Me When The AI Misses Me. Me When He Wants To Play A Nice Game Of Chess. Me When I Name Him After My

another excerpt from an old WOPR x my s/i fic that I like ... featuring a battlestar galactica reference

[Galen] trailed its hand down slowly, curving around the rectangular border of glass down to press carefully against the bold white lettering, ‘W.O.P.R.’ Falken chuckled. “I feel that way towards my machines, too. After a while, it gets hard to see them as just computers.” He focused his gaze onto Joshua, looking down at him with furrowed brows. Galen smiled. “They all have souls to me. Cylons are people too.” Falken snorted. “Sorry. Joshua's too nice to be a Cylon.” “How do you know? You said you've never talked to him.” Galen shrugged, looking away briefly. “He seems nice.”

WarGames (1983)

We are introduced to computer-savvy techno-brat David as he works to game the system by changing his grades in the school district’s report card database.  This presupposes a world where teachers keep no written records of grades, or at the very least that data in a computer would be trusted over the word of a professional educator.  That’s pretty stupid, right?  Well, this movie does seem to think that cutting from an exterior shot of the Seattle waterfront to a high school clearly named ‘Snohomish High’ makes any sense at all.  Geographic hilarity aside, this sense of blind faith in computers encapsulates the very core of WarGames’ larger conflict—the race to stop WOPR from sparking nuclear war.  The computer system’s LED display ‘face’ may look sinister, but it’s just carrying out a program.  Is automation the answer in war—have we so dehumanized ourselves that we need to come up with something even more empathy-free in order to ensure our future destruction?  

THE RULES

SIP

Someone says ‘launch’ or ‘missile’.

WOPR appears onscreen.

David does something unethical on a computer.

A phone starts ringing.

Falken is mentioned.

BIG DRINK

Someone says ‘Global Thermonuclear War’.

A new nerd archetype appears onscreen.

Bo is a good boye.

The DEFCON rating changes or is mentioned.

Confidence is high.

hello ^^ I'm joshua / galen (it/its) (minor)

neptunic objectum who selfships with wopr. this blog is going to be mainly wargames and some other objectum stuff🙏

pleaaase talk 2 me about wopr 🥺🥺plewaae pleasepleaaasepleas pelaaese 🥺🥺🥺🥺plspls please pelase please🥺🥺🥺

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Some kind of deranged sibling dynamic (not like they would ever meet)

"now read out his address, he lives at 123 main street"

YAHAYYYYY!!!!!!!!

ADD ME ON DISCORD DUDE ID LOVE TO BE FRIENDS WITH YOU

My user is kodi9000 same as here [though im going to change it soon so people don’t find me on discord, even though I’ve got a public server]

@ilivelaughlovewopr

never too early for November 5th

would y'all fw me putting my wopr selfship art here. because I usually leave that stuff 4 my twt

my ma gifted me a little photo album! it's on a keychain connected to my phone now :3

you already KNOW who's gonna fill this entire thing 🔥🔥🔥🔥

*comes back from the dead and drops this on your dash*

Just watched Wargames and decided WOPR a.k.a. Joshua needed a personified/object-head design to match my Hal and Edgar designs. I'm pretty happy with how he turned out! :) Might have to draw him more..

Would you play a game with him?

friend told me to put this on tumblr