Oh to go back...
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be alive
I came here to comment this. Glad to see it’s already here.
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I absolutely hated the way computers were represented during this era. No one knew anything about them, so filmmakers would come up with the stupidest crap depicting hacking. A new era began when the first sequel to The Matrix depicted actual computer software accurately.
Have you seen War Games though? This was so long ago that I don't think many people could say anything about the hacking part back then
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Maybe I needed to add a \s to that.
Oh damn I should have read that properly
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Its just bizarre to think about how awful trying to accurately convey an order verbally over shitty audio quality must have been
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lest we neglect ol Jobe in Lawnmower Man.
(the one not affiliated with Steven King)
Yeah if actually read the Lawnmower Man the two couldn't even confused as the same story. Crazy they just took the title.
Always told me how great Stephen King is, sometimes just his titles make great moves. But for real how can they make a movie out of anything he writes? Its amazing.
Just saw Life of Chuck and it was pretty danm close to the story.
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Its just bizarre to think about how awful trying to accurately convey an order verbally over shitty audio quality must have been
Even better, being a delivery driver trying to find McRando's house without GPS, map quest, etc. Just a street address and a city street map from the municipal Chamber of Commerce.
Especially fun when half of your deliveries were out of the city limits and you had to ask for/write down directions, and no cell phone to call if you took a wrong turn or they gave you bad directions.
I don't miss those days.
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Looking forward to the future where I just think about pizza and it materializes in my mouth.
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Looking forward to the future where I just think about pizza and it materializes in my mouth.
And it is really healthy cos of SCIENCE
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Have you seen War Games though? This was so long ago that I don't think many people could say anything about the hacking part back then
Good call naming War Games! That was completely off my radar.
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Even better, being a delivery driver trying to find McRando's house without GPS, map quest, etc. Just a street address and a city street map from the municipal Chamber of Commerce.
Especially fun when half of your deliveries were out of the city limits and you had to ask for/write down directions, and no cell phone to call if you took a wrong turn or they gave you bad directions.
I don't miss those days.
You forgot the part where your boss yells at you for being out too long because the house you were supposed to go to had a mile long driveway and no numbers on the road.
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Even better, being a delivery driver trying to find McRando's house without GPS, map quest, etc. Just a street address and a city street map from the municipal Chamber of Commerce.
Especially fun when half of your deliveries were out of the city limits and you had to ask for/write down directions, and no cell phone to call if you took a wrong turn or they gave you bad directions.
I don't miss those days.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]By 'city street map' do you mean something that folds out into a single sheet of paper or something more detailed?
We used to do pretty alright in Australia with these thick road map books you could pick up from any petrol station or newsagency shop. Imagine you had google maps in book form where each page was a section of a bigger map (basically a whole city) with a grid reference system, adjoining page references on each side and a vast index.
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By 'city street map' do you mean something that folds out into a single sheet of paper or something more detailed?
We used to do pretty alright in Australia with these thick road map books you could pick up from any petrol station or newsagency shop. Imagine you had google maps in book form where each page was a section of a bigger map (basically a whole city) with a grid reference system, adjoining page references on each side and a vast index.
Single sheet of paper, yes.
But for small out of the way towns (population 2k-10k) you'd want one specific to the town otherwise you'd be looking at a tiny speck on a state sized map. And the big maps might not have all of the small city side streets or not be up to date.
For reference, the town I did delivery in currently has a population of ~3,000 people and occupies 2.7 square miles out of the 268,596 square miles of the Texas map. Doesn't make sense to use a map where you're only looking at about 0.0001% of it.
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Can you guess the movie ?
I've asked this before online to no avail: Movie set in late 80s maybe early 90s.
Thriller, tech/hacker focused
Possibly extremely bad, Btier or worse
There's only this line I knew where the bad "entity" gets into a kid's game and the kid says something to the effect of "there's a guy in our game" (I watched it in French in like 2006 possibly)
Any ideas? I don't think it was a French movie, I think it was dubbed from an originally English movie.
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Can you guess the movie ?
I've asked this before online to no avail: Movie set in late 80s maybe early 90s.
Thriller, tech/hacker focused
Possibly extremely bad, Btier or worse
There's only this line I knew where the bad "entity" gets into a kid's game and the kid says something to the effect of "there's a guy in our game" (I watched it in French in like 2006 possibly)
Any ideas? I don't think it was a French movie, I think it was dubbed from an originally English movie.
Lawnmower Man?
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If nothing else, at least the new Iran war will make all us Millennials feel a bit young again. Time to relisten to American Idiot, at the very least.
Or maybe I'll just feel even older, as I can't believe we're still doing this shit.
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Lawnmower Man?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I quickly looked at the trailer then skimmed through 1 & 2 (free on YouTube) and it seems very close although I didn't see the scene in thinking of.
I may be remembering it wrong but it was a kid and their friend playing a game and "the guy" shows up in it.
Very close! As in, this might be it but I skimmed past the scene I'm thinking of.
Also... what a nonsensical movie but hugely creative, makes me miss the 90s.
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I quickly looked at the trailer then skimmed through 1 & 2 (free on YouTube) and it seems very close although I didn't see the scene in thinking of.
I may be remembering it wrong but it was a kid and their friend playing a game and "the guy" shows up in it.
Very close! As in, this might be it but I skimmed past the scene I'm thinking of.
Also... what a nonsensical movie but hugely creative, makes me miss the 90s.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Spy Kids 3D has “the guy” in it, and you find out later on it’s Elijah Wood
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Spy Kids 3D has “the guy” in it, and you find out later on it’s Elijah Wood
I've watched spy kids, not a thriller.
Very silly movies though.
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If nothing else, at least the new Iran war will make all us Millennials feel a bit young again. Time to relisten to American Idiot, at the very least.
Or maybe I'll just feel even older, as I can't believe we're still doing this shit.
I've never stopped listening to "Cali punk" so I'm good to go (I don't care if green day is really from California or not, that's what I call the happy poppy punk that's not crusty enough to be called punk without a qualifier: NOFX, Offspring, Blink 182, Millencollin, etc etc).
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let's not forget the vb gui back trace gold mine of multiple hands on the keyboard to uhh hack faster. (CSI)
Two people one keyboard was NCIS
