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xkcd #3128: Thread Meeting

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Hey, so did you ever finish your video series about Cassie and the caterpillar morph? I loved the first three, but never ... no, sorry, I get it, this isn't the place. Sorry! Sorry.

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 55 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Years ago, in the scuba subreddit, I posted some pictures of some gear sets we had in a glass case in our shop we'd recovered along with the bodies of their divers in a local cave. It's our warning not to fuck around with cave diving without the proper gear and training.

Another person in the sub started chatting about some other interesting memorabilia I'd put up in the shop, and it was clear he was one of my divemasters.

So he and I suddenly knew each other's reddit handles, and turned out our paths had crossed in several other niche subs, and we realized how many hobbies we didn't even realize we shared despite hanging out weekly at the shop.

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I hope none of you have a habit of commenting on porn threads, because that would surely be an uncanny way of finding out eachother's kinks

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nah - it was boring stuff like 3d printing, guns, and PC building.

We're both gear nerds.

[–] powerofm@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

one of these things is not like the others

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 months ago

Yeah, scuba diving is completely different.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

A mechanical thing with interchangeable parts where nerds discuss the performance, compare, and customize them.

The "why" someone is into a thing, imo, is more important than the thing, usually.

[–] Signtist@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 5 months ago

I specifically use my normal username and profile pic as a challenge to people. Oh, you want to laugh about how you saw me in a thread discussing a fetish porn game? Care to explain what you were doing there? Okay, now, give me your list of favorites.