Check out the blf forums. Reddit also used to have a great flashlight community but I avoid that site now. There are flashlight communities on Lemmy and kbin. Cheule is a good YouTube channel to check out.
Thank you for the recommendations, I actually made a BLF account soon after the reddit affairs. I think I mentioned this somewhere else in the thread, but I’ve been pretty deep in flashlights for some time (don’t say a word) and have known about BLF since forever ago!
I’ve never seen Cheule though. I’ll be sure to check them out.
My actual is philosophy of psychiatry/psychology/science in autism.
The more I read and learn in this field the more I think people should begin with it before diving in the autism topic itself. Researchers did and still do atrocious research in autism without acknowledging conflict of interest, taking ethics in account, breaking basic human rights, “finding the question when having the answer”, etc. A lot of what could be read on autism is just bad.
I have a dozen different hobbies, but I was really into flashlights for a while too. I was into them enough that my wife asked me to stop buying more flashlights and lanterns. I didn’t stop though! I only stopped when I finally decided I had scratched that itch, have obtained what I want, and was bored. But now I have great flashlights in both of our cars, in my mom’s car, one at each exterior door of the house, one at the garage door, and a few lanterns in the closet. She very much appreciates the fruits of my labors now that I’m finished.
Not in the sense that you might be used to, but “traditional” wetshaving. There are so many aspects to this hobby, it’s overwhelming.
Shave soap - all sorts of great scents, different soap bases offering various types of lather.
Razors - Double Edge, Single Edge, Open Blade (straight, shavette, etc), Safety Bar, Open Comb, mild, aggressive, stainless steel, aluminum, titanium… and on and on.
Blades - Lots of options, and they are very very inexpensive (especially DE blades). Different blades often work well in certain razors but not others, and certain people prefer different blades. Blades are highly subjective and it’s fun finding some that work really well for you.
Aftershave - alcohol based, toner, balm, skin food, all sorts of great scents, etc.
I got permission to copy most of the reddit wiki on the subject to de-reddit all the info, and we host it at wiki.wetshaving.social. I also help run the lemmy instance dedicated to the hobby where people share what they shaved with, new things they bought, and anything else related to shaving.
I’ve had a very reliable DE setup ecer since I started shaving. My dad had done the research for it, and it always provides a clean shave. I’ve always thought that if you have to do it for the rest of your life, you might as well make it enjoyable!
Lockpicking isn’t just for committing crimes! It’s a whole hobby! You can’t prove that I’ve ever picked open a lock to get into someone’s apartment… Mainly because I still can’t get into this damn Abus 72/40, let alone trying someone’s front door
If you want something I can talk to you about for hours, get me started on Kerbal Space Program. You know, there’s really no “getting good” at KSP, only learning, and for all the planets and moons, there are only like five challenges: Taking off without blowing up, getting to orbit, orbiting the Mün, landing on the Mün, orbiting Minmus, and landing on Duna. Each of those requires a bit more knowledge than the last, and everything after those is just a remix of what you learn from those. To get to orbit, you have to take off successfully. To get to the Mün you have to learn about transfer windows and bi-impulsive transfers. To land on the Mün you need to build a ship capable of getting to and landing on the Mün. To get to Minmus, you need to learn how to match inclinations. To land on Duna you need to learn how to do all of that, but on an interplanetary scale. Everything else–landing on Dres, the Jool 5, returning from Eve–it’s all just more advanced versions of those five things.
Of course, there’s skill in making these missions as cheap as possible, as low part count as possible, as complicated as possible (see Matt Lowne’s YouTube channel), and there are SSTOs to figure out, but ultimately the game itself is about exploring, and to do that you just need to learn those five things. I bet I could make an entire hour long video on youtube about KSP, and I’m not even very good at it!
Most apartments use Kwikset locks, which are cheap and ineffective. Picking one of those was easier than picking the practice lock from my kit. I could get my front door open in 30 seconds flat with a single pin pick, or like 2 seconds with a city rake.
Yeah, after about 10 minutes of practicing on a practice lock I decided to try my front door. Raked it in seconds. It was so fast my dad had a code operated bolt ordered that same night.
I always thought it was BS in movies when they pick a door lock in a few seconds, but nope! That’s completely realistic. The rake was even faster than my key on some attempts.
Fiber arts: popular ones like knitting and crocheting, but I also have a spinning wheel and really enjoy spinning yarn. I used to have a loom, but I didn’t really enjoy weaving so I sold it. Lately I’ve been really in to darning socks and visible mending generally. Fortunately there are tons of fiber arts meetups and online communities so it’s easy to find other people who are into any niche area.
I have an odd obsession with tornado sirens and other civil defense things. The odd harmonies that different kinds of sirens can make together. Cold War vibes, and the feeling of “well, we’re fucked then” when the emergency alert system goes off, only to find that it’s just another ho-hum thunderstorm on the other side of the city. I don’t know a whole lot about the stuff but I’ve spent many hours of many days soaking up videos about it on YouTube.
I miss when all school kids had to worry about was fire, tornado, earthquake, and nuclear annihilation.
Glad I’m not the only siren enthusiast on Lemmy! Sirens are incredible machines, and I adore learning about their history. So much has been discovered these past few years in the community.
I went to a really cool pinball museum in Georgia before a wedding where you could play all the pinball machines for an overall fee of about 10 dollars. One of the best experiences I’ve ever had.
I think I have quite a few perfectly ordinary hobbies that share a couple common odd quirks/common themes.
I like to make things for myself, and
2, I quite like small, compact things.
For example, I built my own computer, a Ryzen 3600/GeForce 1080 machine…in a very small case, a Fractal Node 202. I have a gaming PC the size of a VCR. Hell even my keyboard is surprisingly compact. I’m not one of those nuts with like a 64 key board or whatnot, i use a Cooler Master Masterkeys Pro M. It has a numpad, but lacks the arrow keys. They’ve been grafted fairly cleverly into the numpad to preserve the layout you’re used to. It’s a fully functional board with 13 fewer keys.
My wood shop is a 10x12 shed on the corner of my property, into which I have crammed a table saw, jointer, planer, drill press, router table, miter saw, a laundry list of hand tools, measuring and layout tools, clamps, cans of finish, a rack for stock, and a decent workbench. It can be a little difficult to work inside the building, but unpacking into the hard just in front gives me a very functional workspace in which I’ve turned out a couple of birch bookshelves and a pair of oak and pine end tables, among other smaller projects.
Depends on the class. Most of the 1/10 that I race are between 20-30mph.
I’ve run some classes that hit 60-65mph. My club doesn’t have any classes hitting those speeds but a local outdoor club does.
My 1/28 can hit 20mph depending amount of upgrades. The one I race hits maybe 15mph, but to scale that’s faster than the 1/10 I race. Some of the very highly modified 1/28 cars can supposedly hit 60+mph, but no one locally races those particular cars and I’ve never seen it.
I’ve been out of it for a while now, but I spent a number of years Nerfsmithing. Which is to say, I modified Nerf blasters. I upgraded the internals to get longer range and higher rates of fire. My real fun, though, was modifying the exteriors to see just how silly I could get. I made a lot of different designs, but below is my masterpiece.
I attached a real red dot sight, after carefully painting it to look like a Nerf accessory. I attached a real laser sight and tactical light, after mounting them inside the case of what had been an official Nerf light. The 10-round straight magazine was replaced with a 35-round drum magazine. A rifle strap (in bright yellow) and a Nerf bipod finished off the main unit (a Nerf Stampede).
Then I attached a Nerf Magnus pistol, still fully functional, as a front grip. And I attached a Nerf Zombie Strike Machete under that as a bayonet.
It looks overbuilt and ridiculous, which is what I was trying for, but it was also an absolute terror in the office Nerf wars. I had a lot of fun building it.
I don’t know that it’s unique, but I never actually stop modding Skyrim. Wife always asks, “Still modding Skyrim?”, and I always answer with some lie like, “Yeah, but I’m finally on the home stretch here.”
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