Damn. Zero Cool must be getting pretty close to retirement by now.
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Zero Cool might have been lying lol
https://www.nytimes.com/sitemap/1988/08/10/
https://store.nytimes.com/products/new-york-times-front-page-reprint?variant=35826434120
Edit: the store link doesn't keep the date -_- you'll have to select the date to see the front page.
It was said by Lord Nikon not Zero Cool; also it is a quote from the movie Hackers
They're all jacked because back then the keyboards were so stiff and the patch cables were so heavy that joining a network and typing in your login credentials burned more calories than a half marathon
That’s your idea of jacked?
Seems pretty jacked to me.
😂
To be fair, the more built guys in the scene are what jacked looked like before it was common for normal people to just take steroids. They certainly aren't what someone that devoted enough time to computer hacking to be the best at it looked like. Since it already takes at least 4 hours a day to look like that without steroids.
Are we looking at the same picture? Zero Cool has the best physique of the bunch and he's only "fit". None of their bodies require 4 hrs of gym time a day, unless they're trying to burn through like 4k calories using only a flat treadmill.
Go back and look at what people who spent hours in a gym per day looked like 50 years ago. Exercise hasn't changed, the only thing that has changed is what people take while exercising. It's even become common for people to admit they are taking steroids and not be ashamed of it anymore.
Back when this movie came out, that was a 4 hours a day gym body.
Our perspective and expectations of what is attainable steroid-free are so heavily skewed now. Like check out rock climbers, people that need to be both strong and flexible, so steroids aren't even an option for them. They can lift 150-200 pounds repeatedly for hours, and their arms look about like this guy in the movie. Then check out people that are just cultivating "big muscles" and compare what they can actually lift with those muscles. It looks ridiculous in comparison.
It is a matter of efficiency. 4 hrs a day is high-intensity full body workout. If 4 hrs a day got you looking like that, you were not using your time efficiently. I guess, we need to define what you consider "going to/using the gym".
I'm just a guy who's been in some gyms, but most, normal dedicated people are in and out in about 2 hrs. They hit their target bodyparts and bounce. More than that and I'd assume you have to wait for machines, you're lazing around, or you're an athlete/in action movies.
And then, even beyond efficiency, it's about the body's ability to sustain any decent workout for 4 whole hours. The Rock might manage all that with the supplements he's taking and he still crams down thousands of calories to fuel himself. And none of these guys have the bulked weightlifter bodies.
Or they just run for 4 hrs. But I wouldn't really call that a "gym body".
If you have a source where these actors claim their physique is the result of 4 hrs of daily work in the gym, then I'll take up my complaint with them. But I'm gonna hard disagree every day of the week.
I just mean our perspective of what strong looks like has been so shifted by steroids becoming main stream.
Like this is a bit of an outrageous example, but pranks like this are only possible because people can't possibly believe one of the strongest people on the planet can look this small.
Giant muscles isn't strong, giant muscles is just for show. And back then it wasn't common for actors to use steroids yet. He had to work for those arms, they may look small now, but they were alot of work back then.
Honestly, I don't know how many hours exactly, but it was more than people would think it was nowadays.
I get what you're going for, 100% things have shifted. Absolutely true.
But I'm not taking steroids, and I'm not spending 4 hours a day at the gym, and I basically have the same arms as that guy. At least in this photo. Maybe he's more jacked than he looks in the rest of the movie, I haven't seen it in a while, and I don't have shredded abs or anything. I'm not impressively fit. But I have arms that look kinda like that.
I think you've taken the steroids thing, which again is a legit thing, and maybe swung fully in the other direction and decided any muscle at all is a modern creation? Some dudes have arms. Just, attached to their shoulders.
I'm roughly as big as him and I don't spend four hours a day in the gym. Nor do I take steroids.
The Rock is a good example of how the image of a jacked male body has changed to the extreme. In his old movies he looks skinny compared to his monstrous body he has today. Even though back then people thought he was quite buff. Though even back then people also had an unrealistic ideal of the male physique. Like people were calling Brad Pitt unhealthily skinny when he had his Fight Club body.
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I'm sorry do you not see the biceps on that girl in the blue shirt
nvm somebody else said it already
Oh man, starting to feel old, Angeline Jolie referred to as blue shirt girl...
Before one can hack the planet, one must learn how to hack 1507 computers.
Shoulda stopped at 1,337.
Some people just want to be one better. 170 times.
Mess with the best, die like the rest
If your command&control center is on dial-up, it's easier to create a self-propagating virus that does not need to phone home
See, it's because 1337 resembles the word "LEET," short for "elite."
I know but counting the infected machines and stopping at a specific number is hard if there is limited bandwidth to a central node (or no bandwidth in case of sneakerware). So early viruses could not be controlled once released nor tell if there's 1337 copies already.
Later on he started Overriding Crashes.
Governments and corporations need people like you and me.
We are Samurai. The Keyboard Cowboys.
And all those other people who have no idea what's going on are the cattle...
Moooo.
Uhh excuse me, Mr. The Plague?
One of the very few movies from 1995 that still holds
Shitting their pants over a 28.8 kbps modem, floppy disks, and roller blades.
Look, I love this movie, but, holds up? Come on, man, you're old.
Movies aren't just set at "current moment I'm watching the movie". Something can hold up while still being set in the past. People did, at that time, shit their pants over all those things.
The US government will still use the same 1986 law they used in the beginning of the 1995 movie Hackers to throw the book at you in 2025 for doing anything online they don't want you to.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
It was so out of touch then that it hasn't gone out of date
Uh, Mr. The Plague, uh, something weird's happening on the fediverse.
Never fear
I his here
What is it, you hapless techno weenie
Ain't shit compared to crowdsrike
Dammit, I wanted to make that reference!
Hack the planet!
(sigh) WHY is my only copy of this movie on a VHS tape buried deep in the closet?
And I don't even have a working VCR at hand.
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