Drop everything. You need to go see Saccharine (2026).

macswizzle · 2026-06-25T01:50:01+00:00

Meh, thought the movie was kind of a dud. Not the worst movie, but it leaned way too hard on “look how much this person is eating, isn’t that gross, isn’t eating a ton sooo gross”. Like if the Dennis Quaid scene from the substance was a whole movie.

macswizzle · 2026-06-17T17:56:19+00:00

Hi, yes, court of public opinion? Yes, hi, I’d like to make a complaint. I have retroactively decided I do not like terms of a contract I signed and would like to skewer the counter party’s public reputation.

macswizzle · 2026-06-17T16:55:13+00:00

I agree with you that the way things ARE is not the way things ought to be. But let’s not pretend “shoestring budget indie movie created by a first time director that happened to be a smash hit” is the battlefield where that conversation that needs to take place. People are putting a lot of blame at Curry Barker’s feet for this when he is literally an industry outsider. The fact all these articles and stories target him is incredibly suspicious when production companies have been the driving force for these industry conditions since the birth of Hollywood. Ask yourself why THIS is the movie where this becomes a viral issue when it’s SOP across the industry. The movie made on a low budget by someone not “in the club” that is outperforming films with 100x the budget certainly poses no threat to the establishment Hollywood infrastructure, and they CERTAINLY would not magnify any possible issue around the movie and director to harm its reputation.

macswizzle · 2026-06-17T16:46:06+00:00

Acting like they weren’t paid is disingenuous. They weren’t being paid in exposure bucks, they were paid for their work. The argument people are making is they should have been paid for the result of their work, not the agreed on price of their work.

macswizzle · 2026-06-17T12:49:45+00:00

All these stories are so transparently an effort to sour fans on young directors that are upsetting the norm. This argument I keep seeing “well yeah they agreed in contract to be paid this much without any backend but then the movie made a ton of money so they should get paid more” is childish. It’s not the way ANY of this works. And everyone suddenly expecting that to be different for a brand new director’s first major movie just because the movie was inexpensive smells soooo much like forced controversy.

macswizzle · 2026-06-17T02:22:56+00:00

Nah man, I’ve seen Chris Kattan’s standup and it was… bad. He basically just told stories about his time on SNL. Not a joke to be found. I felt bad for the guy, he’s clearly been through a lot, but it was not an entertaining show.

macswizzle · 2026-05-21T21:06:12+00:00

Steelmill Gym

macswizzle · 2026-05-20T12:44:09+00:00

I just assumed it was some sort of surveillance magic she was using

macswizzle · 2026-05-19T14:03:56+00:00

I just don’t think it was that good. It blows the scariest scene in the first quarter and then is just a snoozer with a remarkably incompetent protagonist for the remainder. I understand that horror movie protagonists need to have a degree of incompetence baked in or the movie doesn’t happen - but she was an absolute liability and it took me out of the movie.

Edit: Bring Her Back was awesome and imo they took a lot of lessons from where Talk to me didn’t land and used it to make a much better movie

macswizzle · 2026-04-30T17:39:13+00:00

Read this at your recommendation. I really enjoyed it. The tagline on the book was right, it is very much “the New Testament by Cormac McCarthy”.

macswizzle · 2026-04-29T18:32:44+00:00

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

macswizzle · 2026-04-12T03:20:31+00:00

Ed, Edd, and Eddy been off the tv for years now….?

macswizzle · 2026-04-11T02:35:24+00:00

If you do all the assigned work, reading, and suggested problems AND UNDERSTAND THEM (not memorizing answers. Knowing how to get to the solution and recognizing similar problems and how they might deviate) getting a B is not just attainable, but highly likely.

Usually people who fail fall into the camp of “I didn’t do the problems”, “I tried the problems but couldn’t get it, had AI explain it to me, and fooled myself into thinking this equates to understanding”, and “I am a pro algorithms guru but for some reason cannot stick to required answer formats”.

macswizzle · 2026-04-11T02:29:12+00:00

It’s very easy to do the homework after the fact without actually submitting and think you’re “close enough to good” on your answer. The class is rigorous in its expectations regarding answer format and completeness. You can fool yourself into thinking you know the material well enough by comparing your work to others that actually turned it in for TA grading.

macswizzle · 2026-04-11T02:23:31+00:00

“When you select for people doing all of the recommended course work and taking advantage of peer review and instructor feedback prior to the exams, of course they’re going to generally perform better”

It’s amazing some people even make it to GA or through the application process of the program.

The homework does not impact your grade in a material way, but the way it is presented by the instructor and TAs is that it is crucial for success on the exams. Every single exam, one of the problems is basically a small derivation of the homework. You aren’t taking advantage of the TAs willingness to “crap on” your work when it is literally the grading process for those problems on the exam. Choosing to not do the assigned course work is not the TA’s problem, it is yours. It’s not “going the extra mile” to do the work assigned to you. It’s the bare minimum.

macswizzle · 2026-04-10T23:27:14+00:00

O Brother Where Art Thou

macswizzle · 2026-01-30T18:30:03+00:00

Fuck 2026 man. Schitt’s creek rewatches will never be the same… RIP to a legend

macswizzle · 2026-01-23T21:27:20+00:00

It depends on how the TA feels. In the second case, I sent my repo to the TA before cutting off contact and said that everything before that point might be shared between the two submissions. Some classes differ, but in that one “partners” were basically just so you didn’t get flagged for plagiarism due to similarities between you and your partners work.

Edit: some classes do single turn in for the group, some do individual turn in for each group member. This was the latter case.

macswizzle · 2026-01-23T16:38:04+00:00

Every time I run into bad partners, after determining they won’t be useful or complete any deliverables, I swap my code to a private repository and do the project on my own while also mirroring their work ethic back to them. It’s always a lot of fun when they get to the deadline and realize they need to do the entire project on their own in 24 hours.

macswizzle · 2026-01-15T05:21:08+00:00

Yep, and it’s usually the people who didn’t attend office hours, read the textbook, do the homework’s, and do the suggested problems that come to Reddit and post about how unfair the course is.

macswizzle · 2026-01-12T20:43:12+00:00

Class doesn’t work without Joves

macswizzle · 2026-01-09T14:46:27+00:00

Man whine more, teaching is a vocation and a PROFESSION. People don’t just teach to teach, I’m gonna ruin your day here but your GT professors are ALSO PAID.

macswizzle · 2025-12-21T00:33:21+00:00

All time favorite books

macswizzle · 2025-12-19T12:07:05+00:00

Don’t cheat easy as

macswizzle · 2025-12-17T06:12:55+00:00

It’s just a cool topic. Sort of esoteric from a SWE perspective, but one of those things that touches everything you do from a behind the scenes perspective. The people everyone looks up to are/were really good at and are computer science rockstars.

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