Share your obscure passion - Are you into Mongolian basket weaving?

I use to be a collector of several things, but over the coarse of several years I sold off most of it to pay for home improvement and landscaping projects in the last decade. You be surprise be surprise the money you put in could pay for a down payment on a house depending on where you live.
 
Don't know if it's 'obscure', but I'm really into baking. Mostly pastries and cakes. The technical aspects are pretty fun to learn about, as is experimenting with different ideas.
And as far as hobbies go, it's not very expensive. Flour, sugar and most other ingredients don't cost an arm and a leg, and the result is usually much better than what you could buy at the supermarket.
 
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Collecting foreign physical copies of games. Started after finding an Indian copy of a Serious Sam game. Most recent addition is the GOTY edition of Bloodborne. Only get region free stuff and never get a game I already have a domestic copy of. Since I intend to play these things, getting the same game just because it's from Afganistan is pointless.

Studying pinouts of CPUs. Got into it after accidentally touching the LGA socket of a motherboard. Became curious about what each pin did, so I downloaded some PDFs. Since the PDFs are free, it's quite a cheap past time.
 
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I love this thread, and love reading about what people are in to.

This isn't an obscure passion of mine, but this thread reminds me of something I witnessed years ago. A friend asked me to go to a pool hall. I stink at pool, but it didn't matter. We were just going to have some fun. We went, and it was fun enough. It was a big place, with god only knows how many tables. Then this woman came in to the open table next to ours, and started playing alone. She was good. She was really good. Watching her was like watching a great dancer or basketball player or listening to a great musician. Soon enough half the people in the pool hall had stopped playing and were just watching her. No one said anything to her. No guys tried to pick her up by asking if they could play along with her. We all just watched.

I thought about that evening a lot, and I think that there is something extraordinary about seeing someone who is passionate about something as they get lost in that activity. She was totally lost in her game.

And that's one of the reasons I so enjoy this thread: to see people who really care about silk ties or about baking or making doll dresses or what have you makes me happy. So thank you.
 
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CivilianOfTheFandomWars said:
Don't know if it's 'obscure', but I'm really into baking. Mostly pastries and cakes. The technical aspects are pretty fun to learn about, as is experimenting with different ideas.
And as far as hobbies go, it's not very expensive. Flour, sugar and most other ingredients don't cost an arm and a leg, and the result is usually much better than what you could buy at the supermarket.
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I too am a baking autist, though my obsession is bread. A restaurant in my hometown made these little sourdough loaves that I adored and my autistic journey began. Thus, I focus on sourdough and French breads. Baking is essentially applied chemistry that can be eaten. Applied microbio too if you're cultivating and using live yeast for leavening.
Confections are finicky bastards if you go by the old volume based recipes, mass based recipes are superior. Sugar cookies are my personal favorite confection to make, but the artistry needed to make a beautiful pie crust is always a fun challenge.

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Does cutting off the fronts of boxes (like Little Debbie snack boxes) and taping them to my wall count?
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I have several questions...
 
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I collect dvds. Most recently I've been trying my best to go through Shout! Factory's online store to get the dvds of my favorite shows I used to watch as a kid. Unfortunately, they seem to have caught the same disease as Netflix because a few shows they used to have are no longer on their store (Hey Arnold the complete season is a specific example). A list of the DVD's i own as of now...

  • 2 Stupid Dogs + Secret Squirrel Show (Volume 1)
  • AAAHH!!! Real Monsters (The Complete Season)
  • Ace Attorney (Parts 1 and 2)
  • Angry Beavers (The Complete Season)
  • Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Volumes 1 through final / Unit Patrol Squad 1 + Colon Movie)
  • Bob's Burgers (Seasons 1 through 4)
  • Bones (Seasons 1 & 2)
  • CSI Miami (Seasons 1 through 5)
  • CSI NY (Seasons 1 through 3)
  • Dragonball Z (the Funimation Orange discs) (Seasons 1 through 7)
  • Ed, Edd n Eddy (Seasons 1 and 2)
  • Homestar Runner Everything Else (Volume 1 and 2) + Strong Bad Emails (emails 1 through 200)
  • Law & Order (Years 1 through 5)
  • Law & Order SVU (Years 1 through 10)
  • Mr. Bean (Volume 1 through 3)
  • NYPD Blue (Season 1 through 6)
  • Ren & Stimpy (Seasons 1 through 5 + Adult Party Cartoon)
  • Rocko's Modern Life (The Complete Season)
  • Sam & Max Freelance Police (The Complete Season)
  • Senran Kagura Ninja Flash (Episodes 1 through 12)
  • Super Sentai Zyuranger (The Complete Series)
  • Tripping The Rift (Seasons 1 and 2 + movie)

Not only do i watch these on my surround sound system in my man cave, but I have a 2TB hard drive attached to my Roku in my bedroom. I rip the dvds and save the mkv videos in the hard drive so I can watch them in my room before I go to bed. I've also been archiving some youtube videos (most recently Oneyplays' complete videos, and Yatzee's "entire [insert year here] with zero punctuation" videos).
 
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Not only do i watch these on my surround sound system in my man cave, but I have a 2TB hard drive attached to my Roku in my bedroom. I rip the dvds and save the mkv videos in the hard drive so I can watch them in my room before I go to bed. I've also been archiving some youtube videos (most recently Oneyplays' complete videos, and Yatzee's "entire [insert year here] with zero punctuation" videos).
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I thought about archiving all of ZP, but fuck, that's a lot.

Also just fyi, I'm not sure how many aren't uploaded to The Escapist's channel, but I know they're missing Bowser's Inside Story. Do you know of any others?
 
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I thought about archiving all of ZP, but fuck, that's a lot.

Also just fyi, I'm not sure how many aren't uploaded to The Escapist's channel, but I know they're missing Bowser's Inside Story. Do you know of any others?
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Honestly, I didn't even know there were missing episodes, but it doesn't surprise me because its YouTube, although the Bowser episode is in the huge "every 2009" video.

The only thing i don't like about the big specific year videos is that whatever music he used many years ago for the original video has new "youtube safe" music replaced with it instead (in The Little Big Planet video, the original had the boxer shorts googley eyes dance to the austin powers theme while in the 2009 year video, its dancing to generic dance music)
 
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It's not too obsessive but I'll go into bodega type stores and find varieties of fake Axe spray with scents they don't sell in the usa.
I mostly just spray it on the peephole in my front door because it's the only thing that can drown out the tard neighbors almost sentient funk.
I could put chalk marks on the stairwell to establish the boundaries of the pheremone cloud around there.

His weed and mongo vapors could overpower Wolverine, I think.
 
I'm really in to tools. I have literally thousands and still want more. Wood working, metal working, dental, auto mechanic related, construction, surgical, electrical, all kinds of tools. I want them all. No, I NEED them all.
 
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I'm really in to tools. I have literally thousands and still want more. Wood working, metal working, dental, auto mechanic related, construction, surgical, electrical, all kinds of tools. I want them all. No, I NEED them all.
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It's ok dude you're among friends. If it has "Makita" written on it I too know the pain of having to own it. I don't even NEED 6 grinders.
 
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