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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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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I work in a technology field and I'm interested in "not AI" stuff. It's a wild ride.

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I code Csound. It's still sort-of being maintained, but otherwise the community is super dead. It's a shame because it's very versatile and fun, but realistically there are quite a few more modern alternatives for coding sound synthesis these days.

[–] kertain@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks! I know not what you asked but I just picked up the game. I guess my thing is I love trying out indi games :)

[–] reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] PlasmaTrout@lemmy.wtf 9 points 1 day ago

I strap GoPros on to hand built FPV Freestyle quadcopters and make videos out of it. When I lived in Orlando there were a few of us doing it. Lately I know of 0 in my area.

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 192 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I still love Garry’s Mod animations. Basically using stop-motion-style tools to make low-effort animations with familiar characters on Source engine maps.

They don’t fit the YouTube algorithm now though; creators can’t just put up a new animation every few weeks. It was at its best when the whole community was just posting stuff in leapfrog formation, rather than competing for their audience every day.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At school, I seem to be one of the very few people who use Linux so there's that

[–] adminofoz@lemmy.cafe 10 points 1 day ago

Don't worry, when you graduate it gets more isolating.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I make games that are a mix of physical and digital mediums. I found some other people doing similar stuff but nothing exactly the same. A lot of escape room creators use similar technologies though so I find myself talking to those people a lot.

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[–] fleck@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (9 children)

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.

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[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

Ha! COOL! I thought I was alone in this! Whenever I'm visiting a new place I love to examine and photograph the sticker bombs on the backs of signs and utility boxes and what have you.

I love that weird sense of culture and mystery wondering who placed it and what they're about.

I remember while visiting the Pacific Northwest I kept seeing "Dingus" everywhere, and got a giggle out of one that said "Sorry I chazzed your banger." Whatever that means LOL.

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[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I like to contribute to various open-source implimentations of classic games from the 90s

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[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (10 children)

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.

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[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 83 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Earlier this year I tried out a Steam demo of a game called "That Time I Found a Box" and got hooked on it. It's a very unique card game where you create and enhance the cards as you play. I played it for days and eventually beat the demo - the devs told me I was the first person to beat it.

The full version just came out on Steam - I'd recommend taking a look. It's a bit janky and not for everybody, but it does something unique that really clicked for me.

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[–] Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 20 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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.

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