keeping track of every county you visit. My husband has this hobby, and sometimes on road trips we drive way out of the way for him to grab a new county.
He should combine this with geocaching. You get to see a map of where you've been
He uses a special website to keep track because apparently he is not alone in that hobby. But I like your idea! I’ve wanted to get into geocaching but never got around to it.
Join us. Very cool hobby
liluzibird01
It's more commercialised than it used to be, but I do still get a subscription for the summer months and it's always worth it. I've done many great hikes and been to places I'd never have gone too. I also really don't mind not finding something, there's a very good reason why someone brought you there and I like to enjoy that more.
Do build up the difficulty and terrain when you start out, it can be treacherous past 3. As with any puzzle there're rules you can follow to make it easier. I'd recommend it anyone!
Classifying plastic bread bag clips
I dunno if it's really a hobby, but one time I heard about bug collectors. They're not people who go around catching insects, instead they're people who go around catching STDs. On purpose.
Wow, I bet they don't even bother warning their sexual partners about it. I wish I had never learned that.
Actually, from what little I recall about it, I think they do alert their partners about it, or maybe they just stuck with fellow bug collectors.
There’s a few who have a kink of spreading those parasites to unknowing people. Back when the internet was a village I made a wrong turn and can’t un-know this now…
Oh, yeah. I remember reading the celebratory posts about the first person to contract HIV despite taking the anti-catching-HIV-drugs (yes, I know the word prophylactic, I just think my words are funnier).
That I've heard of? I'm gonna count that guy who commissioned fanart of women buying way too much Wonderbread and destroying rainforests.
Thinking about that guy, he's probably having the time of his life with AI image generators.
One time I was at a bonfire and a friend of a friend, looking like he was up all night, said he was up all night watching tornado siren videos on youtube
Siren enthusiast here, it's a surprisingly large community that's really started to blow up these past few years. There are so many models and sounds that there's always something interesting to find and I find them pleasant to listen to. Sirens are very powerful machines that move a ton of air, and they're capable of shaking the ground and rumbling your chest when you're near one. We have an annual Sirencon in Wisconsin every year where we bring our privately owned sirens (usually bought for cheap after they've been retired from service) and have a good time firing them up.
I personally enjoy learning the history of the sirens themselves and finding surviving units of rare historical models, especially those from between 1910-1950 when they were still trying to figure out what worked and what didn't. There was a ton of innovation and cool designs. A lot of people associate sirens with air raids, but their original primary purpose was to replace bells, air horns and whistles at fire departments that needed an audible signal to summon volunteer firefighters to the station upon a fire call. Being electric, the siren didn't need air pressure or steam which could run out, and couldn't be confused with church bells.
I tested a military handcranked one once, it sure is a very special thing, the slow buildup, the sound and the wrrrrr vibrations.
Hand crank sirens are pretty fun! I've got one from China, an LK-100. It's especially satisfying hearing the pops at low RPMs.
Nick Mullen?
Watching? Does he like to listen to fireworks too?
The fire alarm collecting community is larger than you might expect. I first got one recommended to me on New Year's of a guy setting off all 20 or so of his linked fire alarms when the clock struck midnight. He needed hearing protection the next room over.
I don't remember the name, but the being hanged by chains attached to your skin thing is really weird
Think it's just called "suspension". I know someone who has done it professionally at least once
To learn more, watch the movie The Cell!
I used to raise mystery snails and sell them on eBay and Aquabid. Margins were too thin. After shipping in their special bags, and worse if I had to add a hot or cold pack, only netted me about $5 a sale. Still, never met another that did that for kicks and the same couple of sellers were still active after 10 years last I checked Aquabid.
A weird hobby of mine used to be collecting pictures of camgirls balancing shoes on their heads. I misclicked the [ x ] on a camgirl popup ad, and discovered that it wasn't a big link to some site, but an actual chat room with a live girl. For anyone unaware, you can talk to them for free, while they try and lure you into paying for whatever acts you want to see. I told the first one I don't believe they are real because I didnt, and to balance a shoe on her head so I can see its not just a collection of prescripted gifs or something. She did it. Screenshot. Did it to a few more for the lols. I had a few thousand over a year or two before I finally lost interest.
Also telling them how cool it was they keep tarantulas as pets, because I just saw it go behind that poster on the wall.
I dont feel proud of myself now, they were at a point in their lives where taking their clothes off for a few quid on the Internet was a good idea, and I was just fucking with them. Was fun though.
The tarantula thing is pretty funny.
Wow, shoe-on-head takes me back.
We 2007 baybeeeeee!
And now they're undeniably a hard right winger
The telephone pole appreciation society...
https://www.telegraphpoleappreciationsociety.org/
You reminded me of one of my favorite pieces of early-ish internet history that is still up: the Traffic Cone Preservation Society
Frog jerking. I made the cover of toad load weekly once.
Is......is it what it sounds like? Because the weirder part for me is that there's a dedicated weekly newsletter about giving frogs handjobs....
Wait, is this why everyone in Portland was protesting ICE dressed as frogs???
What a silly hobby!
Serial killers just murder hobbyists so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I met a worm farmer when delivering a package.
I had no idea that was a thing.
You can buy worms for fishing at stores. Someone has to breed them to maintain consistent supply.
People buy earthworm and put it in their garden, it helps with the plant
This is only the second time I've heard about it. The first time, someone was talking about worm composting (vermicomposting), which uses worms to convert organic waste into nutrient-rich compost.
They are really hard to lassoo though.
Butterfly collecting because you have to kill one to collect it.
Trainspotting is up there.
My American brain refuses to believe this is a real hobby.
we are real thank you very much
You just need to meet someone sufficiently autistic and you still won't get it, but you will believe it
Railfanning is a massive hobby, especially in the states. You should see the crowds when Union Pacific 4014 (The "Big Boy", the largest steam locomotive in the world) rolls through town during its excursion runs.
I knew someone at school who was into bus spotting because "train spotting was boring"
I live near a river that has a lot of freighters that go through it. Boat watching is pretty common here. And there are a handful of people who watch for the different trucks that go over the bridge there (literally thousands go over every day).
Making murder porn your personality. There are people being killed and it's people's hobby to get a boner over the killer or digging through their personal life.
True crime gets really really weird especially when you dive into more rare extreme niches.
Example?
Yeah, since really gristly crimes are the normal interest here, I'm picturing someone obsessed with, like, shoplifting arrests.
Jaywalking fans are the real freaks.
Don't kink shame.... sometimes catty corner just does it for some freaks.
People who idolize serial killers....there's folks who buy and sell dirt from Dhamer's grave, the dark romance folks being creeps at cons asking writers/actors how they'd fantasize raping someone, the fangirling and marriage proposals sent to killers....
I'm sorry I asked.
My friends grandpa
breadsbreeds pigeons, he does nothing with them after tho.Like this?
Oops
To late, I'm into it. Got more bird/bread based stories?
I don’t remember his name, but there was a guy who collected sex dolls. He had like over a hundred of them. I think his wife left him because of it. I wanna say I saw him on My Strange Addiction, but I don’t remember.
Edit: I looked it up and it’s not the guy from My Strange Addiction. He “married” a doll, but I think he just had the one. I don’t know where I saw about the other guy.
People who watch airplanes land and take off
Eh, not that wild, folks used to do train and ship spotting, so planes are okay too.
chicago used to have a lake front airport such that you could go to a beach. Sun, swim, and watch the small aircraft take off and land.
Toronto still has that. Nudist beach at that.
ugh. I love my city but I so wish I lived in toronto. its so like mine but like with sprinkles. can travel with your dog on train, still has lakefront airport beach with nudity.
Extreme Ironing
What makes it extreme?
The locations, free falling and such.
Seen photos of it done on the side of a cliff, and the roof of a moving car.
No iron
that's just a blacksmith
I would like to learn more
Bryan Ropar has forgotten more about plastic chairs than you know about anything.
Okay, but who is Vergil?
Magnet fishing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_fishing
It starts all harmless...
That game was dope in kindergarden.
Once i watched a video of someone fished up a live(or dead? It just puff and not explode) grenade. Whole bridge have to be closed down for bombsquad.
Collecting plastic lawn chairs.
Competitive Hobby Horse
Gooning.
That's just a modern term for jerking off, I don't think it's niche or weird, I just don't get why it's gotten so popular calling it that way.
It's more like edging, but to an extreme degree.
The definition has become more nebulous over time.
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a65418496/what-is-gooning/
This is definitely not true. Gooning usually means like multiple continuous hours of masturbation, usually with the purpose of entering some kind of zoned-out trance state. I think it is somewhat niche, as I'm pretty sure most people just masturbate for 5-15 minutes, just looking at porn but not by any means "entranced" by it. The term gooning has gotten so popular because the activity itself has gotten more popular. Personally I attribute it to people's strong need to dissociate from the world in a way that isn't expensive, and that isn't so harmful that you can't do it really frequently. It used to be that drugs would fill that void for the populace, but now people need more drugs to cope than they used to, and they can't afford it anyways. Plus drugs fuck with your ability to stay employed, etc.
Another major contributor to it, imo, is the deluge of horny-bait content on Tiktok and Instagram. Even things that aren't trying to market an onlyfans still are gonna feature people doing forced cleavage jiggles and whatnot. Sex sells, there's nothing new there, but nowadays it's almost like you NEED sex to sell. Basically anybody who is into vtubers or modern anime is an example of someone that just can't really engage with something unless there's constantly some ass or titties on screen, or some kind of horny undertone or subtext at the very least.
Ultimately I think gooning is a better form of "indulgence" and dissociation than the alternatives, but its popularity is a sad sign of the times. All humans like to turn their brain off once in awhile, but if a large subset of the population is basically crying out to have their brain off every day for hours at a time, and for it to be in every form of media and relaxation, I can only see that as a sad situation.
I think you should get off social media for a bit and goon instead.
Depending on the social media in question, I'm not sure there's much difference! I may be misinformed about the state of Tiktok and Instagram though, as I don't use them myself. It's just my observations from seeing others on them
"Ball peener"
You try to cover your penis with your balls. There is more, but dont ask...
Ok from the name I would have assumed an artist who works specifically with flat sheets of metal and a rounded hammer.
You must have made that up, there's not even a definition on Urban Dictionary.
Also, is this a hobby or a kink, because it reminds me of kinks like chastity, plapping and such.
I started photographing aquatic insects. Not really big into it but every once in a while, mostly spring time
I read that as "weirdest holiday" and was going to say National Talk Like a Pirate Day - anyway sorry for the interruption, please carry on.
CAKE FARTS
DOES THE CAKE FART OR IS THE FART CAUSED BY CAKE? WHY ARE WE YELLING? FUCK YOU.
Tether cars.
Is that the one where they race on circular tracks? Those speeds are absolutely insane, over 200mph. I wonder what the G forces are on those cars.
Yeah those! They sound amazing as well
eating shit and carrying shit around in your mouth and putting shit on the couch WHY DOES SHE DO THIS
Guinea pig?
dogison mcbarkus
pick up artistry, penis enhancement, prejac training
Most of those are more of kinks than hobbies
You are right, but gooning is a kink rather than a hobby as well and you didn't mention it to the poster of the most voted comment.