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

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Post by Tarsul »

dmitriid wrote: post #66
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…

> I'd say Avengers: Endgame It really didn't. "Let's take a compelling villain and a nice-ish philosophical dilemma, create a world that's reeling in the aftermath of said villain's actions... and just quantum time travel kill the villain with no effort and literally exactly zero consequences for anyone involved." Oh. Right. Boohoo exactly one single character died with exactly zero consequences for anyone because hi…

well, if you've followed mainstream (read: predictable) cinema for the last few years, that's exactly what was to be expected, wasn't it? Especially since it was foreshadowed in the first movie that some kind of time travel vehicle could be used in the second movie...

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

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Post by User23 »

marvion wrote: post #102
keiferski wrote: post #16

- A lot of people watch it with no background knowledge and subsequently don’t quite understand the “best film ever” label, but Citizen Kane is indeed a fantastic film. Just read about Orson Welles first. - Most religious books that have stood the test of time have lived up to the hype. The Bible (especially certain books like Ecclesiastes or Proverbs), The Quran, The Upanishads, to name a few. Again, don’t just go i…

> - Lifting weights is indeed worth the hype, and its benefits are more diffuse than just “being able to lift heavy things.” This was unexpected, but true. I started a few month ago, because I moved and noticed that carrying the goceries in the 4th floor interrupted my whole day... Every movement includes moving weight. It basically makes the whole life easier

As Mark Rippetoe says, “Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.” Harder to kill doesn’t just mean combat either. Real life isn’t like video games either, you can get a great return on strength training time. So good in fact that gaining strength won’t impair your other abilities at all unless you’re planning to compete at the highest levels.

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

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Post by croissants »

mtberatwork wrote: post #74
apengwin wrote: post #3

LeBron James was touted as the Next Great Hope for basketball, was on the cover of Sports Illustrated at age 17, and his high school games were televised on ESPN. Since then he's won 4 NBA championships, opened a school in his hometown, and become arguably the greatest basketball player of all time.

> and become arguably the greatest basketball player of all time. LeBron is definitely the best of his era but he's not touching Jordan in terms of greatest player of all time, even if he does pull off two more championships. During the 90s, Jordan was as close to a demi-god in the sports world as you could get.

> demi-god

I agree that Jordan was an amazing player, and I think he narrowly tops Lebron as the best of all time, but I also think Jordan benefited from a very precise moment in NBA history: the league's media reach became truly global and the established media was still pretty much the only source of information about NBA players. No TMZ, no random phone videos from clubs, no social media. It was the perfect setup to convince a huge number of people that this dude was a demi-god. If Jordan played today, I think he'd face way more scrutiny of the gambler/"apolitical"/bully parts of his personality, and while he'd probably win plenty of MVPs, I don't think he'd achieve the same iconic status.

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

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Post by st1x7 »

535188B17C93743 wrote: post #120
st1x7 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

I mean, it's a book about magic... what do you expect?

That's not an excuse for sloppy writing though. Even a book about magic needs a level of consistency within its own universe and when the quality is above a certain level, I'm prepared to suspend disbelief and go along with the story and not nitpick.

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

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Post by k__ »

adevx wrote: post #80
ghoomketu wrote: post #22

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…

For me it was the opposite, but I guess it really depends on your use case. I was heavily into a typescript based custom server side rendered setup and I would need massive refactoring to be able to use vue 3 (vue class based components). The SSR story in Vue 3 is still very much up in the air. I switched to next.js with mobx and for me React seems to live up to it's hype more than I expected.

Same here.

Since React I'd say maybe Svelte delivered the most in relation to it's hype. Otherwise nothing special happened in the frontend framework world.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Fiveplus wrote: post #88
mtberatwork wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and become arguably the greatest basketball player of all time. LeBron is definitely the best of his era but he's not touching Jordan in terms of greatest player of all time, even if he does pull off two more championships. During the 90s, Jordan was as close to a demi-god in the sports world as you could get.

Prime Jordan > Prime LeBron, that's how I put it.

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

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Post by manuelflara »

IkmoIkmo wrote: post #71

I'm loving my Apple Watch. I wasn't entirely sure yet what to think of the watch as a form factor, given that a phone can do everything it can and more. But there's three interesting aspects that have really added value for me. 1) is health data, in a way a computer or phone just can't do. It tracks things like heartrate that a phone + heartrate strap is too convoluted for, for non-athletes. Plus it's all-day and qui…

I agree, as a proud owner of a latest gen Apple Watch, but I can see how its benefits are not enough for its price for most people (i.e. its very convenient, but also expensive)

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

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Post by SyzygistSix »

neetrain wrote: post #18

How about Radiohead's 2007 album In Rainbows? Maybe OK Computer too, but I don't know how much hype there were because I was too young then...

Regarding OK Computer, not so much hype as I recall but after The Bends they were certainly a group to pay attention to. I don't think anyone was expecting anything as exceptional as OK Computer from them. What lived up to all the hype was the follow up, Kid A.

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

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Post by manuelflara »

Hamilton. I'm not big into theater nor musicals, and I had heard so much about it by the time I watched it on Disney+, I wasn't expecting it to blow me away but it totally did. I'm a huge fan now, watched it several times, listened to the album hundreds of times, read the book, and recommend it every time I can :)
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