Found this golden oldie in an antique shop. Classic format, old technology, and a 24 year old movie reference!
Found this golden oldie in an antique shop. Classic format, old technology, and a 24 year old movie reference!
I can't believe The Matrix is 24 years old now...
I bought myself a surplus pay phone to make sure I could always exit the Matrix. They aren't that expensive these days! Buy they are a bit of a PITA to get working.
I’ve thought about installing one as well after reading this: https://bert.org/2022/06/02/payphone/
Cinema peaked in 1999
Civilization peaked in 1999
US Pop culture peaked in 1999-2001. Peak box office attendance and peak TV viewership occurred around that time.
Agent Smith agrees with you.
"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. I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization, which is of course what this is all about."
Yup, clearly made before Resurrections.
There was never a fourth Matrix movie.
What color pill do I take to forget that movie exists?
The bleach colored one.
Permanently Deleted
My smartphone is a pay phone because I pay to use it ☺️
The Matrix was designed around a specific period of time. I imagine the machines just deleted most references to new technology being invented and kept it at turn of the millennium.
"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."
"Suffering and misery? So why not design it around the 2010-2020s?"
"That was also tried, but was similarly rejected for having too much suffering and misery. Nobody believed it was real."
I certainly don't believe it.
I owned a computer store for a few years... I'd also owned several vending machines for several years before that including one that I operated in the aforementioned computer store.
It seemed like a great idea to me that I should buy a payphone and hook it up in or just outside of the computer store .. I never actually did it though ..
It was also a terrible fucking idea... I really thought it could work though.
This is wonderful on so many levels...