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last night: war games 6pm C4
Crimson Tide 1015pm BBC1
A pure coincidence? both films deal with very similar things.
Ally Sheedy is amazingly hot in War Games

― lukey (Lukey G), Monday, 13 June 2005 08:20 (twenty years ago)

Tommorow it's Brother in the Land, the animated series followed by Threads.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 13 June 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

Hehe, caitlin and I discussed War Games when it came on last night. I haven't seen it since I went to Space Camp.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Monday, 13 June 2005 09:44 (twenty years ago)

a nuke was launched in 24 last night too.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 13 June 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

I haven't seen SpaceCamp since I used to do war gaming.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 13 June 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

"Turn your key, sir!"

― gubbins, Monday, 13 June 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

I saw Space Camp AT Space Camp! How gonzo is that?

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Monday, 13 June 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

The experience, of course, was nothing like the movie and a hell of a lot more fun than watching it.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Monday, 13 June 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

watched WarGames again (obv). It still gets me. the incidental characters and lines are great too. the parents "Of course it's crisp - it's RAW". NORAD extra 2 "Put the x in the middle square!". 1st and still the best hacker film. best nuclear paranoia film too. god i wish i'd seen it at the cinema.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Monday, 13 June 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

I haven't seen it since I went to Space Camp.

-- Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (eastern_mantr...), June 13th, 2005.

You won Double Dare?

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 13 June 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

I hadn't realised before that the general in WarGames was Maurice from Northern Exposure. Which left me wondering if Northern Exposure is out on DVD at all.

WarGames = still the only hacker film where you laugh *with* all the tech references, not at them.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 13 June 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

> watched WarGames again (obv).

i too got sucked into it and sat there until it finished.

'what's that mean?'
'i don't know, but it's great!'

anyone got the song they're playing in the arcade as an mp3? (yes! http://www.macmame.net/reviews/warrev/warlp.html)

> still the only hacker film where you laugh *with* all the tech references, not at them

(book references in Hackers are all spot on, as are the tech bits, they've just aged badly (see also MicroSerfs))

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Diabolically clever. It's the first salvo in the next WMD scare over Iran's weapons program.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I know all the books in Hackers are real; it's just all the actual hacking that is very, very silly.

Microserfs is still one of my favourite books.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 13 June 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

> it's just all the actual hacking that is very, very silly.

is it really any sillier than the cracking in Neuromancer trilogy, say? Hacker's visualisation (AFAIR) pretty much how i imagined the whole Kuang Grade Mark Eleven attack to be, only Gibson got away with it becuase he didn't have to show it (and Hackers did because watching people type would be just dull). what about the telephone / ringpull thing in WG? the tape recorder / electronic lock thing? was rubbish! at least in hackers they a proper black box 8)

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

I've never read any Gibson myself.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

s/black/blue/ (or red)

> I've never read any Gibson myself.

cough, splutter... 8)

i was the same, didn't read Neuromancer for 10 years after it was published but have just finished it for the third time (it holds up well because he made it all up and it's not tied to any real machinery). have just restarted Count Zero (and spent lunchtime googling Cornell Boxes...)

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

You won Double Dare?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-- no. I'm afraid they stopped making episodes of it six years before I went! *giggles*

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Monday, 13 June 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

I was going to post that before I got poxy fuled. Poxy fule is an unwittingly oppressive tool of the bourgeois hegemony, I swear.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Monday, 13 June 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

And funnily enough, I got poxy fuled immediately after that.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Monday, 13 June 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

THE SERVER KNOWS ALL

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 13 June 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Score: 30-Love. Oh wait.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Monday, 13 June 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

i'd piss on ILX's spark plug if i thought it'd do any good!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

xxpost: i went to space camp too. I got the video. But not the gay blue jumpsuit.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

the tape recorder / electronic lock thing? was rubbish!
NO! IS GREAT! best text adventure bit in any film ever (even the cheese/mouse/magnet/key thing in City of Lost Children)

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Monday, 13 June 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

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