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Croesus wrote: If humans were to create AI within the simulation... would it be true AI? Would it dream......? An AI simulating itself? Brain . . . hurts . . . *pop*

Croesus wrote: So, The Kid took the initial bullet, all very well and good, but did anyone stay and protect the Oracle whilst everyone else was chasing the Commando? According to this image from the screens posted in the Recursion Event fo...

((Fun event, and it was nice to see some new faces getting key roles instead of the usual suspects.)) Say what you will about him, The Kid has got some guts. That sort of snap judgment and bravery under fire is very commendable.

Satta wrote: Stop preaching propoganda. Without control there is chaos freedom. You are reading in between the lines. You are free, remember that. Corrected. In any event, am I really free? Are you? We're only "free" because Neo made the M...

Wow, nice find . That has been buried on the interwebs for years now . . . I sort of wish The Floating Feast had been given a little more play than being relagated to side comments in missions, it really helps flesh out the major storyline...

Good question. Maybe there's some bad blood between them over Seraph? Perhaps Seraph sort of dumped the Merv to protect the Oracle, and the Merv is angry at having lost such a powerful asset to her? I'm just guessing, but there is clearly...

I think Niobe looks great, her face is really expressive without the shades. That's just a run-of-the-mill black Blackbee tankini, right? I'm pretty sure I looted one of those off of an otherwise burly-looking male adversary . . . I didn't...

Ha, indeed. I stand corrected.

Morpheus: This place . . . these people . . . A species held subservient . . . Agent, do you consider this . . . just? Agent Gray: Control is necessary. Gray's response - or more accurately, his non-response - is an interesting admission:...

Finding that Union Hill access key is highly annoying, thanks for this info. I've also come across the access key while farming for consumable subroutines down in that big Lamar construction site. Three chevron Dog Pound gang members drop...

Nicely put, RedBindi. There appears to be no tactic too underhanded to test the limits of the Truce and to test Zion's capacity to work past these setbacks. We, of course, are up to the challenge for the sake of preserving humanity's freed...

As a Zionite who has been skeptical of the Morpheus sightings, I'm only glad that The Kid came up with a way to verify the origins of the signal before too many people were taken in by this tactic of distraction. But before other non-Zion...

Good points. It would definitely be a massive undertaking to physically rehabilitate severely atrophied musculature, but what about all those futuristic acupuncture needles that were stuck into Neo in the film? I'm pretty sure that Morpheu...

In the films, the only person we see recovering after being freed is Neo. The sequence is shot with Neo fading in and out of consciousness to suggest his disorientation and trauma, so it's impossible to tell how much time has elapsed befor...

ThHidden01 wrote: Heh is the Black Widow, an old love affair of the Frenchman? If it is just shows that even the boss is a dirty cheat TH I sort of read her comments to mean that the Black Widow was an old love affair of Persephone's . Muc...

Thanks Sculptress! I'm referring all my friends - you are a WHIZ with hair color! On the other hand, erasing people's faces . . . well, nobody's perfect, right?

So here's a sort of a macabre question about the culture of Zion, for all you armchair cultural anthropologists out there. I was thinking about the death of a character in MxO, and what our faction might do to honor him in the Real - and I...

LOL, true, we could certainly debate whether the lie of the Matrix is justifiable - and that's probably one of the biggest differences between Zionites on the one hand and Machine apologists on the other. We could (and do) try to distingui...

Illyria22 wrote: Sounds like Sati has some emergent properties that neither her parents or the Machines were aware of...and now it seems that she's gone from an exile to a program with a purpose. I know that some of my fellow Machinists wo...

Nice interpretation. Deception seems to be a by-product of self-awareness and conscious thought. Biting into that juicy apple gives you all sorts of power - including lying. Guess you have to take the good with the bad. Wow, that's sort of...

I see what you're getting at - in the Machine world, nothing is created for creativity's sake, and the default protocol is that any program that is not immediately utilitarian will be deleted. At the same time, I would imagine that the Mac...

So Sati always had the power to manipulate the illusion of the Matrix, but the beneficial applications of this capability were unforeseen by her parents and/or the Source? Because if Ramakandra and Kamala knew that Sati had a capability th...

Hang on just one gosh-durn minute, now I'm confused. I thought the whole reason she was smuggled into the Matrix via the Merovingian was because she had no purpose in the Machine world and thus faced deletion. Now we're being told that she...

Er, isn't the entire Matrix one big elaborate lie? The whole point of the Matrix is to deceive humans into believing that they're living out normal, turn-of-the-20th-century lives. The Machines actively conceal the truth of humanity's cond...

I definitely see what the OP is trying to get at, but I don't think there's any way to know for sure. If there was a specific answer somewhere in the films, MxO, or The Animatrix, someone in this horde of fans would probably be able to quo...

I admire The Daniel Institute for bringing a sense of mystery and intrigue back to the Matrix. If you're up for the challenge, contact the Institute to find out how deep the rabbit hole goes . . . Also, Meretrix & Vesuveus = the hottest co...

*pictures Walrus in a pink one-piece bathing suit . . . * *shudder*

Continuity alert! Why does Zion need to rely only on Neo's description of the Chateau? Niobe and Ghost were also both there during Enter the Matrix, right? *returns to being pathologically obsessed with details of the Matrix storyline*

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