What's your current passion/obsession? - Be it a fandom, hobby, person/celebrity/fictional character or object

[Monika H.]

Always looking for the weirdest in this community...

Kiwis, what is your current or has been your most involving passion? Did it devolve into obssession? How it has impacted on your life? Have you got out if, or still are in it?
I'm looking forward to hear your stories (but watch the powerlevel)

 

[TheClorax]

Gundam model kit building/painting.

 

[kinglordsupreme19]

Trying to coherently respond to the problem of epistemic regress without appealing to circularity or 'just obvious' foundations. Neither is working. It's on my mind quite a lot, and I think it may be having a detrimental effect on my psyche as my systemising tendencies move to deconstruct every reason and motive for a coherent view of morality or human action. Everything is increasingly appearing to be chaotic and concepts like causation, agency, and belief itself are starting to unravel. I seem unable to do what most sceptical philosophers do and just act as though the problem didn't exist in day-to-day life, and so I'm increasingly feeling jittery and rather disorientated in the face of stimuli in reality I can no longer quite classify.

 

[scared sheep]

...figure collecting.

I've discovered I feel a certain satisfaction from owning merch. Not only is it nice to look at/fun to play with, but it makes me feel like I own a part of the content. Like having a physical CD, not just the song files downloaded. I'm hoping it doesn't start to become an issue, figures can be expensive.

I'm also currently thinking about getting into figure painting. I've seen a bunch of cool garage kits and unfinished figures, and would like to own some, Getting someone to paint them for you is expensive, so I've thought about learning how to myself. Only issue is, I'm terrible at painting on a canvas. It being 3D probably won't help. Also, poor motor control makes details hard.

 

[TiggerNits]

Helping a friend find or design some helicopter parts. Got a buddy trying to actually rebuild the Hind-A from Red Dawn out of a wrecked Puma to gift to a museum he has done some work for

 

[Florence]

...figure collecting.

I've discovered I feel a certain satisfaction from owning merch. Not only is it nice to look at/fun to play with, but it makes me feel like I own a part of the content. Like having a physical CD, not just the song files downloaded. I'm hoping it doesn't start to become an issue, figures can be expensive.

I'm also currently thinking about getting into figure painting. I've seen a bunch of cool garage kits and unfinished figures, and would like to own some, Getting someone to paint them for you is expensive, so I've thought about learning how to myself. Only issue is, I'm terrible at painting on a canvas. It being 3D probably won't help. Also, poor motor control makes details hard.

Order from Mandarake. Sure it's second-hand, but the Japs are incredibly autistic over that stuff — 99% of the time the box won't even have been opened.

 

[8777BB5]

I am trying to get a book written and I'm working on getting a garden railroad set up

 

[Teri-Teri]

I am trying to improve my drawing skills.

 

[Reynard]

I’ve been obsessed with guitars for a few years now. Can’t tell you how much of a gear nut I am.

There’s other stuff as well, but I don’t think revealing intimate details would be appropriate.

Helping a friend find or design some helicopter parts. Got a buddy trying to actually rebuild the Hind-A from Red Dawn out of a wrecked Puma to gift to a museum he has done some work for

I actually used to volunteer at one of the places that has one of two all-original Hind helicopters in its collection. That was a while ago, mind you, but it was cool seeing it. The things are fucking huge!

 

[ThePurpleProse]

Taxidermy, it's very relaxing.

 

[Raging Capybara]

I don't have any kind of hobby. Dysthymia hit me too hard.

Well... I like to read about lolcows, maybe?

 

[Bob Page]

Evangelion, I like the series. Don't watch EoE while high on weed, acid or shrooms. You'll be tripping balls. Oh, and writing a script for an audio drama based on Killzone(Helghan Forever!).

 

[ShittyRecolor]

Just finished Bully: Scholarship Edition for the second time and managed to 100% it, leading to me obsessing with the idea of Bully 2 maybe happening after Red Dead Redemption 2. I guess only time will tell...

While I'm usually more into virtuoso music with complex harmonics, the excellent soundtrack of the aforementioned Rockstar classic really pushed me to try and come up with as much simple but catchy (and hopefully halfways unique) hooks and chord progressions as possible. There's something really rewarding in writing simple stuff you can hum, sounds familiar but still has a little something that makes it stand out, be it some craftily snuck in dissonance or odd tempi.

Finally, I'm trying to learn at least one song a week, and have them memorized for as long as possible. So far I've managed to learn The theme for the Defender of The Castle mission from Bully, Memories by Joe Satriani, Pacing the Cage by Bruce Cockburn, Moanin' by Charles Mingus (can't believe I had never bothered to learn this one considering I listen to it almost daily), Whole Lotta Rosie by AC\DC, Call of Ktulu by Metallica, Vogel in Kafig from Attack on Titan and Komm Süsser Tod from End of Evangelion.

Oh, and I can't wait till the latest chapter of Berserk comes out this week. My friends one to watch Avengers: Infinity War with me in the cinema, but I'm afraid I won't be able to focus on it at all if I don't manage to read my beloved dark fantasy manga beforehand.

 

[Bob Page]

Just finished Bully: Scholarship Edition for the second time, and managed to 100% it, leading to me obsessing with the idea of Bully 2 maybe happening after Red Dead Redemption 2. I guess only time will tell...

I've been 100%'ing Morrowind the only way I know:

Spoiler

Murdering every NPC I can find. Fuck the main quest. Every living soul in Morrowind will be sacrificed to Khorne with the skull of Vivec being the thing to top his skull throne. Blood for the Blood God!

 

[TiggerNits]

I’ve been obsessed with guitars for a few years now. Can’t tell you how much of a gear nut I am.

There’s other stuff as well, but I don’t think revealing intimate details would be appropriate.


I actually used to volunteer at one of the places that has one of two all-original Hind helicopters in its collection. That was a while ago, mind you, but it was cool seeing it. The things are fucking huge!

Yeah, most likely Hind-D's though. What he's trying to build is the replica Hind-A from Red Dawn/Rambo II thats on top of a Puma. It's essentially a replica of a replica that will never be flown (because the frame its built on is far from airworthy)

 

[ShittyRecolor]

I've been 100%'ing Morrowind the only way I know:

Spoiler

Murdering every NPC I can find. Fuck the main quest. Every living soul in Morrowind will be sacrificed to Khorne with the skull of Vivec being the thing to top his skull throne. Blood for the Blood God!

Haha, it's always fun to give the GTA treatment to RPGs that expect you to be super involved. I've also watched the original NGE and EoE a month or so ago for the first time, it was pretty interesting! Kinda wish I had watched it a lot sooner though, like when I was an angsty teenager like Shinji.

 

[Reynard]

Yeah, most likely Hind-D's though. What he's trying to build is the replica Hind-A from Red Dawn/Rambo II thats on top of a Puma. It's essentially a replica of a replica that will never be flown (because the frame its built on is far from airworthy)

I’d have to go back and check, but it was the same types that were used back in Afghanistan in the 80s. And it was, to my knowledge, all original.

 

[takemetoyourgrave]

listen man I'm not saying I'm writing letters to serial killers, but...

 

[TiggerNits]

I’d have to go back and check, but it was the same types that were used back in Afghanistan in the 80s. And it was, to my knowledge, all original.

Yeah, Afghan had a lot of both.

Did they look like this

or this

Because the one on the bottom is the A, which is exceedingly rare and I think the only ones preserved are in Russian and Ukranian museums

 

[Bob Page]

Haha, it's always fun to give the GTA treatment to RPGs that expect you to be super involved. I've also watched the original NGE and EoE a month or so ago for the first time, it was pretty interesting! Kinda wish I had watched it a lot sooner though, like when I was an angsty teenager like Shinji.

Yeah, I would've done the same in Oblivion and do what Mehrune's Dagon was about to do if there weren't some NPCs that I couldn't kill no matter what I do, same goes for Skyrim.