Is there anything you're into that no one or basically nobody is into?
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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
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]at what point do the invasive species exist for so long that they become an integral part of the ecosystem and can be considered native
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I’m the only person I know IRL who uses lemmy (lol) and openstreetmap
nobody knows what Lemmy is as far as I'm concerned you people aren't even real
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I’m the only person I know IRL who uses lemmy (lol) and openstreetmap
wrote last edited by [email protected]Lemmy is like internet jail. We got sent here for breaking the rules on Reddit, but now we're institutionalised and it feels safe, even if there are some very odd people here with us - they're mostly nice and just serving their time...
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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.
They don’t fit the YouTube algorithm now though
Skibidi toilet begs to differ
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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 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.
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Thank you!
Have you played Citizen Sleeper? I think you might like it.
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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?
wrote last edited by [email protected]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:
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Thank you!
Have you played Citizen Sleeper? I think you might like it.
I haven't. I'm less interested in videogames, because I find I prefer the social interactions of physical games more, and I also suspect that videogames fall into more of a one-to-many style communication, rather than many-to-many (I have played them a lot in the past, just not so much these days).
I had a quick skim of the wikipedia page, but it mostly seems pretty focused on the narrative (aside from the dice pool mechanic, which sounds a lot like Psi*Run dice mechanic discussed on this podcast). Was there something in particular about it that I'd be interested in?
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But this one simulates the refrigeration cycle! It has proper phase changes and everything.
Empire fucking booked it to steam and has been playing it for the past 10 hours, for sure.
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Lemmy has radio?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yes it's something I've been working on all summer. A radio station for Lemmy users, by Lemmy users. Anyone can be a DJ or help build playlists for rotation. Problem is that I can't find anyone willing to do that.
That said, I do plan on launching soon, with or without DJs. Check out the community for updates: [email protected]
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at what point do the invasive species exist for so long that they become an integral part of the ecosystem and can be considered native
wrote last edited by [email protected]invasive species = non-native. But, non-native doesn't always mean it's an invasive species.
Invasive Species: Any species that has been introduced to an environment where it is not native, and that has since become a nuisance through rapid spread and increase in numbers, often to the detriment of native species.
I don't think having a non-native title is necessarily bad, just that it didn't originate/evolve in that area.
edit: taking this opportunity to promote https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/, found his videos a while back and have enjoyed the content.
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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.
I've really wanted to try getting into this sometime! I just love nifty ways of hitting distant things with other things.
I've heard of people fashioning them outta paracord and using tennis balls to start with and thought that sounded cool.
Plus, something that looks like a weird belt could potentially hurl any old rock at dangerous velocities, and that's gotta be worth something in this dangerous world.
How'd you first get into it?
