What did you get into as it was dying or otherwise on its way out?

I feel like I do this a lot with podcasts. I started watching the Gus and Eddy podcast and finished it about a month before the last episode was released for example.

It could be anything though. An online game, an OS, a console, TV show, a forum, or anything else. I'm just curious what people have to say.

It also doesn't need to be "dead". It could just be a significant change where a chunk of the community left.

RandomVideos ,

Searx, technoblade, vendetta, death battle, yuzu, other stuff i forgot about

Only after writing this list i realised that the post asked for stuff with a dead community, not an abandoned game

MonkderDritte ,

Searx?

RandomVideos ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx

https://github.com/searx/searx

MonkderDritte ,

Is there any other self-hosted search engine?

RandomVideos ,

There is searxng, a fork of searx

MonkderDritte ,

Thanks!

apotheotic ,
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The human race

Weirdmusic ,
@Weirdmusic@lemmy.world avatar

Laser discs and quadraphonic LPs.

bloodfart ,

Playing back quad was such a pain

Weirdmusic ,
@Weirdmusic@lemmy.world avatar

Really? I've found it to be as easy as a standard LP. 8 Track quadraphonic, now that's a whole different kettle of fish

bloodfart ,

The standard I gave up on was the one with the extra channels encoded on high frequencies that needed a clean hyper elliptical and required demodulation that never seemed to work right.

If you’re talking about the one with phase encoding then yeah that worked good.

GrayBackgroundMusic ,

I got helldivers 2 a week ago.

sunbrrnslapper ,
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Pogs. 😉

burrito ,

I got some pretty cool holographic metal slammers right at the tail end.

sunbrrnslapper ,
@sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world avatar

I love that!

Rai ,

I have INNOCENT and GUILTY slammers with OJ’s face on them lawl

burrito ,

Oh, wow! I can hear Sublime playing on the radio!

Rai ,

Poppin Sugar Ray into my Hit Clip

AceFuzzLord ,
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As a Plants vs Zombies fan, I tried PvZ Online during what was the final year. Same thing with the Yahoo Games Battle Cats.

Two browser games I gave up on after realizing they'd be closing the servers long before I could finish adventure mode in PvZ Online or get anywhere significant in Battle Cats.

radicalautonomy , (edited )

There was a show on a local access cable channel in Austin back in the late 90s/early 00s called The Show With Know Name. It was hosted by Charlie Sotelo and his mysterious sidekick "Cinco" in the booth, and they'd just shoot the shit in between showing fun videos (the precursor to YouTubers reacting to viral videos). I discovered it one day while flipping channels, and I learned it was their second to last show after a ten year run. I had a sad.

Side note: Charlie Sotelo manages the SXSW Comedy festival, and he once punched Alex Jones in the fucking face.

CanadaPlus ,

Amateur radio. At this point it's a race to talk to old hams before they die.

AwkwardTurtle ,

Sriracha. I'm thankful to have found some fresh bottles recently, but they're hard to find

CorrodedCranium OP ,
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Huh I had no idea they paused production

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/05/03/sriracha-hot-sauce-shortage-huy-fong-foods/73547924007/

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

Do things count that I got into when it was already dead?

CorrodedCranium OP ,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

Sure I'd be happy to hear about them

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

Just about every anime I've been into. Transformers, the old Pokémon series, all the Saban content I've fangirled over...

MonkderDritte ,

How are animes dead?

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

They aren't, just the ones I'm into.

MonkderDritte ,

Yeah, my bad. Didn't sleep at all this night.

AstroLightz ,

Burning music to CDs. Still fun to listen to in the car.

anxietea ,
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Oh me too, It's so much fun. I've got a big binder of them in my car. I know nobody else who does, so I sadly can't share my CDs.

eezeebee ,
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So many things...

Game of Thrones, right before the last season came out. Glad I didn't have to wait for the disappointment.

Video games. I will wait 10 years to play a game I want so that the price goes down enough.

AFI's Sing the Sorrow album, until I gave it a fair chance years later.

Catoblepas ,

I got into ASOIAF maybe a year ago. I’m glad I was able to go into the fandom knowing what a train wreck the show was and also that it’s entirely possible the books will just never be finished, lol. I’m enjoying the shit out of youtube theory videos though!

blindsight ,

I think that's a much better way to start. Martin is clearly a discovery writer, but he talks like he's a plotter, and the intricacies of the political machinations imply he's a plotter, too.

He's written such a tangled mess that it's impossible to untangle everything. Plus, he's made his millions, so there's not much incentive for him to finish.

I started reading when book 5 was about "due" based on his expected release date he had previously announced thinking that book 5 would likely be out by the time I read up to that point. Over four years later book 5 finally released and I knew in my soul the series would never be finished.

subverted_per ,

That can be double edged. I just got into the trails series, and discovered that the early games are all collectable.

tetris11 ,
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AFI are timeless poets. You could take their songs 100 years back in time and they'd still work.

I, I came here by day
But I left here in darkness
And found you, found you on the way...

Iapar ,

Escape from tarkov :/

paradiso ,

Just uninstalled earlier this week after years of sinking time into it. I watched the wiggle video and with the current developer drama, I'm fucking done. The game is simply INFESTED with cheaters.

chahk ,

Ethereum mining.

I finally got a decent GPU in the beginning of 2022 and set up a basic rig. In September of that year Ethereum switched to the "proof of stake" model, rendering mining useless. I managed to maybe get a total of $200 worth of Eth in that time, and that was that. Taking into account the cost of electricity, my profit was around $100.

WilfordGrimley ,

I still mine Ergo. It's a PoW smart contract platform (like Ethereum) but it's UTXO like (Bitcoin or Monero).

Lots to like about the chain. I turn some of my mined ERG into SigUSD (algorithmic stablecoin) and then loan it to a lending pool. Currently make 94%APR in USD that way. Been like that for several months.

chahk ,

With my track record, the moment I start mining again is when they fold.

hperrin ,

I got really into Star vs The Forces of Evil, Dexter, Sons of Anarchy, and Adventure Time well after they each had ended.

tetris11 ,
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Star really grated at the beginning. Rich girl having rich girl problems with rich boy. There was no tension, nothing.

Then they started introducing dark elements in there - monsters, her family's dark past, the unspoken guilt of those they usurped. It got really good then

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