Really Stupid Special Interests

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this is not stupid at all. Figure out what you need to do to pitch the ideas to a gaming company, or put it into production yourself. Unless you are wealthy you would probably have a better chance starting by selling to an established company. Make money. More money equals more resources and time to delve deeper into your future special interests. Whether you continue in game developing or go off in any other direction

All my interests seem stupid to me when I first get them.

It just seems like my brain gets stuck and so fixates on something that I had just saw or thought about.

It's not healthy to think them stupid though. Just embrace them.

(To counter the window thing, I've been obsessed with doors for a time long ago, and later regained it with a brief intense interest in revolving doors)

I was interested in the patterns of women's bathing suit backs from ages 7 to about 11.

Yes, bathing suit backs.

Click here for the proof: there's more where this came from.

Aliens...that was my obsession in grades 7 and 8. And it is beginning to resurface just a bit right now.

I used to like watching the numbers in the digital clocks change (the drop leaf ones) I would be sitting there for hours I also liked ringing the time on the phone so I could hear the time change.

I have also had my share of weird interests. When I was 6 years old my SI was in the candy bags of a specific company. I didn't even like all the candy they made but I liked the way the bags looked. I even got my room designed with the mascots on the walls.

I was also very much into soccer and cycling. A lot of kids are in Europe, but I was more interested in the way the teams jerseys looked and in looking at the lists of players on the teams, categorizing the information. I had several boxes containing information about soccer and cycling teams... Ah those were the days. From time to time I even enjoyed watching the matches... I tried to play as well but that was almost always an exceptional fail.

For the past 10 years I moved my focus to role-playing games, both on the computer and pen and paper games. FOr the last years my focus has been on the old world of darkness line. I don't like the new one. The old one is better. Strangely it also seems to be information gathering that is my greatest joy in this.

Well, one of my interests was lamp posts / street lights in my teenage years. I knew what models were in use (not names, only shapes), I knew where they stood in my town. Sometimes I did errands specifically to gather information on them. I never was a great information hoarder in my life, though, as usual, fascination was the most important to me, gathering information was only second to it.

These are not exactly special interests what I have. They're just general interests, but even so, I will state my interests:-

Summer - moths
Winter - weather
All year round - buses/certain men

When I was younger and still somewhat now, Star Wars is one of my weirder special interests. I used to even collect Star Wars cards. I would watch Star Wars over and over again. It was one of the best movies though!

guys, you do know you can intentionally choose your special interest?

why not think about a specific goal you have.. eg lose weight.. make friends.. make money.. whatever.. and figure out how to make that your special interest.

sometimes it can take a while for the "special interest overdrive" to get traction, but it will eventually if you find the right approach. i've solved a huge number of problems in my life by doing this. at times i just had to plug away for 6 months on something which wasn't that interesting until i found the right angle. but when the special interest overdrive gets traction its amazing and things i previously thought impossible become almost effortless.

School Shooters / North Korea / Psychotic Disorders / Immigration

All of those have been / are mine.

Flourescent lights and just fixating on them wherever I went. While fluorescent lights illuminating spaces fully give me headaches, I could stare at those blueish fluorescents people had in their windows in the apartment building facing ours for hours on end.

GMC "new look" fishbowl buses. The weird thing is that I used to be so scared of them when I was a kid! I'd have a panic attack when I saw them. I would refuse to stand at the bus stop and would completely freak out if I had to get one one. Now I love them, but I still get a weird feeling when I see one.

The movie Backdraft was one of my weirdest obsessions too. The weird thing with that too is that I don't like firefighter turnout gear. It freaks me out too. I only like the black turnout gear, the other colors are weird and it has to be new gear for me to stand next to it or touch it, it can't be old and all sooty.

I know, I'm weird.