Is there anything you're into that no one or basically nobody is into?
8mon 19d ago by lemmy.world/u/MisterNeon in asklemmy
There's an Aztec city building game called Tlatoani. It's in early access, but has enough meat on the bone that it's one of my goto games.
Out of curiosity I checked Steam DB for active player numbers. I have discovered at any given point I am 10% to 25% of the given player base BY MYSELF. I am 1 of 4 people playing this game right now in the world. With the prevalence of the internet I always assume whatever weird bullshit you're into there's at least a thousand people talking about it; making memes outsiders could never comprehend. It's actually novel to fly under the radar for once.
What do you do that doesn't have a community associated with it?
weirdo
Yea, I wouldn't want to be seen there either.
Yes. That could get embarrassing.
A truly sick and disturbed individual.
That's a lot of hitmarkers
Needs more jpeg
Earlier this year I tried out a Steam demo of a game called "That Time I Found a Box" and got hooked on it. It's a very unique card game where you create and enhance the cards as you play. I played it for days and eventually beat the demo - the devs told me I was the first person to beat it.
The full version just came out on Steam - I'd recommend taking a look. It's a bit janky and not for everybody, but it does something unique that really clicked for me.
Sticky Mustache, is that you?
Uh, I don't think so...
Okay, there just was a review that had pretty much the same content you wrote :)
That reminds me, I need to write a review for the full version, thanks!
This was funny because I went back to see if the review I just read was Sticky Mustache, and it was actually pruwyben!
Thermodynamics, specifically refrigeration cycles.
Its probably my autism showing but the fact that we can just move funny fluid around and make heat move is absolutely fascinating. I can spend a lot of time making theoretical refrigeration cycles with different fluids, thermoelectrics, heat capacities, repurposing car junkyard AC systems, etc.
Millions of people do it for work, sure. I doubt any of them are "into it".
I bet you also enjoy Technology Connections.
:)
Ohh yeah! Though I do wonder: Why limit themselves to the guy who is evangelizing (and rightly so!) when he could also hang out with crazy swamp guy HyperspacePirate who not only thinks of the crazy cycles but actually builds some as well?
Gee, what gave it away?
I popped an edible and watched his entire catalytic converter video last night. Shit's great.
The video or the edible?
Both in their respective departments :)
I really loved the decal he put on his lift to make it seem like the brand name of his one armed car lift was "TIPPI."
Now that's a proper special interest 🤌
What’s your favorite refrigerant
I touch r134a the most in my day to day life, cuz i fix a lot of people's car AC... But I have a soft spot for propane (R290) or propane/butane blends. Yes it's flammable to a degree but it's naturally provided, cheap as hell, zero ozone depletion and very low GWP. It has usable pressure/temperature curves that are easy for compressors to handle and can produce temperatures as low as -30C.
I've refilled old farm trucks with propane from a BBQ can and gotten good AC out of them. It's kind of cool.
It's kind of cool.
I'd say it's objectively cool
You'd get along great with my dad. All he's talked about for the last year is heat pumps.
If you haven't before, you should play Stationeers. It sounds like you'd love it.
Oh god I already play both Space Engineers and Factorio, don't give me another 500 hour logistics game time sink...
But this one simulates the refrigeration cycle! It has proper phase changes and everything.
Empire fucking booked it to steam and has been playing it for the past 10 hours, for sure.
I have a lot of obscure interests, but not as obscure as yours.
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Finding former Pizza Huts in North America. It's just such an iconic building design. There's a documentary out now on them, but I've been fascinated for almost a decade now.
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Meshtastic
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John le Carré novels. He was huge decades ago, but basically nobody knows the name now besides Boomers and genre fans.
Meshtastic
If someone could find an extra 8 hours a week, I would so make this one of my hobbies.
What do you need 8 extra hours for? Affording the 8 other nodes you buy after your first one?
My experience with DIY home networking and self-hosting has been "This is going to eat up your weekend if you want it to work as intended".
Ah, well the good thing is its pretty easy to set up. Most nodes are already flashed with recent enough firmware, so you just attach antennas, connect to your phone, do some quick setup for your region and go for a walk.
Then you realize you want a node that stays at home.
Then you want one on your car.
And reachable from work.
Then you see that hill in the distance and think "that'd be a good spot".
Then you see the mountain on the horizon and wonder if you could hit a node up there.
Then all of a sudden you realize you've single handedly set up the infrastructure for your part of the state and are out more cash money than you told your partner and need a side hustle to afford to finish the second mesh you're building out.
Oh god I feel seen.
(Meshcore rather than meshtastic but tomato tamato)
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You can buy premade nodes on AliExpress or Etsy that are easy to use and portable. Pair it to your phone and start war driving.
We started a meetup group in my local area. Someone put a node on the mountain now the entire city gets longfast. Its so cool.
meshtastic@mander.xyz in case anyone else is interested!
I’ve been thinking of setting up a node at my local ski area, both for others to use, but also to make custom timing equipment that can send start and finish messages to the timing computer and keep us from having to haul wires up icy race courses all winter.
I’ve never actually set one up or used one yet though, so it’s probably a few years off.
It doesn't take too long to set one up but hooking into the python can sometimes be a pain. Sounds like an excellent use case!
Now that I live in a dense urban city, the number of nodes is wild.
I was going to ask if you were in my area, because we recently got some nodes on mountains, but I figure at this point if there's a mountain, it's got a node on it at this point.
The amount of Pizza Hut buildings I've seen turned into Lions Den adult stores is too damn high. In second place, is the local wing place Jerk N Go.
Jerk 'n Go sounds like the adult store. Just sayin'.
In my area every single one is a Mexican restaurant and I'm not mad about it.
Finding former Pizza Huts in North America.
Wait, I have a meme for this! (Forgive the lack of crop lol)
I've seen a bunch of old Pizza huts turned into Chinese food restaurants and I saw two that became small used car offices. They are always so easy to pick out. I legit loved old Pizza Huts with the sit down pacman machines being a common fixture when I was a kid.
Probably more in Edmonton, but this one came to mind. Pretty heavily modified.
Pizza Hut in my hometown is still going. Do you go to operating Pizza Hut restaurants too?
Well.. I'm using an instance that has 10 active users according to https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list:)
I wanted to move from Lemmy to PieFed, because its development is faster than that of Lemmy's and because its maintainers have values I have nothing against and because I want to help a cool project grow.
And then I had a bunch of criteria that I wanted my instance to fulfill, and piefed.ee was the only PieFed instance that fulfilled all of my wishes. So, now I'm apparently one out of ten :)
You're one in a million to me
i.e., there are approximately 1,400 people in China just like you.
Glad you found a happy cozy home. Appreciative that I can reply to you from heart of the old beast!
Relative to all the well known commercial social media platforms though aren't we all into something here hardly anyone else knows about, whether 10 users or a few thousand?
nice!
What was your criteria?
I’m the only person I know IRL who uses lemmy (lol) and openstreetmap :)
Whenever I'm going abroad within Europe, for a bit over month before that, I start buying stuff only with banknotes. I put all of the coins made in Finland or (other) Baltic countries in a separate pocket and then make sure to use those during my travel.
It feels nice that people get to see coins that they don't see that often. And at the same time, I'm increasing the relative amount of non-Finnish coins in Finland, which I also think is good, as that helps people here notice that there's more to the EU than just Finland :)
I would guess it's unlikely that all that many other people do the same.
I like checking what kind of Euros I get, but never thought about purposefully taking coins with me. You convinced me to try it next time =)
I'm really, really into what I can only call technological bootstrapping. Like, we started out on this planet with nothing, and then built everything. How did that happen? Primitive tech is another name, but the emphasis is usually on the very first stages.
That itself has gotten me into obscure things like metrology, greenwood working and small-scale semiconductor fabrication.
Wait, I work in cleanrooms professionally. Fabricating my own semiconductors at home always seemed like a cool idea, but really out of reach. I kind of always wanted to keep old machines from the labs I worked at, but with such expensive things they never threw anything away (of course)!
Isn't it prohibitively expensive and/or noisy? What type of projects do you do?
Have you seen the Sam Zeloof videos? He's the main person I've seen actually build a chip in a garage.
He buys his wafers, which is critical. Given a hot furnace you could refine your own metallurgical silicon in a crucible, but cleaning it will be a whole thing. The machine needed would probably be based on spinning band distillation, which you could make in a pre-existing machine shop. To avoid toxic gases and explosion hazards - which are the two things chemists have told me not to mess with - you'd want to use SiCl4, which is a bit different from the standard approach which uses hydrogenated species. The Siemens process back to silicon and monocrystalline casting is all that's left, and I wonder if they could be combined in a step if scalability isn't a concern.
What type of projects do you do?
If only I had space for a workshop, so it's all theoretical ATM.
Which machines are noisy? Polishers?
Ah, not to worry, even professionally it's very common to buy your wafers. I am on mobile data right now so I'll check out those videos later!
Basically, every single machine that needs a vacuum chamber - so almost all non-wet processes, like physical/chemical vapor deposition, reactive ion etching, scanning electron microscopy (although a good optical microscope will do if you're not at the nano scale... Which is almost certainly the case if you're doing things at home).
Honestly maybe I'm just too used to the lab setting and am underestimating how much you can actually do without vacuum processing. I'll take a look later: this all looked so out of the reach of an ordinary person that I never even considered following content creators who do this. Thank you!
I should mention I met someone IRL who makes their own vacuum tubes. You can own your own pump, although I don't know how it would stack up against what you're used to.
High vacuums are tricky. The first high vacuums were achieved with mercury-based Sprengel pumps, but mercury isn't available everywhere. Maybe you could make a small, slow turbomolecular pump work if it was mandatory (it's all about the bearing) but it seems anything that needs sealing is going to struggle without either that or a massive petrochemical industry to supply the needed high-quality synthetic oils. If you're doing technology all over again, I'd skip the vacuum tubes stage because of this.
If you can get away with a low vacuum, a piston-type pump with castor oil as the sealant will do. It seems like a low vacuum would work for at least some kinds of VD. Maybe you can help clear it up a bit.
(although a good optical microscope will do if you’re not at the nano scale… Which is almost certainly the case if you’re doing things at home).
1 micron features is as ambitious as I've bothered to think about. For basic computing, like to run a CNC machine, that should do.
That's cool! Can you recommend any resources on this? I've thought a lot about this sort of thing. I'm guessing semiconductor fabrication requires a lot of complex upstream tasks and isn't the sort of thing that's feasible at home. Would love to be wrong!
"The Book", is a book that uses illustrations to explain how to recreate civilization. Dunno if it is good. That said, you can also try "How Things Work", which explains the workings of many inventions, with many wooly mammoths interspersed throughout.
Ha! Is that the one that explained buoyancy by saying the elephant/water was afraid of the water/elephant, so they had to build walls on the side of the raft so it/the water couldn't see each other?
Man, that's one of the books I most distinctly remember from my childhood. I've looked into getting a copy, but a quick look indicates the original edition is actually pretty pricey now, probably because I'm not the only one.
I think I can draw a pretty direct line between reading the logic gates section of it, and the CPU design project I still have going semi-separately from the bootstrapping. Although it's possible I learned about gates somewhere else first.
Depends where you're starting. If it's sticks and stones, yeah, you're going to spend a lot of time building up. Even getting to the prerequisites for the Gingery-esque machine shop will be a trick, and you definitely need machining first.
Sam Zeloof is the guy that actually did the semiconductors bit. He makes a transistor in the linked video series starting with a commercial wafer, some basic chemicals, a spinning piece of tape and an electric furnace. I read papers and just Wikipedia to get ideas for the parts he doesn't cover. The standard ways of doing things are heavily constrained by scalability, which as an artisan you don't care about, but will breeze past other things you really do, like ability to work in a small space. And, if you're starting from scratch, using only common, locally available elements.
This sounds like the entire premise behind the manga/anime Dr. Stone.
All humans on earth get turned to stone, and a young scientific supergenius teaches survivors how to essentially restart civilization from scratch.
It's an absolute joy to watch. Maybe you'd dig it? :D
I'll keep it in mind, although it might be that I know too much to enjoy it now. Kind of like anyone in IT watching TV hackers.
That's fair, although to use that analogy, I hope it'd be like Mr. Robot as opposed to something like NCIS. 😉
I really like killing invasive plants. I think that's probably my most niche passion. Like when I have some free time I'll just go into the woods behind my house and cut down wisteria, ivy, Chinese holly.... I just find it extremely satisfying idk. I love the idea that I'm clearing out space for native plants (and in turn native animals) to grow.
There’s a lot of Robotech/Macross stuff out there, but I rarely see anyone post online about it, and I’ve never met anyone in person who even knows what it is.
I can't even fanthom this but it was pretty popular in the 90's. Maybe not as much anymore.
Never hear it spoken of, nor any online comments. We teens were hooked. A serious animated series about young adults?! We called it "japanimation", maybe we just made that up, never heard the word elsewhere, but we had never heard the word "anime".
Haven't revisited as I'm afraid I'd be deeply disappointed.
Yeah, I called it Japanimation, too.
Oh you're that old. I'm that old.
Ever watched Votoms ?
This looks amazing..I was literally thinking of the robotech books today because I heard some music that sounded like the background jazz and was thinking how Jack McKinney bio mentioned he played in fusion jazz bands! Also called it japanimation back then.. how cool!!
I don’t recognize the name. I’ll have to watch it and see if it ignites ancient memories.
Man, the gamecube version of it was a lot of fun. Definitely not the most polished game, but it got me into the actual show.
and I’ve never met anyone in person who even knows what it is.
I guess it doesn't exactly come up randomly in conversation.
But I intend to be the change I want to see in the world.
I usually mention it fairly soon after spending any amount of time with anyone. I’ve even got a nice big RDF roundel pin on my shoulder bag.
That is cool.
Ok, I'll bite. Which one's your favorite?
When I find out a thing I like is the preferred option of someone whose niche fixation is that type of thing, it gives me life.
All I really want from the internet is to have a council of difficult nerds telling me what all the best shit is so I can become the perfect being.
I'm never leaving Lemmy lmao
Yes, absolutely, 100% yes. Using Orion + Kagi is absolutely the best change I’ve ever made to my browsing experience on Mac.
I think IronFox comes with UBO. Its the successor to Mull. The LibreWolf equivalent on Android. From what I understand.
Death metal. I’m pretty clean cut and tat free so people are really taken aback when I tell them one of my favorite acts is called Cattle Decapitation.
My wife discovered "Powerwolf" recently. Not death metal, per say, but I've yet to meet anyone else whose heard of it. Worse still, this lead her down a rabbit hole to Dwarf Metal and the accursed song Diggy Diggy Hole which has bored its way into my brain.
The fact that Diggy Diggy Hole exists is such a wonderful thing. It was fun to watch the original, and then various evolutions of it. Its what the internet should be instead of the corporate, pay to play garbage we have ended up with.
Also Powerwolf and Wind Rose are just fun bands to listen to. Metal that doesn't take itself too seriously of great.
Thats epic haha.
Blind Guardian is another good one that makes songs inspired by fantasy. Their Wheel of Time album is pretty great. My personal favorite is Ride Into Obsession, which is sung from the point of view of one of the series' main antagonists, though the last section of the eponymous "Wheel of Time" is also a banger.
Blind Guardian was in an older PC action RPG Sacred 2. There was a whole quest to find their lost "weapons" (wand was a microphone, axe was a guitar, etc) and then there was a full in game video of them playing in front of orcs. I am not a particular fan of theirs, but it was so awesome.
Everytime anyone mentions Blind Guardian, Mirror Mirror starts playing in my head
Ah yes power metal is quite a thing in and of itself! Feel free to do whatever you want with this knowledge, but there’s also Goblin Metal, my most favorite being a band called Necrogoblikon. There’s no doubt some band singing in Tolkien Elvish to round out the trinity.
Skin Thief probably my favorite Nekrogoblikon song
A search has given me the band Summoning (atmospheric black metal) whose theme is Middle Earth and they supposedly have passages in Elvish in their lyrics. I'm not in a spot to listen to them at the moment but it seems to be one I will definitely check.
A second place would be a band called Battlelore, seemingly.
Lol, an ex introduced me to necrogoblikon. I was playing it for everybody who would listen for a few weeks afterwards.
I got sent down a weird musical rabbit hole that started by letting my kid play some k-pop on my Spotify account. The AI DJ added "foreign music" to the list of tags I guess, and after finding a couple k-pop songs I liked, it bronched out into other genres & Landed on Melodic Mexican Metal, which I didn't even know was a thing.
A buddy of mine and I used to play this game where one of us tried to think of an absurd metal concept and the other tried to find a band that actually fit that description. The game ended the day that the challenge was Maori folk metal and we discovered the band Alien Weaponry. At that point we pretty much decided that there must exist a rule similar to the internet's rule 42 along the lines of "if there's a genre of music, there exists a metal subgenre influenced by it."
The one upside of The Algorithm. Wish that kind of Internet was the norm
I mean, demons are a girls best friend
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Depending on what she's into, there's tons of fun power metal bands that I feel are kinda like Powerwolf. Gloryhammer and aramanthe are two that I really like that are in the same genre
I don't know if I've heard one or both. Wife's real love is for Ghost, but that's hardly a "nobody else is into this" kind of band. I've definitely seen one of these in the Recommended For You feed
I gave my son some of my old CDs last year. In them was a mix metal cd I got somewhere, and there is a powerwolf song on there. I wish I could remember which song, but for nearly a year he'd put that song on repeat and fall asleep to it every night. It was absurdly amusing
I love singing powerwolf at dive bar karaoke. Resurrection by erection always gets people going.
I hit a similar wall back in high school but the instrumentation was just too good to stop listening. Now I love harsh vocals
My husband doesn't have tattoos, but a beard. He loves all metal but definitely death metal.
There was a woman at my work, she was in the office side pretty high up. I always played my music, she soon found out I was (at least in part) a metal head. One time we found ourselves in a meeting room just a few of us, and shared she is massively a metal head, even citing death metal. I was so taken aback. She is highly professional always, and become the coolest lady in the office to me that day.
My dentist's favorite band is Led Zeppelin. My son asked, that answer surprised me too. For an older woman, close enough lol
I'm addicted to buying crappy antique and vintage shotguns and restoring them. Have so many now I can hardly justify another. I know, I'm ruining the antique value by stripping the metal and wood, but they're ~$150 items, not exactly rare.
Look at this $119 ($160 by the time I get it home) piece of crap!
https://www.guns.com/used-guns/p/companhia-brasileira-de-cartuchos-151?i=571883
Never even heard of that brand, let alone the model. Bet I could make it dance and sing for a week's worth of evenings. It's a single-shot, can't be too fucked up. Probably.
That's pretty neat! Can you describe the restoration process more?
It's a piece by piece thing. First I strip the wood down, assuming that's needed or wanted. Hella work, many blisters, stain as appropriate. Wish I had pics, but one 60s ERA (Brazilian make) single-shot was stained in what I call Confederate Blue, sort of a blue/gray mix. Girlfriend's eyes popped when she saw it. "You told me about it, but I didn't imagine this!" I'd take a pic, but it's in the shed at camp. :( The single-shot hanging over my door is from the 60s or 70s, deep red, silver metal, nickle sling swivels, $20 buffalo-leather sling from eBay. Took that pic just for you OP!
That last one took over 2-months! Broke a piece fucking with it. Ordered. Waited. Tried again. Lost a spring. Ordered. Waited. Found the original spring, now have two. Refinished the wood after the first clear coat peeled off, dumb mistake, took a week of sanding, staining, drying, coating. Just about my favorite. Long barrel for full force and accuracy, tight pattern, kicks like god's own mule. Too broke to buy more low-power shells, stuck with the monsters another gun required, bruisers, not fun. But still fun. :)
Back up. First I make sure everything is mechanically safe and sound, actually works, no "oops", and not interested in "wall hangers". Parts are an adventure, but Numrich gun parts has loads of old parts for cheap, diagrams for reference. "WTF is this part even called?!" Need a weird spring or piece of metal? They got it. LOL, I've used a ball-point pen spring!
Once it's mechanically sound and the wood is done, time for accessories! That usually means a matching strap and some way to affix shells, maybe a sight or a new bead on the end. I like the "grab and go" way of the gun. Got a solid source for leather wraps if anyone cares, Polish outfit on eBay. I will scream to the heavens about their quality, service and pricing. Got about 6 of those, want more, too broke. When they say "20-gauge", it ain't a loose 12-gauge that sorta fits. Left-handed merchandise as well! :)
Not many pics, but here's a single-shot 20-gauge I gave a dear friend for (FINALLY) graduating high school. He's now happily married and moving up in the US Air Force! Got to hold it again at his house warming party. Gods I miss that one, want another to fix up.
This one's new, not exciting, but I wanted a cheap, light, 12-gauge for hiking. Sawed off (legally!), stained, upside down flag nailed on. But ain't my AR cool!
Not my work, except for adding the shell carrier and rough grip, but very much my style. 1900s (?), double-barreled, side-by-side, 12-gauge, sawed off (legally!). They stripped the blueing (blackening) off all the metal, chopped it, sanded and stained, wonderful. Can't use modern loads, and both barrels trip at once if cocked, still fun as hell.
Wish I had more pics! Got a 90s Remington, made in Russia. You read that right. A tiny 410 with the most beautiful wood furniture I own. When my FFL handed me the box, and he usually doesn't comment much on my purchases, "Wait till you see the wood grain." It shines like amber in the sun.
Anyway, I better go pay attention to my wife, but your triggered my trap card! Be glad to say more!
EDIT: Stumbled on a pic! Confederate Blue shotgun on top. The colors really pop IRL! Next one is a Revelations brand from 70s/80s Western Auto Stores, first thing I ever gunsmithed, got me on this road. It's a common Remington 500, simply rebranded. Yes, you could buy guns in auto parts stores in the day, no ID. Two Turkish POSes. First one works fine, second one's going in the swamp. Next up is a Remington 1895, same year as the make, didn't do much of anything to that one but clean up the wood. And the aforementioned "red". Love that thing.
And no joke, the bug blaster on the bottom works. It's a salt shotgun for flies. It works.
EDIT2: Found the Russian 410! Looks better in the sunlight, but you might get the idea.
This is the first thing I've seen here that feels like it meets the OP's ask. What a cool hobby!
That's so cool! I'm not at all into guns, but I love seeing other people's expertise and the before and after of trashed to treasure, would be amazing to see.
I've not done much before and after, and so wish I had. Turned some real junkers into art. My kinda art anyway.
Here's my comment on the shotguns.
I play single player video games and I roleplay and tell stories about my characters. I’ve done it with BG3, Elden Ring, Skyrim, Oblivion, Fire Emblem, and Pokemon. I take notes and write little stories for myself. I cultivate a little headcanon universe for each game, and I even let my roleplay alter my gameplay in meaningful ways. I don’t know if anyone else plays these games like this but I haven’t found much community for it.
FoundryVTT, baby! Somewhere north of 70,000 downloads for a very feature rich virtual tabletop that you'd think more D&D / Computer Nerds would be into.
If you want to get even more bespoke, I'm the proud owner of a version 2 box of "Kingdom Death", a $400 boardgame designed in the spirit of Monster Hunter or Dark Souls. You play a primitive band of survivalists, hunting horrifying monsters for their body parts, in order to slowly claw your civilization's way out of a Lovecraftian dark age.
I’m right with you on both of those things. I just spent more time than is reasonable on a gatehouse over a chasm in foundry, and have a screaming antelope on the shelf next to me that I’m reasonably proud of.
My wife loves Foundry for her virtual tabletop needs. All of her free time is spent playing games with friends from around the world in some kind of VTT. :)
I thin my friend group is on our 6th run of Kingdom Death. Such a great game
Gaia Online still exists??
I was just thinking about second life the other day when someone brought up meta and its push for the 'metaverse.' I still remember the old pranks of making it rain dildos in someone's area, or enclosing their head in a box.
Every so often I go through a phase:
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"Second Life was fun. Why did I stop using it?"
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Recreate account, log in.
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Watch FPS drop to a fraction with a lot of zeroes at the start of it as all the adverts struggle to load.
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"Oh, yeah. That was why."
Oh man, Second Life! I remember being absolutely wowed by it even though I never made an account. Its heyday was very much before I'd be able or brave enough to use real money in a virtual social game like that. (That wasn't WoW lol)
I always fondly remember the lovable antics of the legendary troll: Esteban Winsmore!
Gaia Online reminds me a lot of Ragnarok, visually. That's cool it's still around! I remember hopping around F2P MMOs like crazy just trying to find something me and my long distance partner could interact together and vibe with. There were a lot of oddball ones that are shockingly still around!
Guix, there are dozens of us! Dozens!
I try to curate zines from around the world into local exhibitions, do hand translating alongside if need be, imitate the original paper best I can.
It's kinda fun lol. That and kinda similarly, but I love♡ spending time on online software radio sites, just listening into different channels like I was there myself.
I like to analyse stickers stuck on traffic lights and road signs.
I plan on making an app someday where people can contribute to a database of stickers and compare the sticker culture of different regions.
I like to contribute to various open-source implimentations of classic games from the 90s
It's true that barely anyone is into actually contributing, but I assure you a fair amount of people are into the actual open source implementations and are thankful for your efforts!
Any game in particular you contributed to that you want to share?
Sorry, I use different accounts and hence nicknames for each project; letting one loose would dox me too much for my liking. Thanks, though!
I like retro programming, in particular Windows 2000.
Now I'm making a little 3D toy now that works with OpenGL on Windows with WGL and on X11 with GLX (also on Cygwin). No third party abstractions!
I want to keep adding backends, like DX 7, 9, Vulkan, WebGL, bare Linux KMS, and then stuff like screen space reflections, shadows, materials, ray tracing where possible, maybe get it running on a console or two too.
I work in a technology field and I'm interested in "not AI" stuff. It's a wild ride.
I do calligraphy. Sometimes i meet someone who knows someone who does calligraphy. But I've never met another person IRL that does calligraphy. And the particular style I like makes it even more rare.
Bash scripting, firewall config, vpn tunnelling, and containerization ( rootless Podman ).
I’m into combining these in interesting ways.
While it could be argued that there are tons of communities for these, combining them to run secure apps or automate their setups don’t seem to be as popular.
It’s a hot topic at social events, as you can imagine.
I like to rescue dogs. I just rescued one last week that I'm taking to get groomed. He's sleeping in his crate right now. It's not ideal, as I live in a small house with two cats, three people, and two dogs. But holy shit is it rewarding. Most of the time they just scamper away, although blessedly it's usually to their home. Every once in a while you get a friend for a while, and someone else gets a friend for life. Dogs are lovely animals, and they exist as they do because of humans. It is our duty to take care of them.
This little guy needs to be housetrained and neutered but then he's off to live a life on the open road as my trucker friend's road companion. Or at least that's the plan!
Idk how to attach pictures on this app so you'll have to imagine a very sweet Yorkshire terrier who only has a few dreads left to snip! When I found him he had a dread that was legit like two feet long. Poor baby.
You're a very good person!
My mother's dog was a dog we gave "temporary" shelter to... Five years ago. She's 10 now and we couldn't be happier. She came to us from a very difficult home situation (her previous owner had just escaped from a violent marriage, and we think the dog might have been a victim too, but nobody was ever able to prove anything). She's still a little monster and she's still very afraid of everything, but there's no comparing how she was when we adopted her and how she is now.
I had an ex who lived somewhere where people often went to to abandon their dogs once they grew too old, too big or too aggressive. Her family also took in as many as they could: when we broke up, they had something along the lines of 10 dogs. It was very rewarding, too, as she got a good friend in each and every one of them. But it really hurts my heart to imagine that someone could be so cruel as to just abandon a dog like that, even hurt them.
Thank you! I'm about to pick him up from the groomer. They warned me they might have to shave him down so he could look pretty silly. Might have to get the little guy a coat or something.
Dune was my go to scifi...now it's popular and I feel like a hipster.
My dad got me into hard scifi, d&d, Tolkien...if I feel like a hipster, can't imagine what he feels like.
At school, I seem to be one of the very few people who use Linux so there's that
My favorite thing in the whole world is dropping LSD, and listening to obscure music or watching weird shit...
Dude I can't find ANYONE to hang out with me... I wave that flag in every social situation I find myself in. I really thought there would be more people into it.
Well, that or I'm completely unbearable to hang out with. If that's the case I just wish people would tell me.
Oh, that’s just a risky proposition, that’s all!
I would wager most people don’t know themselves well enough on psychedelics to trust watching weird shit with someone who is also on psychedelics.
Keep waving that flag. If we were at the same baptism reception I'd drop acid with you.
I am big into old obscure media, love ubuweb, but I would still hesitate to join a kind of unknown person for an activity like that. It’s just a big plunge.
You should try a festival. You'll find something fun to do and plenty of people go alone.
I mean that's a giant leap for any new friend. Lsd isnt so common that the average person has experience with it. So how to have a good trip and trip safely is a necessary starting point. It's also a multi hour to days long thing. Thats a heck of a lot of time for most People to spend not working, no family obligations, and no other needs/wants. Basically its a rare population who's willing to trip and of those willing it'd probably be a once a year thing at best. That said of people willing to trip I would think the music and videos would be about par.
yeah taking psychedelics with someone else is like entering a relationship - you really gotta know the person and have good rapport built up, make sure all parties are prepared and on the same page, etc etc to guarantee you have a good time
or you could just roll the bones and risk having a very unpleasant 4-12 hours
I mean I'm not looking to cold open with drugs and strangers. Lol. I'd like proper friends with whom we've established mutual respect and trust for one another.
THEN go get weird at the Renaissance Festival, or concert, or shitty movie.
All anyone my age around here wants to do is drink shitty craft beers, hike, and watch football...
i hear you. its a hard subject to even bring up since it can be hard to gauge how others feel about it, i'd be lying if i said i didn't also want to take psychedelics with friends. the only people i know who would even be a right fit don't want to due to past personal experiences.
and hey, hiking is awesome! especially awesome with friends and/or drugs lol
Watch Scavengers Reign and Common Side Effects - they're absolutely terrific tv shows that should be right up your allley.
Already watched and re-watched. Lol.
As someone who has never done LSD, but loves watching weird shit... I recommend checking out Aze Alter's videos on the Capitol of Conformity. I think it starts with "Eyes for Sale" but don't quote me. Might be a good time!
I'm hip. Thanks for the recco!
One year on Spotify I was in the top I think 1% of lou reed listeners.
I was in the top 1% for Beatles listeners a few years back. That was shocking, but it was a deep-dive I did over like 6 months, so I guess it makes sense. Still, given their popularity it really surprised me an made me question Spotify's metrics
I’m an avid reader, and I like reading in original language. That has brought me in a variety of rabbit holes, including trying to learn Russian, then Japanese. Unfortunately, I forgot most of it. I also forgot most of my ancient Greek, but my Latin is still vaguely useful. My German and Spanish never reached the “I can read anything” level, that is a shame because I really want to read the Don Quixote and Goethe... But I’m proud to easily read in 3 languages, struggling in 2-3 others (depending how much dictionary use is allowed).
I haven’t been able to find a community of people that like this. Most like a specific culture and go deep into a single language.
I'm currently reading in 3 languages, but a bit more narrowly than you.
When I was a young teen, and reading SF&F books voraciously (sometimes a book a day, or more if I had them), I ran across the Perry Rhodan series.
Finally something I wouldn't run out of! It started in Germany in 1961, and published a novella weekly since. (They haven't missed a week, and are currently past issue 3,000.)
The first 150 or so were translated into English and I scoured used book stores until I had all of them.
Now, 50 years later, I spent a week in Germany and bought issue 3323 in a railway station bookstore. My German was never great, and is now worse, so Google Lens has helped me get through it.
When I came home I did some searching and found all the English translations as e-books. I've read a couple dozen of the early ones and they are pretty dreadful. My 14-year-old self was not very discerning.
I also found e-versions of the German originals up to about #2000, which I could read laboriously, and French translations of the first 1,000.
The latter is a game changer because my French is good enough to read with only occasional dictionary lookups. Reading with Google books allows me to tap as word and see the English instantly, so it's quite convenient.
Let me know if you find or start a group.
There are two of us??
I curate about 90 cartoons and almost as many indie animation channels to create a weekly block of Saturday morning cartoon programming for my wife and kid.
I edit it together in kdenlive from files on my media server, and we stream it to my mini projector each weekend. Been going over a year now, only missing weeks when we're traveling. I would love to be able to share it with a wider audience, but I'm still not sure how, given it's all pirated.
Living every good dad's dream
It's the highlight of my week. It's great to have culture in common with my kid and to get each others references. I also like to cook big breakfasts that day, lots of waffles, bellinis, fancy stuff, fresh fruits. Real bougie with it.
I just set them up as a playlist; editing them together is a great idea!
It lets me cut out any unnecessary credits or repetitive intros, and I have a little fun with commercial breaks sometimes. Once I put the Heinz automato robot video into the commercial break of a Mega Man cartoon. That got a big laugh.
How have I never seen that? Hahahaha
Yeah... My kid's going to have such a bizarre sense of humour. I feel like I'm enriching comedic plutonium over here.
What are the indie channels?
Can I be lazy and not write it all out?
Not all of it is for my kid, not all of it is even very good, but it's a good bit of variety.
I'm sure there's probably someone out there, but I'm really interested in cool border crossings and how they represent nations on each side. As much as I am no nationalist, I find those projections of strength, friendship, security, etc. all super interesting.
Oh, and fake/fantasy transit maps. Those are always fun to draw up in my spare time.
How to use game design for education around political and social issues and complexity science
Edit since a few people asked: I don't have good answers for this yet, but some thoughts:
- According to C. This Nguyen, games are the art of agency (in the same was as music is the art of sound). Agency is core to politics and activism, and the antidote to apathy and despair. I think (some kinds of) games can make you think in really interesting ways about how you can approach agency, or how it is taken from you.
- Some excellent examples include Wintergreen and Bloc by Bloc. Basically any storygame can, if you want it to.
- Games are basically a voluntary and temporary acceptance of an arbitrary set of rules, with an arbitrary goal that you strive to overcome. They often include metrics that tell you how well you are doing. To some degree, the same can be said about modern bureaucracies (albeit less voluntary and temporary), where the metrics might be KPIs or money.
- Games can satirise this in educational ways, e.g. this was the purpose of The Landlord's Game (the precursor to monopoly)
- This is another C. Thi Nguyen thing - really worth listening to his podcast episode on the Ezra Klein show.
- Some games show amazing emergent complexity. That is, complexity that isn't due to underlying complexity of the system parts, but emerges as a result of their many interactions, like turbulent eddies, or bird murmurations.
- Go/Baduk is an extreme example of this. 2 rules that have produced 3000 years of culture surrounding one of the most difficult and engaging games I know.
- Tak is another example that's a lot easier to learn (because it doesn't require building up a bank of pattern recognition)
- TTRPGs are also super interesting to me, because narrative is one of the tools that the human brain has developed to help understand complexity. I don't think they exhibit emergent complexity so much, but they bring in a lot of complexity via the players' life experience, and via the setting/world.
- Different game mechanics and story tropes provide different affordances - that is, they allow or encourage some behaviours, and disallow others.
- No one ever forments a revolution in monopoly, right? Why not?
- Affordances is an excellent frame for understanding how agency relates to systems, because all systems have attributes with affordances (and constraints). What are the affordances of a capitalist democracy? I think games are an ideal vehicle for explaining affordances easily.
There are probably plenty more links. I've been playing some of those games for years, but am still relatively new to some e.g. story games. And I'm just starting out looking in to game design..
edit 2: also, a plug for complexity@lemmy.world
Woah. That sounds interesting. Care to elaborate?
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Have you played Citizen Sleeper? I think you might like it.
I haven't. I'm less interested in videogames, because I find I prefer the social interactions of physical games more, and I also suspect that videogames fall into more of a one-to-many style communication, rather than many-to-many (I have played them a lot in the past, just not so much these days).
I had a quick skim of the wikipedia page, but it mostly seems pretty focused on the narrative (aside from the dice pool mechanic, which sounds a lot like Psi*Run dice mechanic discussed on this podcast). Was there something in particular about it that I'd be interested in?
Mostly the fact that it's very class and socially conscious, and is using games as a way of teaching deeper truths. The mechanics aren't super interesting, though they are solid. It is definitely a one-to-many thing, though
Oh yeah. I see that kind of teaching as fairly similar to what you would get from movies or books. Definitely useful, and with lots to explore (I want to write some SciFi eventually). But I think it's fundamentally different to when the game structure teaches things.
Of course, there are table top games that have those elements too, though probably less than videogames, since they usually depend on the players creating the story on the fly.
I want to know more. Part of my job involves teaching lessons on climate change in schools. I have often wondered how I could incorporate games like Minecraft into this.
Edited a bunch in. Would be interested in your Minecraft thoughts after reading that. I don't immediately see that Minecraft specifically would be useful for climate change. I'm a climate scientist, but I haven't played the game... There are a few other games out there that do tackle climate change, some in useful and interesting ways.
Edit: some of the games I know:
- Daybreak by Matt Leacock et al.
- Hack the Planet
- there's heaps of solarpunk and climate games on itch.io, I havent tried many yet.
I really love Japanese jazz fusion. None of my friends understand my excitement about the EWI solos, they just say it sounds like Mario Kart music lol. I'm also into Buddhism, but dont have anyone else with this interest.
"space music" -- I played Mass Effect 1 long ago and got hooked on the idea of musicians trying (and often failing) to make music for futuristic settings. This is like Star Trek episodes that reference classical music but some person has to predict what classical music will sound like in 2300. So they go with with future retro stuff and it just tickles me. So I seek out these sorts of experimental musical pre-trend predictions cause they're often hilarious.
The design and building of authorization policy systems. And crypto (as in cryptography as the word originally meant) but that one tends to be slightly more common.
Shoot, this has been on my brain a lot lately. I've been thinking about a modern one-time pad scheme that uses USB drives. Wanna send your friend 16GB of encrypted messages? Next time you hang out, give them a cheap USB drive. Or, possibly have your phones generate and share a one-time pad using NFC.
Unfortunately, I think phones and USB drives are too vulnerable, but it would be a fun little project to build.
Bring back the sneakernet! 🤘
Never left. I still have a shoe box full of floppies in my station wagon.
Actually yeah, that sounds rad af
Slinging. Like David and Goliath, but I’m better with the over the shoulder method than the spin it in circles method. Based on discord and other sites, there are dozens of slingers worldwide.
Pure math, finite automata, math rock, analog synthesis, knitting (in my demographic), video games from before we knew modern UI and game design... to be fair, none of these communities are non-existent, but they're pretty niche even among my weirdo friends.
One of the very first mud games, mud2 by Richard Bartle.
I grew up playing AvatarMUD
I remember MUDs! I played Achaea!
Maybe ambient funk, a sub genre of São Paulo's funk bruxaria that is a sub genre of Brazilian funk.
Bet all the views on this song are mine putting it on repeat
https://youtube.com/watch?v=G1UoyoFBb0o
There are like only 3 producers of this genre of music.
This is pretty sweet
I tried to find an in-person calligraphy meetup around my area and mind you, I live in one of the bigger metro areas in the country. Couldn't find squat. Don't know if my Google Fu was weak or I just don't know what to actually look up but there's nothing specifically for calligraphy as far as I can tell. Also, I don't count online spaces.
I've actually met a few people who are into calligraphy but they don't strike me as the "meet-up" type of people.
If only you were an Arab or Chinese. I don't think calligraphy ever had mass appeal the same way in the West.
Damn. TIL 🙏
When watching incest porn, I try to figure out how everybody can be in a step-relationship with everybody else there. How is it possible for step-mom, step-dad, step-bro and step-sis to all live in the same house with no one else?
That's just porn with extra steps!
I still remember the brain flash when someone mentioned their thoughts on why they do that: once they're a few minutes in, they stop saying "step" so it just becomes "daddy" and they can capture the weirdos who are into the 'illegal' incest.
I really like the souped up versions of mom cars that they make before there's a model year redesign.
My dream car is Mercedes R 63 AMG.
Also a big fan of Station Wagons, but that's not that rare among enthusiasts.
you know. That reminds me that I like minivans when essentially no one does. I mean actively like them and prefer them to other motor vehicles (although im not a big fan of motor vehicles)
I have a friend who has used minivans for 50 years. She started with them for her kids, and now uses them for everything you can imagine on a ranch. She's got trucks for some stuff, but a minivan can haul anything that won't kill you with its smell or stains.
oh yeah. my wife has all brothers and she did not want one because it was not tough enough. I challenged her that we test drive the truck she wanted and the minivan I wanted. She did not like the idea of both test driving and that was because once she sat in one of the same cost as the truck with all the comfort and perks she was sold. Later her dad had to move a fridge and the brothers suv could not hold it without the back having to be bungeed and her fathers truck could not hold it without the back down and it all tied up but the wussy minvan. Fit in completely with the hatch completely latched.
Yo a fellow minivan fan. I wish there were ev versions already. It should be one of the main vehicles for that where it's just running errands and kids but suvs have seemingly chomped that part of the market up.
Minivans are basically spaceships now, and everyone sleeps on them.
I love me a good Odyssey.
When it looked like dodge was going to be sold I was so hoping it would be picked up by a better company to make a more reliable caravan. the flip and fold are amazing and they did it with the roof rack to.
I low-key want a Toyota Previa so I can tell people I drive a manual transmission, AWD, turbocharged, mid-engine car... and then show up in a minivan.
(Although all of those features were available in various combinations, no individual car came actually came from the factory with all four of them at once. Unfortunately, you'd have to swap either the engine or the drivetrain to make such a super-Previa.)
I still love Garry’s Mod animations. Basically using stop-motion-style tools to make low-effort animations with familiar characters on Source engine maps.
They don’t fit the YouTube algorithm now though; creators can’t just put up a new animation every few weeks. It was at its best when the whole community was just posting stuff in leapfrog formation, rather than competing for their audience every day.
I strap GoPros on to hand built FPV Freestyle quadcopters and make videos out of it. When I lived in Orlando there were a few of us doing it. Lately I know of 0 in my area.
I'm not into gaming. I think I'm the only adult male I know of comparable age that isn't. I don't really know why. I think it's a mental block. I was big into 16-bit Atari/Amiga games in the early 90s. Then I just hit like 16/17 and got into music and drinking to fit in. The gaming scene at the time (pre-internet) was social kryptonite, and I lived in rural Scotland so I left it all behind.
Oddly, I returned to general computing in my early 20s as the internet was blowing up and now work in the IT sector.
But still not a gamer, which ironically is quite isolating.
I code Csound. It's still sort-of being maintained, but otherwise the community is super dead. It's a shame because it's very versatile and fun, but realistically there are quite a few more modern alternatives for coding sound synthesis these days.
I am the only person I know IRL that plays soulslikes and rougelikes. Even online, it seems like it's not a lot of people compared to other genres and series. Especially so on smaller places such as here.
There was a very short lived time when I was the top ranked player of Shootmania in the entire US, tho. Because I was the ONLY US player at the time lol
In real life, I know all couple people who are also interested in watches, but mostly nobody wears a watch at all anymore, let alone is interested in them as a hobby.
Also, fountain pens. I love pens. I love finding them at antique stores and restoring them. There's a little bit of a community here, not like there was on reddit though.
Calculators. I think I'm alone there. Vintage TI, HP, and modern Casio.
Staplers. Especially Ace.
As for games, probably Battlezone II. Such fun multi-player, now I have nobody to play with. So many good mods, and I can't get any of them to work in Mint. One reason I still have an XP machine.
This is a great topic! I have more than one kinda odd hobby.
I got a bunch of old newspaper comic strips of Mary Worth from 1947 and 1951 (almost two full years’ worth) that I’m putting into ~3”x12” poly bags so I can read them more easily. I need to put them into a book of some sort.
I also got some color Sunday strips from 1951 but they’re a crazy size so I may need to put those in a separate book.
I think they’re so cool though! The strips have ads on the back from the time period.
I ended up flipping through a bunch of Punch magazines from the 20's a bit ago, albeit just digitally. It was fascinating. You get a perspective that way that reading curated highlights and stories compiled afterwards just can't give you.
Edit: I guess you actually have to specify 1920's now.
I have a habit of looking at archive.org’s recently uploaded magazines because it is always cool to look at periodicals from a different time.
Even things that seem unrelated to my interests at all end up being a riveting window into something unfamiliar!
I'm into making a blog about tech and art. The tech side being about teaching normies how to circumvent censorship and be anonymous or private, how to escape algorithms, and a personalized resource wiki and archive.
The art side is about the intersection between tech and art, AI art appropriation, raves and social justice, and some light electronica blogging.
I know of no one else irl that is fascinated by this stuff, let alone both simultaneously. None of my artsy friends are into the tech stuff, and the one tech friend I have knows nothing about this stuff. It gets lonely as both a tech and art nerd but I'm so filled with passion making this from scratch. Also the landing page will pull from a collection of liminal spaces, political cartoons, Y2K imagery and have the logo rotating back and forth. I think its pretty cool, very rigorous and time consuming to build though.
it will be called zoracle.life
I make games that are a mix of physical and digital mediums. I found some other people doing similar stuff but nothing exactly the same. A lot of escape room creators use similar technologies though so I find myself talking to those people a lot.
I'm building a decentralised file system.
It works, is FOSS and all.
I have a fair amount of things that are not exactly popular but its not like zero people are into it.
I'm back engineering an old UART to replace the lightbulb on a projector with a UV bulb so I can use it to print images in gelatin Carbon transfer photography. LOL even the normies using transparencies are a few.
Probably not rare in general but rare where I'm from. Racing, asphalt circle track stuff. Like NASCAR but much smaller, cheaper, and local tracks.
I play the gatcha game Monster Strike, which is pretty rare in the West.
It only has a Japanese version after they ended support for the English version like 10 years ago.
I love listening to political music in languages I dont speak, I have music saved from 74 languages (so far).
Over the last few years, I've noticed a lot of music I listen too isn't in English. I like it so much. Though I probably don't have 74 languages, just scattered European ones. Europe has really good post punk/darkwave
I listen to a lot of European music like Polish, German, and Serbian :3
(I have more Vietnamese music in my collection tho)
Could you share one of you liked vietnamese bands? I'd love to check out something I'm unfamiliar with.
Northern Lite is my favorite German band I think, as well has bands like Brutus (Belgian) and my favorite band at the moment is Molchat Doma. Stuff like Ploho, Vestron Vulure, and others I can't even write because I don't have the alphabet available lol.
Anyway, love to hear some of your favs!
Nah im significantly weirder than you think, I listen to random communist Vietnamese music. Why? I just love anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism :3
I know there are others out there, but I sometimes feel like I am the only person under 50 who loves opera. I have 2 streaming services that I mostly use for watching opera.
I honestly feel like many people would like opera if they gave it a chance. Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen is a cross between Lord of the Rings and The Avengers, but without the 30-min CGI fights (no disrespect to those who like fight scenes, but i get bored). My son and I love Mozart's The Magic Flute; my wife's favourite is Bizet's Carmen.
I really like this one MUD. I’m super casual. I guess about 200 people play. Which in the grand scheme of things is almost no one.
200 is a lot of people for a mud. The only one I know of that's that big is aardwolf. Which do you play?
I play aardwolf. :)
Nice! I got about two remorts in, but haven't played in a while. It's a pretty solid mud.
I'll always have a soft spot for Project Bob, which I think shut down. Diablo-style items and a very fast paced combat system. Alas. Time marches on.
Yeah no kidding. I played one called exile. I think it’s still there, but it’s only afkers and basically not much to do. At least aard has some social aspect.
What is a mud?
Basically a text game. Check out aardwolf.
A MUD is a Multi User Dungeon - imagine a fully text-based MMO. They've been around since the late 70s.
I might just join you in that game, it looks cool.
I've been playing starbound again and feels like the game has been abandoned for the last 10 years, but steam db says there's still about ~800 players so that's not so bad.
I don't know anyone else who likes horror films.
Hi 👋
I'm 1hitsong. Now you know me.
What are your favorite horror movies?
Some of my favs are Nightmare on Elm Street, Trick r Treat, Shaun of the Dead, Evil Dead.
Hello, My favorites are Session 9, The Mothman Prophecies, Paranormal Activity, and White Noise. I'm more into psychological and supernatural horror. Session 9 is a masterpiece if you haven't seen it. I would highly recommended it.
I have a more particular niche, where I like comedy-horror and grossout-horror; flicks that can effectively embrace the tropes of B movie horror.
Drag me to Hell is one that I enjoyed. The protagonist is pretty resilient in spite of the over-the-top effects of the curse.
Ironically; I really DON’T like depictions of misery. Somehow my favorite form of action follows the vein of Wile E Coyote getting squished by an anvil; everyone laughs and the appeal is more in the shock unexpectedness than the raw emotional pain that horror often reveals in.
I just watched Drag me to Hell for the first time in a decade with my wife and siblings in law a week ago. I forgot how funny and over the top it was. I ended up being the only one who finished it.
I got them to watch it by saying it was from the director who did the evil dead. I forgot to say the originals, not the remakes lol
Dude, I just want the internet group of people who like horror films to somehow materialize in my life. Like, I want to throw popcorn at bad ones while giggling and clutch the arm of my seat neighbor during the good ones.
...like, I know they're out there. Hollywood companies don't repeatedly make horror films because of hollywood accounting every time.
Skydiving. The number of people that sign up for the training is tiny and only about ten percent of them make it through ground school, all the tested jumps, the written test and the oral test to get licensed.
But, it is surprisingly addictive and fun.
It also is a small enough community that when I say my instructor died this summer, I bet that others funjumpers reading this knew him or of him.
I miss you Frog.
Not really.
A vehicle building/combat game called From The Depths is my current obsession, well past 1000 hours in it.
At a glance, Tlatoani: Aztec Cities looks like a Pharoah game type city builder. I'm into this, thanks for mentioning this game OP.
Currently I'm in a similarly small population of people who play Motorstorm 1 (Monument Valley), and Motorstorm Pacific Rift online.
They work with real PS3 consoles with just a DNS change or on RPCS3 emulator.
Motorstorm Arctic Edge on PSP or PPSSPP as well but it's played less often.
Apocalypse also kinda works but it's pretty broken in very annoying ways, and reverse engineering needs more work.
Motorstorm RC is also supported, but I don't play that one.
Can find the Motorstorm communities on Discord and they're mostly using PSRewired.
Here's an invite link for Motorstorm Online World: https://discord.gg/4sJPGDxhx
Freestyle GunZ (fgunz.net) its an old game but it checks out.
BallisticNG maybe. Its like wipeout but very few players on steam, maybe 100 concurrent.
Every few years I get a yearning to play through Daikatana.
The entire thing.
I’ve been doing this from before the community patch.
I dunno.
I like learning writing systems, but I only know 4 of them, and two of them just for playing original Pokemon games in Japanese.
I love writing systems of all kinds, but besides Greek and Cyrillic (and my native Latin) I never really managed to dedicate enough time to memorize them long-term. All my Korean is gone and can only get like 30% of the Arabic alphabet now... It's something I'd love to invest more tike into, actually.
(to be clear, when I say Arabic, it's actually the farsi variation... only because I know a surprising number of Iranian people)
Making almost all of my food from whole ingredients.
The most processed ingredient that I would use is corn flour and such, or maybe cheese. I'm not gonna find wheat or whole dried corn and fire up a grindstone lol. But yeah everything is made from the whole ingredients to the greatest degree reasonable. An example I think everyone can relate to is ketchup ... If I want it I start with fresh tomatoes and a cutting board.
But yeah it's fun as hell for me - a wonderful blend of nerdy science & chemistry, plus that beautiful artistic side which allows me to be a rule-breaking creator.
Most people think its cuckoo that I ferment my own peppers for hot sauce, make tortillas from scratch, braise my meats for hours, cut and desiccate potatoes for fries, pickle various vegetable concoctions, make mustards, fry my own chips for nachos...
I love the hell out of the craft but many think I'm a little overboard. Fair enough. No family, kids, girlfriend, mostly a loner... I got time plus it's super fucking nerdy and process-driven (in many ways) if you lean into it that way!
I also developed some great "systems" so I can batch cook, and its become so routine after 5 years that I've slip-streamed it all into my daily puttering so its like hours of time overall, but minutes of actual work.
B. Fleischmann
... Half of the rhythm games I play I've either never run into anyone else or like 1-2 random kids playing them. I've legitimately never met another person playing CHRONO CIRCLE, and only 3-5 year olds playing DANCE aROUND. Could just be an issue with Round 1 exclusive games though... also new arcade games are typically not that popular outside of Japan
On unrelated note, a slight flex... Backpack Hero is an inventory management roguelike that has been in early access for a while & was regarded pretty highly. When the game first came out of early access, I remember 100%ing the game in like 2-3 days, and Steam achievements suggest that 0.0% others have had the end-game achievements. I still think about that sometimes... (They do have a community now I think)
I was intrigued by backpack hero, but couldn't justify adding it to my already large backlog.
Oh yes, definitely ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
In some games, I tried to play the role of a black smith and was heavily into crafting items.
I tried to go all renewables in a nation game.
Crypto, LLMs, and cars.
Yeah they're popular outside of Lemmy, but mentioning that your a fan of any of those things on here is a great way to get your inbox flooded with hate. Everybody on here hates those three things with a burning passion.
Only reason why I still have a reddit account is so that I can talk about these things without getting berated for my hobbies.
It's interesting this is upvoted, because yes, Lemmy hates all those things.
You can at least find devils advocates for crypto and LLMs, I guess. Cars are right out.
Its fine as hobbies if you dont force it on others really. I hate llms but I also hate pop and rap music, as long as im not forced to use it im fine.
Everything shoving llms in my face (that really dont work at all) is the equivalent of a car driving by blaring rap at 110 db. Instant anger.
Im into cars as well, I think lemmy is more hating that we are forced into having to use cars, and assholes who drive unneeded trucks. I dont think anyone on here cares about people who are mechanics or tinkerer. Its more the system that forced us to be reliant on cars.
It's totally understandable why people think AI is slop, the stuff that isn't is unnoticeable. And because most of it is slop. Even the "good" stuff sucks most of the time. But you can get gold out of them there hills. But you gotta mine it. Which means a lot of shoveling dirt. These companies don't give a fuck. They'll feed you dirt happily.
Right, its a tool. I think of it like autotune or daws. Sure, id much prefer to make music on a tape machine and artists not have to use autotune, but we dont have the time or money any more to do that.
Authenticity will truly suffer because of the use of llms and image/video generation, as will the internet as a whole (its already dead except for small pockets). So to me, is a net negative on society, but it was inevitable.
There are dedicated communities on Lemmy to these things -- and they're pretty quiet. Post new content there and engage in conversations and be the change you want to see.
Already tried. No community exists for my car. So I created one and tried to convince some redditors to join me and they basically gave me the finger (and then a mod deleted my post.) Gave up and abandoned the community. I don't want to waste time screaming into the void. There aren't enough 350Z owners on Lemmy to even get a basic conversation started.
Same reason why my radio station, radiolemmy@lemmy.blahaj.zone is failing before I've even launched it. There aren't enough DJs on Lemmy, so I have no staff, which means there's no one to play something on air. I've been reaching out via PMs to anyone I can find. It's been a 3 month search to no avail. I was supposed to launch yesterday.
Lemmy is just too small, plain and simple.
Fair, but you can still post about it in the more general cars communities, no?
Even Reddit didn't start with all these specialized subs. It started without subs at all, actually. And then the big general subs were born, and only later the niche subs were born because the signal to noise ratio in the big ones got too bad. Post your content here in the general communities until the signal to noise ratio warrants a dedicated offshoot.
This advice generalizes. There aren't enough fans of each sports team here yet to have team specific communities, but there are enough fans of each sport to have general communities for that sport. Branch later.
If I ask a specific question regarding my specific car in a general car community, I'm going to get generalized answers. That doesn't do me any good. I need a specific community for my specific car, populated with people who actually own that specific vehicle.
Lemmy has radio?
Yes it's something I've been working on all summer. A radio station for Lemmy users, by Lemmy users. Anyone can be a DJ or help build playlists for rotation. Problem is that I can't find anyone willing to do that.
That said, I do plan on launching soon, with or without DJs. Check out the community for updates: radiolemmy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
I'll definitely check it out, very cool!
They cause problems for me too. But I invest in crypto cause it made me $60K. It saved me from losing everything. FWIW I only invest in proof of stake coins, so I'm not destroying the environment.
I use LLMs mainly because Google is complete trash at providing relevant results compared to 10-20 years ago. At least if you use an AI that cites it's sources, you can filter out the slop from the truth.
And I'm into cars because I am of the opinion that if I'm going to have to drive everywhere anyway due to lacking public transport infrastructure, I might as well do it in a vehicle that is actually fun to drive. Why drive a big ugly 4 door crossover, and make driving even more of a chore than it already is? That's why I like tiny nimble sports cars. If I didn't have to drive everywhere, I wouldn't own a car.
A long forgotten game called Fear Equation. I still enjoy firing it up for a run at least once a month or so. I don't think anyone has even been on it's forums for a long time.
Thanks! I know not what you asked but I just picked up the game. I guess my thing is I love trying out indi games :)
Sumo wrestling. OK, it definitely has more fans than "basically nobody," although it's not exactly popular in the west. I have noticed a couple of people talking about it on Mastodon, and there's a community at sumo@lemmy.world.
A while ago I stumbled upon a TV broadcast one night when I couldn't sleep, and immediately found it interesting. Now I intentionally watch them live when I can, and otherwise catch replays the next day. A very exciting tournament just wrapped up a few days ago. The next one is in November.
I was lucky enough to be watching Sumo back in the days when Chiyonofuji was at his peak. Seeing him pick up and carry Konishiki out of the dohyō was something else.
Not seen any for years though.
Oh nice! I only got into it a little more than a year ago, but I've seen highlight clips of him.
If you're interested, NHK has replays of current matches in a youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwq27hqSiIM&list=PLFEzXnIQVwV9JgQkOMJZM23G8g-wBBWKf
Ah, cool. I'll check some out, thanks!
I'm not into it but now and then I will check out a channel on twitch called midnightsumo. The guy plays videos all of the time and has quite a following! He will talk to chat about what is going on and all. Really cool stuff! Some of the viewers are really into the sport as well so it keeps chat alive.
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I am super into jazz and the evolution of the form going back to it's genesis in New Orleans.
I'm particularly interested in the Free Jazz movement that is thought to have originated with Ornette Coleman in the 50's but the truth is Lenny Tristano and crew were pioneering it in the 40's. Also post-bop and jazz/rock fusion mostly from 50-80s. I'm a lover of Japanese Jazz as well because it has a particularly unique cultural identity - both highly creative and wild, yet highly composed and tight.
I carried the Jazz community on Lemmy for a year or so until I gave up and deleted my posts. We're different people.
I also detest vocal jazz. It is an abomination. Also Miles Davis is a clown - a brilliant bandleader but a piece of shit human and a slightly-better-than-middling trumpeter.
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