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I’m sitting in the hospital room I’ve been in since Tuesday and can’t even begin to explain how bored I am. Let’s chat about anything except politics, I could use some distraction.

I collect hobbies and may even know something about your hobbies. What do you like to do?

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[–] mr_stank@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cool. If you would, can you give an example?

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Geocaching is one and Ingress another.

I was a hardcore geocacher for about 3 years until I realized I just wasn’t into it anymore. I played Ingress for a few years as well and just kinda burned out.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ooh I used to love Ingress. Back around 2013–2015 I played a heap of it. Jumped on briefly a few times in the time since. It was a much more well-crafted game than Pokémon Go.

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Enlightened. Initially it was just because I looked around my immediate local area and everything was blue, so I figured there'd be more to do with Enlightened. Then I came to realise my city outside my neighbourhood was overwhelmingly green, but we had a really great friendly local Enlightened community. When they moved away from Hangouts and G+ into Telegram I mostly lost touch.

In retrospect, the not-so-subtle political allegory with Enlightened being progressive and Resistance conservative is not lost on me either lol. Not that the meta-plot was especially important anyway.

How about you?

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was also Enlightened. I had a great time, but found myself feeling less and less involved with the community until finally just wasn’t into it. I got to level 15 and then had 0 interest in grinding to 16.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

I actually can't remember what level I ended up. I think the first time I semi-retired was when 8 was still the cap, but I definitely grinded (ground?) a few more levels out during one of the times I came back. Definitely glad of my Onyx Guardian.