Is there anything you're into that no one or basically nobody is into?
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Ah yes power metal is quite a thing in and of itself! Feel free to do whatever you want with this knowledge, but there’s also Goblin Metal, my most favorite being a band called Necrogoblikon. There’s no doubt some band singing in Tolkien Elvish to round out the trinity.
Skin Thief probably my favorite Nekrogoblikon song
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I really like this one MUD. I’m super casual. I guess about 200 people play. Which in the grand scheme of things is almost no one.
200 is a lot of people for a mud. The only one I know of that's that big is aardwolf. Which do you play?
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Ah yes power metal is quite a thing in and of itself! Feel free to do whatever you want with this knowledge, but there’s also Goblin Metal, my most favorite being a band called Necrogoblikon. There’s no doubt some band singing in Tolkien Elvish to round out the trinity.
wrote last edited by [email protected]A search has given me the band Summoning (atmospheric black metal) whose theme is Middle Earth and they supposedly have passages in Elvish in their lyrics. I'm not in a spot to listen to them at the moment but it seems to be one I will definitely check.
A second place would be a band called Battlelore, seemingly.
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I tried to find an in-person calligraphy meetup around my area and mind you, I live in one of the bigger metro areas in the country. Couldn't find squat. Don't know if my Google Fu was weak or I just don't know what to actually look up but there's nothing specifically for calligraphy as far as I can tell. Also, I don't count online spaces.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I've actually met a few people who are into calligraphy but they don't strike me as the "meet-up" type of people.
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My favorite thing in the whole world is dropping LSD, and listening to obscure music or watching weird shit...
Dude I can't find ANYONE to hang out with me... I wave that flag in every social situation I find myself in. I really thought there would be more people into it.
Well, that or I'm completely unbearable to hang out with. If that's the case I just wish people would tell me.
I am big into old obscure media, love ubuweb, but I would still hesitate to join a kind of unknown person for an activity like that. It’s just a big plunge.
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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 might just join you in that game, it looks cool.
I've been playing starbound again and feels like the game has been abandoned for the last 10 years, but steam db says there's still about ~800 players so that's not so bad.
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Sumo wrestling. OK, it definitely has more fans than "basically nobody," although it's not exactly popular in the west. I have noticed a couple of people talking about it on Mastodon, and there's a community at [email protected].
A while ago I stumbled upon a TV broadcast one night when I couldn't sleep, and immediately found it interesting. Now I intentionally watch them live when I can, and otherwise catch replays the next day. A very exciting tournament just wrapped up a few days ago. The next one is in November.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I'm not into it but now and then I will check out a channel on twitch called midnightsumo. The guy plays videos all of the time and has quite a following! He will talk to chat about what is going on and all. Really cool stuff! Some of the viewers are really into the sport as well so it keeps chat alive.
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I'm really, really into what I can only call technological bootstrapping. Like, we started out on this planet with nothing, and then built everything. How did that happen? Primitive tech is another name, but the emphasis is usually on the very first stages.
That itself has gotten me into obscure things like metrology, greenwood working and small-scale semiconductor fabrication.
That's cool! Can you recommend any resources on this? I've thought a lot about this sort of thing. I'm guessing semiconductor fabrication requires a lot of complex upstream tasks and isn't the sort of thing that's feasible at home. Would love to be wrong!
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The design and building of authorization policy systems. And crypto (as in cryptography as the word originally meant) but that one tends to be slightly more common.
Shoot, this has been on my brain a lot lately. I've been thinking about a modern one-time pad scheme that uses USB drives. Wanna send your friend 16GB of encrypted messages? Next time you hang out, give them a cheap USB drive. Or, possibly have your phones generate and share a one-time pad using NFC.
Unfortunately, I think phones and USB drives are too vulnerable, but it would be a fun little project to build.
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Shoot, this has been on my brain a lot lately. I've been thinking about a modern one-time pad scheme that uses USB drives. Wanna send your friend 16GB of encrypted messages? Next time you hang out, give them a cheap USB drive. Or, possibly have your phones generate and share a one-time pad using NFC.
Unfortunately, I think phones and USB drives are too vulnerable, but it would be a fun little project to build.
Actually yeah, that sounds rad af
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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?
... Half of the rhythm games I play I've either never run into anyone else or like 1-2 random kids playing them. I've legitimately never met another person playing CHRONO CIRCLE, and only 3-5 year olds playing DANCE aROUND. Could just be an issue with Round 1 exclusive games though... also new arcade games are typically not that popular outside of Japan
On unrelated note, a slight flex... Backpack Hero is an inventory management roguelike that has been in early access for a while & was regarded pretty highly. When the game first came out of early access, I remember 100%ing the game in like 2-3 days, and Steam achievements suggest that 0.0% others have had the end-game achievements. I still think about that sometimes... (They do have a community now I think)
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Let me know if you find or start a group.
There are two of us??
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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'm still on Second Life, which is a virtual world social platform. It has ~45,000 given active people on it, which is a piss squirt compared to other online platforms like MMOs and MMORPGs. But, nobody I know are into it save for about 5 people at least.
And I still somehow am bothering with Gaia Online which has even less users, from 1,500 ~ 4,400 on a good day and only know 2 friends on there.
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Crypto, LLMs, and cars.
Yeah they're popular outside of Lemmy, but mentioning that your a fan of any of those things on here is a great way to get your inbox flooded with hate. Everybody on here hates those three things with a burning passion.
Only reason why I still have a reddit account is so that I can talk about these things without getting berated for my hobbies.
All three of those things you've mentioned, are causing a lot of problems right now for people.
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I am pretty sure they are just roles to play for people.
"Okay you'll be the hot step-sister and you'll take the dick of your hot step-father coming in about this time." sort of deal.
It's just roles to get those seeking the content watching.
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My wife discovered "Powerwolf" recently. Not death metal, per say, but I've yet to meet anyone else whose heard of it. Worse still, this lead her down a rabbit hole to Dwarf Metal and the accursed song Diggy Diggy Hole which has bored its way into my brain.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Powerwolf is German Power-Metal and they're not a bad band, I've heard lots of tracks from them. I'm into Sabaton which is another power-metal band who sing about historical subjects and figures. Oden Organ is another power-metal band.
The best part about Wind Rose is all of their songs are based off from Middle-Earth legendarium.
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Death metal. I’m pretty clean cut and tat free so people are really taken aback when I tell them one of my favorite acts is called Cattle Decapitation.
The only positive things I can say about Death and Black metal is that, the instrumentals go hard. It's always the vocals that I can't ever get used to.
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Oh nice! I only got into it a little more than a year ago, but I've seen highlight clips of him.
If you're interested, NHK has replays of current matches in a youtube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwq27hqSiIM&list=PLFEzXnIQVwV9JgQkOMJZM23G8g-wBBWKf
Ah, cool. I'll check some out, thanks!
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I hit a similar wall back in high school but the instrumentation was just too good to stop listening. Now I love harsh vocals
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They cause problems for me too. But I invest in crypto cause it made me $60K. It saved me from losing everything. FWIW I only invest in proof of stake coins, so I'm not destroying the environment.
I use LLMs mainly because Google is complete trash at providing relevant results compared to 10-20 years ago. At least if you use an AI that cites it's sources, you can filter out the slop from the truth.
And I'm into cars because I am of the opinion that if I'm going to have to drive everywhere anyway due to lacking public transport infrastructure, I might as well do it in a vehicle that is actually fun to drive. Why drive a big ugly 4 door crossover, and make driving even more of a chore than it already is? That's why I like tiny nimble sports cars. If I didn't have to drive everywhere, I wouldn't own a car.
