Kind of a hard question to word, but is there anything in your life you have recommended to other people but no one’s ever gotten into?
I love podcasts and have friends who still thank me for getting them into this one or that one. But I’ve never gotten anyone to listen to My Brother, My Brother and Me. I don’t know if the name is unappealing or the concept but people seem to bounce off immediately.
So what can’t you get people into and why should we check it out?
Gormenghast, a series of novels which are “fantasy” but contain no magic. The setting is genuinely a fantasy setting, with massive, fantastical castles, all empty and decaying.
It’s the story of a royal family, and the heir to the throne, who does not wish to be an heir to the throne.
Also, that’s to say nothing of the third book, which sends you on a major twist and goes from fantasy to science fiction…
Underrated trilogy, Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake.
Also, Dead Man, a film by Jim Jarmusch. I’m not a big fan of Westerns, but this “acid western” is one of my favorite movies of all time. Somehow simultaneously a funny buddy movie and also a deep treatise on death and belief.
Gary Farmer gets to say his iconic line that I still love to hear to this day: “Stupid fucking white man.”
Farmer would go on to cameo in another Jarmusch film, Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai to repeat the same line.
I still have never seen the movie, but Dead Man has a great soundtrack by Neil Young. Guitar Solo, No 5 is my favorite track if you just check out one:
The soundtrack is one of the best parts of the movie, and you’re right, it’s great on its own.
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I love Dead Man. That is a great movie by a great director in Jim J.
I watched the Gormenghast miniseries on the Space Channel many many years ago and eventually read the books. They were interesting. Not something I’d want to revisit, but definitely weird.
Someone spent a while telling me Nier Automata was great, and it took a couple years before I got independently interested. My punishment is the same fate, of telling others it’s great, and no-one trying it.
Same with Return of the Obra Dinn, which has a niche art style but a captivating set of mysteries.
Me :(
Chipotle tobasco is some of the best hot sauce I’ve ever had. I honestly have no idea if they even sell outside of Louisiana, but if you ever get the chance, try it.
The denizens of Louisiana have such an elevated taste for spice that any time I even mention it to anyone here they say “oh that shit sounds basic, try this one” and I can’t get anyone to actually try it.
It has a kick, but not as hot as a full fledged got sauce. Nowhere near making you sweat hot. But the flavor profile is 👌
I sometimes steal bottles from Chipotle when I go there as I never see it in stores and it’s so good. I literally am willing to commit crime for that hot sauce.
I prefer a lot more kick, and found a chipotle habanero sauce. But yeah, chipotle is best jalepeńo. Smokey goodness!
I can buy it in Iowa. It’s good stuff.
My second favorite tobacco, the lime one being my actual favorite. But it’s never in stores so I always settle for chipotle, since it’s great too and the burn is tolerable for a non “heat-head” such as myself.
Star Trek. Every friend I have only knows about Star Wars.
At least Lemmy is the home of the trekkie! But I feel it everyone I know IRL wants to talk about Star Wars movies and Ashoka and not what is the best episode of TNG lol.
Myself. 😞
Linux
Forth
You mean the programming language?
I do. And the operating environment
I think the thigh high socks requirement scares people away 😓
Can’t tell cuz I live in a country with cold winters
The uniform used to be knee-high socks, cargo pants, scraggly beard and bald spot. It’s still evolving.
I refuse to update.
I try to be prepared for the next wave by just using Linux naked.
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Yup…
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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried to get my friend to watch Stargate SG-1. They’re fellow nerds and love sci-fi, but the 10 season run is too daunting for them.
Me and a friend had a couple of shows we kept recommending each other and subsequently not watching. Stargate was one I had kept telling him to check out. One day he did take a look after all, and immediately binged the whole thing, followed by doing it once more with his mum. So it did work out once!
Who was doing it with whose mom?
Sorry my english isn’t that good. Allow me to clarify. My friend fucked your mom. I hope that helps.
It does, thanks!
I’ve watched the whole run twice now, and Atlantis, and Universe.
Genesis when Peter Gabriel was still with them.
That’s the only Genesis worth listening to
THANK YOU
I’ve begun watching & falling in love with something very recently that I think will fall into this category for sure. An old adult swim cartoon called Home Movies.
Made by a lot of the same talent before Bob’s Burgers was a thing, the humour is actually insanely clever and progressive for it’s time & it still feels fresh to me watching it today. Definitely have already had a few laughing fits where I had to pause the episode for a while to catch my breath and I’m only 4 episodes in 😂
For being a simpler sort of design, it also has some good background gags too. Not to mention the comedian guest stars – Episode 3 had Emo Philips which was a delightful surprise, but episode 4 has freakin’ Mitch Hedberg in it! Took me by surprise for sure but it was also a nice little extra thing to hear him say some fresh lines.
That’s all I have to say about it for now, but every night now my partner & I look forward to watching a couple episodes before bed :) it’s a great time!
It’s time to pay the price.
Yeah I don’t know how you would recommend Home Movies. It’s just good and funny.
Maybe you should watch a bit more first but I definitely recommend you and your partner check out OMG SONIC IS SMOKING?! [Home Movies/Sonic Parody]. I know nothing about sonic but this captures the essence of the show so well it feels as if the creators made a special webisode and just uploaded it there!
You should check out the show that preceded Home Movies. Made by the same team, including most of the same voice actors.
Dr. Katz Professional Therapist was ahead of its time, in my opinion. It was my first exposure to H. Jon Benjamin (McGuirk) and Johnathan Katz (Eric Robbins) and Loren Brouchard. It is basically the same creative team starting at Dr. Katz and ending with Bob’s Burgers.
I have a real soft spot for Dr. Katz and Ben Katz.
I will absolutely check this out, thank you! It’s this kind of recommendation that led me to rediscover home movies as well so I love that it keeps going lol
Discworld by Terry Pratchett. It’s got something for just about everyone and I have a few avid readers in my family but they keep putting it off.
I read the Color of Magic (Book 1) and started the second one, but I wasn’t very hooked by it? I mean it was funny, but maybe I just didn’t like all the fourth wall breaks.
You can watch the 2 colour of magic movies instead.
They are pretty good and feature Sir Terry Pratchett himself.
I’m currently reading the Color of Magic right now and it is…painful. I know, I was warned, but I ignored the pleas. Now I’m kind of stuck reading this book that feels like it was written by a snarky 8th grader on a bus ride home after school. I truly hope the books get better.
I did read the first one and liked it a lot, I wanted to continue the series but other stuff gets in the way and recently I’ve been more into gaming than reading 😭
I’ve had similar problems. I think party of the issue is that, IMHO, the first two are amongst the weakest in the whole series and are less inspiring. I keep trying to tell my daughter to start with #3, but she hasn’t done it yet.
Start with Guards! Guards! And the Vimes cycle and then move on from there.
Seriously. If they don’t get hooked on Vimes, I don’t see them enjoying anything in the Discworld series.
I really just can’t get into fiction books but I definitely wish I was every time this series comes up. It sounds pretty cool
I’m the opposite. I only read fiction, both scifi and fantasy and everything in between, because why read something else? I love imagination possibilities of authors that can put something crazy in, something you simply can’t get in non-fiction literature. Why read “boring” stuff that can (have/did) happen to everyone in normal life?
I know I’m exaggerating, but I hope you know what I mean. And I highly recommend Discworld.
PS: I believe Discworld is not for everyone because it’s British with their style of humour baked in. If you don’t like Monty Python, Red Dwarf, IT Crowd or other British shows, you probably won’t enjoy Discworld either.
Aside from the accurate list you posted, I felt similarities as well with hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy.
Yeah, that didn’t cross my mind, but it’s definitely true!
When I was young I only read fiction, but as I got older I realized reality is incredibly complex and disturbing and found non-fiction far more interesting. So much of the past remains relevant today and there are no shortage of times real people have not only imagined but also implemented ways to exploit each other and their environments, for good and for bad, often in ways that do come across as utterly crazy, so it is hardly a boring category. These days I would rather make sense of the world I am in than some fictional universe. I do like British humor though.
Because there are very worthwhile texts to read that improve ones knowledge about oneself and humanity and the universe, which in turn allows oneself to make better decisions and have a better mindset.
Reading fiction still helps a little with that, but is mostly “just” entertainment, which of course is also worthwhile.
Well, I do read quite bit of articles about history or technical progress, but not really whole books. IDK why, it just feels different for me and while articles are ok, I feel like book is too much. So books are almost exclusively fiction for me.
Techdeath. I love it, it spins all my wheels, very fast. And no one I know even remotely gets it. I’ve given up.
Like Cynic?
Chrono Trigger.
I’ve started and stopped it a number of times over the past 20 years or so, and I’m finally playing it all the way through right now. At least one of those times was because I thought I HAD to fight Lavos through the bucket and thought I was expected to grind until I could defeat it lol. This time, I’ve found it really remarkable how tight it is and how well it still holds up today. Even though Sea of Stars came out last year, it feels like Chrono Trigger could have been released alongside it and it would only feel a bit more dated in some respects.
Still haven’t played Sea of Stars, but grew up with Chrono trigger. How well does it compare?
It’s heavily inspired by Chrono Trigger…heavily. It’s got dual-techs, the writing feels very similar at times, the equipment has predictable scaling as the story progresses, and lots more. The dialog is a bit saccharine for my taste; I’ve far preferred Chrono Trigger’s. Chrono Trigger has pleasant and supportive characters, but it hasn’t ever felt over the top. Sea of Stars also has some modern niceties, like timed presses for defense and offense, some interesting spell-boosting mechanics, it’s very pretty at times, etc. And it plays on jrpg tropes at times in a fun way, and didn’t feel like it overstayed its welcome. Since you love Chrono Trigger, my best guess is that I think you’d have fun with Sea of Stars. It won’t blow your mind by any means, but I don’t think you’d regret spending time with it.
Death, Black Metal, Punk - heavy music is a channel for heavy emotions.
Open source, privacy, federation - Don’t give up power over technology that interacts with you
Rope bondage, kinks - Bodies, minds are interesting when reacting
Squishing toasted bread before topping it - Un-squished toasted bread gets annoying edges very fast when drying
Squishing toasted bread? Like, flattening it more?
I can sort of see it, I guess. Never tried it with toast, but it’s my go-to for a grilled cheese sandwich.
I do get a joy out of the flatness of a good grilled cheese. Getting a good toast on the edge and pushing it down while its on the grill to flatten it.
I imagine they’ve got a toast mallet.
No, no. It is very important that the toast gets squished evenly, so it would need to be a spatula.
Mbmbam is fantastic. Haven’t listened to it in years but that’s cuz I listen to the adventure zone mostly.
If you work on a computer for any appreciable length of time per day then you absolutely should build or buy yourself a split ergometric keyboard. You will never regret it, you will be faster at typing, your body will hurt less, you will be able to program it to do literally anything you want, and it will last longer than any other keyboard you can buy from major brands like razer or Logitech. I’ve only ever been able to get people to go into mechanical keyboards, but never ergometric or splits.
In that same vein but even more obscure:
F**kface
Genuinely the podcast that brings the most joy to me in my daily life. It is not obnoxious like Dynamic banter, it has elements of MBMBAM, but hasn’t fallen into the rut of following a formula (the movie + munch squads have gotten a bit too much for me recently).
I haven’t laughed like that since 2015-2018 mbmbam where they released so many bangers.
It’s funny how you can mention one of the most popular podcasts and still it’s true that a lot of people will just never get into it.
It’s been a long time since I checked in directly with MBMBAM, but I don’t think I’ll ever stop having a man-crush on Justin “Hoops” McElroy.
Mbmbam sounds like a talk radio channel on Omicron Persei VIII.
Their best show is “Women are from Omicron Persei VII, men are from Omicron Persei VIIII”
