I am an avid collector and drinker of Chinese teas, particularly oolongs and puerh. I had been drinking them for years when suddenly the absolute asshole Dr. Oz went on TV claiming that puerh tea was some magical cure for anything and everything that you might have.
Normally, I get excited for new people to share tea with, but this fad caused prices to rise across the board and caused the market to get flooded with awful quality tea. These people were drinking some of the worst quality (fishy, shou/cooked puerh) teas and were more obsessed with how to mask the flavors with milk and sugar than actually slowing down and enjoying the tea.
The fad faded and people went back to putting matcha in their morning milkshakes. Even so, I still run into people that reflexively associate incredible tea with Dr. Oz and the disgusting teas he foisted upon his audience. Sad.
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
started in 2012, played with friends on a shitty server i ran on an old Dell with Ubuntu on it, years of goofy fun
every few months i reinstall, load it up, and go “what the FUCK is THAT!?” to a “new” mob/biome/etc. lol
frogs still jumpscare me
still keep trying to place torches 13 blocks apart before remembering spawning is light level >1 now lmao
God yes. I was one of the first people to buy it. Back when you had to send Notch himself five bucks to play it. I was interested in the concept, but frankly didn’t think it would have much appeal beyond people who enjoy completely self-guided experiences with no set goals.
How wrong I was.
It’s been wild seeing it rise to the top of the pop culture heap, become popular with 12 year olds and eventually result in me seeing a movie starring Jack Black based on it.
It’s wild that it started with me and a handful of guys sending Notch a fiver.
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.
Reddit
Soon it will be Lemmy
Plz no…
$thing is Warhammer 40k
Yeah, I always feel a little embarrassed to bring it up. I’m liking that there are more underground games coming out now like turnip28 and trench crusade, but they don’t scratch the same itch in the same way yet.
Yep. Popularity hasn’t yet died down, but having a bunch of closed-minded “anti-woke” (i.e. Fascists) people dogpiling onto 40k as though they’re begging to be Servitorised in the service of the Emp’rah is… dismaying, to say the least.
Worst part is, one can’t even have a conversation with such fans, as they instantly shoot down any and all subjects which they deem even marginally related to “woke stuff,” sometimes with disturbing zeal. How such an obvious satirical dystopia can be misinterpreted in such a way is beyond me…
Some people are just really passionate about their tiny yellow plastic toy soldiers all having imaginary penises. The penises are important to them. They can’t bear to imagine a Legio Custodes that doesn’t have a full armament of cock.
This is why I either went with Chaos (during my adolescence, mostly outgrew them) or Aeldari. I mean, they aren’t that much better from a lore perspective, but at least they give everyone a chance to suffer equally…
lore
Let me interject with my unasked opinion:
Aa far as I’m concerned the trouble started when we stopped calling it fluff and started calling it lore (and treating it with such reverance) instead.Oh, no, with literally hundreds of books’ worth of backstory beyond all of the “your headcanon is valid” bits, we are well and truly beyond simple fluff.
Fluff is those 3 paragraphs of contextual flavour text you get on the back of a board game box.
What I also appreciate about Chaos is that their writers know they’re evil. I swear the people writing loyalist books forget that the Imperium is basically as bad as the rest in its own way.
Very much, yes! Chaos is the clearest, most stable faction in the entire lore in terms of characterisation and intent!
Honestly, I think the ambiguity behind the Imperium’s portrayal stems from a sort of pandering to the popularity of the faction itself, maybe even to blunt the sharpness a bit, make it more accessible to new inductees. Easier to sell a “slightly Theo-Fascistic” galactic empire than “we need to sacrifice literally thousands of people marked as Other to a corpse and, yes, corpse starch is exactly what it says on the tin. Oh, and we’ll need to lobotomise about 10000 of you because our biotoxin planet-wiping nukes need polishing.”
It’s a pity, because that’s exactly what drew me into 40k to begin with, that feeling of “wow, this stuff’s beyond horrific, my morbid curiosity is tickled seventy shades of pink!”
What about their penises?
Never asked!😕
I’m sure Fabulous Bill has a couple of attachments that would make even Slaanesh blush.
When did it become popular for the hordes?
I’d say Space Marine 1 did a significant job in making the franchise more nerd-mainstream. Before it, it was the Dawn of War game and expansions. Slow and steady growth of awareness, I think
The increased accessibility of SM1 most definitely helped. To be very honest, the thing which got me into 40k was the excellent Dawn of War series. Not only was it one of the first fully 3D RTS games, but every one up to and including the two Dawn of War II titles are absolutely brilliant strategy games (with II being closer to Kill Team with reinforcements, granted).
Heck, I still play Dark Crusade regularly, one of the tightest and enjoyable RTS campaign modes I’ve played to date!
When? No idea, but all the sudden it was quiet normal to see Spacemarine and Orc figures appearing on the desks of nerds…
I hereby name mine Mr. Law Yawnson, it’s a total bore
Sounds like Rick and morty
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Blud thinks it’s c. 2100–1200 BCE
I remember that damn ad on TV back in in 2009. It was for SakuraCon, a annual Anime convention in Seattle.
I went there once with a group of friends. Made anime look uncool very fast.
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.
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.
Man, I like some pretty retarded shit man, but I’ve never been bullied for it, man
I like some pretty retarded shit man
Like casual ableism?
If you’re trying to bully me man, I already said it doesn’t work
I’m calling you out for being ableist. That’s not bullying, it’s a statement of fact.
Man, I don’t know what your angle is, I already agreed my interests are pretty retarded, so however you think you’re gonna bully me it won’t work man
Given a choice to stop being ableist or make yourself the victim you chose the latter. That says a lot about your priorities.
In all seriousness, you’re the one I assume to be equating people with varying ability to “retards,” where I was just using the nomenclature that OP was using to describe the state of their interests once careless normies decide to adopt them. If you want to try to bully me, in addition to yourself repeatedly suggesting that people with different abilities are the real “retards” here, then you can get blocked from my YouTube channel.
Yeah been saying ‘Casuals Ruin Everything’ for a while now
Plot twist, all those fanbases were already kinda garbage before they got flooded with normies and most of the toxicity didn’t come from the casuals.
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 ruined it.
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.
For a moment I thought you meant shooting up a Target store.
That isn’t what it means? … Shit, I should clean this mess up.
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.
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.
Switzerlahd? When I lived in Denmark the laws were about that tough, though still surprisingly simple after I gained citizenship.
Welcome to “gun people who hate gun people”
How will that end ?
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.
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.
They could be just edge lords or Nazis.
I refuse to make a distinction anymore. If you “joke” about being a Nazi, you’re a Nazi.
I used to think the nazi edgelord stuff was kind of funny, because I found it absurd.
The idea that anyone acting like a nazi was ‘actually’ a nazi never crossed my mind, because I genuinely thought we as a species had collectively agreed that being a nazi is the closest thing to pure evil.
Oh how wrong I was.
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
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
Now, now it is only a Totenkopf if it is from a distinct region of Germany.
ah yes the death’s head valley
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.
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.
I remember that one. I think he tried to change clothes and just ended up accepting the new trend just in time for it to end. He was then happy to be bland again. I think skeeters clothes were the next trend…idk I’m old some of that may be made up.
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Computers
Yay you get my vote.
Desktop computing in particular.
The internet
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 :(
I’ve been online since 1995. I weep for what we lost. The web should have stayed a nerd domain. We’d have been better off as a society.
Absolutely. The biggest individual loss for me was the usenet. That was the first time google showed its true, evil and ugly face - by introducing tons of people who had no idea what the usenet was via google groups.
The second blow was when people no longer required any technical knowledge whatsoever to “go online”, because ISPs sold internet access complete with a router that took care of the connection.
The third blow was when every idiot and their mom who have no idea how to operate a computer or a keyboard got access to the internet via mobile devices with touchscreens and an app for everything.
Eventually, the absolute enshittification of centralized social media (ongoing).
And now - AI slop.
Exactly. Back in 1995, my dad could never get online. Heck, he couldn’t even remotely figure out a PC. We tried to teach him some basics like ‘click with the left mouse button to open something’, but he was downright scared of the thing. He never, ever touched it.
But ‘thanks’ to the iPad, he’s e-mailing, on Facebook, on YouTube, TikTok etc. Which also has the unfortunate effect of subjecting him to boomer brainrot. He’s now more actively misinformed than he used to be because of that fucking iPad.
We’ve made the web accessible to people who shouldn’t be on it. Because it’s hurting them and hurting society as a whole.
I’m so sorry that they called you that
But raspberries are yummy
Oh god I heard that constantly as a kid. Gah. Now they’re all married to Facebook and don’t know how to use it. Oh well.
