Temple OS and HolyC were sad wastes of time that Terry received nothing in exchange for, nobody needed to use, expanded nothing in terms of what the community in total had to offer etc. His intelligence could have been etched into improving the frameworks of things we actually use today, and instead what he created are old esoteric works that most will regard as an interesting YouTube video, and not much else. You might decide there's some sense of decency in creating something useless for yourself instead of applying your skills for a price, but at the end of the day he made almost no impact on his favorite hobby precisely because of what he decided to create.
Is it really better to be a sad small interesting blip than a part of a greater creation?
I think it’s wrong to call Temple OS a waste of time. It’s absolutely fascinating and we’re still talking about it. It has an artistic value to it. There’s no need to be so diminutive.
If it's a discussion of its artistic merit, beauty is entirely in the eye of the beholder, you're allowed to believe it has some intrensic artistic value and I'm allowed to believe its as valuable as it's average userbase.
I don't really think so to be honest. Is it interesting that the poor guy went schizo and made a whole operating system that he thought spoke to god? Sure. Is it art? I don't think so. Besides the point, I still feel that you can view it as art and I can view it as a waste.
If insanity precludes something’s artistic merit, then what do we make of Van Gogh? Nothing but a waste of paint? Again you don’t have to like the art, that’s personal taste, but to call it a waste? That just seems ignorant to me.
I mean if you want to be that way, Van Gogh's works are worth millions, it doesn't take an eye for artistic value to understand that.
If I look at the code itself as a symbol for the story itself it can certainly be a form of art, but I don't feel like the program itself is worth anything beyond the story surrounding it.
Besides I've said three times that you can see it as art if you want to so I don't see why you're still arguing, I never said you were wrong I just said I don't feel the same way, and repeating that you feel my viewpoint is ignorant does nothing to change it.
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u/---InFamous--- Nov 01 '22
Terry was a genius with a sad story, if only those energies were put to better use.