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- Did you ever play tic-tac-toe?
- Yeah. Of course.
- But you don't anymore.
- No. Why?
- Because it's a boring game. It's always a tie.

14 seconds sound clip from the WarGames (1983) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:22:48 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- If Joshua tricks them into launching an attack, it'll be your fault.

- My fault?

- The whole point was to find a way to practice nuclear war without destroying ourselves. To get the computers to learn from mistakes we couldn't afford to make.

- Except that I never could get Joshua to learn the most important lesson.

- What's that?

- Futility. That there's a time when you should just give up.

- What kind of lesson is that?

- Did you ever play tic-tac-toe?

- Yeah. Of course.

- But you don't anymore.

- No. Why?

- Because it's a boring game. It's always a tie.

- Exactly. There's no way to win. The game itself is pointless.

- But back at the war room, they believe you can win a nuclear war... that there can be acceptable losses.

- So you gave up? Decided to play dead?

- For security reasons, they graciously arranged my death.

- Did you know that no land animal with a body weight of over 50 pounds survived that age?

[...]

WarGames (1983) Sound Clip

WarGames Cover

Sound clips of quotes, sayings and sound effects sampled from the WarGames movie soundboard that you can use as ringtones. All audio files are in wav and mp3 format.

Actors: Matthew Broderick (David Lightman), Dabney Coleman (John McKittrick), John Wood (Stephen Falken and Joshua/WOPR), Ally Sheedy (Jennifer Mack), Barry Corbin (General Jack Beringer)

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