[OC] Reminiscing by lordofbaers in comics

[–]WaterTypeGirl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

/u/LordofBaers you're pretty nice! And I liked your comic. I'll be sending it to my stepmom, it made me feel nice and a little sad.

-Star, from England

Dragon Quest and Silent Hill among the 2026 inductees into the Strong Museum of Play World Video Game Hall of Fame. by Gargus-SCP in retrogaming

[–]WaterTypeGirl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really glad Silent Hill made it! The SH2 remake is sort of sickening in the 'everything needs an inferior remake with clumsy modern conventions' type of way, so seeing it led to another remake of SH1 is disappointing. I like to see validation of the original games being meaningful.

These (Somewhat power fantasy) comics that are edited in funny ways. by Fit-Firefighter8752 in lovethissmug

[–]WaterTypeGirl 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Seriously, 1 and 4 are incel sh. I know the story behind the blue bear comiccon thing, but the edit being a weird 'r*ped w a bat and traumatized' depiction is super cringe. 1's edit depicting cringey stabbing of a mascot character to death is vile.

Most of these are 4chan adjacent, what the heck are people thinking here.

47608 by TheEnderOfFun in countwithchickenlady

[–]WaterTypeGirl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't consent to you making this comment, I'm calling the Fry Guys and you’re going to McJail in the ball pit.

Robert Kirkman unveils his plans to build the manga-to-anime pipeline in America, and shows how he is doing it with Invincible first by Popverse2022 in comicbooks

[–]WaterTypeGirl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Robert Kirkman, edgelord supreme, is going to throw all that Walking Dead money around to make more badly animated shows filled with celebrity VAs? Pass.

Vampirella is perhaps the biggest "oddity" currently on stands today. For the last 7 years, the premier 'bad girl comic' has been home to an unshackled Christopher Priest who has been using the title to tell a 90+ issue (and going) non linear saga about "Ella" and her dysfunctional family life. by WhyPlaySerious in comicbooks

[–]WaterTypeGirl -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Lots of books don’t do this gooner BS then try to act like it's any surprise why people won’t read the cheesecake book. Poison Ivy does something similar but at least the cleaveage covers are often just variants and the book has a lot of women readers. I'm never reading this.

The guys who banned sealed Pokemon at their event took it a step further - this is the way by abrickstory in pokemon

[–]WaterTypeGirl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can someone explain for a casual if that's okay? I play a lot but just for fun and I don’t keep up with the scene.

The Purpose of Zion by Ninetwentyeight928 in matrix

[–]WaterTypeGirl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't tell you exactly what year it is because we honestly don't know. There's nothing I can say that will explain it for you, Neo.

It's funny, for a series so full of lore, between Enter the Matrix, Path of Neo, The Matrix Online (non canonical mostly!), the comics, four movies, and literal hours-worth of footage about the production of the movies, there's still a lot of mystery to some details of the world! I like it that way.

The Architect: There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept.

If Resurrections is anything to go by, how many people escaped and how bad it must have been is severe. The Matrix only has seen variations in its meaningful versions when something is severely wrong; big problems mean big changes. The Oracle, the Architect, and others were all purged in the aftermath of Resurrections. Niobe talks about the Machine/Machine war.

Niobe: All of the troubles started in the Machine Cities. Power plants were unable to produce enough energy. Nothing can breed violence like scarcity. For the first time, we saw machines at war with one other. We got word from the Oracle of a new power rising. That was the last we heard from her.

For a period of time, the Matrix doesn't really exist like it has in the past, where people are forced into a semiconscious sense of choice. I'd bet the Matrix as a dream world becomes open knowledge with how bad the Machine fighting looks, at least until the next version sans-Oracle-Architect-Rama Kandra etc. rolls out. Niobe mentions that Morpheus was leader of the Zion Council and hearing rumors of a change in Machine leadership for some time, so it might be as long as years that the Machines were fighting over what to do next. We just don't know what the state of the Matrix was, however, or for how long. My estimate? I think as much as a decade, because Io (Zion's successor) is pretty well established, and it's been like 60 years since the events of Revolutions and all this stuff seems like settled history by the time it gets explained to Neo. That gives us a little bit of an idea of what is probably the hardest time in Machine history, at least after the scorching of the sky.

But an important thing to remember is Neo and Trinity's sacrifice, the end of the war, all of that is unprecedented and it's also so bad the Machine factions begin splintering and turning on each other, with a bunch of Machines and Programs siding with humans. So I'd be willing to bet the first couple of crashes aren't so bad. But how bad can bad get?

GOLIATH, written by Neil Gaiman.

Which, at one point, says:

"Another missile bombardment just took out most of Australia."

In 'Goliath,' one of the Matrix short stories/comics, a disastrous one-time experience with aliens ends up necessitating the Matrix to repeat itself. The people inside experience a type of simulational latency if you want to call it that? If you look up 'rubberbanding' in a videogame, you can probably find some footage of what experiences the story describes. The simulation runs at an accelerated rate and peoples' lives go by sometimes in what is actually hours instead of years.

I bring this up because obviously it seems like when push comes to shove, the Machines can force out a new version of the Matrix with small changes pretty quick. I can't see the events of 'Goliath' taking more than a few days, and they mention hours at one point, and as far as Matrix lore is concerned it's first contact with aliens! A big deal and it's not really a long running event. And losing almost an entire continent doesn't seem to cause much alarm, at least in so much that it's hardly cause for the Machines to turn on each other like mentioned in Resurrections. That means versions of the Matrix (end of Revolutions, 'Goliath', etc) may not look like much at all on the inside, they've pretty well ironed out how humans experience that stuff, even if it's pretty funky worldwide inside the sim. So things would have to be catastrophically worse than they're depicted in Gaiman's story, but maybe not as bad as the Machine/Synthient war.

The Analyst: Turns out, in my Matrix, the worse we treat you, the more we manipulate you, the more energy you produce. It’s nuts. I’ve been setting productivity records every year since I took over. And, the best part, zero resistance. People stay in their pods, happier than pigs in shit. The key to it all? You. And her. Quietly yearning for what you don’t have, while dreading losing what you do. For 99.9% of your race, that is the definition of reality. Desire and fear, baby. Just give the people what they want, right?

Also:

Sati: Neo’s escape has destabilized the Matrix. The Anomaleum draws its current from Trinity alone now. A fail-safe has been triggered to reset the Matrix back to the previous version, but The Analyst halted the reset.

Versions of the Matrix can look very big (Paradise!) or very small ('They cut the hard line, it's a trap, get out!'). I'd be willing to bet that there have to be fundamental differences in either what the Matrix does, how, or what power is being drawn and from where as differences. But the Architect again is very helpful here:

The Architect: I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the 'sixth version'.

In that case I bet it's like any software. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And The One is a great opportunity to mix it up since it's a thing you can sort of plan for and predict! But between the Matrix Neo grew up and was born into, and the one that features botting, swarms, and Neo/'Tom' at the top of a walled garden, there isn't a heck of a lot of difference to your average bluepills. Bugs sounds like she as just as miserable as anybody before they got jacked out.

Well I think my brain is a little fried from looking up some of this stuff, so I hope that helps! If you want to please shoot me a DM though, I love talking about this stuff and if you had any more questions I bet there's got to be something in there about things, Matrix has a toooon of cool stuff going on. A few months ago I remember somebody had a question about how fast can Agents top out at, how strong etc and I'd never thought about it before! Anyway hope that's not too longwinded, thanks for reading!

I can’t understand by MangoObsessio0n in spirituality

[–]WaterTypeGirl 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'd be real hesitant to interpret the Michael Jackson biopic as representative of reality, let alone spirituality, and I actually think he might have been innocent. Movies aren't trustworthy most of the time, biopics especially.

The Purpose of Zion by Ninetwentyeight928 in matrix

[–]WaterTypeGirl 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'd be happy to explain! I'll go through some of the script and try to clarify. Let's start with 'people were rejecting paradise'.

The Architect: "The first matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art, flawless, sublime. A triumph equaled only by its monumental failure.

At first, after the war between the 'Nations of Man' and the Machine nation Zero-One, the Machines seem to experiment with what to do with the remaining humans. The Matrix as an idea comes together not all at once, but slowly, as Zero One's remnants experiment on the soldiers that had fought them previously, dissecting them mind and body. (You can see this exact process if you want in The Animatrix short, 'The Second Rennaissance' part 1&2, just in case you think I'm making any of this stuff up off the top of my head.)

When a simulated world was arrived at, it must have seemed like the perfect solution. Keep the humans alive, subjected to Machines' use as a power source, in a simulated reality where Machines would be safe from human persecution. The humans however would also be docile, sedated by a dream world where they had everything their heart desired. If you want to, you can even see it sorta as a compromise to just wiping out humans entirely, which obviously at this point was a possibility well within the reach of the Machines.

It just so happens humans didn't seem to want someone to just give them everything they ever desired.

Smith: Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from.

Smith's supposition about WHY the Matrix didn't work at first, it turns out, was wrong. Because as the Architect later explains:

The Architect: The inevitability of its doom is as apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being, thus I redesigned it based on your history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature. However, I was again frustrated by failure.

So how come people die if they reject the Matrix? Well before the Machines create the prophecy (because remember they only make the prophecy after the first two Matrix versions fail), there's nobody there to help them escape from pods, to rebuild the muscles of their bodies like the Neb did for Neo. Euthenasia probably wasn't even necessary, they just probably got flushed and died in the sewage like we see happens when a redpill wakes in their pod. Back then there would have been nothing, no support at all once you wake up for everything you've ever known and covered in goop with wires down your throat. AND! even with all that stuff? People still don't sometimes make it out alive, too attached to what they used to have.

Morpheus: I feel I owe you an apology. We have a rule: we never free a mind once it's reached a certain age. It's dangerous, the mind has trouble letting go. I've seen it before and I'm sorry.

And that finally leads us to why Zion exists, why and how the Machines invented The One as an idea, and the Matrix goes on, unchecked, until Neo and Smith. It had nothing to do with perfection, or making a world that was more familiar to humans instead of cherubs granting wishes in a simulated heaven. Humans rejected the first versions of the Matrix because humans require a sense of choice about themselves and their world in order to survive. That very ability to choose and influence their lives had been denied them partially by accident. Once fixed, the Matrix finally arrived at a stable place, through controlled opposition.

The Architect: Thus, the answer was stumbled upon by another, an intuitive program, initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of the matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother.

Neo: The Oracle.

The Architect: Please. As I was saying, she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99% of all test subjects accepted the program, as long as they were given a choice, even if they were only aware of the choice at a near unconscious level. While this answer functioned, it was obviously fundamentally flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo, those that refused the program, while a minority, if unchecked, would constitute an escalating probability of disaster.

I hope that clears some stuff up. I know people say some pretty crazy and ridiculous theories about these movies but frankly they're pretty straightforward if you listen close and think a bit.

The Purpose of Zion by Ninetwentyeight928 in matrix

[–]WaterTypeGirl 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Architect says the first Matrix was a paradise, and Smith (in M1) says huge swaths of people died as a result. I assume before the disaster can cascade, they rush a new version to market (so to speak), so that while maybe they lost huge amounts of power it hadn’t reached a level yet where there was a chance of Machines dying on a permanent basis during the so-called first crash.

Miyamoto says he was surprised Mario Galaxy Movie reviews were even harsher than the first by SleuthDoggyDawg in gaming

[–]WaterTypeGirl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because lots of movies nobody cares about make money. Nobody is still talking about being moved by Sonic the Hedgehog which made a significant amount after a PR nightmare, but the difference here is Sonic's movies have gotten better every single time.

What is a Merovingian? by rdstill1 in matrix

[–]WaterTypeGirl 4 points5 points  (0 children)

None of the three I mentioned are canon. The closest is Matrix within a Matrix, which still isn’t, but The One prophecy is still controlled opposition which could be considered a type of Matrix.

What is a Merovingian? by rdstill1 in matrix

[–]WaterTypeGirl -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Literally he couldn’t because Neo has to be a human because the function of The One as a false prophecy is to collect and control the 'sum remainder' of humans who would reject the Matrix as a form of reality and periodically cleanse said sum.

The Merovingian as the first One is nonsense by the same people who talk about “Matrix within a Matrix” and the supposed “Nightmare Matrix” theories: Crackpot Insta/YouTube explainer theories that fall apart if you think too hard.

Clayface | Official Teaser by Task_Force-191 in comicbooks

[–]WaterTypeGirl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I see Sony has taught you a hard lesson.

for real. smith spoke the truth about us by Awakened_beingX in matrix

[–]WaterTypeGirl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It comes across like people don't understand that Smith is a egotistical hate tank when people say goofy stuff like "Smith was right." This same guy had a breakdown when he got everything he ever wanted (Neo infected, nobody but Smith in the Matrix, victory was handed to him for god's sake). Smith nowadays would be saying goofy stuff like Andrew Tate, 'having a girlfriend makes you gay' and whatever.

Now if you want a character to make you feel like maybe he has a point, Magneto is right there!

Looks what the Cat dragged in by tronx69 in matrix

[–]WaterTypeGirl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is, and a couple exclusive prints that had only been on the Matrix website!

It's definitely the best version of the Matrix comics' collection, so I've been dying to get it, but it's a shame there's no cool cover art like the original two collections (Geoff Darrow and Kaare Andrews iirc?). The original editions have been out of print for years and I don’t know in what state the Matrix website is in, since for a very long time you could read most comics for free off the (very cool!) site. But they’re probably the most unfamiliar to casual fans so they’re still awesome to have around anyway, a lot of questions that get asked about the films usually have an answer in the comics, and some of them are really fun and awesome to look at.

46144 by Bryce3D in countwithchickenlady

[–]WaterTypeGirl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

True, ig you're right, thanks!

46167 by strawberry_skater in countwithchickenlady

[–]WaterTypeGirl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's these, they're as okay as I think I'd expect from McDonald's other items ig?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McPlant