Asklemmy

Yep, every time someone mentions how long it's been out, it surprises me again. It still 'Nintendo's brand new console' to me.

And then Tears of the Kingdom in turn lived up to the hype set for it. So great

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.

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.

you can also shine them in your eyes!

I got a couple of electric scooters for me and my gf to fuck around on. Ended up selling my car.

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.

Such a masterpiece. Rockstar came under fire for working people a bit too hard to get this done, but damn the result is breathtaking.