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

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Post by Agathos »

JamesLeonis wrote: post #419

Half-Life 2 I preordered it in 2003, before the big hack/leak caused Valve to delay release into 2004. Because of the success of the original and the long wait, combined with Valve being almost complete silence during development, there was a huge buildup of hype leading up to the release. Totally worth it.

I thought Half-Life 2 was a good 15 hour game that could have been a great 10-hour game. It just dragged on a little too long, like a lot of games do.

Then along came Episode 1 and Episode 2, cut down and polished to perfection like a pair of gemstones.

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

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Post by delecti »

slg wrote: post #487
101008 wrote: post #38

Two finales: - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. When the seventh book came out in 2007 there was this fear among the fandom that JK Rowling couldn't deliver a great ending. I think most people agreed she did very well (even more than expected, considering the complexity of the story in the prior six books). - Breaking Bad last season / last episode: there aren't many tv shows that can end in a high note (check G…

It isn't really a true finale in the same way as those two examples, but I would throw out Infinity War and End Game as a joint example. The Marvel Cinematic Universe was able to successfully put a capstone on a cinematic project on the scale that had never even been attempted before. It was impressive enough to end a single story like Harry Potter in a satisfying way. The MCU was able to do the same for a wide varie…

It's really incredible just how well Endgame stuck the landing, but the whole MCU is impressive. Even the worst films of the MCU are still totally watchable, just forgettable. And comic movies are really easy to get wrong, that same decade of MCU movies overlapped with both Andrew Garfield Spiderman movies, and a smattering of forgettable or outright bad DC comics movies.

That Rise of Skywalker and the final season of Game of Thrones came out in the same year helps to contrast how much most things don't stick the landing.

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

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Post by rasen58 »

thebigspacefuck wrote: post #683

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.

How do you actually see plaque? I feel like I wouldn't be able to tell the difference if I got an electric toothbrush. Are you saying it actually makes your teeth look whiter?

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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

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Post by nailer »

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.

But as a man LeBron is weak:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50054195

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

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Post by handmodel »

cercatrova wrote: post #717
bananabiscuit wrote: post #711

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, I would never have guessed Mr Robot was planned out start to finish. I loved the first season, but by the middle of the third season it felt very much like a show where the writers had no idea where to take the plot next, haven’t watched anymore since.

You should continue watching, it all comes together in the last half of the 4th season. You'll understand why Elliot is the way he is.

I'm with the prior poster - season 1 is planned and is rewarding on its own. I personally don't think the series was satisfying after that.

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

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Post by selykg »

wincy wrote: post #185
fsflover wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Full day, 18 hours” battery life ruined it all for me. Too much trouble to charge so often.

I have the series 6 and also wish the battery life was just a little bit longer. It feels like I have very little wiggle room, and have to charge it once a day around the same time or it’ll die. I’m writing this from an iPhone 12 Pro Max that hasn’t been on a charger since yesterday morning when I got out of bed.

I charge mine while I’m in the shower usually. Or if I’ve hit all my goals for the day I’ll toss it on the charger before bed.

It doesn’t take long to get a reasonable charge on it. I usually keep it around 80% at most anyway. It gets me through the day at 80% and through the night since I use it for sleep tracking and alarm.

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

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Post by Matthias247 »

throw0101a wrote: post #384
meowzero wrote: post #334

The Last of Us 2. A lot of people were anticipating the game. And I'm surprised how many people hated it. Maybe to them, it didn't live up to the hype. But it lived up to the hype for me. I just finished the game and loved it. Functional Programming. I've been doing FP for almost 10 years. I've drank the kool aid. Give me those monads and referential transparency.

> And I'm surprised how many people hated it. Probably because of the 'second half'. A lot of people were invested in the Ellie and Joel stuff, and weren't really interested in other characters, so for a lot of folks it was a matter of slogging through story line(s) that had no appeal to them. All for seemingly making the moral lesson of 'revenge can be costly' and 'forgiveness makes you a better person'.

I played through it, and it by far was the hardest game to through for me this year. I didn't enjoy it that much.

The reason was less the second half of the game (which I actually found refreshing), but more that the whole thing felt continuosly slow, very violent, and surfaced the worst about humanity. I'm typically not sensitive to games and have played my fair amount of shooters - but this one felt like a bit too much.

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

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Post by hertzrat »

Beowulf, translated by Seamus Healy. I can’t read the other translations at all but that book is incredible with his wording. It’s a dark story of warriors, glory, monsters, tiny kingdoms carved out by champions, and gives a rare look at how Christianity blended with paganism in those days to create a unique literary folklore
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