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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?

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[–] hyperhearse@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always struggled getting friends into Monster Hunter, until recently. I still primarily solo everything but I got my one Canadian buddy into it (Rise, he said World was too slow and clunky. I'll take the win either way), and we hunt together when we have time to. My friends are always like "doesn't look like my kind of game," and sure, sometimes you can get an idea of how you'll like a game from watching gameplay. But they never even attempt to play it to see how it actually feels. They just dismiss it and move on. Feels bad, MH is fun as hell. One day I'll have a full squad lol.

[–] Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hello fellow Monster Hunter! Similar experience, but it gets worse as someone who really likes Monster Hunter Frontier - because not even die-hard classic MH players will touch it, because of the perception that it's "too anime". It's sad, because honestly it's a great time, no other game in the series has Frontier's level of variety.

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[–] Daze@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've begun watching & falling in love with something very recently that I think will fall into this category for sure. An old adult swim cartoon called Home Movies.

Made by a lot of the same talent before Bob's Burgers was a thing, the humour is actually insanely clever and progressive for it's time & it still feels fresh to me watching it today. Definitely have already had a few laughing fits where I had to pause the episode for a while to catch my breath and I'm only 4 episodes in πŸ˜‚

For being a simpler sort of design, it also has some good background gags too. Not to mention the comedian guest stars -- Episode 3 had Emo Philips which was a delightful surprise, but episode 4 has freakin' Mitch Hedberg in it! Took me by surprise for sure but it was also a nice little extra thing to hear him say some fresh lines.

That's all I have to say about it for now, but every night now my partner & I look forward to watching a couple episodes before bed :) it's a great time!

[–] Gabadabs@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have only managed to convince ONE person to watch Neon Genesis Evangelion, tragically, because it's my favorite tv show of all time.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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 :-)

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[–] blackboxwarrior@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago

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 :/

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