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
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redsunrise@programming.dev 48 minutes ago
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 25 minutes ago
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.
58008@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
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
festnt@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
lmao about the /ss
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 8 hours ago
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.vithigar@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
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.
Daedskin@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
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.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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.
hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
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.
SigmarStern@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
Maybe a “Death in June” band shirt. Which makes things … well… I dunno. Probably not better.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Now, now it is only a Totenkopf if it is from a distinct region of Germany.
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
that’s 4chan for you. it’s be less disturbed by the amount of nazis on 4chan and mor by the amount of lemmings that agree with anon on any given subject
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
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.
Poringo@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Rick and Morty
youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Rick and Morty was the show for me in the beginning even when the dumbasses showed up, but it lost its appeal after the scandal. Just doesn’t feel the same.
hushable@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I remember being hyped about it since I was a huge fan of Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, even told some friends to keep an eye on it. I recall watching the premiere of the first episode and even telling more friends about it.
Then the entire thing became super popular before Season 1 was over and then… well you know what happened. I continued watching after Roiland was gone and the show popularity declined, but I am absolutely staying as far away as possible from that fandom
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I saw a clear separation between me and the idiot part of the demographic who enjoys the show at the Pickle Rick episode.
It wasn’t funny. It wasn’t even a good story or episode. It was just the writers deciding to come up with the most blatantly random thing for the sole sake of randomness.
papalonian@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I hate that I’m writing this because I’m gonna sound like the *"to be fair * copy pasta but, the fact that it’s so lame and stupid is kind of the whole point of the bit.
He gives his big “I’m pickle Riiiiick!” presentation like it’s supposed to be some big huge awesome thing, and it’s presented like a punchline that you’re supposed to laugh at and find funny… Then it’s a hard cut to Morty’s disappointed, slightly concerned face for a solid 10 seconds. Morty is you, the viewer, painfully unimpressed by what is presented as, well, “the funniest shit ever”.
Remember in an earlier episode when Rick makes a reference to the non-existent Redgren Grumblholdt, and the kids laugh because they think it’s supposed to be funny and just want to fit in? Those are the people that the “funniest shit ever” meme is about. People that are fed an intentionally bad joke, don’t understand the irony behind the bad joke, but sees that everyone else is laughing at the bad joke, so they pretend the joke is funny. Two people laughing at the same thing for entirely different reasons.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
It was so dumb that it was funny to me
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
The whole show is about how Rick is a selfish prick. That episode was also about Rick being a selfish prick and trying to weasel out family therapy by turning himself into a pickle.
That’s it. That was the entire reason for Pickle Rick. But the idiots who idolize Rick for some reason cranked it up to full retard.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
I liked the bit at the end where the therapist calls him out.
hoch@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Roblox. I played it as a kid around 2007 when it was just a small Lego-like building game with your friends. It’s been really weird seeing it become some predatory, monetized app game that kids play on their iPad now.
For reference, I’m almost 30 and haven’t played it since I was like 14. My friend’s kid was playing Roblox on his tablet and asked if I “heard of this new app game called Roblox” and it hurt my soul.
Signtist@bookwyr.me 1 hour ago
I remember when my nephew first asked it I played knew about Roblox. I was so excited to build some stuff with him, until he showed me this crappy superhero fighting simulator. I can't complain too much, since it's basically the new-age version of crappy flash games, but it was still a disappointment.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 31 minutes ago
I mean, was Roblox more about building in the past? To me, or at least when I played it back as a 10 yr old or so, Roblox was always about playing the diverse amount of games. If you wanted to build stuff, that was for Minecraft. I was always playing party games, anime clones, survival games, etc.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
the devs have pursued every bad idea and settled on ‘child labor and exposing kids to fucked up shit seems profitable’ so yeeeeeahh… the game industry looks at them and hangs their head in shame
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 8 hours ago
To be clear, the “game industry” has no shame so this is inaccurate. In fact, there are a few companies trying to recreate their success.
shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Unfortunate that it’s more popular than ever before.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
anime
it’s become waay too popular and drowned in a sea of mediocrity
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 20 minutes ago
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
Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
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.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 19 minutes ago
Right? Like the reason it was so popular in the early 2000s is because we got all the good stuff at once.
knight_alva@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
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.
festnt@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
eh it hasn’t declined in popularity to the point people think you’re talking about some ancient thing when you mention it
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
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.
moopet@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
I spent a lot of time on computers (shocker, right?) and that was seen as nerdy and weird when I was at school. Even after I got my first real job, I remember my girlfriend dismissing things I’d say because “nobody cares about your stupid internet”. Predictable rest of comment is predictable.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
Computer games. Anything that can be monetized will turn into shit.
ddplf@szmer.info 1 hour ago
Ah yes, computer games, try I almost forgot it ever existed!
Birch@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
The internet
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
immediately where my mind went.
From “haha, raspberriesareyummy will marrynhis computer one day” to most everyone around me constantly staring at their whatsapp, tiktok or “talking” with siri/alexa.
Fuck this shit :(
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 10 hours ago
I’m so sorry that they called you that
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Here’s a controversial one: Target shooting.
It used to be a skill you honed, going to the range to become better every time. Participate in competitions, meet people. It was a great hobby.
And then the idiots who unironically wear Punisher logos and try to cosplay as some military/special forces/action movie hero at the range ruined it.
Frostbeard@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Welcome to “gun people who hate gun people”
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 7 hours ago
How will that end ?
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I used to enjoy going to the range. Apparently the one I frequented in my youth was all army guard/reserves and prior service, because when I moved and sought out a new place it was a fucking clown show. Simple shit like ‘keep your weapon pointed up and downrange’ is too fucking hard for these gravy seal shitbags.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
I feel sorry for you - I live in one of those socialist hellhole countries where owning a gun requires annual testing that you can actually hit a target (50/100 on a B8 target for beginners, not exactly tough) and pass a psych test. Going to the range is lovely here, and competitions are usually paired with a nice meal afterwards for people to socialise.
I watch US videos, and most of them just seem insane. One notable exception is the JaredAF channel, that guy can really properly target shoot.
x00z@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
For a moment I thought you meant shooting up a Target store.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Same, man. I like it, from the meditation-like state when you take it serious to the gun goes bang part when you are just messing around. But some of the people, man… Where do I start.
I think I should go again regardless, if everyone with wane opinions leaves, that would be surrendering.
BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
The Epic of Gilgamesh
SandmanXC@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Blud thinks it’s c. 2100–1200 BCE
grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Uruanna@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I see more people aware of it today, but was there a burst in pop culture with idiots that then died down? The people who talk about it today seem pretty genuine and get good reception.
BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Yeah, it got really popular when the Bible dropped in the 2nd century BCE. The Noah flood story was basically a copy-and-paste of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Bible nerds were annoying af.
BreadOven@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Maybe not as big as Anon is talking about, but Bob Vylan.
hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
You mean canceled him before it was mainstream. (In light of recent events)
BreadOven@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
No. Listened to them (the band) which I still am. Even more now actually. Due to the recent events.
GingerGoodness@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Last month my friend asked what I wanted for my birthday and I said I wanted their The Internet is Dead hoodie. I don’t think I’m getting that hoodie.
tetris11@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
Ratatat. I got into them through an Albino Blacksheep video, and they were my secret favourite band for a bit.
Then they got popular, and people that I didn’t really jell with started casually raving about them, and I found it difficult to enjoy the music because of those people.
Years later, I grew up. Music is for everyone, and everyone forms their own relationship with it that shouldnt impact the enjoyment of the music itself.
Yes, they were sold on the band through mass advertizing channels. Yes, I discovered them through a more organic means. But that’s how fans are born, and yes some of them aren’t there for the music, but they are there to have a good time and maybe those songs hold special memories for them later in life when they were hanging around with friends.
festnt@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
did people even read the last 3 green lines?
Lazhward@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Battle Royale (2000)
OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Ok, so yes it was cool. But even when it first came out the people that were really into it were weird.
Lazhward@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Hey, I was weird and off-putting, but at least I wasn’t generic, weird and off-putting.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 12 hours ago
Computers
the_wiz@feddit.org 14 hours ago
$thing is Warhammer 40k
Apeman42@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Roguelikes. I’m not saying some of the modern roguelites aren’t fantastic, there are many that are. But the genre boom has all but pushed traditional roguelikes (NetHack, ADoM, Angband, Brogue, etc) out of the conversation.
ch00f@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
There’s literally an episode of Doug where Doug’s standard outfit inexplicably becomes super popular. So watch 90s Nick to learn what to do.
deikoepfiges_dreirad@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Anon thinks it’s 1939
EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
What a tragic viewpoint to take. Imagine seeing something that you like becoming more popular and having all these new people to share it with from such a perspective. Depressing.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Deadpool.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 14 hours ago
Man, I like some pretty retarded shit man, but I’ve never been bullied for it, man
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 7 hours ago
Anime
hushable@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I was really into punk music when I was a kid since the late 80s, then the big boom happened in the mid-late 90s, which eventually yielded to pop punk and emo music from the early 2000s.
I still listen to it and I’ve even seen a resurgence coming as it coinciding with the 20 year nostalgia cycle, which is great in my opinion. But being a punk fan before it achieved mainstream success and after it went into decline by 2010s made me feel exactly as this post describes.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 13 hours ago
Yeah been saying ‘Casuals Ruin Everything’ for a while now
j4k3@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I hereby name mine Mr. Law Yawnson, it’s a total bore
blargle@sh.itjust.works 16 minutes ago
Steampunk aesthetic ( 1990’s ), generative art ( early 2000s )