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I love rocks and minerals. I still collect them :smiley: My favorite is obsidian or a conglomerate rock :3 What was your favorite kind of rock? If you had one, of course xD

I don't think i ever had a favorite kind of rock but i always wanted to see some or the more interesting igneous or sedimentary rocks, like the kind of stuff you'd find in a canyon or near a volcano

Less the comic making itself, more the obsession with building a lasting legacy with it. I think a lot of people make comics with the express intention of telling a story, but not a lot really care if it's under their name, or have their entire story planned out. Those are the things I care about with my story. Yes, I'm aware of how pretentious it sounds. Part of me didn't want to even answer the question because I knew people would react negatively to it. But then I figured that if I let fear of negative reactions stop me, then that probably reflects even worse on me than just sharing it in the first place.

So yeah, sorry if it pissed you off, I guess.

Leaving aside the part where you seem to think that not one of us cares about our legacies, dude, couldn't you have just said it without:

  • posting a link
  • uploading three images
  • dropping your own name three times
  • mentioning that your comic has around six hundred and twenty subscribers and two hundred thousand readers after just three and a half months, and also hit number one in Webtoon Canvas for the superhero genre

It's a bit like asking someone for the time and getting hit by an entire unrelated TED talk.

I like looking at human Y-DNA and mitochondrial haplogroup charts. I'm fascinated by human genetics and find it simply amazing how far homo sapiens as a species has migrated just by walking and later sailing. Like seriously, we humans are all just one big family.

Watching Youtubers' videos of their self-drawn childhood comics.
I'm loving it!

Voice Acting. I'm a bit of a nerd about voice actors and love paying attention when I'm playing a game or watching something animated and spotting voices I recognise, like "oh, hey that's Matt Mercer!", "Woo, Jennifer Hale!", "OMG Paget Brewster!" I call the game "Fire Emblem Heroes", "Voice Actor Pokemon" because I can set myself silly challenges like "try to collect characters voiced by the entire cast of Critical Role." :rofl:
I do bits and bats of it myself on Youtube, but my immediately recognisable English accent has always made me more of a specialist than a vocal Chamaeleon. Mostly it's just something I'm interested in as a hobby.

Oh wow! Imagine if you came across a dinosaur. :smiley:

I've only ever found trilobites, echinoids, sponges and bivalves. I live on a chalk coastline now (where I find most of the sponges and echinoids), so the fossils are very delicate.

I've seen in the US you can pay land owners to hunt for gems and gold and stuff too. Wish you could do things like that here. :sweat_smile: I only seem to find fools gold.

I was thinking of writing a series about the regular/daily life of a villian/hero, or doing like a series on someone who somehow got superhero powers but didn't become a superhero. You know, just a regular guy with superpowers that uses them to his advantage in mundane situations or something. :smile:

Yo, that sounds great. Could you send me the link when you have it ready?

Same, I LOVE recognizing voice actors and love voice acting in general. Making one's voice in a different way is always so interesting and fun to me. And the emotions that can be captured with voice alone. If I am listening to an English Dub rather than listening and watching (because I like multi-tasking) and I can identify the kind of expression or emotion the character is making or feeling just by the voice alone, I really love that. I think a lot of voice actors do great work. I'm extremely impressed by vocal chameleons because their range is so vast and shows what the human voice can do ^^

Rare/Old/Foreign Currency: If collecting money wasn't so expensive I'd totally go for it, but I have to be lucky to find them. So far I have a few Canadian quarters, a Barbados quarter, a 10 pence coin, a bunch of $2 bills and this giant $1 coin that doesn't fit in any vending machine.

Abandoned Businesses/Homes/Parks: There's just something eerie and fascinating about wondering about what was once there and what happened to it. There's a guy on YouTube named This Is Dan Bell who makes videos about dying and dead malls. It's so weird how not too long ago these places were lively.

Old Technology: Any doodad that I grew up with or older is cool. I like looking through old department store catalogs and looking at how different things were back then. I went to a store that sold all kinds of old stuff like rotary phones, typewriters, etc and I deeply regret not buying anything. Although they'd be collecting dust on the shelf. I don't think old things were better, just fascinating. I definitely wouldn't downgrade my Windows 10 laptop to Windows 95.

At first I didn't think this was an unusual interest, but seeing as we're 60 replies in and no one's mentioned it yet...either it's DEFINITELY unusual or it's so common that no one wants to mention it. I hope for the former.

QUANTUM/FUNDAMENTAL/THEORETICAL PHYSICS...!!

It's actually been an interesting topic to me for a long time (an entire subset of characters in my magnum opus are named after subatomic particles and other quanta...and I started that back in middle school).

I don't pretend to be an expert or anything, though...that's what kinda gets me about this thread; everyone seems to know so much, and all my interests are mostly surface-level or worse...part of the reason I keep coming back to quantum physics is because every 2 or 3 years I forget half the stuff I learned last time...6_6;

Anyway, I think what's most interesting to me about it is that it's all made up. ^^ A large portion of science is made up, actually (although few people like to address it) but it really sticks out in quantum physics. Like, if you understand what you're reading, it's hard to ignore the fact that it's all just different ways people imagined to break down the entire universe into elemental parts, and explain everything that happens in it, and THEN look for proof...it's insane. I can't imagine actually working in the field...

...But as a hobby, it's kind of something I do all the time. Whenever I write fantasy stories with very deep magic systems (which I do at least once a year) I'm always thinking about how I can use whatever paradigm I came up with to explain the existence of the world, either for worldbuilding purposes, or just for fun...theoretical physics is basically that, but with math. ^^

Hmmm...writing this has motivated me to finally look up string theory:

I'm biased towards QCD (I could blame school because that's what you learn there, but all the little particle names are just too cute...I don't want to live in a universe without neutrinos and gluons~) but string theory is actually kind of cool...people just don't explain it well.

They go 'so everything is actually made of strings' like it's some kind of flying spaghetti monster nonsense, but at its core its really a matter of dimensional perception...if I'm understanding it right (^^;;; ) everything we see represents only one dimension of the strings: like if you're looking at a real string head on, all you'll see is a tiny dot, a cross-section.

The cross-section of the theoretical string is a particle, with mass and energy...and I guess the idea behind it is that, by extending these particles into the 1st dimension and looking at them as merely parts of strings, we can explain a lot of phenomena.

If you enjoyed this small peek into the world of theoretical physics, I implore you to look it up; the fun (literally?) never ends~. I usually just surf Wikipedia, the info there is at a good level for me...it's important to find a source you can actually understand (scientists have a tendency to jargon you to death...90% of us don't care about teaching things to laymen, and it's such a shame).

Mmmmm the holographic principle is one of my favs - black hole entropy anyone? I'm into this too though it's been a while :heart_eyes:

...See, it's starting already: I don't know what either of those things mean. ._.
Sigh...one of these days I'll be able to talk shop with all the other smart people...but until then, learning is part of the fun, eh?

I'm looking up the holographic principle rn, but I don't know if I'm understanding it right because I don't see what its significant implications are (besides being a solution for the black hole paradox...apparently in my brain that's not important enough).
It just seems a little mundane by string theory standards...like it's not so much a mind-blowing solution as it is something the QCD camp could have thought of if they weren't so focused on their little information blob collections. ^^; I dunno.

This is where I'm at, currently (re: proposed solutions to the paradox)...never let it be said that physics isn't hilarious:

What is it exactly that you want me to do? Apologize? I'm sorry, I really am.

Did I even mention that not one of you care about your legacies? I didn't, I don't know where you think I did. I said not a lot, I didn't say no one else did.

I just shared what I was thinking of and feeling at the time. I shared the comic for context. What is it you want from me? Do you want me to delete the other post too? I can do that, will that make you happy?

EDIT: Yeah, I'm deleting the first post now. Not in an attempt to avoid responsibility, but because I didn't post it with the intention of pissing other people off or coming across as some asshole. Sorry if I did.