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somewhat of a late reply here but I'm an insect/arachnid keeper! I've had scorpions, spiders, mantises, roaches, and one Tailless Whip Scorpion in my collection so far! I need a tarantula next tbh
 
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somewhat of a late reply here but I'm an insect/arachnid keeper! I've had scorpions, spiders, mantises, roaches, and one Tailless Whip Scorpion in my collection so far! I need a tarantula next tbh
I'm accidentally an insect/arachnid keeper because my apartment is underground. I like my insectoid roommates.
 
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Rom hacking has been a tremendous on and off again interest of mine for 10 years now. I worked on several incomplete Fire Emblem Rom hacks, and last year I was working on a Pokemon Red hack where instead of Kanto you explore the internet. Each town is a 4chan board, and Pokemon are replaced by memes. I completed up until the first gym and released a private patch just for friends before abandoning the project. Here are two promotional videos I did for those curious: Introduction: (link) and Rival Battle (link). Here are some additional screenshots as well.
 

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Torrenting, I don't even torrent for the content I just like the management of storage I have to do.
 
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That's actually really interesting. What type of content do you torrent?
Things with high file sizes .Which is unfortunately usually porn , but I try to stay away from those torrents. Obscure movies and shows are my go-to for things like that. 4k Movies should be my go-to since they have such high file sizes , but I don't have a 4k display to use. I also like the seeding part of torrenting .I tend to seed more torrents than I download. Seeing all these people from around the world having the same goal as you is kinda nice , and the community of torrenting has always been friendly to me. There's also the hardware part which I love. I've always loved computers , managing multiple systems has always been my strong suit. I have 3 computers solely used for torrenting .These computers have around 500 gb each , so its not much but the management and thinking I have to do is very nice .It is always the "is this torrent worth another one for the space?" or "if I deleted this torrent would the torrent die off from my lack of seeding?". Im sure this is quite a text wall , but I do hope you take the time to read it.
 
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Things with high file sizes .Which is unfortunately usually porn , but I try to stay away from those torrents. Obscure movies and shows are my go-to for things like that. 4k Movies should be my go-to since they have such high file sizes , but I don't have a 4k display to use. I also like the seeding part of torrenting .I tend to seed more torrents than I download. Seeing all these people from around the world having the same goal as you is kinda nice , and the community of torrenting has always been friendly to me. There's also the hardware part which I love. I've always loved computers , managing multiple systems has always been my strong suit. I have 3 computers solely used for torrenting .These computers have around 500 gb each , so its not much but the management and thinking I have to do is very nice .It is always the "is this torrent worth another one for the space?" or "if I deleted this torrent would the torrent die off from my lack of seeding?". Im sure this is quite a text wall , but I do hope you take the time to read it.
I don't think I've ever met someone that gets more pleasure from torrenting than the content, but that's pretty neat. I can definitely understand how you'd get satisfaction out of sharing content and information with other people.
 
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I don't think I've ever met someone that gets more pleasure from torrenting than the content, but that's pretty neat. I can definitely understand how you'd get satisfaction out of sharing content and information with other people.
im glad someone understands
 
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Nice! I've grown mushrooms before, but never the psychedelic varieties.
You should try, it's pretty easy peasy! Many places in the world are decriminalizing them, and posessing spores are 100% legal in many parts of the world too. A newbie can have a very good successful first batch, and if you're keen to it, you can improve yield much easily. Startup cost, less than $300, a very very very nice setup less than $1000. And you can grow so many more types too!

As for niche hobbies, I enjoy geocaching, the community has died down a bit lately but it can be very fun within the right places.

There's also urban exploration, which, I think also has died down lately too. Can be called urbex, etc. The communities on these are much more secretive though because the spots, would be boarded up and tresspassing charges can be handed out. I have *tons* of fun stories with my youth, doing this in places such as Japan, China, and across the USA. abandoned Military posts and more.

Travel, in general. Those credit card points and such, - you can game them in a way, that can benefit you and fit within the rules of the bank/credit card provider. That is called "churning" and if you have "stellar" credit you can maximize freebies, points, rewards, for example 100,000 points on some credit cards translate to $2-5000 USD, which means you can get/book free business or first class travel if you compound and stack rewards. IT does require some excel, because you should revolve credit card rewards and such - but it makes travel much more friction-less and "fun" plus the people you meet who do this too are much more into it.

Boombox collecting, they're broken, they're old, you need to know how to solder, use a multiimeter, and read horrible scanend service manuals. Hard to find though, but if you ever modified electronics, same principals. They're nice.

Old video games too, but not so much.

Japanese/Korean cosmetics, they're fun, sunscreen and such it's such a 180 from "USA" culture that doeesn't pander to men who want to take care of their face, skin, etc. I want to be 60-70 and look 20. This alongside just picking up languages, but that isn't' so niche.

I've been trying to steer my life to be minimalism, that's a hobby too, but also a lifestyle. Possessions tie you down. :)
 
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Rom hacking has been a tremendous on and off again interest of mine for 10 years now. I worked on several incomplete Fire Emblem Rom hacks, and last year I was working on a Pokemon Red hack where instead of Kanto you explore the internet. Each town is a 4chan board, and Pokemon are replaced by memes. I completed up until the first gym and released a private patch just for friends before abandoning the project. Here are two promotional videos I did for those curious: Introduction: (link) and Rival Battle (link). Here are some additional screenshots as well.
Honestly, this has potential. You should keep at it. :)
 
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Honestly, this has potential. You should keep at it. :)
Thank you! It was mostly time and other irl concerns that forced me to quit the project, not lack of motivation/interest. One day I might return to it PepSiDawgwitcan
 
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最近、スティックボムについて知りました。これらは、ドミノのようなキネティックアートの一種です。それは時間を過ごすための安くてエキサイティングな方法です。必要なのは、互いに織り合わせた木の棒だけです。それからあなたは手放すと彼らは爆発します

この方法の発明者は夢中になり、数年前に亡くなりました。彼はいくつかの本当に便利で楽しいチュートリアルと実験をアップロードしました。あなたがこれを自分で試すことに興味があるなら、ここにあなたを始めるためのいくつかがあります。


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Torrenting, I don't even torrent for the content I just like the management of storage I have to do.
Yo, I thought I was a weirdo. Glad to see someone else who enjoys it. I will go to one of my main sites and literally just loads up whatever the most recent 50 torrents I don't have are. It used to be anything, but these days its primarily a bunch of movies/shows. I had so much content my friend suggested I start a media server and I kinda just rolled with it. I used to delete stuff because I had limited space, but now I just buy more storage instead. Almost reached my 16TB NAS limit and am going to upgrade to a NAS station build here soon because the sheer amount of processing fucks my workstation PC.
 
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Not really a niche hobby, but I like to write poetry/weird prose as a form of meditation.
Mostly I N T E R N E T K V L T type of shit.
 
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Yo, I thought I was a weirdo. Glad to see someone else who enjoys it. I will go to one of my main sites and literally just loads up whatever the most recent 50 torrents I don't have are. It used to be anything, but these days its primarily a bunch of movies/shows. I had so much content my friend suggested I start a media server and I kinda just rolled with it. I used to delete stuff because I had limited space, but now I just buy more storage instead. Almost reached my 16TB NAS limit and am going to upgrade to a NAS station build here soon because the sheer amount of processing fucks my workstation PC.
There are a couple of things that interest me .I've been looking into raspberry pi's for torrenting, apparently they only use about 15w of power so this would be ideal for me .NAS's are cool aswell , they're kinda pricey for my tastes though .Also, what's your share ratio? mine is currently .78 .
 
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That's the first type of mushroom I grew! They're really delicious!
Its going to be a experiment because I don't have a green house or anything like that
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the image is of google but i think that they just look so cool
 
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