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?
My favorite TV show Stargate. I’ve only been able to convince one person to watch it, and they loved it too. Everyone else says its to long since sg1+Atlantis+universe is 17 seasons total. Plus 3 Movies.
If anything there is not enough of it. Universe should really have went on for more seasons.
For sure. Season one wasn’t great, but season two was awesome. Felt like it was really just getting started when it ended.
The Walking Through The Stargate podcast has an experienced gate walker taking his friend through the serieses one episode at a time. It’s fun to see the newbie perspective.
Wtts.space
Get into gate is another good one
the netrunner card game. All my MTG friends are so used to the idea of lootboxes and I’d rather not play anything than gamble.
Gormenghast, a series of novels which are “fantasy” but contain no magic. The setting is genuinely a fantasy setting, with massive, fantastical castles, all empty and decaying.
It’s the story of a royal family, and the heir to the throne, who does not wish to be an heir to the throne.
Also, that’s to say nothing of the third book, which sends you on a major twist and goes from fantasy to science fiction…
Underrated trilogy, Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake.
Also, Dead Man, a film by Jim Jarmusch. I’m not a big fan of Westerns, but this “acid western” is one of my favorite movies of all time. Somehow simultaneously a funny buddy movie and also a deep treatise on death and belief.
Gary Farmer gets to say his iconic line that I still love to hear to this day: “Stupid fucking white man.”
Farmer would go on to cameo in another Jarmusch film, Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai to repeat the same line.
I still have never seen the movie, but Dead Man has a great soundtrack by Neil Young. Guitar Solo, No 5 is my favorite track if you just check out one:
The soundtrack is one of the best parts of the movie, and you’re right, it’s great on its own.
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I love Dead Man. That is a great movie by a great director in Jim J.
I watched the Gormenghast miniseries on the Space Channel many many years ago and eventually read the books. They were interesting. Not something I’d want to revisit, but definitely weird.
LSD haha, its insane and awesome, so many people should experience it before thinking they know themselves.
Nobody in all my gamer friends play Starfield like I do. Thank God for online communities.
isn’t it a single player game? i talk to my friends about games we don’t both play all the time, that’s what friends are for.
Yeah it’s single player. I just mean I have nobody to discuss this game with that I know in person.
Myself. 😞
Someone spent a while telling me Nier Automata was great, and it took a couple years before I got independently interested. My punishment is the same fate, of telling others it’s great, and no-one trying it.
Same with Return of the Obra Dinn, which has a niche art style but a captivating set of mysteries.
Dude I just can’t get my friends to do anything other than OSRS
Wanna swap friends? Mine keep torturing themselves with league lmao
Unfortunately I do love those guys when they’re not drowning our discord call with “RANGE!!! MAGE!!! POT NOW POT NOW!!!” so I will have to decline your offer. I wish you all the best in your pursuits.
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).
The Marvel Cosmic period starting with the Thanos series written by Starlin, ending with Thanos Imperative, with all the amazing stuff in between, especially Annihilation.
Where’s the Reese’s order? Is there a lot of series hopping?
It’s more of a string of events accompanied by a whole bunch of miniseries, most of which are needed to get to know the characters (or their new interpretations) and make sense of the story.
The rough idea is that it started with the eponymous Thanos 12 issue series, where the later 6 issues directly lead into the Annihilation event and its sequel Annihilation Conquest. Nova (Richard Rider, who is the led character) got his own series from that (Nova vol. 4) and a team that forms the basis of Guardians of the Galaxy forms in Conquest. Those two series ran concurrently and tied to the subsequent cosmic events War of Kings and Real of Kings. The whole cosmic run was somewhat tied up in Thanos Imperative and Annihilators miniseries and basically ended.
The the GotG movie happened and Bendis started writing it and it just wasn’t the same. There might be good stories after that, but I lost interest at that point.
The good thing about this whole thing is that it’s taking part far away from Earth and thus is not tied up with the mainstream Marvel continuity in any major ways (Annihilation takes place during the comic Civil War) and the bulk of the characters are forgotten or unpopular characters given modern interpretations and put in a different context than usually, so you don’t really need to know much about their history, since their characterisation is being built up, almost from scratch in some cases. And it’s awesome. Like the Super Skrull fighting in a war against a galaxy-ending threat and being super powerful instead of jobbing to Fantastic Four like he usually does.
I have asked many a friend to play modded Minecraft with me.
Unfortunately, I am reminded time and time again that the Venn diagram of people I know who are interested in that and people with PCs who can run that is two circles.
Three separate times now someone’s invited me to a Create server and 2 hours later I’ve somehow instead ended up joining a 300+ mod modpack that takes roughly 45 minutes to load on my laptop, crashes and errors out every few hours, and dies within a week after someone uses some random mod to gain infinite diamonds or something.
My friend and I tried this with sevtech ages. Too heavy, too much, too slow.
We switched to life in the village with iris shaders, and we’re much happier!
I tend to burn a little slower than that, but yes. Post-scarcity is usually the goal and the game needn’t overstay its welcome.
The problem with modded servers is that the guy who’s done this 10 times is havingg a great time building a mega factory and outpaces or outshines (depending on versus or coop mentality) everyone else. You might be different but this is a very consistent experience for me.
Yeah, this is inevitable.
My limiter tends to be that anything I make has to do things not only efficiently, but fashionably. I like to be immersed in a factory that looks vaguely like a real factory, rather than laying down a bunch of minmaxxed spaghetti. So I spend a lot of time faffing about with where a thing should actually go and how do I hook it up in a novel way.
Casuals still can’t keep up and tryhards pass me by. Stuck in the middle, lol.
I respect the effort lol
The other thing I try to do that I didn’t think of in the other reply is not mixing mods together.
Most major tech mods are balanced for standalone play. They merely contain integrations with other mods as convenient curiosities. So when you mix overpowered machine from mod ABC that is regulated by some restriction, and combine it with machine from mod XYZ that trivializes that restriction, the progression collapses and it’s boring.
Some people like that. I try to avoid it.
Some might wonder what the point is in playing with all the mods if I don’t actually use all the mods. And my answer is I do, but all separately in parallel. I like being a botanist and a thaumaturge and a blood magician and an astral sorcerer and a pressure mechanic and a mekanism engineer all at the same time, but like… in shifts. When I get bored of one I put it down and advance another. I want to feel like I’ve mastered them all rather than cherry picked the best parts of each. I get all the variety but few of the problems.
All of this context switching means I waste a tremendous amount of time, but it does make the game last longer. But not too long.
Also, in coop, it pays well when players specialize. I do this magic, you do that tech, etc. Share one or two things in common, but also be different. You might end up wickedly out of power balance depending on which mods you picked to specialize in, but imo that’s not really the mark of success.
Good ideas
I’ve been trying to get a LAN party together with some IRL friends for a little bit, but we all are so different in experience level that even playing vanilla, we’ll inevitably have some people run rings around others.
My current pitch is that we all share one house and bolt different spaces of different styles onto the sides of it whenever we need a new space, share all resource except a small personal chest and the experienced players can only do specific tasks like going caving or into the nether if it’s as a whole group, so the newer players get to experience some of those parts fresh.
Doing things as a group is much more fun anyways. We always do that with the ender dragon but even something like caving is more fun with a few other people.
Have you tried increasing your RAM usage on the MC launcher?
CPU requirements are usually fine, but RAM can get out of hand rather quickly. I usually try to put at least 8 GB, although 6 works in most cases.
Unfortunately I have a laptop with no RAM upgrades so it’s cranked up as far as it can go lol
Is Minecraft heavy now?
When you cram it full of tech mods it is.
If you don’t have at minimum 4 GB of RAM to dedicate to the game alone, you are not going to be able to load the packs I want to play. And yet, this is apparently how much RAM a lot of people still have in their PCs total in the year of our lord 2024.
I also have a lot of friends using underpowered netbooks as daily drivers, which will quickly be CPU-bounded in a game like modded Minecraft.
Minecraft, especially modded Minecraft, is almost an anti-game. Unlike nearly every other big game, where it’s a neat and tidy compiled package that stays in its lane memory-wise, loads relatively quickly, and only makes you ask questions about how many pretty settings your GPU can handle and what FPS you’ll get doing it, Minecraft instead is a bloated, memory-hogging dumpster fire written crappily in Java (many of the mods are, anyway) that runs like a dream on integrated graphics but can bring nearly any processor you might have to its knees on single thread performance.
pretty sure ATM9 recommended minimum RAM is 10GB…i have it at 12GB.
but i also run it at about 100fps and view distance set around 16 with shaders…
It amazes me that my laptop, which would have been sold alongside phones with keyboards, still has more RAM and pixels than some people, and an appreciable number of cores. The GPU is increasingly unsupported caca though.
Are there any mods that are surprisingly economical? CPU-heavyness is pretty much just the genera - Dwarf Fortress has long been the same - but coding your thing well can make a huge difference. DF itself just got multithreading, and apparently some of the sorting tasks were implemented very naively.
The Deathworlders
I have only managed to convince ONE person to watch Neon Genesis Evangelion, tragically, because it’s my favorite tv show of all time.
I started that once and found it very hard to follow. Intriguing though, and I keep meaning to go back to it.
Oddly enough the thing I’m going to recommend for this thread is the work of Joel Bocko, whose website and general web presence, Lost in the Movies, is superb and really not well enough known IMO.
I mention it here because he’s done quite a bit on Evangelion, so you might enjoy it :-)
Evangelion is not hard to follow. It’s just a fucked up story about fucked up people hurting each other and then the world ends.
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
My recommendation is the work of Joel Bocko, whose website and general web presence, Lost in the Movies, is superb and really not well enough known IMO.
He’s best know for his amazingly in-depth looks at Twin Peaks, including Lost in Twin Peaks (a podcast offering episode-by-episode discussion and analysis of the entire run), and the more thematically-based video series, Journey through Twin Peaks.
These are not so much in the “Try to crack the code” mode so much much TP coverage goes for - rather they are about appreciation and analysis of the show as a piece of TV/cinema; its themes and messages, its characters and plotlines, its direction and aesthetics, and its production, artistic vision and contemporary reception. They’re wonderfully satisfying and well put together, and deserve much more attention.
He also does a huge amount of work on other cinema and TV, ranging from major blockbusters (usually in the form of him discussing major films he missed on initial release) to older genre movies to obscure arthouse cinema.
I can’t recommend his work enough :-)
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