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.
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.
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.
The polio vaccine.
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy
- The Harry Potter books and films
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 Steam Deck. Awesome, awesome device.
can’t remember the last time i was this happy with a purchase
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.
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!
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.
Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse
way exceeded the hype
Tv, The internet, the smallpox vaccine
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!
Milk.
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 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.
Smartphones.
