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** Recently, Russia installed an automated response system that will order a retaliatory strike without human intervention, called the "Dead Hand" or "Perimeter System", which has been criticised as vulnerable to hacking, a very disturbing case of LifeImitatesArt.
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** It's a rare movie that does it without demonizing anyone on either side or reducing them to [[StrawCharacter cliché stereotypes]].
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** For that matter, using your kid's name as a password is just as bad. Anyone who got caught doing something so obvious at the real [=NORAD=] would most likely be fired outright, if not prosecuted for endangering national security. Falken only gets away with it in the movie because its an unauthorized backdoor that NORAD doesn't know about.
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** For that matter, using your kid's name as a password is just as bad. Anyone who got caught doing something so obvious at the real [=NORAD=] would most likely be fired outright, if not prosecuted for endangering national security. Falken only gets away with it in the movie because its it is an unauthorized backdoor that NORAD doesn't know about.
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* AwesomeMusic: ''WarGames: Defcon One'''s entire soundtrack, courtesy of Tommy Tallarico.
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* AwesomeMusic: ''WarGames: ''[=WarGames=]: Defcon One'''s entire soundtrack, courtesy of Tommy Tallarico.
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* HarsherInHindsight: On September 26, 1983, just three months following its release, a Soviet early warning station detected 5 inbound ICBMs. Colonel Stanislav Petrov, the man in charge of the station, decided it was a false alarm and did not report it to his superiors. He surmised that no one would launch just five ICBM's as a first strike... they'd launch EVERYTHING.
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* HarsherInHindsight: On September 26, 1983, just three months following its release, a Soviet early warning station detected 5 inbound ICBMs.[=ICBMs=]. Colonel Stanislav Petrov, the man in charge of the station, decided it was a false alarm and did not report it to his superiors. He surmised that no one would launch just five ICBM's [=ICBMs=] as a first strike... they'd launch EVERYTHING.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Dr. Falken gives a little speech about how he designed the WOPR to work in tandem with RIPLEY rather than against her. The last word of his speech is "Bipartisanship". This in a movie that came out the same year BarackObama was elected President.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Dr. Falken gives a little speech about how he designed the WOPR to work in tandem with RIPLEY rather than against her. The last word of his speech is "Bipartisanship". This in a movie that came out the same year BarackObama UsefulNotes/BarackObama was elected President.
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** For that matter, using your kid's name as a password is just as bad. Anyone who got caught doing something so obvious at the real [=NORAD=] would most likely be fired outright, if not prosecuted for endangering national security.
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** For that matter, using your kid's name as a password is just as bad. Anyone who got caught doing something so obvious at the real [=NORAD=] would most likely be fired outright, if not prosecuted for endangering national security. Falken only gets away with it in the movie because its an unauthorized backdoor that NORAD doesn't know about.
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* ContestedSequel: There was a direct-to-TV sequel of this film, released in the 2000s, in which WOPR/Joshua, an elder Dr. Falken, and various friendly hackers have to fight a modern game server with military applications (apparently in that order, seeing how many people game on her) named RIPLEY. This one has considerably more real-life damage -- there is no ''real'' thermonuclear war, but there are some devastating non-nuclear attacks on American infrastructure.
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* ContestedSequel: There was a direct-to-TV sequel of this film, ''[=WarGames=]: The Dead Code'', released in the 2000s, 2008, in which WOPR/Joshua, an elder Dr. Falken, and various friendly hackers have to fight a modern game server with military applications (apparently in that order, seeing how many people game on her) named RIPLEY. This one has considerably more real-life damage -- there is no ''real'' thermonuclear war, but there are some devastating non-nuclear attacks on American infrastructure.
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** For that matter, using your kid's name as a password is just as bad. Anyone who got caught doing something so obvious at the real [=NORAD=] would most likely be fired outright, if not prosecuted for endangering national security.
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* ValuesResonance: whilst pretty much averted with the nuclear issues (not as obviously relevant as in the Cold War, and to be fair the dangers of all-out nuclear war are so well-worn the [[AnAesop relevant aesop]] is pretty much into CaptainObviousAesop territory), the dangers presented by computer security threats are even more pertinent to the present than they were in TheEighties now that EverythingIsOnline, and talk of cyber-warfare abounds. It is obvious from the ValuesDisssonance example above that many of the basic security mistakes mentioned above are sadly still with us today, too. Whether the idea of the maverick hacker ultimately showing up the military's flaws is relevant in these days of certain high-profile whistleblowers has any resonance however, is uncertain.
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* ValuesResonance: whilst pretty much averted with the nuclear issues (not as obviously relevant as in the Cold War, and to be fair the dangers of all-out nuclear war are so well-worn the [[AnAesop relevant aesop]] is pretty much into CaptainObviousAesop territory), the dangers presented by computer security threats are even more pertinent to the present than they were in TheEighties now that EverythingIsOnline, and talk of cyber-warfare abounds. It is obvious from the ValuesDisssonance ValuesDissonance example above that many of the basic security mistakes mentioned above are sadly still with us today, too. Whether the idea of the maverick hacker ultimately showing up the military's flaws is relevant in these days of certain high-profile whistleblowers has any resonance however, is uncertain.
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* ValuesResonance: whilst pretty much averted with the nuclear issues (not as obviously relevant as in the Cold War, and to be fair the dangers of all-out nuclear war are so well-worn the [[AnAesop relevant aesop]] is pretty much into CaptainObviousAesop territory), the dangers presented by computer security threats are even more pertinent to the present than they were in TheEighties now that EverythingIsOnline, and talk of cyber-warfare abounds. It is obvious from the ValuesDisssonance example above that many of the basic security mistakes mentioned above are sadly still with us today, too. Whether the idea of the maverick hacker ultimately showing up the military's flaws is relevant in these days of certain high-profile whistleblowers has any resonance however, is uncertain.
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* ContestedSequel: There was a direct-to-TV sequel of this film, released in the 2000s, in which WOPR/Joshua, an elder Dr. Falken, and various friendly hackers have to fight a modern game server with military applications (apparently in that order, seeing how many people game on her) named RIPLEY. This one has considerably more real-life damage -- there is no ''real'' thermonuclear war, but there are some devastating non-nuclear attacks on American infrastructure.\
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* ContestedSequel: There was a direct-to-TV sequel of this film, released in the 2000s, in which WOPR/Joshua, an elder Dr. Falken, and various friendly hackers have to fight a modern game server with military applications (apparently in that order, seeing how many people game on her) named RIPLEY. This one has considerably more real-life damage -- there is no ''real'' thermonuclear war, but there are some devastating non-nuclear attacks on American infrastructure.\
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* ContestedSequel: There was a direct-to-TV sequel of this film, released in the 2000s, in which WOPR/Joshua, an elder Dr. Falken, and various friendly hackers have to fight a modern game server with military applications (apparently in that order, seeing how many people game on her) named RIPLEY. This one has considerably more real-life damage -- there is no ''real'' thermonuclear war, but there are some devastating non-nuclear attacks on American infrastructure.
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* ContestedSequel: There was a direct-to-TV sequel of this film, released in the 2000s, in which WOPR/Joshua, an elder Dr. Falken, and various friendly hackers have to fight a modern game server with military applications (apparently in that order, seeing how many people game on her) named RIPLEY. This one has considerably more real-life damage -- there is no ''real'' thermonuclear war, but there are some devastating non-nuclear attacks on American infrastructure.\
* HarsherInHindsight: On September 26, 1983, just three months following its release, a Soviet early warning station detected 5 inbound ICBMs. Colonel Stanislav Petrov, the man in charge of the station, decided it was a false alarm and did not report it to his superiors. He surmised that no one would launch just five ICBM's as a first strike... they'd launch EVERYTHING.
* HarsherInHindsight: On September 26, 1983, just three months following its release, a Soviet early warning station detected 5 inbound ICBMs. Colonel Stanislav Petrov, the man in charge of the station, decided it was a false alarm and did not report it to his superiors. He surmised that no one would launch just five ICBM's as a first strike... they'd launch EVERYTHING.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: The film suffers a lot from this to list.
** In the beginning of the movie when the missile silo crew arrive at the Security Police post to sign in, there is a USAF Security Police Chief Master Sgt that is behind the desk and has them sign in on the roster sheet on the clipboard. A Chief Master Sgt is the highest enlisted rank in the USAF (8 stripes)and not only would a person of this rank not lower himself to perform a task as petty as to sign in personnel onto their post (a function normally handled by an Airman 1st Class, a 2 striper), but he would not even be at the silo, to begin with. The highest ranking supervisor to be there would be a Staff Sgt (4 stripes).
** NORAD is a joint United States/Canada operation. There would be a significant number of Canadian soldiers working in the command center alongside US soldiers and yet the movie appears to have no Canadian soldiers in the command center.
** When WOPR is searching for the launch code, it is shown to be able to lock onto each digit individually. In which case, it would only take 360 tries (one for each letter and digit), to definitely find the entire code.
** When receiving and sending text from his home computer, the modem RD and SD lights do not flash. On a 300-1200 baud modem, the flashes would be very visible.
** They call the "43rd" Bomb Wing at Loring AFB near the end of the movie, But the 42 Bomb Wing was stationed at Loring. The 43rd was stationed in Guam.
** After David is arrested, the next scene is at NORAD where a tour group is being escorted. The escort asks a woman with a camera around her neck to sit in the command chair. A visitor would not be allowed to bring a camera into NORAD.
** After David hangs up the modem, disconnecting from the WOPR, his screen is shown with the game countdown continuing. Actually, in the 80's when a remote terminal was being used to connect to another computer, screen updates such as this halted when the call was disconnected, the countdown would have "frozen" on David's screen (continuing only on the WOPR).
** During the final sequence when Joshua/WOPR is trying the figure out the launch code, the sequence is shown in real time. When the statement is made "1 minute to impact", it is approximately 1 minute and 40 seconds later when impact finally occurs.
** When it is stated that "22 Typhoon class" submarines are departing. Only 6 Soviet Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarines of this class were made. ("Typhoon class" were officially called "Project 941) were ever built. In 1983, the number would've been even fewer, as these six were built over an 8 years period (1981 - 1989). All of the Typhoon Class were based at Zapadnaya Litsa (Nerpichya Base) about 45 miles from the Norwegian border.
** In the beginning of the movie when the missile silo crew arrive at the Security Police post to sign in, there is a USAF Security Police Chief Master Sgt that is behind the desk and has them sign in on the roster sheet on the clipboard. A Chief Master Sgt is the highest enlisted rank in the USAF (8 stripes)and not only would a person of this rank not lower himself to perform a task as petty as to sign in personnel onto their post (a function normally handled by an Airman 1st Class, a 2 striper), but he would not even be at the silo, to begin with. The highest ranking supervisor to be there would be a Staff Sgt (4 stripes).
** NORAD is a joint United States/Canada operation. There would be a significant number of Canadian soldiers working in the command center alongside US soldiers and yet the movie appears to have no Canadian soldiers in the command center.
** When WOPR is searching for the launch code, it is shown to be able to lock onto each digit individually. In which case, it would only take 360 tries (one for each letter and digit), to definitely find the entire code.
** When receiving and sending text from his home computer, the modem RD and SD lights do not flash. On a 300-1200 baud modem, the flashes would be very visible.
** They call the "43rd" Bomb Wing at Loring AFB near the end of the movie, But the 42 Bomb Wing was stationed at Loring. The 43rd was stationed in Guam.
** After David is arrested, the next scene is at NORAD where a tour group is being escorted. The escort asks a woman with a camera around her neck to sit in the command chair. A visitor would not be allowed to bring a camera into NORAD.
** After David hangs up the modem, disconnecting from the WOPR, his screen is shown with the game countdown continuing. Actually, in the 80's when a remote terminal was being used to connect to another computer, screen updates such as this halted when the call was disconnected, the countdown would have "frozen" on David's screen (continuing only on the WOPR).
** During the final sequence when Joshua/WOPR is trying the figure out the launch code, the sequence is shown in real time. When the statement is made "1 minute to impact", it is approximately 1 minute and 40 seconds later when impact finally occurs.
** When it is stated that "22 Typhoon class" submarines are departing. Only 6 Soviet Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarines of this class were made. ("Typhoon class" were officially called "Project 941) were ever built. In 1983, the number would've been even fewer, as these six were built over an 8 years period (1981 - 1989). All of the Typhoon Class were based at Zapadnaya Litsa (Nerpichya Base) about 45 miles from the Norwegian border.
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* FridgeHorror: Imagine what might have happened when he started playing the game-that-wasn't-a-game with the computer controlling the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal if David had decided to start launching missiles from the U.S. side...
** Nothing. NORAD would detect missile launch, call up the silos and find out that this is a simulation. Soviets would never know anything is happening because they aren't getting data from JOSHUA.
** Was [=WOPR=] ''only'' given control of the nuclear arsenal, or might it have been responsible for other [=WMD=]s as well? If so, what might have happened if David had opted to play Theaterwide Biotoxic And Chemical Warfare instead?
*** Again, nothing, since the United States had no chemical or biological weapons.
** Nothing. NORAD would detect missile launch, call up the silos and find out that this is a simulation. Soviets would never know anything is happening because they aren't getting data from JOSHUA.
** Was [=WOPR=] ''only'' given control of the nuclear arsenal, or might it have been responsible for other [=WMD=]s as well? If so, what might have happened if David had opted to play Theaterwide Biotoxic And Chemical Warfare instead?
*** Again, nothing, since the United States had no chemical or biological weapons.
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** It's a rare movie that does it without demonizing anyone on either side or reducing them to [[StrawPolitical cliche' stereotypes]].
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* ValuesDissonance: How many modern viewers {{facepalm}} when they see the list of passwords on a sheet of paper right next to the computer? In fact, if you're reading this website, that's likely exactly what you've been told ''not'' to do ever since you were big enough to hit a spacebar. (Anyone in tech support, or who enjoy NotAlwaysRight and similar "customer service hell" anecdotes, knows that this still happens today.)
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* ValuesDissonance: How many modern viewers {{facepalm}} when they see the list of passwords on a sheet of paper right next to the computer? In fact, if you're reading this website, that's likely exactly what you've been told ''not'' to do ever since you were big enough to hit a spacebar. (Anyone in tech support, or who enjoy NotAlwaysRight Website/NotAlwaysRight and similar "customer service hell" anecdotes, knows that this still happens today.)
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** Ironically, depending on the level of control you have over your workspace, this is becoming less of an issue; very frequently today, if someone has physical access to the system, you're doomed anyway as far as security goes. Though on the other hand, it does make it easier to cause mischief quickly.
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* ContestedSequel: There was a direct-to-TV sequel of this film, released in the 2000s, in which WOPR/Joshua, a grown-up David Lightman, an elder Dr. Falken, and various friendly hackers have to fight a modern game server with military applications (apparently in that order, seeing how many people game on her) named RIPLEY. This one has considerably more real-life damage -- there is no ''real'' thermonuclear war, but there are some devastating non-nuclear attacks on American infrastructure.
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* {{Sequelitis}}: Most people have no idea that a sequel was made. This is a [[FanonDiscontinuity very good thing]]. Filmed a full two decades after the original, featuring no returning characters or actors and having absolutely nothing to do with the original film in any way, it also features some of the worst writing and acting ever committed to celluloid.
** Another sequel, ''The Dead Code'', actually does have a number of connections to the original film, but is still nowhere near as good.
** Another sequel, ''The Dead Code'', actually does have a number of connections to the original film, but is still nowhere near as good.
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* {{Sequelitis}}: Most people have no idea that a sequel was made. This is a [[FanonDiscontinuity very good thing]]. Filmed a full two decades after the original, featuring no ''The Dead Code'' features only one returning characters or actors character, played by a different actor (two if you consider WORP/Joshua), and having absolutely nothing has little to do with the original film in any way, it outside of a handful of connections. It also features some of the worst writing and acting ever committed to celluloid.
** Another sequel, ''The Dead Code'', actually does have a number of connections to the original film, but is still nowhere near as good.celluloid.
** Another sequel, ''The Dead Code'', actually does have a number of connections to the original film, but is still nowhere near as good.
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* AwesomeMusic: ''WarGames: Defcon One'''s entire soundtrack, courtesy of Tommy Tallarico.
* NoProblemWithLicensedGames
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*** Again, nothing, since the United States had no chemical or biological weapons.
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* FridgeHorror: Imagine what might have happened when he started playing the game-that-wasn't-a-game with the computer controlling the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal if David had decided to start launching missiles from the U.S. side...
** Nothing - Norad would detect missile launch, call up the silos and find out that this is a simulation. Soviets would never know anything is happening because they aren't getting data from JOSHUA.
** Was [=WOPR=] ''only'' given control of the nuclear arsenal, or might it have been responsible for other [=WMD=]s as well? If so, what might have happened if David had opted to play Theaterwide Biotoxic And Chemical Warfare instead?
** Nothing - Norad would detect missile launch, call up the silos and find out that this is a simulation. Soviets would never know anything is happening because they aren't getting data from JOSHUA.
** Was [=WOPR=] ''only'' given control of the nuclear arsenal, or might it have been responsible for other [=WMD=]s as well? If so, what might have happened if David had opted to play Theaterwide Biotoxic And Chemical Warfare instead?
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* {{Sequelitis}}: Most people have no idea that a sequel was made. This is a [[{{Discontinuity}} [[FanonDiscontinuity very good thing]]. Filmed a full two decades after the original, featuring no returning characters or actors and having absolutely nothing to do with the original film in any way, it also features some of the worst writing and acting ever committed to celluloid.
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-->'''General Beringer:''' [[spoiler:Mr. [=McKittrick=], after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.]]
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--->'''General Beringer:''' [[spoiler:Oh, I was hoping for something a little better than that from you, sir. A man of your education.]]
** Also features the general telling the computer tech to not run in the war room. "Someone might get hurt." That might also be a ShoutOut to ''DrStrangelove's'' "You can't fight in here, this is the war Room!" line.
-->'''General Beringer:''' [[spoiler:Mr. [=McKittrick=], after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.]]
** Which further results in this exchange:
--->'''[=McKittrick=]:''' [[spoiler:I don't have to take that, you pig-eyed sack of shit.]]
--->'''General Beringer:''' [[spoiler:Oh, I was hoping for something a little better than that from you, sir. A man of your education.]]
** Also features the general telling the computer tech to not run in the war room. "Someone might get hurt." That might also be a ShoutOut to ''DrStrangelove's'' "You can't fight in here, this is the war Room!" line.
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* AmbiguouslyAutistic: Malvin, one of the hackers that David asks for advice. Interestingly, this was a long time before autism and computer expertise were linked in the public mind.
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** [[spoiler:"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game ofchess?"]]chess?"]]
** It's a rare movie that does it without demonizing anyone on either side or reducing them to [[StrawPolitical cliche' stereotypes]].
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Dr. Falken gives a little speech about how he designed the WOPR to work in tandem with RIPLEY rather than against her. The last word of his speech is "Bipartisanship". This in a movie that came out the same year BarackObama was elected President.
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* ContestedSequel: There was a direct-to-TV sequel of this film, released in the 2000s, in which WOPR/Joshua, a grown-up David Lightman, and various friendly hackers have to fight a modern game server with military applications (apparently in that order, seeing how many people game on her) named Ripley. This one has considerably more real-life damage -- there is no ''real'' thermonuclear war, but there are some devastating non-nuclear attacks on American infrastructure.
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* ContestedSequel: There was a direct-to-TV sequel of this film, released in the 2000s, in which WOPR/Joshua, a grown-up David Lightman, and various friendly hackers have to fight a modern game server with military applications (apparently in that order, seeing how many people game on her) named Ripley. RIPLEY. This one has considerably more real-life damage -- there is no ''real'' thermonuclear war, but there are some devastating non-nuclear attacks on American infrastructure.infrastructure.
* {{Crowning Moment of Funny}}: A bit of dark humor, to be sure. [[spoiler:As JOSHUA/WOPR is preparing to launch the nukes, and it has become readily apparent that preventing it would be difficult, to say the least, General Beringer, who was opposed to the WOPR system in the first place, decides it's the appropriate time to give his evaluation of its efficacy.]]
-->'''General Beringer:''' [[spoiler:Mr. [=McKittrick=], after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.]]
** Which further results in this exchange:
--->'''[=McKittrick=]:''' [[spoiler:I don't have to take that, you pig-eyed sack of shit.]]
--->'''General Beringer:''' [[spoiler:Oh, I was hoping for something a little better than that from you, sir. A man of your education.]]
** Also features the general telling the computer tech to not run in the war room. "Someone might get hurt." That might also be a ShoutOut to ''DrStrangelove's'' "You can't fight in here, this is the war Room!" line.
* MemeticMutation: "Would you like to play a game?"
** MemeticMutation + ItWasHisSled: "The only winning move is not to play."
* {{Crowning Moment of Funny}}: A bit of dark humor, to be sure. [[spoiler:As JOSHUA/WOPR is preparing to launch the nukes, and it has become readily apparent that preventing it would be difficult, to say the least, General Beringer, who was opposed to the WOPR system in the first place, decides it's the appropriate time to give his evaluation of its efficacy.]]
-->'''General Beringer:''' [[spoiler:Mr. [=McKittrick=], after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.]]
** Which further results in this exchange:
--->'''[=McKittrick=]:''' [[spoiler:I don't have to take that, you pig-eyed sack of shit.]]
--->'''General Beringer:''' [[spoiler:Oh, I was hoping for something a little better than that from you, sir. A man of your education.]]
** Also features the general telling the computer tech to not run in the war room. "Someone might get hurt." That might also be a ShoutOut to ''DrStrangelove's'' "You can't fight in here, this is the war Room!" line.
* MemeticMutation: "Would you like to play a game?"
** MemeticMutation + ItWasHisSled: "The only winning move is not to play."
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* ValuesDissonance: How many modern viewers facepalm when they see the list of passwords on a sheet of paper right next to the computer? In fact, if you're reading this website, that's likely exactly what you've been told ''not'' to do ever since you were big enough to hit a spacebar.
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* ValuesDissonance: How many modern viewers facepalm {{facepalm}} when they see the list of passwords on a sheet of paper right next to the computer? In fact, if you're reading this website, that's likely exactly what you've been told ''not'' to do ever since you were big enough to hit a spacebar.spacebar. (Anyone in tech support, or who enjoy NotAlwaysRight and similar "customer service hell" anecdotes, knows that this still happens today.)
