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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?

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[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Making almost all of my food from whole ingredients.

The most processed ingredient that I would use is corn flour and such, or maybe cheese. I'm not gonna find wheat or whole dried corn and fire up a grindstone lol. But yeah everything is made from the whole ingredients to the greatest degree reasonable. An example I think everyone can relate to is ketchup ... If I want it I start with fresh tomatoes and a cutting board.

But yeah it's fun as hell for me - a wonderful blend of nerdy science & chemistry, plus that beautiful artistic side which allows me to be a rule-breaking creator.

Most people think its cuckoo that I ferment my own peppers for hot sauce, make tortillas from scratch, braise my meats for hours, cut and desiccate potatoes for fries, pickle various vegetable concoctions, make mustards, fry my own chips for nachos...

I love the hell out of the craft but many think I'm a little overboard. Fair enough. No family, kids, girlfriend, mostly a loner... I got time plus it's super fucking nerdy and process-driven (in many ways) if you lean into it that way!

I also developed some great "systems" so I can batch cook, and its become so routine after 5 years that I've slip-streamed it all into my daily puttering so its like hours of time overall, but minutes of actual work.

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

I know there are others out there, but I sometimes feel like I am the only person under 50 who loves opera. I have 2 streaming services that I mostly use for watching opera.

I honestly feel like many people would like opera if they gave it a chance. Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen is a cross between Lord of the Rings and The Avengers, but without the 30-min CGI fights (no disrespect to those who like fight scenes, but i get bored). My son and I love Mozart's The Magic Flute; my wife's favourite is Bizet's Carmen.

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

At a glance, Tlatoani: Aztec Cities looks like a Pharoah game type city builder. I'm into this, thanks for mentioning this game OP.

Currently I'm in a similarly small population of people who play Motorstorm 1 (Monument Valley), and Motorstorm Pacific Rift online.

They work with real PS3 consoles with just a DNS change or on RPCS3 emulator.

Motorstorm Arctic Edge on PSP or PPSSPP as well but it's played less often.

Apocalypse also kinda works but it's pretty broken in very annoying ways, and reverse engineering needs more work.

Motorstorm RC is also supported, but I don't play that one.

Can find the Motorstorm communities on Discord and they're mostly using PSRewired.

Here's an invite link for Motorstorm Online World: https://discord.gg/4sJPGDxhx

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It's absolutely the Aztec version of Pharaoh.

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 2 points 19 hours ago

Then I'm absolutely going to play it, that's like digital crack.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 4 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Every few years I get a yearning to play through Daikatana.

The entire thing.

I’ve been doing this from before the community patch.

I dunno.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I say this as a friend. What is wrong with you?

edit: fun fact, my friend Don and I got John Romero kicked out of the 1997 CGDC for being a drunken boor. A favorite memory

[–] gnawmon@ttrpg.network 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Devious, how did you even manage to prove that John Romero was drunk? Does he hold a grudge against you?

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

He started mouthing off to us in the commons because a chick he was trying to pick up rejected him. We just walked over to security. Bye bye Johnny boy, he got walked tf out.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I am super into jazz and the evolution of the form going back to it's genesis in New Orleans.

I'm particularly interested in the Free Jazz movement that is thought to have originated with Ornette Coleman in the 50's but the truth is Lenny Tristano and crew were pioneering it in the 40's. Also post-bop and jazz/rock fusion mostly from 50-80s. I'm a lover of Japanese Jazz as well because it has a particularly unique cultural identity - both highly creative and wild, yet highly composed and tight.

I carried the Jazz community on Lemmy for a year or so until I gave up and deleted my posts. We're different people.

I also detest vocal jazz. It is an abomination. Also Miles Davis is a clown - a brilliant bandleader but a piece of shit human and a slightly-better-than-middling trumpeter.

[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I really like killing invasive plants. I think that's probably my most niche passion. Like when I have some free time I'll just go into the woods behind my house and cut down wisteria, ivy, Chinese holly.... I just find it extremely satisfying idk. I love the idea that I'm clearing out space for native plants (and in turn native animals) to grow.

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 1 points 11 hours ago

That's a cool idea. I also like illegal urban gardeners, so long as they aren't planting invasives of course.

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't inspired me to give it go next spring:

https://youtu.be/35qF2hEefXg

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[–] BayKek@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I’m the only person I know IRL who uses lemmy (lol) and openstreetmap :)

[–] cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 15 hours ago

I came to this thread to mention that I love editing OpenStreetMap, but then again, it really isn't all that niche. It just isn't talked about much.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

I'm the only lemmy person in my circle too,

but OSM is getting some love from all kinds of people, and magic earth, and co-maps

I'm also the only meshtastic/ham.

and self-hoster.

These are all popular things, just not in my circles.

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[–] YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm not into gaming. I think I'm the only adult male I know of comparable age that isn't. I don't really know why. I think it's a mental block. I was big into 16-bit Atari/Amiga games in the early 90s. Then I just hit like 16/17 and got into music and drinking to fit in. The gaming scene at the time (pre-internet) was social kryptonite, and I lived in rural Scotland so I left it all behind.

Oddly, I returned to general computing in my early 20s as the internet was blowing up and now work in the IT sector.

But still not a gamer, which ironically is quite isolating.

[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago

My fiance is not into gaming whatsoever. He only played a handful of games as a kid. He's 30

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

That does bug me. When i was a kid I was teased for using the Internet and playing computer games because "get a life omg".

Now, you know.

[–] spinda@leminal.space 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm sure there's probably someone out there, but I'm really interested in cool border crossings and how they represent nations on each side. As much as I am no nationalist, I find those projections of strength, friendship, security, etc. all super interesting.

Oh, and fake/fantasy transit maps. Those are always fun to draw up in my spare time.

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[–] Stonewyvvern@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Dune was my go to scifi...now it's popular and I feel like a hipster.

My dad got me into hard scifi, d&d, Tolkien...if I feel like a hipster, can't imagine what he feels like.

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[–] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I do calligraphy. Sometimes i meet someone who knows someone who does calligraphy. But I've never met another person IRL that does calligraphy. And the particular style I like makes it even more rare.

[–] luminaree@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

I love calligraphy, it was my pandemic hobby and I still do it now!

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Which style? I've dabbled in it but I don't have a good place to do it.

[–] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I mostly do ornamental penmanship, which is like a fancy version of American cursive

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Very nice! That's really cool. I mostly just did simple blackletter but was working towards 1800s Kurrent as I love the style.

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[–] hammocker@leminal.space 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I play single player video games and I roleplay and tell stories about my characters. I’ve done it with BG3, Elden Ring, Skyrim, Oblivion, Fire Emblem, and Pokemon. I take notes and write little stories for myself. I cultivate a little headcanon universe for each game, and I even let my roleplay alter my gameplay in meaningful ways. I don’t know if anyone else plays these games like this but I haven’t found much community for it.

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[–] VictorPrincipum@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Slinging. Like David and Goliath, but I’m better with the over the shoulder method than the spin it in circles method. Based on discord and other sites, there are dozens of slingers worldwide.

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[–] sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I like retro programming, in particular Windows 2000.

Now I'm making a little 3D toy now that works with OpenGL on Windows with WGL and on X11 with GLX (also on Cygwin). No third party abstractions!

I want to keep adding backends, like DX 7, 9, Vulkan, WebGL, bare Linux KMS, and then stuff like screen space reflections, shadows, materials, ray tracing where possible, maybe get it running on a console or two too.

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