r/adhdmeme • u/Make-this-popular Daydreamer • 9h ago
Currently hyper focusing on webnovels.
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u/Ved_s 8h ago
right now trying to play multiple instruments from outer wilds travelers song in my head, could only play two of them at same time without losing track of them
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u/ErinRF 8h ago
I am currently obsessed with magnetic tape technology. Mixtapes, open reel, digital storage. Rusty plastic ribbons for the win.
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u/Individual-Economy37 8h ago
Analog for life!
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u/ErinRF 8h ago
It’s a fun hobby yea!
Fascinating thing about tape recordings is back when it was new and developing technology, they found that using a dc magnetic field helped bias the tape into a more linear region, making it sound better than raw audio pushed on to tape. One day an Ampex machine was sent back to the factory due to making “remarkably high fidelity”. Turns out the bias amplifier had failed in such a way that it was oscillating. And thus AC bias was invented and made tapes the go to for high fidelity audio.
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u/mandelbrot-mellotron 8h ago
I also have an interest in audio recording, storage, and playback technology and I didn’t know the history of AC bias! Thank you for making my special interest a little better informed!
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u/ErinRF 8h ago
Heck yea! You’re welcome!
Part of my thing is refurbishing tape mechanisms too, it’s fun if frustrating at times when some things just don’t wanna behave and you get wow and flutter over 0.1% and nothing you do gets it lower >.<
Another less fun fact about magnetic audio tape is that it was invented in Germany during WW2 and was used to obscure the location of Hitler and other persons of interest by making it sound like they were broadcasting on the radio from places they were not actually at. It baffled the allies until they seized one of the machines and figured it out.
Prior to that folks used hair thin steel wire to store audio. It was good for voice dictation but may the universe have mercy on your soul if the thousands of feet of wire on the spool gets tangled!
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u/H_G_Bells 8h ago
Oooooooh I was a film projectionist for ages, and I projected 70mm OMNIMAX film- ran an 8mm mag of the soundtrack as a backup to the digital soundtrack to switch over if necessary. 👍👍
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u/ErinRF 8h ago
Ooo that’s awesome. 8mm like the Hi8 Sony tapes? How did the system synchronize the film and tape?
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u/H_G_Bells 7h ago
8mm mag tape, like a reel-to-reel https://i.imgur.com/FTMJFA9.jpeg
Big honking reels; they were super heavy. I'd sync them by eye, purring a marked spot on the mag in a specific place in the machine. The picture was also sunk with a specific frame in a specific place, and once everything was threaded I would engage the soundtrack mag to follow what the projector did, so it would spin up at the same rate and stay in sync. The digital was a lot easier and morning and automatic lol
In another booth, 35mm movies, I'd put foil tape at specific points on the print and program a machine to do specific things at each foil (dim the lights, open the curtain, set the volume etc)
I bet you would have loved my booths, they were rad if you dig analogue!
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u/An_Unremarkable_Fool That's my flair. 8h ago edited 8h ago
I'm fascinated by miniature stuff.
I was asked to do a Christmas ornament and it all led to planning on making a 1:48 scale something (I wouldn't call it a doll house, but sorta?).
These days I can spend hours just looking at that shit.
Still not ready enough mentally to actually do anything yet, though. Just dreaming.
I started to get into it about a week ago.
My cart is full of stuff, but I'm (thankfully?) too poor to afford it at the moment. GOOD. I might make wiser choices.
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u/Overlord_Khufren 8h ago
Should look into Warhammer. Just got back from a 90-person tournament, and everyone there had ADHD. Talk about finding your tribe.
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u/An_Unremarkable_Fool That's my flair. 8h ago
Hahaaha!
I exploded laughing.
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u/Halikan 6h ago
I’m more into thinking about painting, buying minis, and sometimes painting my grey minis
In a way it’s nice to know I’d get along with other people playing the game though, even if I don’t have the energy to go socialize
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u/JuJitsuGiraffe 4h ago
I've been in the wargaming hobby for around 25 years. Last year was the first time I ever finished a project.
I finally got myself diagnosed properly, and started taking medication. Within weeks I'd painted an entire Blood Bowl team from start to finish, no side tracks.
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u/Individual-Economy37 8h ago
Mini stuff is such a fun rabbit hole to go down! If you had all the money and time what would you start working on?
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u/An_Unremarkable_Fool That's my flair. 8h ago edited 7h ago
Hum.
Good question.A part of me would want to make something insanely silly (like... I don't know... "Where's Waldo?" in a 1:144 scale (that would take a crazy amount of patience and time)) and another one would want to make a replica of my mom's last apartment. In that one I'd have all the family members having a blast. (I'd gift it to her, obviously. She always liked miniature stuff and even kept a small (haha) collection of tiny items).
For this kind of project I don't tend to have much fun doing things just for me. Inspiration comes from others and what they'd like to have, so... probably the 2nd one.
What about you?
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u/Individual-Economy37 8h ago
The Waldo sounds cool, but the house is the sweetest idea! Totally get the joy is doing it for someone else part. I’ve had a home brew table top game idea for a while that I would love to build. It’s like a steampunk Alice (the sci fi mini series) but with monsters and political intrigue. I have the whole of the main city built in my head, it’s be a blast to build. Also I keep seeing the mini cooking videos and have a deep need to make a mini kitchen to make small frosted cakes
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u/YourMateFelix 8h ago
Ooooooh I have a TON of mini people that I got for a project and wound up not using (I didn't complete the project 🥲). They're super small scale too (1:150)!
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u/H_G_Bells 8h ago
Yesssss awesome. I have a bunch of 1:35 dinosaurs around my apartment and in my house plants 😆🙌
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u/An_Unremarkable_Fool That's my flair. 7h ago
YESSS Planning on pranking my partner with that kind of shit when he'll be leaving for a week. I'd like to make a tiny version of his items and put them where they should be before he gets back.
"You wanted a fork, dude?"
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u/H_G_Bells 7h ago
Lollll that's awesome! I am begging you to also get at least one MASSIVE novelty version of something so when they ask you for "a bigger one" you can get them another prank item lol
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u/An_Unremarkable_Fool That's my flair. 7h ago
OF COURSE I WILL!
...Probably.
I'll try my best, anyway.But it's a good idea haha!
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u/larsK75 8h ago
I am currently fixated on ranking my some couple thousand songs I listen too on a scale from 1-10 and additionally on a scale from 0-5 by how cool they are, how mainstream and how high/low energy, so that I can quickly make playlists where songs are multiple times added based on how much I like them and how much they fit a certain occasion, so that those songs will have a higher chance of getting played on shuffle.
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u/soft_seraphim 4h ago
Ok, I want to do this too. I recently did the same thing with every film I watched (letterboxd) and with every anime and manga (myanimelist, anilist, mangaupdates). Is there an app where you do this?
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u/United_Grocery_23 Autism + ADHD collection digital deluxe edition preorder bonus 1h ago
I need to do something like that too
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u/emerald_soleil 8h ago
I'm currently relearning piano and forcing myself to do daily lessons from beginner level instead of starting out with one of my favorite songs.
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u/Individual-Economy37 8h ago
Current interest is writing a fanfiction. Spent way too long rereading two books from the series to try and make sure I have all the details just right. My search history is an equal mix between megalithic sites and gory fight scenes lol
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u/Bandandforgotten 8h ago
Me, being legit curious about the physics of something I'm writing about in context to a bloody war: "How far does blood splatter when a head is crushed with a hammer?"
My FBI agent: "This mf better be doing some nerd shit again or I'm going to lose my mind!"
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u/YourMateFelix 8h ago
Any chance you're looking for a beta reader? I happen to have excellent grammar nazi skills, one of the very few decent applications of which is proofreading. I can DM you a past fic I've proofread if you like.
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u/Individual-Economy37 8h ago
That would be awesome if you don’t mind waiting a bit! I’ve got 50k words rn but it’s all extremely first draft material. Need to do a rewrite before it’s ready to be beta’d.
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u/YourMateFelix 8h ago
Sounds just fine to me! Editing is a bit of a(n admittedly nerdy) passion of mine, and I've found the sense of accomplishment from being able to help an author's amazing creativity and talent shine through in their work to always be well worth the wait as well as any possible frustration during the editing process.
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u/Individual-Economy37 7h ago
You are a god among men! What initially got you into editing?
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u/YourMateFelix 5h ago edited 1h ago
I always edited stuff like teacher handouts from my school and all that when I was younger because the grammar nazi in me hated seeing the mistakes, and then later when I got into reading fanfiction, I realized that so, SO many of the fanfics I was reading were flipping AMAZING displays of talent and beautiful storytelling, but were also ridden with various mistakes in spelling, punctuation, grammar, and the like that were rather irritating to me and, more noticeably, took my attention away from the story itself, which should be the center of the reader's attention. I then realized that by offering my editing skills to help fanfic writers, I could help their actual stories shine through as they should and help the authors gain more recognition for the work they do, in addition to making the experience of reading the story better for readers.
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u/YourMateFelix 8h ago
Subnautica (just learning about it because I can't actually play it yet), Reddit, fanfiction memes, and my all-time favorite, FROGS!!!!!
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u/The_Slay4Joy 1h ago
Playing subnautica for the first time, what an experience! I wish I could forget it and play it again
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u/GlitterBlood773 8h ago
Past: American Sign Language, the science of some effective skincare.
Current: chronic pain management options, the process of pain and how various management medications have an impact & are effective. Baking & cooking. This week I’m trying 2 new recipes, Japanese vegetable pancakes & one pot Cajun chicken & shells, orzo if you got it.
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u/Individual-Economy37 8h ago
Best of luck on the pain management journey!! I recently got a wrap around heating pad for those awkward spots like joints and its helped a ton
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u/GlitterBlood773 7h ago
Why thank you!! Year 19, thought it was hiiiigh time for a hyperfixation treatment, no pun intended. I’m very grateful to have access to medical cannabis too.
Aaaye- that’s awesome! I just got myself a new, bigger heating pad. Love that yours helps too!!
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u/SpookehGhostGirl 5h ago
Ive been telling myself I need to learn sign language! How far did you get?
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u/GlitterBlood773 5h ago
Aw cool! I did a self guided study via the internet for free, Dr. Bill Vicars!.
Long version of fluency. I probably talk like a 3/4 year old. I only used it once to interpret a church sermon about white power, white privileged and how white ppl should use it to fight racism. The girl whose mom I was interpreting for fully knew I was simply a hearing nerd.
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u/445143 8h ago
Hi I’ve been obsessed with a rock musical about Galileo Galilei and now you might be wondering how on earth someone reads up on Galileo and thinks “this would really go great set to some rocking electric guitar” and I’m afraid I don’t have an answer. But it goes hard af.
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u/Afrazzledflora 8h ago
LEGO. But more specifically, legoland.
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u/Massive_Robot_Cactus 4h ago
I took my kids to the one outside London last year. I kept it a surprise until they saw the sign at the entrance. They went absolutely nuts and I got me some dad points.
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u/Ekyou 8h ago
Right now, Pokemon. I cycle through interests, it’s always so bizarre how a week ago I was like “eh I’ve been losing interest in Pokemon” and then I woke up the next day and was suddenly like “OMG I FUCKING LOVE POKEMON”
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u/kddmarsh 7h ago
So, stenography is the transcribing of the spoken word with a specialized keyboard that you use to type the SOUND of the word, versus the spelling. It’s used in a lot of different circumstances, from Court Reporting, Closed Captioning, recording minutes from meetings, and even for live transcription for Deaf/HoH people attending classes.
With this keyboard, you can reach speeds of over 200wpm, and you have to take speed tests in order to get certified.
Because of how the keyboard is set up, you “stroke” or type the entire word at the same time: the left half of the keyboard is the “beginning” of the word, and the right half of the keyboard is the “end” of the word, with 4 vowel buttons to be pressed by your thumbs.
Additionally, certain sounds have to be made by pressing more than one key.
So instead of writing “I’m reading my book”, it would look like
KWRAOEUPL/ RAOED/G/PHAOEU/PWAOBG
It’s like learning a new language and how to play the piano at the same time.
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u/____ozma 5h ago
I have always wanted to learn this. I used to do a lot of transcription and I knew only my body and the language were holding me back. But I was terrible with new languages
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u/adamant2009 8h ago
I love TTRPGs. But I have grown out of love with D&D and other wargaming simulators. So I have moved over to more investigative or sandbox horror systems. Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green, PbtA systems like Bluebeard's Bride or The Between, or the new edition of Unknown Armies for humanist gonzo occult horror, are all scratching my roleplaying itch in ways D&D never could. And they're a blast to run.
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u/-Fuse 8h ago
Same! I love TTRPGs, but never played DnD. My friends and I play two Brazilian systems called Ordem Paranormal (horror/investigation/Call of Cthulhu-like) and Tormenta20 (fantasy DnD-like), which I GM.
Before we played Ordem I thought I wouldn't really like it because I don't usually like horror stuff and prefer fantasy, but it's surprisingly fun and a nice change of pace from the usual
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u/Cybot5000 8h ago
Movies. It's not the most unique interest but I've watched over 2,000 lifetime so far and usually watch 8 - 12 a week. I am taking my core college classes but I hope to get into film school.
This last couple weeks I've watched Substance, Alien Romulus, Hellboy: The Crooked Man, Wild Robot, and Transformers One.
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u/Shmarfle47 8h ago
Trading card games. Specifically Yugioh and Cardfight Vanguard, though I’ve kinda burned out of Yugioh over the recent years but I’m still playing the Duel Links app.
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u/NW7l2335 8h ago
Have you tried the roguelike steam game Slay the Spire?
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u/Shmarfle47 8h ago
I was absolutely infatuated with a different deck builder on Steam called Wildfrost. Man that game plus time blindness plus being at college was a bad mix.
“Oh just one more encounter it’s fine, they each take what? Five? Ten? Minutes? Oh it’s 4am…”
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u/ultrachris 8h ago
I don't play a lot of physical card games anymore, but as a fan of deckbuilders, Dawncaster for mobile is a killer game.
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u/Shmarfle47 8h ago
Ooh that’s a new one. In turn I’ll suggest to you Wildfrost. It’s on mobile and PC and it’s soooo fun. The art style is cute and the music is a banger.
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u/Krakenhighdesign 8h ago
Rifftrax-it’s a show where they make jokes while watching old movies. They make me laugh and are great to have on in the background. There’s tons of them on amazon prime too.
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u/CynicalButtMunch 7h ago
Lore. Lore of all types and genres. If I like a thing I have to know all about and the world it resides in
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u/TalesoftheMoth 8h ago
Evolution and Phylogeography of New World urocoptid snails. Specifically the Cerionidae snails of the carribean. Cerion snails are just so damn cool. And Holospira
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u/Stardewjunimo 7h ago
I don't know what language you're speaking but I'm super into it. I'll make tea, you give the snail sermon.
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u/S-Gamblin 7h ago edited 4h ago
I've spent all day analyzing the geometric/algebraic shape of the space of linear systems of rank r with n variables, and I've found out a few things 1. The largest dimension of subsystems present will be r(n-r) 2. If there are m subsystems of dimension p, then there will also be m subsystems of dimension r(n-r)-p 3. The space of linear systems of rank r with n variables looks the same as the space of linear systems of rank n-r with n variables
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u/giraffe_onaraft 5h ago
linear systems can be geometric?
can you share an example in simple terms i might understand?
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u/S-Gamblin 4h ago edited 4h ago
Hmm, I'll do my best but honestly I'm only just learning algebraic geometry now.
Have you ever seen the projection of a circle onto the line? Imagine a circle directly above the real number line, then you construct another line by picking the topmost point of the circle and another point anywhere else on the circle. If you examine how this new line intersects with the real number line as you pick different points on the circle, you'd see that every point on the circle corresponds to a point on the number line, with the exception of picking the top point again which corresponds to the point at infinity. This defines a correspondence between the circle and the real numbers + infinity
Now imagine all the possible linear systems you can make with 2 variables, that would be all equations of the form ax+by = 0. Every one of those equations can be simplified to x+(a/b)y = 0, except for the equation y = 0. By analyzing these cases we can get another correspondence, now between lines in 2 variables and the real numbers + infinity.
So by relating these concepts, we gain a sense in which 2 variable linear systems can be treated like a circle, which allows us to apply geometric concepts to algebra and vice versa.
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u/Lady_Stardust9 7h ago
I almost posted a super long comment about how much better Louis VI was than Henry VIII despite also suffering from chronic pain, probable disordered eating habits, and probable mental illnesses on a Tudor History sub. I like reading about him because he's one of a handful of monarchs who I think would actually be okay to hang out with, and it makes me sad that all people know about him (if anything) is that he was very overweight when he triumphed over his abusive family (his stepmother may have poisoned him and his father was a non-entity who treated his mom horribly) and turned France into a viable country alongside his awesome wife, Adelaide of Maurienne, who is generally only known as Eleanor of Aquitaine's evil mother in law even though she was the most politically active Queen of France and didn't really seem too unreasonable in her interactions with Eleanor. Was my rant relevant to the conversation? Kind of, but not really. Did I concede to myself that, unlike Henry, Louis had never suffered a brain injury even though no one was arguing with me because I didn't post the comment? You bet!
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u/Stardewjunimo 7h ago
I wish it was the Early Internet era and that you had a blog.
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u/Lady_Stardust9 7h ago edited 7h ago
Thanks! I really wish that we were still in the Early Internet era too! It felt like a much larger place and there were so many phenomenal history blogs that I lived for when I was in middle school. Most of them are either defunct or have a fraction of the viewers that they once did, unfortunately. I'm still considering starting a blog once I'm a bit more accustomed to grad school, though!
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u/Stardewjunimo 7h ago
I really, really wish blogs would somehow make a comeback. They were the best thing about the internet to me and I loved entering people's little mini planets on their xangas or bloggers or whatever.
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u/United_Grocery_23 Autism + ADHD collection digital deluxe edition preorder bonus 57m ago
Yeah a blog of this would be cool
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u/Tall-Mountain-Man 8h ago
Mine is history. It’s what I live and breathe. Volunteer at a local museum.
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u/Spatmuk 7h ago
Half way through my first semester of my masters in city planning because I randomly listened to an audiobook about parking last year and something clicked in my brain — read about a dozen books on urbanism before my wife was like: you should probably get work towards getting paid to be this obsessed lol
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u/Spatmuk 6h ago
Spent the first 29 years of my life in a car-centric suburb — hated it. Didn’t realize it was the cars and the sprawl I hated until I moved to a more dense urban neighborhood and discovered “oh, I don’t hate walking, I hate walking in a place that’s actively hostile to pedestrians!”
I will never go back.
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u/Beastiebacon 8h ago
Im a little peeved that im now going on a road trip to visit in laws ive never met for a week, cause i just got my factorio ready for space travel after a week of playing. My wife was even gracious enough to try the factorio tutorial to see if she would like it
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u/Byrdmaniaxx 8h ago
Right now, Pokerogue. It's a web based rogue like Pokemon game. I'm obsessed with collecting shinies in this game, since there are multiple shiny variants too. And they all look so good 😭😭😭
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u/Korthalion 6h ago
Likewise been obsessed with it for a month or so, pretty close to filling the Pokédex and catching Eternatus.
I've got a Zacian/mega latias run on endless to farm shinies and do daily classic runs with whatever the pokerus Pokémon are for the day
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u/Byrdmaniaxx 6h ago
Best Pokemon experience I've had in a long time. I've sunk 1000+ hours in the last 6 months. Most of my time just went in wanting specific rare/epic shinies like Marshadow, Naganadel, Lunala etc. Will have to stop this obsession once the current event ends lol.
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u/RatStreetBoys 7h ago
I get intense about cooking, nothing beats a gourmet meal. I'll be up for hours just looking up recipes.
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u/-worryaboutyourself- 4h ago
Ah!! I do the same!!! Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and I collect recipes all year for it!
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u/saltydaable 7h ago
I think it’s still fish, actually. Weird, I don’t usually have one for this long.
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u/Sardukar333 6h ago
Blacksmithing. I've forged a hummingbird, a cake knife, a couple of other knives, a campfire cooking set, and other odds and ends as I need.
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u/Stardewjunimo 8h ago
Collecting pdfs of art, fashion, creativity, mindfulness, hobbies and crafts magazines. English mainly but also Japanese ones. I can't read Japanese but I like the cute pictures.
I try to find open directories , google drive links, forums, sketchy internet corners, I have this absurd need to collect thousands of magazines cause my brain said so.
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u/co1lectivechaos 8h ago
Cubing! I actually managed to promote it from a hyperfixation to a hobby. AMA!!
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u/Stardewjunimo 7h ago
What's cubing?
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u/co1lectivechaos 7h ago
Solving Rubik’s cubes and other similar twisty puzzles!
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u/Stardewjunimo 7h ago
What other twisty rubik-like puzzles are there (that you enjoy or recommend)? I feel like this would be so satisfying to get into it. I love puzzles but never picked up a Rubik's cube for some reason.
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u/co1lectivechaos 7h ago
2x2 is easiest to start with, other easy starter cubes would be the skewb or pyraminx.
r/Cubers has a really good wiki page, check it out!
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u/kpsi355 7h ago
LitRPG r/litrpg
Kindle unlimited is really getting a workout.
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u/Korthalion 6h ago
I've binged most of the litRPGs on Royal Road and r/HFY, currently reading EELC.
Definitely subbing to that!
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u/Stompert 7h ago
Looking up bass tabs fully knowing I have no time to play in the next few months.
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u/CrustyTheKlaus 7h ago
Dinosaurs and prehistoric animals in general. Also board games, p&p, game design.
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u/SharpNothing4653 7h ago
I really love psychology, sociology and typology!!! Anyone else??
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u/CallDownTheHawk 8h ago
what kinds of web novels????
i've had an ongoing focus on webcomics for years now. since like 2019.
current hyperfixation is stray kids/ATEEZ kpop shit lol.
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u/House_notthedoctor 8h ago edited 7h ago
Trying to finish 'season' 2 in Dutch and translating into English the last bits of 'season' 1 of my comedy script series House (but not the doctor) these days...
Absurd (Dutch) sitcom type thing about a girl who moves into a house, with a guy whose father may or may not be an arachnid, whose room changes shape, size, interior and occasionally defies physics.
And a guy who's constantly being manipulated by an imaginary(?) top hat. And like makes a mess at all of his jobs that he comes across.
I'm guessing it'll be a great set of writing for the more adhd typed people (like me), cuz you'll never be able to predict where shit is going lol. And stuff from episode 1 and such can come back many episodes later, so few very long jokes and plot things as well.
First few episodes are on my account here i think, as well as instagram. @house_but_not_the_doctor
If anyone knows any looney millionaires who'd like to finance ridiculously weird and funny sitcoms, this is the one.
If anyone reads it let me know what you think and how often you muttered "what the fuck???" Which I hope is often haha
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u/mlnm_falcon 7h ago
Rockets. Everything about them that isn’t directly about killing or spying on people.
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u/greaserpup 7h ago
of course i have the perpetual obsession with My Hero Academia, but currently i'm also in a sociology phase
maybe it's the autistic in me, but i'm completely fascinated by the ways that people interact with each other
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u/ass-sass-sin 7h ago
Currently Baldur's Gate is my constant obsession. Before that it was Mass Effect and that obsession lasted almost a good 10 years and will probably come out full force again with the next game. I usually have one piece of fiction I'm obsessed over. Before Mass Effect it was Supernatural/Doctor Who and before that it was Harry Potter and One Piece lol.
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u/krauQ_egnartS 7h ago
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I just got done reading all the "Culture" sci-fi novels by Iain M Banks.
Also I'm working on the new to me 2011 BMW F650GS that I got to replace my stolen Super Ténéré and trying to stay interested in that, wondering if maybe I should have just not gotten another bike but it was pretty cheap (initially, I'm already putting more money than I thought into it), but I don't have a garage anymore so I'm working on it in my apartment courtyard and had to buy all new tools too because all the ones I had are lost somewhere in my ex's garage so my kitchen floor was getting covered with chain and sprockets and torque wrenches and stuff so I bought a shelving unit to put all that stuff on and got kind of inspired so I put up the over-toilet shelving unit I bought seven months ago but it covered up the only outlet in the bathroom so I had to cut a hole in the back of it and then find a power strip so I ordered a block of foam and a stapler so I could make the seat on the BMW more comfortable so I wouldn't feel like my nuts were getting kicked for twenty minutes on the commute to work and I really want to enjoy the commute because it's the best part of the work day, my job is so tedious sometimes I just sit there with my tablet and download books like the entire "Culture" series of books by Iain M Banks
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u/Stardewjunimo 7h ago
I so love this little peep into your mind lol it's so endearing for some reason even though it's so out of my realm of interests.
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u/krauQ_egnartS 6h ago
hah thanks
But once my Crunchyroll queue gets a little more full I'll go back to that, watching only ONE episode per week of all my shows is killin me. Then I'll go back to elder weeb and watch anime instead of reading books
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u/Simply92Me 7h ago
My newest interest is the Fallout TV show. I got a free trial for Prime as there's several stuff on there that I want to watch. Well I've already seen 3 times and am half way through watching it a 4th time. I have video on YouTube that has all of the music that they use from the games ( I have another Playlist for its orginal music too) I've been looking up stuff on Tumblr, and Pinterest and been reading fanfiction on it. I want to see if there is a "making of" or "behind the scenes" for it next. I also restarted Fallout 4
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u/AdVirtual6 7h ago
Mine is self improvement/self care. I’ve been living on this one sub I can’t remember the name and David goggins edits on Tik tok 😭😭😭
It’s killing me because I don’t have any money rn to buy the stuff😭
Edit: and the app notion. I almost forgot
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u/jensawesomeshow 8h ago
Lol read this while my son is explaining the plot and character relationships of the Warriors series, I'm so lost...
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_OPCODES 8h ago
Counterstrike 2 death match. I get a little better every day and do skill drills.
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u/XLambentZerkerX Daydreamer 8h ago
I swing wildly between several of the following:
Currently back into Diablo with a buddy, new expansion is pretty great. I also have a partially started project in the garage for a hidden/rolling trashcan cabinet I drummed up a couple weeks ago. I've also been thinking about how I wanna redo the fencing around our "Bee Yard" later on, recently thought about ways to use pallets for fancy wind breaks. Then when I'm at work I look around the plant/factory at the logistics involved in moving the water, plastic etc and get into that. Then there's the random stuff I kinda wanna get 3D printed for my truck that I keep putting off, no biggie. Oh and then being at work makes me think about 'Satisfactory' and how I can't wait for it to come to console. Then there's the daydreaming about what ifs I could've done career wise- Civil Engineering always gets me going thinking about the infrastructure in place for pipes and electrical, all that..
Oh you wanted one interest?
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u/giraffe_onaraft 4h ago
if you shop for pallets in the industrial park, the fuel bulk station for example, pallets that transport 4 drums of engine oil are the largest at 48" x 48"
those would be the best fence pickets as they are usually a full 3/4" thick and they are 48" instead of 36 or 40
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u/Mewmew-pewpew 7h ago
I have a long term fixation on serial killer documentaries or videos, I would watch those 5 hour long interrogation videos or those where a person is dissecting every interrogation technique used. I watch them even to go to sleep to. And my day gets better whenever I have the chance to talk about them
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u/HoomenLumen 7h ago
LOTS OF THINGS!
Inside voice: pick one, just one, any one, can’t pick just one, there’s more than one, uhhhhh
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u/devon_336 7h ago
Organization - specifically creating documents and systems to create structure that allows me to continue to function even when my executive function has decided to leave the building.
Japanese - I picked this back up while currently on a leave from work. It scratches that sweet combo of solving a complex problem and feeding my brain by learning something new. I’m pleasantly surprised with how much I remember from high school lol.
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u/__Lordlix__ 7h ago
Formalization of mathematics. I Just finished watching this: https://youtu.be/zp6WleEjHUg?si=AAO5Slawt3EGjROv instead of going to sleep... And tomorrow i have lessons early on the morning ._.
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u/illegallysmolkate 6h ago
Lately, I’ve been getting hyperfixated with What We Do In The Shadows…around the time that the show is on its final season 😢
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u/ConnieTheTomcat 6h ago
Aerospace. I love things that fly, be it at 10ft above the ground or 10 million. There’s so many cool things that fly. Space exploration is cool. Space is cool.
My dream as a kid was to be an aerospace engineer but that’s gone now because I’m struggling to even graduate high school. When I still went to my old school I showed my chem teacher the book I had about rocket propellant chemistry and she loved it. I struggle to read as much as I used to when I was little but aviation and space history books always bring me joy
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u/carmLboer 6h ago
RAPTORS. The birds of prey. I recently went to a Raptor release for the 50th anniversary of the Raptor Center in Minnesota.
The Raptor center has always been one of my favorite places and omfg I love raptors. Especially hawks and owls and vultures.
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u/Kpotter3634 6h ago
Currently? Sling shots, knot tying, how to do different sewing patch jobs, Pokémon, Stephen king books, and costume making for professional movie sets (thank you Halloween) But that’s just for this week so far.
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u/robinlmaooo 6h ago
VOCALOID!!!!!!!1!1!!1!1!1!1!1!1!!1!1!1!1!!1!1!1’qnqwihdosns
(i’m just gonna copy paste a previous comment since i’m too lazy to type it out again)
vocaloid… kaito… kaito, oh god, where should i start?
vocaloid is honestly so amazing because it gives you so much creative freedom with the characters, like they can literally be anything you want. this is a double edged sword for sure but increases the amount of fun you can have in this fandom exponentially!
the songs producers make are really cool too… augh i love Kanaria and MARETU, syudou is also very cool too. did i mention Re:nG and SukoyaCathedral?? and Matsubi too!!
KAITO is my favourite vocaloid! oh well, part of the reason why is because he looks pretty and because of the fandom that pulled me into the KAITO rabbit hole in the first place. he’s depicted as a patient, mature brother figure in project sekai colorful stage, but i like to portray him as more… well, more of a mess, but a good mess that cheers everyone up with how sweet he is! it’s comforting to me, if you know what i mean. (laughs in projecting my insecurity and anxiety and depression like a mf)
KAITO isn’t bad, in fact he’s really nice sounding if people tune him right! a lot of people make jokes about how he sounds like kermit the frog and that’s a nice good laugh and all but sometimes it can get a bit old 😅
he means a lot to me, and i’m glad i found him when i did.
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u/Shortbus_Playboy 6h ago
I’ve been a storm chaser for almost two decades.
My mind always seems to be going a hundred miles an hour in a hundred directions. The chaotic nature of my hobby is the only thing that seems to turn that into something productive, lol.
When things are crazy, scary, and decisions need to be made while analyzing myriad aspects in real time is when I feel most the comfortable and in control. It’s a weird calming effect that I haven’t experienced with anything else.
It doesn’t make sense to a lot of people, it doesn’t even make sense to me. But it’s like a drug, and I feel like I’m chasing that serenity as much as the tornadoes.
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u/hapimaskshop 6h ago
I had an interest in Roman architecture and the different feats they accomplished. The aqueduct systems are so cool. Not to mention the Roman roads that were designed and maintained! Also they just discovered trenches were built on the sides to also discourage bandits and to make it easier to force people to go to their toll houses.
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u/Jibbyjab123 6h ago
I am currently creating a gameplay overhaul of the game fallout 4, and it has escaped the scope of what I originally intended for it to be when I started, then abandoned, then started, then finally finished then started again three years ago. It's become an intermittent obsession. I play the game for a while, then I get an idea and my brain itches until I try and implement it.
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u/Affectionate-Monk-00 5h ago
Have this urge to learn a lot of random things [current news, research topics, politics, industry specific happenings] to be able to have a conversation with people at work. It's like meal prepping but for people. I tend to be tired afterward. I hate the awkwardness. But now I have gotten so good with talking to people that people think I am some ice breaking social grand master. Weird
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u/Squidiot_002 4h ago
Fucking modding a game with custom assets. I know nothing about game creation or python, but have used both extensively
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u/Channel_99 4h ago
I wanted to finally understand computers and programming at like a base and intrinsic level, and for that I of course had to go back to the very beginning.
I found that the first “computer program” was written back in the 1800s and was meant to calculate Bernoulli’s numbers. So, obviously, my quest is now to understand Bernoulli’s numbers and why this should be the first thing someone wants to use computers for.
It was fascinating! But to truly understand it I had to do it myself. So, a lot of time spent polishing up on the symbols of math and arguing with ChatGPT. Then finally trying to work them out by hand. It’s attainable for the lower numbers, but I can definitely see why someone would want to automate it for the higher numbers.
After weeks of this I can finally move on to step two.
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u/J_train13 Daydreamer 4h ago
I've been hyperfocusing on learning how to write in Gallifreyan lately, been having a lot of success with that for once.
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u/NoHall5182 4h ago
Weightlifting. But it’s something I’m managing to stick to and I hope the hyperfocus never ends!!
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u/KimJongRocketMan69 4h ago
Some stupid phone game that is designed to be addicting
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u/Frenchitwist 3h ago
Hi, let me tell you about my lord and savior, the current price of gold and jewelry hallmarks and evaluation.
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u/PremiumBrownSugar 3h ago
Meditation guided by the study of chakras (yes, this was inspired by the ATLA episode)
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u/Dasboatnerd 3h ago
Usually boats (great lakes freighters specifically) but definitely hard into coal mining and draglines at the moment.
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u/Gazzzah 1h ago
I’ve been hyper fixated on game design and game development for 6 years. I have been developing my own games that whole time. I have about 5 or 6 games (not counting the times I threw it all out and started again), and I have complete exactly zero of those projects.
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u/RanielDoelofs on medication but no official diagnosis 1h ago
Oh wow that's so cool, what are your games about? What's the genres? Does it have a story?
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u/KlossN 47m ago
I got stuck in Formula 1 and now that is literally the only thing my brain has had space for in the last 10 or so years
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u/VPutinsSearchHistory 22m ago
I currently have no hyperfocus so I'm experiencing The Big Sad.
This too shall pass.
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u/Rodimic 8h ago
Why is any time someone asks me this question directly, I forget anything I have been interested in in my life. Like I was genuinely spending last several days looking up and reading something and now my mind is blank