Is there anything you're into that no one or basically nobody is into?
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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?
Edited a bunch in
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If only you were an Arab or Chinese. I don't think calligraphy ever had mass appeal the same way in the West.
Damn. TIL
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Skydiving. The number of people that sign up for the training is tiny and only about ten percent of them make it through ground school, all the tested jumps, the written test and the oral test to get licensed.
But, it is surprisingly addictive and fun.
It also is a small enough community that when I say my instructor died this summer, I bet that others funjumpers reading this knew him or of him.
I miss you Frog.
Tbh I don't think there's anything surprising about something so adrenaline-filled being addictive! Sounds like a really fun 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 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.
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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.
As a native plant lover and invasive plant hater, I support this and please don't stop.
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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.
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
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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.
That’s really cool! Do you have an example of the calligraphy you like?
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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.
These kinds of things are really cool! I love interactive fiction/games that have a real-life component.
Do you have any more information about your projects?
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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?
Dune was my go to scifi...now it's popular and I feel like a hipster.
My dad got me into hard scifi, d&d, Tolkien...if I feel like a hipster, can't imagine what he feels like.
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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.
You mean you are actually role playing in a role playing game?
My my, you are strange.
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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 sure there's probably someone out there, but I'm really interested in cool border crossings and how they represent nations on each side. As much as I am no nationalist, I find those projections of strength, friendship, security, etc. all super interesting.
Oh, and fake/fantasy transit maps. Those are always fun to draw up in my spare time.
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I'm sure there's probably someone out there, but I'm really interested in cool border crossings and how they represent nations on each side. As much as I am no nationalist, I find those projections of strength, friendship, security, etc. all super interesting.
Oh, and fake/fantasy transit maps. Those are always fun to draw up in my spare time.
Cool thoughts. I would be thinking more about the intersections of cultures on those edges, rather than the nations, since they also happen within nations in some places. Even within cities, really..
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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.
There are people who play solo TTRPGs and share logs, I think? Seems kind of similar
I've done it (just one session, nothing I want to share).
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Dune was my go to scifi...now it's popular and I feel like a hipster.
My dad got me into hard scifi, d&d, Tolkien...if I feel like a hipster, can't imagine what he feels like.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Hell, even Foundation (which Dune is a fan-fiction of) has a show now.
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I think IronFox comes with UBO. Its the successor to Mull. The LibreWolf equivalent on Android. From what I understand.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Ooh thank you
Edit: i think this is going to be my new daily driver on mobile.
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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.
Like city music?
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hmmm... I'm having some issues with VPN tunneling in my docker config. I wonder if you might have some advice?
That sounds a bit ambiguous, though I should have prefaced my previous comment with the fact that I am still very much learning about this stuff myself.
More recently, I am trying to wrap my head around containerized VPN connections through WireGuard using gluetun. The idea sounds great, in theory. Figuring out how to make it work will probably be less so.
If you mean just accessing a service through VPN from the outside world, then I might be able to help.
I’ve done it successfully a few times. Most of the issues I have ever had were usually with misconfigured firewall rules around NAT.
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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
I listen to a lot of European music like Polish, German, and Serbian :3
(I have more Vietnamese music in my collection tho)
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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.
Oh you like MS-DOS programming? name every 8086 ASM registry
