No one ever reads or watches what I recommend (that’s a lie, one person does). I usually don’t expect others to engage with my interests, I wouldn’t hold a grudge if they don’t. But it upsets me when this occurs in the event of exchanging recommendations with someone who ends up not reciprocating. This has happened on four separate occasions with different people. While I’d actually read the book, give my opinion and genuinely engage with them, they would postpone doing so and constantly make excuses until they think I’ve forgotten. One time I made a promise with a friend to watch a series of their choice and vice versa, guess who did and who didn’t (“My internet connection is so bad” you’re literally watching other shows as we speak…)

This begs the question: are my recommendations this bad? I’d like to put that to the test. Here are the recommendations in question:

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Most people are kind of stuck in their own messy heads, and it’s a feat they get out of the house fully dresssed.

    I don’t expect most people to listen to music I recommend or talk about.

    I do enjoy what I call “the song game” for sharing music. It’s kind of a thing that can just happen but I formalized it a little. One person plays a song. Then the other person plays a song with some link to the first one. So if you play the velvet underground’s “Sunday Morning” I can respond with Nirvana’s “lithium” because it has the line “Sunday morning is every day for all I care”.

    One of the reasons I like this is it forces the other person to engage with your song, at least a little, because they have to listen closely enough to find something to link to. The default mode, without this structure, is just to wait for their shit to finish so you can play your cool thing. That kind of sucks.