yeah but he wrote it in 1979 bsky.app/profile/compellor.bsky.social/post/3mfvf6td3t227

February 28, 2026 - 04:32 UTC

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Great, now video games are never defeating the “they’re just toys” accusation
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Can't think of many examples from before then that weren't in comic books, though the movie might have been improved if Superman showed up.
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wow that's pre-Ender's Game even
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It wouldn't have been unusual for the script to have been revised at some point, or for the final product to deviate even from that, so it would be interesting to see the original screenplay written in 1979 and verify some of this
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Also the only really smart critique in a movie of violent video games which is not that they make kids violent but that the military would use gaming to recruit kids and the intentional blurring of gaming and drone warfare would intentionally blur war. bsky.app/profile/maxkriegervg.bsky.social/post/3mdjyds45us24
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I know Card sucks for a lot of reasons but Ender's Game was operating in a similar space.
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See also: Buster Bluth, drone pilot.
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orson scott card also saw the potential for the government turning video games into tools to recruit soldiers but subsequently decided that it's good actually when that happens
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Ding ding ding ding!
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This is why I can't play Introversion's "Defcon", for instance
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In a more generalised sense, America uses Hollywood/ the film industry as a way to push propaganda.
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Okay that’s a good gag too
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And this is why you must *never* underestimate the lows that people are capable of stooping to. Especially those with the leverage to back it up.
Otherwise, you lead to another Pandora's box style of catastrophe to occur.
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remember this, lol
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The US Army used to give out copies of their recruitment game Americas Army at PAX. They were not shy about the association.
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This album came out in 2005
youtu.be/3-V1CUNh_Fc
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It’s just Ender’s Game.
(With the provision that Orson Scott Card can get fucked all around.)
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the best part? in a 2017 interview, levinson essentially says "and i'd do it again"

shows.acast.com/nerdyshow/episodes/interview-the-history-of-barry-levinsons-toys
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