Gunpla, pop/labubu, liquid-cooing/overclocking, 3D printing, drones/RC
There is a bit of a threshold between an innocent hobby and a cult, but once crossed, it’s… yeah…
If you’re into liquid cooling cause it gives “better performance” then that’s cope and a cult, but if you just do it to make your PC look cool asf then there’s nothing wrong with that
Can you still overclock tf out of a liquid cooled cpu or has that changed?
Yes and no. You can push clocks and power higher on liquid, but the recent generations of CPU and GPU automatically push their own clocks up when there’s heat/power headroom. It’s a byproduct of both Moore’s Law dying and low power management systems becoming more and more advanced. All of the big players have introduced systems that automatically go in the other direction than low power by now.
So, generally speaking these days, you have to go pretty extreme to get significant performance gains over air (especially with heat pipes/chambers making air waaaay better than it used to be). Liquid can still generally be quieter, though. can
Nahhhh, better performance WAS a totally true and valid thing. Though since moore’s law died, power management systems advanced, and heat pipes/chambers were commercialized, the difference is now neglegible for all but the extreme cases.
I don’t see what makes the last two cult-like?
Some of the bambulab owners are a bit cultish for sure.
Warhammer.
Most of them…
The cult of…origami?
Also candle making, don’t sniff the Kool Aid scented wax.
Oh, man, the serious origami people are SERIOUS!
Arch Linux
Unironically a neat clean system
If I knew how to get it
I would say NixOS might be even more cultish. I am a part of that cult.
Can’t spell anarchy without arch 🏴
Pff hater, Arch users are definitely not cultists who are obligatory to share their divine wisdom and forcibly announce that they are part of this cul… Hobby.
I use arch btw
i use arch btw
If you don’t tell people you use Arch, then they come and install Ubuntu on your PC.
If you don’t tell them, how’d they know you’re better than them? Smh
I wouldn’t know, I’ve never met a person in real life professing to using arch BTW. I see it everywhere online though, but that might just be eight guys with a ton of sock puppet accounts for all I know.
Is arch linux even a thing, like Hanna Montana and Justin Bieber Linux is a thing?
Only to people who haven’t been inducted to the cult of gentoo
I can’t read “gentoo” without hearing the Weezer song “Getchoo” in my head.
Gentoo, uh huh. Gentoo, uh huh. Gentoo, uh huh. Gentoo, Gentoo, Gentoo… ooh hoo
It’s absolutely crazy to me that there are unironically people recommending Arch to newbies.
What about EndeavorOS?
Depends on the person. If it’s just someone that uses a PC for the browser and doesn’t want to learn anything something like popOS or mint would do. If they are ok with learning some Linux/Arch basics, BTRFS + EndeavorOS + KDE is hard to beat and would be my first recommendation
Knitting. It’s part witchcraft, part voodoo.
The single thing I miss about Reddit is r/knitting. It was the only consistently kind and supportive niche sub I ever frequented. I learned a lot from them and even when someone posted something kind of ugly or not right, everyone was like, “keep it up! You’ll be doing sweaters in no time!” Sometimes people were snobs about yarn but usually for just themselves… not knocking on another user not opting to buy expensive hand spun/hand dyed yarns especially when it’s clear they were beginners. Ah I miss it honestly.
That’s because it’s math, which is voodoo witchcraft.
Don’t even get me started on fucking crochet…
Auditing pre-clears.
Is this the scientology stuff?
We seem to have a suppressive person in the chat.
(JK, yes, it is. I mis-read the question and gave an example of culty stuff that is a hobby.)
Yes, scientology is a full blown religious cult.
I aw cable TV for the first time in like 15 years recently and there are ADS for scientology, just… playing on normal channels, in breaks between reruns of Friends and Big Bang Theory. What the actual fuck.
Kpop-Stans, Warhammer, Disney - Adults, Harry Potter.
Internet personalities/“influencers”
One way money transfers, controlling people’s time and career aspirations, dividing families, rape, and murder.
Not all “Influencers”, but some notable cases.
Are they fundamentally different from celebs and TV personalities of the past, or is it the scale and presentation that has changed?
There will always be grifters and those who are led in to loyalty follow them. It’s bizarre.
Dungeons and Dragons
But the cultists are the bad guys!
Shar?
Triathletes
Huh? How? There’s no leadership structure to it to provide that cultish vibe, it’s mostly just individuals are small groups of friends doing their thing together.
Nah just kidding, the joke is participants of either individual sport (swimming, running, cycling) dislike the other disciplines ergo triathletes are nuts. But getting Ironman tattoos is kind of groupthink-y.
Honestly, I don’t think very many of them could really be described as such, as at the very least most hobbies either don’t have a person or group that could be called it’s leader, or if they do, it’s generally some business that owns some relevant IP that very much isn’t considered unquestionable and above criticism. You could get cults that emerge within some hobby group instead of taking up the whole subculture, but given even things as mundane as exercise groups have had this happen before, I’d guess that can technically happen in just about any of them.
Society for Creative Anachronism
Oh damn. I came here to answer this too, but was definitely not expecting someone else already to have said it.
I do HEMA, which has a healthy overlap with the SCA, but from what I’ve heard, the SCA has a pretty rigid structure and hierarchy with ranks and titles. I’ve heard about people winning bouts in SCA fencing against someone who is supposedly ranked higher than them, and getting shunned because of it. That’s not healthy.
Dagorhir also overlapped with SCA a bit, and surely had a weird social scene, but I wouldn’t consider it cult-like. People seemed well integrated with the rest of society when they weren’t battling.
They seem so positive and bubbly from the outside!
Definitely a cult.
I second DnD and Warhammer, and i’ll add Magic the Gathering to this list
First intro to MtG was in college I walked past a room with the lights out and only candles lit, the four people were wearing robes and playing… MtG. Decided right then that nah, that’s too far for me.
Candlelit MtG? They were either having a terrible date or daring the other to burn their decks
Yeah, anything that has you speaking in game jargon in public should qualify.
One of my friends at a pizza place a few years ago: “I can’t believe I didn’t get to poison anyone last night.”
Me: “Dude, context! We are in public!”
DnD
“Do not Disturb”-mode is criminally underrated, I advocate for it to anybody willing to listen.
Religion. All of them are cults. Every single fucking one.
Nothing. No other hobby even comes close to the death, genocide, rape, murder, and hate generated by that type of religious cult. It’s every single year, too. Every single year religion tops its hate, greed, and pain inflicted on everyone.
They said hobbies not belief systems.
I wouldn’t call a cult a belief system.
For a lot of people, when you look at how they spend their time, it is clear that their religion is both their belief system AND their hobby.
Think of the “Bible study” types. They’ve turned it into a hobby-like activity. Some I knew growing up clearly had nothing else. It was their hobby.
It’s not a hobby. They’re practicing their faith…it’s such a huge difference.
If you spend more time to consider and think about the differences between spirituality and religion, you’d see what I’m getting at. There’s a blurring of lines sure, but a lot of these religious activities are not at all necessary for their beliefs, and merely a choice that fulfills them in a similar manner as other hobbies.
Choosing to believe in one set of imaginary friends over another- or none- is most certainly a hobby by every definition.
It is not essential for life. It is not required by law. People willingly choose and actively continue choosing to engage in the activities in their free time, and report positive feelings from doing so. When doubts arise, other members of the cult try hard to sway them to stay, often using threats. That’s a hobby. And a cult.
I actuallly don’t think you can understand this…
Edgelord atheist mad at christianity and islam: “every religion is genocide and hate, and I hate them.”
Buddhists , jains, pagans, etc: “hey excuse you buddy.”
I mean, Buddhists just did a genocide in Myanmar. They have a cleaner track record than Abrahamic faiths for sure, but if you spend serious time in actual Buddhist places it fills the exact same societal roles.
Neopaganism is a bit of an odd one out in that list because it’s a newly invented thing.
Baha’is would as well, but nobody ever remembers them. The one time I saw a question about TBF on Jeopardy, it was the Final Jeopardy question, and no one got it right.
I usually limit my ire to Abrahamic religions (though Buddhism’s track record isn’t completely clean).
I don’t know enough about the history of Jainism to say one way or another, though given what I know about it (ALL life is sacred), i imagine they’re probably the closest an organized religion can get to being unharmful.
Your particular brand of invisible sky wizard is different from my particular brand of invisible sky wizard. Die heretic!
I’m pretty sure that religion was mostly used as a kind of motivational tool for the masses, but without religion there probably would have been another excuse why the enemy needs to die
It’s always about resources and shit anyway
What a fun answer!
Yeah seriously. It’s pretty severely missed the point of this thread.
Ironic that it looks like someone came through and downvotes every answer in this thread other than this one, considering. It’d be pretty great if the mods banned whoever that was.
oh no not the downvotes how will my children eat! listen to yourself for fucks sake
To be clear, at the time I made that comment, every top-level response in this thread had precisely one downvote, apart from two. One had many downvotes (“Most of them”), obviously just not very constructive. The other was this one. It’s obviously the result of some troll.
and what a ghastly troll that must have been!! did you sleep ok?
I don’t think anyone would call their religion a hobby, though.
Many people engage with the cults as a hobby though. Many of my relatives would probably agree that’s about their level of involvement, but then they pay in to the beast that does all of the culty shit…
