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?
It’s interesting that 90% of these comments are just TV show recommendations (or other forms of entertainment). I would have thought that lemmy would be a little more anti-consumption :/
Yes, they’re relatively easy-to-digest suggestions, hence perhaps a frustration at the root of the OP’s question surrounding the attempts to draw your peers into something you enjoy.
Because of course Skydiving (for example) might be amazing, but you bet your ass I’m not looking into doing that all by myself lol
Myself.
Others generally dislike me cause I’m a total asshole (not wrong) 👍
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The uniform used to be knee-high socks, cargo pants, scraggly beard and bald spot. It’s still evolving.
Esperanto. A made up language that is really easy to learn and spoken to some degree by about 2 million people all over the world. I got into it when I heard that if you speak it you can stay with Esperanto speakers that just want to practice with strangers, for free. I traveled all over the world for free and met so many awesome people.
When I try to get anyone to learn it, they just won’t. They hear about that criticism of the language or another, or plain get bored. You can just start the Esperanto course on Duolingo for free, but nobody I know goes through, despite the benefits.
The moment I got interested in Esperanto, I wanted better so I jumped down a rabbit hole of ever more obscure languages until I realized what I had gotten into and stopped.
Also, and this probably applied to others, if I’m language learning, there’s two other languages I really 'should* be learning, but am not, so that makes me feel guilty.
check out the Magic 2.0 book series by Scott Meyer it will be a treat for you.
Fun fact, William Shatner of Star Trek fame once starred in a movie filmed entirely in Esperanto.
i find it cool in the sense of how it’s a portrayal of all languages being somewhat synthetic. how other conlangs have tried to play with language features is how i landed on Jan Misali’s YT channel (here’s his Esperanto episode).
esperanto per-se i haven’t learnt because… maybe because I wouldn’t have anyone to practice with, and the point of languages is communication? idk.
Duolingo maybe be a good start for the theory, how did you start getting practice? and more importantly, what’s this about rent-free Esperanto hostels? 👀👀
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Power metal. Most people seem to think it’s too cheesy.
I was into it some time late 90’s, and it was quite popular then. But it kind of died off and disappeared.
What is considered power metal nowadays? Helloween? Manowar? Or something completely different?
Gloryhammer comes to mind immediately. Battle Beast, too. And offshoots like Brothers of Metal and Unleash the Archers.
Well, never heard of any of these. I kind of stopped listening to this sub-genre in 90s, same with heavy and speed, it’s all too “whiny” and “high-pitched” for my taste and ears if you get what I mean. Singers usually push really hard and guitars are either constantly soloing or shredding too high and that makes me uncomfortable nowadays.
But the best part is, there’s so much to pick from these days everyone should get satisfied.
