Hobbies ruined by other people thread - And corporations, and trends, and so forth.

[The Hardest R]

Maybe not so much a hobby as just a social activity, but: afterwork drinks has been ruined by wokies/HR types.
I don't bother going anymore because the environment is a tension filled dystopian hellscape.
There are four acceptable topics for discussion:
Work (but not any work gossip like how Susan is a fat lazy moll), your hobbies, your children, or your pets.

About five years ago, some fat cunt at my work complained that she kept getting left out of afterwork drinks and parties. Our HR team issued out an email that chided people for not being inclusive enough and to consider who gets asked to these little get togethers. This cunt still didn't get invited and everyone just met in private. You might ask how this was acceptable and it was considered a hostile work environment to be left out of out of work functions, even if they weren’t held by the company.

The fat cunt eventually quit and although nobody has complained ever since, these group afterwork drinks and parties never started back up.

Influencers ruined hiking for me in all but the most remote places. I hate walking up to some rock formation, waterfall, or view just to have some cunt and her cucked boyfriend yell at me for being in their pictures. I was at a popular spot once (where all these instagrammers take the exact same picture) and there was a line probably 15 people long just to go out onto some ledge overlooking a mountain range. Every girl in stretch pants wanted a photo of her ass as she looked out into the abyss.

This pisses me off. I went to a national park this year and certain points took fucking forever because thots wanted to take numerous selfies, slowing things down. A couple baste people started yelling at the thots and of course the thots screeched a bunch of thot noises in return. This was exclusively younger women, everyone else was courteous.

 

[Oceanic Navigator]

I'd definitely say anime. Since most of the time its just some clique of tourist shitposters just wanting to engage in power dynamics instead of actually talking about what shows or manga they like and maybe discovering some new ones from other people. But they aren't interested in that at all and just want to ban people on the internet all day and cry about how shit everything is.

 

[SynthwaveDeux]

Thrifting and recycling. Scalpers everywhere and people have lost all reason as to what is a sensible price for things. I get times are hard and everyone is trying to make a buck but it seems people rather set unreasonable prices for their items, they do not sell and end up in Goodwill or some other company to profit them.

Recycling has become something also that is a label (like "organic") that excuses stupidly high prices for crafts or artisan products. Oh you made this coin purse out of candy wrappers and a recycled zipper? Of course I will pay 50 euros for it even though it took you 10 minutes to make. It is responsible consumerism after all! Then I can flail my purse around and show everyone what a good person I am because naturally it has a small tag (mass produced in China) that says " I am made from recycled materials".

Yes, I am MOTI something good, reasonable and good for the environment has been turned into corporate virtue signaling and turned into a brand to suck out more money and resources. Corposcum with their greed infect everything and ruin all that is pure and good.

 

[TheRedChair]

Thrifting and recycling. Scalpers everywhere and people have lost all reason as to what is a sensible price for things. I get times are hard and everyone is trying to make a buck but it seems people rather set unreasonable prices for their items, they do not sell and end up in Goodwill or some other company to profit them.

Recycling has become something also that is a label (like "organic") that excuses stupidly high prices for crafts or artisan products. Oh you made this coin purse out of candy wrappers and a recycled zipper? Of course I will pay 50 euros for it even though it took you 10 minutes to make. It is responsible consumerism after all! Then I can flail my purse around and show everyone what a good person I am because naturally it has a small tag (mass produced in China) that says " I am made from recycled materials".

Yes, I am MOTI something good, reasonable and good for the environment has been turned into corporate virtue signaling and turned into a brand to suck out more money and resources. Corposcum with their greed infect everything and ruin all that is pure and good.

I can validate this comment. It's got to the point that even thrift stores in my region are hiking prices because of fucking Gen Fail Faggots upscaling shit.

I've come to the point of thinking of not even donating anymore clothing and just throw it away.
Because that is how bad it has become in this region where I live.

 

[Flatline]

Thrifting and recycling.

The worst is going to second-hand stores like Goodwill and seeing fucktards clearly doing eBay image reverse searches on clothes and items.

 

[FedPostalService]

The worst is going to second-hand stores like Goodwill and seeing fucktards clearly doing eBay image reverse searches on clothes and items.

THIS! I love browsing charity shops but the prices are slowly going more insane. Anything I fancy I can tell someone has googled the eBay sell it now price for.

 

[glass_houses]

Oh, beyond a shadow of a doubt op shops are in on it. I volunteered at one for a while and they'd give me a stack of the most random stuff imaginable, shove me into a tiny office and tell me to figure out how much it was all worth. Most of the time I just looked at eBay but some more esoteric items saw me contacting various experts and asking for information/evaluations.

I really enjoyed the work (aside from all the sports memorabilia, not my thing) but yes, I was very aware of how scummy it was.

 

[Flatline]

Oh, beyond a shadow of a doubt op shops are in on it. I volunteered at one for a while and they'd give me a stack of the most random stuff imaginable, shove me into a tiny office and tell me to figure out how much it was all worth. Most of the time I just looked at eBay but some more esoteric items saw me contacting various experts and asking for information/evaluations.

I really enjoyed the work (aside from all the sports memorabilia, not my thing) but yes, I was very aware of how scummy it was.

Was there anything in the stack you secretly kept for yourself?

 

[glass_houses]

Was there anything in the stack you secretly kept for yourself?

No. Stealing other people's donations to charity is an arsehole move.

 

[FedPostalService]

Not quite a hobby but football shirts (or soccer uniforms or whatever a burger would call it.)

Premiere league ones are overpriced but I used to like picking them up from random European clubs just for going the gym.

They are insanely expensive now as autists collect them. Last year’s AS Roma shirt is fifty odd fucking quid. I know I could walk into a random sportswear shop in Borgo or Prati and get one for thirty quid.

It’s bad enough they’ve gentrified footy, have gay arse rainbow laces, and women commenting but they’re footing with gym wear now.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

Not quite a hobby but football shirts (or soccer uniforms or whatever a burger would call it.)

Premiere league ones are overpriced but I used to like picking them up from random European clubs just for going the gym.

They are insanely expensive now as autists collect them. Last year’s AS Roma shirt is fifty odd fucking quid. I know I could walk into a random sportswear shop in Borgo or Prati and get one for thirty quid.

It’s bad enough they’ve gentrified footy, have gay arse rainbow laces, and women commenting but they’re footing with gym wear now.

Checked my club’s shop website today. They’re still desperately trying to flog ‘equality’ rainbow-print shirts from three seasons ago, to the point where they’ve had to edit the photo of players in the shirt to cut out one who’s since moved on from the club.

And they still made a new ‘equality’ shirt this year. Seems football never learns…

 

[Nikes_JustDoIt]

Lolcow watching, not only with a logging the cow (swatting, death threats, and gay ops) but you have people like Keem for Boogie or Caden with CWC that milked them for money which made them really boring.

 

[Agares]

Lolcow watching, not only with a logging the cow (swatting, death threats, and gay ops) but you have people like Keem for Boogie or Caden with CWC that milked them for money which made them really boring.

Glass tapping and faggy gayops ruined Kingcobrajfs, my favorite Lolcow last year. He never livestreams anymore, never goes outside to make videos and puts zero effort into literally anything because the constant weening and a logging finally broke him.

I blame Reddit and discord for his sorry, boring state.

 

[Yaks]

Anecdotal evidence of course, but having spent a few years working in a game store I genuinely think that (at least in my neck of the woods) there was a pretty healthy mix of ladies into Tabletop rpgs and would show up to pathfinder society/Adventurer's League before the concentrated push for 'diversity'. But then as the 2010's marched on I remembering thinking "I haven't seen this group in a while" and slowly seeing more and more ogres in wigs. So I definitely get that

There were always women around in nerd spaces (though in lesser numbers depending on the nerd hobby.) This whole recent push of "women being gatekept" is a fucking lie. Any time I showed up I was either treated completely normal, excited I was there, or on occasion a little scared of me because they were socially awkward autists who weren't used to socially interacting with tits in their hobby. One time a guy twice my age thought we were a couple but he was a rare experience and a fucking creep you could find in ANY hobby/job.

But yeah the new wave of nerds coming in honestly completely pushed me out of most nerd spaces, not that I was super active in them to begin with. They just don't have anything to offer me anymore social wise. They're endlessly annoying and I'd rather not step on eggshells around people in my spare time.

 

[el bandito loco]

There were always women around in nerd spaces (though in lesser numbers depending on the nerd hobby.) This whole recent push of "women being gatekept" is a fucking lie. Any time I showed up I was either treated completely normal, excited I was there, or on occasion a little scared of me because they were socially awkward autists who weren't used to socially interacting with tits in their hobby. One time a guy twice my age thought we were a couple but he was a rare experience and a fucking creep you could find in ANY hobby/job.

But yeah the new wave of nerds coming in honestly completely pushed me out of most nerd spaces, not that I was super active in them to begin with. They just don't have anything to offer me anymore social wise. They're endlessly annoying and I'd rather not step on eggshells around people in my spare time.

this is anecdotal stuff from my own life, but years ago before we quit doing it in early COVID and then I never ended up going back to the later incarnation because my schedule couldn't fit it in besides like once a year for a big event, I went to a comic club once a week. for like a decade. it essentially was like a book club, in this dude my dad's age's basement. I went from my late teens to mid 20s. anyways, it was a group of guys who had known each other for years in their 40s/50s, me, a couple dudes just a bit older than me, and a couple of girls who were like 17-24. we'd meet up, bullshit about random comic stuff, all of us would pick a couple of books to read over the week and then talk about, drink some beers, occasionally watch or play a superhero/comic related movie or game or something.

it was cool because we all had pretty radically different tastes and interests but all got exposed to more out of our wheelhouse stuff that way. anyway when the first girl started coming we were sure she'd never be back, but she kept coming and brought her friends and they all came for as long as I did. I remember talking to her in 2020 towards the end and she had told me she had gone to similar things but the reason she liked going to ours was basically we didn't treat her like a retarded girl who doesn't know shit and we actually talked about the books, story and art. she explained most shit like that she had went to was basically weird nerds trying to out brownie points each other with trying to seem like reddit niceguys or seeming like the smartest person in the room for reading a wikipedia article about some character slated to be in the next marvel movie. another one told me another time she didn't like talking about the books and stuff she liked with people she knew into similar things outside of there because if she gave it to someone they'd miss the point and spend a bunch of time rambling about problematic stuff or something, and that any manga specific groups all boiled down to shipping conversations about characters being secretly gay and never about the story.

it's a pretty sad state of things when some conventionally attractive normal looking young women would rather talk about the stuff they like with a bunch of dweeby construction worker dads drinking bud light in a cold ass unfinished basement made up to look like a shitty Batcave they found through a paper flyer on a bulletin board than people their own age who claim to be into the same stuff to avoid people treating them like they're retarded, being lectured to about evil men by a guy who's going to try to corner and force them to suck their dick later, or only hear regurgitated youtube video X character or story explained points from someone who didn't read it themselves.

 

[AMHOLIO]

she explained most shit like that she had went to was basically weird nerds trying to out brownie points each other with trying to seem like reddit niceguys or seeming like the smartest person in the room for reading a wikipedia article about some character slated to be in the next marvel movie. another one told me another time she didn't like talking about the books and stuff she liked with people she knew into similar things outside of there because if she gave it to someone they'd miss the point and spend a bunch of time rambling about problematic stuff or something, and that any manga specific groups all boiled down to shipping conversations about characters being secretly gay and never about the story.

This is the biggest most relatable problem I have ever heard from a fellow woman nerd, I hope she and her friends still go.


The fact that shitting on something for being problematic is seen as a way to look cool and hip in front of other nerds is a thing makes me want to claw someone's scalp off. Bitch no one wants to hear unless they ask, keep your 3 hour youtube essay to yourself.

 

[Fyrnite]

Thrifting. I rely on thrifting for things I simply don't care about having the new thing of. My apartment is 75% of things I've thrifted for, while the rest have been just getting newer things of necessities. There was a point where it used to have been a friendlier period of time where you can go to a thrift store and come out with something you need. For the past decade and a half, it has not been that friendly. Everyone is competing to resell. I cannot go to my local Goodwill store without seeing a line of people.

These people consist of hoarding spics, that just buy things for the sake of buying things. Resellers who can't shut up about all of the garage sales they've been to and how much they can get for what if they sold online as well as crying when nobody buys from their shitty FB Marketplace page. I have to end up competing with these people for things I would ideally need and it's gotten tiresome.

And some thrift stores I've been to, have caught on to the trend of marking up by EBay listings. They've gone the way of being just a discount department store, just making shitty sales and god I'm so fucking tired of color-coded sales. Everyone is fucking doing it now, not just Goodwill.

 

[Billy_Sama!]

Podcasts are pretty much taken over by political grifters and Hulk Hogan.

Also I wanted to get a older Jeep Wrangler for off roading but seeing those overpriced wranglers with the rubber ducks makes it unappealing for me.

 

[el bandito loco]

This is the biggest most relatable problem I have ever heard from a fellow woman nerd, I hope she and her friends still go.


The fact that shitting on something for being problematic is seen as a way to look cool and hip in front of other nerds is a thing makes me want to claw someone's scalp off. Bitch no one wants to hear unless they ask, keep your 3 hour youtube essay to yourself.

I don't know if they still go every week, but about 2 months ago they had a birthday thing for one of the guys there and I made a rare appearance and they were, and some new faces I didn't know, but I'm not sure if those people were just other friends of his, or they regularly go there for comic club. The girls were always super cool though, everything they'd bring would always be putting me on to something I'd never (and I KNOW the old guy's wouldn't) have read in my life if it wasn't for them. a lot of manga, the early Tank Girl, Elfquest, some weird sex comics, shit like that. and we read a lot of superhero stuff but if I wasn't showing up with obscure weird Superman shit I was always bringing in weird Vertigo and Fantagraphics books, this old black dude was always bringing in western cowboy comics, another older guy was always in on the post TMNT rip off funny animal books. it was a really cool group to be a part of because it was probably the biggest broadened horizons period of my life as far as media goes. one of the guys closer to my age was really into art and would always draw weird shit out of whatever we read that week.

I miss going but I just work such weird hours and days I can't make it like I used to. it sucks because I was sort of their unofficial mascot because they thought I was hilarious because I'd always be doing weird shit. I was early-mid 20s and was always drinking and doing a lot of coke and I'd show up with uninterested stripper girlfriends sometimes and hand them a weed vape and ask the guy who ran it to get a stack of betty and veronica or looney tunes books or something and give it to them to look at while I autistically rambled about whatever it was that week, I took a "hood nigga" guy once who was a self proclaimed Nightwing expert, I'd show up in ridiculous outfits (we had a Batman movie night one time and I found a disgusting skintight green leotard like Jim Carrey wore in Batman Forever and drew poor sharpie question marks all over it). the funny thing about when I see all of them now is they're always like man you sure have calmed down a lot you were crazy! and I'm like well yeah I'm an adult man now I can't still be fucking around like that lol.

the modern discourse in nerd culture is so focused on culture war shit it's really hard to just find a group of people to talk about things with, and it's much harder to find a group of people who aren't too retarded to look at something as a product of it's time or hyperfocus on minor details that they don't like the attitude of whatever it is and can't look at the other merits or problems with the material because they can't look past whatever it is. what was so great about that group, and I imagine what nerd culture used to be, is it was a group of people who had basically absolutely nothing in common besides the hobby, and are friends despite that and their radically different lifestyles and personalities, all offering different views on the same things. instead the majority of it today is groups of the same copy-paste irritating personality types of people who pride themselves in being "soooo quirky" despite being into the exact same pop culture stuff as 90% of people with who have the exact same takes on everything as everyone else because they just parrot things they hear or live in echochambers, wishy washy fake feminist men trying to get laid by being the most progressive, or any other garden variety type of person who sucks the fun out of everything.

 

[AMHOLIO]

we had a Batman movie night one time and I found a disgusting skintight green leotard like Jim Carrey wore in Batman Forever and drew poor sharpie question marks all over it)

Please tell me when you post on the lolcow threads of the Farms you wear it. The Kiwiler.