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

The mis-adventures of Kevin Gibes.
I'm into RPGs like Pathfinder and Shadowrun but I can always talk about those with the people I play with. Kevin though? No one wants to hear about that.
Also I'm interested in radical feminism like Andrea Dworkin, but I feel like I can't talk about it IRL. For now. I might change that.
 
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I think a lot of people's POV sounds crazy to those who haven't spent the time learning about whatever they have.
Like most conversations are about banal things, and banal things usually contain the most amount of power so they're the least threatening or interesting.
For example I could talk about what detergent I like using and how it smells, and someone else could say they like a different brand.
But as soon as I start talking about how some of the ingredients are poisonous and potentially carcinogenic then it drifts off into a multilayered explanation.
I can talk about how I love using computers, but I can't relate to most people on linux distros because its out of their area.
 
I have 3

Troons: I like to make fun of them so much I created several ways to make them miserable over the past years. Of course I can't talk IRL about my hobby of making troons mad cause I'll get weird looks about it.

Being an armchair psychologist: I like to diagnose people wrongly so they do something worse on twitter. I have an account (verified one) where I play a shrink and diagnose/prescribe stuff to retards who fall for my bullshit and then watch how they fuck even more their situation.

Catfish on Facebook: I have an account since 2015 about a fake persona I created to catfish people. I'm not going into detail but I did really dastardly things there to people I know and don't know.

Of course all those things can't talk IRL without losing major respect and being the weird guy forever.
 
Really horrible fanart, both in the artistic sense and the 'holy shit why would you draw that' sense. I guess this falls under the banner of general internet atrocity tourism though, so I can see it possibly coming up irl.

Horror literature in the academic sense.

Warez scene drama.
 
I’m in a similar boat where I’m interested in some of the particularly more gruesome true crime cases and I’m really unable to talk about it irl for obvious reasons. I’ve just always been interested in the psychology of these individuals and it’s kind of fun reading various books and articles and then watching a doc and seeing what they decided to skim over or just got wrong entirely for entertainment’s sake. Not really the kind of activity you get together to do with your buddies though.

I’ve also got a touch of the ‘tism and decided at age whatever that snakes are dope and I needed to know everything. Kind of a bummer how many people are so grossed out by the mere mention of them.
 
No. I specialize in saying stuff to people IRL and on the internet and not really caring. I generally don't talk to people a whole lot so if someone does talk to me and I happen to say something I consider it their punishment for bothering me. If they ever see me again, they will know better.
 
How dumb the woke shit is. It's really interesting but you can't talk about it. I sometimes stumble and say something completely reasonable but people who know nothing are programmed to react like I said something bad. So I mostly shut up unless I think there's a path in.

No one knows anything, just what is meant to vaguely be the opinion good people have.

What I find interesting is people, in general, know it is absurd, they make jokes around the edges. Yet if you ever try and discuss in detail. They know nothing, get scarred and imply what you're saying is bad and wrong.

I think people's lack of knowledge makes them scared and want to flee discussion. They are programmed to have opinions, when they can't discuss they go on the defensive.

This covers a wide range of woke shit. From race, to trans kids, to gender pay gap ect.
 
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I mean I guess it depends on where IRL. Outside of my corporate overlords on the board, I say and talk about whatever the fuck I want to my customers, coworkers, strangers and friends.
 
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There's no shortage of topics I can't discuss, because in my experience 95% of people have incredibly little intellectual curiosity to the point that its depressing.

Weird historical hypotheses like reptilians in written history, British Israelism, lost technology, or the various theories about the missing time hypothesis. Also "controversial" history like studying the actual backstory and reasoning for Fascism, Communism, colonialism, the Confederacy, etc, instead of merely condemning them as bad for being different from western neoliberalism.

"Mechanical" stuff. Cars, tanks, airplanes, tractors, trains, etc. That sort of thing fascinates me to no end. The older and more obscure, the better. Spent my boyhood tinkering with old John Deere lawnmowers, and reading books about various machines. Steam locomotives are amazing for no other reason that they are massive machines that can travel at over a hundred miles an hour with nothing but fire and water. Reading about the history of the automobile from the technical side is intriguing with the myriad of incremental improvements that casued them to evolve into very different machines every few years, from decade to decade. The early history of aviation is also interesting tos tudy, with the various balloon and zeppelin contraptions, as well as the primitive attempts at powered flight prior to the Wright Brothers.

Also have a strong interest in philosophy and religion, particularly gnostic- and hermetic- derived ideas. Most people have either never heard of them period, or regard them as nonsense without seriously researching it because whatever religion they follow said so. Eastern philosophy is trendy in some circles, but Western philosophy outside of the conventional religions is basically ignored, which is a real tragedy, because Gnostic and Hermeitc ideas had far more influence in the West (and East) than many people know, particularly in the High Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

As you probably guessed by now I am also into a lot of conspiracies. Many of which cannot be discussed irl because they are either too niche, not socially acceptable, or both.
 
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I think a lot of people's POV sounds crazy to those who haven't spent the time learning about whatever they have.
Like most conversations are about banal things, and banal things usually contain the most amount of power so they're the least threatening or interesting.
For example I could talk about what detergent I like using and how it smells, and someone else could say they like a different brand.
But as soon as I start talking about how some of the ingredients are poisonous and potentially carcinogenic then it drifts off into a multilayered explanation.
I can talk about how I love using computers, but I can't relate to most people on linux distros because its out of their area.
Thank you for teaching me how to have a conversation.
 
The mysterious origins of the Basque language and people. There is no consensus on where they came from, since the typical telltale signs of migration pattern are absent both genetically and linguistically. Nobody seems to really care though. Also, why are there so many of them in Northern Bumfuck Nevada?
Do the Basque people themselves have any theories of where they may have originated?
 
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my top three favorite movies are Nekromantik (1987), Duck! The Carbine High Massacre (1999), and Dog day afternoon (1975).

First one is about a guy who's gf cucks him for a dead body, he ends up killing himself. second one is a satire of columbine and no one has heard of the last one which isn't messed up.

when asked, I usually say my favorite movie is american psycho.
Duck! The Carbine High Massacre is a cult classic. I also recommend Elephant and maybe Zero Day if you want something in a similar vein. It's probably not a good idea to admit that this kind of stuff interests you, but I'll occasionally watch documentaries on that kind of thing, and maybe internet subcultures in general. It's ludicrous how much normies misunderstand PUA/incel/MGTOW stuff especially when they try to make docus/shoehorn them into crime dramas.
 
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I have a Basque friend who says the Basque clans used to dominate the barren reaches of Idaho, Montana, and the surrounding states of the Far West, and there's a valley named after his clan in southern Idaho. He says many of the Basque immigrants in the late 19th, early 20th century started off as sheep-herders due to that being their ancestral profession (and since they didn't have enough money to go straight for cattle ranching). Those barren stretches of the Far West aren't fertile enough for cattle ranching, but there's just enough rainfall and grass to sustain sheep, so a lot of Basques bought up those cheaper lands and settled there to raise sheep.
 
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