Is there anything you're into that no one or basically nobody is into?
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I haven't. I'm less interested in videogames, because I find I prefer the social interactions of physical games more, and I also suspect that videogames fall into more of a one-to-many style communication, rather than many-to-many (I have played them a lot in the past, just not so much these days).
I had a quick skim of the wikipedia page, but it mostly seems pretty focused on the narrative (aside from the dice pool mechanic, which sounds a lot like Psi*Run dice mechanic discussed on this podcast). Was there something in particular about it that I'd be interested in?
Mostly the fact that it's very class and socially conscious, and is using games as a way of teaching deeper truths. The mechanics aren't super interesting, though they are solid. It is definitely a one-to-many thing, though
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Mostly the fact that it's very class and socially conscious, and is using games as a way of teaching deeper truths. The mechanics aren't super interesting, though they are solid. It is definitely a one-to-many thing, though
Oh yeah. I see that kind of teaching as fairly similar to what you would get from movies or books. Definitely useful, and with lots to explore (I want to write some SciFi eventually). But I think it's fundamentally different to when the game structure teaches things.
Of course, there are table top games that have those elements too, though probably less than videogames, since they usually depend on the players creating the story on the fly.
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I really like killing invasive plants. I think that's probably my most niche passion. Like when I have some free time I'll just go into the woods behind my house and cut down wisteria, ivy, Chinese holly.... I just find it extremely satisfying idk. I love the idea that I'm clearing out space for native plants (and in turn native animals) to grow.
Are you anywhere near Connecticut? I have a 50-60 foot tree in my yard that's been completely incased by a kudzu vine.
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My familiarity with Japanese jazz is very limited to even the "obvious" ones are a treat.
In the interests of fair trade, here's a scattering of what I've enjoyed lately. Some of it has a similar sound but there's a lot of variance in the "jazz fusion" space and I like experimental stuff:
- Peela
- Lydian Collective
- Giraffes? Giraffes!
- More Skin With Milk-Mouth remains excellent
- KNOWER
- Their latest album in particular, as well as the most recent solo work of constituent parts Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi
- DOMi & JD BECK
- Jacob Mann
- Jacob Mann Big Band is more traditional and I'm a sucker for a good brass section
- the olllam
- I don't actually know how to describe this but Irish folk is involved and "with pure crystalll teeth" fills me with dopamine
- Sungazer
- The Fearless Flyers
- Tailwind is a really good album
- Moon Hooch
- They're silly and frenetic but I did say I'm a sucker for brass
Thanks a lot
I do know Giraffes? Giraffes! a bit, and I'm also a great fan of math rock. This is also something my friends don't understand haha.
I think all of your recommendations are awesome after checking them out! I will definitely put some of those in my music library. I liked Peela a lot, feels almost like a more modern blend of T-Square and Casiopea. -
Do you know Jabberloop?
I know them only from a feature with Soft Lipa but never really checked them out separately. Gotta do that!
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Yes it's something I've been working on all summer. A radio station for Lemmy users, by Lemmy users. Anyone can be a DJ or help build playlists for rotation. Problem is that I can't find anyone willing to do that.
That said, I do plan on launching soon, with or without DJs. Check out the community for updates: [email protected]
I'll definitely check it out, very cool!
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I've really wanted to try getting into this sometime! I just love nifty ways of hitting distant things with other things.
I've heard of people fashioning them outta paracord and using tennis balls to start with and thought that sounded cool.
Plus, something that looks like a weird belt could potentially hurl any old rock at dangerous velocities, and that's gotta be worth something in this dangerous world.
How'd you first get into it?
I just looked up how to make one with paracord. Personally I use something a bit thicker so that the pocket is bigger and can hold whatever you want (tennis ball, golf ball, fishing weight).
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Are you anywhere near Connecticut? I have a 50-60 foot tree in my yard that's been completely incased by a kudzu vine.
sharpens machete eagerly
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I do calligraphy. Sometimes i meet someone who knows someone who does calligraphy. But I've never met another person IRL that does calligraphy. And the particular style I like makes it even more rare.
I love calligraphy, it was my pandemic hobby and I still do it now!
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Bring back the sneakernet!
Never left. I still have a shoe box full of floppies in my station wagon.
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I do calligraphy. Sometimes i meet someone who knows someone who does calligraphy. But I've never met another person IRL that does calligraphy. And the particular style I like makes it even more rare.
Which style? I've dabbled in it but I don't have a good place to do it.
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I listen to a lot of European music like Polish, German, and Serbian :3
(I have more Vietnamese music in my collection tho)
wrote last edited by [email protected]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!
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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?
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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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?
At a glance, Tlatoani: Aztec Cities looks like a Pharoah game type city builder. I'm into this, thanks for mentioning this game OP.
Currently I'm in a similarly small population of people who play Motorstorm 1 (Monument Valley), and Motorstorm Pacific Rift online.
They work with real PS3 consoles with just a DNS change or on RPCS3 emulator.
Motorstorm Arctic Edge on PSP or PPSSPP as well but it's played less often.
Apocalypse also kinda works but it's pretty broken in very annoying ways, and reverse engineering needs more work.
Motorstorm RC is also supported, but I don't play that one.
Can find the Motorstorm communities on Discord and they're mostly using PSRewired.
Here's an invite link for Motorstorm Online World: https://discord.gg/4sJPGDxhx
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This sounds like the entire premise behind the manga/anime Dr. Stone.
All humans on earth get turned to stone, and a young scientific supergenius teaches survivors how to essentially restart civilization from scratch.
It's an absolute joy to watch. Maybe you'd dig it?
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
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At a glance, Tlatoani: Aztec Cities looks like a Pharoah game type city builder. I'm into this, thanks for mentioning this game OP.
Currently I'm in a similarly small population of people who play Motorstorm 1 (Monument Valley), and Motorstorm Pacific Rift online.
They work with real PS3 consoles with just a DNS change or on RPCS3 emulator.
Motorstorm Arctic Edge on PSP or PPSSPP as well but it's played less often.
Apocalypse also kinda works but it's pretty broken in very annoying ways, and reverse engineering needs more work.
Motorstorm RC is also supported, but I don't play that one.
Can find the Motorstorm communities on Discord and they're mostly using PSRewired.
Here's an invite link for Motorstorm Online World: https://discord.gg/4sJPGDxhx
It's absolutely the Aztec version of Pharaoh.
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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.
