People who watch airplanes land and take off
Eh, not that wild, folks used to do train and ship spotting, so planes are okay too.
chicago used to have a lake front airport such that you could go to a beach. Sun, swim, and watch the small aircraft take off and land.
Toronto still has that. Nudist beach at that.
ugh. I love my city but I so wish I lived in toronto. its so like mine but like with sprinkles. can travel with your dog on train, still has lakefront airport beach with nudity.
I read on Reddit about a guy who used p2p apps like Nicotine and Fopnu to search system files and explore other people’s private files to learn about their lives.
That’s just the NSA Agent-in-training, don’t worry about it 😁
Closest thing to that I ever got was buying a hard drive from ebay.
They didn’t format it. Best I can tell it was used by a teenager in texas around 2018. Who either went out with, or stalked a girl in his class. Hard to tell. Tons of pictures labeling her as his girlfriend, no pictures with them together.
I did find about 4 different folders of call of duty pc files though.
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Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in “Send to YouTube” button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.
Inspired by Ben Wallace, I made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos! Watch them below, ordered randomly.I did that back then with emule, I searched for any file that started with dcim or img0 and put everything on the download list. Lots of random shit. HAHAHAHA
I guess it was on people who shared entire drives, or, can you trick nicotine to go folders above the shared ones? Like
../.When I discovered SoulSeek I did something alike, I saw that I were able to explore other shares of the same user, and then you got me there doing some clicks to see how far I could went.
Yeah, some people share their entire drives, so the people who share system files are likely to have their private files there as well.
I once had a corrupt .dll system file, after trying for hours to find a copy to download it took ten seconds to find and download one on emule thanks to people sharing the entire system.
Gooning.
That’s just a modern term for jerking off, I don’t think it’s niche or weird, I just don’t get why it’s gotten so popular calling it that way.
This is definitely not true. Gooning usually means like multiple continuous hours of masturbation, usually with the purpose of entering some kind of zoned-out trance state. I think it is somewhat niche, as I’m pretty sure most people just masturbate for 5-15 minutes, just looking at porn but not by any means “entranced” by it. The term gooning has gotten so popular because the activity itself has gotten more popular. Personally I attribute it to people’s strong need to dissociate from the world in a way that isn’t expensive, and that isn’t so harmful that you can’t do it really frequently. It used to be that drugs would fill that void for the populace, but now people need more drugs to cope than they used to, and they can’t afford it anyways. Plus drugs fuck with your ability to stay employed, etc.
Another major contributor to it, imo, is the deluge of horny-bait content on Tiktok and Instagram. Even things that aren’t trying to market an onlyfans still are gonna feature people doing forced cleavage jiggles and whatnot. Sex sells, there’s nothing new there, but nowadays it’s almost like you NEED sex to sell. Basically anybody who is into vtubers or modern anime is an example of someone that just can’t really engage with something unless there’s constantly some ass or titties on screen, or some kind of horny undertone or subtext at the very least.
Ultimately I think gooning is a better form of “indulgence” and dissociation than the alternatives, but its popularity is a sad sign of the times. All humans like to turn their brain off once in awhile, but if a large subset of the population is basically crying out to have their brain off every day for hours at a time, and for it to be in every form of media and relaxation, I can only see that as a sad situation.
I think you should get off social media for a bit and goon instead.
Depending on the social media in question, I’m not sure there’s much difference! I may be misinformed about the state of Tiktok and Instagram though, as I don’t use them myself. It’s just my observations from seeing others on them
It’s more like edging, but to an extreme degree.
The definition has become more nebulous over time.
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a65418496/what-is-gooning/
Trainspotting is up there.
My American brain refuses to believe this is a real hobby.
we are real thank you very much
You just need to meet someone sufficiently autistic and you still won’t get it, but you will believe it
I knew someone at school who was into bus spotting because “train spotting was boring”
I live near a river that has a lot of freighters that go through it. Boat watching is pretty common here. And there are a handful of people who watch for the different trucks that go over the bridge there (literally thousands go over every day).
Frog jerking. I made the cover of toad load weekly once.
Is…is it what it sounds like? Because the weirder part for me is that there’s a dedicated weekly newsletter about giving frogs handjobs…
Wait, is this why everyone in Portland was protesting ICE dressed as frogs???
Collecting plastic lawn chairs.
I don’t remember his name, but there was a guy who collected sex dolls. He had like over a hundred of them. I think his wife left him because of it. I wanna say I saw him on My Strange Addiction, but I don’t remember.
Edit: I looked it up and it’s not the guy from My Strange Addiction. He “married” a doll, but I think he just had the one. I don’t know where I saw about the other guy.
Memorising door colours of every house and flat in a small Scottish town of about 30,000.
Yes, the hobby-ist was on the spectrum.
Butterfly collecting because you have to kill one to collect it.
In Eve Online, when a capsule was destroyed, a frozen corpse was left behind.
I knew someone who would go around collecting corpses. A battle is going, he’d be out there scooping them up. He’s running a hauler, and this was the day that when your ship got destroyed, every bit of loot went out in individual units, so when a pirate would try to shake him down he’d respond with “If you blow me up, you’ll crash back to desktop.”
That was how he played the game, gathering corpses.
“If you blow me up, you’ll crash back to desktop.”
What does that mean?
The game would attempt to render the thousands of corpses all at once, which presumably would overload the game engine and cause it to crash.
Exactly this.
He had so many individual pieces of loot on board, blowing up his ship would overload the players ram and crash the game.
I have a friend that I did some EVE work for once. Nothing dangerous or weird, just making tactical warpgate bookmarks; two above, two below, and one just off-grid for every gate in every system in a region. Paid well for something that could be done in a cheap frigate, just tedious as hell. They would then copy the bookmarks and sell them in packs on a per-region basis.
They eventually had ALL of the tactical bookmarks for all of nullsec. As it turns out, that many individual items is problematic for the game to display in a single inventory. Not because of RAM or anything, but the game itself would refuse to show an inventory with too many items and lock you out of accessing anything. I forget the exact reason but it wouldn’t crash the game or anything. The number is also exceptionally high, to the point you have to be trying to hit it.
Because EVE Online players are bastards, they also found a way to weaponize it. Luckily, it was considered an unintended exploit so I was one of few (willing) victims to it. To this day, they have to warn people buying their complete bookmark packs that they can unintentionally brick their inventory unless they follow the directions they give to work around it.
This guy isn’t a weird, he’s straight up dangerous
This is EVE we’re talking about. This is honestly one of the more benign if not weird habits.
This is the game where to join a corp you nearly needed a resume so people could make sure you weren’t a spy because months to years infiltration processes happen in this game. Or just rampant piracy.
This is the thing i keep hearing about EVE player, they have the culture of running the game like in real life which sounds interesting, but i swear if i ever try this game i would be bored of it in 5 hours.
Isn’t there’s also a news channel that report on what happened in EVE?
EVE is one of those games that early on it’s tutorial was essentially ‘Here’s a spaceship, go fuck yourself.’ When they say you can do whatever the hell you want, it’s really not joking. There are people who live in JITA (most populace system) purely doing scams, or running markets. You have people who go into piracy or try to build massive empires.
I knew a guy who his entire playing of the game was making ammo to sell. There was a corp who’s entire thing was doing PVP but with a bend to “Customer service”, as in “Here is your complimentary missile delivery.” and after blowing you up sending you a request to fill a survey on how the customer service was.
So it’s a game that really is what you put in it. The reason I had to quit is it’s a massive time sink. It’s definitely not a game of “Oh, I’ve got about 30 minutes, let me hop on.”
That’s the reason i don’t think i would like the game, it’s a massive space sim that require a lot of time to get into. It just isn’t a game for me, i think i would be confused by the lack of direction the game have, but i always enjoy the story people tell that happened within the game.
There’s an excellent, albeit 5hr documentary about the history of EVE online, its absolutely incredible
I feel like EVE is the direction MMOs needed to go. It’s why so many failed.
It’s what worked for wow when it first came out. The sense of BEING in some other world where things are different is something wow did very very well. The problem is that nobody had any part in building that world, that the story quickly became convoluted and stupid, and that jumping theough the next arbitrary hoop in a fucking Skinner box isn’t escaping this world.
Whoever finds out how to build an mmo where people can build things and make decisions and just fuck everything up if they’re so inclined and make it accessible is going to make a fortune.
where people can build things and make decisions and just fuck everything up if they’re so inclined
Foxhole?
What is foxhole?
I carried my own corpse around until I got into trouble crossing a Concord border with it.
I used to raise mystery snails and sell them on eBay and Aquabid. Margins were too thin. After shipping in their special bags, and worse if I had to add a hot or cold pack, only netted me about $5 a sale. Still, never met another that did that for kicks and the same couple of sellers were still active after 10 years last I checked Aquabid.
I don’t know that this even counts, but one of the most strange but wildly interesting things I used to do years back was randomly exploring defunct teleporters in Habbo Hotel.
For those who don’t know about teleporters/teles in Habbo Hotel, there are probably tens of thousands of pairs of teleports that exist in the game, each of them connecting only to its pair. Since trading furniture is pretty much a currency in Habbo, a lot of individual teleports get traded off or lost throughout the years, and often end up being parked in random rooms and vast furniture junkyards.
So I would often lay down several random teles in my inventory, or enter my own furniture junkyard, and try every tele in there until I got a live one. This would Bill & Ted me to fuck knows where. If I’m unlucky, it’s just a dead end room. If I’m lucky, it’s a room with even more teles. That’s where the rabbit hole begins. Pretty soon you’re ten teles deep into the weirdest, most liminal Back Rooms spaces you can imagine. Sometimes you even find a back door into other players’ private rooms and get to explore like a cat burglar. The sky was the limit.
I haven’t logged in for a decade or more, but I still miss doing that sometimes.
I have been under the impression (for a very long time) that habbo was defunct and I guess never decided to revisit that thought. Apparently it’s still very much alive! I might need to actually check it out as I don’t think I’ve ever played it
But you’ve got my interest piqued!
It was a crappy NFT thing for a while, they only brought back the Hotel fairly recently.
This sounds fun.
I’d watch this YouTube channel
Holy shit, this sounds like an absolute blast!
I’m surprised no one has mentioned hobby horsing yet.
We’re on Lemmy, half of us find-it actually cool, the other half has weirder hobbies :)
Seriously, some of play flight simulator on VATSIM, some of us LARP, some of us are furries, or have other kind of exotic hobbies. hobby horse looks like a normie workout in comparison
I was just scrolling down to see if anybody had mentioned it
Oh boy, this is actually the perfect example.
In The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the titular character speaks at length of the peculiar hobbies and obsessions people have, which he calls “hobby horses”. He even coins the term “hobby-horsical” to describe the concept.
