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?
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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.
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. 😔
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
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
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.
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.
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
Opera! It’s so very very good and it’s such an acquired taste.
I prefer to stick to FireFox, thanks.
Getting into Klaus Nomi has made me reconsider my stance on opera, but I have no idea where to begin
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
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.
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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 hot 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 can buy it in Iowa. It’s good stuff.
My second favorite tobasco, 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.
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.
Genesis when Peter Gabriel was still with them.
That’s the only Genesis worth listening to
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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.
