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.
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2024
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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.
For me it's sim racing and VR gaming.
All my friends care about is LOL and CSGO.
The Deathworlders
Star Trek. Every friend I have only knows about Star Wars.
At least Lemmy is the home of the trekkie! But I feel it everyone I know IRL wants to talk about Star Wars movies and Ashoka and not what is the best episode of TNG lol.
Demoscene stuff. Basically just digital art written for fun and to show off your coding skills. People have been doing it since the Amiga. If you've ever pirated software in the 90's to 00's, you've probably seen a realtime animation and mod-based techno track accompany the keygen - that's an example of Demoscene art.
I can't find anyone in the US, not even one of the nerds that works in tech with me, who gives a single shit about this stuff. There are parties and conventions all the time, none of them in North America...
I'm traveling to Germany at the end of March to go to a Demoparty just for the chance to meet a single other person who cares. It should be fun.
I made my own prod discovery service if you ever want to check it out: https://prods.page/ (Yes, I need to update it).
So what canβt 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.
LSD haha, its insane and awesome, so many people should experience it before thinking they know themselves.
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