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?
Linux
I think the thigh high socks requirement scares people away 😓
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.
Can’t tell cuz I live in a country with cold winters
In case you didn’t already know you’re browsing Lemmy, this top comment confirms it.
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. 😔
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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I have asked many a friend to play modded Minecraft with me.
Unfortunately, I am reminded time and time again that the Venn diagram of people I know who are interested in that and people with PCs who can run that is two circles.
Three separate times now someone’s invited me to a Create server and 2 hours later I’ve somehow instead ended up joining a 300+ mod modpack that takes roughly 45 minutes to load on my laptop, crashes and errors out every few hours, and dies within a week after someone uses some random mod to gain infinite diamonds or something.
I tend to burn a little slower than that, but yes. Post-scarcity is usually the goal and the game needn’t overstay its welcome.
The problem with modded servers is that the guy who’s done this 10 times is havingg a great time building a mega factory and outpaces or outshines (depending on versus or coop mentality) everyone else. You might be different but this is a very consistent experience for me.
Yeah, this is inevitable.
My limiter tends to be that anything I make has to do things not only efficiently, but fashionably. I like to be immersed in a factory that looks vaguely like a real factory, rather than laying down a bunch of minmaxxed spaghetti. So I spend a lot of time faffing about with where a thing should actually go and how do I hook it up in a novel way.
Casuals still can’t keep up and tryhards pass me by. Stuck in the middle, lol.
I respect the effort lol
The other thing I try to do that I didn’t think of in the other reply is not mixing mods together.
Most major tech mods are balanced for standalone play. They merely contain integrations with other mods as convenient curiosities. So when you mix overpowered machine from mod ABC that is regulated by some restriction, and combine it with machine from mod XYZ that trivializes that restriction, the progression collapses and it’s boring.
Some people like that. I try to avoid it.
Some might wonder what the point is in playing with all the mods if I don’t actually use all the mods. And my answer is I do, but all separately in parallel. I like being a botanist and a thaumaturge and a blood magician and an astral sorcerer and a pressure mechanic and a mekanism engineer all at the same time, but like… in shifts. When I get bored of one I put it down and advance another. I want to feel like I’ve mastered them all rather than cherry picked the best parts of each. I get all the variety but few of the problems.
All of this context switching means I waste a tremendous amount of time, but it does make the game last longer. But not too long.
Also, in coop, it pays well when players specialize. I do this magic, you do that tech, etc. Share one or two things in common, but also be different. You might end up wickedly out of power balance depending on which mods you picked to specialize in, but imo that’s not really the mark of success.
Good ideas
I’ve been trying to get a LAN party together with some IRL friends for a little bit, but we all are so different in experience level that even playing vanilla, we’ll inevitably have some people run rings around others.
My current pitch is that we all share one house and bolt different spaces of different styles onto the sides of it whenever we need a new space, share all resource except a small personal chest and the experienced players can only do specific tasks like going caving or into the nether if it’s as a whole group, so the newer players get to experience some of those parts fresh.
Doing things as a group is much more fun anyways. We always do that with the ender dragon but even something like caving is more fun with a few other people.
My friend and I tried this with sevtech ages. Too heavy, too much, too slow.
We switched to life in the village with iris shaders, and we’re much happier!
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.
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Who was doing it with whose mom?
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It does, thanks!
My favorite TV show Stargate. I’ve only been able to convince one person to watch it, and they loved it too. Everyone else says its to long since sg1+Atlantis+universe is 17 seasons total. Plus 3 Movies.
The Walking Through The Stargate podcast has an experienced gate walker taking his friend through the serieses one episode at a time. It’s fun to see the newbie perspective.
Wtts.space
Get into gate is another good one
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 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.
Bebop and cool jazz.
Bebop is my shit. Can confirm, no one else likes it around me.
I like Charlie Parker but that’s all I know of bebop. I also own a replica of one of his suits from the 40es
Is that you Howard Moon?
I, too, tried it once.
I think answer is kind of there in the premise - stop trying to get validation from others that your “special things” are special. I had to work on this with my partner, she was always trying to “sell” obscure, funny “special things” that we share to rooms full of others that don’t get it. In the process, she would hurt her own perception of those special things just a little bit each time. Don’t give away your “special things” to poor unfortunate people who don’t get it or don’t deserve them.
Lol its not for validation I just like telling friends about things I like and learning about what they like. I wouldn’t have a DnD group or anyone to talk to about Jojo if I followed your advice. I’m not repeatedly trying to sell things.
The question comes from people asking me for podcasts to check out, I always give them two or three, and the one that never sticks is MBMBAM. Everyone loves Time Suck though. Probably as simple as a catchier name.
Its just fun to me to think about from a marketing/pyschological perspective, why A is more interesting than B. In the end I still love MBMBAM.
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 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.
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.
The series, Futureman.
It’s a time travel action comedy and it is probably my favorite series of all time. It was on Hulu but has been removed. I think it’s disk only now.
“You never go rat-hole to rat-hole”. Loved that series. Wolf + cocaine killed me every time.
The character development was actually gradual and perfect.
My wife would see me watching it and just ask “Futterman?” It was a fun show
Space Team! It’s a fantastic mobile party game to be played with people in the same room with you! You get a bunch of technobabble labeled dials, buttons, levers, knobs and whatever else while you gotta read the top of the screen to everyone else to keep your ship flying! They also gotta do the same. It gets crazier as you go.
Literally nobody will play with me. If you’re in Cincinnati, hit me up for some Space Team!
It is such a fun game. I love it too. If you are ever in Vancouver, Canada let me know. I’ll play with you
If you ever want a fast track to the no-fly list, play Space Team on a airplane!
Jokes aside, I forgot about this game and it’s great fun. I need to remember it next time I am in a room with a few friends.
Opera! It’s so very very good and it’s such an acquired taste.
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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
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.
Mbmbam sounds like a talk radio channel on Omicron Persei VIII.
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.
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.
Genesis when Peter Gabriel was still with them.
That’s the only Genesis worth listening to
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