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?
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
Try travelling to japan. There Karaoke is BIG.
It’s big in every East/Southeast Asian countries, even muslim countries like Malay and Indo. If Japan’s too expensive, travel to Thailand.
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.
Genesis when Peter Gabriel was still with them.
That’s the only Genesis worth listening to
THANK YOU
Bebop and cool jazz.
Bebop is my shit. Can confirm, no one else likes it around me.
I like Charlie Parker but that’s all I know of bebop. I also own a replica of one of his suits from the 40es
Quake Champions. I consider it the best shooter I’ve ever played but, most people wanna play the popular games
Used to play q3 back in the 90’s and this is the modernized version. I don’t play shooters anymore, but I would definitely recommend this one to anyone who still appreciates the old-school arena format
oh yah, quake live was cool as hell too.
I tried to get warsaw to be a thing with my friends to similar effect.
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.
The Band Sweet as Swing. They make some great Vocal Jazz and this is actually one of my favorite albums but all the people to which I showed this didn’t really like it.
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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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.
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.
Virtual Reality has completely revitalized my long dead interest in gaming. I initially I got into it during COVID just to socialize but then I started being immersed in games in ways I never had and it’s all I want to do now.
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.)
absolutely gorgeous shit with screams
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absolutely gorgeous shit with screams
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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.
What did you try to start them on? You’ve gotta get them hooked with the visual style first to get them used to the medium, so I always recommend stuff that would be more familiar to them. Stuff like March Comes In Like A Lion; Much more true-to-life and no sudden “surprises” like we know certain shows can do at particular moments 🙄
For me it’s sim racing and VR gaming.
All my friends care about is LOL and CSGO.
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!
It is such a fun game. I love it too. If you are ever in Vancouver, Canada let me know. I’ll play with you
Schlock Mercenary. Amazing webcomic, by one of only like 2 webcomic authors that I’m familiar with that have the simple capability of putting out a comic on time (although this no longer applies as the story is finished) and is a fantastic story from beginning to end.
Yet, none of the friends I’ve ever recommended it to have been willing to read it
Yeah, it’s amazing. Definitely my all time favorite comic series.
