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1. I introduced my daughter to the 1983 movie WarGames recently

Thu Jul 30, 2015, 10:56 AM

Jul 2015

Among other things, I had fun pointing out the enormous clunky banks of computers they were using, and explaining to her that the smartphone she was playing with had more computing power.

It made me sad explaining to her what 'global thermonuclear war' is, but if you don't understand it, nothing else about the movie makes any damned sense.

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