Do you have any interests you can't talk about IRL?

[The Fraggle Queen]

Jeffrey Dahmer, Ed Kemper, the Toy Box Killer, BTK, and that one rich Japanese cannibal.

There's also serial rapists that I don't talk about with anyone bc woman tend not to like rape. they are Gary M. Heidnik and Shawn Grate.

Have you ever heard of a podcast called Red Handed? Two girls just talking about true crime, even some of the most fucked up cases in history. It‘s pretty fascinating, they recently dropped an episode on R. Kelly. They’ve covered Gary Heidnik, they’ve even done stuff like Sylvia Likens and Kelly Anne Bates (think British Junko Furuta-oddly enough that’s the only case they’ve refused to do).



My weird topic of choice that I can’t really talk about irl is dolls. I’ve been a doll collector since I was a kid, I started off with Barbie, Bratz, all the standard fare, then as a teenager I ended up moving into Little Apple Dolls and Living Dead Dolls (there used to be a fan club for those so I wasn’t as alone, I miss that). Living Dead Dolls ended up being the one I stuck with, and 50-something dolls and well over £1000 spent, I’m still collecting them, even with a Fragglet who will probably attempt to knock over the doll display the minute he starts crawling.

 

[deerPropaganda]

Have you ever heard of a podcast called Red Handed? Two girls just talking about true crime,

no, I hate woman.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Trannies, glowies and assorted racist shit.

 

[negativlad]

I'd really like to try lighthouse keeping for bit.
Thelema is interesting in theory even if it's just a bunch of middle aged fatties participating at this point.
I want to visit the Orkneys.

I don't care about true crime even after years of indoctrination by Unsolved Mysteries as a kid. Don't talk to me about it IRL unless your cunt is open for business.

 

[Kiwi & Cow]

Several, starting from little kiddie games I still enjoy like Sonic.

Obviously there's also my more political side, I usual don't talk about my Conservative views to others IRL because I'm scared to lose people.

 

[Your Favorite New Friend]

Linguistics

Programming in Rust

Artificial intelligence (both large language model neural nets and game AI) -- No1curr about all the cool shit they can do and how best to use/improve them.

Game development. And the simple reason for that is nobody cares. The only people who do are other game devs, but they're often more interested in telling you about their own game.

These are all really interesting to me and I had questions to ask, but this isn't the correct forum for that.

 

[SCSI]

I've gotten quite competent at audio engineering over the past decade and while everybody likes music, nobody anywhere wants to hear "you know, the interesting thing about mix bus compression is..."

My modular synthesizer and I say hello.

I have a very extensive and pretty rare collection of Occult Books (spellbooks, ritual manuals, pagan prayerbooks, scans of alchemical manuscripts from the middle ages, etc.) back from when I used to practice alot of that stuff.

I can't exactly bring my copy of The Corpus Hermeticum or The Gospel of The Prophet Mani into a pawn shop to get rid of it, however- so I've been trying to find people willing to buy it off of me. The collection itself (and some books) are worth hundreds of dollars so I would much prefer to sell them than burn them, plus there is a huge taboo against burning books so I am averse to it however wicked I view their contents nowadays.

Spoiler: Rare Book Dealing Sperging

Anything that's uncommon or antique, you could try listing on Abebooks, if you're not in a hurry to get them out the door and are willing to spend some time accurately grading their condition and writing up a good listing. Speaking from a buyer's perspective, that's my first stop when I'm looking to expand my library with antiques, though mind the robo-priced listings -- some dealers are lazy and bot their prices, and I see a lot of spirals between bots that result in listings getting retard priced ($5000 for some random shit from 1905? Lol, lmao.), so you may need to do some digging to figure out what a realistic price might be. Uncommon but not antique, or if you're in a hurry, eBay or even Amazon Marketplace may work. (I avoid eBay for most antique books (i.e. anything older than about 1880) these days usually, unless I spot an experienced seller with a good rep.) There used to be some smaller rare book marketplaces online, but most of those are long dead, unfortunately. If you've got anything *very* rare, you could try checking in with a local rare book dealer to see if they'd buy it/sell it on consignment for you, or local art and antiquities auction house and seeing if they'd handle it -- there are a lot of regional dealers out there that will handle interesting things that fall below the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ level the huge names like Sotheby's handles.

For the scanned stuff, depending on the quality of the imaging and rarity, if it can't be found floating around online readily, it'll be harder but you might be able to get buyers. I know there's some unobtanium stuff out there I'd pay for good enough scans of, if it meant avoiding the ballache of flying somewhere and jumping through hoops to access restricted special collections (mainly manuscripts -- commercially-produced facsimiles have an obnoxious tendency to be ultra-deluxe limited edition art pieces and absurdly expensive).

(You may have guessed that rare/antique books might be another one of those subjects I love and can't sperg about in meatspace.)

These are all really interesting to me and I had questions to ask, but this isn't the correct forum for that.

Unless what you want to know involves PII, you could try spinning up a thread in General Discussion or Internet & Technology, and pinging the people you want to hear from in your OP. Dunno about the other Farmers you highlighted, but I'd drop by and sperg, if the questions were ones I could say something useful in response to. I'd at least try to aim you at some resources you might find interesting.

 

[Lunete]

I'll admit, I do like a good true crime documentary from time to time. But it's mostly the investigations that I find interesting. Especially if they involve media frenzies, stupid decisions from the police, or some sort of corruption or coverup.

I also like to sperg about ghost towns. Especially if they were abandoned under bizarre circumstances like Centralia or Boston, OH.

 

[Xarpho]

Mostly autistic bullshit that has a niche. I can't discuss it here because I actually have a site that showcases said autistic bullshit and I don't want my Kiwi Farms profile linked to the rest of my Internet shit.

I haven't said anything horrific or am a particularly high target but there are so many bad people crawling around the site that I can't take that risk.

 

[mr.moon1488]

Troons. I have to be really careful because I have a tendency to rant about them irl.

 

[Meat Target]

Guns, anime, and Kiwi Farms.

 

[malleusmaleficarum]

kiwifarms.net

 

[Suburban Bastard]

the hyper autistic video games i enjoy, like factorio
also politics because that would get me thrown in prison

I like those factory games too. I was going to bring them up in a conversation once, but in my head they sound too fucking weird lol

 

[DeeDee Megadoodoo]

Black lesbo washing. Five years ago black lesbians were the Orc Rogues of real life. Total unicorn combo. Now half the shows on tv have black lesbian leads who are all indistinguishable, boring cliches, and no one talks about it.

 

[Niobium]

- Mass shootings (especially Columbine)
- Old ass ThinkPads
- Cheap Casio watches
- Coins

 

[Non-breath oblige]

Anything not Democrats good, whitey, GOP, Trump and billionaires bad.

And everything about this site.

 

[millais]

I am a pretty devoted Boerphile (or Weeaboer, if you will), to the point of spending money on collecting Afrikaner and Boer Republican historical memorabilia/artifacts, rare books/maps, flags, and amassing a pretty decent library of obscure memoirs, academic texts, and the like. Zero interest in Rhodesia or Anglophone South Africa, though, except where it impacts on Boer and Afrikaner culture and history.

If normies press me on my interest in the region or my collection of artifacts, I just tell them that I admire the language and culture of this Dutch-speaking ethnic minority in South Africa.

No need to frighten normies with any reference to Afrikaners or European colonization or white settlers or apartheid. If I'm feeling really adventurous, I might mention that the language of these Dutch-speakers has diverged enough from European Dutch to be codified into a new language called Afrikaans, which was carefully cultivated and nurtured into a living language suitable for commerce, academia, and science so that the Dutch-speakers wouldn't be swallowed up by the Anglophones.

I have only ever met one normie who expressed more than a surface level interest in my Boerphilia due to her former boss/sugar-daddy being a proud Afrikaner emigrant who collected antique Boer War rifles, but she turned out to be a BPD psycho bitch, so it probably wasn't even a genuine mutual interest.

 

[Table Country]

Just don't talk to people in public. You don't have to worry about talking about your weird interests in the isolation of your own fortified bunker.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

In terms of what I can actually talk about IRL but very few people are interested, that would be my interest in physics and the other natural sciences, math, engineering, computer science and technology and the anthopological aspects of them. The history of these fields are incredibly deep and full of drama, comedy and breakthroughs that make more sense when you look into how they were inspired. My favorite era to research is the age of medieval scientists like Roger Bacon, Robert Groteste and Nicol Orseme and the period from the mid 1800s to modern day since these eras were MASSIVE paradigm shifts in the realm of physics and math and control theory in the latter case. These periods of time, along with Newton/Leibniz's era to that of Laplace/Lagrange/Cauchy/Galois are the basis of all the technical knowledge we have today. Plus, looking at mathematics from antiquity along with physicsl theories from that era is kinda cool.Same thing goes for vidya too, especially the technical aspects of how the engine works. I just like how far we progressed as a species from rubbing sticks together to make fire to what we have now, not to mention how beautiful and ordely nature is despite how chatotic it may seem. It almost inspires a sense of religion in me.

In terms of what I probably shouldn't talk about but do anyways (if I frankly don't give a shit about the banal topic people are talking about)? I talk about weird anime, manga and games like Bobobobobobobo and Drakengaard and Japanese gravure models like Agnes Lum and Agnes Chan becuase why the fuck not? Granted, if I like the person in question, I work with them ona larger project or the conversation is in the previous camp, I can control my sperging and keep relatively on topic with tangents that are still socially acceptable. I don't want to scare them off unnecessarily, I will give pretty blatant cues that I don't care what they are talking about if none if the above is true. For fucks sake this is my personal wallpaper for my phone and desktop (when I am not at with friends, family, work or school):

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I am a very busy man.

"Oh no, I can't talk about Japanese porn with muh evil normies. Society is oppressing me "
stfu nigga

 

[Bassomatic]

It really depends whom I'm talking to, how much I power level or talk about things. I autismo level love, cars and guns. I collect both. I just learned how to fly and it's becoming a passion, I have been SCUBA diving for 20 years now etc...

I also am on this site for a reason lol.

So really I don't talk to my liberal grandma about the new AK I just got, or Chris Chan. It just comes down to feeling people out and seeing in passing how much if at all they can handle things. If you feel someone might be into lolcows, ask them to watch Grey Gardens and if they find it interesting, then you can sneak em in.

Lots of stuff too is just gotta hide some of power level, everyone at my job knows I hunt and own fire arms, no one has a clue how many or how tismo I am about it.

While some things are taboo it's really how you present them and who you do it too.