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?

  • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • roux [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      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!

      • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]
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        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.