• 1234@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 hours ago

    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

  • percent@infosec.pub
    1·
    2 hours ago

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

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    18·
    9 hours ago

    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.

    • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      8 hours ago

      those kids do it for a hobby

      The pageants are the parents’ hobby. The kids are whisked into it at a vulnerable stage of development in which they don’t have the agency to decide any of it for themselves.

      • RBWells@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 hours ago

        I can agree with this. Like entering your dog in a dog show. I did want my kids in sport or dance as part of their education but told them if I ever gave criticism, to tell me to do the sport my own damn self. So they did their stuff as their hobbies, and I did my own art/sport stuff and kept out of theirs.

    • philpo@feddit.org
      21·
      6 hours ago

      Nah, i must disagree here. The posters are right about being a hobby for some people. In two very bad ways

      There are (usually the dads) who only pick it up once in a while the same way they go mountainbiking,etc. Then they usually try to “make up” what they didn’t do the rest of the days and make it “extra fun”. (As usual the Simpsons did a good take on it in their fun dad episode) But they don’t give a rats ass the rest of the time. They don’t go to the doctor with the kid,they don’t know their school schedules,etc. They pick their hobby up maybe twice a month. I hate these people - because they are so numerous. When I am out with my kiddos I get comments “oh,do you babysit for your wife?” “Oh, it’s nice you take that burden off your wife once in a while.” Like what? Are you fucking crazy? My wife is the actual main income earner and this is not the 50ies.

      The other kind is as bad,imho. The overinvolved ones. The ones that basically want to do everything so right that it becomes their hobby (or obsession). The “oh no, my kid can’t eat sugar that is not made from XY” “I will not raise my child, i will love-raise them”, etc. Note that while these have a crosssection with helicopter parents they are a distinct group themselves,as some prefer an intentional other style of parenting (all nature and free roaming,etc.). But they will focus on it - countless blogs, books from unqualified authors and instagram posts will be read, countless discussions, for them it becomes their hobby…or more.

      So…there are some people who have parenting as a hobby. And that doesn’t mean the ones who have no time for hobbies anymore - as parenting is fucking hard sometimes.

      • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        Yes, the feigned self-chuckle the other person had out-loud so the entire comment section could listen, is delusional bullshit.

        MANY parents (and my sister is one) take parenting way beyond delivering the basic needs and rearing, and turn it into their entire personality. From the outside looking in, I can see a huge “mommy group” of women all in competition to assert who’s child has the most afflictions, which mom’s kid is the most autistic, which mom has the worst anxiety and needs the most free stuff and pity, who’s got the rarest condishun…

        Yeah, only a clueless dip would actually think this isn’t a real thing. There are a shitload of parents who make parenting their whole life and identity. And they form mini-cults. My sister has been harming her own child since he was born because it gets her more social points in these groups. It’s madness.

  • ZeroOne@lemmy.world
    51·
    8 hours ago

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

    • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      Related but a lot of smaller LARP clubs (European style at least, can’t speak for America) end up extremely culty because of a perfect storm of factors:

      • takes up loads of time and resources just to be average; making costumes, learning stats, downtime activities etc before you’ve even left the house

      • predominantly twenty-somethings who recently moved out of their parents’ house and end up house-sharing with other LARPers from the same club

      • spending whole weekends in the middle of the woods with no outside influence, where you have to follow instructions given by refs. It’s also not unusual to be up until sunrise or even do all-nighters playing through the next day as well

      • success or failure at the game is often at the whims of said refs, MUCH more than in Warhammer

      • …as a result of which, the club management hierarchy ends up translating into social hierarchy outside of official events. The people at the top are the ones that effectively determine whether a party, day trip or even a wedding is going to be a big event or not, and the regular membership treats them accordingly. So, culty as heck.

  • csverdad@midwest.social
    37·
    5 hours ago

    Communism. There’s iconography, a separate way of using language, chanting, gatherings, books, meetings, clothing, hero mythology, doomsday plans of a revolution not unlike a rapture, and in some sects there are charismatic leaders and polyamory.

  • Lemminary@lemmy.world
    71·
    15 hours ago

    I think you need to specify what you mean by cult. The way I personally understand it, a cult includes a leader who exploits their members for free labor, oftentimes for sexual gratification, and removes them from their friends and families while subjecting them to psychological manipulation. I’m having a hard time thinking of a hobby that meets the criteria I’m more familiar with.

    • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      This. There are defined criteria as to what a real cult is, and once you have any familiarity with that, you realize that 99% of what people call “cultlike” is really just culture.

  • callouscomic@lemmy.zip
    86·
    13 hours ago

    Warhammer. The tabletop one with the figures, not the video games.

    Vacations/travel for some people. Its clearly something where they have zero clue about their privilege and zero self awareness as they talk about it.

    Parenting. Seriously, it becomes some people’s only fucking identity and the way they talk about it feels like religious proselytizing mixed with a bit of used car salesperson energy.

    Comic conventions. Some people make it uncomfortable how seriously they take it.

    Wasting some time on Lemmy trying to leave shitty comments just looking to rile people up or something.

    • Denjin@lemmings.world
      1·
      9 hours ago

      100% what I first thought of. I was well into WH Fantasy as a kid with my older brother and moved into 40k as a teen. Lost interest as an adult and thought I might like to get back into it recently cos I’ve got a mate who’s obsessed.

      Too expensive, the business model is more exploitative than ever and the game system has become terribly bloated and the recent new edition hasn’t improved it.

      Also, beyond the top tier of competition, most matches are decided before a single figure is put on the board.

      There are other far more interesting game systems on the market that aren’t dedicated into forcing you into buying new miniatures and books every 18 months.

  • spicy pancake@lemmy.zipEnglish
    12·
    19 hours ago

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

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 hours ago

      True, any gathering of current or former “theatre kids” is going to be weird. But that’s what makes them so fun. (Unless you hate show tunes. Then you’re in for a bad time.)