What is something you never understood the hype for?
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Having multiple monitors. My boss now has three. One is dedicated to displaying their calendar the whole day.
Any more displays than one and its gonna fry my brain. I can only keep attention to one at a time.
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minecraft
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The Harlem Shake, it didn’t help that I could never figure out what it was..
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The MCU and most specifically, RDU’s IronMan.
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The notion that working in the Trades is so great. Coming from a guy did a lot of construction work, trust me it can really suck… also most of the guys in that line of work are assholes.
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I will also never understand the fascination with streaming. Just play the game, nerd.
For the viewer: Playing take a lot of energy, watching is more passive. Especially like horror games that raise your blood pressure / heartrate. Also, not everyone can afford games, some are console only, and even PC games have hardware requirements that people don't have, because people either have a potato computer, or just have smartphone only. Also, games are hard, watching a streamer dying is kinda funny.
For the streamer: Socialization (even tho its kinda one-sided, they can still read comments / live chat), and most importantly, money.
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"The good old days"
Good ol' days of countries threatening each other with nukes. Good times. /s
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Giant monitor >>> multiple monitors. For my internship of making 3D animations I had a really big monitor on my desk. I could fit every single viewport and UI element I ever needed on that screen!
Using a 50" TV for computing got me off dual monitors. I can use the main living room TV as a second, but only later in the day if I want a video on the big one.
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For the viewer: Playing take a lot of energy, watching is more passive. Especially like horror games that raise your blood pressure / heartrate. Also, not everyone can afford games, some are console only, and even PC games have hardware requirements that people don't have, because people either have a potato computer, or just have smartphone only. Also, games are hard, watching a streamer dying is kinda funny.
For the streamer: Socialization (even tho its kinda one-sided, they can still read comments / live chat), and most importantly, money.
I mean I couldn't handle horror games even if I was just watching! The hardware stuff is valid though. I used to watch videos of this family play APB wayyy long ago since it was on PC only I think (or paid). Watching others play in a livestream just feels like blue balling yourself though.
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Pussy until i got 14
My first crush was when we were in 4th grade and Wonder Woman comics gave me a chubby before that. Always been a thirsty little shit!
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Watching sports. Playing them, I get. Watching? Never cared for it.
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Most social media stuff.
Omg did you hear X did Y?
I guess I'm just old but I don't follow most. Even with dogpiling PirateSoftware. Yes, he's wrong and probably lied. I just don't get the hype around it. I'm happy that the hype led to Stop Killing Games getting enough traction though, that was nice.
I've never heard that name in my life, and I'm petty sure I don't care one way or another. My daughter gets wrapped up in internet drama and I can't for the life of me understand why. I am not drawn to drama but were I, there is plenty to be found in my own life. It's all so performative and pointless — the good and the bad.
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Same LMAO they're neat but I've always been so meh about them. And there's not even like new ones, it's always the same versions over and over again
wrote last edited by [email protected]It's been 30 minutes: time to reboot Batman again! Let's spend half the runtime of the movie rehashing his origin story just in case there might somehow still be one single person on Earth who doesn't know what Batman's deal is.
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Giant monitor >>> multiple monitors. For my internship of making 3D animations I had a really big monitor on my desk. I could fit every single viewport and UI element I ever needed on that screen!
wrote last edited by [email protected]I find multiple monitors better. The physical separation helps in creating mental separation, allowing me to focus on the currently important areas and ignore the periphery.
Started working on double monitor setup still in the 90s (two big ass crts) and never went back. I tried some ultrawides, but always default to 2x instead.
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Apple, especially when it was considered a “luxury brand.”
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The notion that working in the Trades is so great. Coming from a guy did a lot of construction work, trust me it can really suck… also most of the guys in that line of work are assholes.
I'm a software developer, but I spent three months chucking boxes in the back of a truck for General Motors one summer. Some days, my brain is fried after six hours at my job, but the physical labor work I could do for 12 hours and walk out feeling almost refreshed.
I sometimes wish I could go through a day of work just... doing. Not wracked with indecision or trying to figure out which tradeoff I won't regret in three weeks. The idea of going into a framed house and wiring up electric all day and then going home — without ever having done it or experiencing the downsides of course— it sounds really nice.
Of course my back and joints couldn't keep up at fifty like they did at twenty-two, and I met a bunch of functional addicts working that job and I wouldn't have wanted to get swept up in that.
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I will also never understand the fascination with streaming. Just play the game, nerd.
It’s not just for the game, but the narration.
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Facebook.
La Croix
All the oddball fads like fidget spinners and rubber bands shaped like things.
Low fat diets.
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Working for corpos. It's a dream for most of IT people to get hired in Google or Microsoft. I guess being a worthless cog in a world-destroying machine is the top of the game these days.
As a software architect, I only target small companies. And I can do anything I fucking want, I'm currently rocking a SolidJS+TRPC+Prisma setup and life is a dream.
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Having multiple monitors. My boss now has three. One is dedicated to displaying their calendar the whole day.
Two at least. I am an accountant and constantly comparing at least two things. I have never been able to work on a laptop, need the multiple screens.
