After all, it had all the ingredients I look for in these kinds of movies. Teddy and I had high hopes for Birdemic (Yes, Teddy now gets top billing in these reviews). That’s part of the fun of the whole thing. This pursuit has brought us no shortage of fool’s gold.īirdemic: Shock and Terror, written and directed by James Nguyen and released in 2010, is one such hunk of rock that’s been offered up as raw ore, the stuff “good bad movies” are made of: Yes, you will have to work for it, but there’s something valuable, something interesting in there, if you can sieve it out. What I’m more certain of, however, is that its overrepresentation in the “good bad movie” genre has sent many cinephiles on a treasure hunt for precious metals of similar value. For many, it’s simply a funny, silly movie to play in college. I can’t know for sure if it’s the quest for the sublime in a less alloyed form that draws others to The Room. Wiseau is just untalented, which is fine. The Room is a movie made by a believer, by a man on fire, no less on fire than Michelangelo or Emily Dickinson or Prince or Pasolini or Ella Fitzgerald or the Dril Twitter account or any number of storied artists who’ve stolen from the light of Olympus and brought it back down to earth in the palms of their bare hands to share with us mortals. It topples over, falls down a flight of stairs, and breaks both its legs as it does so, yes, but it reaches nonetheless: at themes of infidelity and reckless passion. Beyond the ironic fandom and the cult classic status lies an incredibly earnest work reaching for the sublime. Tommy Wiseau’s The Room, to cite a prominent example, has elicited the interest of millions as precisely this sort of curio. Cultivating an appreciation for bad art brings us into finer attunement with appreciation for art in general. Such slapdash projects, lacking the precision and elegance that mastery over craft provides, offer a raw, visceral glimpse at the smoldering Promethean flame at the center of man’s works. This fact is what draws me to awful films in the first place. But the conclusion I have drawn is correct and you will see this whether you reflect on it now or stick around long enough to see the economics play out.Within each human creative endeavor both large and small exists at least a flickering ember of the divine. To say that Linux was the last free software was obviously hyperbole. If pure intentions counted then both might be successful but unfortunately it’s not the case. People respect free software because it is “virtuous.” It’s a very short sighted notion that shares its roots with communism. And this doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has closely scrutinized the whole picture.Īnd the whole thing is made worse by the politicization of free software. And as the circumstances change it only becomes more clear that free labor won’t be a successful model for software. It was a set of circumstances that created the illusion that the shackles of capitalism had been broken. And the average programmer historically was very intelligent and wealthy. The other is the cultural circumstances surrounding software historically, where often people were being pioneers with their contributions, contributing to the grand vision of computers and the internet which only very recently has been realized. One of them is the unique property of software not needing any physical resources to be created or distributed. Not a joke! There are reasons why this fundamental truth has been obscured for the short amount of time that software has existed on a meaningful scale. We need more editors so that we do not end up having one winner and then the winner starts becoming a slow monster. I will spend some time but if anyone takes some time to figure these out, please share them. Plus plugins like Prettier, Git viewer and some other tooling. But getting debugger and project level browsing setup should be really easy and I feel VS Code does this, even if the overall UX is a bit slower. I have an i5 9th Gen/20GB laptop now and I would still like a faster editor/IDE. I could not see how to set debug breakpoints on the editor gutter (left). But I could not see how to browse within the components/files (Ctrl+Click usually) in the folder that I opened (TypeScript/Deno project). It is definitely faster to launch and overall UI felt more responsive even in a couple clicks. When I had a slower laptop (I ran Arch on an 8GB/i5 4th Gen) I felt the need for a faster editor. I used to use Sublime a couple years back, I do not remember having a paid license though.
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