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For whatever reason, I only watched it about a year ago despite being inside of the initial hype in secondary school when everyone was talking about it.
I later hard that it was purely shock value from nudity and gore, but it actually had a very coherent plot and very interesting characters, and a tragic serial killer protagonist is always nice, of course.
Electric toothbrushes. I always saw ads for them but they were expensive and I thought, how much better can they be? Finally listened to my dentist’s recommendation to buy one and my teeth have so much less plaque now to where I barely notice a difference after getting my teeth cleaned and the dentist takes much less time to do it.
World of Warcraft. Blizzard mentioned development of a MMORG in the late 1990's and started teasing in the early 2000's, and really ramped it up prior to launch. And when it landed, holy hell: it devastated worker's and student's sleep schedules for years. Plus it lived up to the hype: the world was huge and immersive, and they had tuned raiding & PvP based on the experience with co-operative Battle.net.
Still could never get into WoW after enjoying Everquest for so many years. Such an amazing game if you had the time to sink into it.
I played a small one Ashen Empires because it had an amazing local community. Then WOW because it was so well made, everyone was playing it and I loved blizzard. After a few years of both, any MMO hasn’t been able to keep me interested for more than a few days.
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…
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Blade Runner: 2049. Considering how highly regarded the original 1984 movie is it didn't seem possible for the sequel to nail it. Not only that but it managed to improve Blade Runner's (original) films story along the way.
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…
The Impossible burger is pretty good. I was skeptical. They did a good job creating non animal meat.
Feel free to point me in the right direction if I’m missing a nuance here, but the impossible burger as it appears as a Burger King Whopper alternative is the worst “burger” I’ve ever eaten. I couldn’t even finish it. I like vegetarian patties and I like a good beef burger. The whopper variant had a strange rubbery smell and mouth feel.
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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.
Interesting 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.
Interesting 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?