Asklemmy

Chrono Trigger.

Someone spent a while telling me Nier Automata was great, and it took a couple years before I got independently interested. My punishment is the same fate, of telling others it's great, and no-one trying it.

Same with Return of the Obra Dinn, which has a niche art style but a captivating set of mysteries.

Travelers

Awesome show. Can't get anyone to watch it

I always struggled getting friends into Monster Hunter, until recently. I still primarily solo everything but I got my one Canadian buddy into it (Rise, he said World was too slow and clunky. I'll take the win either way), and we hunt together when we have time to. My friends are always like "doesn't look like my kind of game," and sure, sometimes you can get an idea of how you'll like a game from watching gameplay. But they never even attempt to play it to see how it actually feels. They just dismiss it and move on. Feels bad, MH is fun as hell. One day I'll have a full squad lol.

Halo.
Can't motivate anybody to play it :(

Edit: What a great typo.

My favorite band is Elend, they're essentially unknown outside of the metal community in spite of not being metal in any way. (They are one of the only non-metal bands given an exception to be listed on the metal archives.) It's neoclassical, but at times absurdly violent and their first three albums have harsh vocals. (Note that "Weeping Nights" is more or less an alternate version of "Les Ténèbres du Dehors" where the male vocals have been removed.)

violent, harsh vocals

violent, no harsh vocals

beautiful sad music

absolutely gorgeous shit with screams

(just giving youtube links so you can redirect to your frontend of choice)

For me it's getting people to play KOTOR, I know it's old but it's just sooo good and the story is so great, and please just play it. Pretty please.

The Swallows and Amazons book series. Written almost exactly a hundred years ago, about early teenage children camping and sailing boats, mostly on a lake in England. Simple innocent stories, no sex, no drugs, no guns.

Oreo cookies with orange juice.

Karaoke. Found out nearly two years ago that I actually quite enjoy going to a pub, getting on the mic and singing to an audience.

Very few of the people I know are into it

Schlock Mercenary. Amazing webcomic, by one of only like 2 webcomic authors that I'm familiar with that have the simple capability of putting out a comic on time (although this no longer applies as the story is finished) and is a fantastic story from beginning to end.

Yet, none of the friends I've ever recommended it to have been willing to read it

Custom Roms I love how I can load custom ROMs on devices. I tried to talk my friends and co-workers into it but they seem really disinterested. I even took one of my older phones and showed it to them in person. They weren't really fascinated by the fact, that I got something different than Android or iOS on my phone. The only thing they liked was, how the lockscreen in Ubuntu Touch looked.

The Marvel Cosmic period starting with the Thanos series written by Starlin, ending with Thanos Imperative (edit: or Annihilators, I guess), with all the amazing stuff in between, especially Annihilation.

LSD haha, its insane and awesome, so many people should experience it before thinking they know themselves.

Destiny Potato. Their debut album is one of my all time favorites. It was released with pretty much no fanfare or PR, and while I'm usually disappointed by my Spotify recommendations, this is how I discovered them, and holy hell am I glad I did.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m9V078hBuAWG4B0368meY3o-ToBdKLpng&si=zIwSPQRG3QRCLs0h

Demoscene stuff. Basically just digital art written for fun and to show off your coding skills. People have been doing it since the Amiga. If you've ever pirated software in the 90's to 00's, you've probably seen a realtime animation and mod-based techno track accompany the keygen - that's an example of Demoscene art.

I can't find anyone in the US, not even one of the nerds that works in tech with me, who gives a single shit about this stuff. There are parties and conventions all the time, none of them in North America...

I'm traveling to Germany at the end of March to go to a Demoparty just for the chance to meet a single other person who cares. It should be fun.

I made my own prod discovery service if you ever want to check it out: https://prods.page/ (Yes, I need to update it).

Virtual Reality has completely revitalized my long dead interest in gaming. I initially I got into it during COVID just to socialize but then I started being immersed in games in ways I never had and it's all I want to do now.

Dude I just can't get my friends to do anything other than OSRS

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.