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(unless people are the geocache, 'stuff' is your identity, then its a pretty awesome thing because you get to fill it with -whatever you want- )
On this, there's almost always a log or notebook you can sign. That first time in SF, I didn't know what geocaching was but the log made the point of it guessable. I didn't have anything to leave so I wrote my name down and took a keychain that said "Japan".

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The strangest thing I found in a geocache is an unused, wrapped condom. Besides that, plenty of hot wheels cars, small figurines, dolls, a laser pointer or two (with still working batteries), old coins, etc. Most geocaches are always accompanied with a small notebook ledger and a pencil as well to record the date and time at which you found it, as well as your name.
The weirdest thing I personally found were a bunch of these really creepy Christian hellfire like... comics? They were small black and white pamphlets with religious "cartoons" in them, but it was all really scary imagery drawn in a creepy style, with the devil and fire telling you to REPENT. These were English comics found in a pretty French part of Quebec. We took all of them and burned them in our camp fire.

I've heard of people finding strange fetish DVDs and things like that, which I think is actually pretty funny
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a bunch of these really creepy Christian hellfire like... comics?...with the devil and fire telling you to REPENT. We took all of them and burned them in our camp fire.
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I've been geocaching multiple times, since my father had a mid-life crisis with geocaching being a sport for him for a dozen years or so.

I think the greatest appeal for geocaching has got to be that, most geocaching locations are located on rather active trails or bike paths through woodland areas. The geocache in itself acts as an 'easter egg' so to say, that would be otherwise excruciatingly hard to find without any sort of hints or assistance in finding it.



The strangest thing I found in a geocache is an unused, wrapped condom. Besides that, plenty of hot wheels cars, small figurines, dolls, a laser pointer or two (with still working batteries), old coins, etc. Most geocaches are always accompanied with a small notebook ledger and a pencil as well to record the date and time at which you found it, as well as your name.
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so is this the intellectual toddler's version of archaeology
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Yes, except the indians left the arrowheads there on purpose and gave clues to people on where to find them.
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so is this the intellectual toddler's version of archaeology
Patterns outside the longer/larger time frames than the one which your body exists in are no more or less childish than the ones within your own.

I'd call it 'the one where imagination is used for fun instead of for giving probably false ideas about the past (because lol incomplete dataset) using intellectualism and nicheness as a way to get people to listen to you more to feed your own ego' also its socially acceptable to do so you get money

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i dont see how trekking to a predefined location to find condoms in various states of use can be considered more fun and/or equivalently juvenile to refining our understanding of something like the expanse and depth of the mayan civilization

if you think misconceptions about previous civilizations negate the entire purpose of the field of archaeology and that attempting to understand the arc of human history is an exercise that exists only to feed ones own ego then really i dont know what to say other than you are as stupid as your defense of geocaching

like holy shit the more i read your post the more i cant imagine how you can defend your own continued existence

by your own logic if you cannot know everything in totality, if there is even a speck of doubt in any of your beliefs or understanding of anything, then your existence is an irresponsible abuse of the human mind masking ignorance with "nicheness" and you should just kill yourself

like really there are a dozen alternative avenues of defense for doing something stupid and intellectually non-engaging but you managed to pick the one where you attack an important established academic field as being stupid, pointless, and fake

what???
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i can only hope when future archaeologists uncover the ancient pastime of geocaching they'll appropriately understand how fucking stupid it is
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Haha noooooo don't let her attack on archeology ruin your perception of geocaching!

I wouldn't say it's a dumbed down version of archeology at all. In fact, they're pretty dissimilar. There's good reason why one is an adventurous (albeit simple) pastime and the other is an occupation and field of study.

Archeology is hard work, with much research, surveying, searching, digging, and a lot of careful procedure that needs to be followed. All just to maybe find something. Then comes the task of studying the finds and piecing together their possible implications on human history, migration, culture, and so on.

Geocaching as a whole is very different than that. If you've ever gone to a place for the purpose of hiking there, then you've already done the majority of the work involved in geocaching. All it does is take the fun of a hike in nature and add another layer of enjoyment by creating a special destination within your hike. It also helps make it memorable through the small trinkets and mementos you find, or through the notes that you leave. There's often really cool stuff, and dismissing it all as "condoms in various states" is only doing yourself a disservice.
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like really there are a dozen alternative avenues of defense for doing something stupid and intellectually non-engaging but you managed to pick the one where you attack an important established academic field as being stupid, pointless, and fake

what???
She was responding to your own comment where you specifically mentioned archeology. If you're going to pretend to be so intellectually superior to people who do a harmless outdoor activity that you need to come into a thread and just vomit negativity everywhere, at least believe in your own posts enough to remember them. Or just get out of this thread because nobody cares about your opinion
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i dont see how trekking to a predefined location to find condoms in various states of use can be considered more fun and/or equivalently juvenile to refining our understanding of something like the expanse and depth of the mayan civilization
Why do a couple problems on Project Euler when you could be a full stack developer?
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Why go geocaching when you could be an archaeologist?

hobbies are hobbies and I don't even do this shit.
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Can’t tell if Mina is trolling because he enjoys smashing arrows as a hobby but finds geocaching to be a a waste of time :thinking:
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like really there are a dozen alternative avenues of defense for doing something stupid and intellectually non-engaging but you managed to pick the one where you attack an important established academic field as being stupid, pointless, and fake

what???
hobbies being hobbies is a valid defense of something i consider a stupid waste of time

subjective definitions of "fun" is a valid defense of something i consider a stupid waste of time

when i bring up archaeology as a comparative point, attacking archaeology by calling it just as stupid and pointless to the level of pernicious is fucking retarded

it's almost like that was my point

my god you people are dumb
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If you're going to pretend to be so intellectually superior to people who do a harmless outdoor activity that you need to come into a thread and just vomit negativity everywhere, at least believe in your own posts enough to remember them.
seriously everything i wrote went way over your head if your reading comprehension is so far below third grade level while people may care about your opinion you should refrain from giving it because it's worthless
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hobbies being hobbies is a valid defense of something i consider a stupid waste of time

subjective definitions of "fun" is a valid defense of something i consider a stupid waste of time

when i bring up archaeology as a comparative point, attacking archaeology by calling it just as stupid and pointless to the level of pernicious is fucking retarded

it's almost like that was my point

my god you people are dumb
This is a thread about a hobby on the chit chat forum on FFR. We don't need to defend ourselves *to your standards* to every asshole who comes in and demands it. If you don't like our hobbies and defenses of the hobbies, you can leave the thread

Some people would consider jumping down people's throats in order to flex about how much smarter they THINK they are, to be truly dumb. *shruggie*
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shut the fuck up you dumb fucking nerd lmao
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im sorry are you upset that there are dissenting opinions from yours on the internet and you don't know how to contend with anyone that doesnt agree with you

you can always ban me because you don't like me

you're right, i can leave the thread, i don't have to be here

but i am, so what are you gonna do, whine about it some more or exercise your superior mod power?
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im sorry are you upset that there are dissenting opinions from yours on the internet and you don't know how to contend with anyone that doesnt agree with you

you can always ban me because you don't like me

you're right, i can leave the thread, i don't have to be here

but i am, so what are you gonna do, whine about it some more or exercise your superior mod power?
I mod TGB, and I've never banned anybody because I didn't like them and would never do that.

I don't have any problem at all with your opinion. My problem is with your attitude and the way you talk to people and spread negativity for no reason. My point is that if something causes you enough anger that you feel the need to make the types of posts you made here, and you're not really adding anything productive to the conversation, maybe simply leaving the thread without saying anything is the better option.
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are you really sticking to this whole negative for no reason narrative you've constructed to validate your own irresponsible response

let me recap the thread for you, i mockingly drew comparisons between geocaching and archaeology because they are similar at face value, i find one to be a stupid waste of time, and the other to be an informative and insightful pursuit that people yes, do, devote their entire lives to in order for other people to benefit from their work

in response to this, instead of saying, "dude its just for fun lol", instead of saying, "maybe you think this is a waste of time but i don't" instead of saying, "this doesnt require the same investment of time or energy as a serious field of academia so it's more appealing to people who do other things" cavernio's response is to claim that archaeology is a stupid farcical endeavor that exists solely for people to feed their own ego by trying to understand what can never be proven

which is an idiotic defeatist and ridiculous mutation of bad faith whataboutism

it is in fact the first display of directly hostile negativity in the thread and my response, while made with as you say "negative attitude" appropriately addressed the flawed logic of the post and pointed it out

in response to my negativity, completely ignoring both the illogical response to my post as well as the negative nature of it, you attack me not on grounds of my argument but on grounds of my presentation ignoring the substance of my post so that you can defend someone against a person that you see as a threat because you like them more than me

so you can sit there thinking about how you're so much better than me because you don't have to go around on the internet trying to prove your intellect like you accuse me of doing by willfully ignoring everything i say because you don't like me and feel just as smug about it as you like

you can feel smug because intellectualism is elitism, because you enjoy stupid exercises that are too "outdoors" for nerds, you can dismiss what i say because any argument beyond "i'm right and you're wrong because you're mean and i'm not" is a pretentious farce and you can feel fucking great about it

people like you are how trump gets elected

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