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The Sega Saturn. No I'm not kidding! Panzer Dragoon 1/Zwei and Saga, Nights (and Christmas Nights!), Radiant Silvergun, Virtua Fighter Megamix, X-Men Vs Street fighter, Burning Rangers, Guardian Heroes, Grandia, the digital and analogue pads. I got fired from a computer game shop for convincing customers to buy it instead of the PlayStation, but to this day I'll stand by that amazing underappreciated black box.
Stadia, the initial reviews were actually pretty bad, but I'm blown away by how good it is. There's something undeniably cool about playing cyberpunk on a macbook air with full graphical detail, and then switching over to play on my TV exactly where I left off. The latency is virtually imperceptible to me, and I love that I don't need a 50 GB download just to try out a new game. Everytime I use it I'm honestly impres…
Came here to say the exact same thing. I can't stop talking to everyone and their brother about it. It feels like a clear leap into the future. For the uninitiated, here are some highlights of what it enables you to do: - You can go to a friend's apartment with a Chromecast and just start playing games YOU own like CyberPunk & Assasins Creed within seconds on their TV (assuming they have a controller or you brought y…
The Illiad. As the foundation of Western literature, it may have received the greatest amount of hype that it is possible to receive. I had attempted to read it and The Odyssey when I was much younger, in middle school, maybe too young, and failed miserably. But as it is always with cultural touchstones, references to it are inescapable, and a few years ago, in my mid 50s I overcame the reluctance accumulated in the…
In the same vein, the Mahabharata. Literally mind blowing character building and arcs and all of this more than 2 millennia ago. It is also 10 times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined.
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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'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn0ylNZhOJI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2-NkZ8lGsA
And it's still consistent with the "institutional ineptitude of conservative western cultures" (as @ddek puts it above) theme.
This thread is clarifying to me. I now have more anecdotal data to back up my anecdotal feeling that I don't agree with most people on HN on matters such as this. The highest voted answers are things I feel are overhyped. Harry Potter, Breaking Bad, The Wire, Apple Watch, Ruby on Rails, Hamilton. I'm not saying these things are bad , but the hype level far exceeds the delivered value, in my opinion. I had to scroll d…
Are you saying you have used/experienced these things and have not seen the value of them? Or that the hype is so much that it feels unrealistic?
Vue 3. It was highly anticipated but when it was initially announced everyone including HNers were up in arms about how it's going to kill Vue. I can't find the thread but I do remember it vaguely. Thankfully the release not only lived up to its hype (faster, smaller, easier) but also put to rest almost all objections about backward compatibility. I really think the Vue team did an awesome job with their next release…
Interesting. After Vue 3 was announced, I switched to React, and I found I liked it a lot more than Vue since there's no templating language, everything is a function.
I have no doubt Vue 3 is the bee's knees, but I'm rather enjoying React.
The WWW. It was a huge bubble when it came out, and then the dot-com crash came and a lot of people were like "Oh, it was a fad, it's over now." But it wasn't. The Web ended up changing society far more than was predicted in 1995 and remaking both the economy and likely soon the political environment.
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It does actually get a lot of hype in tech circles. I tried it recently and found it to be addictive as advertised, but in all the wrong ways. Programmers kept going on and on about how great it was, but all I saw was ever increasing complexity for no real reason. I launched the rocket and haven't touched it since. I think I would have enjoyed it more if bots were available much earlier in the tech tree or something.
The game makes you think that the goal is to launch a rocket with a satellite aboard. And when you do, you get the “Congratulations!” message. But you also get a counter in the UI, showing how many rockets you’ve launched (Just 001?). And you get 1000 white science, which up until this point had never been seen in the game... ...and after a few minutes, a new goal comes to mind: Launch one rocket every minute. And th…
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Interesting. After Vue 3 was announced, I switched to React, and I found I liked it a lot more than Vue since there's no templating language, everything is a function.
That's funny, I had the same experience. I enjoyed using Vue 2 but when Vue 3 came out and was totally different I decided I'd try out React again. React hooks changed the game for me and now back to only using React. I have no doubt Vue 3 is the bee's knees, but I'm rather enjoying React.
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The original was 1982, not 1984. [1] I mention this mainly because I doubted my memories when I saw the date 1984, which would have put me in uni rather than as still at school. At that time, I was probably more of an arsehole than I am now, but I credit the film for making me rethink some really important things, mainly to do with rights/respect for others. I would like to think that its effect on me was positive. A…
> I credit the film for making me rethink some really important things I recommend reading some of Philip K. Dick's works for more of that, which I would summarize as "what it is to be human".