There’s an Aztec city building game called Tlatoani. It’s in early access, but has enough meat on the bone that it’s one of my goto games.
Out of curiosity I checked Steam DB for active player numbers. I have discovered at any given point I am 10% to 25% of the given player base BY MYSELF. I am 1 of 4 people playing this game right now in the world. With the prevalence of the internet I always assume whatever weird bullshit you’re into there’s at least a thousand people talking about it; making memes outsiders could never comprehend. It’s actually novel to fly under the radar for once.
What do you do that doesn’t have a community associated with it?
Bash scripting, firewall config, vpn tunnelling, and containerization ( rootless Podman ).
I’m into combining these in interesting ways.
While it could be argued that there are tons of communities for these, combining them to run secure apps or automate their setups don’t seem to be as popular.
It’s a hot topic at social events, as you can imagine.
Oh yes, definitely ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
In real life, I know all couple people who are also interested in watches, but mostly nobody wears a watch at all anymore, let alone is interested in them as a hobby.
Also, fountain pens. I love pens. I love finding them at antique stores and restoring them. There’s a little bit of a community here, not like there was on reddit though.
Calculators. I think I’m alone there. Vintage TI, HP, and modern Casio.
Staplers. Especially Ace.
As for games, probably Battlezone II. Such fun multi-player, now I have nobody to play with. So many good mods, and I can’t get any of them to work in Mint. One reason I still have an XP machine.
At school, I seem to be one of the very few people who use Linux so there’s that
I’m into making a blog about tech and art. The tech side being about teaching normies how to circumvent censorship and be anonymous or private, how to escape algorithms, and a personalized resource wiki and archive.
The art side is about the intersection between tech and art, AI art appropriation, raves and social justice, and some light electronica blogging.
I know of no one else irl that is fascinated by this stuff, let alone both simultaneously. None of my artsy friends are into the tech stuff, and the one tech friend I have knows nothing about this stuff. It gets lonely as both a tech and art nerd but I’m so filled with passion making this from scratch. Also the landing page will pull from a collection of liminal spaces, political cartoons, Y2K imagery and have the logo rotating back and forth. I think its pretty cool, very rigorous and time consuming to build though.
it will be called zoracle.life
I really love Japanese jazz fusion. None of my friends understand my excitement about the EWI solos, they just say it sounds like Mario Kart music lol. I’m also into Buddhism, but dont have anyone else with this interest.
I’ve been trying to find cool stuff on PeerTube. Sometimes it feels like wandering in the wilderness. I guess people really only do post cool stuff to YouTube for the money. I found this, though it was pretty cool. https://video.mycrowd.ca/w/8wu8fRidkbjQ1FK3zqo1Mp
I’m back engineering an old UART to replace the lightbulb on a projector with a UV bulb so I can use it to print images in gelatin Carbon transfer photography. LOL even the normies using transparencies are a few.
Skydiving. The number of people that sign up for the training is tiny and only about ten percent of them make it through ground school, all the tested jumps, the written test and the oral test to get licensed.
But, it is surprisingly addictive and fun.
It also is a small enough community that when I say my instructor died this summer, I bet that others funjumpers reading this knew him or of him.
I miss you Frog.
Yeah it’s too scary for me
I like to analyse stickers stuck on traffic lights and road signs.
I plan on making an app someday where people can contribute to a database of stickers and compare the sticker culture of different regions.
I like to contribute to various open-source implimentations of classic games from the 90s
It’s true that barely anyone is into actually contributing, but I assure you a fair amount of people are into the actual open source implementations and are thankful for your efforts!
Any game in particular you contributed to that you want to share?
Sorry, I use different accounts and hence nicknames for each project; letting one loose would dox me too much for my liking. Thanks, though!
Ah, no worries at all. Thank you for all you do anyway!
I like to rescue dogs. I just rescued one last week that I’m taking to get groomed. He’s sleeping in his crate right now. It’s not ideal, as I live in a small house with two cats, three people, and two dogs. But holy shit is it rewarding. Most of the time they just scamper away, although blessedly it’s usually to their home. Every once in a while you get a friend for a while, and someone else gets a friend for life. Dogs are lovely animals, and they exist as they do because of humans. It is our duty to take care of them.
This little guy needs to be housetrained and neutered but then he’s off to live a life on the open road as my trucker friend’s road companion. Or at least that’s the plan!
Idk how to attach pictures on this app so you’ll have to imagine a very sweet Yorkshire terrier who only has a few dreads left to snip! When I found him he had a dread that was legit like two feet long. Poor baby.
You’re a very good person!
My mother’s dog was a dog we gave “temporary” shelter to… Five years ago. She’s 10 now and we couldn’t be happier. She came to us from a very difficult home situation (her previous owner had just escaped from a violent marriage, and we think the dog might have been a victim too, but nobody was ever able to prove anything). She’s still a little monster and she’s still very afraid of everything, but there’s no comparing how she was when we adopted her and how she is now.
I had an ex who lived somewhere where people often went to to abandon their dogs once they grew too old, too big or too aggressive. Her family also took in as many as they could: when we broke up, they had something along the lines of 10 dogs. It was very rewarding, too, as she got a good friend in each and every one of them. But it really hurts my heart to imagine that someone could be so cruel as to just abandon a dog like that, even hurt them.
I’m still on Second Life, which is a virtual world social platform. It has ~45,000 given active people on it, which is a piss squirt compared to other online platforms like MMOs and MMORPGs. But, nobody I know are into it save for about 5 people at least.
And I still somehow am bothering with Gaia Online which has even less users, from 1,500 ~ 4,400 on a good day and only know 2 friends on there.
Gaia Online still exists??
I was just thinking about second life the other day when someone brought up meta and its push for the ‘metaverse.’ I still remember the old pranks of making it rain dildos in someone’s area, or enclosing their head in a box.
I don’t know anyone else who likes horror films.
Dude, I just want the internet group of people who like horror films to somehow materialize in my life. Like, I want to throw popcorn at bad ones while giggling and clutch the arm of my seat neighbor during the good ones.
…like, I know they’re out there. Hollywood companies don’t repeatedly make horror films because of hollywood accounting every time.
Hi 👋
I’m 1hitsong. Now you know me.
What are your favorite horror movies?
Some of my favs are Nightmare on Elm Street, Trick r Treat, Shaun of the Dead, Evil Dead.
