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I've always loved flashlights. Yes FLASHLIGHTS with an A!!! Anyway, apparently not many people share my rather niche interest.

So I ask you, fellow Lemmites, what are your hobbies and weird obsessions that you can ramble on about for hours?

Please feel free to ramble on about your passions here. Maybe you'll find some likeminded individuals!

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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Lockpicking isn't just for committing crimes! It's a whole hobby! You can't prove that I've ever picked open a lock to get into someone's apartment... Mainly because I still can't get into this damn Abus 72/40, let alone trying someone's front door

If you want something I can talk to you about for hours, get me started on Kerbal Space Program. You know, there's really no "getting good" at KSP, only learning, and for all the planets and moons, there are only like five challenges: Taking off without blowing up, getting to orbit, orbiting the Mün, landing on the Mün, orbiting Minmus, and landing on Duna. Each of those requires a bit more knowledge than the last, and everything after those is just a remix of what you learn from those. To get to orbit, you have to take off successfully. To get to the Mün you have to learn about transfer windows and bi-impulsive transfers. To land on the Mün you need to build a ship capable of getting to and landing on the Mün. To get to Minmus, you need to learn how to match inclinations. To land on Duna you need to learn how to do all of that, but on an interplanetary scale. Everything else–landing on Dres, the Jool 5, returning from Eve–it's all just more advanced versions of those five things.

Of course, there's skill in making these missions as cheap as possible, as low part count as possible, as complicated as possible (see Matt Lowne's YouTube channel), and there are SSTOs to figure out, but ultimately the game itself is about exploring, and to do that you just need to learn those five things. This is just one of many rants I can go on about the game

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Most apartments use Kwikset locks, which are cheap and ineffective. Picking one of those was easier than picking the practice lock from my kit. I could get my front door open in 30 seconds flat with a single pin pick, or like 2 seconds with a city rake.

[–] Abird1620@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, after about 10 minutes of practicing on a practice lock I decided to try my front door. Raked it in seconds. It was so fast my dad had a code operated bolt ordered that same night.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I always thought it was BS in movies when they pick a door lock in a few seconds, but nope! That's completely realistic. The rake was even faster than my key on some attempts.