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Warhammer - people at a local club have told me it is "heresy" to even refer to one page rules - a newish and very innovative wargame. That's the lifestyle players of course not everyone, the people who paint 20h a week while listening to Warhammer audio books play 8hs a week and do fuck all besides that. I have met loads of cool people in the hobby too, but omg those guys

Y'all have some weird ideas about what a hobby is. Parenting as a hobby cracked me up, that's just having a family, you presumably grew up in one of those. Religion isn't a cult-like hobby, it's a hobby-ish cult.

On the parenting front though, I think those pageants are, those kids do it for a hobby and I would consider it abusive, and hard to exit once they are in.

Anyone using Linux, based on 60% of the content on lemmy. Uh… maybe also lemmy.

Celsius energy drinks.

I had a coworker evangelize about them so I decided to try them out. Every time I got one and tried it some complete random would come up 'Hey! You like Celsius? Have you tried the [whatever] flavors? [Other flavor] is my favorite!'

I found them all gross.

Computer Keyboard Enthusiasts

Adults going to DisneyWorld as if it was a sacred shrine

Arch Linux

All of them if you delve deep enough

Buying used panties from onlyfans sites.

CrossFit.

There are two kinds of people who own a pressure canner - people who enjoy making preserves and fucking crazy people.

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Competitive Super Smash Bros Melee, we won't ever die. And Nintendo has been trying to rub us out since 2008.

Religion. All of them are cults. Every single fucking one.

Nothing. No other hobby even comes close to the death, genocide, rape, murder, and hate generated by that type of religious cult. It's every single year, too. Every single year religion tops its hate, greed, and pain inflicted on everyone.

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At this point, trading card collecting and grading. Oh, a new series of trading cards for pokemon or yu-gi-oh or whatever dropped? Time for all the adults to buy out every single card in the store and then run home in hopes that their scam leaders like PSA will encourage their behavior by gracing them with a card they claim is worth money despite only being out for less than a week.

Card grading ain't nothing but a scam, cult, and great way to encourage the worst in people, while simultaneously gatekeeping trading cards from everyone with more than 2 braincells. Ain't nothing gonna change my mind about it.

Definitely warhammer. Can't stand those punks. Have you noticed a lot of warhammer lore reaction videos

Pickleball.

Improv

Nostr. I think the tech is cool, but the culture seems like some sort of cryptocurrency cult

Community theater can get pretty weird. (It can just as easily be not weird and awesome, though)

Internet personalities/"influencers"

I don't know whether anyone has mentioned this -- gacha games. Like cults, it forces you to pay a lot of money, but never enough to satisfy them. It always leaves you in a state of frustration. Video gaming is supposed to be a hobby, but the level of attention and resources demanded by these games are insane.

Religion IMHO is a hobby.