uc.rgh%MIT-EECS@MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP (06/23/83)
From: Randy Haskins <uc.rgh at MIT-EECS at MIT-MC> Lauren really lambasted WarGames. I could handle it up until the last few lines where he said he had been fuming about the movie ever since a friend told him about it. That was a pretty long flame for not having seen it in person. Admitted, as I told my non-computer-scientist friends (I was in Florida at the time), that most of it was just made up and that a standard university Multics was more secure than the WOPR. But lasers only leave trails in dusty rooms and you can't hear explosions in space, and Movie commits N other sins against science and we say, "Oh, yeah, well, it's okay." Give the movie a break and at least go see it if you want to murder it. It was very entertaining, and the characters (human) were likeable, too. Sorry, I'll flame off now. --Randy -------
MERMAN%MIT-OZ%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP (06/29/83)
From: Dave Goodine <MERMAN%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC> Re: Lauren's comments about War games: I agree TOTALLY... and would like to get something off my chest that moves me to utter disgust: To all the Pseudo-Technological-Movie-Makers around the world: (they'll never see this...) PPPPPPPLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please, please, please, please: (my face is now red) STOP HAVING MACHINES BLOW UP BECAUSE "It Doesn't Compute."!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S ABSURD, IMPOSSIBLE, NONSENSICAL, AND DAMN IT SIMPLY DOESN'T HAPPEN! Thank you. Dave Goodine (You think you felt better, Lauren...)