When a highly anticipated tech product is released to the public with undisclosed major flaws creating generally overblown PR mayhem, including but not limited to: Tech blogger rants and link-baiting; fanboy tears, anguish, disbelief and excuses; impotent manufacturer patches and/or fixes; repeated BP-ish responses from corporate executives; snarky comments enclosed in competitor's advertisements; open letters from populist-whore politicians; angry rants from Whoopi Goldberg; some sort of obligatory but thoughtless comment from Steve Wozniak. Named for the the Microsoft Product Windows Vista.
The Apple iPhone 4 was regarded as the greatest smartphone ever, or at least until it was discovered that the antennae system was slightly less capable than Abe Vigoda's unmedicated penis and subsequently underwent a complete and public Vistafication.
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flexcash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.