Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.

  • Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 year ago

    I try to make something that looks good (or at least doesn’t look like random static) by running pictures I’ve taken through audio editing software. There are some extra steps that go into it to “trick” the program into importing the picture as if it were a sound file, making sure the header (information that tells your computer that this is a picture) doesn’t get fucked with, and then exporting the data in a way that it will be saved as a picture and not an mp3 or something else.

    On the rare occasion I do bring it up, I can literally watch people’s eyes glaze over. Until I show them a picture

    Edit: internet is really bad right now, will reply with an image when I can

    Edit2: picture was too big at 7MB. Hopefully a screenshot of the picture doesn’t look too bad

  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I was learning Gregg Shorthand at some point just for the fun of it and every time I brought it up people had no idea what I was on about.

    • OldFartPhil@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m old enough to remember when shorthand was a required course for women in secretarial schools. I always though it was black magic and very cool.

        • OldFartPhil@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          In my 60’s. According to Internet sources, shorthand was taught in schools until the 1990’s. It’s likely that shorthand use declined as PCs became common in offices.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’ve never let it stop me, but:

    • ethical philosophy

    • social dance, especially contra and square

    • chromosomal / genetic inheritance simulations

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Model trains. I don’t bring it up because it’s obscure, but I’ve definitely found there’s a stigma. “Oh he’s the guy who plays with trains”. Screw the haters, I like to relax after work and do a bit of escapism. Eventually I got over it though and talk about it with friends, but it’s not the first thing I bring up either