Dude I just can't get my friends to do anything other than OSRS
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2024
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EverQuest. I know it's old now but even when I was playing in the early 2000s, I could never get anyone to play. I was the only one I ever knew in person who played. At that time the subscription kept people away. As time went on, it was the sometimes painstaking pace, older gaming conventions, and most of all, the graphics.
Communism, but thats because i have a hard time talking to people irl
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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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So what canβt you get people into
My weird fetishes
why should we check it out?
Uuuhh...
In reality, tabletop games, including RPG. There's even a local, free event that happens every 2 months, but out of everyone I invite, nobody shows up, not even the people who say "I'd like to play once". It really saddens me how many people reply with "I don't have the skill to play, it's too complicated", actually meaning "I doubt I can develop the skill I think is needed to play and I'm not willing to try" whenever I get excited about RPGs.
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Nobody in all my gamer friends play Starfield like I do. Thank God for online communities.
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Dostoevsky. Kava. My girlfriend refuses to watch Yu Yu Hakusho with me
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the netrunner card game. All my MTG friends are so used to the idea of lootboxes and I'd rather not play anything than gamble.
For me it's sim racing and VR gaming.
All my friends care about is LOL and CSGO.
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.
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I keep recommending Beau of the Fifth Column to people for balanced US and global political talking points. No one even tries it.
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