It can be a movie, a scientific discovery, food, whatever
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.
And then Tears of the Kingdom in turn lived up to the hype set for it. So great
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 can’t live without them.
Audiophile headphones are my hype good. I have a pair of Sony xm3 noise cancelling, and they’re very nice and very useful. I have some nice Jabra earbuds, and they’re very convenient and sound pretty good too.
But… Man. Nice headphones with a nice amp and dac, with nice recordings. It’s just incomparable in quality. On the bt stuff you get left and right. But on the audiophile stuff you get close, far, left, right, behind, soft, punchy, up, down, and it all sounds even better. And no compression artifacting! No garble, no batteries, no waiting to connect, and they’ll last decades as daily drivers and then have replaceable parts even after that.
Also, nice speakers are worth the hype. Just buy real studio monitors like a pair of Yamaha hs8’s. You’ll never need to upgrade pc speakers ever.
The only problem with them is that ever since I updated to Windows 11, my laptop no longer connects to any Bluetooth devices and absolutely nothing will fix this issue.
But that’s hardly the headphones fault, it’s this shitty operating system.
Sammmme. I was so against having to charge headphones to listen to them. No idea they would last as long as they did on one charge and my god do they perform well.
Tv, The internet, the smallpox vaccine
Lasers. They seem to have endless uses from playing with cats, scientific measurements, military, construction, heating, cooling, even used for space-based internet communications. There’s so many more uses that I’m 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 anything 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.
you can also shine them in your eyes!
But never point them at a mirror (it’s the law).
Still having your eyesight is also one of those things that aren’t overhyped.
The polio vaccine.
The Steam Deck. Awesome, awesome device.
can’t remember the last time i was this happy with a purchase
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.
SSD.
It is way way faster than HDD.
I can’t use HDD-only PC anymore.I had an extra SATA port on the side of my laptop that resembled a CD-ROM drive. Plugged in new SSD, installed win10, and it was so much faster. The original installation is festering until I finally back up all the data, cause I’m a data hoarder apparently. Doesn’t help I used the old drive, now D:\ as storage.
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy
- The Harry Potter books and films
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.
I know I was kinda blinded by the potential early on, bu the world is the most ambitious ever created in a video game. The fact that all of the missions use it at face value is really crazy IMO. The game is groundbreaking for that alone.
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
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
How hard are you finding it? My wife and I tried fucking around on our car once but there wasn’t enough room. How are y’all achieving it on a scooter? Any tips you can share?
The Wire. It really is the greatest TV show ever made like people say it is.
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.
Cooking food over a fire has worked out pretty well for us so far
