The Steam Deck. Awesome, awesome device.
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can't remember the last time i was this happy with a purchase
The Nintendo Switch when it came out. I was super hyped and somehow the console even exceeded my expectations.
Playing Breath of the Wild for the first time was amazing and even after 6 years the console still feels modern to me.
Yep, every time someone mentions how long it's been out, it surprises me again. It still 'Nintendo's brand new console' to me.
I feel you. The PS3 is still "last generation" to me and a Core 2 Duo still feels like a powerful new processor.
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Bluetooth earbuds. Took me the longest time to buy a pair. Now I have them all the time.
I thought airpods/cordless buds were stupid when they first came out, I thought I would instantly lose the buds. now I canβt live without them.
If they would make it so that the batteries could be replaced and recycled then it would be more sustainable.
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- The Lord of the Rings trilogy
- The Harry Potter books and films
The polio vaccine.
MRNA vaccines. Not only have they saved millions of lives from COVID, they look like they are going to revolutionize other areas as well. For example, there is a wide-range cancer vaccine under development.
Vaccines. My uncle had Polio as a child and so my Grandmother was still advocating strongly for vaccines before her death at 98. I'm happy to have received my first Shingrix shot last week. It's amazing we can get a poke, with something that's completely gone from the body in a week but we will have T-cells protecting us for a very long time.
E-bikes.
I got a couple of electric scooters for me and my gf to fuck around on. Ended up selling my car.
Yeah I occasionally hire one of the escooters they have around town. They're a blast. Been thinking about selling my car and just buying my own
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Lasers. They seem to have endless uses from playing with cats, scientific measurements, military, construction, heating, cooling, even used for space-based internet communications. Thereβs so many more uses that Iβm not using.
A fucking laser gave me what I still maintain is my weirdest memory ever.
I was in my upstairs bedroom, shining my little handheld laser into the park across the road from my house. Since it was so dark, the laser dot seemed to travel an extreme distance compared to what I was used to during the day, so I was just enjoying pointing it at anything interesting - just random shit like reflective signs, trashcans, anything shiny or metallic.
After about five minutes, I decided to start toying around with the dot on a little sign that was sitting next to a small lake in the middle of the park, when all of a sudden, and I'm not really sure how to explain this, but I'll try; for a split second, the red light from the laser reflected off EVERYTHING in the vicinity for about 700 meters in all directions - all the reflective signs, any water surfaces, all the houses on the other side of the park, car windows, metallic objects, etc. I was so fucking taken aback, that I stopped and tried to contemplate what the hell had just happened. I was wide awake and this happened clear as day right in front of me.
To this day, I've still found no way of explaining how such a weak laser was able to a) reflect so much light off so many (hundreds) of surfaces simultaneously, if only for a fraction of a second, and b) if this is somehow a physical possibility, how perfectly everything in that park, alongside my own positioning from my house, would have had to align for each object to then perfectly - and without losing any luminosity - reflect the light into the next surface hundreds of times.
It's this shit that makes me think that just maybe those 'glitch in the matrix' people are onto something.
EDIT: So I guess to stick to the topic at hand, another use case for lasers is making me question the laws of physics.
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Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse
way exceeded the hype
Yeah, it's a really good story and the mix between 2d and 3d is beautiful
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Tv, The internet, the smallpox vaccine
The Steam Deck. I thought it was overhyped and it would just be another "sounds great but actually isn't that good" product like the Steam Controller or the Steam Link. Then I got one as a present. Hot damn is that thing amazing.
LeBron. He came out of HS as the "chosen one" and dominated the NBA most of his career. He could have easily have crumbled under the pressure and instead ended up being a top 3 all time player.
Also, no major scandals. Seems like a decent father to his kids, been with the same girl the whole time. No cheating or partying or rumors of shady behavior or other bs.
Linux, the internet, Smartphones and, IMO, in that order. The last two would be incrementally worse without the first one.
PS. I suppose you have to include e=mc^2 as well...
The Wire. It really is the greatest TV show ever made like people say it is.
Red Dead Redemption 2 what a game. As a dev myself it's just awesome that there are still people respecting every inch of a video game. The animations, the story, the side activities, the acting, the underlying systems that are nearly prepared for everything. It's just insane. I lived like a hermit in the woods when it came out.
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A few years ago I finally saw Goodfellas for the first time. I watch a lot of movies, and I was certainly aware of it when it came out, itβs just one of those movies that I somehow never ended up watching. Of course I loved it and got it on Blu-ray immediately afterwards. But it sounds funny if I ever try to bring it up around anyone, like Iβm saying βman that classic movie everyone loves, apparently itβs pretty goodβ.
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Smart Phones
Tears of the Kingdom. A sequel to a game that swept the floor with all game awards that took 7 years, and it is getting nothing but glowing reviews.
Worth every day of the wait!
Minecraft. Still super fun and there are servers for literally everyone (from pure vanilla to factions to semi-anarchy and anarchy)
Smartphones. I only got one in 2012 and basically went from an old Nokia to having a flat computer in my pocket.
More recent one, but tears of the kingdom is really the game I wanted it to be. Game of the year, maybe of the decade :D
- James Webb telescope
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- Dirty Dancing π
The Spiderverse movies are fantastic in animation, action, and story. The first movie is fantastical with comedy and a hero's journey story backed by revolutionary animation for the time. The second movie ups the ante with a superhero story that truly never feels forced, drama that tore my boyfriend apart, and so many plotlines that each get the respect they deserve. And then more...
Cooking food over a fire has worked out pretty well for us so far
Better Call Saul. I just finished the series a few days ago and I thought it was amazing. At the moment I believe it's actually better than Breaking Bad so I'm gonna have to go and watch that next to compare.
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PokΓ©mon Go. Like a typical hype you are sceptic at first, try it, see why everyone loves it and then see how the hype cools off again. But for those few weeks in the summer it first came out it was a blast. I met so many new people, the whole atmosphere of walking in a random neighborhood just completely changed.
Sous vide cooking. I jumped onto this as soon as the original Anova launched. People around me thought I was weird even though it was a well tested tech in large kitchens. They stopped laughing as soon as they tried my steaks. Now it is used by non-enthusiasts and most people know what it is. At least they do here in Norway.
I think the image of the black hole that was generated a couple years ago lived up to the hype. Both scientifically theorized and layman's guessed imagery of a black hole was pretty on point.
The super mario movie. I went in expecting it to be good, and I enjoyed it far more than I was expecting
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Sex
Elden Ring is the first thing to come to mind. I feel like it totally exceeded expectations no matter what you're experience with the soulsborne games was prior
Milk.
Maybe a hot take, but Cyberpunk 2077. I didn't experience most of the bugs people complained about and I loved almost everything about the game and world. It's also only gotten better as they've patched it.
For me, it could never live up to the hype. But I am glad some people have enjoyed it so much and it has come a hell of a long way since release. I've been playing recently but going to wait for the new DLC and restart.
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