Offroading.
Like, I just want to spend too much money breaking my truck to go play in the mud or camping in the middle of nowhere on the weekend, not throw massive alcohol fueled frat parties in the desert and annihilate the environment in my jacked-up, curb princess of a Ram covered in a thousand miniature suns and “
Don’t tread on mePlease tread on me, daddy” stickersFunny you mention that… we (from CA) went to AZ over Christmas to do some trail driving, and on Christmas day, I literally watched no less than 4 people in let’s go brandon and 3 percenter stickers on their UTVs aggressively yell “Merry Christmas” at me right after they saw my license plate on my Jeep. I literally stood there and watched them look at the back of my Jeep, get a smirk, then yell it at me. 4 of them.
I’m not a right winger, but wtf… seriously? You have to be aggressive and confrontational because I’m from a state that Faux News decries as “liberal”?
Warhammer 40k. I like to paint little green guys and then move them around a battlefield.
A good half of the poeple in this hobby are almost entirely irredeemable
Airsoft.
It’s so fun but also run mostly by straight up Nazis.
Isn’t that only because they use it to practice live shooter scenarios?
Yeah, so they can practice being the live shooter.
Why a plastic fork?
“Well, I like Immigrant Song.”
Not as bad, but people interested in Ancient Greece / Rome / classical studies tend to be somewhat conservative. It’s (to some extent) the only part of academia which is overtly conservative.
But yeah, you can do a lot worse, that’s relatively mild
Really? With all the gay sex?
I like shooting and having guns.
Cryptography.
Some people just think we should let the dead sleep, what can you say.
That’s necromancy. Cryptography is just taking rubbings of tombstones.
Does programming count as a hobby? I waste my free time on it… There’s this funny stereotype, of a queer programmer with long, quirky socks, and maybe even a fursona. Despite being a small percentage, such types are often overrepresented online. It used to bother me a little.
Nowadays I’m so, so glad when someone I’m talking to is part of that group. It usually means I don’t need to worry about them being weirdly sexist, like women don’t suffer enough in the industry, or insisting that we need to keep politics out of tech (i.e. they want their politics to rule, unquestioned).
Silly feelings on my part? Perhaps. One less thing to worry about, though.
It’s wild how on the orange website I can read entirely sensible discussions about tricky Bash semantics or whatever, while people in a parallel thread are seriously arguing the Trump admin’s repressions are dwarfed by… whatever “repressions” they think happened during Covid. And I don’t even click on the threads about disabilities (especially autism) anymore because it’s so predictably sad.
The comment sections are frequently just exhausting. People who read PG blog posts and then make comments pretending to be serious. Lunatics.
I’ve had to stop watching/reading a load of programming stuff because numerous times I’ve found out the creator was just horrifically racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic or transphobic. It got too tiring having to investigate every author (not that it was difficult, they’re usually VERY open about being bigots).
I’m not in this picture, and I don’t like it. What about stapler collecting?
stapler collecting
You could set the building on fire.
You’re joking…
No… I’m not. Mostly Ace Fastener. The Scout, the Pilot, a long reach Pilot, an Aceliner. I have a Bostitch from the 20’s, back when it was still Boston Wire Stitching. One cool one is the Bates Model B, which is a wire feed stapler. It has a spool of wire, and it will feed it, cut it, bend it, and staple. All in one push.
Pretty boring, huh?
I actually have way more calculators than stapler. I’m a dull guy. Here are some of my favorites there.
89 Titanium FTW!
It’s powerful, for sure. The only reason I bought it, though, was for calc 3. Most of the time, I prefer the TI-86. Custom menus that are one button away, a great unit convertor that is two buttons. Super easy to program for. And, it just looks good.
I also really like the Casio FX-9750GIII.
I’ve just been using 89s since I was in middle school. Always liked them. Always kept with them. My main calculator is a 20 year old 89 Titanium. Those things are built like tanks.
Though it may be a bit of a ship of Theseus. I’ve replaced the cover and battery cover 2-3 times, and I even replaced the tiny backup battery cover once.
Dang, now I feel like listening to ASMR of a nerd collecting calculators to fall asleep.
😂 Duder, I don’t get this one bit, but keep doing what you’re doing. (That wire feed stapler does sound pretty interesting tho, not gonna lie)
Heyyy 😉
What if all of the above?
Well green is yellow and blue, and red is just another primary color. If you mix it together you get a black flag and it means ye be a pirate matey!
Amateur Radio.
The first video I found on Baofeng Radio guides is on a youtube channel run by some right winger that sounds like a SovCit, who makes “jokes” about people who wear mask and have this “gay humor”.
Like bruh
(I mean, I guess it makes sense. Right-wing “anarchists” are skeptical of “government control” and are the type of people to want to use radios instead of smartphones. Buts its ironic that encryption is illegal… But I assume they probably just ignore the “no encryption” rule anyways since they are a SovCit.)
Not only that, but they’re the ones ignoring getting licensed at all.
It’s not quite the same thing, but Meshtastic tends to be more lefty, or at least not outright sovcit. Don’t need a license and getting started is relatively cheap.
Old school games enjoyer: “Games used to be awesome… modern games are garbage”
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Morrowind is better than Skyrim
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I particularly enjoy the telvanni lore
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Great you’re going to make me install Morrowind again
Whyd you ever uninstall it?
If they enjoy saying N’wah a little too much, that might be a red flag.
To be honest dark elves are either bloodthirsty capitalists, bigoted isolationists, conservative acolytes or all of the above. What a wonderful people <3… ekhm of course, how outrageous
Hard to swallow pill that not all ESIII fans are cool
You see, this is the crux. They are cool. They are cooler than you. Also, they identify as Dunmer so they are inherently superior racially than the farming tools in particular but also any other race really
Try being into permaculture and hydroponics
What’s funny is that while Vikings are mostly remembered for their warrior culture, their success as a diaspora came more from their merchant and sailing culture. THEY were the ‘immigrants.’
We come from the land of the ice and snow
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow
The hammer of the gods
Will drive our ships to new landsMerchants in this case translates to slavers, so Nazis can feel right at home in that regard. Your point still stands tough.
Anytime someone starts dropping Warhammer lore, or shows a love of Boomer Shooters, I know I’m going to despise that person or they’ll be my best friend, no middle ground, and I don’t even like Warhammer.
What the fuck is wrong with boomer shooters?
Boomer Shooters themselves are great.
The problem are the people who “Only play games before they got all woke!”
Lmao, I gotcha. 😂
What’s wrong with boomer shooters?? The whole genre was founded on killing nazis
Tell that to the nazi enjoyers
I hear Nazis enjoy breathing too! Whelp, guess we have to suffocate now!
Yes let’s let assholes poison our views of innocuous hobbies. That will show them. /s
We shouldn’t reinforce their echo chamber. Better to just do whatever makes you happy and deal with the assholes as they reveal themselves.
