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"The only winning move is not to play." The author is humorous, poetic, and brilliant.
by acchow 14y ago
"The only winning move is not to play."
The author is humorous, poetic, and brilliant.
- keeran 14y agoand possibly a fan of WarGames :)
- alan_cx 14y agoExactly 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.
- acchow 14y agoI've never seen WarGames. After reading the synopsis, the subtext is undeniably intentional.
- alan_cx 14y ago30 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.
- carterschonwald 14y agoIf you look at the other work Tom7 has done over time, you'd find thats generally the case with his stuff.
- michaelochurch 14y agoShit. I just lost.