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Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
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#462As far as recent video games go - Sekiro, DMC5 and Doom Eternal.
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#463Cormac McCarthy. Finally started "bingeing" his books from the local library and not since Virginia Woolf has a writer's use of words to paint pictures made such an impression on me.
I was looking for some English language fiction literature. Any book you'd recommend?
From McCarthy ? I'd start with his Border Trilogy which is 3 books sold together. Or just All The Pretty Horses if you want to dip your toes to see if you like his writing.
I've also enjoyed Elmore Leonard quite a bit recently. More pulpy I suppose, but well written. Out of Sight is a good one with a somewhat faithful movie version as well.
Normal People by Sally Rooney is something I read recently that I liked.
Unless by literature you actually mean classic literature, in which case I'm really not qualified to recommend anything :-)
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#464Any old skateboarders here on HN?
I remember when Lakai Fully Flared came out, it felt like a crescendo in skateboarding, and IMO lived up it. The Mike Mo switch kickflip + napalm explosion was seared into my 13 year old brain forever:
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#465Venice lives up to the hype. It’s got everything you’ll hate about overrun tourist cities, but it’s also everything they promise.
I didn't realise how much I had internalised the sound of cars until I found out how pleasantly silent Venice is at night.
All cities should be car-free. Noise, fumes, and bad use of city space are a disservice to humanity.
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#466Two finales: - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. When the seventh book came out in 2007 there was this fear among the fandom that JK Rowling couldn't deliver a great ending. I think most people agreed she did very well (even more than expected, considering the complexity of the story in the prior six books). - Breaking Bad last season / last episode: there aren't many tv shows that can end in a high note (check G…
I'm largely with you on HP. Most impressive was how JKR was able to keep Snape's loyal/evil question unresolved to the very end and still come up with a plausible explanation for it all. Rereading the whole series shows little hints along the way. It was deftly done.
It was a great time, having midnight release parties for a book!
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#467Death Stranding, many who felt the hype then played, wrote it off as a walking/delivery simulator, but miss how well, and in detail, the story and gameplay melded. Sure it could feel at times that it was simply about walking to point A/B, but with that came the challenges and points being made throughout the game. That alone challenges can be overcome, but there will be more obstacles, and the weight of burden (literally and metaphorically in the game) will crush one's morale, motivation, and ability. Together, with the right motives, we can accomplish more to benefit everyone. But the ones who only build or help for self gain/their reward system, will ultimately be corrupted and left empty by their own doing, as their structures will whither unless they exhaustively maintain them to gain pointless intangible/abstract rewards/social scores.
The satisfaction that comes with collaboration and helping one another is where one finds true satisfaction with this game.
It's also just a lot of fun, challenging, and beautiful in general, aside from the story :p
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#468Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Most religious books that have stood the test of time have lived up to the hype. They really haven't. Not a single one of them. There is, however, organized religion around them that has twisted those book to mean whatever it is that brings the flock. Are they influential? Yes. Have they stood the test of time? Hell, no
You’re talking about the best selling book of all time (by far). Its more likely that you misunderstand it than all the readers misunderstand it. Its just one of those things that is so popular that people find any way possible to criticize.
Hard disagree. The hype machine around these "scriptures" is (ha) biblical. Ridiculously effective mass brainwashing has resulted in these mediocre stories being promoted while other, better, ones were discarded, fearing their heretical nature. I say waste your time once, then never again. Especially the Quran. Very, very shallow. Just my opinion, get over it.
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#469Quake 1-3. Q3 was my favorite.
Docker. After using it with almost every web I've developed since 2015 I think they delivered on what it promised to do. It's not a 100% quality of life improvement since certain things take a bit longer to do vs not using Docker (starting containers have a penalty, installing a new package dependency takes a long time to build since layers aren't diffed for changes, etc.). But overall I've found it very much worth using.
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#470Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is something that actually turned out to me meh for me. I think cable internet was the huge jump.
As far as overall impact you are probably right. But I'm back on cable again after having fiber and the difference is striking in my experience. Cable delivers such an inconsistent experience versus fiber being 100% rock solid. But that's just my experience, maybe I got (un)lucky.
WiFi kills fiber for me.
I can only get ~400mbps out of my 1gbps connection since all of my devices are wireless, and this is still so fast that I cannot justify the work of adding a physical cable to my setup.
I can already stream 4K video in WiFi. What would I have to lose the freedom to watch it anywhere in my house?