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What dumb hobbies have you found yourself immersed in?
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Geocaching.
Playing Ingress - almost all of the Poke stops here in town are from me and a friend who were heavy into Ingress some years ago. Niantic just reused all of the locations from one game to the next.
I tried playing Ingress a few years back but my phone couldn't handle the game and there wasn't a lot of stuff in my area. Might check it out since Pokemon Go got big. Figured they would reuse the data so that could be a thing.
Geocaching is a ton of fun. My wife and I had a kid free date day the other week and we actually found a few after years of not doing it. We had one cache that we def weren't stealthy about lol. The groundskeeper guy thought we were lost or something and we awkwardly explained the whole geocaching thing. He was like oh I saw that on tiktok, which was funny because he was sort of a older rural looking guy lol. He ended up finding it too!
thats funny. Ive had a few folks look at me odd when i tell them im hunting for caches. Ive had one person tell me they geocache also. Ive been caching a long time, since pen/paper/standalone gps. Its so simple carrying a phone to do it on now.
Ingress is sort of boring now. The number of players has gone downhill in the last 5 years or so. I mostly quit playing when it went from fully f2p to p2p. I have a high level account and it irked me to no end that all the crap i ‘worked’ for was just given away if you have the dollars in your bank account. I just check in on occasion, then log back out. Its just not as fun as it used to be.