The Cable Guy : Talk about prophetic

Talk about prophetic

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I was watching this and the scene at the end with Robin hit me as quite prophetic given the time frame in which the movie was produced.

Phone, computer and TV all integrated, online gaming and shopping... very cool, I thought.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCyZYhobvc4

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Yeah, Chip totally had it right. Not as crazy as he seemed.

A boy's best friend is his mother. ~ Norman Bates

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Except they haven't made a Mortal Combat game in years.

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Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Kombat_vs_DC) came out in late 2008.

Despite being on a totally online console, the Xbox 360, is not online capable. It's also not as good as the 16-bit MK games.

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wrong. mk vs dc universe did play online. on xbox 360 and ps3.

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integrated phone cable and internet was on the horizon back then..really not very hard to predict

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mk vs dc was online...and btw the reboot of MK came out earlier this year and it is the best one to date

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"Except they haven't made a Mortal Combat game in years."

What difference does that make?

And it's "Mortal Kombat", NOT "Mortal Combat". Try to learn to spell AND think before you give one-sentence criticisms.

He didn't say MK games would be made until 2010. He said "soon" you will "be able to PLAY" Mortal Kombat with a friend in Vietnam! (Actually, that could be also taken to mean that you can travel to Vietnam, to play Mortal Kombat with a friend there).

And with Kaillera system that became relatively popular after this movie was made, pretty much ANY Arcade game that works in MAME (and even many other games) DID make it possible for anyone to play Mortal Kombat with a 'friend in Vietnam' - provided that they had a friend there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaillera

Kaillera makes it possible and perfectly feasible to play Mortal Kombat via the internet in two-player mode.

So, his prediction came true, regardless of what "they" have made "in years" (remember when this movie was made - that's right, 1996 - and Kaillera was born in the early 2000s, a few years after this movie was made).

He didn't say anything about NEW Mortal Kombat games, just that Mortal Kombat itself can be played - and pretty soon after this movie, it DID become a possibility indeed.

Besides, at the time of Kaillera's birth, "they" were still making new Mortal Kombat games anyway.

This movie is 18 years old - do you seriously expect one remark about one game to carry on indefinitely into eternity? Did you expect that for his words to have been prophetic, NEW Mortal Kombat games would have to be made for the rest of the eternity?

I mean, why would you even think (much less write) that? Your post makes no sense, when you think about it. And I can't figure out what kind of thinking makes anyone write a nonsensical post like that.

Also, I'd like to add that he only used that as a reference to what will be possible in the future, not something that everyone should be fixated on FOURTEEN YEARS LATER, for crying out loud. He couldn't have predicted FUTURE games of course, so he simply used a contemporary game as an example of what can be done in the future.

Besides, those old games are still _JUST_ as playable as they ever were. Games don't age, like people do. If something was good in the past, it will _always_ be good. There is no such thing as 'dated' or 'aged' game, because the game never ages - it stays exactly the same. People age and their perceptions, exceptions, attitudes and appreciations transform, change and "age", but that's not the game's fault.

If a game was good once, it always will be, regardless of what happens around it or how many years go by.

And if a game seemed good back then, but is objectively speaking crap now, it always was crap, and people were simply being caught in the hype, and had misaligned perceptions. The game itself was never good, and never will be.

That's why you can see people still playing the old classics from the seventies, eighties and nineties. Sometimes even the zeroties (?), like the Sega Dreamcast and Sony Playstation 2 gems. The games remain just as playable now, as they were then.

Heck, I still amuse myself by playing intense sessions of Atari 2600 games, and that device was released to the public in the seventies. It hasn't "aged" or "dated" at all. The games are just as good as they ever were. It's not the platform's fault, if people get bored by it or its games.

So there is no "except". His statement was 100% and purely PROPHETIC, which means that it DID come true completely. Even though it was an easy prophecy to make, almost like predicting that hard drive capacity and CPU power will grow in the future, it was still a prophetic thing to say.

Of course multiplayer games were nothing new back then, even Doom could be played via various networking systems, but I am not sure how feasible it was to play it via the internet. Internet was just beginning to grow rapidly, when just a couple of years before, the masses had hardly even heard the term.

But to be able to play Arcade games via internet as multiplayer - that still seemed almost unbelievable, as those games were never designed for that. And the CPU power to emulate Mortal Kombat in MAME wasn't at everyone's fingertips in 1996 (I think this was the time when a lot of people still had 486s and Pentiums (133-200 MHz) were starting to sell well).

So it seemed like a 'big dream' at the time. And it came true a few years later. Your post is -COMPLETELY-IRRELEVANT- to this whole conversation, and sequence of transpired events, and I suggest deleting it to avoid further embarrassment.







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uhh dude the guy above you already proved him wrong

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It does seem kinda weird to remember when this came out, that those things weren't even close to that level, but now it's such an every day thing.

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Unfortunately endless media coverage of murder trials are timeless.


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Love the Clue reference.

"I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

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No you are wrong, while they were not around one of the previous posters is absolutley correct...it was all ON THE HORIZON in the mid 90s. Not hard to predict at all. Now if this was a scene from a movie in the late 80s...or even 1990, then I'd grant you that it was definately ahead of it's time with these predictions. But in the mid 90s, all this stuff was speculated as happening in the near future because people kept wondering how far would the internet go. You guys must be kids born in the 90s or something to think of that time as so barbaric that people couldn't possibly have an eye to the future.

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a lot of that stuff already existed at the time (though it was still in its infancy). i gamed online and there was indeed online shopping though it was much more complicated and sometimes risky. the rest of the stuff was on the horizon. it really wasnt that big of a prediction.

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It still is risky. But the Internet existed at the time, obviously, and AOL was around, the alt boards, you could play Doom multiplayer and i remember games like Warcraft II and Command and Conquer all had multiplayer functions. There were sites like Ten and I think Mplay, Heat.net, and the original blizzard battle.net was used for Diablo, which came out in 1996. So online gaming was already a thing, just not the WoW days yet

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It still is risky. But the Internet existed at the time, obviously, and AOL was around, the alt boards, you could play Doom multiplayer and i remember games like Warcraft II and Command and Conquer all had multiplayer functions. There were sites like Ten and I think Mplay, Heat.net, and the original blizzard battle.net was used for Diablo, which came out in 1996. So online gaming was already a thing, just not the WoW days yet

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It still is risky. But the Internet existed at the time, obviously, and AOL was around, the alt boards, you could play Doom multiplayer and i remember games like Warcraft II and Command and Conquer all had multiplayer functions. There were sites like Ten and I think Mplay, Heat.net, and the original blizzard battle.net was used for Diablo, which came out in 1996. So online gaming was already a thing, just not the WoW days yet

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Online shopping has been available since the 1980s. I recall using the weird Prestel system back then. It was phenomenally slow: 1200/75 bps (yes, that's really bits, not kilo or meg, but bits!).

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Others have said it but Chip's predictions were banal at the time. That scene wasn't revealing Chip as a genius. It was just more of his delusional grandiosity.
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