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Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by Rapzid »

oefrha wrote: post #135

Retina displays. Not sure they were hyped (depends on the definition of hype of course), but I could never set my eyes on regular low DPI displays (e.g. 1080p at 27’’) again, ever, after working with one for a few days.

Having just upgraded to a 4k 27" I have to agree and am left wondering why I've been sticking to 1080p 24" non-HDR for the past few years.. But the monitors are more mainstream now..

Have a 24" 1080p second screen which is good for checking content on, and it really just keeps reinforcing how good hdpi is.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by laserbeam »

remote_phone wrote: post #241
laserbeam wrote: post #9

I'd say Avengers: Endgame lived up to the decade of hype, which is no small feat. LotR sequels probably had a lot of hype prior to release. The latest God of War had a great release afaik. To be honest, it's hard to remember which things were really hyped up before release and met expectations. I keep thinking of stuff I heard was good after it was release, and things which were hyped and failed, or havr not yet full…

Endgame stuck the landing, which was extremely hard to do, but wasn’t the best movie of the bunch. That goes to Infinity War which was near perfect.

My point was not that it was a good movie, but it matched the expected hype. Even though it delivered more fan service than a great story/villain. I count that as a win in terms of "did it live up to the hype" department. It's fine if it wasn't perfect :).

Many (not all) marvel movies lived up to the hype, but I think the challenge was hardest for endgame.

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Post by grecy »

slg wrote: post #487
101008 wrote: post #38

Two 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…

It isn't really a true finale in the same way as those two examples, but I would throw out Infinity War and End Game as a joint example. The Marvel Cinematic Universe was able to successfully put a capstone on a cinematic project on the scale that had never even been attempted before. It was impressive enough to end a single story like Harry Potter in a satisfying way. The MCU was able to do the same for a wide varie…

I really liked Infinity War and have re-watched it a couple of times.

I watched End Game in the theatre and have not seen it again since. I really didn't enjoy the whole "goofy time travel" aspect, and re-visiting all the prior movies/events.

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Post by m-ee »

patrickthebold wrote: post #261
ystad wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Wire does live up to it's hype. Keep going beyond the second season, it gets better, when the lines between the gangs and the government blur

It's very good, but the last season gets a little weird with the 'serial murder'.

Yeah it lost believability there, felt like David Simon’s personal grudges against the Sun we’re getting in the way of the story.

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Post by war1025 »

anonunivgrad wrote: post #251
st1x7 wrote: post #52

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> Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Man... there is way too much deus ex machina at every plot point of that book to give it any credit. If you have the end of the 6th book as a starting point and the end of series that Rowling had in mind as an end, then Deathly Hallows is just connecting those two points using plot conveniences at every single opportunity. Too many fortunate coincidences in a very short period o…

My biggest frustration with Harry Potter is that Harry never has to actually make tough decisions. All moral dilemmas are resolved by a deus ex. He never even has to murder the villain, just deflects his spell back at him. My eyes rolled straight to the back of my head. The books deliver a fantastical, childish view of morality where the world will always save you from having to make difficult decisions.

> The books deliver a fantastical, childish view of morality

Almost like they were written for children...

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Post by SirSourdough »

fb03 wrote: post #288
DonHopkins wrote: post #37

Factorio!!! (It wasn't really hyped, but if it was, it would have lived up to it.) Actual video from the game doesn't qualify as hype! And the code is rock solid and wicked efficient. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR01YdFtWFI&ab_channel=Facto... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVvXv1Z6EY8&ab_channel=Facto... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqaAjgpsoW8&ab_channel=Facto...

how factorio compares to rimworld? it seems to focus more on the factory aspect instead of the social, but besides that they seem pretty similar

Factorio is almost exclusively about factory building and automation.

Rimworld is much more of a social/survival game, with hunting, gathering, cooking, diseases, invaders, exploration, character emotions, etc.

Factorio has basically none of that; it's much more about plumbing together inputs and outputs into increasingly complex and useful items. The survival aspect of Factorio is just that you are surrounded by bugs that will attack you if you pollute too much or antagonize them.

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Post by podiki »

Lisp (specifically, I've learned Common Lisp). The power is amazing, being able to have code write code was something I didn't realize I was trying to do over and over in different languages, but to have it all just be code....amazing. And the parentheses are also great, just a simple syntax and auto formatting with a decent editor.

Which brings me to Emacs. Still learning and being amazed at what can be done in there, the more of my computing life in there the better it gets.

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Post by ra7 »

peteretep wrote: post #306
patrickthebold wrote: post #261

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It's very good, but the last season gets a little weird with the 'serial murder'.

We need to get better as a species at pretending certain seasons didn’t happen. Season 5 of The Wire, Season 3 of Homeland, anything after All Along the Watchtower in BSG etc

> Season 3 of Homeland

Oh, what a downer that season was. On the other hand, Homeland Season 1 was one of the best bits of television I’ve seen.

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Post by modernerd »

unemphysbro wrote: post #483
modernerd wrote: post #295

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Any resources in particular that helped you grok Rust?

As lame as it sounds, leetcoding in rust has helped me quite a bit.

Thanks, am working through exercism at the moment so will try that next.
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