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I play an Irish sport called hurling and I am neither Irish nor I am in Ireland. So nobody knows this sport so I have to explain a lot what it is. But it is so much fun!
Hurling is no joke, one of the fastest field games in the world, mind your head!
Good god your shins must be made of solid steel by now.
hurling
I rarely drink this much anymore…
Caving (although not so much these days) and FPV drone flying
I bought a load of FPV stuff, but didn’t really take into account I live right next to an airport… Haven’t flown in a about a year, but I should really get back into it!
Yeah, that could be problematic!
Only slightly!! 😂
Caving as in getting inside of caves and exploring them as stuff? That kind of caving?
Yes, usually referred to as potholing in the UK. Squeezing through tight spaces underground for fun!
Ah spelunking in the US. Why has it gotten harder?
Harder as in access to caves, or age related aches and pains?! Access to most caves in the UK is pretty straight forward if you are a member of a club. Many caves are protected and require permissions. The age related issues just keep getting worse each year 🙄
It sounds like the absolute worst, and everyone I know who’s ever been into it has been kind of crazy in other ways too. But hey whatever floats your boat 😄
It’s definitely not for everyone that’s for sure. I’ve been underground with new cavers who swore they weren’t claustrophobic until we reached a squeeze, then reality comes calling!
Fpv drone flying is so fun. I fucking love flying them so much.
I love flying FPV! Just started getting into the hobby, and have only flown in the sim (goggles otw), but it’s really fun, especially when flying to music
It is a great escape from the day to day
Caving is really cool! One of my friends is super into it. There are some beautiful crystalline caverns underground. :)
Not sure if it’s niche anymore but mechanical keyboard is a fun rabbit hole to dive into. There’s so much variety and diversity in term of customization. You can really build a keyboard that fit your preference in term of looks, feels and sounds. The hobby has been booming after covid so now you can get some really nice starter stuff at affordable price.
Ham radio! It’s relaxing. My favorite activity is to take my portable gear to parks and operate Parks on the Air.
I am waiting for my exam. After that I will have my own call sign. Ham radio is cool
How do you decide on a call sign?
It is assigned to me I cannot choose call sign unfortunately
Just getting into this myself! Got any recommendations for guids/videos/articles? I’d be happy to check anything out 👍
Just getting into Ham radio and SDR myself as of late, so cool and so fun to tweak around with. Got any recommendations for guides or articles to read and learn from? I’m brand new just got a SDR-RTL dongle 📡
You should check out Ham Radio Crash Cpurse on YouTube. Lots of great info there.
I had no idea about Parks on the Air. Thanks! I’ll be checking out.
Hell yeah, came here to say this. 73 friend.
My brother used to be really big into his ham radio. It got smashed in his move and he never bought another one =\
What do you think about the baofeng radios with ham? Pretty good to start out with?
They are fine for starting out with, but you’ll probably want to upgrade soon. There are better radios for around $75 if you can afford it.
What would you recommend? Is there a good mega thread here?
Most activity, I’ve seen here: [email protected] but there’s a lemmy bug that’s not showing a bunch of posts. That should be resolved soon.
These are good cheaper radios (The price has gone up a bit)
There’s also [email protected] which is reasonably active.
Ima be honest with ya, I believe those cheaper yaesus are actually practically baofengs component wise. But, they are still a bit better due to some higher quality components and wayyyy better QC. Just wanted to throw this out there.
They’re pretty much baofengs with much better filtering, so you don’t get front end overloading which can be frustrating.
yup
Used to be sword fighting, but difficult after I got into an accident and can barely use my hand anymore…
I hope you get well soon my friend
I used to do historical reenactment so would regularly fight with swords, spears, axes, knives etc. Great fun but the injuries start to really hurt over time. A broken knuckle and getting stabbed in the face with a semi-sharp sword that resulted in a hospital visit were my worst!
Damn :c… Such a shame :/
A broken knuckle and getting stabbed in the face with a semi-sharp sword that resulted in a hospital visit were my worst!
I’m sorry this happened to you. It does sound like you and your group went way too far for the equipment you were using.
Usually theres a tradeoff between historical accuracy, safety equipment and sparring intensity.
If you have no adequate hand protection for historical reasins, you either need lower intensity or explicitly forbid hand hits.
If you want to fight at full intensity of you need to fall back on less accurate protection and maybe even still adjust rulesets.
If you want accurate swords with no rolled / flared point, you must change how thrusting works.
I got a fencing mask imprinted on my forehead once because we also went too intense with polearms for the gear we had.
The broken knuckle was an unfortunate accident during a public show. The angle of the sword thrust happened to go up into my glove and popped a knuckle. The sword to the face was during training by someone who should have known better than to sneak a semi-sharp in. Still, scars to your face add character!
Sounds like this is not dangerous at all.
“I used to be an adventurer like you. But then I took an arrow into the knee…”
“But then I took a sword to the face…” idk which one is worse!
What kind? Doing HEMA myself, though not as much as I’d like
My condolences. I also lost a bunch of hobbies due to hand injuries. It’s depressing
Idk about niche so much as, not nearly as popular as it used to be. Circle track asphalt racing. My whole family is in on it. My grandpa did it, my dad and my uncle’s did it (and are helping us) now my brother’s and I are carrying the legacy. Used to be 17 people from our town showing up to the track every weekend. Now there’s 2 of us crews that show up.
Excuse my ignorance, is that kind of like NASCAR racing?
Yes but generally the tracks are smaller. We’re running 1/4 mile but we’ve also got 1/3 and 1/2 mile tracks somewhat close to us.
Oh cool! Is it fairly expensive? I can imagine you’re going through a few sets of tyres? What cars are you racing? (sorry, 20 qs!)
We’re racing what’s called a sportsman series. We’re actually running a specific engine, crate 602 that’s regulated so you can’t change anything so it keeps it cheaper. We’re running that on an 88 Chevy Monte Carlo frame. To keep costs down the track does a tire bank. You get 6 tires at the beginning of the season then you earn 1 tire for every 2 races you race.
I ride electric scooters for fun and plan to learn lockpicking. I’m a sucker for cryptographic puzzles but not really good at it.
I made a replacement cipher for my friend. I sent him a very short story and he was able to decipher it! Made me happy!
Lockpicking is a blast, you’ve inspired me to bring my kit back out
Same, I love the idea of cryptography and breaking it but I’m not that good and don’t really have the time, so I dabble a bit and mostly enjoy from afar. I’ve made a few pen and paper ciphers but don’t know how to have anyone test them.
There’s got to be Internet people that will!
Yeah I thought so, but I feel weird asking people to solve my random cipher (I feel like a Reddit sub had a rule against asking that). I don’t actually know if it’s good or bad or ridiculous. I barely know the terms. I will have to look around more I guess. I’m sure there people who are the opposite and want to break random ciphers.
I love puzzles like the ones from Huzzle. I should get more but have trouble sitting down and concentrating for longer periods of time if there is no screen in my face.
I like traditional slavic folk music and leatherworking (which is misleading what I do is more like crafting rather basic things out of leather, I don’t tan or work the leather myself)
Found the Witcher costume maker
Although the overlap seems to point in that direction (and also the fact that I do enjoy the Witcher books and games very much) it’s rather coincidental:
I actually prefer fully acapella, white-voice songs (but I do enjoy instrumental ones too) And regarding leather I’m more into making gear like chokers, cuffs and whatnot (though I’m not trying to make any money out of it as I don’t sell)
Ooh one of my fave small YouTubers is big into her leathercrafts, I’ve been living vicariously through her and [email protected] (Lemmy / Kbin) for a while but not quite taken the plunge yet myself. It’s only a matter of time though 😅
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
I fly paramotors. Imagine a fan you strap on your back, a paraglider that goes overhead, and you run run run until you’re airborne! Never fails to put a smile on my face when times are tough. And maintaining the engine and planning that next flight keeps me occupied when the weather doesn’t cooperate.
Been thinking about this. Did you train anywhere or just get a wing and motor and just go for it?
Training was the way for me! I was a pilot beforehand, but it’s such a unique and rather awkward movement that I probably would have really struggled without training.
Does this require any type of license?
Nope!
I like to make mistakes (yes, on cassette). It’s a time to be with my music, think about it, maybe have a beer. I make the cover artwork and then later I can listen to something I made.
Mixtapes?
Looks like they make mistakes too lol
I like to make mistakes
Some more niche than others but basically…making stuff. Cross stitch, yarn crafts, sewing, needle felting, dicemaking, 3d printing, very occasional cosplay, I’m about to try my first macrame kit and a friend is planning for us to learn punch needle together.
There’s something just so satisfying about making real stuff you can use, or wear, or wash yourself with or whatever (I also briefly got into soapmaking).
If you want to chat about basically any craft (or just lurk and look at pretty projects, that’s ok too), I’ve been keeping a megalist of relevant communities and magazines here https://lemm.ee/post/224890. And if anyone reading this runs a related one that should be on the list please DM me to be added!
Dice making is cool! I’ve been wanting to get a 3d printer to print some components for my skates!
You’ll buy it to make one thing and suddenly you’re printing everything and your whole life is made of plastic. Totes worth it though lol.
This sounds so cool and I wish I had the time to try it all but I hardly have the time to knit as much as I used to :D
Are you on matrix? It is not letting me DM for some reason.
Oh weird! Been chatting to plenty of people so it works in general but maybe our instances are having issues today. I am not on Matrix yet, should probably sort that out this weekend really. Just sent you a test DM see if it’s broken both ways
Left is a ghost pepper, right is a 7 Pot Congo
Do you have any problems with gnats?
Do they bear fruit in such small containers?
This is awesome and I need to find a way to do it.
So the chillies part is obvious enough, but why in beer cans?
Ever try growing Pepper X?
Nah, never seen the seeds for them from a reputable seller sadly! I’ve got reapers and a couple of naga varieties in the garden though
Nice. Do you use grow lamps?
I thought about getting one but opted not to. I’ve got south facing windows so all my plants through spring are able to get all the sun they need!
Twisty puzzles, such as the Rubik’s cube. Just to start with the basic Rubik’s cube itself, there are a lot of ways to enjoy it. There are competitions for solving in a variety of different ways, from the standard speed solving, one handed, blindfolded, or fewest moves. Then there are tons of different puzzles that you can get, perhaps even hundreds of different ones. They can be different shapes, have different number of layers to turn, or turn in unusual ways. It can be fun and relaxing to get a new puzzle and figure out a solution by yourself.
One thing I really like about cubing is that it doesn’t really require my full attention at this point, so I can get some practise in while listening to a youtube video where the visuals aren’t that important, or a podcast or something (actually it’s pretty much the only way I can bear to listen to a podcast lol).
I play rhythm games. Like a lot. Maybe to many?
Guitar hero back in the scorehero.com days was peak gaming.
What are your favourites?
I enjoy osu!, ADOFAI, Beat Saber, Clone Hero, and a few others
I looooooove Beat Saber
I used to play a ton of Guitar Hero and recently got Clone Hero running and loving it so much, the nostalgia is real!!! I got all the Guitar Hero songs in there, are there some other good music packs or websites you’d suggest I visit to get more songs in there?The chorus.fightthe.pw website is a great place to search for songs. There’s also CustomSongCentral which has a lot of music packs. Finally there’s the google spreadsheet with a lot of packs. Don’t forget to join the official Clone Hero discord!
You’re a real one, thanks a ton! I’m going to absolutely load up on these now :)
