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I remember playing Myst back when the internet was new and solving the puzzles, those were fun times. Great ambient music and voice acting in that series.

I've had some long discussions about this. However, I think the scorched sky is such a key part of the Matrixverse that if were taken away, it would sort of be an entirely different universe. Everything would totally change and we'd sort o...

In the States the Congress has recently allocated $2,300,000,000 for "Pandemic Influenza Preparedness". BTW I always thought this 1995 card game was fascinating. Epidemic=Power +14!

Yeah definitely used for multiple meanings. Gibson also coined the use of "the Matrix" in reference to cyberspace in Neuromancer back the 80s. We got the word from the latin for womb.

I think there's more to it than that, Smith is a "bastard" due to the fact that Smith became supersmith solely because of the Oracle and not the Architect. It was her plan to unbalance the equation. This was her independent action in playi...

As Rama Kandra said, "I know only what I need to know". He knew that by the machine rules, any program without purpose would be deleted. Sati had no purpose at the time. Therefore, Sati was in a great danger of being deleted. Machine socie...

Don't think so...the machine world seems to operate more like communism than the kind of system you're familiar with living in. You don't really get to choose what you want you to do, for the sake of efficiency everyone is pretty much told...

^Exactly! I don't think that can be reasonably disputed. They are better and smarter at it. As soon as they became capable of altering their own programming, which is what it means to be conscious, they began to lie. Sort of like the story...

My understanding on this was that yes, when Sati was smuggled in she had no purpose at all. This is in contrast to all the other programs who are created with a specific, predetermined purpose in mind. Remember that Sati's "mother" Kamala...

^lol...that sounds exactly like the thinking of a machine to me. Nevertheless, I don't think it makes much of a difference if someone deceives me via a direct lie or via a more clever "loophole" method of deceit.

I consent that very possibly the machines may even somehow believe that they do not lie, but apparently even an intellectually superior race can be self-deluded. At any rate, I would call it a story inconsistency to have a race of beings w...

I believe the question was, "Can Programs Lie?" Here Iris92 you are on a slippery slope at the depths of human psychology. If someone lies and sees it as telling the truth or misinformation, aren't they still lying since at some level of t...

^There you have it my friend. Have you ever payed close attention to lawyer-speak? It's designed to confuse the hell out of you so that the lie becomes the truth and the truth becomes the lie. Similarly the machines talk a good game but ar...

So you're saying that if someone asked the machines whether they killed the bluepill, they would admit that they were involved because they have no choice but to tell the truth? Sorry, I don't buy it. The most effective lies are half-lies,...

When the truce began, the Architect seemed to imply that he does not lie, or is even incapable of it. However, this actually makes no sense at all. Clearly the machines seem to have some sense of what we call honor, pride or dignity, both...

Yeah I really felt like the experience had been cheapened dramatically when I came back to find the new style of non-game engine cinematic. At first at thought that they just hadn't finished the cinematics and were prereleasing a storyboar...

Had the same problem with a machine chapter 1 archive mission recently, tried in different districts, at various times over a period of days and it still would not work. Maybe 9mmfu's thing will work.

I could help out with the repeated assassination of Marcel Pietiot, and teleporting.

The city is so big, there need to be more reasons to congregate in specific locations besides just LE or PVP. So anything that promotes that would be good IMO.

pack-hunter wrote: actually I had a thought about this, which I got too in depth tbh When the Architect told Neo about his choice, he said that his code would be disasembled and he would have to choose a group of men and women from to rebu...

The answer if fundamentally simple. Morpheus didn't know, he believed. Remember when Seraph asked the Oracle, "Did you always know [that things would turn out this way]?" She answered, "No. No, I didn't. But I belived. I believed." Morpheu...

I might be able to see what you are talking about if I could actually get that 1.1.2 mission to pull...no luck so far.

GamiSB wrote: When Neo is calling to get extracted from the Matrix, he says, "Mr. Wizard get me out of here." - a reference to the 1960s cartoon Tooter Turtle. Each episode, Tooter would yearn to be something he wasn't and have his friend...

To the OP, Quite right. That was quicker than the others. Some believed that the bros lacked the script-writing or directorial language to describe your perfect Matrixverse. We're not talking about a Seahaven Island here designed to provid...

To the OP, By the Matrix scenario I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean in becoming the equivalent of the machines who have the ability to create and administer a simulation like the Matrix? I would say more than 50 years away, but there...

/signed This type of thing ruins the immersion of the game. In SL it's fine, not here.

If you're interested I have three good maps (one for International, one for downtown and one for Westview/Richland) I use that used to be up on Matrix Dojo showing all: HLs Access Nodes Boosters Hideouts Clubs Mission Contacts Collectors (...