"Obsessive Personalities?" Topic

Do you find that the hobby attracts obsessive personalities?

Haven't noticed. I guess I would say no.

Not quite sure what you are driving at.
I'm sure we have all run into people who are happy to let us know we used the wrong flag for one of our four Napoleonic Saxon infantry regiments, even though the set of flags only came with those four flags.
I suppose I am fairly obsessive, in that I try to do my figures in the right shades of the right colors and with the right markings (yes, I repainted the stripes on my Greek NCOs when I realized they sloped the wrong way). On the other hand, if you tell me British coats were prone to fading to explain the long lines of pink coated soldiery storming Breed's Hill, I'm not going to argue or complain. I will go ahead and paint my Brits in red, though.
Fortunately, I think the aggressively obsessive members of the hobby are very few.

Grelber

These guys?
Living with obsessional personality – On National Library of Medicine

Attract?
So, more prevalent in the hobby than the 1–2% in the general population?
Don't know, don't think so.

But I know they can be a great PITA, especially online, where they can thrive, because it's not easy to put them in their proper place.

Online forums attract them, they can certainly be more frequent there.And they seem more influential there.

Not quite sure what you are driving at.

I recently saw an article claiming that poets tend to have obsessive personalities. Made me wonder about our hobby.

I don't think so.

Hmmmmmmmmm. I think any hobby can. Pwople get "buried" in whatever they like a lot and for some it gets obsessive. But I also see others who seem to take notice of the obsessives in our midst.

On the Fritz: the Book of German Humor says that the perfect German hobby should be "precise and verifiable--or in other words, fussy and judgmental." The author recommended the construction of miniature pieces of military equipment, painted in the factory paint scheme.

I laughed so hard I had to put down my brush.

But that's the dwindling historical miniatures branch. Like me to describe the sort of people fantasy and SF attract, Bill?

Hasn't been an English language poet in almost a century now. The author of the article must have been using a medium to talk to them, or else counting "free" and "blank" verse as poetry. Myself, I'd use the medium.

All hobbies have obsessive personality people. That's a bit of having a hobby, something that interests you enough to do it in your free time. Whether you "obsess" over it is up for debate but I'm sure a bunch of spouses/partners of mini gamers would say "Hell yes they obsess!"

The difference between obsession and drive is the balance of good and bad it does in your life (including your effect on others).

Yes, speaking as a diagnosed one.

Sorry, but I have to insist, what has to be written, has to be written…

Duty Calls – On xkcd
xkcd.com/386

The author recommended the construction of miniature pieces of military equipment, painted in the factory paint scheme.

Wich is quite funny, not just because there is truth in it, but considering, plastic scale kits were invented and thrived in the anglophone sphere long before they were known in Germany.
At a time Germans prefered instead to do meticulous research and build devious machines to murder people in perverse ways.

The difference between obsession and drive is the balance of good and bad it does in your life

This is really nicely said, albeit not quite correct, as my AI buddy told me.
Nonetheless, I'm going to borrow it.
Who cares for truth anyway.
:)