Is there anything you're into that no one or basically nobody is into?
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"The Book", is a book that uses illustrations to explain how to recreate civilization. Dunno if it is good. That said, you can also try "How Things Work", which explains the workings of many inventions, with many wooly mammoths interspersed throughout.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Man, that's one of the books I most distinctly remember from my childhood. I've looked into getting a copy, but a quick look indicates the original edition is actually pretty pricey now, probably because I'm not the only one.
I think I can draw a pretty direct line between reading the logic gates section of it, and the CPU design project I still have going semi-separately from the bootstrapping. Although it's possible I learned about gates somewhere else first.
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Every few years I get a yearning to play through Daikatana.
The entire thing.
I’ve been doing this from before the community patch.
I dunno.
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I have a lot of obscure interests, but not as obscure as yours.
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Finding former Pizza Huts in North America. It's just such an iconic building design. There's a documentary out now on them, but I've been fascinated for almost a decade now.
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Meshtastic
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John le Carré novels. He was huge decades ago, but basically nobody knows the name now besides Boomers and genre fans.
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Probably more in Edmonton, but this one came to mind. Pretty heavily modified.
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It's absolutely the Aztec version of Pharaoh.
Then I'm absolutely going to play it, that's like digital crack.
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Every few years I get a yearning to play through Daikatana.
The entire thing.
I’ve been doing this from before the community patch.
I dunno.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I say this as a friend. What is wrong with you?
edit: fun fact, my friend Don and I got John Romero kicked out of the 1997 CGDC for being a drunken boor. A favorite memory
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Absolutely! These are the obvious ones, maybe you already know them:
- T-Square
- "TRUTH" is an absolute classic, just like "サーキットの放浪者", and "Travellers"
- Casiopea
- I think "Be" is my favourite Album, but all are solid
- Masayoshi Takanaka
- the rainbow goblin album is my favourite, I think
- I watch this one when I'm sad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTDK5Bluh5A
And then also some that are maybe lesser known (no particular order):
- Katsumi Horii Project
- They have quite a lot of songs. "Way to morning" or "Flashback" are good examples. I also like "Jungle of Heaven"
- Trix
- "ECCENTRIX" is really nice, just like "An Index"
- Dimension
- Himiko Kikuchi
- Naniwa Express
- Yuji Toriyama
- Chikara Ueda & The Power Station
- Toshiki Kadomatsu
- The Gran Turismo soundtrack also has some hidden Gems here and there
I think what I like about this genre is that it combines very catchy melodies/riffs and chord progressions with really creative jazzy solos. I have not really found much recent stuff (>2010), though. But I can recommend SOIL & Pimp Sessions. They are more recent and more traditional-jazz-oriented.
Bonus if you like light prog/math rock: Check out Elephant Gym. Spring Rain (春雨) is one of my favourite songs.
I'm a huge jazz fan and all of these are on my huge jazz/fusion playlist. You're not alone.
- T-Square
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There's an Aztec city building game called Tlatoani. It's in early access, but has enough meat on the bone that it's one of my goto games.
Out of curiosity I checked Steam DB for active player numbers. I have discovered at any given point I am 10% to 25% of the given player base BY MYSELF. I am 1 of 4 people playing this game right now in the world. With the prevalence of the internet I always assume whatever weird bullshit you're into there's at least a thousand people talking about it; making memes outsiders could never comprehend. It's actually novel to fly under the radar for once.
What do you do that doesn't have a community associated with it?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I am super into jazz and the evolution of the form going back to it's genesis in New Orleans.
I'm particularly interested in the Free Jazz movement that is thought to have originated with Ornette Coleman in the 50's but the truth is Lenny Tristano and crew were pioneering it in the 40's. Also post-bop and jazz/rock fusion mostly from 50-80s. I'm a lover of Japanese Jazz as well because it has a particularly unique cultural identity - both highly creative and wild, yet highly composed and tight.
I carried the Jazz community on Lemmy for a year or so until I gave up and deleted my posts. We're different people.
I also detest vocal jazz. It is an abomination. Also Miles Davis is a clown - a brilliant bandleader but a piece of shit human and a slightly-better-than-middling trumpeter.
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There's an Aztec city building game called Tlatoani. It's in early access, but has enough meat on the bone that it's one of my goto games.
Out of curiosity I checked Steam DB for active player numbers. I have discovered at any given point I am 10% to 25% of the given player base BY MYSELF. I am 1 of 4 people playing this game right now in the world. With the prevalence of the internet I always assume whatever weird bullshit you're into there's at least a thousand people talking about it; making memes outsiders could never comprehend. It's actually novel to fly under the radar for once.
What do you do that doesn't have a community associated with it?
I know there are others out there, but I sometimes feel like I am the only person under 50 who loves opera. I have 2 streaming services that I mostly use for watching opera.
I honestly feel like many people would like opera if they gave it a chance. Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen is a cross between Lord of the Rings and The Avengers, but without the 30-min CGI fights (no disrespect to those who like fight scenes, but i get bored). My son and I love Mozart's The Magic Flute; my wife's favourite is Bizet's Carmen.
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Whenever I'm going abroad within Europe, for a bit over month before that, I start buying stuff only with banknotes. I put all of the coins made in Finland or (other) Baltic countries in a separate pocket and then make sure to use those during my travel.
It feels nice that people get to see coins that they don't see that often. And at the same time, I'm increasing the relative amount of non-Finnish coins in Finland, which I also think is good, as that helps people here notice that there's more to the EU than just Finland
I would guess it's unlikely that all that many other people do the same.
I like checking what kind of Euros I get, but never thought about purposefully taking coins with me. You convinced me to try it next time
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Which style? I've dabbled in it but I don't have a good place to do it.
I mostly do ornamental penmanship, which is like a fancy version of American cursive
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I'll keep it in mind, although it might be that I know too much to enjoy it now. Kind of like anyone in IT watching TV hackers.
That's fair, although to use that analogy, I hope it'd be like Mr. Robot as opposed to something like NCIS.
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I have some posts I have made that I can share but I'm hoping to make some video soon.
One of the first experiments I did was with transparent LCD screens embedded inside of a diorama. You scan a qr code to load a controller on your phone. https://bsky.app/profile/intelligentbean.bsky.social/post/3ladalposre2y
I wanted to try and scale that up so I built multiple of these arcade cabinet dioramas. The idea was that I could sell them like an arcade cabinet so I wanted to be able to run multiple from the same server at the same time and easily make more. I have 2 of these currently https://bsky.app/profile/intelligentbean.bsky.social/post/3laa3kgch3c2z
I am currently working on a larger game that is more like a metroidvania style. I would like to have it as a gallery installation. You take your character from one diorama to another and collect items and weapons. Here are some of the screens
https://bsky.app/profile/intelligentbean.bsky.social/post/3lp5q2u4snc2s
https://bsky.app/profile/intelligentbean.bsky.social/post/3lp5px5x4xs2s
https://bsky.app/profile/intelligentbean.bsky.social/post/3lp5pt6nqdk2sThis one also has physical weapons that you find in the real world. You can scan them with your phone to collect them then they are available in the game. There are also keys you find in the game world that unlock physical boxes in the real world.
I always feel crazy telling people about this stuff lol
Edit Here is one of the ray guns from my latest game:
wrote last edited by [email protected]That is very cool! Thanks for sharing.
It hadn’t occurred to me to use a phone as a controller, great implementation!
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I’m the only person I know IRL who uses lemmy (lol) and openstreetmap
I'm the only lemmy person in my circle too,
but OSM is getting some love from all kinds of people, and magic earth, and co-maps
I'm also the only meshtastic/ham.
and self-hoster.
These are all popular things, just not in my circles.
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I say this as a friend. What is wrong with you?
edit: fun fact, my friend Don and I got John Romero kicked out of the 1997 CGDC for being a drunken boor. A favorite memory
Devious, how did you even manage to prove that John Romero was drunk? Does he hold a grudge against you?
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That is very cool! Thanks for sharing.
It hadn’t occurred to me to use a phone as a controller, great implementation!
That's for taking the time to look!! I appreciate it
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Devious, how did you even manage to prove that John Romero was drunk? Does he hold a grudge against you?
He started mouthing off to us in the commons because a chick he was trying to pick up rejected him. We just walked over to security. Bye bye Johnny boy, he got walked tf out.
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Could you share one of you liked vietnamese bands? I'd love to check out something I'm unfamiliar with.
Northern Lite is my favorite German band I think, as well has bands like Brutus (Belgian) and my favorite band at the moment is Molchat Doma. Stuff like Ploho, Vestron Vulure, and others I can't even write because I don't have the alphabet available lol.
Anyway, love to hear some of your favs!
Nah im significantly weirder than you think, I listen to random communist Vietnamese music. Why? I just love anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism :3
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Never left. I still have a shoe box full of floppies in my station wagon.
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I’m the only person I know IRL who uses lemmy (lol) and openstreetmap
I came to this thread to mention that I love editing OpenStreetMap, but then again, it really isn't all that niche. It just isn't talked about much.
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I mostly do ornamental penmanship, which is like a fancy version of American cursive
Very nice! That's really cool. I mostly just did simple blackletter but was working towards 1800s Kurrent as I love the style.
