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.
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.
Hell, even Foundation (which Dune is a fan-fiction of) has a show now.
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The show has as much connection to the books as the I, Robot movie did to its. Which is to say, they share a name.
Asimov, West & Kubrick: in a pile, meme
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.
at one point do the invasive species exist for so long that they become an integral part of the ecosystem and can be considered native
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.
As a native plant lover and invasive plant hater, I support this and please don’t stop.
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’m the only person I know IRL who uses lemmy (lol) and openstreetmap :)
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…
nobody knows what Lemmy is as far as I’m concerned you people aren’t even real
I’ve tried telling a few friends about Lemmy but they give no fucks. Sad face yo
I recently switched to CoMaps, performs so much better than OSMAnd on cheap hardware
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.
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.
I code Csound. It’s still sort-of being maintained, but otherwise the community is super dead. It’s a shame because it’s very versatile and fun, but realistically there are quite a few more modern alternatives for coding sound synthesis these days.
I work in a technology field and I’m interested in “not AI” stuff. It’s a wild ride.
I’m right there with you. Unfortunately I’m looking for work so I might HAVE to do A.I. something.
Bash scripting, firewall config, vpn tunnelling, and containerization ( rootless Podman ).
I’m into combining these in interesting ways.
While it could be argued that there are tons of communities for these, combining them to run secure apps or automate their setups don’t seem to be as popular.
It’s a hot topic at social events, as you can imagine.
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.
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.
kitty0706 was all I watched in high school, as a now 25+yo dude I still crack up at them.
Used to love the gmod collabs people would do too
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?
Do you know Jabberloop?
sounds Juicy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVYgvrvL4k8
Any specific recommendations? I’ve been into prog/jazz/funk for the last few years (thanks to Louis Cole’s various projects for opening that door) and I know Japan has a strong scene.
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.
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
At school, I seem to be one of the very few people who use Linux so there’s that
I like to analyse stickers stuck on traffic lights and road signs.
I plan on making an app someday where people can contribute to a database of stickers and compare the sticker culture of different regions.
look into infoe! dude posts literally everywhere I had to track him down on insta and ask the meaning lol. He’s from Miami but he goes all over the US (i think the world too)
I like to contribute to various open-source implimentations of classic games from the 90s
It’s true that barely anyone is into actually contributing, but I assure you a fair amount of people are into the actual open source implementations and are thankful for your efforts!
Any game in particular you contributed to that you want to share?
Sorry, I use different accounts and hence nicknames for each project; letting one loose would dox me too much for my liking. Thanks, though!
Ah, no worries at all. Thank you for all you do anyway!
