What is something you never understood the hype for?

turns out hes a POS like witht he people associated with.

Unsubbed from a person that featured him recently.
Can't support his behaviour and anyone that supports his presence in any capacity.

I can watch sports I don't play. Like football(both American type and what we call soccer), MMA(although I haven't watched anything in years), basketball(but only NCAA), hockey, the occasional baseball game. I'll make an exception for boxing and tennis, those are watchable even when I was deep into them. But golf‽ How does anyone watch that? I get walking the greens, and hitting it every few minutes yourself, but watching someone else just seems so boring.

Especially beyond the local level

I feel like this except for gymnastics, rythmic gymnastics, ice skating/dancing. Those are so entertaining.

Agree. When I was on Twitter I followed local bars, restaurants, and music venues for info on events and happy hours. No humans.

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.

I've been watching countless PirateSoftware drama videos since it's the clown that keeps on giving. I never bothered with drama channels on YouTube, so I never realized how much of an industry these people made out of it now that I keep getting recommend them. It's sickening.

And anything else in that category of blind bag collectables. Can't do anything with it other than decorating a shelf, spend more money than it's worth to get a whole collection and end up with too many multiples you can't get rid of, and fake rarity.

Yogi?

most of the guys in that line of work are assholes

Can confirm

I think it's just some people have realised it pays well.

it destroys the body, and i only ever seen white people work in trades, so i suspect as to something to do with how they are only hiring those people too.

I enjoy watching and chatting in smaller streams sometimes (like, a couple hundred in the chat at the MOST, usually < 100), it’s still parasocial, but tends to be WAY more chill. If it’s a stream with thousands of people, I don’t see the point in chatting, it’s passive entertainment at that point for me, personally!

It's 100% uncanny valley for me as well. There's a creator a like who doesn't like to appear on camera much (most of their main content is animated) and wanted to watch their livestreams. They used an avatar and it just weirded me out. It doesn't help that I'm seemingly way more sensitive than usual when it comes to audio and visuals being even slightly out-of-sync.

Supposedly vtubers need to make very exaggerated facial expressions irl in order to make sure the software picks it up and translates it onto the model, which is sometimes unsettling to people when they get in the habit of doing that normally.

I don't get the uncanny valley from them, but I guess that can vary from person to person, so that's fair.

The thing about chats being filled with too many people for any one person to matter I agree with. But that's a big streamer thing, not exclusively a vtuber thing.

When doing work that requires multiple apps to be open or file explorers, web pages, and reference stuff then having a second is very convenient a lot of the time. Yeah, I could stretch it out on one giant monitor if it was an option, but two just makes it easy to keep track of what is where by having physical breaks.

At home it is great for having discord or other thing off to the side for communication or reference while playing games full screen on one monitor instead of needing to alt tab or use windowed mode smaller than full screen. If I did a more immersive driving/flying set up I would have three for the wrap around effect and a fourth for the extra stuff.

Both situations are for convenience.

I do know someone at work that has three but they handle the infrastructure and they often have multiple apps and browsers open for all the things that interact when troubleshooting and having it large and readable makes it easier to see what is changing and what isn't changing at the same time.

I didn't get it either until one class in high school (graphic design) had second monitors installed for all work stations halfway through the year. It's super useful being able to have reading material open on a vertical monitor! Only reason I don't have one still is because of very limited space (can't even fit a normal PC).

I did start using my TV as a second monitor recently though for putting Zoom meetings on it. I got tired of having to alt tab back to it every once in a while when doing stuff. TV sits behind my laptop so only like half the screen is visible but it's good enough!

Having two has definitely helped me, because most of my job is comparing what this thing says to what that thing says, but any more than that sounds like a bit much.

they're great if you do more than one thing at a time or need many programs open at the same time. anyone who regularly 'alt-tabs' to find or switch to a different window that they cannot currently see could benefit from another screen.

one wide or ultra wide display may not work as well, as some programs simply aren't made with that aspect ratio in mind. we have one program here that insists upon being in a maximized window--always. a lot of wasted space, even on a 16:9. that user has two 5:4 instead and loves that setup.

When I was a CAD draftie, multiple monitors were a godsend.

As someone who never understood multiple monitors, one day I just got a second one and now I feel working without a second monitor is limiting.

Having said that, I can’t see a use for a third monitor at all (not to say it’s completely useless. I’m sure some people find it useful).

If I have one that's sufficiently big I don't need two. 24" is usually all I need. Helps to have 20/20 vision as well and use smaller fonts.

I love having a lot of desktop real estate. Instead of flipping through multiple desktops, I can keep everything in eve view all day long.

Any more displays than one and its gonna fry my brain. I can only keep attention to one at a time.

I love having two monitors at work, have been working this way for ~15 years now. At home, not so much, almost all the time one screen is enough.

My workstation at home only limits me to two, once I get a bigger space I'm going for three.

Interdimensional cable is arguably better.

Apps can collect all your data from your phone whereas a website doesn't have access to your GPS location, etc necessarily.

The keyboard is epic though. Totally designed in 6th circle of hell

It's not just to watch the game, it's to watch/listen to the streamer. It's like a talk show.

I used to think this, but as I gave it a shot, I started learning new techniques in games like Overwatch. Learn from better players than me.

I also can just watch a stream of a new game and see if it's something I'd like to play. Saves me from buying a game I might not like.

I'm glad people stream because I can (a) watch games that I find interesting but hate the mechanics/etc. of and can't/won't play and (b) I can learn different techniques and other things in games I do like (such as Link to the Past Randomizer).

I do also like streaming for language practice, mostly just on the input/listening side.

It’s not just for the game, but the narration.

I only follow a handful of streamers, I really don't care what games they play. What's important to me is that they're entertaining, not too loud like 90% of U.S streamers.

I especially like streamers who play with their friends, I find solo streamers boring and compensate by being loud and shouting all the time.

Sometimes I just don’t have the time to play so I leave a streamer on in the background while I work and look at that screen every once in a while to catch s glimpse of a game that’s nostalgic and comfortable.

when i was in MS, a girl classmate said it was just picture on paper. the current hype/pandemic is due to scalping pokeinvestors trying to gouge prices over it. the pandemic just made everyone stayed home and play pokemon all day. funny thing is nobody said anything about MTG when i was playing HS, and yugioh was hot sht when i was HS, and it was too risky to play it, because people were stealing it from other people.

it got some resurgence due to people capable of plahying it online. people do criticize the prize mechanic is archaic and should be done away with, i much prefer a life point type mechanic instead.

I remember when In-n-Out first came to Texas, and the line to try it had the entire highway backed up for miles; People couldn’t even fit in the parking lot, and the line had literally backed up all the way up the highway exit and onto the highway.

Tried it like a month later, and wasn’t impressed; If I just want a fast food burger, Whataburger is better.

It's a lot better than other fast food burgers. But it's a pretty basic, straight forward burger. It's fresh ingredients, done simply. And it's why everyone loves it.

I know of a few places near me where they serve nearly identical burgers, and I love those too.

It's worse than ok. I'd rather have any other common fast food. Fries are stale, shake melted, burger bad. The burger was the best part, but god damn it was a terrible meal. Not worth the meal. I would have rather eaten saltine crackers and peanut butter. We ended up throwing most of it out and going somewhere else.

Contrary to the negativity, while McDonald's for me is generally considered the bell-curve available absolute 5/10, their food engineering is incredible and worth admiring. They're the one chain that I confidently am in awe of from a scientific perspective, AND, still hold the crown for best Coke.

The great thing about the past is that you can forget anything you want. Just hold on to the happy thoughts and any day can be a good ol day.

Cars in general or the Pixar movie?

its because you didnt watch hot wheels world race and hot wheels acceleracers as a kid. damn the deora II is so cool

When an artist is the first to inspire a movement, history tends to look back on them differently. There's a related trope that covers this phenomenon - "Seinfeld is Unfunny." From that page:

There are certain works that you can safely assume most people have enjoyed. These shows were considered fantastic when they were released. Now, however, these have a Hype Backlash curse on them. Whenever we watch them, we'll cry, "That is so old" or "That is so overdone".

The sad irony? It wasn't old or overdone when they did it, because they were the first ones to do it. But the things it created were so brilliant and popular, they became woven into the fabric of that work's niche. They ended up being taken for granted, copied, and endlessly repeated. Although they often began by saying something new, they in turn became the new status quo.

Nirvana is one of the artists mentioned under the "Music" examples on that same page. The point is, they were groundbreaking when they came out, but they changed the music scene so much and have inspired so many similar artists that their original work has become overshadowed by the successors they helped create.

Your experience is common and it's okay not to enjoy their music, but the key to remember is that without Nirvana helping to pave the way, other grunge bands may not have risen to the popular level they reached.

Bleach and Incesticide weren't particularly good albums. Generic rock pulp, the songs were interchangeable.
EIDT: I'd argue it's their live shows that made them stand out. "Live and Loud" electrified me to no end.

Nirvana was ok. They are the ones credited with killing the hair metal genre.

But honestly Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and Stone Temple Pilots....they are all 10 times better than Nirvana ever was.

I want essentially a roommate who is cute, but not really sex. I just don't really understand it beyond a means to an end.

Granted when I started estrogen I got the bombshell news that I am possibly intersex(?) with ~5x less than minimum normal levels of testosterone so that probably has something to do with it

it's been about a month on E and my sex drive has plummeted even further than it was before. It's interesting.

Hey don't bring vanilla into this, vanilla is actually an amazingly deep and complex spice and flavor. Common =/= complex or good

When it first started there wasn't much like it. It was like playing life sized Legos. And the resource requirements were so like you could just about okay it on a potato. And not even, like, a big russet or King Edward potato. I'm talking one of those little bite sized red ones

These days I just use it to diagnose my nephew with autism

Gonna disagree with you there. BloodSugarSexMagic was nice when it dropped. Music video of them dancing in their underwear with P-funk was revolutionary at the time.

Their stuff in the 2000s though? Yea, too overproduced.

Flea slappin’ bass though…that dude is a legend.