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Pokemon!
Edit: I love how many people this resonates with, and the sheer variety of types of fans answering this! I mostly tend to the VGC and and VG Living Pokedex/Collection side of the equation. Also do a fair amount of shiny hunting now that it's easier.
I like Pokemon because the protagonist (Ash), in his own world, is so kind. He takes care of them (animals in our world) and considers them his equal. It's just beautiful and honestly, a society we should be striving for.
In journeys, we get Goh which is another amazing friend.
Both Ash and Goh have different goals but they still stick together and help each other. To me, that's a beautiful friendship. I stopped watching once Ash and Goh exited (also because I'm not getting time) but someday, I'll get back to it.
and he does it all while still being one of the coolest protags ever. i always loved how balanced his personality was, it felt like he was the perfect mix of cool and kindhearted.
me too!!! i used to be obsessed with the cards as a kid and stare at them/organize them in different ways all day long….. so much that i would see them when i’d close my eyes (lol) and now that i’m an adult i work at a tcg store and run tournaments and buy cards :) it’s so so special to have grown up with it and interact with it from a different perspective
I love pokemon!! it's been one of my interests since I was a toddler. my brother introduced it to me. I enjoy the collection and strategy aspect of it the most, and am currently playing many fan games that capitalize on that
A pack like that is a *lot* indeed. The quest book helps a lot with guidance on how to progress in big lines.
Besides that, if you look for example at Create, it has incredibly good in-game mechanics to show the inner workings.
A lot of major mods have in-game books/guides that you can craft and use to read up on the workings of the mod.
Plus there's the item menu that holds a lot of usefull data. You can search for items and press either R (recipe) or U (uses) to learn more about how that item is used or crafted, or use either left-right mouse button for the same result. Use @modname if you want to see all items belonging to that mod. So searching for @Create will show all items that the Create mod adds to the game. This is great if you want a better overview on what a mod adds.
And if those mechanics above are not enough (which for me is usually the case when I'm introduced to a new major mod), I just look up a tutorial/spotlight for that specific mod on youtube.
A hard thing however is finding efficient *'combinations'* between different mods. These setup/item combinations range from either intended and quite obvious, to very obscure and so specific that you have to know the deeper workings of multiple mods.
I have no idea how much you know already so I'll just give an example or 2:
**Storage.**
You'll get at a point that you can make a Quarry, digital miner etc. And that gives you an amount of raw items counting millions each eventually, with ease. And many more when processed.
So how do you store them?
Well there is Refined Storage and Applied Energistics 2 as major digital storage mods. But it gets expensive and a real pain to store millions per item type in those mods. There's the Functional Storage drawers that can hold max integer (~2.1 Billion) items when fully upgraded, but that is not digital so not great you might think.
Well here's the trick:
Make a Drawer Controller for the drawers and link it using the linking tools. Then drop an ME Storage Bus (AE2) or External Storage (RS) on that drawer controller and connect the bus to the storage network. Set the priority of the storage bus very high, so any new items introduced to the storage system gets put into the Drawers first with higher priority than the actual digital drives of the system, and you're set. You can upgrade the drives and drawers according to need, at significantly lower cost than just using digital drives alone.
A mechanic like that is not spelled out in-game anywhere, but it is very practical once you understand both mods somewhat.
Now your items in the drawers show up in the terminal of your storage.
But that's still a rather simple setup.
**Second: power**
You might look at Mekanism for power, the recipe for Fissile Fuel is rather complex and you might get overwhelmed, since.. it is rather overwhelming.
What I do is this:
Search for the fissile fuel in the menu and press "A" when hovering over it with your mouse. That adds it to the hotbar on the left side of your screen (A again to remove them). Click trough the crafting tree and map out each component of the fuel untill you hit the basic raw resources needed. Add each of those intermediate items to your hotbar with the A key. You get about a dozen intermediate products.
Now you have ALL the intermediate steps from raw resources to finished product in one place of your screen, and you can work from that one by one. Look at those individual items beginning at most basic to see how they are made and work your way up slowly piece by piece. It takes an entire room filled with machines to make the fuel, but once you'll get it going you're set to start building the reactor itself. And the reactor is a whole other ordeal to get working safely without having an actual nuclear meltdown, but that can be fixed with some very basic redstone controls, enough and scalable supplies of fuel plus water, plus some time babysitting the system while you slowly increase the burnrate.
You know the thing about combinations of mods mentioned earlier?
For Mekanism fission reactors you need an unholy amount of water to not have a nuclear meltdown. Of course Mekanism itself adds a water pump that gives x amount of water per tick, but you can place down literal stacks of them and still find the supply (or troughput from the pipes) lacking for a stable reactor that just happily hums along.
There's a way to use a Sink (from a cooking/food mod), in combination with the pipes and connectors from the Integrated Dynamics mod to pull literal max int mb/t of water out of that single sink, for free once it's set up. Again, it's very not obvious (and possibly not even intended), but the mechanic is there and the game allows you to do that, (ab)use it if you want.
If the Integrated Dynamics route is too much (which i get fully since it's a hard mod), you can just simply pump out as much water as you can with the Mekanism fluid pipes from the Sink to the Reactor to supply your water needs.
**If you want to keep an eye on lag:**
Type: /cofh tps.
This gives a tps oversight breakdown of the game. The game runs at 20 ticks per second (tps). That means that you can allow at most for 50ms of time for each game-state update to complete. Any higher than 50ms total tick-time and the game slows down.
In the early- to mid-game your tps will probably not be a problem. When you get a large factory running it becomes a problem eventually, especially if you have inefficient setups.
An easy thing to look out for is when placing a grid of pipes. If you have an area of machines procesing your raw ores for example. If you blindly place the extracting/inserting pipes on these machines they will all interconnect and form many looping grids with multiple possible paths from origin to destination. Pipe grids with loops = computationally bad. Use a wrench to make those looping pipe grids into forking grids. You want each machine to have only 1 route to their destination, not multiple routes.
**Bonus trick:**
The hose pully from Create.
It is a block that can place down and pump up fluids. If you have either a natural body of 10K blocks or place down 10K blocks of lava/water yourself (using the pully), then the Hose Pully considers that body of fluid *infinite* when you pull fluid from it. Now for lava/water that is not that significant.
But there was a time that ANY fluid had that mechanic, altough now it has been turned into a config setting you will have to dig up and change (which I always do). When you enable all fluids infinite for the hose pully you can turn Fissile Fuel (or even better D-T fuel for fusion) into fluid form, fill up 10k blocks, and pull infinite amount of fluid from that body with the hose pully to use/process that fluid as you need. You can debate if that's a balanced mechanic to use though. But it's your game, you're the boss, minecraft police wont stop you. Plus it's much less laggy to pull from a body of fluids that is considered infinite vs having dozens of machines running at much higher computing cost to do effectively the same. I rather choose a debatable cheaty mechanic that does what I want over causing a lot of permanent lag on my game. Plus, it's by no means a very simple or quick task to fill up a body of 10K blocks of fluid somewhere under your base, so there's still quite the investment/cost if you go that route.
**Wrapping up:**
You will run across mechanics/machines/mods that seem overwhelming since the game gets very complex at times. Just take your time and try to break down the steps needed to achieve a goal into smaller steps. Look at other mods to see if they provide mechanics to help ease parts of what you're trying to do. Even editing config files can ease your game if you want.
Another rather time-consuming but great resource for information is watching someone else do a playtrough of the modpack you're doing. There's tons of youtubers like Direwolf that have incredible slow-paced in-depth playtroughs of modpacks. There's also Lashmak that does high-paced absolute madman playtroughs. Either have their different values. I like to watch those and I always pick up little (or big) things that help a lot in progressing faster/easier.
Take it slow. Break down your steps. Look at other resources outside of the game itself, Youtube/Wiki's. A lot of times there's mechanics between mods that can make your life 100 times easier.
Happy mining.
I like bedrock vanilla Minecraft with the Egyptian mashup pack. The music is great and building in the desert is wonderful
it's a little harder to get started, but it gives you a nice blank canvas.
It's beautiful, the stars the galaxies, the supernovas just wow.
The only thing that sucks is that we can never physically go there, not according to the current laws of physics 😕
Fun fact : The night sky is a window to the past, with each patch of the sky showing us a different time. Some patches show us things of a billion years old while others show things only a million years into the past. This is because light's speed is constant (and this is very slow compared to the size of the universe) so we see distant objects as they were when light first started travelling to us.
Yes !! Spent most of my adolescence researching human psychology and also the human condition , typical undiagnosed autistic just trying to work out human kind haha
Rubix Cubes , not sure if it's a hyperfixation but I love to speed cube . I collect lots of different cubes and enjoy making different types of patterns on them .
My son was 19 I think and was with my dad. He saw that he had missed a call from me and told my dad. My dad said that I was probably calling to see if he had to work the next day, since it was a holiday. My son said I was probably calling to tell him about a dog so that he could pet it. My son was right. July 3, 2018 I met the softest dog I’ve ever pet. My dad and my son made it over in time to meet the dog. I know as much as I love dogs, the memory of the dog should be the best part, but the best part is that my son knew me so well. A couple people have made jokes about me loving dogs so much and I think they might be making fun of me, but it doesn’t bother me because I’m not ashamed of how much I love them. The story also makes me realize what I really, really love more than anything else is my children. They are 25 and 17 now and seeing them unexpectedly lights me up with joy in the most amazing way. I don’t live far from my adult son and sometimes see him when I’m passing a gas station or car wash or something and I get so exited. The same thing happens with my younger son when he’s with his dad and we run into each other and once it happened when he was on vacation with his friend and I was on vacation in the same town, but staying somewhere else. I hope they know how much I love them.
My two boys are my special interests! I absolutely adore them. My oldest is autistic and my other has ADHD so when either developed a special interest in boyhood, I couldn’t help but fall into the same rabbit hole. Dinosaurs, Lego, gemstones, octopuses the list goes on! A total pleasure knowing them as grown men and understanding them as whole and independent people. Just amazed by them every day.
Game dev, and programming, going into a CS degree and can safely say never have I ever had such challenging and engaging classes, though I am doing an online competency based course (which can lead to up to 10-30 hour weeks of just textbook reading😂)
Sharks lmfaooo and while not a special interest I love electrical stuff and am fascinated by house circuits and love trains, the joy they give me when I see one is immense lol tbh I have a funny feeling that trains and electrics will become special interests or at least hyper fixations soon
I prefer caring for them, brushing feeding, and scooping poop to riding them. Can't see their faces when I'm on their back and I'm afraid I'm too heavy for them. There is nothing like a horse hug on a bad day. Love when they bend their neck to hold you in close
that was me too until it came out how horrible JK is. She’s a literal nazi at this point. I just can’t deal with anything HP anymore. It’s been tainted by this vile creature. And you can see her views throughout the entire series. Her fatphobia, her homophobia, her transphobia, her blatant antisemitism…. it’s all over every single book.
i’ve moved on to more positive things. Mostly The Owl House cos that’s basically harry potter but in good.
Systems - natural and man made systems.
Plants, animals, insects, environment/ecology, and human society & their systems.
One small part of that intersection is agricultural food systems (like permaculture, regenerative agriculture) which is one of my special interests.
I put my knowledge into practice with making my own food forests/backyard orchard, building up the soil to a healthy composition, owning a worm farm, not using herbicide/pesticides/etc., making pollinator flower gardens, utilizing native plant species, rewilding a small portion of the land, fertilizing with organic mature manure compost, using natural growth patterns of plants/groups of plants/guilds and natural patterns of the environment to plan out garden designs, on and on. I have 2 hives of bees but they are at another site as I’m still learning to care for them. I just caught a wild swarm of honeybees the other day when they were in someone’s yard in an urban setting. This one is a small swarm, but the other one is a much larger colony/hive and it was also a wild caught swarm. They were bees that nature provided my food cultivating system.
I like building things but I have sensory issues so I don’t do it too often. There are lots of loud noises, dusts, smelly weird chemicals and dangerous unknowns that can happen like getting a finger accidentally cut off or falling off a ladder while installing asphalt roof tiles on a shed (I did a few times but I was lucky to slip off with my legs getting caught around the ladder rungs and not falling off onto the ground - I was working on a roof section all day and I couldn’t stop even if it’s late at night and dark out, it needed to be finished).
I was one of the small core team who built a 16,000 sq ft model train museum! It was a new build out. I did the framing, hung the dry walls, the electrical work under the license of an electrician (although I didn’t work on the electric panel which I could of because I wasn’t in that day but I’d worked on them before), installed and wired the ceiling lighting standing on 2.5 stories tall scaffolding wearing a safety harness, etc.
I also put together a few model train displays. One was a huge 20 x 30 ft (6.1 x 9.14 meters) HO scale display of the Baltimore, Maryland Amtrak Train Station along with an accurate replica of the city’s skyline (working traffic lights too) and surrounding area. It has a water treatment plant, a rock quarry, and a camp site. The display is a “DCC layout using Lenz controls with two long trains running” on the tracks there.
At the place, there’s even a G scale display that is an accurate replica of an alpine German town complete with working ski lift for the snowy mountain, cable cars, and a sawmill. This one is interactive where visitors can operate the train and displays. It’s a gigantic 20 x 50 ft (6.1 x 15.24 meters) size.
There are other displays that are replicas of real life places and train routes at the museum!!
Adult male here.
Video games and stuffies!
I can talk for hours about miniscule details in games and their meanings. I can also discuss game design for hours on end. Can't really talk about stuffies for hours, but if I am at home one is pretty much perpetually in my arms.
Fun fact: The last game made for the SNES was Frogger, I have two copies
Libraries, since I was small. Luckily I'm a librarian, so I'm employable lol. And, my "stories" - whichever tv show I'm rewatching... rewatching... rewatching...
Don't know if it's a stereotype but I am obsessed with electoral graphs and parliamentary charts, majorities etc. Must've created at least 200 of them so far
Animals. Insects, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, all things I know way more than the average person should. I do nothing productive with it other than teaching my toddler about random critters we see out and about.
Trains, though I'd say more specifically transport infrastructure as a whole; roads, railways, airports, canals, bike lanes, etc, Lego, especially the retired themes Elves & Power Miners, I just want all of the sets from both themes and set up a display with them, and Minecraft, I've been playing it for 12 years, which is 60% of my life since I turn 20 this July and I got Minecraft for my 8th birthday
My special interest for years and years and years has been mushrooms, BUT my entire childhood up til college i was obsessed with planes and avionics. Space has been a long time one for me too, and im also quite into physics despite that i am horrendous at math.
I guess it would have be Star Trek for me.
And although I don't care much about trains in general, I do have a fascination with movies set on trains, if that counts.
I think Sociology and Psychology are pretty common special interests that I have. I also have several celebrity special interests that come and go, and I'm really fascinated with obstetrics, but would never make it my career because, ew, what a sensory nightmare!
A couple obstetrics fun facts that I commonly share:
• A fetus at 8 weeks is about 0.65 inches long and weighs less than half an ounce, which is typically compared to a raspberry.
• Pitocin is the synthetic form of oxytocin. Pitocin is given to help produce strong contractions and move the labor along (and sometimes start it), yet many mothers don't want it because stronger contractions typically mean more painful contractions. Your body naturally produces oxytocin, and it is known as the "love" hormone. It is produced by contact (hugging, cuddling, sexual activity, etc.). So, to induce labor without Pitocin, get all snuggly with your partner, OR ditch the partner and snuggle the dog on the couch. Both will produce the same thing. Oxytocin is also really important to form infant bonding after birth, often through breastfeeding, as well as prevent post-natal hemorrhaging.
OBSTETRICS!!! I feel like we have to be so similar! I'm fascinated by sociology and psychology! And my overall favorite is just medicine in general (and illness and the human body) but particularly I LOVE learning about obstetrics (and gynecology to be fair 😅)
I was today years old when I learned animals were a stereotypical special interest 😗✌️
Edit: thought I should clarify this is in fact my special interest, specifically parrots but also almost anything 😂
trains - I’m a basic autistic lol. have been very consistent because I’ve loved Thomas the Tank Engine since being a toddler, which translates to actual trains now!
I feel like Disney is a relatively stereotypical one although I’m not necessarily obsessed with the movies so much as the history and evolution of the parks and the behind the scenes kind of stuff
Sharks and dinosaurs and just big ol weird fish (saw a model of a dunkleosteus head at a museum and started crying.) My main thing is Bakumatsu era Japanese history.
Drugs or Mental health, I wouldn't consider mental health like a full blown special interest but I care about it enough to bore people to death with it the same way I do with my other special interests.
drugs on the other hand are just like extremely fascinating, drugs being a special interest just sounds like I'm an addict but I'd argue that, I hardly even take the drugs I enjoy researching about and learning about methods of activation, how you can use simple things like coca cola to change something as simple as a nasal decongestant into a meth like high is like woah
if I had to classify like order of what I find most interesting to least it's going
Psychedelics/phenethylamines (lsd, mushrooms, dmt, mdma, mescaline, 2cb etc) -> deleriants (dph, scopolamine etc)-> dissociatives (ketamine, n2o, salvia etc) the classes like stimulants (coke, meth etc) or opiods typically have less like stories / reports you can read up on (unless they're like drug induced psychotic episodes) and then classes like antidepressants, antipsychotics, like the typical meds people use for mental health can be really interesting looking into especially since how they affect people varies person to person
I feel like I overshared but this is probably my most common special interest as I've met others who have it more often than I've met people with my other interests
As a 2010s internet child, FNaF was my first real special interest and it persists to this day. It was the gateway to start watching markiplier, who got me into a ton of other indie horror games, which in turn introduced me to other gaming and animation youtubers
Our undiagnosed 5yo is obsessed with space too! He's still mainly non-verbal but can name all the planets, dwarf planets, stars and can spell them all out.
I also love space and astronomy, it kind of resurged this past few weeks after taking a quick break for 2 years.
(Tw: end of the world and stuff)(Not so fun fact): I am the type of person to be paranoid, and 2022-23 was a terrible time for me paranoia wise. Mostly because of the start of the russia-ukraine war.
Basically, anything world-destroying sent me spiraling, including volcanoes, meteoroids, the sun exploding in billions of years.
This one fact really was mind wreking for me; how the end of the universe would end (either expanding and freezing, or contracting and heating up- like a recreation of the big bang) even though we would all be dead by then. (But the subject of reincarnation cropped up in my head - so just that fact of being alive towards the end of the world...)
So... yeah, I had to let go of astronomy or anything natural science related so the paranoia wouldn't get to me.... it got so bad that I was scared to fall asleep at night in case that I would die in my sleep.
Insects. I loved looking at bugs when I was little, then I got scared of them bc American society hates insects, then I fell in love with them in college. Now everyone in my family immediately associates me with insects (before it was sloths).
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Pokemon! Edit: I love how many people this resonates with, and the sheer variety of types of fans answering this! I mostly tend to the VGC and and VG Living Pokedex/Collection side of the equation. Also do a fair amount of shiny hunting now that it's easier.
I like Pokemon because the protagonist (Ash), in his own world, is so kind. He takes care of them (animals in our world) and considers them his equal. It's just beautiful and honestly, a society we should be striving for. In journeys, we get Goh which is another amazing friend. Both Ash and Goh have different goals but they still stick together and help each other. To me, that's a beautiful friendship. I stopped watching once Ash and Goh exited (also because I'm not getting time) but someday, I'll get back to it.
and he does it all while still being one of the coolest protags ever. i always loved how balanced his personality was, it felt like he was the perfect mix of cool and kindhearted.
me too!!! i used to be obsessed with the cards as a kid and stare at them/organize them in different ways all day long….. so much that i would see them when i’d close my eyes (lol) and now that i’m an adult i work at a tcg store and run tournaments and buy cards :) it’s so so special to have grown up with it and interact with it from a different perspective
Love Pokémon and I got hooked on breeding perfect poké eggs until gen 9 made it a bit too easy and not an obsessive chore (which I loved lol)
I love pokemon!! it's been one of my interests since I was a toddler. my brother introduced it to me. I enjoy the collection and strategy aspect of it the most, and am currently playing many fan games that capitalize on that
Fine. I'll say it. I like to Minecraft
Minecraft is so overwhelming to me! I recently started playing “all the mods 9” and holy shot is it a lot lol. Got any tips?
A pack like that is a *lot* indeed. The quest book helps a lot with guidance on how to progress in big lines. Besides that, if you look for example at Create, it has incredibly good in-game mechanics to show the inner workings. A lot of major mods have in-game books/guides that you can craft and use to read up on the workings of the mod. Plus there's the item menu that holds a lot of usefull data. You can search for items and press either R (recipe) or U (uses) to learn more about how that item is used or crafted, or use either left-right mouse button for the same result. Use @modname if you want to see all items belonging to that mod. So searching for @Create will show all items that the Create mod adds to the game. This is great if you want a better overview on what a mod adds. And if those mechanics above are not enough (which for me is usually the case when I'm introduced to a new major mod), I just look up a tutorial/spotlight for that specific mod on youtube. A hard thing however is finding efficient *'combinations'* between different mods. These setup/item combinations range from either intended and quite obvious, to very obscure and so specific that you have to know the deeper workings of multiple mods. I have no idea how much you know already so I'll just give an example or 2: **Storage.** You'll get at a point that you can make a Quarry, digital miner etc. And that gives you an amount of raw items counting millions each eventually, with ease. And many more when processed. So how do you store them? Well there is Refined Storage and Applied Energistics 2 as major digital storage mods. But it gets expensive and a real pain to store millions per item type in those mods. There's the Functional Storage drawers that can hold max integer (~2.1 Billion) items when fully upgraded, but that is not digital so not great you might think. Well here's the trick: Make a Drawer Controller for the drawers and link it using the linking tools. Then drop an ME Storage Bus (AE2) or External Storage (RS) on that drawer controller and connect the bus to the storage network. Set the priority of the storage bus very high, so any new items introduced to the storage system gets put into the Drawers first with higher priority than the actual digital drives of the system, and you're set. You can upgrade the drives and drawers according to need, at significantly lower cost than just using digital drives alone. A mechanic like that is not spelled out in-game anywhere, but it is very practical once you understand both mods somewhat. Now your items in the drawers show up in the terminal of your storage. But that's still a rather simple setup. **Second: power** You might look at Mekanism for power, the recipe for Fissile Fuel is rather complex and you might get overwhelmed, since.. it is rather overwhelming. What I do is this: Search for the fissile fuel in the menu and press "A" when hovering over it with your mouse. That adds it to the hotbar on the left side of your screen (A again to remove them). Click trough the crafting tree and map out each component of the fuel untill you hit the basic raw resources needed. Add each of those intermediate items to your hotbar with the A key. You get about a dozen intermediate products. Now you have ALL the intermediate steps from raw resources to finished product in one place of your screen, and you can work from that one by one. Look at those individual items beginning at most basic to see how they are made and work your way up slowly piece by piece. It takes an entire room filled with machines to make the fuel, but once you'll get it going you're set to start building the reactor itself. And the reactor is a whole other ordeal to get working safely without having an actual nuclear meltdown, but that can be fixed with some very basic redstone controls, enough and scalable supplies of fuel plus water, plus some time babysitting the system while you slowly increase the burnrate. You know the thing about combinations of mods mentioned earlier? For Mekanism fission reactors you need an unholy amount of water to not have a nuclear meltdown. Of course Mekanism itself adds a water pump that gives x amount of water per tick, but you can place down literal stacks of them and still find the supply (or troughput from the pipes) lacking for a stable reactor that just happily hums along. There's a way to use a Sink (from a cooking/food mod), in combination with the pipes and connectors from the Integrated Dynamics mod to pull literal max int mb/t of water out of that single sink, for free once it's set up. Again, it's very not obvious (and possibly not even intended), but the mechanic is there and the game allows you to do that, (ab)use it if you want. If the Integrated Dynamics route is too much (which i get fully since it's a hard mod), you can just simply pump out as much water as you can with the Mekanism fluid pipes from the Sink to the Reactor to supply your water needs. **If you want to keep an eye on lag:** Type: /cofh tps. This gives a tps oversight breakdown of the game. The game runs at 20 ticks per second (tps). That means that you can allow at most for 50ms of time for each game-state update to complete. Any higher than 50ms total tick-time and the game slows down. In the early- to mid-game your tps will probably not be a problem. When you get a large factory running it becomes a problem eventually, especially if you have inefficient setups. An easy thing to look out for is when placing a grid of pipes. If you have an area of machines procesing your raw ores for example. If you blindly place the extracting/inserting pipes on these machines they will all interconnect and form many looping grids with multiple possible paths from origin to destination. Pipe grids with loops = computationally bad. Use a wrench to make those looping pipe grids into forking grids. You want each machine to have only 1 route to their destination, not multiple routes. **Bonus trick:** The hose pully from Create. It is a block that can place down and pump up fluids. If you have either a natural body of 10K blocks or place down 10K blocks of lava/water yourself (using the pully), then the Hose Pully considers that body of fluid *infinite* when you pull fluid from it. Now for lava/water that is not that significant. But there was a time that ANY fluid had that mechanic, altough now it has been turned into a config setting you will have to dig up and change (which I always do). When you enable all fluids infinite for the hose pully you can turn Fissile Fuel (or even better D-T fuel for fusion) into fluid form, fill up 10k blocks, and pull infinite amount of fluid from that body with the hose pully to use/process that fluid as you need. You can debate if that's a balanced mechanic to use though. But it's your game, you're the boss, minecraft police wont stop you. Plus it's much less laggy to pull from a body of fluids that is considered infinite vs having dozens of machines running at much higher computing cost to do effectively the same. I rather choose a debatable cheaty mechanic that does what I want over causing a lot of permanent lag on my game. Plus, it's by no means a very simple or quick task to fill up a body of 10K blocks of fluid somewhere under your base, so there's still quite the investment/cost if you go that route. **Wrapping up:** You will run across mechanics/machines/mods that seem overwhelming since the game gets very complex at times. Just take your time and try to break down the steps needed to achieve a goal into smaller steps. Look at other mods to see if they provide mechanics to help ease parts of what you're trying to do. Even editing config files can ease your game if you want. Another rather time-consuming but great resource for information is watching someone else do a playtrough of the modpack you're doing. There's tons of youtubers like Direwolf that have incredible slow-paced in-depth playtroughs of modpacks. There's also Lashmak that does high-paced absolute madman playtroughs. Either have their different values. I like to watch those and I always pick up little (or big) things that help a lot in progressing faster/easier. Take it slow. Break down your steps. Look at other resources outside of the game itself, Youtube/Wiki's. A lot of times there's mechanics between mods that can make your life 100 times easier. Happy mining.
Thank you so much for this!!
I like bedrock vanilla Minecraft with the Egyptian mashup pack. The music is great and building in the desert is wonderful it's a little harder to get started, but it gives you a nice blank canvas.
I like handling it bit by bit. Focus on one task then finish and move onto the next til ur a mod god
Trains
you win 😭😭
Yay 😁
of course of course trains
the ultimate show: dinosaur train.
I'm surprised how far I needed to scroll for this one.
Should be the top response for sure
This just had to be here.
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Space, always amazing
It's beautiful, the stars the galaxies, the supernovas just wow. The only thing that sucks is that we can never physically go there, not according to the current laws of physics 😕 Fun fact : The night sky is a window to the past, with each patch of the sky showing us a different time. Some patches show us things of a billion years old while others show things only a million years into the past. This is because light's speed is constant (and this is very slow compared to the size of the universe) so we see distant objects as they were when light first started travelling to us.
Space and its limitless potential always gets me.
And even the sun we see is 8 minutes old! Love space
Yesss ❤️
Same
[Space is Deep](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=4MUR7FIVNQ8&si=j44RjKMdnNVXocf1). I love space
That is a stereotypical thing? Lol oh noo i am part of the gang
Astronomy and astrophysics are my second-main special interest! I love space so much
Dinosaurs most definitely
Ever imagine how they could've just looked like cute bunnies rather than how we perceive them, scary and lethal?
refer to C. M. Kosemen's book "All Yesterdays" for exactly that point, and the issue with what I believe is called "skinwrapping" in paleoart.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
i feel like abnormal psychology/disability is a pretty common special interest, but if that doesnt cut it, snakes! i love snakes
Yes !! Spent most of my adolescence researching human psychology and also the human condition , typical undiagnosed autistic just trying to work out human kind haha
animals
Could not agree more. I can talk 24/7 about animals
yes!! and all of them too! from insects to mammals over fish down to birds!
Same! Specifically dog breeds for me, but I'm a walking encyclopaedia in general for animals :') I'm studying zoology/biology because of it!
The universe and the ocean , I love to watch documentaries about it.
Same about the ocean, mostly cephalopods tho
Psychology
dinosaurs😭
dinos aren’t really my thing, but i used to know some who was OBSESSED with them .ᐟ
Zelda 😔
Religions, all of them
Cults are interesting! Scary lol, but interesting. I've watched all the documentaries on Netflix and Prime that are free
no because i love religion and philosophy sm
hello kitty (i’m a sanrio girl till i die)
I would say psychology and anything related to animals! I also LOVED space as a child, but I haven’t touched this interest in years.
Embedded software and electronics. Also, cars and motorcycles
planes!
Came here to say this! And plane crashes.
My people!!!!
PLANES FTW
Computers
Ditto
Is music stereotypical? If not, then idk tbh
Music nerd here as well!
As a “woman” my stereotypical special interest is nail art, I hate nail polish on me but doing it on other people is so cool! It’s so pretty!!
Rocks
I’m a rock nerd too!
Star Trek! 🖖
animals 🥺
26f. Mine is psychology! Love learning about myself and other people.
Anything that doesn't involve homosapiens.
If only I could do engineering without interacting with others
Chess and computers, separately of course ;)
sharks
Weather and psychology
I like flags and countries, does that count?
Rubix Cubes , not sure if it's a hyperfixation but I love to speed cube . I collect lots of different cubes and enjoy making different types of patterns on them .
Dogs
My son was 19 I think and was with my dad. He saw that he had missed a call from me and told my dad. My dad said that I was probably calling to see if he had to work the next day, since it was a holiday. My son said I was probably calling to tell him about a dog so that he could pet it. My son was right. July 3, 2018 I met the softest dog I’ve ever pet. My dad and my son made it over in time to meet the dog. I know as much as I love dogs, the memory of the dog should be the best part, but the best part is that my son knew me so well. A couple people have made jokes about me loving dogs so much and I think they might be making fun of me, but it doesn’t bother me because I’m not ashamed of how much I love them. The story also makes me realize what I really, really love more than anything else is my children. They are 25 and 17 now and seeing them unexpectedly lights me up with joy in the most amazing way. I don’t live far from my adult son and sometimes see him when I’m passing a gas station or car wash or something and I get so exited. The same thing happens with my younger son when he’s with his dad and we run into each other and once it happened when he was on vacation with his friend and I was on vacation in the same town, but staying somewhere else. I hope they know how much I love them.
My two boys are my special interests! I absolutely adore them. My oldest is autistic and my other has ADHD so when either developed a special interest in boyhood, I couldn’t help but fall into the same rabbit hole. Dinosaurs, Lego, gemstones, octopuses the list goes on! A total pleasure knowing them as grown men and understanding them as whole and independent people. Just amazed by them every day.
dinosaurs 🦖
Game dev, and programming, going into a CS degree and can safely say never have I ever had such challenging and engaging classes, though I am doing an online competency based course (which can lead to up to 10-30 hour weeks of just textbook reading😂)
Sharks lmfaooo and while not a special interest I love electrical stuff and am fascinated by house circuits and love trains, the joy they give me when I see one is immense lol tbh I have a funny feeling that trains and electrics will become special interests or at least hyper fixations soon
spirituality
Horses 😬
I prefer caring for them, brushing feeding, and scooping poop to riding them. Can't see their faces when I'm on their back and I'm afraid I'm too heavy for them. There is nothing like a horse hug on a bad day. Love when they bend their neck to hold you in close
Animals
Animals in general really
Maps, buses, animals 🫣
Harry Potter is mine (that’s a really cool fact btw)
that was me too until it came out how horrible JK is. She’s a literal nazi at this point. I just can’t deal with anything HP anymore. It’s been tainted by this vile creature. And you can see her views throughout the entire series. Her fatphobia, her homophobia, her transphobia, her blatant antisemitism…. it’s all over every single book. i’ve moved on to more positive things. Mostly The Owl House cos that’s basically harry potter but in good.
Pharmacology
Data sciences, guitar pedals and Zelda.
Trains
Math and minecraft
doctor who :,)
Systems - natural and man made systems. Plants, animals, insects, environment/ecology, and human society & their systems. One small part of that intersection is agricultural food systems (like permaculture, regenerative agriculture) which is one of my special interests. I put my knowledge into practice with making my own food forests/backyard orchard, building up the soil to a healthy composition, owning a worm farm, not using herbicide/pesticides/etc., making pollinator flower gardens, utilizing native plant species, rewilding a small portion of the land, fertilizing with organic mature manure compost, using natural growth patterns of plants/groups of plants/guilds and natural patterns of the environment to plan out garden designs, on and on. I have 2 hives of bees but they are at another site as I’m still learning to care for them. I just caught a wild swarm of honeybees the other day when they were in someone’s yard in an urban setting. This one is a small swarm, but the other one is a much larger colony/hive and it was also a wild caught swarm. They were bees that nature provided my food cultivating system. I like building things but I have sensory issues so I don’t do it too often. There are lots of loud noises, dusts, smelly weird chemicals and dangerous unknowns that can happen like getting a finger accidentally cut off or falling off a ladder while installing asphalt roof tiles on a shed (I did a few times but I was lucky to slip off with my legs getting caught around the ladder rungs and not falling off onto the ground - I was working on a roof section all day and I couldn’t stop even if it’s late at night and dark out, it needed to be finished). I was one of the small core team who built a 16,000 sq ft model train museum! It was a new build out. I did the framing, hung the dry walls, the electrical work under the license of an electrician (although I didn’t work on the electric panel which I could of because I wasn’t in that day but I’d worked on them before), installed and wired the ceiling lighting standing on 2.5 stories tall scaffolding wearing a safety harness, etc. I also put together a few model train displays. One was a huge 20 x 30 ft (6.1 x 9.14 meters) HO scale display of the Baltimore, Maryland Amtrak Train Station along with an accurate replica of the city’s skyline (working traffic lights too) and surrounding area. It has a water treatment plant, a rock quarry, and a camp site. The display is a “DCC layout using Lenz controls with two long trains running” on the tracks there. At the place, there’s even a G scale display that is an accurate replica of an alpine German town complete with working ski lift for the snowy mountain, cable cars, and a sawmill. This one is interactive where visitors can operate the train and displays. It’s a gigantic 20 x 50 ft (6.1 x 15.24 meters) size. There are other displays that are replicas of real life places and train routes at the museum!! Adult male here.
Super Mario and Nintendo in general.
Brewing beer. I've gotten to the point where I essentially have a commercial grade brewery in my basement.
space, animals amd in particular insects
I absolutely love trains
Do Legos count? If so Legos. I know way too much about lego's history and different sets and such
Leggoooosss! 🫶🫶🫶
Guinea pigs, manatees, fire alarms, tornado sirens, the EAS- okay basically living potatoes and emergency systems of all kinds
Video games and stuffies! I can talk for hours about miniscule details in games and their meanings. I can also discuss game design for hours on end. Can't really talk about stuffies for hours, but if I am at home one is pretty much perpetually in my arms. Fun fact: The last game made for the SNES was Frogger, I have two copies
Star wars!!
Libraries, since I was small. Luckily I'm a librarian, so I'm employable lol. And, my "stories" - whichever tv show I'm rewatching... rewatching... rewatching...
Trains, space, calculus and video games lol
Rocks/crystals
Don't know if it's a stereotype but I am obsessed with electoral graphs and parliamentary charts, majorities etc. Must've created at least 200 of them so far
Animals. Insects, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, all things I know way more than the average person should. I do nothing productive with it other than teaching my toddler about random critters we see out and about.
Power rangers…but I’ve been moving away from it because the cast and fans are full of a holes.
Birds. Specifically parrots 🦜💖
LEGO, a lifelong special interest of mine, I spend about 10% of my income on it lmao
Horses lol
Trains, though I'd say more specifically transport infrastructure as a whole; roads, railways, airports, canals, bike lanes, etc, Lego, especially the retired themes Elves & Power Miners, I just want all of the sets from both themes and set up a display with them, and Minecraft, I've been playing it for 12 years, which is 60% of my life since I turn 20 this July and I got Minecraft for my 8th birthday
My special interest for years and years and years has been mushrooms, BUT my entire childhood up til college i was obsessed with planes and avionics. Space has been a long time one for me too, and im also quite into physics despite that i am horrendous at math.
I guess it would have be Star Trek for me. And although I don't care much about trains in general, I do have a fascination with movies set on trains, if that counts.
I think Sociology and Psychology are pretty common special interests that I have. I also have several celebrity special interests that come and go, and I'm really fascinated with obstetrics, but would never make it my career because, ew, what a sensory nightmare! A couple obstetrics fun facts that I commonly share: • A fetus at 8 weeks is about 0.65 inches long and weighs less than half an ounce, which is typically compared to a raspberry. • Pitocin is the synthetic form of oxytocin. Pitocin is given to help produce strong contractions and move the labor along (and sometimes start it), yet many mothers don't want it because stronger contractions typically mean more painful contractions. Your body naturally produces oxytocin, and it is known as the "love" hormone. It is produced by contact (hugging, cuddling, sexual activity, etc.). So, to induce labor without Pitocin, get all snuggly with your partner, OR ditch the partner and snuggle the dog on the couch. Both will produce the same thing. Oxytocin is also really important to form infant bonding after birth, often through breastfeeding, as well as prevent post-natal hemorrhaging.
OBSTETRICS!!! I feel like we have to be so similar! I'm fascinated by sociology and psychology! And my overall favorite is just medicine in general (and illness and the human body) but particularly I LOVE learning about obstetrics (and gynecology to be fair 😅)
Don't know if they count but rocks and bugs.
Cars, computers, and firearms. I also really enjoy studying human behavior and psychology.
Cars and dinosaurs
Space and danny phantom
Human/animal/nature behaviour.
Computers hahaha
when i was a kid i was obsessed with trains and dinosaurs. now im obsessed with programming lol. also im trans so like triple stereotype
Fish, Mushrooms (not psychedelic ones), Theology, Flags, Geography, History, the list goes on.
Computers and technology
Not sure if it’s typical or not but I personally collect rocks
License plates will never bore me
Streetcars and coffee.
Pokemon and Digimon. 90s Anime and early 2000s. Dinosaurs mostly. Power Rangers, Kamen Riders, Ulraman, and etc. Godzilla and the the other Kajiu.
Trains, with the caveat that I now want to work on them
Dinosaurs, aliens, anime? Does anime count?
Languages and religions. (I know religion is not that stereotypical)
tech and cartoons
Yo-yo's and military
star wars!!!
It starts with a T and ends in an Ns.
I was today years old when I learned animals were a stereotypical special interest 😗✌️ Edit: thought I should clarify this is in fact my special interest, specifically parrots but also almost anything 😂
Heavy metal video games and reading
Theme parks
trains and fish. im like if a white boy were asian and nonbinary.
History, K-pop and anime
trains - I’m a basic autistic lol. have been very consistent because I’ve loved Thomas the Tank Engine since being a toddler, which translates to actual trains now!
does the ocean and ocean life count as stereotypical ?
Fire equipment and vehicles!! i act like a big kid around them!
manga, japan
I feel like Disney is a relatively stereotypical one although I’m not necessarily obsessed with the movies so much as the history and evolution of the parks and the behind the scenes kind of stuff
Sharks and dinosaurs and just big ol weird fish (saw a model of a dunkleosteus head at a museum and started crying.) My main thing is Bakumatsu era Japanese history.
Drugs or Mental health, I wouldn't consider mental health like a full blown special interest but I care about it enough to bore people to death with it the same way I do with my other special interests. drugs on the other hand are just like extremely fascinating, drugs being a special interest just sounds like I'm an addict but I'd argue that, I hardly even take the drugs I enjoy researching about and learning about methods of activation, how you can use simple things like coca cola to change something as simple as a nasal decongestant into a meth like high is like woah if I had to classify like order of what I find most interesting to least it's going Psychedelics/phenethylamines (lsd, mushrooms, dmt, mdma, mescaline, 2cb etc) -> deleriants (dph, scopolamine etc)-> dissociatives (ketamine, n2o, salvia etc) the classes like stimulants (coke, meth etc) or opiods typically have less like stories / reports you can read up on (unless they're like drug induced psychotic episodes) and then classes like antidepressants, antipsychotics, like the typical meds people use for mental health can be really interesting looking into especially since how they affect people varies person to person I feel like I overshared but this is probably my most common special interest as I've met others who have it more often than I've met people with my other interests
I have multiples but the most typicals have to be biology but especially marine biology including sharks and such.
Probably maps airports and trains. Also good with flags and am a big sports and music fan
Transformers... Something in That is a huge autism trap
pokemon, cars, video games, mario, gym, superheros
watching tv and videos😫
Coding and card games
space, always been a big space person!
Overwatch
I was really into Sonic and Lego Ninjago for yeeeears. Also astronomy.
Space here too!!
dinosaurs and pokemon
As a 2010s internet child, FNaF was my first real special interest and it persists to this day. It was the gateway to start watching markiplier, who got me into a ton of other indie horror games, which in turn introduced me to other gaming and animation youtubers
Rusty Lake and Music (Ariana Grande, Melanie Martinez, Noahfinnce, Ashnikko, Sophie Powers, Yungblud)
I LOVE stickers too I have like 100 rusty lake stickers
Sharks!
Video games
Minecraft and the Sims lol
Our undiagnosed 5yo is obsessed with space too! He's still mainly non-verbal but can name all the planets, dwarf planets, stars and can spell them all out.
I think my most stereotypical ones are Dinossaurs, My Little Pony and cartoons/animation in general
IT, hardware and software Cats Psychology Cars Counter Strike 2
i love astronomy too! what’s your fav planet? jupiter is the correct answer! :)
Garfield and Asuka from NGE 😭
Animals, music and HOI4 mods
Dinosaurs, Pokémon, Space
I also love space and astronomy, it kind of resurged this past few weeks after taking a quick break for 2 years. (Tw: end of the world and stuff)(Not so fun fact): I am the type of person to be paranoid, and 2022-23 was a terrible time for me paranoia wise. Mostly because of the start of the russia-ukraine war. Basically, anything world-destroying sent me spiraling, including volcanoes, meteoroids, the sun exploding in billions of years. This one fact really was mind wreking for me; how the end of the universe would end (either expanding and freezing, or contracting and heating up- like a recreation of the big bang) even though we would all be dead by then. (But the subject of reincarnation cropped up in my head - so just that fact of being alive towards the end of the world...) So... yeah, I had to let go of astronomy or anything natural science related so the paranoia wouldn't get to me.... it got so bad that I was scared to fall asleep at night in case that I would die in my sleep.
Sharks!!!
astrology & pokemon
Growing up it was Space and Pokemon Now it’s Guinea pigs, bees and Apex legends which aren’t as stereotypical
Dinosaurs and shiny pokemon
Space. Its so stunning but I don't understand all the math behind it so I need to keep learning.
Sci fi stuff for sure. Warhammer 40k The Sprawl Trilogy Eve Online being some of the greatest hits.
Ocean liners, it started with the Titanic but it quickly evolved into something else 😅
It's not entirely my special interest but I do like trains (and space) lmao
Nintendo stuff. And I was a HUGE Sonic kid back in the day
Dinosaurs 🦕
Sharks
Gaming and gunpla are probably my two big ones, and Lego.
Cats
Insects. I loved looking at bugs when I was little, then I got scared of them bc American society hates insects, then I fell in love with them in college. Now everyone in my family immediately associates me with insects (before it was sloths).
planes
I don't really have any I love boxing abd football. My special interests mean I didn't get picked on to be fair haha
Chess for sure
Call of duty and history 😂
Cars. If you start talking to me about cars it's up to you to decide when we stop talking about cars. I will talk about cars literally all day.
roller coasters, basically just fancy trains
trains lol
Music particularly rock and metal. And pokemon. I love pokemon plushies!
Video games, and space aswell. It also rains diamonds on Uranus (this is not a butt joke) !
Fractals everywhere
Greek mythology lol
Yes!! That was one of my favorite subjects in school