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Warhammer 40k. I like to paint little green guys and then move them around a battlefield.
A good half of the poeple in this hobby are almost entirely irredeemable
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.
this is how I feel about people who are really, really into Hearts of Iron IV.
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
I’m a white, Christian, male firearms enthusiast from Texas.
That’s a tough combination when I’m also extremely leftist.
Something about people finding someone who shares their interest in hobby and immediately starts to question them politically amuses me.
We come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs flow
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”
I like shooting and having guns.
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.
Me with my koi pond, before I discovered that most other pond owners are elderly right wing conspiracy theorists who don’t believe in crazy stuff like the nitrogen cycle or that mailing invasive plants like water hyacinth or water spangled is illegal.
Me but with anime and pedophiles
If someone enters a conversation saying child-coding isn’t a thing, they get a free block
“Well, I like Immigrant Song.”
Does programming count as a hobby? I waste my free time on it… There’s this funny stereotype, of a queer programmer with long, quirky socks, and maybe even a fursona. Despite being a small percentage, such types are often overrepresented online. It used to bother me a little.
Nowadays I’m so, so glad when someone I’m talking to is part of that group. It usually means I don’t need to worry about them being weirdly sexist, like women don’t suffer enough in STEM already, or insisting that we need to keep politics out of tech (i.e. they want their politics to rule, unquestioned).
(Need something more tangible? Look no further than uncle bob (skip to the bottom). I’ve seen his books in classrooms, in the office, and let’s not speak of online mentions. This is a relatively well-known, respected name in the industry. If you get to know people, you will meet many, many uncle bobs out there.)
Silly feelings on my part? Perhaps. One less thing to worry about, though.
Oh, you play video games…?
Becoming involved in niche video game communities made me realise how overwhelmingly right wing gamers can be.
It’s because video games are a hobby you can play in isolation and being a shithead often has no consequences online.
Similar to how small towns tend to be more xenophobic than big cities due to a lack of exposure to different people and viewpoints
That could be literally anyone these days, though. My mom plays video games.
I know but unfortunately moms can be racist, too.
Yeah, but at that point it’s not a red flag anymore. If everyone plays video games, it doesn’t have predictive value anymore until you get into specifics genres or even specific games/franchises.
But…Isn’t that the whole point of this post…? Playing video games doesn’t mean you’re a shitty person but there’s enough shitty people into the hobby that you need to get clarification? Why phrase it that way when we’re making the same point?
We’re not making the same point, though. Would you take it as a red flag to learn that someone often eats noodles or drinks cola?
Nowhere did I say it was a red flag to play video games so you’re countering a point I didn’t make with reasoning that supports the point I did
Playing games is not a red flag in itself but some games certainly are. So getting clarification is about checking for red flags…
…what kind of cola
That’s a different question, same as “what kinds of games”.
It’s silly to blame “gamers” when gamers encompasses potentially the entire planet with every belief.
Blame conservatives who happen to be gamers. It’s the same fucking people, every time.
From my experience playing online games, there’s a higher percentage of people publicly using slurs than the general population.
That’s not an admonishment of gamers as a whole, though. I’m not blaming “gamers” for anything
Those are 11 year olds who don’t know any better.
“Yeah, I’m a big fan of Hearts of Iron!”
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Legit, I have a teenager in the family heavily into it, and it is worrying. Are there any good articles on how to handle this specific thing gracefully?
Ask them what their favorite faction in that game is, or if there are any mods they’ve done recently. Could always just be a big nerd for WW2 cause they’re a teenager.
yeah, ww2 history is really interesting lol, it’s more a yellow flag than a red flag
Yup. A guy I know was a big WW2 nerd. Also openly gay. Sometimes people just like historic stuff.
Nope, sorry. Even if he only installed the game, it’s too late. We’re gonna have to put Jr. down.
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Stellaris has entered the chat
My genocidal machine empire is gonna wipe the galaxy of all the filthy xeno scum. I don’t even want your worlds, I’m gonna crack that bitch open like an egg because we don’t need your pathetic “breathable air”
God damn biologicals.
But seriously, Stellaris is fucking awesome.
“I’m currently playing through [single player game]”
Ah ok, we’re probably good
Exclusively plays Germany
A long time ago, when I was a teenager and the first HoI was out, I was only playing Germany. Mostly because it was the only powerful country which felt somewhat manageable without wanting to cry in the convoy screen…
Navy management is actually quite easy, people just overthink it/don’t understand that the AI is so flawed it doesn’t matter in SP, you just need enough naval superiority in one zone for a single day to Sealion Britain as anyone from Spain to Ethiopia. It’s also much easier now that you can claim navies in peace deals.
…There were peace deals in HoI 1? 🤨
Is exclusively playing Trotsky better or worse?
Is it bad that I played China in SP? I did pretty much take over the world…
It was an interesting run. Just surviving as China in the beginning is extremely hard, but eventually I controlled all of China plus Japan. Then Russia attacked so I took over almost all of Russia. Then the allies attacked, so I blocked them at India and eventually took over India, then North America and finally started pushing into Europe. With no DLC the endgame can become such a painful grind. The only aggressive wars I was in were the early wars to unify China. Other than that I was always on the defensive.
pink guy pfp
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Stellaris > Extreme Xenophobic
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Don’t know anyone who plays Stellaris so I have no idea how true this is lol
I legit think Stellaris is the best game if you want to roleplay inside 4X strategy. Which is why it’s of course worrying if someone keeps making fashy races :)
I just like playing as the tyanids, okay?
Although I guess if you want to get technical, they’re quite xenophilic… Gotta consume, maybe they’re just into vore.
Damn, what a terrible day to have a brain that thinks such thoughts… (not into vore, but I don’t kink-shame unless it’s your kink)
Maybe I do have a problem…
I haven’t played Stellaris for years, but I thought one wouldn’t go for Xenophobic on those races, but more for “I am the crisis”, shared consciousness builds, which I think would be OK.
I’ll be honest, I like playing stellaris but i tend to get burnt out after about 200 years or so, and don’t fully know all the game mechanics because of this.
I’ll defer to your expertise on this one.
You mean Genocide Simulator?
