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?
Does Privacy count? I always I try to encourage people to treat themselves to better privacy, to step away from big corpo platforms and use more Foss services. Doesn’t stick with a lot of em. 😔
If you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist. /s
They’ll try and make it sound like it was a reasoned decision to give in, but if there was a little eyeball looking over their shoulder they’d 100% be freaked out.
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What is the practical, measurable impact on my life of big corpo knowing my info? Seems like a lot of ass ache for without any measurable benefits beyond some principles stand big corpo doesn’t care about. It’s not like Big Corpo isn’t getting your info. Using Chrome and a VPN on the Google spy drone in your pocket isn’t hiding anything from Google. If Big Corpo wants your data, they will get it. They are better at getting it than we are at hiding it. The only solution is legislative, not individual nerds putting up knee high fences and feeling morally superior about it.
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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Opera! It’s so very very good and it’s such an acquired taste.
I feel like all of the arts are that way. You can either put yourself in the mindset to be receptive of them… or you can’t.
But I’ve had many enriching experiences by taking a chance on art forms and genres I never supposed I would like, including those I had some bias against.
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A good way to begin is to watch a popular classic favourite opera like La Traviata or La Boheme, with subtitles, and review the plot summary ahead of time
Here is a link to a pretty good one. https://youtu.be/WZywmSJkKYE?feature=shared
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Linux
Forth
You mean the programming language?
I do. And the operating environment
In case you didn’t already know you’re browsing Lemmy, this top comment confirms it.
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.
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Yup…I try to be prepared for the next wave by just using Linux naked.
Indie games and indie musicians.
Most of my friends have the mentality of “if it’s not popular, it’s not worth checking out, regardless if it’s actually good or not”. And I hate it.
Let me know how you feel when one of those indie musicians get popular and your friends act like they’ve been listening to them for years.
That’s the feeling of betrayal right there.
Oreo cookies with orange juice.
Is it…is it…actually good? I feel like it can’t be.
Orange and chocolate is a classic combination. I like it.
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I’ll try anything once. Next time I have Oreos and oj in stock I’ll try it
Nobody in all my gamer friends play Starfield like I do. Thank God for online communities.
isn’t it a single player game? i talk to my friends about games we don’t both play all the time, that’s what friends are for.
Yeah it’s single player. I just mean I have nobody to discuss this game with that I know in person.
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Same, very happy I made this thread :)
Demoscene stuff. Basically just digital art written for fun and to show off your coding skills. People have been doing it since the Amiga. If you’ve ever pirated software in the 90’s to 00’s, you’ve probably seen a realtime animation and mod-based techno track accompany the keygen - that’s an example of Demoscene art.
I can’t find anyone in the US, not even one of the nerds that works in tech with me, who gives a single shit about this stuff. There are parties and conventions all the time, none of them in North America…
I’m traveling to Germany at the end of March to go to a Demoparty just for the chance to meet a single other person who cares. It should be fun.
I made my own prod discovery service if you ever want to check it out: https://prods.page/ (Yes, I need to update it).
A lot of things but from the top of my head: boardgames, Space Engineers, RimWorld, Frasier
I let my wife try to get me into boardgaming. That meant I spent six months playing ten minutes of boardgames at a time before the rest of the table ganged up to eliminate me because I was the weakest player. Thirteen years later I still want nothing to do with the hobby, the culture and 90% of the people who are serious about it.
You need a group that plays games like Pandemic, where the whole table is working together - although some games in that genre do include saboteurs.
I got to the point with my friends where I’d refuse to play some games like you describe, very long games where you can get screwed over early on and never have a hope of recovery.
My current favorite is Terraforming Mars, where everyone is cooperatively terraforming the planet but also trying to outperform the other corporations. It’s less about actively attacking each other and more taking advantage of opponents weaknesses and missteps.
When this conversation started at dinner with boardgamers after Der Spiel in Essen I asked the waiter to bring me the appropriate knife to saw my own leg off to escape the trap.
What he needs is to spend his leisure time doing activities he likes.
I somehow doubt different board games fall into that category.
Well that sucks, if you ever get in that situation again, but I doubt you will, ask to play a co-op game.
Prime opportunity for their partner to get mad because they’re shit at the game. I know some couples are like that
If your partner is going to bully you while you are trying to learn a game, they are a lousy partner. It isn’t cooperative games that are the problem. I have a partner and several friends who all love cooperative games and are patient with anyone new to the game, I’ve never had issues with them being a jerk to newcomers. The more people you can welcome into learning and playing a game you like, the more likely you will have someone available to join you when you feel like having a game day. The best person to get into a game you enjoy is your partner who you likely spend most of your time with anyway, they are the number one best source of having someone to play with so long as you have some overlapping interests in games.
Having a lousy partner is all too common
Those kind of games seem fun, but I’m also just talking about a small game every once in a while, something like Machi Koro, Claim, Sushi Go. The light stuff, not the stuff that takes hours per game.
Sushi Go! is fantastic. Also Jaipur.
Excuse me, did someone here just said Space Engineers?
Frasier
I came expecting a weak spin-off of Cheers, stayed for David Hyde Pierce.
Communism, but thats because i have a hard time talking to people irl
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I STILL DO IT OK
Being a communist introvert is hard
EverQuest. I know it’s old now but even when I was playing in the early 2000s, I could never get anyone to play. I was the only one I ever knew in person who played. At that time the subscription kept people away. As time went on, it was the sometimes painstaking pace, older gaming conventions, and most of all, the graphics.
For me it’s getting people to play KOTOR, I know it’s old but it’s just sooo good and the story is so great, and please just play it. Pretty please.
I can’t get it to run in wide screen (wqhd) on my PC so I never really started the game beyond the menus. I you have a fix I’m a taker
Are you playing the original KOTOR or the remakes by Aspyr? They redid them so that they no longer crash on start and you don’t need to change or add patches.
It’s available on mac, switch, android and iOS. Apparently a new remake is still possibly coming soon too.
You’re forgetting the other major hurdle, Taris. Getting past that first planet is a slog. It’s definitely my biggest barrier whenever I try to replay it.
Karaoke. Found out nearly two years ago that I actually quite enjoy going to a pub, getting on the mic and singing to an audience.
Very few of the people I know are into it
Try travelling to japan. There Karaoke is BIG.
It’s big in every East/Southeast Asian countries, even muslim countries like Malay and Indo. If Japan’s too expensive, travel to Thailand.
Mage: The Ascension - I’m super happy that TTRPGs are having a renaissance but there are so many systems out there and D&D isn’t anywhere near the best. You can imagine this like the board game revolution and how “Catan is like so amazing” when actually it’s a rather mechanically underwhelming and repetitive game.
D&D is a role-playing game with almost no support for social actions, it’s bizarre.
It takes an especially skilled GM to run M:tA. They need to be able to handle things getting very weird very fast. But it’s what makes the game and stories so great. Toon was like that too.
Quake Champions. I consider it the best shooter I’ve ever played but, most people wanna play the popular games
Used to play q3 back in the 90’s and this is the modernized version. I don’t play shooters anymore, but I would definitely recommend this one to anyone who still appreciates the old-school arena format
oh yah, quake live was cool as hell too.
I tried to get warsaw to be a thing with my friends to similar effect.
