Tv, The internet, the smallpox vaccine
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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.
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.
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 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.
Maybe you hit something reflective and beamed it right back into your eye?
you can also shine them in your eyes!
Still having your eyesight is also one of those things that aren't overhyped.
The Steam Deck. Awesome, awesome device.
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
The polio vaccine.
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
Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse
way exceeded the hype
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.
Such a masterpiece. Rockstar came under fire for working people a bit too hard to get this done, but damn the result is breathtaking.
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.
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.
Super random but getting laser hair removal. As cursed lady I maybe shave like once a month maximum now as opposed to twice a week. Yes it's cheaper to shave but my vision is horrible even with glasses (and I can't wear my glasses in the shower) so shaving is difficult... now I hardly have to think about it!
Everyone also talks about lasik for eyes being the best thing they've ever done. I would totally do it if it didn't totally freak me out and rely on me lying still and not blinking.
Lasers are cool.
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!
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.
Holy crap did they finally finish the series? If so, I'm going to watch that last season!
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
Minecraft. Still super fun and there are servers for literally everyone (from pure vanilla to factions to semi-anarchy and anarchy)
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.
The film BOOGIE NIGHTS.
Smartphones. I only got one in 2012 and basically went from an old Nokia to having a flat computer in my pocket.
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.
Book - Pride and Prejudice
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
Sex
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