repairable electronics and small, simple “assistant”-free cars, apparently.
Heh, my weird niche thing really is a niche but I’m not alone. I grew up in the early 60s and for some reason, nostalgia and/or just plain weirdness, I’m really into exotica/mid-century modern/tiki decor. Tiki bars were a big thing then, and I remember the hawaiian-themed restaurants all around town. I’m just strange, but I still love collecting tiki-related items like mugs and retro art and stuff. My bedroom is all tiki-themed.
Gestures broadly to about half of Lemmy
I really like how far third party nerf blasters have come (worker, monkey mods XYL etc.) and really want to get into it, but I’m too old to play with kids and there’s no adult community here that would pick it up (as opposed to airsoft or paintball).
So I’m left with a nice ass blaster and can only plink around a small apartment with it
I tried to inspire some fun at my last job but we were all too serious. When I left that job, somehow I came away with more nerf guns than I brought …. Then I discovered my teens are also too serious
I printed some Captain Slug hyprs for my kids (and myself ofcourse) Super easy prints and lots of fun. Ive been eyeballing some of his bigger blasters for a while now too.
I hope you meant nice-ass blaster rather than nice ass-blaster
Why not both?
One shoots things and the other is from Tremors
With the heavy plunger spring I suppose it really could be both
I spent 20 hours creating a custom school of magic for my favorite board game Black Rose Wars. It’s a school that summons all the hell demons from the inferno expansion since there’s currently no school of magic that calls them up. I got the cards printed and we played a game with them and people love them.
Wetshaving.
It’s actually a pretty common way of shaving, but I’m enthusiastic enough about it to post stuff online.
I love my DE razor. Shaving is a much more mediative experience with a proper brush and soap than cream from a can, also gets a much nicer shave. Plus the science of finding the right blade and razor combo was fun. Doesn’t hurt that I spend like £10 per year on shaving now (very much a guess but it’s dirt cheap for blades and soap lasts forever).
Nice! Did that for a long time, got pretty deep into it. Over a dozen DE razors, some straights, I had brushes and soaps and all that.
Eventually I settled into a routine with a feather asd2, Astra blades, and clubman’s shaving cream in a tub.
I have super coarse whiskers, they mostly grow straight down but I get some swirling, especially on one side of my neck.
I was able to do my whole shave in one pass, mixing WTG, XTG, and AGT depending on where I was on my face.
So I started wetshaving for the nice experience, but ended up with fast efficient shaves. Still though, I’d occasionally not have enough time, and I’d use the electric. Even though it was nowhere near as close, it was even faster.
Recently I’ve started to grow a beard, so I haven’t shaved in a couple months. This is the first time in my life I’ve tried growing a beard, so we’ll see.
I’m sure my wetshaving skills will come in handy for trimming and cutting a line on my beard.
For me it was how ludicrously cheap it is. I boug a razor for 40$ cdn and ordered a box of blades for 30$, this was more than a decade ago. Im almost done the box.
I want to stop using my disposable but I fear for my lily soft cheeks. Someday I will be brave
Wetshaving is actually easier on skin if done right, as you have wider selection of blades for different skin/hair types, allowing you to greatly customize your shaving experience.
Also, you normally get a better result, so your cheeks will be even more tender :)
I like to 3D print, mostly functional things like shelving and hose coupling for venting.
I might have to get with you about some things I’ve needed printed
I turned my teenage hobby into my career. I see a lot of content against that kind of thing (don’t ruin your hobby), but I love it.
It has also skyrocketed my upward mobility because I don’t see my work as work, for the most part, and I didn’t enter the job market with only a degree to prove my competence in the field (also experience). After ~10 years working, maybe I will change my mind in another 10 years.
As someone currently pursuing a degree about something I’m heavily interested in personally as well, this gives me hope.
Moonshell 2 was a better multimedia software than any current proprietary or FOSS software available.
Supported every popular audio codec, the proprietary DS mpeg video codec, MOD and chiptune formats, various picture formats, text files, and music playlists.
The audio player had a builtin equalizer, would automatically turn off the screen for battery, and could very easily be controlled by the DS’s trigger buttons when closed.
I can actually name several android music players that don’t support playlist files, it’s actually absurd. VLC doesn’t even generate relative path M3Us.
No one cares about my opinion because no one uses the DS anymore, let alone as a multimedia device.
Why have I never thought to use a DS as an in-car entertainment system?
I’m the only person I know who speaks any toki pona or esperanto lol. I’m not very good at either of them (still learning) but still.
You’re: “The most superficial commentator on con-langues since the idiotic B. Gilson.” ???
“I suppose you think that’s cute. What it makes you is a fraud.”
My brother is proficient in Esperanto and has been part of key Esperanto events in the world.
Never got to peoperly learning myself, but if you want someone to talk about and in Esperanto, organizations are out there, with TEJO (Tutmonda Esperantista Junulara Organizo) for youth and UEO (Universala Esperanto-Asocio) for everyone, as well as numerous smaller ones.
I’ve had a look but I can’t seem to find a local club (and I can’t afford to go to a convention lol) so most of my esperanto-speaking is on the discord server ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
ko xamgu se pi’o la lojban gi’e se jgira.
I am actually the world’s ONLY F-ZERO fan.
Any thoughts on F-Zero 99?
It’s not a new game, but it makes the SNES entry a lot more approachable. It’s pretty fun, if you ignore the inevitable shutdown that will make the game unplayable.
I assume you saw the new bs rom?
Okay this is cool as hell
I like lore dumping on people who have some understanding of what I’m talking about.
I don’t have much interest in explaining everything to someone who knows *nothingď about it, but if they have a vague understanding/interest in the topic, enough that I know they can understand what I’m talking about, I could talk for hours. And have.
Once while playing Halo, a friend of a friend asked the group why something was the way it was. I told him I can give him the short answer in about 30 seconds, or the long answer which will be very long. He wanted long answer.
Three hours later only two other people were still listening, he knew the entire context of his answer, and he knew never to ask for the long answer again.
I’ve done tye same for star trek multiple times.
But give me someone who doesn’t know the first thing about either and they would have to be super interested to learn for me to keep going. I don’t do well with blank stares.
The funny thing is it isn’t any specific thing either. It’s not just halo or star trek or even Sci fi or games. Its anything I have interest in and know a lot about.
It’s that a “weird niche thing” or just a “weird quirk about weird niche things”?
Pomade. The real ones (non water-soluble) mainly. I love trying them, I love the smell and even use it on my beard.
A dapper dan man.
I love the smell of their beard wax and oil!
But will it mess up my pillow if I don’t manage to remove it before bedtime?
The softer ones definitely will. And the thing is, you usually leave it in your hair a couple of days (wash your hair regularly, like you used to. But forget about getting it out easily). But one go in the washing machine does it.
Does it work well on beards, any recomendations?
Some work better on mine than others. The one I use regularly for my beard is ‘BW Black & White, Lite Formula’. Very easy to use and a delightful smell!
Thank you. I also l9ve the smell, but have no head hair.
So, there’s your chance!
Birds. I guess it doesn’t feel that niche because I know lots of people are into bird watching, but it’s my thing.
There’s this app called Merlin that I swear to god is magic. You can just open your mic and it’ll listen to and identify all of the birds you’re hearing.
And it really works! For the longest time, it kept identifying a Carolina Wren in my yard, and I thought it was just wrong. I’ll be damned if I didn’t eventually see that wren, and now it frequents the bird feeder I set up on my deck. It’s just my shyest bird. But the app knew it was out there.
I’ve learned so much about birds and identifying them from using the app. And I’ve gotten really into how, when, and what to feed birds because I want to find more different kinds, and I just love watching them on the deck interacting. I call it my cat TV haha
I’m also learning a ton about owls specifically over on the [email protected] community. Did you know there are owls in the desert and owls in Jamaica? Come over to the community where @[email protected] makes the most amazing educational posts. It’s a lot of fun.
I moved a little over a year ago and have faced the transition from crows, bluejays, doves, and a charming married cardinal couple to lots of stray cats and zero birds.
I did not expect how much of a bummer this would be.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
Thanks for the app, I didn’t know it existed
I’m glad I’m still considered educational and not just a weirdo! 😜
Owls have been around for millions of years and are very adaptable, so there are many cool variations and unique behaviors and more. There are over 250 species of owls alive today, and since they are reclusive and nocturnal, they’ve historically been hard to study, so we’re still learning new things about them all the time.
I’m still thinking about that BirdPi that data maps the bird calls automatically. I wonder if it can pinpoint habits of my rare visitors like the Northern Flicker to increase my chances of seeing it.
Oh interesting! I had never heard of BirdNet or Bird Pi. It looks like Cornell Lab integrated that machine learning project into the Merlin app:
Merlin also sound identifies a Northern Flicker in the woods behind my house that I’ve yet to see.
And yes educational! It was your long form posts from a couple months ago that really drew me into the community. I was just really impressed with the level of detail and really appreciated it. I like learning new things that I wouldn’t necessarily take the time to seek out myself. I was reading those even though I didn’t comment much at the time.
Found the post. It looks like it’s [email protected] that has it. Here’s one of the regular commenters, and he gives a link in his comment here:
I’ve only seen the Flicker twice in about 15 years of living here so I get very excited when I catch him.
That’s why I tell people to comment even if it’s just like “oh that’s really cool. I learned something.” The talon post was huge and took a week to write and was huge, so I wrote one or 2 more and people were all quiet, so all I’m left with to think is I guess nobody was interested or it was too long, etc. If I can do a funny pic with a 2 sentence caption that gets the same or better reaction than me writing a paper after spending a day reading a research paper and collecting citations, guess which posts you’re gonna get! 😆
I’m reading the stuff regardless, but I don’t wanna be the person all day talking to themselves! I want to interact with the people of the group. We got almost 3k subs now, but there’s maybe a dozen of you that talk to me, which I appreciate! But I wish it was a bigger chunk of the people.
Like I said in my SuperbOwl wrap up, I may be the one posting every day, but you guys are equally important to the community because you guys interacting is what keeps me motivated to make the posts. Even my quickest posts probably take 15-30 minutes of scrolling to find a story, writing a summary, and uploading pics. The benefit to me is zero, cuz I’ve already seen it. I do it to get you guys excited, and I want to see that excitement or I don’t know it’s there.
Ok, rambling on now so I’m donnnnnne.
I got a fun Barred Owl pic, a fun Hawk Owl pic, and some new quick owl research in my drafts folder. Which one do you want to see tomorrow?
Yeah my life doesn’t leave me a lot of room for creating posts. I know how much work that takes.
But I’m good at running my mouth, so I try to comment these days because I know that engagement drives engagement. (I have no idea what drives post visibility on Lemmy though. Is there an algorithm here?)
I’m not working tomorrow, so I’ll have time to read some research! But I’ll never argue with funny adorable owl pics of any sort either haha
For real, I never gave much thought to the time content creation takes before I feel into this. My work has good chunks of downtime while I’m waiting for equipment to be ready or me being on standby so it works out. I probably spend as much time on this as actual work most days.
Lemmy 0.19 or whatever it is sorta does an algorithm where there is a weighted active sort or something along those lines. I’m guessing like a post on a comm with 5000 subs with 50 comments is ranked about the same as a post in a comm with 50 subs and 5 comments. So I hear anyway, World hasn’t rolled it out yet due to smaller instances having issues when it first came out and they didn’t wanna trash the biggest instance for not super significant upgrades until more bugs were worked out.
I couldn’t tell you exactly how the regular active sort works, I just default to New on all comms and occasionally glance at Top 6 Hours on All.
This research is more just an observation, it’s like 3 paragraphs. I’ll post the one pic in the morning and the research one at lunch. The other pic I think is a little better so I’ll hold onto that a bit. I got a quick Owl-natomy in reserve too for a day where I can’t find anything to post. Switching to an app with drafts has been such a huge help so I can prepare things in advance.
Anime figures.
I understand how it seems like a weird and uninteresting thing but i could tell a little story about every single one i own. Sadly i decided in the beginning on a rather lewd theme for my collection so its extra hard to share.
i would love to start my own little shelf, any brands you recommend to a fellow german?
i would like to start collecting MCs from my most favourite anime. most of them are pretty mainstream, so i imagine them being farely easy to get.
I mainly shop on solarisjapan.com, sometimes amiami.com. If you dont want to do the hassle with zoll (i only once had to actually go to the zollamt and declare my package) there are also german anime sides but i do not know which to recommend. Prices aren’t cheaper either because of your beloved umsatzsteuer.
Or did you mean brand as in manufacturer? Will be tough because my favorite manufacturers produce lewd stuff and thats mostly Original Chracters or Anime Games (Azur Lane has such a giant line up).
As a site for browsing figures and merch i recommend myfigurecolletion.net They have an extensive library. I use it to log my collection (what i own, what i have ordered and what i wish for).
dear god, they get expensive quick. i guess if i buy multiple i can at least save on shipping…
i’ll also have a look at local sellers and see if i can save a buck somehow, i guess buying pre-owned can help too.
thanks for taking the time!
It really depends on the figure, some are get sadly more expensive on the second hand market but most only lose slightly in value. This also means though that you wont feel like a moron once you leave the hobby. Most money is indeed lost in shipping fees and taxes. By the way, myfigurecollection has a second hand market. When you place items on your wishlist you will get notified if this item is sold by someone. I already bought 3 figures this way.
Like i said i always love to talk about this as i rarely meet people who ade interested. So if you got any more questions feel free to ask me any time.
sure, will do. i have multiple “collection hobbies” and every single other one is valid, be it model trains, nerf blasters, stamps, retro consoles, garden gnomes etc.
every single one is interesting and nuanced in many ways, and i love talking about them. even if i often don’t understand the appeal.
and honestly, being into anime is mainstream now.
Shut up it’s not uninteresting
Ohh look, i do not think so either but many people could not care less. And thats fine by me too. But then you have the crowd that outright judges your whole personality based on that hobby.
