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That's just one thing the editing language does, though. There's no single feature you can point to as the smoking gun; it's all the small advantages added together that make vi worthwhile.

Not just the next parenthesis that appears, It jumps to the matching one that opens or closes the one under the cursor. Hitting it repeatedly bounces back and forth around the text that pair of parentheses enclose.

It works not only with brackets and curly braces, but also with opening and closing tags in XML etc.

I feel like other editors must have an equivalent feature, though. I'd say the fact that vi can put such a specific action under just % rather than some nasty chord or mouse operation is what really makes it shine here.

Nano is extremely basic, it's not really the right comparison. Vi competes well with heavyweight GUI editors and IDEs, yet is available about as ubiquitously as nano.

By learning vi, I can have my no-compromises favorite editor equally available to me locally or remotely. The terse, low-chord (looking at you, nano) editing language in vi means I'm not even that hampered when I do remote editing from my phone.

It doesn't read sarcastic to me; the joke is more presenting a fantasy as though it were practical dating advice.

Them titties are properly low-poly.

The Sun's not going to explode, either. I'm beginning to think this dog is full of shit!

Not an unreasonable interpretation!

Is it surprising that people might miss that, though? Especially if they don't already agree with the antifascist message.

4 in particular I think is more open to interpretation based on ones existing biases than people seem to think. Being over the top doesn't necessarily have to be mockery and authorial intent is peanuts to a random personwatching a movie.

The other points IIRC are individual moments rather than recurring themes. It's not surprising to me that significant numbers of people overlook them.

Is it really that mind-boggling? ST has always seemed to me to read whichever way you are already predisposed to. How does everybody dying make it an anti-war movie? I would be shocked if the kind of person who believes in the good of a war machine were surprised that lots of people die in war.

Maybe my memory is a bit hazy, but the bugs actually annihilate a city, right? What is the human response supposed to be? The extreme nature of the government and military only come across as insane if you've already been educated about fascism. Desperate times do indeed call for desperate measures, which muddies the antifascist message in my opinion.

It's a great movie, but anyone who thinks it's going to change anyone's mind from their preconceptions is fooling themselves.

What am I missing?

Water doesn't go on the food pyramid, silly!

Providing sources is what makes me like perplexity.ai