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"The Immitation Game" is well worth a watch.
Why would i watch an immitation when I could watch the original instead?
The Original Game?
The Game (1997) maybe?
Wait… did I just lose The Game?
If you know to ask you lost long ago. :)
As one historian remarked, WW2 happened, and Turing was alive and working on something at Bletchley at the time. Everything else in that film utter bollocks.
Do you mean that a team in charge of reverse engineering didn't make the decisions on how the whole allied military should act after decrypting one message? Impossible!
It's a horrific character assassination.
The only two things it gets right are: there was a second world war; Alan Turing worked at Bletchley.
And Cryptonomicon is well worth a read.
Hell, yeah my friend recommended that to me after I told him I had just started snow crash and I was loving the fuck out of it
Snow Crash is so weird. It's great. If you want another one along the same lines as far as zaniness goes you should read The Big U.
Cryptonomicon and the System of the World trilogy and Reamde and Anathem and the rest of them are more serious (but probably also better works objectively (but there's nothing wrong with the fun ones)).
Alan Turing is in Cryptonomicon though, also the whole book is excellent. I'm due for a reread.
I second that
Very much so. I watched it back when benedict cumberbatch was The Guy, and it was more than i expected. It may have radicalised me a bit haha
Similar for me. I saw Cumberbatch and a name that seemed to suggest a wild mystery or fantasy and immediately watched it. I was not prepared for the story that unfolded