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 đź‘Ś".
Can't believe what we do to those poor perfect beings.
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
Tetris
You're welcome
You can't take credit when you're the 11th attempt.
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.
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.
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.
There's a famous example of one of these bulbs that's been in operation since 1901
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.
Sure, but those kinds of lights are very dim. You can just use a dimmer bulb set to very low if you want that kind of longevity.
Technology connections did a video on it. Basically the lights which lasted forever either; sucked at giving light and/or sucked at sucking power.
Light manufacturers got together and made a standard which was a sweet spot of power efficiency, longevity and light output. Unfortunately, being decent at all three meant no longer sucking at two to boost longevity.
Every time I think I understand a household appliance, Technology Connections has a 20-60 minute explaining why it’s more complicated than I thought.
The Princess Bride.
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
Diablo 1 and 2 by Blizzard. I guess maybe the 2nd time around was perfection but between those two, nothin further was needed.
Diablo 2 also had an expansion... and balance patches... But I agree.
If you haven't played it, path of Diablo is a really fun Diablo 2 mod.
Hadn't heard of it before. Searched for it, and came across both Path of Diablo, and Project diablo. Some polls suggested preferring the latter 2:1. I haven't played D2 in a few decades (sheesh). Any thoughts on comparing those mods?
Highlander :P
There should have been only one.
Zing! Love it. <3
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.
Science-fiction comedy
Working analog clock minute hands after the first minute.
Was only a few years ago I realized that the minute hand is entirely superfluous for most applications. You can easily tell what ten minute interval of the day you are in by looking only at the hour hand.
On a large enough clock, the hour hand could have easily visible marks for not just minutes, but also seconds. If I were an architect or whatever I would try to make that the floor of a lobby or something.
In this thread: people living in fantasy lands.
Batman hitting his target with a batterang.
You dawg; you're perfect!
Dragon age origins
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