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[–] dominiquec@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Retro handhelds.

[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

CGPgrey's AI and his self driving cars videos.

Definitely made some poor choices in life due to these that I could scream into a pillow. The future is always unpredictable, but while behind the scenes I'm sure a lot happened, more than a decade later the use cases are still the same - grifting.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Ctr +f "cybertruck": 0 results

Good job everybody!

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

Pfff as if i could afford to make that mistake

[–] cheers_queers@lemm.ee 4 points 10 hours ago

the thin plucked eyebrows (2000s).. I'm now trans masc and wish i had them back lol

[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago

Chia cryptocurrency. My dad got into it, and the price was mooning. Gave me an excuse to build a new PC and learn linux, so I thought it was a worthwhile investment. Sunk a decent chunk of change into hard drives that I still have laying around, but I'm using several of them and have a sweet gaming rig that I would've built eventually anyway and had something to talk to my dad about. So basically, just out the cost of some drives. All in all, it was a calculated risk that didn't pay off.

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I thought touch screens would be a fad. I dont fall for hype but thats because Im an idiot, not because Im smart.

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[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 24 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

KSP2

Can't get it refunded now

That's definitely a lesson

[–] SoulWager@lemmy.ml 5 points 13 hours ago

After a couple thousand hours in KSP1, I still managed to dodge that bullet. The only new feature I really cared about was multiplayer, and I knew it wasn't going to happen when they they started early access without it.

[–] Thorman1@lemm.ee 5 points 14 hours ago

I don't know, the ksp redux project that a lot of the ksp2 modders are working on sounds pretty promising.

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/226985-ksp2-redux/

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 3 points 14 hours ago

When I was a young idiot, I really thought Clonaid was gonna be a thing. I guess I thought it was plausible because I grew up reading a fuckton of scifi and Dolly the Sheep had been born a couple years prior. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago

Stalker 2.

I didnt just buy the game once, I paid for a "collectors edition" with a bunch of physical merch that I wont see until may or june. and even briefly volunteered to be a community mod. sifting through waves of hateful filth from hostile actors within the "community". there is a LOT of Russian incited hatred against the game because of the fact the game was Ukrainian

I got incredibly hyped for the game because I had been waiting for it since the late 2000s. watched it die and come back from the dead, and it looked awesome.

the sad reality was that it needed more time in the oven, and I dont think they had a choice. I think they were forced to release it in the state that it was because they couldnt afford another year of no sales and surviving off investors and pre-orders. so what we got was like a 7/10 and it needs a lot more work.

and the political situation in their country where as many as 1/3 of the staff still live and work, is tenious by the day, they are absolutely fighting World War III over there. and some countries are trying to stab them in the back, telling them to just go surrender and get murdered..

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Pretty much anything Elon Musk. I used to be an Elon Musk fangirl up until 2018, then each successive year was like the cutscene of Crash Bandicoot having all the boxes he's missed falling on his head.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 4 points 9 hours ago

I enrolled in Aerospace Engineering in 2018 because of Musk.

Part of why I never graduated was the gradual loss of faith in the person who had inspired me. Although he has actually never changed.

[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

I remember on Reddit one awful "This is Musk. He didn't like ___, so he invented ___" picture with like 4 examples of things he stole and a stick figure with his head. "Be like Musk" was the bottom text. I agreed with it at first, then I saw it like 6 more times.

Being annoyed at those constant repost made me leave his fan club pretty quick. Oh how naive I was, thinking the worst thing he could be was annoying.

[–] polle@feddit.org 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

With 2018 you are waaaaaaay ahead of the most other people.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

2018 was when he called the diver a pedo? That was the moment for me. I thought he was an awkward nerd trying to make electric cars a thing against all odds, an underdog. That was the moment I looked more into him and saw how wrong I was.

[–] polle@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You probably (already) love thunderf00t videos. If not, look him up.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

His Elon Musk videos, and debunking other tech bro bullshit, absolutely, but I stopped watching him as the channel became too clickbaity/sensational for me to take seriously. I still agree with many of the opinions, but the format is not for me anymore.

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

Word for word, same. That shit was so fucking left-field, stupid, toxic, and offensive that it broke the camel’s back, hard

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago
[–] Gointhefridge@lemm.ee 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Crypto. I didn’t spent a ton, but I didn’t make a ton either. I’m net up now but it’s so stupid.

I made 2K on Doge a few years ago, but ever since I’m just sitting on it. It’s not a loss unless you sell.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I've been shuffling a few thousand Doge on the peaks and valleys ever since the SNL Spike. Sell a thousand at .20, buy it back at .15.

It's softened the blow, and I think overall, I am slightly ahead. (As long as it doesn't crash to 0) I've given up on the moons, but I'll keep holding and hoping it gradually climbs before it dies.

[–] PillBugTheGreat@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago (3 children)
[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I fell for New World myself.

Even played the beta and saw how empty it was, but nope I continued on.

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