Satisfying my own curiosity #4:
Who here has a weird hobby unrelated to coding?

I'd appreciate straining from discussions, ideally 1 comment per person starting with the name of the hobby or short description (it'd make counting easier).

My hobbies are both in your name. Have no other hobbies. Was into cars once, also into computer hardware but that's very long ago. I became a bit dull and I do notice having only one subject to talk about affects social life a bit. I also don't read the news or watch TV. Very peaceful solo life and I love it. Next to the woods in my beautiful park.

Edit: I obviously didn't read the last part

I don't know if you are a bot by now.

I mean, what's the point of posting such questions here if not for discussion.

There's the slight possibility of you being real, and really wanting to tally results easily, but then again, you have like 50 answers total. You could do it by hand. Fuck off.

idk what a weird hobby is. does that mean typical hobbies are off limits?

- used to do sketches, pixel art
- used to make music in code, so I guess related
- gardening
- cooking is probably considered a hobby these days
- video games
- watching b rated horror films
- spiritually taking drugs

evidently hobby is defined as "whimsical obsession". in which case I have a lot and they change every 3 months

learned psychology specifically social cohesion, how people feel good, learn, grow, and how people can be sold things and typical errors they have in thinking. then dived into business, then moved to economics, then was into fluid dynamics/systems thinking for a bit. now I'm doing competition again (I used to pvp a bunch but now I'm kind of interested in sports, war) and also re-doing... uhh... I don't know how to put it. some people believe in fairies and gnomes and stuff. so all of that stuff. like weird lore that might apply to modern life, like an exercise of imagination

philosophy

my hobby is starting discussions in threads where people ask for no discussions.

how do you feel about that?

@tosensei how are you mate? How have you been? <3

@tosensei Discuss away. It was a silly thing to ask for anyway.

@retoor: “My hobbies are both in your name”

my-name: 😚😙😎😈

@jestdotty Okay, I originally meant "weird" as in "unrelated to IT" (assuming we're all in IT somehow here), but I'm now interested in the "bizarre"! I mean "spiritually taking drugs". Count me in!

My most excentric hobby: I bred lizards when I was 12-14 and started breeding insects to save on feeding. Then I kept the insects farm long after the lizards were gone (sold, not dead). Literally had bugs in my room. Imagine how popular it made me with the ladies.

@CoreFusionX Yeah, I fucked off. 🖤

@cprn haha, drugs is a hobby? So, I can show it off to my parents now? Let's do not. My last few birthdays were sad enough already

@retoor they call them psychonauts

I'm currently making pokemon with the 3d pen

@darksideofyay

Awesome.

On a side note, I will always think spinda is like drunk artist Pikachu.

@CoreFusionX that's mimikyu tho

@darksideofyay wow, that's an awesome hobby

@CoreFusionX wtf, I thought it was a joke. Yes, that's indeed a drunk Pikachu. I like it

@retoor One of those days I'm totally feeding my parents canabrownies. And I'm not going to tell them shit.

@cprn they'll be happy. I hate weed but the brownies / cakes are delicious. My friend once baked a cake so strong, it was a near mushroom experience almost. I never knew that you could have a real trip on weed

@retoor I literally never get high on Mary Jane… To the point, my friends once wasted all they had on me just to see if I'd react at all (it was a bit over 6g). All I got from it was 15 minutes of hearing music with my eyes, and the mother of all hangovers for the next 3 days. Not worth it.

But seeing my mum high as balls…? Hell, yeah! Going to do it this Christmas if I manage to score some in time! 😂

@cprn Mary Jane, if that's a type of weed, forgive me for not knowing it since there's thousands here and don't like weed.

Hearing music with eyes is one of the absurd things ever I would say. Wtf, how that even works. Or was the house shaking on dem beat?

My parents would never do drugs. I think my father rather would die, how much he hates it. My mother hates it too but she swallowed every kind of antidepressant available on the market, faced the consequences, still keeps using them. So just a legal junkie. Nothing more. So much better than retoor.

For my mom, the effects would be absurd, she's very high popular and much major events escalate in good or bad way. Can't tell. Being unpredictable is smth she'll stay.

My father is very down to earth, strict and stable as F. If he would experience smth less rational, the guy that never goes to a doctor would now go there running. I think even XTC would make him worry instead of having fun so far that's possible. XTC forever 😁

@retoor Mary Jane is just a direct translation of Mari Juana, hence, weed — any weed. I sometimes forget I'm a few years older and have to translate my thoughts for *babies*. 😆

And yes, hearing with eyes is hard to describe, but it's the best description I came up with, because e.g. I remember that if I was looking in a wrong place I couldn't hear, and apparently I said something like: “I can either hear you or see you, which one do you want?” in the middle of otherwise normal conversation.

Never tried XTC. I always felt like you need a right person to do it with, a girl in my case… and my usual drug induced environment is sausage fest with guys I wouldn't touch with a stick. 😆

hearing with eyes is called synthesia. it's when sensory processing in your brain gets crosstalk

I got that once when I smoked a lot of weed early on but never since. I'd just see dancing auras floating in front of me with a bunch of colors. was pretty fun, makes existence feel all magical

strange a lot of programmers here wouldn't like weed. during my comp sci degree a lot of people smoked weed, and that was before it was legal. it was statistically bizarre

I meant to weed last night but didn't. this always happens!

@cprn you can do XTC any time, even in bad mood, it will work out fine. No special person needed. It doesn't primarily make hornii but yes, you want to cuddle / hug then and even with your friends. But if you touch friends pp, I do not think the street aspirine was the cause. In that case it was always about pp I guess. You think you're older than I am? I'm 34. Psychically I'm quite young, physically, I don't know. I prefer not to run and find out. Could be the worst hundred meter of my life. Skinny AF, 404 muscles not found

@cprn yeah I'm 32

marriage-ya-wanna was a joke in my high school growing up the hot pothead rebel guy kept saying to all the girls

@typosaurus Whoa… Did you finally found out it's spelled “router” not “rooter”? 😆 I liked Retoor better.

@jestdotty Well, as long as he was hot. 😉

Since we're doxing our carbon dating results and RPG stats, in 28 days I'll be 39, 178 cm, 100 kg of dad bod with proper muscle tissue. Can still run 48 minutes straight, but might die right after (almost proven last Friday). Psychically, I'm not even in my 20s.

Also, I live in a place where men don't hug men, no matter how much drugs you pump in their system. It's not an issue of pp, it's an issue of not getting shivved. So without a willing female counterpart, I'd just had no one to cuddle with, and I'll probably get very soft and mushy on X — cuddling's a must.

@jestdotty synesthesia, not synthesia.

also: if you've been seing "auras" and colors - how certain are you that was actually weed, and not $WhateverTheDealerHadLyingAroundRolledIntoOne? because cannabis doesn't really cause that kind of hallucination...

@tosensei autocorrect probably

auras happen before migraines and i've had those and they're entirely different. not fun at all. it's like sunglare in your optical nerve before the real pain begins

in synesthesia the colors were dancing in the air around me instead, and if I turned around they stayed relative to the room dimensions. so they were spatially encoded instead of my optical nerve screaming in horrible pain

also drugs and even emotions do all sorts of cool things! meditation also, theoretically. like meditating then popping out of your body to astral project...

@jestdotty yeah, but usually, different drugs do different things. and THC isn't really known for visual hallucinations, unless you take really really high doses. like - "bob marleys monthly ration in one hit"-doses.

@tosensei Not necessarily. Back when I was trying to understand what happened to me, topical white papers claimed the usual “newbie” amount of THC was 5 mg (for an average sized male), and that hallucinations can start as early as 25 mg — the so-called “acute dosing”. It's not really acute. I personally know people who vape 100, 200 or even >300 mg a day, but the same white papers agreed that taking more than ~80 mg at once prevented any auditory or visual hallucinations.

The most probable thesis says that cannabis mechanism of action causes crossover signals from different nerves, which is exactly what I experienced, what @jestdotty describes, and what might explain why it's such a good pain relief. The amount made sense for me as well. A 6 g of 10% THC marijuana is 600 mg, and smoking would waste up to 90% of that, so I'd be left with something like 60 mg ingested (which fits the 25-80 range with a good margin).