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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.

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. 😔

Lemmy

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.

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.

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.

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 think answer is kind of there in the premise - stop trying to get validation from others that your "special things" are special. I had to work on this with my partner, she was always trying to "sell" obscure, funny "special things" that we share to rooms full of others that don't get it. In the process, she would hurt her own perception of those special things just a little bit each time. Don't give away your "special things" to poor unfortunate people who don't get it or don't deserve them.

Mbmbam is fantastic. Haven’t listened to it in years but that’s cuz I listen to the adventure zone mostly.

If you work on a computer for any appreciable length of time per day then you absolutely should build or buy yourself a split ergometric keyboard. You will never regret it, you will be faster at typing, your body will hurt less, you will be able to program it to do literally anything you want, and it will last longer than any other keyboard you can buy from major brands like razer or Logitech. I’ve only ever been able to get people to go into mechanical keyboards, but never ergometric or splits.

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.

Opera! It's so very very good and it's such an acquired taste.

Bebop and cool jazz.

I must suck at selling anime because I've never got one person into it. But several of them got into it because of someone else later on.

Me :(

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

The series, Futureman.

It's a time travel action comedy and it is probably my favorite series of all time. It was on Hulu but has been removed. I think it's disk only now.

Genesis when Peter Gabriel was still with them.

Space Team! It's a fantastic mobile party game to be played with people in the same room with you! You get a bunch of technobabble labeled dials, buttons, levers, knobs and whatever else while you gotta read the top of the screen to everyone else to keep your ship flying! They also gotta do the same. It gets crazier as you go.

Literally nobody will play with me. If you're in Cincinnati, hit me up for some Space Team!

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 👌

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.

A lot of things but from the top of my head: boardgames, Space Engineers, RimWorld, Frasier

Chrono Trigger.

Myself.

Others generally dislike me cause I'm a total asshole (not wrong) 👍

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.

Quake Champions. I consider it the best shooter I’ve ever played but, most people wanna play the popular games

For me it's getting people to play KOTOR, I know it's old but it's just sooo good and the story is so great, and please just play it. Pretty please.

Halo.
Can't motivate anybody to play it :(

Edit: What a great typo.

My favorite band is Elend, they're essentially unknown outside of the metal community in spite of not being metal in any way. (They are one of the only non-metal bands given an exception to be listed on the metal archives.) It's neoclassical, but at times absurdly violent and their first three albums have harsh vocals. (Note that "Weeping Nights" is more or less an alternate version of "Les Ténèbres du Dehors" where the male vocals have been removed.)

violent, harsh vocals

violent, no harsh vocals

beautiful sad music

absolutely gorgeous shit with screams

(just giving youtube links so you can redirect to your frontend of choice)

Travelers

Awesome show. Can't get anyone to watch it

Karaoke. Found out nearly two years ago that I actually quite enjoy going to a pub, getting on the mic and singing to an audience.

Very few of the people I know are into it

Oreo cookies with orange juice.

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.