The Princess Bride.
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Jackson’s Lord of the Rings. All three are the absolute pinnacle of every craft represented in them. (i.e.: camera work, costumes, casting, CG, practical effects, soundtrack, and all the rest.)
That was not the first film adapatation
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Tetris
You're welcome
You can't take credit when you're the 11th attempt.
No no, that's not 11, that's one one
It’s the closest thing to a “perfect” game I can think of. Every new iteration is just fancy bells and whistles on the same perfect core.
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The first twilight zone. All the followups just lacked the stark yet innocent tone of a someone reasoning with an unjust reality.
I've been making my way through the original recently, one-by-one and though some of them are hit and miss, even the misses are doing something amazing cinematically.
Alien. Maybe my only 10 out of 10 movie, and not my favorite!
We've all seen it so many times it loses it's luster. Wife had never seen it so I sat with her in the dark and watched it for the first time in decades. Jesus. She was about to tear through the couch cushion in stress. I knew what was going to happen and couldn't peel my eyes off the TV.
Truly one of the best movies ever made.
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Horseshoe crabs. Unchanged for hundreds of millions of years.
Or just the form of a crab in general! Carcinisation is so weird, but apparently evolution sometimes goes "Let's just do crab again, that shit was 👌".
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In this thread: people living in fantasy lands.
Instant Pot.
Apparently they went bankrupt because they built their units too well. Everyone bought one and never needed to buy a replacement.
Wow I didn't believe you until I looked it up, 758 million in 2020 to 344 million in 2022, that's bananas. I love my instant pot
Same with Saab cars
Windows Control Panel. Everything's there, multiple ways to sort it all, no need to go shake things up
Ah yes. Perfection:
Or maybe:
No? maybe this.
Edit I missed windows XP
No shakeups at all, it’s like a rock.
Perfectly reliable and unchanged from the beginning.
Edit since folks choose to distinguish “Settings” from “Control Panel” as if that doesn’t make the point even stronger. I’ll admit that it’s been pretty consistent since Windows 7. Still very different than the first iteration.
This comment is a time capsule goddamn
Hot Dog Stand Color Scheme lol
Well, the last 2 images you linked are Settings and not Control Panel, from versions that decided to not only have that but also the Control Panel, and Control Panel is thematically the same across all versions
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Oh hell no. You don’t remember it coming out and everyone complaining about how convoluted it was. Pepperidge farm remembers.
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You dawg; you're perfect!
If I remember correctly, one such example is the lightbulb. Some of the earliest designs were centered around using longer-lasting filaments than their contemporary counterparts, which meant considerably increased lifespan.
There is a trade-off between efficiency and durability on incandescent light bulbs. They did sell bulbs that lasted longer, but those had lower lumen/watt.
For generic bulbs, the cost of electricity was significantly greater than the cost of the bulb. It was cheaper to replace bulbs more frequently than to waste electricity.
They still made them too. 130V bulbs / garage bulbs / heavy duty bulbs all lasted far longer on 120V because the filament was thicker. They basically never went out.
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Diablo 1 and 2 by Blizzard. I guess maybe the 2nd time around was perfection but between those two, nothin further was needed.
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Dragon age origins
First matrix
I saw Dark City first, liked it a lot, and didn't like Matrix.
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Batman hitting his target with a batterang.
Splatoon. The design, the music, the art, the gameplay and the idea was executed so well.
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