Based Questing is when someone pursues life side quests entirely on their own terms without bending to anyone else’s expectations.
It is the act of stepping off the “main path” to explore adventures, habits, hobbies, or experiences purely because they resonate with you. A based quester follows their inner compass, treats detours as essential chapters, and levels up through conviction-driven exploration rather than chasing approval.
Key traits:
• Low-stakes exploration fueled by deep alignment
• Rejecting pressure to follow a predetermined timeline
• Letting curiosity and courage shape your character arc
• Choosing paths that build self-trust, not performance for others
It is the act of stepping off the “main path” to explore adventures, habits, hobbies, or experiences purely because they resonate with you. A based quester follows their inner compass, treats detours as essential chapters, and levels up through conviction-driven exploration rather than chasing approval.
Key traits:
• Low-stakes exploration fueled by deep alignment
• Rejecting pressure to follow a predetermined timeline
• Letting curiosity and courage shape your character arc
• Choosing paths that build self-trust, not performance for others
“Everyone signed up for the big bus tour, but I rented a scooter and went based questing around the island solo. Riding a scooter is what makes me feel the most alive: wind in my face, no schedule, no crowd, just pure freedom. While they paid for an overhyped, overpriced, watered-down version of the island, I was out there carving my own path and soaking in the real thing.”
by detourdisciple December 7, 2025
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Get the based mug.Abbreviated: R.B.I.; An approach to investing where an individual offers to invest, or donate, money, resources, and or provide information to a business or organization, but before the organization can get anything from the investor, they are given some objectives by the potential investor who expects them to make significant progress towards completing them and or complete some of them by a certain point in time before they are willing to invest or donate in their organization or business
Results-Based Investment can be a very useful tool for various individuals and or organizations working to promote social change in society, because it allows them to pressure certain businesses and organizations into taking certain stances on specific social issues and or change policies that are harmful and or unreasonably discriminatory against certain populations.
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A signature support method developed by WCAIC (Women and Children Affected by Internet Crimes) that focuses on helping clients “strip down” their emotional defenses to a raw, honest base—free of social filters, guilt, or external control. The practice invites full transparency in a safe space where survivors, caregivers, or advocates can openly express thoughts or feelings without judgment. It’s about freeing the “base” self—your most genuine emotional core—from the restraints of trauma, fear, or manipulation.
A signature support method developed by WCAIC (Women and Children Affected by Internet Crimes) that focuses on helping clients “strip down” their emotional defenses to a raw, honest base—free of social filters, guilt, or external control. The practice invites full transparency in a safe space where survivors, caregivers, or advocates can openly express thoughts or feelings without judgment. It’s about freeing the “base” self—your most genuine emotional core—from the restraints of trauma, fear, or manipulation.
Example:
“They don’t play games at WCAIC—you sit down for Free Base Counseling and suddenly you’re saying everything you never thought you could admit out loud.”
“They don’t play games at WCAIC—you sit down for Free Base Counseling and suddenly you’re saying everything you never thought you could admit out loud.”
by SomeWomanNamedTeresaInNebraska October 22, 2025
Get the Free Base Counseling mug.Slang: Agreement with a regressive opinion to try to fit in with a crowd. Could be read as short for 'Based on conformity'. The polar opposite of punk.
May have had a different slang definition originally, but this has what it has become through online usage.
May have had a different slang definition originally, but this has what it has become through online usage.
Punk:
Living your life your own way giving no fucks what people think = That's punk.
"Based":
Moron 1: ""Hitler had the right idea""
Moron 2: "That's based, bro."
Living your life your own way giving no fucks what people think = That's punk.
"Based":
Moron 1: ""Hitler had the right idea""
Moron 2: "That's based, bro."
by ShadowBlaze January 9, 2023
Get the Based mug.Based is used to describe someone from "Base Reality" - It comes from the conflicting theories of if we are living in a "Base Reality" or a "Simulation". The concepts of differing realities (matrix style) gained traction after Elon Musk made the following statements:
1.) From the Recode Code Conference (2016) There is “a one in billions chance that this that is the world in which we live is base reality.” Which is to say, not a simulation.
2.) From the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast (2018): "Why would you make a simulation that's boring? You'd make a simulation that's way more interesting than base reality," Musk said.
A base reality is the idea that there are multiple layers of reality - and those who are from base reality or are "based" (usually associated with common sense and critical thinking) are living with those from a simulation or parallel reality/timeline.
1.) From the Recode Code Conference (2016) There is “a one in billions chance that this that is the world in which we live is base reality.” Which is to say, not a simulation.
2.) From the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast (2018): "Why would you make a simulation that's boring? You'd make a simulation that's way more interesting than base reality," Musk said.
A base reality is the idea that there are multiple layers of reality - and those who are from base reality or are "based" (usually associated with common sense and critical thinking) are living with those from a simulation or parallel reality/timeline.
by Terra Luna May 5, 2022
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