#Imitation Game

[dabiconcordia]

What is an example of playing on words? to  be  or  not  to   be             ( Shakespeare ) to  be  is  to  do                     ( Camus ) to do is to be      ( Sartre ) do  be  do  be  do be             ( Sinatra )

[samsdei]

Alex Lawther

[thedetectivethepirate]

He deserved so much better.

[azrail-has-a-vendetta]

seen Keira Knightly in like 4 things and I am very much in love with her. Also Orlando Bloom, I’ve seen him in like two.

[mtg-player1]

I don't know much about the historical accuracy of the imitation game, but I love the just "you were solving math (cryptography) in math class because the maths (listening to the teacher) was too boring?".

[pascaled]

Happy Birthday

Benedict Cumberbatch

[sammusbird]

How could you tell if an AI had become sentient? Ask if it has favorites from a collection of stuff? Ask it for the justification why, and track the similarities until personality traits emerge? that could be indistinguishable from random chance. Keep asking it similar questions and see if it gets annoyed, as computers currently don’t have that capacity? or would a sentient machine never get annoyed of being poked? Would we have to wait until it pokes us first, asks why-questions or makes requests? Or will we have to give it that capability separately (non sentient computers already send push notifs, and those are requests). What about requesting it convince you it’s not sentient, repeat until it fails? We can’t judge sentience on capability to write poems or hold a conversation but maybe we need to get weirder with it.

[a-series-of-small-things-blog]

As far as portrayals of Alan Turing go, we have what I like to think of as the "Big Three" - Benedict Cumberbatch, Derek Jacobi, & Ed Stoppard. There are certainly issues with all 3 of them - limitations of the medium, script/writing issues, accuracy, etc. But I do have to say that Ed Stoppard's performance is the only one that doesn't feel like a gross charicature. Like, don't get me wrong, it's a documentary where we see relatively very little of Alan and his full life. However, it feels like a certain amount of care is brought to Alan that we don't see in the other performances.

I think a big part of this is also the writing. The dialogue that Alan has feels so much more like how he know he would actually talk. It's very funny and he is so much more open about his sexuality. The only issue that I really have, and this is in no way Ed Stoppard's fault, is that he doesn't change his voice. There is no halting speech and it's not high-pitched. Which, I understand why that would be difficult to do. Cumberbatch and Jacobi try their best but miss the mark, so I can understand how it would be better to just not try at all. But just, in general, the entire performance feels a lot more natural and playful in a way that the others don't.

I will probably write more about this topic later (I really want to make a TikTok/video series about it) but I have been thinking about this more and more. And I wanted to get this out of my head.

[for-my-mind-to-run-around-free]

Just finished rewatching imitation game

And every time. Every time. My jaw drops at how good Benedict Cumberbatch is at acting. This man is literally a piece of art to be admired on the screen.

He is Alan Turing. He is Sherlock. He is Dr Strange. He is Van Gogh. Or whoever he chooses to play.

[enbycrip]

I will genuinely never forgive anyone involved in making The Imitation Game for their absolute travesty of Alan Turing’s story.

He was intensely autistic, and gay, and *kind*.

He mentored people below him in the programme - including women, who pretty much everyone else was crappy to.

He had terrible allergies and went cycling in a gas mask in the country to avoid then, and when he got overstimulated at parties he pulled incredibly daft elaborate “walking into a cupboard” leaving gags to handle them that left everyone screaming on the floor despite the silliness.

He got on really well with kids and never talked down to them. He gave his neighbours his sugar rations on their kids’ birthdays so she could always make them birthday cakes - even when he was being persecuted after the war, even when he was suffering horrible side effects from the tortures they put him through.

He was such an utterly, genuinely lovely human being, and he deserved so much damn better, and at the very *least* he deserved to be portrayed as who he was in the 21st fucking century instead of falling into a whole slew of horrifically harmful stereotypes that erased the fucking gift he was to us all over again.

[katyaowu]

Bletchley Park 2014

[jamesnorthcotefanblog]

James Northcote as Jack Good in ‘The Imitation Game’ (2014)

[saying-odd-shit]

menenick cummermatch

[anxious-elea]

Alan Turing at one point in his paper spent eight pages proposing a parallel question to the question that is parallel to the actual question AND APPARENTLY ITS PARALLEL TO SOMETHING ELSE

[archerygun]

Sane people form obsessions over things they like. I (certifiably out of my tree) am a thousand times more likely to form an obsession with something I hate. I have 7 separate complete rewrites of the (blue people) Avatar movie. I know a frankly unreasonable amount of James Bond trivia. I once talked about Imitation Game for so long that I lost my voice afterwards. Someone please release me from the hell that is my mind.

[nutmargaret]

An excerpt from a comic I made a couple years ago about fishing in video games. Full comic is on my ko-fi for free (or a couple bucks if you’d like). Happy fishing!