Why veryslow ? Because Rick has no patience for anything else, but he has infinite patience for doing something perfectly once. He’d rather let his computer run for 14 hours than accept a file that is 1% larger than necessary. It is the most petty, brilliant, narcissistic flag in existence. While the family fights in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, there’s a 3-second cut back to the garage. Rick is drinking from a flask, watching a terminal scroll.
Rick uses a universe-hopping portal gun to avoid traffic. He uses FFmpeg to avoid compression artifacts. It’s the same impulse: The world is broken, but I can fix this tiny corner of it perfectly.
If you blinked, you missed it. But hidden in the B-roll of Rick’s garage cleanup montage—wedged between a neutrino bomb and a half-empty vial of concentrated dark matter—was a terminal window.