I’ve always loved the Atari Portfolio scene in T2, so I built an add-on for mine that lets me talk to a SKYNET-inspired assistant.

It talks back, can describe things through a small camera, and plays synthwave radio. Probably an unnecessary feature for starting the robot uprising, but I wanted it anyway.

The original keyboard and screen still work as the interface. Everything extra is inside the little enclosure I designed and printed.

Here’s a video of it working:

https://youtu.be/itMtJ-JYX_g

I felt bad for Miles. Their kids too.

I would watch a prequel with a younger Miles meeting his wife for the first time in college or something..... Maybe they meet and bond over the latest TV news of some odd muscular guy who speaks with an Aussie accent and is after Sarah Connors.

Could be a sci fi rom com. Maybe Miles is trying to get his "intentions" across with his invented devices and gizmo - thus laying the ground work for his future Skynet stuff.

I love Terminator, but something I've never really understood is why John Connor is treated like some kind of military genius who's single-handedly responsible for saving humanity.

I mean, what exactly did he do that was so groundbreaking?

He's fighting an AI that's controlling an entire army of killing machines. How much strategy can a human realistically bring to that fight?

"Alright guys, shoot the fucking robots. Blow up their factories. Try not to die."

Like, seriously. What could John Connor have figured out that literally nobody else could? Set up ambushes? Use explosives? Organize attacks? Isn't that just basic military strategy?

I get that he's a leader and a symbol of hope, but Skynet considers this ONE GUY such an enormous threat that it literally invents time travel to kill him before he's born.

What the fuck was John Connor doing that made him THAT dangerous?

I'm genuinely curious if there's an actual explanation in the lore, because I've never really understood what makes him so irreplaceable.