Remember back in 1999, when you saw The Matrix, and it was all cool, and you were stoned like “DUUUUDE, WHAT IF WE’RE IN THE MATRIX RIGHT NOW??? HOW WOULD WE KNOW??? WHOOOAAAA!!!”

And then 25 years passed, and you’re too busy talking about…

gestures wildly to everything

…all this?

Yeah. Still in the matrix. Life doesn’t make sense, unless you realize this is all one user fucking around with the code.

First he removes all the payphones. Then he just asks the question “I wonder how we can make things even dumber…”, and finally he increases the absurdity to max levels because it makes him laugh at the suffering.

Oh my god, I know who’s running the simulation…

"Hey there, it’s Josh. We’re checking out The Matrix today! I heard this Earth place has some really stupid AI, so it’s time for NEW GAME!!!

  • AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee
    6·
    8 days ago

    Never got into simulation theory. It just seems like standard monotheism but put into a modern IT framework with an unnamed creator.

    • lad@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      It just solves everything by introducing another level of abstraction 😶‍🌫️

    • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 days ago

      Another view of it is if people mostly know you through remote-working, social media, computer games etc., then the “digital you” is something with non-physics rules that you can adapt analogously to the matrix.

  • criitz@reddthat.com
    5·
    7 days ago

    The machines in the Matrix really nailed it when they made the 1990s the choice as the peak of human civilization for the simulation.

  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    3·
    8 days ago

    If I had any part: “Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the dancing badgers?”

    The entire scene is low-poly with colors defined using the mesh itself, also the image is optimized for color to reduce data, resulting in dithering patterns. In a gray room with black and white triangle tiles, there are 6 badgers of various sizes standing and facing the viewer. Similarly, there are 5 eyes floating in the air one of which is not fully opaque. There is 1 banana on the floor.

    Also, some aspects of the matrix (as a concept) seem silly with today’s society. You don’t need to lie about it, I already live mostly digitally and would be fine with my body being used as a battery or whatever.

    I’m at the point where a medsci student could probably convince me to let them preserve my brain (chemical fixation if anything like that has potential to be reversed). Though I would wish to have some form of revival contract (with different acceptable scenarios) to not wake up to the same/worse conditions.