Is there anything you're into that no one or basically nobody is into?
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Thermodynamics, specifically refrigeration cycles.
Its probably my autism showing but the fact that we can just move funny fluid around and make heat move is absolutely fascinating. I can spend a lot of time making theoretical refrigeration cycles with different fluids, thermoelectrics, heat capacities, repurposing car junkyard AC systems, etc.
Millions of people do it for work, sure. I doubt any of them are "into it".
If you haven't before, you should play Stationeers. It sounds like you'd love it.
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I really love Japanese jazz fusion. None of my friends understand my excitement about the EWI solos, they just say it sounds like Mario Kart music lol. I'm also into Buddhism, but dont have anyone else with this interest.
sounds Juicy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVYgvrvL4k8
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If you haven't before, you should play Stationeers. It sounds like you'd love it.
Oh god I already play both Space Engineers and Factorio, don't give me another 500 hour logistics game time sink...
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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 like retro programming, in particular Windows 2000.
Now I'm making a little 3D toy now that works with OpenGL on Windows with WGL and on X11 with GLX (also on Cygwin). No third party abstractions!
I want to keep adding backends, like DX 7, 9, Vulkan, WebGL, bare Linux KMS, and then stuff like screen space reflections, shadows, materials, ray tracing where possible, maybe get it running on a console or two too.
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You want to be watch friends?
Heck yeah I do! I haven't been involved much in mods but I'm interested. This is what I'm rocking now:
That's beautiful. I love the knurled bezel, and the blue dial. Does it have a texture to it? Yeah, I wouldn't mod a thing on that. Honestly, with the prices of Seikos these days, it's cheaper to just buy a Seiko movement and build something from scratch! Well, if we don't count the cost of tools.
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Bash scripting, firewall config, vpn tunnelling, and containerization ( rootless Podman ).
I’m into combining these in interesting ways.
While it could be argued that there are tons of communities for these, combining them to run secure apps or automate their setups don’t seem to be as popular.
It’s a hot topic at social events, as you can imagine.
hmmm... I'm having some issues with VPN tunneling in my docker config. I wonder if you might have some advice?
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I curate about 90 cartoons and almost as many indie animation channels to create a weekly block of Saturday morning cartoon programming for my wife and kid.
I edit it together in kdenlive from files on my media server, and we stream it to my mini projector each weekend. Been going over a year now, only missing weeks when we're traveling. I would love to be able to share it with a wider audience, but I'm still not sure how, given it's all pirated.
What are the indie channels?
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If I was an Apple user it would be the Orion browser. There's just no downsides to it other than it being only available for Mac and Iphones.
Everything else i have to add disclaimers when talking about them. For example, I use Brave as my daily driver and I've had an easier time getting other people to switch to Brave than any other browser becuase having an awesome adbocker integrated into the browser itself is just that good. However, Brave is run by crypto bros, so it comes packaged with a crypto wallet and some AI bloatware. Thankfully there's a setting to turn the integrated crypto ads off, but the fact that those things are there at all is a BIG red flag. But it's an easier sell to normies because it's built on Chromium and works with the Google ecosystem in a way that Firefox-based browsers don't.
I would love to push Librewolf more, but it doesn't have a mobile version, and apparently installing UBlock Origin on your own is just too scary for the normies. So now wherever I meet a person and see they have an IPhone, the next words out of my mouth are "Have you heard of the Orion browser?"
I think IronFox comes with UBO. Its the successor to Mull. The LibreWolf equivalent on Android. From what I understand.
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I like to analyse stickers stuck on traffic lights and road signs.
I plan on making an app someday where people can contribute to a database of stickers and compare the sticker culture of different regions.
look into infoe! dude posts literally everywhere I had to track him down on insta and ask the meaning lol. He's from Miami but he goes all over the US (i think the world too)
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Oh god I already play both Space Engineers and Factorio, don't give me another 500 hour logistics game time sink...
wrote last edited by [email protected]But this one simulates the refrigeration cycle! It has proper phase changes and everything.
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What are the indie channels?
Can I be lazy and not write it all out?
Not all of it is for my kid, not all of it is even very good, but it's a good bit of variety.
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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.
I'm into calligraphy! You on the east coast? been looking for a group as well
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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 make games that are a mix of physical and digital mediums. I found some other people doing similar stuff but nothing exactly the same. A lot of escape room creators use similar technologies though so I find myself talking to those people a lot.
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I like retro programming, in particular Windows 2000.
Now I'm making a little 3D toy now that works with OpenGL on Windows with WGL and on X11 with GLX (also on Cygwin). No third party abstractions!
I want to keep adding backends, like DX 7, 9, Vulkan, WebGL, bare Linux KMS, and then stuff like screen space reflections, shadows, materials, ray tracing where possible, maybe get it running on a console or two too.
That's a cool hobby!
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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 strap GoPros on to hand built FPV Freestyle quadcopters and make videos out of it. When I lived in Orlando there were a few of us doing it. Lately I know of 0 in my area.
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I still love Garry’s Mod animations. Basically using stop-motion-style tools to make low-effort animations with familiar characters on Source engine maps.
They don’t fit the YouTube algorithm now though; creators can’t just put up a new animation every few weeks. It was at its best when the whole community was just posting stuff in leapfrog formation, rather than competing for their audience every day.
kitty0706 was all I watched in high school, as a now 25+yo dude I still crack up at them.
Used to love the gmod collabs people would do too
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I mean that's a giant leap for any new friend. Lsd isnt so common that the average person has experience with it. So how to have a good trip and trip safely is a necessary starting point. It's also a multi hour to days long thing. Thats a heck of a lot of time for most People to spend not working, no family obligations, and no other needs/wants. Basically its a rare population who's willing to trip and of those willing it'd probably be a once a year thing at best. That said of people willing to trip I would think the music and videos would be about par.
yeah taking psychedelics with someone else is like entering a relationship - you really gotta know the person and have good rapport built up, make sure all parties are prepared and on the same page, etc etc to guarantee you have a good time
or you could just roll the bones and risk having a very unpleasant 4-12 hours
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I like retro programming, in particular Windows 2000.
Now I'm making a little 3D toy now that works with OpenGL on Windows with WGL and on X11 with GLX (also on Cygwin). No third party abstractions!
I want to keep adding backends, like DX 7, 9, Vulkan, WebGL, bare Linux KMS, and then stuff like screen space reflections, shadows, materials, ray tracing where possible, maybe get it running on a console or two too.
I have been thinking about getting into retroprogramming for a long time! Except with even older stuff than windows 2000. Stuff like MS-DOS or even c64 programs.
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Every so often I go through a phase:
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"Second Life was fun. Why did I stop using it?"
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Recreate account, log in.
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Watch FPS drop to a fraction with a lot of zeroes at the start of it as all the adverts struggle to load.
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"Oh, yeah. That was why."
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What is a mud?
A MUD is a Multi User Dungeon - imagine a fully text-based MMO. They've been around since the late 70s.
