Holy shit, this sounds like an absolute blast!
That post seems to be missing.
Postmortal_Pop 35 points 10 months ago
dis_honestfamiliar 10 points 10 months ago
This sounds fun.
tpyo 8 points 10 months ago
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!
Azal 82 points 10 months ago
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.
Azal 28 points 10 months ago
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.
psx_crab 12 points 10 months ago
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?
DanWolfstone 6 points 10 months ago
There's an excellent, albeit 5hr documentary about the history of EVE online, its absolutely incredible
Azal 5 points 10 months ago
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."
scathliath 1 point 10 months ago
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.
Lost_My_Mind 21 points 10 months ago
“If you blow me up, you’ll crash back to desktop.”
What does that mean?
owenfromcanada 44 points 10 months ago
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.
Ekkosangen 2 points 10 months ago
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.
spittingimage 9 points 10 months ago
I carried my own corpse around until I got into trouble crossing a Concord border with it.
spittingimage 66 points 10 months ago
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.
troybot 22 points 10 months ago
Thank you for reminding me about this classic
RememberTheApollo_ 9 points 10 months ago
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Davy_Jones 39 points 10 months ago path: 0 19919371, hotness: undefined, score: 39, children: 7
brbposting 17 points 10 months ago
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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.
capuccino 14 points 10 months ago
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.
Davy_Jones 7 points 10 months ago path: 0 19919371 19919444 19919612, hotness: undefined, score: 7, children: 1
quediuspayu 6 points 10 months ago
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.
DeathByBigSad 13 points 10 months ago
That's just the NSA Agent-in-training, don't worry about it 😁
Lost_My_Mind 7 points 10 months ago
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.
quediuspayu 6 points 10 months ago
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
jonathan7luke 30 points 10 months ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned hobby horsing yet.
agamemnonymous 5 points 10 months ago
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.
Ziggurat 2 points 10 months ago
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
PillowD 29 points 10 months ago
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.
fdnomad 19 points 10 months ago
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.
BuboScandiacus 0 points 10 months ago
That’s a bit different hobby, though. Since it involves photography
whyNotSquirrel 12 points 10 months ago
CanadaPlus 2 points 10 months ago
Wholesome!
mugthol 3 points 10 months ago
Relevant song! https://youtu.be/wOzDRzSRBiY
Theatomictruth 3 points 10 months ago
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.
Adderbox76 27 points 10 months ago
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.
Jessvj93 3 points 10 months ago
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!
spittingimage 2 points 10 months ago
How did she do the rendering?
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds 8 points 10 months ago
depends on what you use, I recommend blender, it's free and open source. when plenty of tutorials
ivanafterall 7 points 10 months ago
A blender seems like overkill, there won't be much left to draw.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds 2 points 10 months ago
you gotta say "its rending time" before rending all over the place
Adderbox76 4 points 10 months ago
Honestly never asked. I presumed she just boiled off the flesh and then left the bones out in the sun to dry.
krooklochurm 2 points 10 months ago
Was your friend's last name dahner?
ivanafterall 12 points 10 months ago
Quick! You can only take 3 sirens to a deserted island with you, which three do you choose!?
Snowpix 9 points 10 months ago
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
ivanafterall 5 points 10 months ago
You know your interest is obscure when it throws Google for a loop:
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds 6 points 10 months ago
like loud things or fish people?
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds 2 points 10 months ago
Sea sirens are loud and can swing in circles, so they still count
Snowpix 2 points 10 months ago
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
hateisreality 2 points 10 months ago
Yes?
pineapplelover 16 points 10 months ago
He should combine this with geocaching. You get to see a map of where you've been
pineapplelover 5 points 10 months ago
Join us. Very cool hobby
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kernelle 4 points 10 months ago
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!
ArchmageAzor 22 points 10 months ago
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.
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ArchmageAzor 7 points 10 months ago
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.
burntbacon 3 points 10 months ago
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).
agamemnonymous 21 points 10 months ago
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.
konalt 19 points 10 months ago
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.
Widdershins 19 points 10 months ago
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
Snowpix 13 points 10 months ago
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.
AdolfSchmitler 2 points 10 months ago
Watching? Does he like to listen to fireworks too?
shalafi 17 points 10 months ago
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.
yermaw 16 points 10 months ago
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.
Ilovethebomb 12 points 10 months ago
The tarantula thing is pretty funny.
agamemnonymous 8 points 10 months ago
Wow, shoe-on-head takes me back.
Denjin 15 points 10 months ago
The telephone pole appreciation society...
laurathepluralized 2 points 10 months ago
You reminded me of one of my favorite pieces of early-ish internet history that is still up: the Traffic Cone Preservation Society
_cryptagion 13 points 10 months ago path: 0 19919788, hotness: undefined, score: 13, children: 1
Lost_My_Mind 4 points 10 months ago
What a silly hobby!
El_Scapacabra 13 points 10 months ago path: 0 19942247, hotness: undefined, score: 13, children: 0
MantisToboggon 13 points 10 months ago
Frog jerking. I made the cover of toad load weekly once.
Lost_My_Mind 5 points 10 months ago
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???
VindictiveJudge 5 points 10 months ago
You can buy worms for fishing at stores. Someone has to breed them to maintain consistent supply.
Davy_Jones 4 points 10 months ago path: 0 19929196 19929654, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0
meep_launcher 12 points 10 months ago
Serial killers just murder hobbyists so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
RoidingOldMan 10 points 10 months ago
Butterfly collecting because you have to kill one to collect it.
captainlezbian 3 points 10 months ago
You just need to meet someone sufficiently autistic and you still won't get it, but you will believe it
Snowpix 1 point 10 months ago
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.
owenfromcanada 6 points 10 months ago
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).
CanadaPlus 4 points 10 months ago
Yeah, since really gristly crimes are the normal interest here, I'm picturing someone obsessed with, like, shoplifting arrests.
ivanafterall 4 points 10 months ago
Jaywalking fans are the real freaks.
hateisreality 3 points 10 months ago
Don't kink shame.... sometimes catty corner just does it for some freaks.
Jessvj93 2 points 10 months ago
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....
slaneesh_is_right 9 points 10 months ago
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.
UltraGiGaGigantic 2 points 10 months ago
To late, I'm into it. Got more bird/bread based stories?
hperrin 8 points 10 months ago
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.
Davy_Jones 13 points 10 months ago path: 0 19934224 19934458 19934511, hotness: undefined, score: 13, children: 1
spittingimage 4 points 10 months ago
Seen photos of it done on the side of a cliff, and the roof of a moving car.
underreacting 4 points 10 months ago
No iron
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds 5 points 10 months ago
that's just a blacksmith
Lushed_Lungfish 6 points 10 months ago
Eh, not that wild, folks used to do train and ship spotting, so planes are okay too.
HubertManne 5 points 10 months ago
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.
HubertManne 2 points 10 months ago
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.
ChonkyOwlbear 7 points 10 months ago
Magnet fishing
hakunawazo 7 points 10 months ago
It starts all harmless...
ivanafterall 7 points 10 months ago
Bryan Ropar has forgotten more about plastic chairs than you know about anything.
Chezus9247 6 points 10 months ago
Gooning.
Davy_Jones 15 points 10 months ago path: 0 19919369 19919392, hotness: undefined, score: 15, children: 5
afk_strats 7 points 10 months ago
The definition has become more nebulous over time.
mfed1122 11 points 10 months ago
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.
KoalaUnknown 7 points 10 months ago
I think you should get off social media for a bit and goon instead.
mfed1122 4 points 10 months ago
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
Soktopraegaeawayok 5 points 10 months ago
"Ball peener"
You try to cover your penis with your balls. There is more, but dont ask...
Davy_Jones 6 points 10 months ago path: 0 19935656 19935720, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 0
Alsjemenou 3 points 10 months ago
Tether cars.
RememberTheApollo_ 2 points 10 months ago
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.
Alsjemenou 1 point 10 months ago
Yeah those! They sound amazing as well
SoftestSapphic 3 points 10 months ago
CAKE FARTS
krooklochurm 4 points 10 months ago
DOES THE CAKE FART OR IS THE FART CAUSED BY CAKE? WHY ARE WE YELLING? FUCK YOU.
LovableSidekick 3 points 10 months ago
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.
captainlezbian 4 points 10 months ago
Most of those are more of kinks than hobbies
Davy_Jones 2 points 10 months ago path: 0 19920788 19922576 19925115, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0
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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.
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