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Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
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Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
#932Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just went down a rabbit hole of streaming for a couple of hours. I tried out Stadia, Moonlight, and GeForce Now. I want is a service that: * Lets me play my existing library of games (what I own on Steam, Origin, Battle.net) * Has League of Legends * Streams in 1440p 144fps I haven't found anything that does this.
1440p 144fps is ridiculous. Tough enough getting a 720p low latency feed, which is what stadia does. It then upscales to 1080p and 4k
It might be ridiculous but it's what I want if I'm going to use cloud gaming software. I'm probably not the target demographic.
Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
#933Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's kinda like the Western equivalent of how many of the tropes that make anime anime come from kabuki and other traditional forms of Japanese theater.
Wait, really? Like what?
Try reading about and watching (video of) kabuki. Typical plots involve the standard hot-blooded hero with a strong sense of justice exacting vengeance on a villainous rival. Kabuki actors deliver their lines in an over-the-top fashion, strike cool poses as they're introduced, and even undergo "transformation sequences" that make important revelations and up the stakes in the plot -- much like anime characters. (Transformations in kabuki are effected with rapid costume changes and traditional stage effects.) Like anime, kabuki is also recognizable by being highly stylized, with realism de-emphasized in favor of spectacle and looking cool.
Anime tends to share with Japanese theater a much more lingering emphasis on the atmosphere of the setting and the emotional states and thoughts of the characters compared to fast-paced, exposition-heavy Western media.
Of course there are plenty of exceptions, and some anime is even explicitly styled after Western media.
Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
#934The Wire. I'd tried to watch it a few times, but only a few months ago actually got past the first two episodes. I think it helped that I quite quickly saw it as a morally ambiguous discussion of the institutional ineptitude of conservative western cultures in mitigating the effects of crime, rather than a typical 'good vs bad' cop show. With that mindset, the possibly-underwhelming finale of S1 is much more effectiv…
> morally ambiguous discussion of the institutional ineptitude of conservative western cultures in mitigating the effects of crime, rather than a typical 'good vs bad' cop show. That's a mouthful. Basically you're saying that the cops operated questionably due to or because of the conservative government's inability to effectively fight crime?
Yeah I just combined an unrelated set of feelings into a single sentence.
> morally ambiguous
No character (save some in S5) is totally black or white. Take Omar, for example. When Omar responds to Levy in the S2 courtroom scene, we sympathise with Omar. When Bunk applies almost exactly the same criticism in S3, we don’t.
> institutional ineptitude
The show covers more institutions than just the BPD. S2 covers traditional economics, S3 has politics, S4 education, and S5 media.
> conservative western cultures
I kinda wanted to say ‘America’ here, but that wouldn’t entirely be true. I’m from Glasgow, a city which has been directly compared to the Wire’s version of Baltimore. Look up the ice cream wars.
These problems aren’t uniquely America’s, but are inherent to all (small c) conservative western cultures. Parts of Europe (Scandinavia, Netherlands) have made huge progress through progressive policy. This isn’t an issue of which government is in power - the US had 8 years of Obama, the UK had 13 of Blair/Brown, and made no progress.
> mitigating the effects of crime
The true victims of the drug trade are the bystanders. However, the war on drugs is fought through virtuous motivation - drugs are bad, impure, and destroy people and society. This motivation omits those most affected by the drug trade, the bystanders. Between street dealing, turf wars, and aggressive policing; the drug trade devastates communities.
Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
#935Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any resources in particular that helped you grok Rust?
Not OP, but: jonhoo youtube streams Reading r/rust a lot... asking questions in comments.
I discovered Jon's channel recently and there's a lot of gold in there!
Doug Milford is also worth following, although aimed more at Rust beginners: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmBgC0JN41HjyjAXfkdkp-Q/pla...
Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
#936- Half Life 2, Ep1 & Ep2, Alyx
- Empire Strikes Back
- Tumbbad
Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
#937The reMarkable 2 tablet! As long as you don't expect it to do more than what it's designed for, I've been loving using it and it's helped me enjoy writing a lot more.
Could you talk more about how you use it? https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-2 says it's for taking notes and writing on PDFs. That's not much to go on...
I have it on the side while I work to take meeting notes and then email them to myself, or use it as aid to explain designs/ideas visually.
I sketch blog posts for my blog on it. It has pushed me to write end-to-end without distractions because there's no browser tab to check. I also don't end up finding existing blog posts and ending up demotivated.
I download sheet music from imslp and put it on the tablet, I study and annotate the sheet music and use the tablet to read on the piano.
Sometimes I draw on it, too...
Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
#938As far as video game examples go... The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey. The trailers made them out to be the pinnacle of their respective franchises, and people's expectations for the two games was sky high. This plus all the changes made to the 3D Zelda and Mario formats meant there was a lot riding on these titles. But both delivered on that hype. They've both done extremely well in term…
Nintendo benefits from the Tesla/Apple/Jeep effect.
Fanboys will be happy regardless.
As time goes on BOTW is being realized as lackluster. Empty, bad graphics, same story, boring environment.
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#939 games from valve, blizzard, Nintendo or rockstar. They usually get quite a bit of pre release hype and then great reception afterwards. I mean gta5 might not be my personal taste but i cant say it did not deliver.
I believe cyberpunk will still deliver, actually. These huge single player rpgs tend to have buggy releases and cyberpunk was still worse than others, but five years from now people will still be talking about them and i doubt cyberpunk will be very different.
Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
#940Star Wars (1977).
I suspect most people who read HN weren't around when this movie came out, but I was around then.
There was tremendous hype -- the excitement that this film generated led to lines of people waiting outside movie theaters just to get their chance to see it. People would watch it and then get back into line to watch it again. I remember hearing of people who watched it 15, 20, 25 times.
Star Wars substantially advanced special effects. If you want to get an idea of what the state of special effects were in that era, watch Star Trek (the original series).
"Star Wars" felt _real_. Lightsabers, the use of a "Force" where you could physically moves things from a distance, the glissando effect when a starship goes into hyperspace-- these were all incredibly credible and mind-blowing to people back then.
Star Wars didn't just live up to its hype-- it has exceeded it, becoming a fixture in American culture, and becoming a franchise that continues to generate interest and income today.