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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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 :)
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
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.
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 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.
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:
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The soundtrack is one of the best parts of the movie, and you’re right, it’s great on its own.
The Marvel Cosmic period starting with the Thanos series written by Starlin, ending with Thanos Imperative, with all the amazing stuff in between, especially Annihilation.
Where’s the Reese’s order? Is there a lot of series hopping?
It’s more of a string of events accompanied by a whole bunch of miniseries, most of which are needed to get to know the characters (or their new interpretations) and make sense of the story.
The rough idea is that it started with the eponymous Thanos 12 issue series, where the later 6 issues directly lead into the Annihilation event and its sequel Annihilation Conquest. Nova (Richard Rider, who is the led character) got his own series from that (Nova vol. 4) and a team that forms the basis of Guardians of the Galaxy forms in Conquest. Those two series ran concurrently and tied to the subsequent cosmic events War of Kings and Real of Kings. The whole cosmic run was somewhat tied up in Thanos Imperative and Annihilators miniseries and basically ended.
The the GotG movie happened and Bendis started writing it and it just wasn’t the same. There might be good stories after that, but I lost interest at that point.
The good thing about this whole thing is that it’s taking part far away from Earth and thus is not tied up with the mainstream Marvel continuity in any major ways (Annihilation takes place during the comic Civil War) and the bulk of the characters are forgotten or unpopular characters given modern interpretations and put in a different context than usually, so you don’t really need to know much about their history, since their characterisation is being built up, almost from scratch in some cases. And it’s awesome. Like the Super Skrull fighting in a war against a galaxy-ending threat and being super powerful instead of jobbing to Fantastic Four like he usually does.
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.
