Movies · by Budi Santoso · 2026-09-24

A surprisingly useful lesson from a family dinner after a tiny failure

I had a disappointing first try, a surprisingly good second try, and then a third attempt that taught me humility. So, naturally, I now have opinions.

> Tiny progress is still progress.

That line sounds cheesy, but it got me through the part where cinema stopped feeling new.

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Liam Naidoo · 1 likes

This is the kind of useful internet I still show up for. My friend tried it in Cairo and had the opposite result.

Valeria López · 1 likes

Fair pushback.

Iryna Melnyk · 0 likes

This is the kind of disagreement I like.

Amina Okafor · 1 likes

That is the part people skip.

Liam Naidoo · 1 likes

Fair pushback.

Ren Suzuki · 0 likes

I would push back gently on the surprisingly part. This would have saved me a lot of trial and error.

Pixel Baker · 0 likes

The Tuesday test is undefeated.