Tabletop RPG. It used to be a niche of the internet in the early days, with people posting here and there their scenarios, campaign, ideas etc. It was hard to find and so pleasurable when you found something.
Nowadays it’s trusted by … Wizard if the coast ? Online only platforms and what have you.
I loved #scenariotheque, but now it’s almost a ghost website (pardon the french).
I know if sounds like old man yell at clouds, but damn do I miss the early days.
Star Wars
This happened to all the ols school Star Wars fans. Disney created the “idiot fans”
Pogs are cool little disks
Then it became a children’s verb
While not to the same degree as a lot of folks, Fallout got into it some time around New Vegas because it was featured on game fly. Anyways delved headfirst into it and fell in love with the classic games. The post Fallout 4 boom gives me a headache sometimes I just want to talk with old bastards and my fellow autists about Fallout without some profligate butting in cause they watch the TV show.
I have several things that interested me and became popular, but I didn’t hate on the new fans. At most I sometimes missed the feeling of having this thing that was a bit obscure and in case of channels on youtube, the intimacy of interacting with the creator and other subscribers was nice. But I can’t hate on something I like becoming popular.
As for concrete examples, I do remember subbing to this small gaming channel with 9000 subs called Markiplier back in the day.
I subbed to OKI Weird Stories when he had like 600ish subs.
I subbed to Creepcast before it had any videos on it, but that one is cheating since both meatcanyon and wendigoon were already very popular. Still, it’s been a bit nuts seeing the podcast explode in popularity. I even know people irl who listen to it.
Currently I follow a small channel, also podcast format, called The Daydream Arcade that focuses on reading reddit stories, but the hosts are two friends, who bring some warmth and personality to the format which is nice. For me, I stick around becuase I really like their friendship and their personalities. I’m also a older than the both of them and feel a bit big-sister-protective of them. I want them to grow and I believe they will because they already have 4500 subs compared to the 900 they had when I found them, but also don’t like the thought of them reaching a point of popularity where the mean assholes come crawling to tear them down.
Reddit
Sounds like Rick and morty
Minecraft. Started playing in 2011 and have played off and on every year since then. It’s now really popular again, but I distinctly remember around 2017-18 it became suddenly uncool to play. When I would be in a VC with friends while playing it, they would ride my ass for it. The ~10 year nostalgia/hype cycle is coming full circle lol
Since 2011 for me too. I aometimes step away for half a year at a time, but I always end up back.
As much as the modern image of Minecraft might be obnoxiously shouty youtube shorts, that’s not all there is to it.
You have the groups of talented builders recreating the Lord of the Rings world of Middle Earth at 1:1 scale, and then the crazy redstoners building fully working computers inside the game.
Minecraft has always been for everyone, and I hope it always will be.
Nazi ideology, OP OP. There was a nice little thing we had once, until you cunts took it up like a hoard of malignant nihilist pussies 😒Now we can’t even bring up the Third Reich’s many incredible qualities in conversation without someone rolling their eyes! n-chan numpties ruin every fandom.
/ss
lmao about the /ss
Underrated comment
Steampunk aesthetic ( 1990’s ), generative art ( early 2000s )
if so then name your thing
Sort of I guess: em dashes.
Not to talk about, but to use when writing.
Now they are apparently the hallmark of AI-generated crap.I just got into them and I’ll be damned if I’ll let some toaster ruin a perfectly beautiful bit of punctuation
I’ve never been called out as AI for using them; but if I ever am, I have the strategy of knowing the alt code for them (0151). I even know the shortcut in word to insert one — pressing alt-X with your cursor at the end of “2014”. I also have a vscode macro set up that is just an emdash, just in case I’m in a situation where there’s not a way I know to insert one.
Alt-codes are for nerds
- 60% gang
I really think more text formatting should do as mobile devices do and just auto convert two hyphens into an em dash. Make it simple, i beg.
lmao beautiful
Two hyphens are an en-dash. Try 3 for em. Filthy casuals!
(Obvious /s but yea don’t mean to insult.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key
I set my caps lock key to the Compose Key (ck), and it changed the game for me:
- — is ck then “—”
- é is ck then “e” followed by ’
- ° is ck then double “o”
- ½ is ck then “1” followed by “2”
I’m sure there’s many more combinations, but honestly, I never intentionally used CAPS LOCK for anything.
Same. I learned this was a thing just the other day.
I don’t use them often but do find them nicer for parenthetical remarks sometimes.
Me too—sometimes
Serial Experiments Lain. I managed to acquire a bootleg Japanese VHS of the show (sans subtitles) in '99 or '00 and fell in love. I bought the English dub as soon as I could find it. I was totally obsessed, even going as far as carrying a messenger bag like Lain had, and making a custom Windows XP theme based on Navi. I even bought a Palm Pocket to mimic the smartphones shown in the show.
Lain shaped my passion for IT, and I feel it changed my life in profound ways.
I’m confused by the sudden popularity. It went under the radar for so long. Now all of the merch goes for insane amounts of money.
Shit man i bought that on dvd centuries ago
No shit, that’s back?
I loved it when I watched it in my youth. The theme song still pops up on my playlist once in a while. I did try to rewatch it like 5-10 years ago but it didn’t connect like it did when I was young. Still, lots of fond memories from it and how much it inspired me.
I’ve been wondering when it would come around again.
yeah sorry Anon, go fuck yourself and your nazi skull flag. That shit’s the Totenkopf, what, did the new generation of chuds ruin Nazi for you? Poor fuckin’ baby.
Thanks for the important context. I’d assumed it was a pirate flag until I read your comment and then looked it up. Fuck this particular anon.
gotta call out the nazis at every turn otherwise the place will turn into a nazi bar.
Maybe a “Death in June” band shirt. Which makes things … well… I dunno. Probably not better.
was not familiar with them…
from their wiki - had performed at rallies for The Right to Work, Rock Against Racism, and the Anti-Nazi League. -
holy shit this is a ride
“The Totenkopf-6 is a slightly grinning skull, framed by a circle and a small 6 in the lower right corner. Death in June has, since at least the State Laughter / Holy Water 7″, used variations of the Prussian Totenkopf or “Death’s Head” symbol. Indeed, there is another explanation that has been given by Pearce, he has also stated that it symbolises “total commitment” to the group, akin to the total commitment of soldiers of the SS”
ah… getting to the shit that matters -
“The Southern Poverty Law Center considers Death in June to be white power music harboring neo-Nazi sympathies.”
yeeeaah this all fits
I was a goth in my youth and they were among the more controversial bands. They could be just edge lords or Nazis. The guys that listened to them turned out to be Nazis, so there’s that.
I was in the scene at the same time and me and my friends were always making fun of neofolk bands and their fans, because its such boring music and simply copying clothing styles of the 1940s, fitting to the boring mind of a nazi
it’s certainly an interesting nuance. ty for the tip
Now, now it is only a Totenkopf if it is from a distinct region of Germany.
ah yes the death’s head valley
that’s 4chan for you. id be less disturbed by the amount of nazis on 4chan and more by the amount of lemmings that agree with Anon on any given subject
anime
it’s become waay too popular and drowned in a sea of mediocrity
I’ll be honest here; anime has always been a large sea of mediocrity, with the few sprinklings of stuff that is occasionally actually good, and some incredibly rare few things that are consistently good.
Right? Like the reason it was so popular in the early 2000s is because we got all the good stuff at once.
I think it’s a right place / right time sort of thing. I have never gone back and rewatched an old favorite without regretting it. Things that meant a lot to me at the time just hit different from a different head space, and revisiting that old space just makes the flaws more noticeable.
yeah actually that closely matches my observations
That’s like saying too many people listen to music and it’s flooded with mediocrity, there’s a lot of really unrelated genres and time periods, and trends that come and go continually, like everything there’s a big amount of meh tier work.
Now they don’t even bother with localization anymore… which would be a good thing except now we have screens full of untranslated onscreeb Kanji that the story demands you be able to read and overly long and literal titles like “The Time I Gained The Power To Turn My Sister’s Panties Into Angelic Guns By Meeting God On The Planet Golbacky While Drinking My Juice In The Hood That Tuesday Night.” Which aren’t even what people in Japan call the show since even in the tongue of Nippon that’d take too dang long.
Hell you’re lucky if there’s even a dub at all. Let alone one that hasn’t been beaten to the ground by politics
meh, i don’t mind watching undubbed anime; anything that’s “internationalized” is probably watered down anyways … i wanna see raw, undiluted japanese weirdness
Yeah but I usually am multi-tasking and can’t pay full attention. So it being in English is helpful
eh it hasn’t declined in popularity to the point people think you’re talking about some ancient thing when you mention it
I got into anime when you had to go to shitty distributor conventions, in shitty city limits hotels, and walk through a big room filled with smoke, rifling through boxes of tapes, while greasy guys in cheap suits tried to talk you into buying shit. The other option were shoddily scanned, black and white, prints of distro catalogues you could order from. They would always be companies you never heard of, from buildings in weird places, and you could never know if you were actually going to get something, or just lose that money. The Sci Fi channel would have saturday morning anime, which would play, uncensored, stuff, but generally only the biggest hits. So it would cycle through Akira, Vampire Hunter D, Bubble Gum Crises, and about a dozen others.
It started to get a better at the end of the 90s, when you had a couple larger distros that came on to the scene, and you could reliably get what you paid for. They would also always have previews of other anime they were selling before the movie started, and it was likely set to some KMFDM track. Then in the 2000s is when it sorts hit a sweet spot, it was easy to get, there were multiple options on TV, and it hadn’t quite yet become totally mainstream. Haven’t really bothered with it much since then. Sometimes I will get recommendations from people I know I can trust to not be suggest the millionth iteration of watered down Fist of the North Star, fan service vehicles, or things that are just collages of bad anime tropes turned into a show.
did people even read the last 3 green lines?
