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Have you ever been so obsessed with something
That it literally just takes over your life
You spend every single moment watching YouTubes...
I just saw something really funny on the 'YouTubes' the other day
No, you spend every single free moment watching YouTube
reading wikipedia and consuming as much info about that thing as possible
A lot of you guys that know me know that
I've gone through my fair share of obsessions and hyperfixations
To be honest a lot of those things have become really fun hobbies
fun
and
expensive
in today's video I'm going to be taking you guys on a journey
through all the nerdy hobbies and things I've been obsessed with over the past 10 years
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Starting witih my first hobby
Manga
This journey started when I was arouond 17 years old
I'd just finished watching the Naruto anime
I was walking around in Borders (book store)
when we came across a manga section
at this point in time I didn't even know what manga was
All I saw was 'Naruto' written on the spines of all the books
So I picked one up off the shelf and was like
holy crap
That was when I found out I didn't have to wait for the anime to keep watching
I could just read it in manga form instead
I started off just collecting Naruto and One Piece
and then after I moved to Thailand
was when my manga obsession went crazy
At one point in time I had around 1000 volumes
I don't have those now because I had to move
and I couldn't take all my manga with me
so I sold a bunch of it
which I kind of regret
but books are heavy
and take up a lot of space
it was a kind of growing experience for me
when I started collecting I'd collect English volumes like this
I realised there were so many manga I wanted to read
but unfortunately they weren't available in English
they were only available in Japanese
and I thought to myself
'Well, why don't I just learn Japanese?'
and that's pretty much why I started studying Japanese at the beginning
also the Japanese volumes are way cheaper than the English volumes
They're literally almost a third of the price
so technically I could buy more manga as well
So manga went on for around 5 years (actually more like 7)
But I still ocassionally buy hard copies if there's...
I 'weally weally'
If there's something I really want to read but it's not available through legal sources
So of course being a huge manga 'fahn' lol
My pronunciation is all over the place today
My obsessions for manga naturally led me to my next hobby
which is pretty similar
but slightly different
and that is
American Comics
So this hobby didn't actually last that long
but I did pick up a few nice things (I don't know why I'm rubbing it lol)
the main difference between American and Japanese comics is that
American comics are coloured
Whereas the Japanese comics are in black and white
So whilst I really enjoyed reading American comics
especially because they're in English and I can read them all
when I was into these I was a really poor University
and I couldn't keep up with the hobby because it was a little too expensive
So this didn't last long but it was a lot of fun
but stay tuned because the American make a come-back
The next little nerdy obsessions was
Yu-Gi-Oh Cards
It's time to
D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-DUEL
I'm both kind of proud
but also ashamed of myself for what I just did
but I grew up in the 2000's so...
eh?
This was an extremely fun but short-lived obsession
(random music from outside)
I'd just moved to Thailand and didn't have friends and wasn't at uni yet
Then one day I was walking around in a shopping centre
and I came across a card store
and that's when I saw they had Yu-Gi-Oh cards
I was like 'I used to play Yu-Gi-Oh in primary school,
maybe i'll pick up a few booster packs'
So I bought a few packs,
opened the cards,
went home
and became obsessed
At the store I went to they hold tournaments a few days a week
I like a bit of good competition
So I decided I'm going to make a Yu-Gi-Oh deck
but little did I know, to make a competitive deck
your deck needs to be made up of all of the rarest cards
To put that into context
if you buy 10 packs of cards you might get one
ONE
just one rare card out of 10 packs
and your whole deck needs to be these rare cards
I just stopped right then and there
which was surprisingly responsible of me
So I stopped buying the physical cards
and I took my Yu-Gi-Oh obsession online
so I started playing an online Yu-Gi-Oh game called 'Duel Links'
it's a game you can play on your computer or on your phone
I've stopped playing it now
but I had a lot of fun playing it for around a year and a half
A lot of you guys know I collected Pokemon cards as well
but that's actually something I've been collecting since I was a little kid
but I haven't bought any for a really long time
I actually have a video about all my Pokemon stuff
So if you're interested I'll put a link up the top
but Pokemon is a lifelong obession for me
I've been playing Pokemon games and other stuff since I was six
I still play them now
I literally just got Pokemon Arceus a few weeks ago
and have been playing the absolute crap out of it
The next thing I got really into was
NBA
which is the National Basketball Association
Growing up in Australia there's no NBA on free-to-air TV
You need to have Foxtel or cable
so I could never watch it in Australia
but when I moved to Thailand there were some stations with NBA
so I started watching it and was completely hooked
I watch it almost every morning if I don't have work
as well as NBA I also got really into
basketball shoes
and also just sneakers in general
So these are my Kyrie 4'S (the sneaker model)
and these are my KD 11's
I don't play basketball by the way
I think that's something important to clarify
I don't ever play
but I know the rules
but I never played it growing up
but I wear these basketball shoes to play volleyball
so that's how I get to vicariously live my basketball dreams
so from basketball sneakers it just led to...
I don't know why I'm doing this with the shoes
it looks like they're fighting each other
so it started off as a basketball obsessions
it became a basketball sneaker obsession
and then just led to sneakers in general
The next thing I'm going to talk about is kind of random
and I don't know how 'nerdy' it is
I don't want to put nerds in a box
but the theme of the video isn't just typical nerdy stuff
it's more being obsessed about things in general
I feel like a nerd is someone who is extremely obsessed with something
It doesn't have to be traditional nerdy stuff
you could be a basketball nerd
or you could be into... what do cool kids like these days?
You could be a TikTok nerd
I don't know
but the next thing I got obsessed with is
Powerlifting
So I've been going to the gym since I graduated high school
which was over 10 years ago
No, I graduated high school exactly 10 years ago
and I was going to the gym but just semi-regularly
I started taking it really seriously when I moved to Thailand
at the peak of my obsession
The most I ever deadlifted was 125kg
The most I ever sqautted was 110kg
and the most I ever benchpressed was 87.5kg
I wouldn't dare go near those weights today
Actually the reason why I stopped was because I hurt my back
'Ooh my spine'
Nah but seriously I hurt my back
and I realised that as fun as powerlifting was
the risk of injury outweighed the reward for me
I still hit the gym a lot and lift heavy weights
but I don't push my body to it's absolute limit like I used to
The next thing I was into hit my really hard
especially during the pandemic
but I guess we're still in one
I've been playing video games my whole life
but I never really played online video games
So when the pandemic hit I couldn't work and spent a lot of time at home
and that was when I started playing
Fortnite
Some of you guys at home are probably like
'Oh my god I can't believe Perth played Fortnite'
Don't pretend like you didn't play Fortnite too
Fortnite was really fun
I used to watch the pros play
then I would try to replicate the same things
I sucked
It was really fun while it lasted
but it did create a love for online gaming
so after Fortnite I went to
I went to Super Smash Bros
after Smash I got back into shooters
and right now I'm playing Apex Legends
I was super into Apex during the latter half of last year
I haven't been playing it as much this year but still do when I have free time
I think it wasn't just me but a lot of you guys as well
the pandemic became a time for us to discover new hobbies
and find things to become obsessed with
so the next thing I got obsessed with
which a lot of you guys already know is
that wasn't smooth at all
Plastic Models
or Plamo
I actually used to make these when I was younger
I used to make Zoids
which were really fun
but I didn't even know that these kind of things existed
until one day Talay messaged me and was like
'Dude, I'm gonna buy a Gundam
and I'm going to Yoon's house to make it
do you want to get a Gundam and make Gundams with us?'
and I was like
'Uh
Hell Yeah!'
I didn't have much to do
and I love making plastic models
but the great thing about plastic models is there's such a large variety
any anime with a robot, there's probably a plastic model of it
Evangelion
Gundam
There's even the boat from One Piece
I even made this plastic model Crayfish
and his name is 'Pinchy'
'Hi'
If there's something you like
there's most likely a plastic model of it you can make
So, if you're interested in the hobby
I highly recommend you check it out
So that covers everything I've been into since I moved to Thailand
until the present day
So now I'm going to tell you what I'm obsessed with right at this very moment
earlier in the video I mentioned that something would be making a comeback
and that thing is
American Comics (again)
So for those of you wondering which comics I'll be picking up
I'm planning on collecting Ultimate Spiderman
Star Wars comics
Daredevil
Wolverine
and just a tiny bit of X-Men
maybe
and then a few random one off comics like
Jessica Jones
This comic about Darth Vader is super awesome
if you're a Star Wars fan I highly recommend checking out this comic
by Charles Soule
'Soole?'
I'm sorry I don't know how to pronounce his name
This comic covers the time period between Episodes 3 and 4
and it includes some really awesome stories
it tells the story of how Darth Vader got his red lightsabre
it has the story of the inception of the Inquisitors
and it also shows how Darth Vader got his fortress on Mustafar
If you've seen 'Star Wars Rogue One'
you would've seen his massive fortress
and probably thought 'Huh, didn't know he had that'
all explained in this badboy
I'm just collecting the omnibus editions
omnibus are these hard cover collections
which collect entire stories in one nice volume
I'm not collecting trade paperbacks because I like the way these look on a shelf
also it's nice having a complete story in one volume
Also I feel like hardcovers are more easy to take care of
It's kind of like a never-ending loop
It started with manga and comics
and now we're back to manga and comics again
so who knows? A couple of years and I might be back into Yu-Gi-Oh
I highly doubt it
but never say never
Justin Bieber in da house
That's the end of today's video guys
I hope you guys enjoyed listening to me
babble on about my nerd obsessions of the past ten years
If you guys have your own nerd obsessions you want to share
I'd love to hear about them in the comment section below
and I'll see you in another video very very soon
See ya!