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What dumb hobbies have you found yourself immersed in? (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago by roux@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net
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I just realized that ebook collectiong has become something of a hobby for me. I think I like that lol. I am currently sifting through saved browser tabs of book recommendations that I have amassed over the last month in an attempt to clean up my browser sessions.

I've even developed a system of sending all tabs to my computer from my phone to create a list to check with libgen, then add to Calibre and sideload to my ereader from there. I hadn't really thought of it as a hobby since reading is a hobby but I think this might be close to data hording?

I also have 90 GB of roms that I have collected that cover all eras up to N64. Do I play any of them? No, but I got them. I did start playing Mario RPG and Earthbound during Indigenous Genocide Day.

So what are your weird but interesting hobbies that have snuck into your lives?

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[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

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.