What was something that you thought was overhyped that actually lived up to the hype?
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I wasn't disappointed with Infinity War and Endgame
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Gonna go for some controversial ones.
AI (generative), around chatgpt 2 i was hearing a ton of hype and I thought no way this ever gets good enough to be useful. Now today I can say yeah its there, in my opinion its the best way to search for answers. Google got popular because people could search with human style in puts like "how long do I cook rice for" but now we have AI that eliminates the step of skimming through the results.
Crypto. The hype was that it would replace currency and while it hasnt done that it does actually provide a replacement for fiat currency. I can send a transaction to an internet friend and maintain all my privacy with no 3rd party being involved its great. Its stable enough to hold and its even been trending up over time. Pretty cool stuff, Monero is my preferred currency but I do use bitcoin for a ton of stuff.
Sometimes I use chatgpt for questions when I don't want to sift through garbage but I detest doing this. This only points out that search engines have got so shit they have to use other shit to get me decent results.
For crypto, mostly it's cryptobros tryna make a quick buck with only some people using Monero on the dark web. I do hope one day we can use Monero to purchase things though.
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I wasn't disappointed with Infinity War and Endgame
Infinity War was completely worth the hype. I wasn't quite as enthralled with Endgame, but it wasn't bad.
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Sometimes I use chatgpt for questions when I don't want to sift through garbage but I detest doing this. This only points out that search engines have got so shit they have to use other shit to get me decent results.
For crypto, mostly it's cryptobros tryna make a quick buck with only some people using Monero on the dark web. I do hope one day we can use Monero to purchase things though.
Yes there are cryptobros speculating on the currency but it doesnt change much IMO. You dont have to wait to buy things with crypto its already there in a lot of places.
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Mechanical keyboards
Every keystroke feels and sounds like heaven!
My laptop has a mechanical and honestly I want my old membrane back. Mechanical is loud, membrane is not. The only benefit I get is that if I break a key I replace a key as opposed to the entire board being fucked.
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The Oodie. I would only see them on people walking down the street or in shops, and advertised in FB, but wow, what a saver on heating bills.
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I don't think there were SSDs that large when they first came out in the late 2000's. I saved up for an 80GB one back around 2009, and it was an absolute piece of trash. It was fast when it wanted to be, but most of the time it would randomly stutter and just go unresponsive for several seconds causing the rest of the PC to hang up until it decided to start responding again. After fighting with it for too long, I replaced it with a traditional harddrive which at least behaved as it was supposed to.
It was several years later before I tried another SSD, buying a relatively inexpensive 120GB drive that actually did live up to the hype.
Hmmmm, I'm probably misremembering the size now that you mention it. I'm also practically incapable of remembering when something was, but it would have been around the late 2000s - early 2010s. I do remember it held Windows plus 1-2 games, and I juggled around the games I played most from SSD to HDD and back.
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I only have a Quest 2 and I still love it. I think we won't see mass adoption until it's slimmed down to just glasses.
I don't think it can ever be that thin. There's too many constraints: needs to block other light, needs to be at a comfortable focal distance, needs power and a processor, not to mention the input and audio components...
Augmented reality glasses, yeah I can see that.
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Infinity War was completely worth the hype. I wasn't quite as enthralled with Endgame, but it wasn't bad.
Yeah Infinity War is probably my favourite in the turn your brain off genre of movies. It's absolute peak, a culmination of everything that happened in the decade before.
The entire MCU was an absolute phenomenon and they executed it so damn well till the end of Thanos. I kinda miss the social aspect about talking with everyone about it. I know people got superhero fatigue because of it which never truly recovered but man it was fun.
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The Oodie. I would only see them on people walking down the street or in shops, and advertised in FB, but wow, what a saver on heating bills.
I don't think I have even heard of an Oodie before. Is it just a super oversized sweater made out of some material commonly used for blankets?
That might be something my wife would like as a Christmas present, but then I will never see her body shape ever again.
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Ok, I guess I'll be that guy. Every time they are mentioned, it's always people proseltyzing. It made me consider one, but I never pulled the trigger. All of the arguments I heard felt kind of unconvincing, and I couldn't justify buying one without trying it first.
Then I bought a house, and it came with two of them. I was excited to try them out and see what all of the fuss was about. The thing is... The ones I have suck. Now, one of them seems to have weak pressure, so it could just be a bad one. However, the other one feels like it's trying to clean the back of my teeth, and it still doesn't do anything I couldn't do with paper. Sure, it might get the job done slightly faster, but I still need to use paper to at least dry off after I'm done.
Maybe a better one could change my mind, but for us, they sit there, mostly unused.
it still doesn’t do anything I couldn’t do with paper
You are supposed to use paper and then the bidet.
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Ted Lasso
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Lok'tar! I remember not affording a subscription back them, so I would spam PvP at the lv 20 cap every day after school. I had multiple full sets of honor heirlooms on my trial account. Good times
I couldn't pay for sub either, so I made do with private servers
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I don't think I have even heard of an Oodie before. Is it just a super oversized sweater made out of some material commonly used for blankets?
That might be something my wife would like as a Christmas present, but then I will never see her body shape ever again.
I'm not sure if it's just an Aussie and NZ thing, but houses here are built so poorly that winters are horrible. My house is colder inside than it is outside.
Oodies are next level. The label says 100% polyester. They're way oversized and really soft inside and out but that's what makes them so great and comfortable to lounge in. Pants optional because you can tuck your legs inside and curl up on the couch (I'm 175cm and can do this with room to spare). You start to feel the warmth as soon as you put it on.
Oodie > blanket because you can walk around in them and not worry about it falling off your shoulders and getting cold, and there's no gaps anywhere like a blanket would have, like under your arms.
Sometimes they will have sales like BOGO half off, or end of year sales. Got one for my partner who was dubious, but was sold when he saw I got him one with Rick and Morty on it. He loves that he can stick his hands in the front pouch and keep his hands warm playing the Play Station. I can't take it off him now.
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Ok, I guess I'll be that guy. Every time they are mentioned, it's always people proseltyzing. It made me consider one, but I never pulled the trigger. All of the arguments I heard felt kind of unconvincing, and I couldn't justify buying one without trying it first.
Then I bought a house, and it came with two of them. I was excited to try them out and see what all of the fuss was about. The thing is... The ones I have suck. Now, one of them seems to have weak pressure, so it could just be a bad one. However, the other one feels like it's trying to clean the back of my teeth, and it still doesn't do anything I couldn't do with paper. Sure, it might get the job done slightly faster, but I still need to use paper to at least dry off after I'm done.
Maybe a better one could change my mind, but for us, they sit there, mostly unused.
Disgusting, i can't imagine not washing your ass after a shit when at home
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I'm not sure if it's just an Aussie and NZ thing, but houses here are built so poorly that winters are horrible. My house is colder inside than it is outside.
Oodies are next level. The label says 100% polyester. They're way oversized and really soft inside and out but that's what makes them so great and comfortable to lounge in. Pants optional because you can tuck your legs inside and curl up on the couch (I'm 175cm and can do this with room to spare). You start to feel the warmth as soon as you put it on.
Oodie > blanket because you can walk around in them and not worry about it falling off your shoulders and getting cold, and there's no gaps anywhere like a blanket would have, like under your arms.
Sometimes they will have sales like BOGO half off, or end of year sales. Got one for my partner who was dubious, but was sold when he saw I got him one with Rick and Morty on it. He loves that he can stick his hands in the front pouch and keep his hands warm playing the Play Station. I can't take it off him now.
wrote last edited by [email protected]So it's kind of like a really comfortable plushy enclosed robe? I thought it might be like a Snuggy at first, but it looks like it's closed in the back unlike a Snuggy.
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Yes there are cryptobros speculating on the currency but it doesnt change much IMO. You dont have to wait to buy things with crypto its already there in a lot of places.
Enlighten me with these "a lot of places" where I can use Monero
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Pop sockets.
I saw so many people use them and hated the sight of them. They look weird and make your phone fit awkwardly in your pocket and you can just lean your phone against something heavy if you want to watch a video or whatever.
But I decided to try it and it is single-handedly the thing that allows me to use my Android phone pretty much one-handed. With gesture controls and the ability to shrink the keyboard to one side for one-hand typing, I'm able to use my 6" phone with one hand 90% of the time.
Pop sockets >>>> every other method of holding your phone (they lꝏk awkward for me)
Needs stronger adhesive tho , bcus mine some times peels off . One time had to superglue one to my case , which I hope don't havta ever do again !
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transitioning
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Gonna go for some controversial ones.
AI (generative), around chatgpt 2 i was hearing a ton of hype and I thought no way this ever gets good enough to be useful. Now today I can say yeah its there, in my opinion its the best way to search for answers. Google got popular because people could search with human style in puts like "how long do I cook rice for" but now we have AI that eliminates the step of skimming through the results.
Crypto. The hype was that it would replace currency and while it hasnt done that it does actually provide a replacement for fiat currency. I can send a transaction to an internet friend and maintain all my privacy with no 3rd party being involved its great. Its stable enough to hold and its even been trending up over time. Pretty cool stuff, Monero is my preferred currency but I do use bitcoin for a ton of stuff.
wrote last edited by [email protected]in my opinion its the best way to search for answers.
I'm seriously concerned for when someone comes in contact with you and asks for your source when you're discussing something
I can send a transaction to an internet friend and maintain all my privacy with no 3rd party being involved
unless you run your own self-hosted blockchain then a third party is always involved, that's kind of the entire point of blockchains
