Jimmycrackcrack

Flubber 1997 Not because it was such a memorably great trailer, but just because it was so misleading. I don't want to watch that shitty movie all over again just to verify my claims but what I recall was, there were entire scenes or shots in the trailer that weren't in the movie at all, and they were kind of the best bits. I definitely expected a lot more crazy hijinks and time spent in the flying car with sentient mischievous green goo then what I remember ending up with. The whole flubber material having some will of its own too I seem to recall was a much less prominent aspect of the movie than was implied, it seemed to be just goo most of the time. So much screen time was spent worrying about the Professor's marriage and conflict with the University faculty, which was so boring for a kid especially when they marketed it so heavily and I was given to expect so different. Don't know if I'd have liked the 60's version better, from what I read and see in the trailer it does look like pretty much the same movie so likely suffered the same issues.

If one really dug through my history before this comment and probably in to the future when I've long forgotten about it you'd probably find examples of me not practicing what I'm about to preach but, to an extent no one really is a loser because the term is subjective and meaningless in any practical sense. People might do "loser" things sometimes or even constantly, but still have capacity for change or posess redeeming factors that make them worth time and energy to at least someone. The question is whether they're worth your time and energy, and whether you have reason to want them to redeem themselves in your eyes.

If your father had been a much nicer spoken man, and also stayed with your mother, but still had the terrible money management and bad financial situation would you still feel inclined to call him a loser? Someone with no attachment to him and whose personal criteria for casting someone in to that bucket centres around material wealth might, but his own children maybe less so. As it happens he has been bad with money, has made a lot of decisions you disapprove of and persists in interacting with you in a reprehensible manner so it's entirely understandable why you might not like him very much or feel much reason to indulge him or invest in a relationship with him. To me that's enough, his "loserdom" status is immaterial, in fact it's a distraction, because if you ever DID change your mind and wanted to attempt to repair the relationship, such value judgements might be hard to cast aside once they're allowed to calcify and such a change of mind won't be about his worth based on some extrinsic, arbitrary label but instead about what he is and continues to be to you.

It's an interesting question though because I guess if the files being zipped are already nearly or maximally compressed then I'd assume that the zip of all those files actually was in some extremely tiny negligible way, actually slightly larger than those files on their own.