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.
Warhammer. The tabletop one with the figures, not the video games.
Vacations/travel for some people. Its clearly something where they have zero clue about their privilege and zero self awareness as they talk about it.
Parenting. Seriously, it becomes some people’s only fucking identity and the way they talk about it feels like religious proselytizing mixed with a bit of used car salesperson energy.
Comic conventions. Some people make it uncomfortable how seriously they take it.
Wasting some time on Lemmy trying to leave shitty comments just looking to rile people up or something.
100% what I first thought of. I was well into WH Fantasy as a kid with my older brother and moved into 40k as a teen. Lost interest as an adult and thought I might like to get back into it recently cos I’ve got a mate who’s obsessed.
Too expensive, the business model is more exploitative than ever and the game system has become terribly bloated and the recent new edition hasn’t improved it.
Also, beyond the top tier of competition, most matches are decided before a single figure is put on the board.
There are other far more interesting game systems on the market that aren’t dedicated into forcing you into buying new miniatures and books every 18 months.
Politics, obviously.
I think you need to specify what you mean by cult. The way I personally understand it, a cult includes a leader who exploits their members for free labor, oftentimes for sexual gratification, and removes them from their friends and families while subjecting them to psychological manipulation. I’m having a hard time thinking of a hobby that meets the criteria I’m more familiar with.
There are two kinds of people who own a pressure canner - people who enjoy making preserves and fucking crazy people.
Me, looking into pressure canning to preserve soup
I’m in danger!!
Did you know certain pressure canners can be used as makeshift autoclaves, allowing you to make your own home brewed sterile injectable medications?
Handy information to have for when all the hospitals close in a few years.
Because who wants a back alley surgery performed by people of questionable education using non sterile medication/implements?
Good to know if I ever need to perform makeshift surgery after the inevitable collapse of society!
Community theater can get pretty weird. (It can just as easily be not weird and awesome, though)
True, any gathering of current or former “theatre kids” is going to be weird. But that’s what makes them so fun. (Unless you hate show tunes. Then you’re in for a bad time.)
Any sort of hypebeast scam. Labubu, pop up clothing companies with no real design or quality, beanie babies, most crypto, specific vinyl collections. It’s only worth something if you know some deep dark lore about it which requires effort to research and understand, then you’re hooked. It’s post capitalism cult energy.
Only most crypto?
Linux
Warhammer
Crossfit
And Linux users are evangelical, too.
Ok, but have you used Linux?
I can’t stop using Linux.
My desktop computer? Linux.
My work laptop? Linux.
My phone? Linux.
My robot vacuum? Linux.
Linux. Linux. Linux.
My work laptop? Linux.
I wish
Our safe™ work laptops are bought from a company that runs Linux on them that virtualize Windows
Throw in a Linux VM running under Windows and intensify the Inception noise.
You lucky dog.
Competitive Super Smash Bros Melee, we won’t ever die. And Nintendo has been trying to rub us out since 2008.
. And Nintendo has been trying to rub us out since 2008.
dedication like that… phew. impressive.
Nintendo has been trying to rub us out
“Stop, Nintendo. You’re just mashing it.”
At this point, trading card collecting and grading. Oh, a new series of trading cards for pokemon or yu-gi-oh or whatever dropped? Time for all the adults to buy out every single card in the store and then run home in hopes that their scam leaders like PSA will encourage their behavior by gracing them with a card they claim is worth money despite only being out for less than a week.
Card grading ain’t nothing but a scam, cult, and great way to encourage the worst in people, while simultaneously gatekeeping trading cards from everyone with more than 2 braincells. Ain’t nothing gonna change my mind about it.
Adults going to DisneyWorld as if it was a sacred shrine
Adults going to Disney without kids.
never understood the appeal either lol
Going to Disneyland, buying that doll, having that retro console, collecting all the items in the set, buying that vintage car, getting a fat hog to crank it up with…
Its melancholic nostalgia, having the things we could never have when we were young.
having the things we could never have when we were young
This is why I went through a period of collecting multi-cultural dolls in my 20s. When I was a kid and asked my mom for a black Barbie, she got weird about it and made me feel very uncomfortable. All over wanting a doll that wasn’t white. Fuck that noise, my Barbies span the human rainbow now.
I worked at Disneyland for 8 years. I still go there every year. It’s been over 10 years and I’m still running into people I used to work with and can shoot the shit with them for an hour.
For me, there is something about that place that I took ownership of, cared for people there, and tried to make it better in the small way I could. I see all the effort that so many people have and continue to put in and really appreciate the artistry and care these people have.
It’s a place that I feel comfortable in, and I like to just sit, listen to the music and the sounds of the crowds and people watch.
Yea but Disney makes money off of that passion…
Anyone using Linux, based on 60% of the content on lemmy. Uh… maybe also lemmy.
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?
How about Linux on a Thinkpad? DOUBLE CULT!
Hey now, I pirated my Thinkpad thank you very much. Needed to make sure I stuck to my third cult.
I am a puritan, I will not be satisfied until we have open source hardware, like reference RISC-V, to power
the holy wordLinux.Yes I know about MNT Reform or whatever, but the price and still some binary blobs.
Religion. 🤌🏼
CrossFit.
Pickleball.
Seriously what is the deal with it? I remembered playing it in gym decades ago and everyone hated it. Now I see people lobbying for new freaking complexes for it. Let’s see if the fad lasts more than a year before dedicating public land space to it
It kinda looks like tennis for the unathletic, which means I should fit right in, but I have zero interest.
People should just play badminton… I remember that being pretty fun in gym class once everyone got decent enough for a few volleys (those rackets are tiny).
The best thing about badminton is saying the word “shuttlecock.”
