As someone who casually enjoys 40K, it has a tendency to attract some of the most rancid people. OSR has this problem too sometimes, but its not nearly as bad as 40k.
Try being a Warhammer 40k enjoyer. Some people forget that humanity are STILL BAD GUYS in 40k.
I used to enjoy conspiracy theories, because I thought it would be cool if they were true.
Things like cryptids, aliens, etc…
But now all the conspiracy groups are filled with stupid right-wing science deniers.I enjoy Powerlifting, Fishing, and Carpentry. I don’t have any friends from those hobbies.
Try being a classicist… it’s rough out here. Can’t really say I love Greece and Rome without sounding insane.
Weightlifters seem to hove about similar parts make up very kind people who just want others to succeed and people who listen to Joe rogan and Jordan Peterson.
Linux and crypto users. Sometimes, people just use monero for it’s technical merits…
I can’t wear my King of the Hill shirts anymore because I don’t want people to think I’m a trumpster.
Blacksmithing/bladesmithing.
I spent must of my youth fascinated by knives, still am, and this got me into classical metal working. By the time I was 18 I had built a pretty decent working forge in my mom’s backyard.
Shortly after 9/11 I took a week long class in bladesmithing in Arkansas. Outside of Blade Forums and the occasional knife show, I’d never really interacted with other knife people. Not a whole lot going on in my large northern city.
The way those bastards talked openly about anyone that wasn’t white or Christian turned my stomach. I pretty much kept to myself, it hung out with the one chill hippy from Oregon, or the eternally gob-struck British blacksmiths apprentice (You sell GUNS in a GROCERY STORE?!)
I learned a lot on that trip. Nowadays I don’t bring up my knife hobby because I sure as shit don’t want to be mistaken for one of those ignorant cretins.
Hydroponics as well I guess. My DIY automated grow room with a water pump, grow lights, heater and plant shaker (for pollination) always has people think I’m growing weed but I just want chillies and tomatoes.
Warhammer 40k. I like to paint little green guys and then move them around a battlefield.
A good half of the poeple in this hobby are almost entirely irredeemable
I like 90% of the shit in this thread lol
Yeah I’m not here for this. I just felt this massive wave of fatigue wash over me as I read it.
Like it or not you’re going to run into weirdos in just about every hobby. All preemptively judging people does is teach people to keep to themselves. We’re already building up a society of loners where people struggle to connect to each other with various other causes(loss of third places for example). We don’t really need something like this pushing people further apart, especially when that ultimately drives peoples empathy for each other down too.
Offroading.
Like, I just want to spend too much money breaking my truck to go play in the mud or camping in the middle of nowhere on the weekend, not throw massive alcohol fueled frat parties in the desert and annihilate the environment in my jacked-up, curb princess of a Ram covered in a thousand miniature suns and “
Don’t tread on mePlease tread on me, daddy” stickersAirsoft.
It’s so fun but also run mostly by straight up Nazis.
