These hobbies aren’t necessarily a recreational activity. There are those who claim to have sixth sense only for them to make false judgements on top of false beliefs. Hobbies can involve pushing for wrong insights and most definitely include a self-absorbed vanity project. I don’t judge, but I do actively take note of false judgments when they arise.

Alas, I’m stuck with one but at least she doesn’t know that I’ve apostatized.

Anytime someone starts dropping Warhammer lore, or shows a love of Boomer Shooters, I know I’m going to despise that person or they’ll be my best friend, no middle ground, and I don’t even like Warhammer.

Whenever some city dweller says they like to go fishing, I immediately think “He’s a right winger AND uses fishing as an excuse to cheat on his wife” - this seems to be the case often down here in Brazil

We come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs flow

I’m a white, Christian, male firearms enthusiast from Texas.

That’s a tough combination when I’m also extremely leftist.

I do home canning and a fair deal of baking. There’s a lot of trad bullshit around this that makes me just go “I’m canning cause I love me some candied jalapeños, not because my husband demands I do”

this is how I feel about people who are really, really into Hearts of Iron IV.

Viking depends in whrer you are. In my country, Norway, viking iconography is a pink flag. Yeah we have dipshit Nazis who use it, but it’s fairly main stream. Viking rock is a little sus, but not necessarily as sus ad elsewhere.

Weightlifters seem to hove about similar parts make up very kind people who just want others to succeed and people who listen to Joe rogan and Jordan Peterson.

Yeah I’m not here for this. I just felt this massive wave of fatigue wash over me as I read it.

Like it or not you’re going to run into weirdos in just about every hobby. All preemptively judging people does is teach people to keep to themselves. We’re already building up a society of loners where people struggle to connect to each other with various other causes(loss of third places for example). We don’t really need something like this pushing people further apart, especially when that ultimately drives peoples empathy for each other down too.

Blacksmithing/bladesmithing.

I spent must of my youth fascinated by knives, still am, and this got me into classical metal working. By the time I was 18 I had built a pretty decent working forge in my mom’s backyard.

Shortly after 9/11 I took a week long class in bladesmithing in Arkansas. Outside of Blade Forums and the occasional knife show, I’d never really interacted with other knife people. Not a whole lot going on in my large northern city.

The way those bastards talked openly about anyone that wasn’t white or Christian turned my stomach. I pretty much kept to myself, it hung out with the one chill hippy from Oregon, or the eternally gob-struck British blacksmiths apprentice (You sell GUNS in a GROCERY STORE?!)

I learned a lot on that trip. Nowadays I don’t bring up my knife hobby because I sure as shit don’t want to be mistaken for one of those ignorant cretins.

Linux and crypto users. Sometimes, people just use monero for it’s technical merits…

Hydroponics as well I guess. My DIY automated grow room with a water pump, grow lights, heater and plant shaker (for pollination) always has people think I’m growing weed but I just want chillies and tomatoes.

Oh, you have an anime profile picture and are posting on Twitter in 2013?

I own guns. I love my guns. But I’m not weird about it, I’m all about responsible gun ownership, I don’t have an entire armory, and I ESPECIALLY don’t open carry.

Ammosexuals give the rest of gun enthusiasts a very bad name.