Mine is mapping. I am a big OpenStreetMap contributor and I have mapped many towns near me that were previously completely unmapped.
Thank you for your contributions!
Aztec history.
I like making homemade bongs and water pipes specifically from reclaimed materials. I’m not strident about things, but it’s fair to say in a general sense that I need them to have $0.00 of material costs. I make “the best” in terms of performance, and people freak out when they use or see them. They are always a huge conversation piece, always creative, and I just give them away. People ask me all the time to make custom ones but I won’t. It’s free or nuthin’
I know people that still use water pipes I made for them 15 years ago! Sometimes they look a bit “trashy” but they’re crafted! And that’s the way I like em!
Remember when Homer Simpson made that misbegotten lump of shit called VunderBaat or something? I feel him man
As a long time, daily bong smoker you have my attention, got any pictures of your creations?
I have made a few in my time with varying degrees of success but I’m intrigued as to what variables you consider and what “best performance” looks like to you?
Hedge laying. It’s a technique where you almost cut through the stems of the plants in a hedgerow in order to bend them down. This promotes the growth of new shoots and results in a very dense hedge, which historically was done to make sure animals didn’t escape or enter pastures and fields.
Wonderful! I’ve been hoping to learn to do this to replace my neighbor’s vinyl fence. What’s your preferred style? Do you recommend any resources for learning the skill?
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How did you start with that? I’ve contributed some via Street Complete, but I’ve never figured out how to contribute directly to OSM.
Contributing via StreetComplete is contributing directly to OSM, so good work. But like Interstellar said, you can just log in to openstreetmap.org, zoom in to what you want to edit, and click Edit.
You can edit from the OpenStreetMap website, zoom in on an area, click Edit, then it has a nice helpful tutorial. It’s very beginner friendly and easy to edit. There are also many other applications for a variety of platforms listed here https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editors
Mine is Free software. If I can avoid it, then I avoid nonfree software. This brings me a lot of problems but also a lot of joy.
so true bestie
my hobby is collecting hobbies
if I could have a special interest for more than a week at a time I bet I’d be good at it …
I’m not sure about that, I have a lot of hobbies which I have for years like brewing beer, drying meat, making sausages, playing bass in a band, programming, and I’m not really good at any of them.
I think what defines a special interest over a hobby is that you’re good at it.
Been really looking at playing bass again …
Levitation Wand!
I think it is pretty niché as most people that see it have no idea what is going on to begin with and if drugs are involved I love blowing peoples minds with it.
Ooh this is new to me! Very cool.
I have so many interests that it seems impossible to pinpoint one particular interest. My mind is very active and chaotic, partly due to anxiety. I often try to fill an existential void with chaos and randomness.
That said, I would say that mathematics is one of my main interests, especially the branch of mathematics that intersects with the artistic and experimental. Tinkering with numbers, without a definite purpose (because there is no purpose in my nihilistic mindset), just for the joy of it. There is also programming, which serves as a framework for the mathematical experimentation that I mentioned.
Then there’s also the philosophical reflection, as noted in my parenthetical mention of nihilism. I don’t really know if I really enjoy philosophical inquiries into the reality of existence or if it is a consequence of an existence alienated from a social life, perhaps it started as a consequence of my awkwardness until it eventually became part of my interests.
There is also occult and esoteric studies. Perhaps a consequence of “gazing into the abyss” which sparked my curiosity in dealing with the darker aspects of reality. There is something about beliefs like Satanism, Luciferianism (as a side note, they are different beliefs, for those who oversimplify and think they are all “the same” because “devil”), Chaos Magic, Thelema, there is something there that is attractive to me. The hidden truths of reality, the shadows within ourselves, the cosmic forces that emerged from the primordial chaos. I really like them all, although I don’t really belong to any specific belief system.
And this leads me to scientific interests as well. Particularly studies on the cosmic aspects, quantum mechanics, studies on the origins of the universe, thermodynamics, zero energy universe theory, studies on how everything will end (Big Rip, Big Freeze, Big Crunch…). I don’t really delve into the technical depths of science because I’m not a scientist, but it is part of the framework of how I try to see things.
In a summary, I have many, intertwined, sometimes even opposing, simultaneous interests.
I would call myself a nihlist in a good way. Because life is meaningless, we are free to create our own meaning if we want to.
I know more about the Doom engine than I do interpersonal relations. Did you know you can completely destroy collision physics via writing over memory addresses if you shoot a bullet weapon at a stack of corpses?
What does this even mean
It’s clearly some sort of combination of words but I can’t quite make out what they’re attempting to communicate…
Nevertheless, I am fascinated. And open to more!
I love reading about people’s passions, and I think it adds to it the less I know about the subject, as just sitting back and enjoying how excited and interested someone is in their thing, really is so nice.
Great deep lore of ancient games
Meaning then you just pass through objects rather than collide? Or is it unable to properly calculate the incident & resulting collision vectors, meaning the resulting trajectories are nonsensical?
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Animatronics. I like old school Chuck E Cheese and Rockafire Explosion. Also, urban exploration. Train videos.
Planes and to a lesser extent Cars and Trains. I just love travel, points hacking, and flying!
What is ‘points hacking’? Are you moving rails and sending trains off in the wrong direction?!
As someone who no longer commutes, this sort of chaos is deeply amusing. I hope it’s this.
I’m not so devious, it’s mainly just tricks to maximize the amount of points/miles you can get via credit cards and travel, which you can then redeem for travel. Usually in business class!
Fighting games and Riichi Mahjong.
Believe it or not, this venn diagram has enough overlap that we’ve got a running joke about how Riichi is becoming the new FGC Retirement Home. We’ve even got a few people bringing tiles to every major tournament to unwind before/after brackets. I’ve booked my trip to Frosty Faustings next month, signed up for six different brackets and I’ll try in squeeze in as much 'jong as I can too.
Fountain pens and inks
