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.
It’s interesting that 90% of these comments are just TV show recommendations (or other forms of entertainment). I would have thought that lemmy would be a little more anti-consumption :/
Yes, they’re relatively easy-to-digest suggestions, hence perhaps a frustration at the root of the OP’s question surrounding the attempts to draw your peers into something you enjoy.
Because of course Skydiving (for example) might be amazing, but you bet your ass I’m not looking into doing that all by myself lol
Custom Roms I love how I can load custom ROMs on devices. I tried to talk my friends and co-workers into it but they seem really disinterested. I even took one of my older phones and showed it to them in person. They weren’t really fascinated by the fact, that I got something different than Android or iOS on my phone. The only thing they liked was, how the lockscreen in Ubuntu Touch looked.
Hell yeah. Gonna do this as soon as I have a backup phone in case something goes wrong
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For me it’s sim racing and VR gaming.
All my friends care about is LOL and CSGO.
I love and talk a lot about factory games (Factorio, Shapez, Factory Idle,…) but I don’t think any of my friends would ever get into it. But I don’t really care.
You might check out Satisfactory. It’s pretty neat
I didn’t like it personally. It seemed like a dream come true but the third dimension from a player perspective makes it annoying to build anything and generally confusing I find. Will see how Shapez 2 handles the jump to 3D.
Satisfactory doesn’t have the same swing as factorio.
Techtonica is a lot more factorio like.
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The factory must grow…
Chipotle tobasco is some of the best hot sauce I’ve ever had. I honestly have no idea if they even sell outside of Louisiana, but if you ever get the chance, try it.
The denizens of Louisiana have such an elevated taste for spice that any time I even mention it to anyone here they say “oh that shit sounds basic, try this one” and I can’t get anyone to actually try it.
It has a kick, but not as hot as a full fledged hot sauce. Nowhere near making you sweat hot. But the flavor profile is 👌
My second favorite tobasco, the lime one being my actual favorite. But it’s never in stores so I always settle for chipotle, since it’s great too and the burn is tolerable for a non “heat-head” such as myself.
I prefer a lot more kick, and found a chipotle habanero sauce. But yeah, chipotle is best jalepeńo. Smokey goodness!
I sometimes steal bottles from Chipotle when I go there as I never see it in stores and it’s so good. I literally am willing to commit crime for that hot sauce.
I can buy it in Iowa. It’s good stuff.
Halo.
Can’t motivate anybody to play it :(Edit: What a great typo.
Maybe stop trying to can’totivate people, sounds fuckin’ violent.
lol.
That was a strange and hilarious typo.
Have you been recommending the MCC ? imho that’s the only thing worth playing (as opposed to Infinite)
I tried to motivate my friends into halo of any kind.
The f2p part of halo infinite makes it attractive to try out at all.
But even playing part of the reach co-op didnt catch with them.Oh well. I tried :(
I guess they have to be into both scifi and shooters as a prerequisite
Shooters: Check
Sci-Fi: (I think) Check.I think one of my friends played Destiny. The other (irl) friend was thr one I played Halo 2 on the og xbox with.
I would say Halo is pretty unique both in types of play and art style which makes it harder to sell vs Overwatch or Rainbow 6 Siege.
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Forth
You mean the programming language?
I do. And the operating environment
I think the thigh high socks requirement scares people away 😓
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.
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In case you didn’t already know you’re browsing Lemmy, this top comment confirms it.
Indie games and indie musicians.
Most of my friends have the mentality of “if it’s not popular, it’s not worth checking out, regardless if it’s actually good or not”. And I hate it.
Let me know how you feel when one of those indie musicians get popular and your friends act like they’ve been listening to them for years.
That’s the feeling of betrayal right there.
Does Privacy count? I always I try to encourage people to treat themselves to better privacy, to step away from big corpo platforms and use more Foss services. Doesn’t stick with a lot of em. 😔
If you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist. /s
They’ll try and make it sound like it was a reasoned decision to give in, but if there was a little eyeball looking over their shoulder they’d 100% be freaked out.
well obviously, but a disembodied animate eyeball would freak anyone out regardless of what it was doing
What is the practical, measurable impact on my life of big corpo knowing my info? Seems like a lot of ass ache for without any measurable benefits beyond some principles stand big corpo doesn’t care about. It’s not like Big Corpo isn’t getting your info. Using Chrome and a VPN on the Google spy drone in your pocket isn’t hiding anything from Google. If Big Corpo wants your data, they will get it. They are better at getting it than we are at hiding it. The only solution is legislative, not individual nerds putting up knee high fences and feeling morally superior about it.
What is the practical, measurable impact on my life of big corpo knowing my info?
Just off the top of my head: spam, scam calls, phishing emails, credit agency hacks, every data aggregator in the world having a psychological profile on you, malicious actors who want your money having access to enough information to have a chance at getting access to your bank account. But at least advertisements will more likely be things you want.
Oh and don’t forget it’s not just big corpo, it’s also several nations spying on you. Sure you might not be doing anything wrong now, but take it from a political refugee: if they ever want to control you, all they need to do is criminalize something you did in the past and then they already have all the evidence they need. Isn’t “justice” fun?
If Big Corpo wants your data, they will get it.
That’s a very silly assumption to make. Just because they have better data aggregation abilities than your average person doesn’t mean they’re omnipotent.
They are better at getting it than we are at hiding it.
This really sounds luke you’re devolving into an All Or Nothing stance. Just because my online presence necessarily leaves a data footprint doesn’t mean I should just give up and let them have everything they want.
The only solution is legislative, not individual nerds putting up knee high fences and feeling morally superior about it.
Excuse you, mine’s a chest high wall.
Ignoring the assumption that legislation would ever act against the will of capital… As we’ve seen with the Right to Repair movement: societal change stems from the sustained pressure applied by groups of dedicated individuals. Legislation doesn’t just pop into congress because one of the representatives was visited the night before by the three ghosts of privacy past, present and future in the middle of the night; it comes from representatives that either belonged to the movements or were successfully lobbied by them.
Also if someone suggesting you should care about your own privacy and/or well-being feels like an attack against your morals, you should start asking why and who taught you to feel that way about it. I don’t feel like a better person than you, I feel a lot less paranoid and stressed all the time and I would wish that for everyone
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Dostoevsky. Kava. My girlfriend refuses to watch Yu Yu Hakusho with me
Kava. I thought it was the way I was describing it. But they’ll go straight for hard liquor that tastes like shit.
yeah kava doesn’t really taste good but i think it’s much a cleaner buzz than alcohol. both work on the GABA receptors. i wanna try GHB one day because apparently it’s also like alcohol but cleaner - but I have no idea where I’d go about getting it and I wouldn’t wanna go searching for it
Haha! That’s pretty much how it’s described in the red mars trilogy. Idk if I’ll ever try after reading those books.
Opera! It’s so very very good and it’s such an acquired taste.
I prefer to stick to FireFox, thanks.
I feel like all of the arts are that way. You can either put yourself in the mindset to be receptive of them… or you can’t.
But I’ve had many enriching experiences by taking a chance on art forms and genres I never supposed I would like, including those I had some bias against.
Getting into Klaus Nomi has made me reconsider my stance on opera, but I have no idea where to begin
A good way to begin is to watch a popular classic favourite opera like La Traviata or La Boheme, with subtitles, and review the plot summary ahead of time
Here is a link to a pretty good one. https://youtu.be/WZywmSJkKYE?feature=shared
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/WZywmSJkKYE?feature=shared
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
LSD haha, its insane and awesome, so many people should experience it before thinking they know themselves.
So what can’t you get people into
My weird fetishes
why should we check it out?
Uuuhh…
In reality, tabletop games, including RPG. There’s even a local, free event that happens every 2 months, but out of everyone I invite, nobody shows up, not even the people who say “I’d like to play once”. It really saddens me how many people reply with “I don’t have the skill to play, it’s too complicated”, actually meaning “I doubt I can develop the skill I think is needed to play and I’m not willing to try” whenever I get excited about RPGs.
