There are two kinds of people who own a pressure canner - people who enjoy making preserves and fucking crazy people.
Did you know certain pressure canners can be used as makeshift autoclaves, allowing you to make your own home brewed sterile injectable medications?
Any sort of hypebeast scam. Labubu, pop up clothing companies with no real design or quality, beanie babies, most crypto, specific vinyl collections. It’s only worth something if you know some deep dark lore about it which requires effort to research and understand, then you’re hooked. It’s post capitalism cult energy.
Community theater can get pretty weird. (It can just as easily be not weird and awesome, though)
Linux
Warhammer
Crossfit
And Linux users are evangelical, too.
Ok, but have you used Linux?
Competitive Super Smash Bros Melee, we won’t ever die. And Nintendo has been trying to rub us out since 2008.
. And Nintendo has been trying to rub us out since 2008.
dedication like that… phew. impressive.
Nintendo has been trying to rub us out
“Stop, Nintendo. You’re just mashing it.”
Cult leadership
I wanted to start my own cult, but didn’t know where to start. Luckily, I found a great group of people who had the same interest! Now we meet every Tuesday!
At this point, trading card collecting and grading. Oh, a new series of trading cards for pokemon or yu-gi-oh or whatever dropped? Time for all the adults to buy out every single card in the store and then run home in hopes that their scam leaders like PSA will encourage their behavior by gracing them with a card they claim is worth money despite only being out for less than a week.
Card grading ain’t nothing but a scam, cult, and great way to encourage the worst in people, while simultaneously gatekeeping trading cards from everyone with more than 2 braincells. Ain’t nothing gonna change my mind about it.
Adults going to DisneyWorld as if it was a sacred shrine
Adults going to Disney without kids.
never understood the appeal either lol
Going to Disneyland, buying that doll, having that retro console, collecting all the items in the set, buying that vintage car, getting a fat hog to crank it up with…
Its melancholic nostalgia, having the things we could never have when we were young.
I worked at Disneyland for 8 years. I still go there every year. It’s been over 10 years and I’m still running into people I used to work with and can shoot the shit with them for an hour.
For me, there is something about that place that I took ownership of, cared for people there, and tried to make it better in the small way I could. I see all the effort that so many people have and continue to put in and really appreciate the artistry and care these people have.
It’s a place that I feel comfortable in, and I like to just sit, listen to the music and the sounds of the crowds and people watch.
People who play Call of Chuthulu every single day
Where!? Point me in the direction of these people so I can uh… show them the error of their ways! But first I will have to gain their trust by joining, of course.
Religion. 🤌🏼
Anyone using Linux, based on 60% of the content on lemmy. Uh… maybe also lemmy.
I am not in a cult.
This is not a cult.
By the way since you never asked, can I interest you in a new way to use your computer?
How about Linux on a Thinkpad? DOUBLE CULT!
I am a puritan, I will not be satisfied until we have open source hardware, like reference RISC-V, to power
the holy wordLinux.Yes I know about MNT Reform or whatever, but the price and still some binary blobs.
Cycling. They go from ‘this is fun’, to full blown road dictators, in about 2 weeks.
Edit: just watch. The downvotes will likely display their cult rage.
I hate cyclists, and I’m dutch. Cycle to work or the store? Fine by me, I do it all the time myself. Being a cyclist however? I’ll hate your guts.
Tho I’m pretty sure it’s not that uncommon of an opinion here, most of the time people either hate cyclists, or are one themselves.
Heh I remember several years ago, I bought a cool vintage 10-speed bike which was lovingly restored by a local bike co-op, it wasn’t ever a top of the line pro racing bike or anything, just a nice old street bike for casual riding. The co-op did a great job making it like new, but with subtle finishing accents.
I posted some pics of it on r/bicycling on Reddit to get their feedback, advice. SUCH SNOBBERY! My god, you’d think I took a shit in the middle of the lobby floor of The Ritz-Carlton. They made me feel wholly unwelcome and unwanted.
Please explain exactly what you mean by “full blown road dictators”, and clearly detail how it is different from “use the road in a completely legal manner in ways trying to keep yourself and others from getting run over by the many car drivers with a sense of entitlement to the road”.
As a cyclist, I’d have to guess “riding two abreast when there’s a car behind you.”
Well you see, cars go faster and are stronger, so by being in the road you are a road dictator.
I honestly don’t understand what you’re trying to say, but then again I’m stoned out of my gourd.
Could you rephrase it so an idiot would understand?
They’re saying that cars are bigger and stronger than bikes, which makes them able to bully cars, which makes them feel entitled to do so. Because they then feel entitled to the road, they start calling cyclists “dictators” when they are merely using the road.
It’s a shockingly accurate description of behaviour that cyclists face on a daily basis, with drivers threatening their lives for no reason more than that the drivers feel entitled to do so.
I think that’s sarcasm
No, I think it’s something about dictating the speed but the cars can pass unless the bikers are deliberately blocking the drive by.
I don’t get it.
I feel like it would be easier to list the hobbies that aren’t, based on the answers so far.
Feel free to post this question.
Pickleball.
Seriously what is the deal with it? I remembered playing it in gym decades ago and everyone hated it. Now I see people lobbying for new freaking complexes for it. Let’s see if the fad lasts more than a year before dedicating public land space to it
It kinda looks like tennis for the unathletic, which means I should fit right in, but I have zero interest.
Nix and NixOS
