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Time is not just relative, it gives a whole new perspective of things that wasn't there. Think of it as an ultimate test to determine whether stuff is legit or not. And while some things remain unchanged, like the world still hailing Keanu Reeves, others turn sour, like an acidic vinegar you’d never, ever dare to call wine.

This phenomenon is known as poorly aged things, which means they not only didn’t get better over time, they got way worse to the point of passing cringe or meeting regrets. So in order to see some of the best of the worst real-life examples, we took a visit to the “Poorly Aged Things” Twitter account that does precisely what it says: “showcases poorly-aged things and blinx.”

With 719.9K followers and counting, it offers some of the most remarkable examples of feeling remorse over something you were honestly proud of before. How did this 180° change happen? I told you, it’s all time’s fault.

Part of the beauty (and the horror!) of the world we live in is that things are for the most part unforeseeable. I mean, nobody would have believed you if, back in 2018, you told us there was the greatest pandemic in modern history right around the corner that would forever change our lives as we were used to. But on 31 December 2019 (it’s hard to believe it was two years ago!) the coronavirus was first reported from Wuhan, China, from which it rapidly spread around the globe.

But what if we could have known it prior to the outbreak actually happening? Could we have changed the debilitating course of events that followed? The question may never have answers, but we can have a look at what it takes to make predictions about the future, and how accurate they actually are.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

but a new disease apeared out of nowhere and destroyed world peace

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If you've never heard of superforecasting, it’s the practice of prediction that covers everything from whether a currency will become stronger, one country will invade another, or there will be civil unrest in a city. Superforecasters calculate the probability of something happening and then adjust that as circumstances change. In this way, they’re able to come up with consistent predictions.

But it’s much more complex than that. According to Bloomberg, superforecasters did not accurately predict Brexit, putting the chances of a Leave vote at 23% in June 2016—the month of the referendum. Their predicted figure had been higher a few months previously but they had adjusted the likelihood downwards, reports the BBC.

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Being a superforecaster entails one quintessential personality trait, which is superior analytic ability. Philip Tetlock, the Leonore Annenberg University Professor in Democracy and Citizenship at the University of Pennsylvania, identified many people who could be turned into “superforecasters”—people whose analytic ability is considerably better than random people (or who, in financial analyst terms, “beat the market”).

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It doesn’t mean trusting your gut is all there is, since analysts have to do many other things besides just forecast, but it surely helps, Philip argues. Other personality traits for a superforecaster include being intelligent, playing games and solving puzzles, being able to pragmatically use other people’s ideas, and being open-minded to new data which shows up.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair, no one could have foreseen the incredible success of the MCU (including Marvel). They just have great producers.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When they made Iron Man, everything was riding on its success. If it had flopped, Marvel would have been forced to sell the rights to all their characters or go bankrupt. Luckily for them, Iron Man did not flop. Another little factoid that I read the other day is that the highest paid actor in the first Iron Man movie was Terrence Howard, who played Rhodey. For undisclosed reasons, he was replaced by Don Cheadle after the first movie.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sad story. When I heard Marvel was making Spiderman I bought 200 shares of Marvel stock at $7. Sold them around $12 after the movie. When I looked a few years ago after splits and Disney buying them and more splits. If I'd had HODL'd they'd be worth over $50K now. Ouch.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sony made the right choice. They would not have profited from this deal, as they would not have taken the same approach to the movies that made them the success they were.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I couldn't agree more. Looking at how disney handled star wars makes me feel somethings just have to be left where they are.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair, it was the hard work of the producers, the actors, and the directing that made these other movies a success, and made us care about these "other" characters.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

True as they had to bring them all back to mainstream attention to have them popular again

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Thomas Turnbull
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes but Sony would have made a total mess with the other characters

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Nancy Lynch
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And how much money did End Game bring in? Wasn't it in the Billions?

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Rod Egret
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This shows, once again, that big corps are led by people that are not smarter than you and me....

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same things have been always said for disruptive innovations in history.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it'll topple over if there are no intervention. They heavily stabilized it starting from 90s

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Technically true - he didn’t say “not one s**t-smeared government building”.

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