Not, like, politics or racism or anything like that, but everyone should have some weird or obscure thing they like that is definitely not something everyone likes. There is some kind of weird, obscure, maybe hard to find thing that speaks to you on a specific level that only a certain amount of people also like. I think it’s an important part of finding yourself.

For instance, my favorite book series is John Dies At The End, not just because it’s the most fun you can have reading a book, but because it introduced me to gonzo lovecraftian as a genre. I try to get everyone I know to read those books. A lot of people just don’t get it. Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place might have been the most formative experience in my life. A lot of people just don’t get it. (I’m from the states, I understand a lot of folks from the UK understand how great it is. Even better than quantum leap.) Tetsuo: The Iron Man is probably my favorite movie of all time. My brother loved it, it has made some people stop talking with me. I like weird shit, I could go on. I raced home from school to watch Beetleborgs.

What weird, obscure, specific thing have you fallen in love with that it seems like nobody else is aware of?

Also, Phantom Crash is the best game there ever was. I will fight you.

(This was an actual thought I had in the shower. I take long showers.)

      • whaleross@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Vinegar Syndrome has done plenty of impressive restorations and re -releases of classic exploitation movies and other obscure stuff in the last ten years, making them accessible to the curious and the arty and the insane. Check out their catalogue and pick out some that sound interesting.

        I think the charm is to go find your own way through this wilderness of b-/c- and z-movies, plow through awful but entertaining grindhouse and every once in a while you stumble across something that blows your mind that neither past or new audiences seem to appreciate in any way.

        Best of journeys! Feel free to report back when you come across your nuggets of gold.