It can be a movie, a scientific discovery, food, whatever

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      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.

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      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.

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    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.

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

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        I feel you. The PS3 is still “last generation” to me and a Core 2 Duo still feels like a powerful new processor.

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        Or a second gen model of the Switch. I was really hoping they’d announce something at the direct today but nope!

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    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.

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    More recent one, but tears of the kingdom is really the game I wanted it to be. Game of the year, maybe of the decade :D

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        Yeah I occasionally hire one of the escooters they have around town. They’re a blast. Been thinking about selling my car and just buying my own

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    Minecraft. Still super fun and there are servers for literally everyone (from pure vanilla to factions to semi-anarchy and anarchy)

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    Pokémon Go. Like a typical hype you are sceptic at first, try it, see why everyone loves it and then see how the hype cools off again. But for those few weeks in the summer it first came out it was a blast. I met so many new people, the whole atmosphere of walking in a random neighborhood just completely changed.

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    LeBron. He came out of HS as the “chosen one” and dominated the NBA most of his career. He could have easily have crumbled under the pressure and instead ended up being a top 3 all time player.

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      Also, no major scandals. Seems like a decent father to his kids, been with the same girl the whole time. No cheating or partying or rumors of shady behavior or other bs.

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    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.