Is there anything you're into that no one or basically nobody is into?
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We started a meetup group in my local area. Someone put a node on the mountain now the entire city gets longfast. Its so cool.
[email protected] in case anyone else is interested!
Now that I live in a dense urban city, the number of nodes is wild.
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At school, I seem to be one of the very few people who use Linux so there's that
Don't worry, when you graduate it gets more isolating.
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Nice! I got about two remorts in, but haven't played in a while. It's a pretty solid mud.
I'll always have a soft spot for Project Bob, which I think shut down. Diablo-style items and a very fast paced combat system. Alas. Time marches on.
Yeah no kidding. I played one called exile. I think it’s still there, but it’s only afkers and basically not much to do. At least aard has some social aspect.
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What is a mud?
Basically a text game. Check out aardwolf.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]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
- T-Square
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I have a more particular niche, where I like comedy-horror and grossout-horror; flicks that can effectively embrace the tropes of B movie horror.
Drag me to Hell is one that I enjoyed. The protagonist is pretty resilient in spite of the over-the-top effects of the curse.
Ironically; I really DON’T like depictions of misery. Somehow my favorite form of action follows the vein of Wile E Coyote getting squished by an anvil; everyone laughs and the appeal is more in the shock unexpectedness than the raw emotional pain that horror often reveals in.
I just watched Drag me to Hell for the first time in a decade with my wife and siblings in law a week ago. I forgot how funny and over the top it was. I ended up being the only one who finished it.
I got them to watch it by saying it was from the director who did the evil dead. I forgot to say the originals, not the remakes lol
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I mean I'm not looking to cold open with drugs and strangers. Lol. I'd like proper friends with whom we've established mutual respect and trust for one another.
THEN go get weird at the Renaissance Festival, or concert, or shitty movie.
All anyone my age around here wants to do is drink shitty craft beers, hike, and watch football...
i hear you. its a hard subject to even bring up since it can be hard to gauge how others feel about it, i'd be lying if i said i didn't also want to take psychedelics with friends. the only people i know who would even be a right fit don't want to due to past personal experiences.
and hey, hiking is awesome! especially awesome with friends and/or drugs lol
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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.
I gave my son some of my old CDs last year. In them was a mix metal cd I got somewhere, and there is a powerwolf song on there. I wish I could remember which song, but for nearly a year he'd put that song on repeat and fall asleep to it every night. It was absurdly amusing
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You're a very good person!
My mother's dog was a dog we gave "temporary" shelter to... Five years ago. She's 10 now and we couldn't be happier. She came to us from a very difficult home situation (her previous owner had just escaped from a violent marriage, and we think the dog might have been a victim too, but nobody was ever able to prove anything). She's still a little monster and she's still very afraid of everything, but there's no comparing how she was when we adopted her and how she is now.
I had an ex who lived somewhere where people often went to to abandon their dogs once they grew too old, too big or too aggressive. Her family also took in as many as they could: when we broke up, they had something along the lines of 10 dogs. It was very rewarding, too, as she got a good friend in each and every one of them. But it really hurts my heart to imagine that someone could be so cruel as to just abandon a dog like that, even hurt them.
Thank you! I'm about to pick him up from the groomer. They warned me they might have to shave him down so he could look pretty silly. Might have to get the little guy a coat or something.
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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.
My husband doesn't have tattoos, but a beard. He loves all metal but definitely death metal.
There was a woman at my work, she was in the office side pretty high up. I always played my music, she soon found out I was (at least in part) a metal head. One time we found ourselves in a meeting room just a few of us, and shared she is massively a metal head, even citing death metal. I was so taken aback. She is highly professional always, and become the coolest lady in the office to me that day.
My dentist's favorite band is Led Zeppelin. My son asked, that answer surprised me too. For an older woman, close enough lol
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I’m the only person I know IRL who uses lemmy (lol) and openstreetmap
I recently switched to CoMaps, performs so much better than OSMAnd on cheap hardware
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I love listening to political music in languages I dont speak, I have music saved from 74 languages (so far).
Over the last few years, I've noticed a lot of music I listen too isn't in English. I like it so much. Though I probably don't have 74 languages, just scattered European ones. Europe has really good post punk/darkwave
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Already tried. No community exists for my car. So I created one and tried to convince some redditors to join me and they basically gave me the finger (and then a mod deleted my post.) Gave up and abandoned the community. I don't want to waste time screaming into the void. There aren't enough 350Z owners on Lemmy to even get a basic conversation started.
Same reason why my radio station, [email protected] is failing before I've even launched it. There aren't enough DJs on Lemmy, so I have no staff, which means there's no one to play something on air. I've been reaching out via PMs to anyone I can find. It's been a 3 month search to no avail. I was supposed to launch yesterday.
Lemmy is just too small, plain and simple.
Lemmy has radio?
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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?
Slinging. Like David and Goliath, but I’m better with the over the shoulder method than the spin it in circles method. Based on discord and other sites, there are dozens of slingers worldwide.
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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 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.
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I play single player video games and I roleplay and tell stories about my characters. I’ve done it with BG3, Elden Ring, Skyrim, Oblivion, Fire Emblem, and Pokemon. I take notes and write little stories for myself. I cultivate a little headcanon universe for each game, and I even let my roleplay alter my gameplay in meaningful ways. I don’t know if anyone else plays these games like this but I haven’t found much community for it.
I've tried to do this several times and usually get bored. Journaling RPGs on the other hand are loads of fun!
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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.
Do you know Jabberloop?
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Please tell me more
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I want to know more. Part of my job involves teaching lessons on climate change in schools. I have often wondered how I could incorporate games like Minecraft into this.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Edited a bunch in. Would be interested in your Minecraft thoughts after reading that. I don't immediately see that Minecraft specifically would be useful for climate change. I'm a climate scientist, but I haven't played the game... There are a few other games out there that do tackle climate change, some in useful and interesting ways.
Edit: some of the games I know:
- Daybreak by Matt Leacock et al.
- Hack the Planet
- there's heaps of solarpunk and climate games on itch.io, I havent tried many yet.
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Woah. That sounds interesting. Care to elaborate?
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