Computer Keyboard Enthusiasts
All of them if you delve deep enough
Correct answer, pretty much any group will develop extremists after time.
I don’t know whether anyone has mentioned this – gacha games. Like cults, it forces you to pay a lot of money, but never enough to satisfy them. It always leaves you in a state of frustration. Video gaming is supposed to be a hobby, but the level of attention and resources demanded by these games are insane.
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Religion IMHO is a hobby.
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.
Yeah MNTs are expensive but I like supporting OSHW. The rk3588 is good enough to daily drive.
Hey now, I pirated my Thinkpad thank you very much. Needed to make sure I stuck to my third cult.
Have you not heard of our Lord and Savior glorious Debian?
Heresy, the savior is Arch!
Burn the witch! openSUSE is the messiah.
Arch Linux
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
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 use arch btw
I would say NixOS might be even more cultish. I am a part of that cult.
It’s absolutely crazy to me that there are unironically people recommending Arch to newbies.
One hell of a deep end. Sometimes that’s the right choice for the right kind of person, but most people… Yeah maybe stick to something easier. If you want, mess with arch in a VM. Maybe switch down the line.
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
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
Unironically a neat clean system
If I knew how to get it
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?
Can’t spell anarchy without arch 🏴
CrossFit.
so many people get injured from that.
Adults going to DisneyWorld as if it was a sacred shrine
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.
Went to Disney last year. Never again. Lines are too long, you must use a phone app to get 'fast access’s to rides, but fast access is now just normal access. Standby waits are over an hour for all rides. Some rides had no standby, so no phone app, no going on that one. Oh and the phone app has limited space that I found out is usually gone 5 min after opening at 6 am or some shit.
I had to wait 2 hours for jungle cruise while watching a non stop line of fast pass people just constantly walking on.
It’s too crowded, elbow to elbow people.
Still 20.00 for a crap hamburger.
Tickets were like 380 for 2 of us.
Save your money and leave Disney for the foreign stupid tourists
We foreign stupid tourists have Disney Land Paris, thank you very much.
Still 20.00 for a crap baguette.
the florida disney is mostly visited by canadians
Hard agree on pretty much all of that.
But it’s still my friends and I get in for free, I’ve been literally thousands of times (most of them Disney paid me to be there) and I, maybe, get on one or two rides a day, if I go on any at all.
And do what they told me to do for 8 hours. In return, I got in for free.
I did have the occasional shift that was stress test a new thing so they could train. So riding an attraction that wasn’t open yet for 4 hours was pretty fun.
Yea but Disney makes money off of that passion…
Sure, but a lot of those people there are my friends. You can find plenty of posts from me criticizing their management, board, and CEO. I don’t like how the company is run or many of their projects. But a lot of people there are actual friends of mine, and it’s an avenue for a lot of their art to be seen by the world.
I’m a big fan of theme parks and live entertainment. I haven’t seen anywhere that really compares with them on that front. I’m not familiar with anywhere else that does a parade multiple times a day, fireworks practically every night, a dozen small theatrical productions, a large technical fountain show, and an elaborate stage production every single day. Many with people I actually personally know running or working on them.
Disney makes money, and I agree they over charge for everything. But they also do put out a pretty good product for it. For the most part, at least. I have a lot of gripes about some of it because of the standards that I have after working there.
Oh, and I also still utilize friends that I have there to get in for free. I haven’t paid to go to a Disney park in nearly 2 decades.
its all those gifts, resorts, hotels and diners/food fees.
having the things we could never have when we were young
This is why I went through a period of collecting multi-cultural dolls in my 20s. When I was a kid and asked my mom for a black Barbie, she got weird about it and made me feel very uncomfortable. All over wanting a doll that wasn’t white. Fuck that noise, my Barbies span the human rainbow now.
Adults going to Disney without kids.
those are the one’s that I was thinking about
When I meet a chick in an online dating way, at the first mention of Disney I’m gone. Unmatch, block, whatever’s fastest.
i read an article where a guy was going there almost everyday, or every chance because had nothing else to do. i think somewhere in that article mentioned that people were creeped or got suspicious because he is a man with no children at that place frequently.
Lots of people that live locally near Disneyland or Disney World have annual passes. Except for a few “blackout” dates you can go for free everyday. I can’t imagine why you would even go more than, maybe every 6 months.
old people
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.
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
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…
They said hobbies not belief systems.
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.
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…
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.
In that case it degenerates into superstition…i think
I wouldn’t call a cult a belief system.
It is, it deviates from the norm and demands an irrational amount of obedience. Than it nests on top of the previous beilefs of the vitctim.
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?
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.
Competitive Super Smash Bros Melee, we won’t ever die. And Nintendo has been trying to rub us out since 2008.
Nintendo has been trying to rub us out
“Stop, Nintendo. You’re just mashing it.”
Time to salt Nintendo.
. And Nintendo has been trying to rub us out since 2008.
dedication like that… phew. impressive.
Linux
Warhammer
Crossfit
And Linux users are evangelical, too.
Ok, but have you used Linux?
I can’t stop using Linux.
My desktop computer? Linux.
My work laptop? Linux.
My phone? Linux.
My robot vacuum? Linux.
Linux. Linux. Linux.
My work laptop? Linux.
I wish
Our safe™ work laptops are bought from a company that runs Linux on them that virtualize Windows
Throw in a Linux VM running under Windows and intensify the Inception noise.
You lucky dog.
Do you have a moment to talk about our lords and saviours, Linus and RMS?
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.
People should just play badminton… I remember that being pretty fun in gym class once everyone got decent enough for a few volleys (those rackets are tiny).
The best thing about badminton is saying the word “shuttlecock.”
It’s been lasted more than a year. Its super easy for beginners and the gap between never played and mediocre player is pretty small in my experience. Groups of different ages/skill/athleticism can play the game relatively easy together. You can get drunk while playing and still be good. You don’t have to break a sweat if you don’t want to. Games are short.
I think it gets way too much flak and it is a little too overhyped rn. But it’s a top contender for the ideal casual game.
You’re doing the cult thing.
lowk I am. Don’t knock it til you try it lol
Oh I’m not against it at all 😂 guy at work has been extolling the benefits for weeks now.
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.
