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and possibly a fan of WarGames :)



Exactly what I thought. I even think it was a clever way to end, and a point he might have been making as a sort of subtext.


I've never seen WarGames. After reading the synopsis, the subtext is undeniably intentional.


30 year old movie spoiler alert!!!!

War Games: Very, very basically, from deep, deep memory...

A computer about to launch a global nuclear war is played at tic-tac-toe to learn it cant win. It deduces that the only way to win a nuclear war is not to start the thing in the first place. Any other strategy is a lose, or what we call mutually assured destruction.

Its obviously more complicated than that. Even though its 30 odd years old, it worth a watch.



Nice :)

But no.




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