Is there anything you're into that no one or basically nobody is into?
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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.
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I'm not into gaming. I think I'm the only adult male I know of comparable age that isn't. I don't really know why. I think it's a mental block. I was big into 16-bit Atari/Amiga games in the early 90s. Then I just hit like 16/17 and got into music and drinking to fit in. The gaming scene at the time (pre-internet) was social kryptonite, and I lived in rural Scotland so I left it all behind.
Oddly, I returned to general computing in my early 20s as the internet was blowing up and now work in the IT sector.
But still not a gamer, which ironically is quite isolating.
My fiance is not into gaming whatsoever. He only played a handful of games as a kid. He's 30
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Gee, what gave it away?
I popped an edible and watched his entire catalytic converter video last night. Shit's great.
I really loved the decal he put on his lift to make it seem like the brand name of his one armed car lift was "TIPPI."
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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.
That's a cool idea. I also like illegal urban gardeners, so long as they aren't planting invasives of course.
Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't inspired me to give it go next spring:
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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?
Making almost all of my food from whole ingredients.
The most processed ingredient that I would use is corn flour and such, or maybe cheese. I'm not gonna find wheat or whole dried corn and fire up a grindstone lol. But yeah everything is made from the whole ingredients to the greatest degree reasonable. An example I think everyone can relate to is ketchup ... If I want it I start with fresh tomatoes and a cutting board.
But yeah it's fun as hell for me - a wonderful blend of nerdy science & chemistry, plus that beautiful artistic side which allows me to be a rule-breaking creator.
Most people think its cuckoo that I ferment my own peppers for hot sauce, make tortillas from scratch, braise my meats for hours, cut and desiccate potatoes for fries, pickle various vegetable concoctions, make mustards, fry my own chips for nachos...
I love the hell out of the craft but many think I'm a little overboard. Fair enough. No family, kids, girlfriend, mostly a loner... I got time plus it's super fucking nerdy and process-driven (in many ways) if you lean into it that way!
I also developed some great "systems" so I can batch cook, and its become so routine after 5 years that I've slip-streamed it all into my daily puttering so its like hours of time overall, but minutes of actual work.
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It is textured, and catches the light in very interesting and beautiful ways. This one is the SRPC93 "Save the Ocean" Samurai, which has since been replaced by the SRPD23 "Great White".
They both use the same 4R35 movement, but I prefer the look of my dial
Oh, for sure yours looks way better. Yours has way more dimension to it. The scallops give such a feeling of depth to it. The other one looks simple. Plain. Flat.
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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.
Well, there goes that quirk of mine XD
