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@PhantomSingh10 @america Brown is brown.

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@wylfcen Unfortunately, Superhomo would evoke a much different image in most American minds, and not one that makes for a blockbuster movie 😂

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@DevMinecra49272 @NASA The left is not America; it's the Americas—plural, consisting of North America and South America.

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Your amateur golfer golfing with his buddies on the weekend isn't typically buying all the expensive professional gear. If he is, he has a problem.

A good set of tools should easily last your lifetime, your son's lifetime, and his son's lifetime if stored and used properly.

Most sports fans buy those expensive things once or twice a year when they go to a game. That's an experience like a family vacation for most of us, not a hobby one engages in regularly. If someone has a whole room dedicated to stadium gift shop purchases, he has a problem; there's a big difference between that and an autographed baseball on the shelf.

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@Zheshka_ @Hegemol29052 @memeticsisyphus Low intensity exercise is better than no exercise every time. And you don't see how being able to accurately shoot an armed assailant or home invader is a good thing?

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@Cephalie_ @TomasVallerino @Hegemol29052 @memeticsisyphus It's literally the most basic determination of belonging to a group throughout all of human history.

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@Cephalie_ @TomasVallerino @Hegemol29052 @memeticsisyphus Blood.

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@Cephalie_ @TomasVallerino @Hegemol29052 @memeticsisyphus You mean I have literally only valid opinions. Birthright citizenship is a curse on American society; as long as it stands, we have no Nation.

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@Zheshka_ @Hegemol29052 @memeticsisyphus Yes? Golfing is a physical activity that is done outdoors, which is objectively good for you. And marksmanship is always a good skill to nurture.

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@c000game @memeticsisyphus So a clear difference from "now get out. You know it's my train time." Got it. Also, a pastime which boosts one's creative endeavors is still markedly different from one that involves *checks notes* turning a toy train on and off.

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I wouldn't call her autistic for buying too many purses, but if she has an entire room in a middle class house dedicated to her purse collection and spends a significant amount of time every week toying around with them and trying them on in a mirror, she definitely has a problem that ought to be diagnosable.

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How many guitars? Are they autographed or otherwise special in a way that makes them worth the space to store them, or are they just normal guitars? If the latter, then the line is 3 for a hobby musician and 1 for someone who doesn't play.

WWII memorabilia and baseball merch follow a similar metric with the line between interest and excess coming down to how much space they take up. The former has a potential justification in its educational value for bringing up your children and grandchildren, and one could make a similar defense of the latter, though to a lesser extent.

With video games the answer comes down to how many you actually play regularly. If you can manage to make that number greater than three, you have too much time for video games and should look into having an actual life.

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@Nick_Jenk @Hegemol29052 @memeticsisyphus And not all hobbies are equally valuable or deserving of respect.

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Tinkering actually has the potential to produce something of value. And even if you don't make something useful from the tinkering itself, you're building and maintaining skills that you use to tune up your lawnmower, do basic car maintenance, fix things up around the house, or even just help your kid make his pinewood derby car for cub scouts.

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@TomasVallerino @Hegemol29052 @memeticsisyphus Switching a motor on and off is no more "enrichment" than rotting your brain in front of the TV for hours on end. But apparently having that pointed out struck a nerve for you.

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@_Plac3_hold3r @memeticsisyphus What paradox? A banana duct taped to a canvas isn't art, nor is the retard who put it there an artist.

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@zodiac6995 @Hegemol29052 @memeticsisyphus And one can have good hobbies or bad hobbies. By your logic, a druggie tweaking on the street corner is just as valid in his hobby as the volunteers cleaning up litter a block away.

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@SasquatchBeans @Hegemol29052 @memeticsisyphus And it's still better for them than rotting away in front of a TV all day or spending their afternoons turning a switch off and on.

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It's how it ought to work. For example, I enjoy reading and I dabble in writing. I've posted some of my writings online and discussed books on a few occasions, but even if I did none of those, the act of reading and writing expands my vocabulary, exercises various mental faculties, and increases my breadth and depth of knowledge across various subjects.

Just as obsessively reading a single book or rehashing the same story over and over again would be a waste of time, so is constantly playing with the same set of toys in nearly the same way for hours on end every week.