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.
- Chahk ( @chahk@beehaw.org ) 33•2 months ago
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 ( @WilfordGrimley@linux.community ) English2•2 months ago
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 ( @chahk@beehaw.org ) 2•2 months ago
With my track record, the moment I start mining again is when they fold.
- eezeebee ( @eezeebee@lemmy.ca ) English22•2 months ago
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 ( @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•2 months ago
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 ( @blindsight@beehaw.org ) 2•2 months ago
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.
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 2•2 months ago
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…
- Call me Lenny/Leni ( @shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee ) English13•2 months ago
Do things count that I got into when it was already dead?
Sure I’d be happy to hear about them
- Call me Lenny/Leni ( @shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee ) English3•2 months ago
Just about every anime I’ve been into. Transformers, the old Pokémon series, all the Saban content I’ve fangirled over…
- MonkderDritte ( @MonkderDritte@feddit.de ) 2•2 months ago
How are animes dead?
- Call me Lenny/Leni ( @shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee ) English2•2 months ago
They aren’t, just the ones I’m into.
- MonkderDritte ( @MonkderDritte@feddit.de ) 2•2 months ago
Yeah, my bad. Didn’t sleep at all this night.
- Remy Rose ( @MxRemy@lemmy.one ) English11•2 months ago
Tumblr! I only joined shortly before all the wildly terrible business decisions killed it lol. Great memes from there would get cross-posted to my various platforms often enough for me to want to go, but I procrastinated until it was almosssttt too late…
Now we got a fediverse version though 😈
- Zoop ( @Zoop@beehaw.org ) 5•2 months ago
Ooh, neat! I didn’t know there was a fediverse version of Tumblr. Thanks for sharing!!
- vortexal ( @vortexal@lemmy.ml ) 8•2 months ago
I’ve forgotten the name but there was an “adult” MMO made for android devices that I played a while back. After I completed the tutorial, I was shown the announcements and it stated that the the game’s service was to end in about week.
I feel like I should have more but I can’t remember anything else.
- Wes4Humanity ( @Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee ) 7•2 months ago
Anno online… Great game, got really into it, then realized it was on its way out… Sad times
- Iapar ( @Iapar@feddit.de ) 7•2 months ago
Escape from tarkov :/
- paradiso ( @paradiso@lemm.ee ) 4•2 months ago
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.
- GrayBackgroundMusic ( @GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee ) English7•2 months ago
I got helldivers 2 a week ago.
- dosse91 ( @dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza ) 7•2 months ago
Pump it up.
I started playing in 2016, and it’s such a niche thing compared to what rhythm games used to be in the early 00s.
I enjoy it but I almost always play alone.
- Rai ( @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•2 months ago
I’d play PiU with you :c
I prefer DDR, but you can find me rockin Csiko’s Post any day
- BumpingFuglies ( @BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip ) English6•2 months ago
Toys-to-life video games. I went on a Skylanders spending spree less than a year before it officially died. $5-$15 figurines got sold at garage sales for $0.25-$3 each.
I had tons of fun getting into it and I was young enough that I could afford to waste the money, so I regret nothing.
Did they shutdown the servers or something?
- BumpingFuglies ( @BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip ) English4•2 months ago
The toys-to-life trend ended, as it wasn’t making enough money. The games remain playable, but they have no support and are old enough they they require hardware that I no longer have.
- klemptor ( @klemptor@startrek.website ) 6•2 months ago
Minidisc. My then-boyfriend bought me a recorder for Xmas 2002 and I was absolutely in love with it. I still use minidisc but I think for most people it was a flash in the pan - it didn’t have the staying power that I thought it would.
Also ephedra - right before it was banned, all the women in my office went through the Atkins -> Xenadrine -> Pilates fads. Holy crap did that suck. Atkins made me stink (ketosis) and xenadrine make me shaky, dizzy, and irate. I was too poor for pilates haha. The entire office was miserable!
- Octospider ( @Octospider@lemmy.one ) English5•2 months ago
Sometimes on the news or social media, I’ll hear about some well-known musician, author, etc, who has died. There’s been occasions where I check out their material and suddenly become a fan.
Have you heard of Daniel Dennett? Check him out.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 5•2 months ago
Amateur radio. At this point it’s a race to talk to old hams before they die.
- apotheotic(she/they) ( @apotheotic@beehaw.org ) English4•2 months ago
The human race
- DrRatso ( @DrRatso@lemmy.ml ) 4•2 months ago
Battlerite and OmegaStrikers
Kind of like that, I got into them as they were thriving, since it was on beta/release, but they died very quickly afterwards and it is a shame because nothing captures that feel for me, I like short burst competitive games like that, but I guess people generally aren’t into stuff like that.
E: And actually one more like that, the goatest of them all tbh, just been so long that i forgot about it, but this is one that is an awesome idea for anyone looking for some fun friend group comp game:
This last one is a damn shame, because there really is nothing like it.