• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 hours ago

    As in, frame perfect execution of some kind of set of inputs, like a speed runner would have to pull off?

    No, not in the Matrix canon I can recall off the top of my head.

    They’re more focused on an… unwavering belief, or faith, in something.

    Not any kind of technical, machine-like ability to execute a complex task, with high precision.

    The point is being incredibly human in a way that is not machine-like, that’s the way(s) out, not in trying to out machine a machine.

    EDIT:

    As the Architect says to Neo in Matrix 2:

    Humph. Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.

    They cannot fully account for, figure out a way to fully contain what you might call the human spirit, or irrational faith of some kind.

    Neo’s particular variant of this kind of irrational drive… is his love of Trinity.

    … its rather sappy, actually, lol.

    4 more or less inverts this, it is Trinity’s love of Neo that ultimately saves/reawakens him.

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        16 minutes ago

        Uh…

        I’m afraid you’re going to have to explain that meme to me a bit more, before I can have what I’d call a potentially defensible ‘fan canon’ opinion on that.

        If its literally just ‘escape the matrix by poisoning yourself to death, via eating dessicant pouches’…

        … then no, thats just suicide by way of being an idiot, I would not think that would … mesh with what the matrix world would seem to define as a viable means of transcending ‘reality’.

        Unless there is some kind of…extremely strong, or kind of extremely ‘deep’ belief structure that goes along with this, then probably not, no.

        … However…

        IIRC… if we expand to include MxO’s character archetypes as potentially valid canon…

        Well, one of those archetypes more or less is: you are a paranoid schizophrenic.

        So… maybe? Kind of? … ???

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        8 hours ago

        They even lampshaded that in the dialogue. Something about a 4th something that nobody asked for or wanted to make.

        The whole movie I was trying to figure out if it was serious or a colossal shit post.