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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.

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[–] nehal3m 39 points 7 months ago

The economy.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 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!

[–] subverted_per 2 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 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...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] burrito 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I love that!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] burrito 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Game of Thrones. I binged the whole 7 seasons right before 8 came out. I think I saved myself a lot of pain and wasted suspense. That ending was fucking embarrassing.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 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 😈

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Anyone get a cyber truck in the last few weeks?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sure I'd be happy to hear about them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Eol 12 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Got into Breaking Bad a bit after it had its series finale, but before Better Call Saul was a thing. I don’t know that the show has ever been β€œon its way out” though, it just wasn’t being talked about as much at that point.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

I got helldivers 2 a week ago.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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.

[–] httpjames 9 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 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!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I’d play PiU with you :c

I prefer DDR, but you can find me rockin Csiko’s Post any day

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Laser discs and quadraphonic LPs.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Anno online... Great game, got really into it, then realized it was on its way out... Sad times

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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:

SpeedRunners.

This last one is a damn shame, because there really is nothing like it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did they shutdown the servers or something?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is there any other self-hosted search engine?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There is searxng, a fork of searx

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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.

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