Hey, if you only eat paste, there is no chance you get food poisoning from a dirty cooking area or an unskilled cook.
What about the mood debuff?
Sounds like something a nice bedroom would offset.
I’m somehow always playing transhumanists. They don’t get a debuff.
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🤷♂️ gotta be on the way to become the super human you were always supposed to be 🤷♂️
And the best part is nobody knows how many legs are mixed into it
Ooooh, are we on a train?
Also they clearly had tables, so they don’t have to kill each other and break all of their own infrastructure yet.
#team soylent
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what if Neo was in reality from the beginning and Morpheus just drugged him and plugged him into the matrix to live in the fake hell version of earth where the fake machines took over
The Jesus parallels make a lot more sense this way
Also Neo’s Wi-Fi capabilities
Nah that’s just what 5g implants do
I’d read a thing a while back that it wasn’t WiFi, and more that admin basically said “oh shit. We’re not supposed to already get him at this point in the cycle. SUDO_DON’T_FUCK_WITH_HIM” and emergency aborted the squids.
I kinda like that idea better than the inexplicable WiFi, if we’re not doing the MWAM approach.
Oh that’s fucked up, I have to rethink about all the movies under that angle now
Reverse Morpheus
I never understood the plot of the matrix. Why the fuck would you want to live outside of the virtual reality world? Just let the machines make the vr world awesome if you promise not to break out. The whole “the world was too good and the humans noticed so we had to make it shitty” plot point was stupid as fuck. If the world was too awesome you think I’d ever want to leave that world?
“let the machines” is the problem. They decide how it all works, and what it’s for. If there was an opt-in virtual world, with an independently certified logging out option, maybe manually checking in with everyone at regular intervals, then probably a whole lot of people would choose to be there.
Black Mirror’s San Junipero was an example of an opt-in and a rare good ending.
Yeah, that’s why I don’t watch that show.
It’s also not very good.
It boils down to saccharine American episodes or “what it tech, but too much?!”
Lol, I didn’t even say it was bad. I think it’s an alright show. I just don’t think it’s especially poignant or anything.
Isn’t that how the matrix 3 ends?
I was super drunk when I watched it but I feel like that’s the compromise they reached
From what I remember it ends with Doogie Houser saying “lol jk go do whatever you want” and then fly away.
That’s Matrix 4. Just forget about that whole trainwreck ;)
Haha you’re right. Both of those movies are just so good I mixed them together
Isnt that’s the major question of the movie. Is it better to live a lie as a battery slave or free but miserable
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Genuinely, for 90% of the population that seems like the actual answer. Same as those who partake in Twitter/Reddit. But the 10% who don’t, it would be nice to have another option.
It was more expressed as a need or a part of the human condition to need to be free. Even if someone was comfortable with the matrix, part of them inside was not. That was a bigger part of some of the Animatrix shorts where it wasn’t so much choosing one life over the other, it was the truth or a lie, freedom or subjugation.
The animatrix was so good.
That’s explored in the movie, no? That’s why Cypher betrays them to go back into the Matrix. Some people are fine and even prefer the Matrix, others can’t live that way knowing it’s all fake.
My biggest problem with The Matrix is where the machines are getting the food from to feed the humans. You need a continuous supply of food to support continuous energy conversion; that energy isn’t being created from nothing. Normally that comes from the sun photosynthesizing plants (which then works its way up the food chain), but with no sunlight then plants can’t grow. They say they feed the liquified remains of dead humans to the living ones, but even if digestion were 100% efficient (which it definitely isn’t), the amount of usable “food” would constantly decrease until there’s nothing left.
It originally used humans’ brains as “wetware,” or extra processing space. Imagine everyone’s playing an MMO, but the computers are all rendering their own copy of stuff so the server doesn’t have to do anything but handshakes and data transfer. The matrix is handled, in part, in our heads.
The test audiences got confused so the whole "lol, people are just batteries ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ " plot was put in place instead.
Oh my god this makes so much more sense
That movie had so many plot holes that it’s actually kind of difficult to watch as an adult.
I still enjoyed the first movie.
That’s because The Matrix(the movie) is actually a meta-commentary on being trans, the confusing at best sci-fi is just the veil over the actual meaning.
The matrix(the virtual world) represents cisgender. For most inhabitants, everything is totally fine and nothing is amiss, because they are cis.
The ones that notice something is “off” about the Matrix represent trans people. Taking the red pill is the equivalent of leaving the closet. They end up in a world that mostly hates them and want to control/destroy them(the machines represent bigots) and their safety is much lower than before, but they do it anyways because while it was easier to live the lie, they were never truly happy living it. Living in the real world doesn’t guarantee them happiness, far from it, but it at least gives them a chance for it which they never had in the Matrix.
I want whatever hardcore drugs you’re smoking.
I don’t know if you can draw those exact parallels, and I think it’s trivializing the plot a bit to just “ignore all that sci-fi stuff,” but it has been confirmed by the Lily that it was at least partially on her mind when writing the Matrix:
She [Lily] added that she didn’t know how present her transness was in her mind as they were writing the movie, but that much of the desire for transformation in the films stemmed from her closeted point of view at the time. [1]
There’s a lot to unpack in the above comment, and claiming that being CIS removes all the problems of the world is more than mildly naive as well, but there’s for sure a lot of lgbtq+ messaging in the Matrix, and it doesn’t take a great leap to see it either.
[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/12/22/1066554369/the-matrix-original-trans-fans-resurrections
That’s a good explanation. I’d heard it was some kind of trans allegory before but I didn’t see it and never had it explained before, or at least not well.
I think it kind of makes sense when you look at the world now
When you keep people busy fighting just to get by, the majority worries more about the next paycheck instead of thinking about how things could get better.
Look at the coal miners - they fight tooth and nail to destroy their health only to enrich someone else. Look at minimum wage service workers, they’ll work three jobs where they’re constantly treated like crap by everyone, but they won’t risk that terrible job to try to unionize
And look at all of us - the world we’ve created sucks. Most of us are unhappy and never come near our potential, but we’re generally more scared of losing whatever we have to even consider a system that would be better for everyone
If we had the time and mental energy, we’d be pushing the boundaries. We’d find our passion, whether it’s science or exploration or spiritual development. If there’s cracks in the simulation, we’d eventually find them and start picking at them like a scab
In the matrix, the majority is too busy in their gentle suffering to push the boundaries. And the few that have what it takes to break out are given another layer, a hopeless fight where both victory and defeat just restart the cycle
Yes, if the simulation was good enough everyone would willingly stay in the sandbox, but self actualized people will always try to imagine something better. They’d want to explore the universe and build worlds within worlds - if the machines let some people out to explore the real world and left the willing in a great game things would be better for both parties, but they’d have to give up control - the humans outside could fix the skies and colonize endless worlds alongside machines, but they could also decide to come back with better technology and win the war once and for all
In 1999, it was suspicious how good things were.
Cisgender
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CISGENDER!
Hahahaha
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They probably had a lovely restaurant program too, like the Kung Fu ones.
Infinite steak
They already had advanced bionic plugs, why not put in a feeding tube and chow on goo while you chow on steaks?
Matrix wouldn’t be so bad if they adjusted the hue…just saying.
Huehuehuehuehue
They took out the green tint in the 4k release.
What a weird decision. Would’ve been nice to have both “versions” maybe.
Am I the only one that doesn’t need concrete logic to enjoy something?
iT hAs PlOtHoLeS
And?
Fucking and!?!?
Only when the plotholes make shit just not work, lile teleporting characters, or plot twists that involve the ol’ “you thought I died onscreen, but it was just a flesh wound that looked like impalement” do the plotholes really fuck things up.
like how Trinity died, but then they brought her back to life for Resurrections?
Ehhh… so did Neo. The machines let Smith overwrite him, so they could fry that iteration.
The machines likely had their engrams saved, and definitely had their bodies. Clone 'em, stitch ‘em back together, homunculus them, whatever. There was a big ol’ time skip between Revolutions and Resurrections anyway.
Especially since “Neo” had been through however many cycles before according to the Architect.
We gotta go to candy mountain NEOOOOOOOOOOO
The context of the screencap is a Kia ad if anyone’s curious (but also fuck Hyun/Kia and their poor decision-making
what the fuck. That was so lame.
Wait, did I miss a car company scandal?
which one? It’s not so much one big scandal (although that skipping basic anti-theft features decision to save a buck is pretty big right now) but all the medium ones that pretty much point to poor engineering decision-making or standards that causes trouble for owners despite their (usually) lower prices and sharp styling. Their past decade of 4-cylinder GDI engines being junk, fire risk stemming from several very different causes, etc. Of course, one can argue corporations will penny-pinch, but Hyundai and Kia just seem to keep pinching in the wrong places that other manufacturers either learned not to, or never bothered to pinch.
This was addressed in the movie. Prominently. It was the whole 2nd half or final 3rd of the movie.
Also, they gave him the option to back out & just go back home to his Matrix-life. Also a pretty notable part of the movie. It’s even a meme!
