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  • (Score: 1) by Anonymous Cowherd on Sunday August 03 2014, @09:37PM

    by Anonymous Cowherd (3699) on Sunday August 03 2014, @09:37PM (#76984)

    Polls that lead to some kind of insight into the community are my favourite kind. A recent example from the website-that-we-shall-not-mention-by-name was about assembling a computer. I did not expect a result which said a third of the demographic had assembled one in the past year. It says a lot about the community and helps embrace it better.

  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday August 04 2014, @01:27PM

    by VLM (445) on Monday August 04 2014, @01:27PM (#77194)

    I think clusters of hobbies are interesting.

    Most ham radio guys have at least dabbled in photography. Strange but true, over half according to a survey I saw a long time ago. This was before everyone had smartphones with built in crappy specs camera, I'm talking about "real" photography.

    Probably not insightful that most people here have played DnD or a DnD themed RPG or read Tolkien.

    Kind of in between insightful and not is I bet there's a lot of grognards here and most of us know it.

    Where it gets interesting / insightful is I bet a lot of people here built plastic models either as a kid or adult or even last night. I built a Stug assult gun (basically an uparmored tank) a couple years back because it was my favorite tank in a strategic hex based war game I used to play. I remember as a kid plastic model kits were fairly cheap like a couple hours of my minimum wage salary. Oddly enough, when I go to the hobby store, now that I make large integer multiple of my teen-era minimum wage, kits are still an integer multiple of my now much higher hourly pay rate. WTF Tamiya, your kits are higher quality than ever, but three figures for one model is getting a bit expensive! Paints aren't cheap either, although they're better than when I was a kid. 80s era acrylic paints pretty much sucked, but they're downright usable now. The only thing that's constant or cheaper is I think Chinese airbrushes are actually cheaper in nominal terms than American made or Japanese air brushes from the 80s, although I don't have figures. Also since I was a kid the new fad is selling "non-toxic" plastic cements that don't work. Although alternative cements are cheaper. I don't think plastic models are an affordable hobby to today's kids, which is too bad, although I can still afford them for myself.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @07:30PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @07:30PM (#77317)

      Interesting though about groupings...and /b/ro's here?