What's your current passion/obsession? - Be it a fandom, hobby, person/celebrity/fictional character or object

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I got obsesse with/I am currently obsessed with

  • A particular fandom (like everyone on here)

    Votes: 17 17.5%

  • A particular hobby (meh, depends on what's about)

    Votes: 59 60.8%

  • A real person/celebrity (á la Ricardo Lopez)

    Votes: 8 8.2%

  • A fictional character ( you waifu maniac)

    Votes: 5 5.2%

  • An object/ type of objects (Fetishist)

    Votes: 8 8.2%
  • Total voters
    97
Son of Odin said:
Lately I've been getting into folk metal bands especially from both Northern and Eastern Europe. Latest discovery was of the band Skyforger from Latvia but I've also been listening to Arkona and Temnozor from Russia, Ensiferum and Moonsorrow from Finland, and Tyr from the Faroe Islands
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Have you heard of equilibrium?

Not really into the doom n gloom of some metal, but folks metal has a weird wholesomeness to it. Depending on the song of course
 
I'm fascinated by packaging conspiracies; there is an interview with david foster wallace where he describes the inherent paradox of trying to combat entertainment overindulgance.

The paradox is that if you bring the message seriously, only people that are free from entertainment overondulgance will hear your message. And if you package the message in an entertaining way, you become what you're trying to fight (entertainment).

Sometimes I package what I consider genuine conspiracies to deliver them to people who might not have accepted the package had it been accurately labelled. Sometimes I package intentional nonsense in a package labelled conspiracy.

It should be completely obvious, but I am endlessly fascinated that for the majority of people it's the packaging, the window dressing, that decides on whether they would reconsider a pre-existing opinion and not the underlaying, verifiable data. It's one of the tragedies of the human condition.

Also Alex Jones is a genius. Not because he tells the truth, because he doesn't, or because he exposes real conspiracies, because he rarely does, but because he so effortlessly jumps back and forth between being batshit crazy and talking about something real but hard to believe.
 
KidSparrow said:
Have you heard of equilibrium?

Not really into the doom n gloom of some metal, but folks metal has a weird wholesomeness to it. Depending on the song of course
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Not until now.
I've just looked them up and listened to their song Wirtshaus Gaudi. I like them so far, they remind me a bit of Korpiklaani and even a little bit of Alestorm though I haven't heard very much of those yet either. I'll definitely check out more of their music.
 
Son of Odin said:
Not until now.
I've just looked them up and listened to their song Wirtshaus Gaudi. I like them so far, they remind me a bit of Korpiklaani and even a little bit of Alestorm though I haven't heard very much of those yet either. I'll definitely check out more of their music.
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I know they did 1 parody song about beer in English and put it on YT. Seem like decent folk. I'll check out the folks you mentioned as well
 
KidSparrow said:
I know they did 1 parody song about beer in English and put it on YT. Seem like decent folk. I'll check out the folks you mentioned as well
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Making metal songs about beer is a time honored tradition, Tankard built a 35 year long career out of it.
 
Wow so many loser nerds on here

My life revolves around gym, my wife and my work
my wife likes nerd shit like anemia and video games, so i guess that makes me a fellow "geek"
 
Life is mostly work and "relationship" stuff. For personal enjoyment though- I've been powering through every David Sedaris audiobook I've been able to find over the past couple months. That, and listening to the new Elton John soundtrack on repeat.

Oh my God, it's so good.
 
I dunno, I’ve always had a lifelong passion for technology and music, but lately I’ve gotten into studying the bizarre methods people tried to use to fly before planes were a thing, with my personal favorite being Asia’s hilarious fixation on strapping kites to people backs as a form of execution and an attempt at transportation, and I’ve also been pretty into looking into to the planning stage/beta phase elements from old games I like. It’s kind of fascinating to see all the shit they tried out with the old games I loved as a kid before they actually released them.
 
Count groudon said:
I dunno, I’ve always had a lifelong passion for technology and music, but lately I’ve gotten into studying the bizarre methods people tried to use to fly before planes were a thing, with my personal favorite being Asia’s hilarious fixation on strapping kites to people backs as a form of execution and an attempt at transportation, and I’ve also been pretty into looking into to the planning stage/beta phase elements from old games I like. It’s kind of fascinating to see all the shit they tried out with the old games I loved as a kid before they actually released them.
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Oh, dude, are you reading www.tcrf.net? If not, you're gonna get lost in that website for months. I've read countless articles about random games on that site, beta/unused stuff is so fascinating.
 
Piss said:
Oh, dude, are you reading www.tcrf.net? If not, you're gonna get lost in that website for months. I've read countless articles about random games on that site, beta/unused stuff is so fascinating.
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Fuck yeah bro. The second I discovered that site was the day that my productivity died. I especially love reading about older games from the 80’s and 90’s because it’s neat to see what ideas they had and hear about what they could and couldn’t accomplish with the hardware they had back in the day.
 
Count groudon said:
Fuck yeah bro. The second I discovered that site was the day that my productivity died. I especially love reading about older games from the 80’s and 90’s because it’s neat to see what ideas they had and hear about what they could and couldn’t accomplish with the hardware they had back in the day.
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Here's a few articles worth reading in case you haven't come across them yet:

https://tcrf.net/Proto:Chrono_Cross/Graphical_Differences Menu portraits for the giant character roster which sort of shows off the characters in order of importance, most of the main ones were completed while the bottom-of-the-barrel characters were just sketches or hadn't even been implemented. Also autistic levels of shading detail were updated, which shows how much care they put into the art of that game

https://tcrf.net/The_New_Tetris Giant uncensored unapologetic rants

https://tcrf.net/Super_Danganronpa_2:_Sayonara_Zetsubou_Gakuen_(PlayStation_Portable) lol boobs

https://tcrf.net/Pikmin_2/Version_Differences The Pikmin series uses real-world licensed products, so the regional differences are really interesting. And speaking of Pikmin...

https://tcrf.net/Pikmin/Windows_Executable Pikmin 1 outright has its debugging software for Windows right on the retail disc. I've never seen another game with that.

https://tcrf.net/Donkey_Kong_(Arcade)#Hidden_Text And there's a sweet one: if you could hack into Donkey Kong's ROM and read that back in the 80's, you could get a job at Nintendo and learn from the very people who'd go on to make video games a household thing.

But yeah dude, this stuff's fascinating. I've come across a little bit of everything on that wiki.
 
Recently, I have got back into 40k and Necromunda, very much a luxury hobby to have but fun. I've been looking for more activities me and my partner can enjoy together when we aren't working or at the gym so I took her to the local GW and spent way too much money. It's worked well though, still teaching her the rules but painting together and having really long conversations has been therapeutic to our relationship. We've not had no many heart to hearts since we first started a relationship.
 
Piss said:
Oh, dude, are you reading www.tcrf.net? If not, you're gonna get lost in that website for months. I've read countless articles about random games on that site, beta/unused stuff is so fascinating.
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Count groudon said:
Fuck yeah bro. The second I discovered that site was the day that my productivity died. I especially love reading about older games from the 80’s and 90’s because it’s neat to see what ideas they had and hear about what they could and couldn’t accomplish with the hardware they had back in the day.
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