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

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Post by zests »

cercatrova wrote: post #383
zests wrote: post #160

Chess is an amazing game. It has personality and if you know a bit about the game it has infinite depth. Players have playing style. There is a rich history going back hundreds of years.

Was chess hyped though? The question was not, which things are good and stood the test of time, it's what lived up to hype, and for me it doesn't seem like chess was really ever hyped all that much.

Chess is becoming an e-sport and as the other comments mention there is also the series queens gambit.

Chess is growing in popularity on sites like Twitch and Youtube.

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Post by thebigspacefuck »

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.

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Post by Uehreka »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #668
DonHopkins wrote: post #37

Factorio!!! (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...

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 that’s when the deep game begins. You’ll need massive power production and manufacturing infrastructure, you’ll start using the online calculators to figure out ratios of this to that, and when you get to 1 rocket per minute, you’ll want to see if you can design a system that does that while running completely untouched for 24 hours.

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Post by akhilcacharya »

laserbeam wrote: post #21
akhilcacharya wrote: post #6

Half Life Alyx did, and in my opinion exceeded it.

Was there hype for this? As far as I remember this only turned out to be impressive after reviews started rolling in. (not contesting thr experience itself, I just don't remember the pre-release hype)

There absolutely was hype for HLVR in the community, and to be clear any successor to Half Life 2 Episode 2.

I was a VR buff and a Half Life fan but I was blown away by how good it was and it’s ending.

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Post by trianglem »

hwestiii wrote: post #587

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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Post by hwestiii »

elgfare wrote: post #644
hwestiii wrote: post #587

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…

My 9th grade English teacher read the Iliad to us, explaining words and phrases as he went along. It was an incredible experience. He also read Romeo and Juliet in the same way. I considered it a great gift to allow us to experience the truly great literature at that age, in a way that I think most of us could understand and appreciate.

I think I would have liked this. I had a 6th grade teacher who read aloud to us daily, something more age appropriate, though, and this experience a remarkably large, and fond component of my recollection of those days. Unfortunately I was promoted right into an "innovative" program of "individualized learning" which ultimately crashed and burned in about 6 years, but consumed all of my middle school years. I didn't really encounter anything comparable again until high school
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