tetris11 got it, the sprinter from World Record.

Essentially, he’s such a top tier athlete, so determined, that he… breaks through the veil of ‘reality’, in his pursuit of greatness.

Whereas the kid… has an incredibly certain sense of belief in … more or less, the idea of Neo as a transcended individual, as a kind of means of attaining his own transendence.

… MxO went into more of these methods of either escaping or becoming aware of the Matrix, independently, as basically class build archetypes…

But I have absolutely no idea what the ‘canon’ status of any of it is, at this point.

Probably just ‘not canon’, I don’t know.

Its also doubly confusing because back when MxO was running… different server shards actually experienced different ‘storylines’, due to there being a … roughly every 3 or 6 month … sort of faction competition for which variant of a major plot point would play out in which way.

So… these different shards all experienced kind of fundentally opposed ‘canons’.

… but nobody remembers any of that, these days.

But at the same time…we are our choices and our memories.

Its also possible that… MxO, or a sequel to it was the video game that Neo was working on in Matrix 4.

So… who knows, really, hahah!