Breaking Bad. Refused to watch it for years due to the hype.
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#772Retina 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.
I bought a lenovo legion with 1080p screen after having used a macbook for a long time. I had to return it. It was fairly disturbing to read text even on a small screen such as a laptop screen. I ended up getting Gigabyte Aero 15 with 4K display. It was a great decision.
I don't understand this. 1080p on 15 screen is still pretty decent, I think Windows by default set scaling on such ppi.
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#773Earlier quoted context omitted.
Emily translated the first line of the Odissey as " Tell me about a complicated man ". She almost went with " Tell me about a straying husband ". Neither complicated nor straying husband appear in the original text. Pope's description ( The man for wisdom’s various arts renown’d... ) is closer to the epithets we are taught at school ( ricco d'astuzie or dal multiforme ingegno ). πολύτροπος means resourceful, of many…
πολύτροπος literally means "one of many ways" or even more literally "multi-turned". Translating it as "for wisdom's various arts renown'd" is just as much poetic license as "complicated".
That's the first line of the proem and complicated tells us nothing about the protagonist. Everyone can be complicated, but only Odysseus is πολύτροπον. It's a quality of character few people possess. I feel like Pope's line, despite the artistic license, kept that uniqueness.
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#774Surprised no one mentioned all the Grand Theft Auto games.
Right from Vice City, every game has been an overload of fun to play.
GTA 5, especially, had a lot of hype for a long time and it lived up to every bit of it.
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#775Not one of motorcycles, horses, cuban cigars, Bach, Helene Grimaud, faith, and as a super weird outlier, Freemasonry, has disappointed me.
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#776Factorio!!! (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 does it compare to Satisfactory and Shapez.io (which is sold as a minimalistic factorio). I bought shapezio on steam some time and realized just yesterday i already collected 60h playtime on it... Now I'm thinking about digging sonewhere deeper.
for something that scratches a similar itch, but is much more constrained and puzzle like (in a good way) try Infinifactory. It actually predates Factorio and all of the games mentioned and is very much worth playing.
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#777Interesting that people are substituting the hard question (what has been hyped and has lived up to it) with the easier question (what is good and has stood the test of time) and answering that instead, a form of attribute substitution bias [0]. My answers would be Mr Robot, especially after seeing what happened with Game Of Thrones. Having a story that is planned out from start to finish is miles better than improvi…
Never understood why React hooks are such a big deal- I mean you’re just setting state. Or am I missing something?
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#778Earlier 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
Yes pure garbage, the book of Job, the Psalms, the Ecclesiastes, the sermon of the mountain, the Sefer Yetzirah, the Popol Vuh, the Upanishads, the Tao Te Ching...garbage,garbage, garbage. For more garbage please visit https://www.sacred-texts.com/
See what you did? You called it garbage, and then started vehemently disagreeing with yourself.
Listing parts of those books and linking to their texts proves nothing about them standing the test of time.
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#779Interesting that people are substituting the hard question (what has been hyped and has lived up to it) with the easier question (what is good and has stood the test of time) and answering that instead, a form of attribute substitution bias [0]. My answers would be Mr Robot, especially after seeing what happened with Game Of Thrones. Having a story that is planned out from start to finish is miles better than improvi…
React hooks are terribly implemented. They cause deadlock in the simplest of cases.
Check out Adam Haile's S.js and Surplus if you want a better example of this approach (which came LONG before "hooks"). Surplus also tops performance charts consistently, and has done so for years. Really underrated framework that is lightweight and battle tested.
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#780Every national park I've visited in North America seems to not only live up to hype but surpass expectations once visited. I've been to many parks in the U.S and Canada. I don't have a favorite. My favorite usually winds up the park that I last visited. So, currently that would be the rainforest, beaches and mountains of the Olympic peninsula in Washington. Camping inside the parks makes a big difference. Backpacking…
Absolutely. I grew up surrounded by nature but it was mostly flat and not very varied. I went to my first park (Mt. Rainier) at over 30 years old and it honestly completely changed my outlook on nature. Try to get a chance to get away from the crowds however you can and just stop and be surrounded by one of the most majestic natural places in the world. It can very much be a spiritual or at least very meditative experience. I can’t wait to camp out once the kids are older.