Religion IMHO is a hobby.
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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.
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.
Oh, a warhammer topic!
All of them if you delve deep enough
Correct answer, pretty much any group will develop extremists after time.
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
People who code often come to their technical opinions via aesthetics rather than legit technical reasons. On 4chan/g/ there are people who only code in C, or only code in Lisp, or only code in Ocaml, and there's nothing you can tell them to convince them to use a new language because their hero is Terry Davis and they imagine themselves as living in Serial Experiments Lain. They code on projects with no real world applicability. I think the appeal behind Terry Davis is that these people are all building their temple to God, in a way.
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.
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.
I can agree with this. Like entering your dog in a dog show. I did want my kids in sport or dance as part of their education but told them if I ever gave criticism, to tell me to do the sport my own damn self. So they did their stuff as their hobbies, and I did my own art/sport stuff and kept out of theirs.
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Nostr. I think the tech is cool, but the culture seems like some sort of cryptocurrency cult
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Definitely warhammer. Can't stand those punks. Have you noticed a lot of warhammer lore reaction videos
Related but a lot of smaller LARP clubs (European style at least, can't speak for America) end up extremely culty because of a perfect storm of factors:
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takes up loads of time and resources just to be average; making costumes, learning stats, downtime activities etc before you've even left the house
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predominantly twenty-somethings who recently moved out of their parents' house and end up house-sharing with other LARPers from the same club
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the RPG + Am Dram elements mean that it takes years to be able to access a lot of the game, whether it be types of spellcasting or a character in a position of power. This means that if you want to quit your club for another one, you're losing years of progression in a way that doesn't happen with sports or most arts-based hobbies.
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spending whole weekends in the middle of the woods with no outside influence, where you have to follow instructions given by refs. It's also not unusual to be up until sunrise or even do all-nighters playing through the next day as well
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success or failure at the game is often at the whims of said refs, MUCH more than in Warhammer
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...as a result of which, the club management hierarchy ends up translating into social hierarchy outside of official events. The people at the top are the ones that effectively determine whether a party, day trip or even a wedding is going to be a big event or not, and the regular membership treats them accordingly. So, culty as heck.
It's like a microcosm of society itself in a way, guess we human beings can't think outside of hierarchical structures
Anyone using Linux, based on 60% of the content on lemmy. Uh… maybe also lemmy.
Have you not heard of our Lord and Savior glorious Debian?
Heresy, the savior is Arch!
Burn the witch! openSUSE is the messiah.
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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There are two kinds of people who own a pressure canner - people who enjoy making preserves and fucking crazy people.
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Adults going to DisneyWorld as if it was a sacred shrine
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.
When I meet a chick in an online dating way, at the first mention of Disney I'm gone. Unmatch, block, whatever's fastest.
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