• samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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    “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. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.”

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      To note: the “peak of our civilization” he’s talking about was 1999. Which is arguably kind of on point.

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        Y2K bug was real. The people running our simulation didn’t notice and the bugs have been increasing at a compounding rate…

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        People used to literally die from nostalgia, so please stop before I do as well.

        Smell of two-stroke while driving home from the ponds surrounded by sand pits. Dad has something cooking in the barbecue. It’s not even six yet, so you can easily smash a few hours of N64 before primetime TV begins.

        Mmm

        That’s the shit

        Play a little bit, eat some of the sausages dad brought, turn the TV to the right channel, set video player to record and… bam, Stargate SG1 theme starts blaring and you press record. (Because you can never be sure you actually get to watch the episode without dad or an older sibling coming in and demanding they get to watch their show.) Run to get snacks on ad breaks. (God I miss it when the programs and the ads were segregated. Bring back segregation. NO NO NO, NOT LIKE THAT!)

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          If only those free services could have the ads where it makes sense and not have them randomly cut the program mid-sentence 😂

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            Yeah :D

            Tv was programmed around breaks, completely.

            Sometimes it was painfully obvious watching Conan, as they’d constantly say something like “back after these messages”, but where his show had like 3 ad breaks in the US, here it was just one. Or 2 here and 4 there I can’t recall.

            And in drama, some younger people might some times wonder while there’s so much repetition as they binge. Like not just the “previously on”, but also either weirdly zooming out, cutting, zooming back in on a setting from outside, or even a weird cut to black for 1-2s then almost a repeat of the preceding 10 seconds.

            The slight optimisation back then was pausing the VHS recording during the ads, then resuming once they continue, as a sort of adblock for you when you watch it later. (As you couldn’t have any other place to watch it necessarily. Sometimes for years.)

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              It’s really weird rewatching MythBusters at this point, because the show is so heavily structured around ad breaks. It starts with a teaser that includes clips of moments that will happen in the show, then it has an overview of the myths, then it splits into the A myths and the B myths. Each of these gets touched on, then there’s a preview of what will happen in the next segment after the ad, then there’s the implied break, then there’s a review of what happened before the break, then there’s a new piece… it’s constantly revisiting and excerpting things to blow up about 15 minutes of content into a 50-minute show.

              Back then it all seemed so normal…

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      It’s important to remember that the notion of “humans are the virus” said by Smith shortly after or before this (which is a very popular opinion right now) is inherently ecofascist.

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        I don’t quite follow

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

        they will typically argue that overpopulation is the primary threat to the environment and that the only solution is a complete halt to immigration or, at their most extreme, genocide against various groups and ethnicities

        Smith wasn’t arguing for the eradication of the human race, since his life and the life of all machines depend on it. He just hates the emotional inefficiency of it (free will and all that)

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        I would totally take the Matrix over real life right now, especially if I’m allowed to know it’s a simulation. “I won’t wake up, I promise! I just want to have cool powers n shit!”