• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Watch the AniMatrix.

    There are other ways… to get out.

    … they are just exceptionally difficult to pull off, and can only be pulled off by exceptional individuals.

    … … and they also do not tend to involve a real world hovercraft crew waiting to retrieve your emaciated, atrophied and basically blind body.

    You’re on your own.

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      3 months ago

      Usain Bolt slamming into the end of the track after that 100m, oof I get chills. And he’s practically non-existent now, his true self left this world in 2009

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        Yes, I would say that a kind of… immense spiritual awareness, or contemplative understanding of the interconnected nature of reality (and yourself) constitutes a kind of very strong belief.

        Though I don’t think its explicitly stated in the movies that the ‘spoon kid’ … literally pulls himself out of the matrix…

        In MxO, which is I guess roughly ‘secondary canon’, one of the kinds of character archetypes you can play as, is basically ‘zen master’, so yeah I would tend to agree that thats probably another reasonably valid ‘canonical’ way by which someone could escape the matrix on their own, transcend ‘reality’.

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        I can’t believe there was never a scandal about the short that suggests you can leave “The Matrix” by jumping to your death.

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        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!