There’s an Aztec city building game called Tlatoani. It’s in early access, but has enough meat on the bone that it’s one of my goto games.

Out of curiosity I checked Steam DB for active player numbers. I have discovered at any given point I am 10% to 25% of the given player base BY MYSELF. I am 1 of 4 people playing this game right now in the world. With the prevalence of the internet I always assume whatever weird bullshit you’re into there’s at least a thousand people talking about it; making memes outsiders could never comprehend. It’s actually novel to fly under the radar for once.

What do you do that doesn’t have a community associated with it?

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    Death metal. I’m pretty clean cut and tat free so people are really taken aback when I tell them one of my favorite acts is called Cattle Decapitation.

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      My husband doesn’t have tattoos, but a beard. He loves all metal but definitely death metal.

      There was a woman at my work, she was in the office side pretty high up. I always played my music, she soon found out I was (at least in part) a metal head. One time we found ourselves in a meeting room just a few of us, and shared she is massively a metal head, even citing death metal. I was so taken aback. She is highly professional always, and become the coolest lady in the office to me that day.

      My dentist’s favorite band is Led Zeppelin. My son asked, that answer surprised me too. For an older woman, close enough lol

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      My wife discovered “Powerwolf” recently. Not death metal, per say, but I’ve yet to meet anyone else whose heard of it. Worse still, this lead her down a rabbit hole to Dwarf Metal and the accursed song Diggy Diggy Hole which has bored its way into my brain.

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        I gave my son some of my old CDs last year. In them was a mix metal cd I got somewhere, and there is a powerwolf song on there. I wish I could remember which song, but for nearly a year he’d put that song on repeat and fall asleep to it every night. It was absurdly amusing

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          Blind Guardian was in an older PC action RPG Sacred 2. There was a whole quest to find their lost “weapons” (wand was a microphone, axe was a guitar, etc) and then there was a full in game video of them playing in front of orcs. I am not a particular fan of theirs, but it was so awesome.

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        The fact that Diggy Diggy Hole exists is such a wonderful thing. It was fun to watch the original, and then various evolutions of it. Its what the internet should be instead of the corporate, pay to play garbage we have ended up with.

        Also Powerwolf and Wind Rose are just fun bands to listen to. Metal that doesn’t take itself too seriously of great.

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        Powerwolf is German Power-Metal and they’re not a bad band, I’ve heard lots of tracks from them. I’m into Sabaton which is another power-metal band who sing about historical subjects and figures. Oden Organ is another power-metal band.

        The best part about Wind Rose is all of their songs are based off from Middle-Earth legendarium.

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        Ah yes power metal is quite a thing in and of itself! Feel free to do whatever you want with this knowledge, but there’s also Goblin Metal, my most favorite being a band called Necrogoblikon. There’s no doubt some band singing in Tolkien Elvish to round out the trinity.

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          A search has given me the band Summoning (atmospheric black metal) whose theme is Middle Earth and they supposedly have passages in Elvish in their lyrics. I’m not in a spot to listen to them at the moment but it seems to be one I will definitely check.

          A second place would be a band called Battlelore, seemingly.

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        I got sent down a weird musical rabbit hole that started by letting my kid play some k-pop on my Spotify account. The AI DJ added “foreign music” to the list of tags I guess, and after finding a couple k-pop songs I liked, it bronched out into other genres & Landed on Melodic Mexican Metal, which I didn’t even know was a thing.

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          A buddy of mine and I used to play this game where one of us tried to think of an absurd metal concept and the other tried to find a band that actually fit that description. The game ended the day that the challenge was Maori folk metal and we discovered the band Alien Weaponry. At that point we pretty much decided that there must exist a rule similar to the internet’s rule 42 along the lines of “if there’s a genre of music, there exists a metal subgenre influenced by it.”

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        Depending on what she’s into, there’s tons of fun power metal bands that I feel are kinda like Powerwolf. Gloryhammer and aramanthe are two that I really like that are in the same genre

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          I don’t know if I’ve heard one or both. Wife’s real love is for Ghost, but that’s hardly a “nobody else is into this” kind of band. I’ve definitely seen one of these in the Recommended For You feed

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      The only positive things I can say about Death and Black metal is that, the instrumentals go hard. It’s always the vocals that I can’t ever get used to.

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        I hit a similar wall back in high school but the instrumentation was just too good to stop listening. Now I love harsh vocals