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[-] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 13 points 7 months ago

Wasn't there a movie where LL Cool J was the bad army guy who was using kids video games as remote controls for real war weapons? I want to say I saw it in the late 90's but it's possible my flakey memory is making this all up.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Toys

The main actor I remembered was Robin Williams.

[-] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 3 points 7 months ago

Yes that's is! It's older than I remember.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago

I was pretty small when my friend's parents rented the VHS while we were on holiday. The main thing I remember was that Robin Williams asked a kid how many points they got for killing a person and the kid said, "A thousand," and my friend reacted like that was a huge deal. I remember thinking that was weird because we didn't know what the point scale was so it might not have been that big, but I knew how to mask my autism enough not to say that. I can also speak neurotypical enough to understand they were going for the emotional effect of a big-sounding number, so in that sense my friend had the right reaction.

As an adult I can look back and go "oooooohhh this is about the military industrial complex exploiting poor young people by dangling meagre benefits in front of them", and I think that message did seep in to my young brain in some way.

[-] lorty@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago
[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

I'm a military man, I like a military meal. I don't want my peas invading my mashed potatoes.

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