Kind of a hard question to word, but is there anything in your life you have recommended to other people but no one’s ever gotten into?
I love podcasts and have friends who still thank me for getting them into this one or that one. But I’ve never gotten anyone to listen to My Brother, My Brother and Me. I don’t know if the name is unappealing or the concept but people seem to bounce off immediately.
So what can’t you get people into and why should we check it out?
The Swallows and Amazons book series. Written almost exactly a hundred years ago, about early teenage children camping and sailing boats, mostly on a lake in England. Simple innocent stories, no sex, no drugs, no guns.
Communism, but thats because i have a hard time talking to people irl
Communists when they find out community cooperation requires talking to people in person
Being a communist introvert is hard
I STILL DO IT OK
Like Cynic?
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried to get my friend to watch Stargate SG-1. They’re fellow nerds and love sci-fi, but the 10 season run is too daunting for them.
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Who was doing it with whose mom?
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It does, thanks!
I’ve watched the whole run twice now, and Atlantis, and Universe.
Linux
You mean the programming language?
In case you didn’t already know you’re browsing Lemmy, this top comment confirms it.
I think the thigh high socks requirement scares people away 😓
Can’t tell cuz I live in a country with cold winters
The uniform used to be knee-high socks, cargo pants, scraggly beard and bald spot. It’s still evolving.
I refuse to update.
I try to be prepared for the next wave by just using Linux naked.
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Yup…If you shave your head and upgrade the beard, it at least looks like you meant to do it. Or that’s my theory, anyway.
Discworld by Terry Pratchett. It’s got something for just about everyone and I have a few avid readers in my family but they keep putting it off.
I finally took the dive in audiobook form about 2 weeks ago
Yesterday I finished The Light Fantastic in one day at work while listening
On equal rites rn and I now see that all of my favorite inline creators for the last 18 years have just been repackaging Pratchet
And I love it
I’ve had similar problems. I think party of the issue is that, IMHO, the first two are amongst the weakest in the whole series and are less inspiring. I keep trying to tell my daughter to start with #3, but she hasn’t done it yet.
Start with Guards! Guards! And the Vimes cycle and then move on from there.
Seriously. If they don’t get hooked on Vimes, I don’t see them enjoying anything in the Discworld series.
I really just can’t get into fiction books but I definitely wish I was every time this series comes up. It sounds pretty cool
I’m the opposite. I only read fiction, both scifi and fantasy and everything in between, because why read something else? I love imagination possibilities of authors that can put something crazy in, something you simply can’t get in non-fiction literature. Why read “boring” stuff that can (have/did) happen to everyone in normal life?
I know I’m exaggerating, but I hope you know what I mean. And I highly recommend Discworld.
PS: I believe Discworld is not for everyone because it’s British with their style of humour baked in. If you don’t like Monty Python, Red Dwarf, IT Crowd or other British shows, you probably won’t enjoy Discworld either.
When I was young I only read fiction, but as I got older I realized reality is incredibly complex and disturbing and found non-fiction far more interesting. So much of the past remains relevant today and there are no shortage of times real people have not only imagined but also implemented ways to exploit each other and their environments, for good and for bad, often in ways that do come across as utterly crazy, so it is hardly a boring category. These days I would rather make sense of the world I am in than some fictional universe. I do like British humor though.
Because there are very worthwhile texts to read that improve ones knowledge about oneself and humanity and the universe, which in turn allows oneself to make better decisions and have a better mindset.
Reading fiction still helps a little with that, but is mostly “just” entertainment, which of course is also worthwhile.
Well, I do read quite bit of articles about history or technical progress, but not really whole books. IDK why, it just feels different for me and while articles are ok, I feel like book is too much. So books are almost exclusively fiction for me.
Yeah, that didn’t cross my mind, but it’s definitely true!
I read the Colour of Magic (Book 1) and started the second one, but I wasn’t very hooked by it? I mean it was funny, but maybe I just didn’t like all the fourth wall breaks.
I’m currently reading the Color of Magic right now and it is…painful. I know, I was warned, but I ignored the pleas. Now I’m kind of stuck reading this book that feels like it was written by a snarky 8th grader on a bus ride home after school. I truly hope the books get better.
What sort of warnings did you get? All I ever got were recommendations about random Discworld books that weren’t the first ones.
You can watch the 2 colour of magic movies instead.
They are pretty good and feature Sir Terry Pratchett himself.
I’ll check them out!
Myself.
Others generally dislike me cause I’m a total asshole (not wrong) 👍
I was expecting someone to mention their dick
I’ve begun watching & falling in love with something very recently that I think will fall into this category for sure. An old adult swim cartoon called Home Movies.
Made by a lot of the same talent before Bob’s Burgers was a thing, the humour is actually insanely clever and progressive for it’s time & it still feels fresh to me watching it today. Definitely have already had a few laughing fits where I had to pause the episode for a while to catch my breath and I’m only 4 episodes in 😂
For being a simpler sort of design, it also has some good background gags too. Not to mention the comedian guest stars – Episode 3 had Emo Philips which was a delightful surprise, but episode 4 has freakin’ Mitch Hedberg in it! Took me by surprise for sure but it was also a nice little extra thing to hear him say some fresh lines.
That’s all I have to say about it for now, but every night now my partner & I look forward to watching a couple episodes before bed :) it’s a great time!
You should check out the show that preceded Home Movies. Made by the same team, including most of the same voice actors.
Dr. Katz Professional Therapist was ahead of its time, in my opinion. It was my first exposure to H. Jon Benjamin (McGuirk) and Johnathan Katz (Eric Robbins) and Loren Brouchard. It is basically the same creative team starting at Dr. Katz and ending with Bob’s Burgers.
I have a real soft spot for Dr. Katz and Ben Katz.
EDIT: Completely forgot. Dr. Katz animation was done in “squigglevision” which was also used in the first season of Home Movies, but dropped for Flash animation, I think, in season 2 of Home Movies.
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Mage: The Ascension - I’m super happy that TTRPGs are having a renaissance but there are so many systems out there and D&D isn’t anywhere near the best. You can imagine this like the board game revolution and how “Catan is like so amazing” when actually it’s a rather mechanically underwhelming and repetitive game.
D&D is a role-playing game with almost no support for social actions, it’s bizarre.
It takes an especially skilled GM to run M:tA. They need to be able to handle things getting very weird very fast. But it’s what makes the game and stories so great. Toon was like that too.
Death, Black Metal, Punk - heavy music is a channel for heavy emotions.
Open source, privacy, federation - Don’t give up power over technology that interacts with you
Rope bondage, kinks - Bodies, minds are interesting when reacting
Squishing toasted bread before topping it - Un-squished toasted bread gets annoying edges very fast when drying
Squishing toasted bread? Like, flattening it more?
I imagine they’ve got a toast mallet.
No, no. It is very important that the toast gets squished evenly, so it would need to be a spatula.
I can sort of see it, I guess. Never tried it with toast, but it’s my go-to for a grilled cheese sandwich.
I do get a joy out of the flatness of a good grilled cheese. Getting a good toast on the edge and pushing it down while its on the grill to flatten it.
A lot of things but from the top of my head: boardgames, Space Engineers, RimWorld, Frasier
Excuse me, did someone here just said Space Engineers?
Frasier
I came expecting a weak spin-off of Cheers, stayed for David Hyde Pierce.
I let my wife try to get me into boardgaming. That meant I spent six months playing ten minutes of boardgames at a time before the rest of the table ganged up to eliminate me because I was the weakest player. Thirteen years later I still want nothing to do with the hobby, the culture and 90% of the people who are serious about it.
Well that sucks, if you ever get in that situation again, but I doubt you will, ask to play a co-op game.
Prime opportunity for their partner to get mad because they’re shit at the game. I know some couples are like that
If your partner is going to bully you while you are trying to learn a game, they are a lousy partner. It isn’t cooperative games that are the problem. I have a partner and several friends who all love cooperative games and are patient with anyone new to the game, I’ve never had issues with them being a jerk to newcomers. The more people you can welcome into learning and playing a game you like, the more likely you will have someone available to join you when you feel like having a game day. The best person to get into a game you enjoy is your partner who you likely spend most of your time with anyway, they are the number one best source of having someone to play with so long as you have some overlapping interests in games.
Having a lousy partner is all too common
Those kind of games seem fun, but I’m also just talking about a small game every once in a while, something like one or two rounds of MtG, Machi Koro, Claim, Sushi Go. The light stuff, not the stuff that takes hours per game.
Sushi Go! is fantastic. Also Jaipur.
You need a group that plays games like Pandemic, where the whole table is working together - although some games in that genre do include saboteurs.
I got to the point with my friends where I’d refuse to play some games like you describe, very long games where you can get screwed over early on and never have a hope of recovery.
My current favorite is Terraforming Mars, where everyone is cooperatively terraforming the planet but also trying to outperform the other corporations. It’s less about actively attacking each other and more taking advantage of opponents weaknesses and missteps.
When this conversation started at dinner with boardgamers after Der Spiel in Essen I asked the waiter to bring me the appropriate knife to saw my own leg off to escape the trap.
Genesis when Peter Gabriel was still with them.
That’s the only Genesis worth listening to
THANK YOU
Destiny Potato. Their debut album is one of my all time favorites. It was released with pretty much no fanfare or PR, and while I’m usually disappointed by my Spotify recommendations, this is how I discovered them, and holy hell am I glad I did.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m9V078hBuAWG4B0368meY3o-ToBdKLpng&si=zIwSPQRG3QRCLs0h
If I’m taking one thing from this thread, it’s that I’m most likely to click on something called “Desiny Potato”.
Unfortunately they changed their name. Their second album was released as Sordid Pink
I’m enjoying it so far :)
I was into it some time late 90’s, and it was quite popular then. But it kind of died off and disappeared.
What is considered power metal nowadays? Helloween? Manowar? Or something completely different?
Well, never heard of any of these. I kind of stopped listening to this sub-genre in 90s, same with heavy and speed, it’s all too “whiny” and “high-pitched” for my taste and ears if you get what I mean. Singers usually push really hard and guitars are either constantly soloing or shredding too high and that makes me uncomfortable nowadays.
But the best part is, there’s so much to pick from these days everyone should get satisfied.
Chrono Trigger.
I’ve started and stopped it a number of times over the past 20 years or so, and I’m finally playing it all the way through right now. At least one of those times was because I thought I HAD to fight Lavos through the bucket and thought I was expected to grind until I could defeat it lol. This time, I’ve found it really remarkable how tight it is and how well it still holds up today. Even though Sea of Stars came out last year, it feels like Chrono Trigger could have been released alongside it and it would only feel a bit more dated in some respects.
Still haven’t played Sea of Stars, but grew up with Chrono trigger. How well does it compare?
It’s heavily inspired by Chrono Trigger…heavily. It’s got dual-techs, the writing feels very similar at times, the equipment has predictable scaling as the story progresses, and lots more. The dialog is a bit saccharine for my taste; I’ve far preferred Chrono Trigger’s. Chrono Trigger has pleasant and supportive characters, but it hasn’t ever felt over the top. Sea of Stars also has some modern niceties, like timed presses for defense and offense, some interesting spell-boosting mechanics, it’s very pretty at times, etc. And it plays on jrpg tropes at times in a fun way, and didn’t feel like it overstayed its welcome. Since you love Chrono Trigger, my best guess is that I think you’d have fun with Sea of Stars. It won’t blow your mind by any means, but I don’t think you’d regret spending time with it.
