Yes well it’s an explicit theme of the movie that for better or worse, real is real and fake is fake and there’s no substitute for the truth, however grim it is.
Why wouldn’t they have made the simulation awesome for everyone? Of course if you make it shitty some people might start to wonder about battery pod life in the cave.
Wake up from your shitty fake life into the real world that’s even worse.
Yes well it’s an explicit theme of the movie that for better or worse, real is real and fake is fake and there’s no substitute for the truth, however grim it is.
There’s definitely more tear gas.
Yeah, but what kind of amateur hour distraction fantasy would be worse than real life?
Other than 40k, I mean.
Sometimes I worry about 40k fans. Like “most times I hear about it.”
Same with Fallout fans who are a bit too into the Brotherhood of Steel. “What is it you like about them, exactly? The power armor or the xenophobia?”
Why wouldn’t they have made the simulation awesome for everyone? Of course if you make it shitty some people might start to wonder about battery pod life in the cave.
Iirc in the first movie they say that the 1st version of the matrix was utopia, but the people got bored and rejected the world
That sounds like some capitalist propaganda.
It was also part of a villain speech, so not a reliable narrator.
Given that earlier versions of agents were basically supernatural monsters, I kind of doubt it was much of a utopia.
Right, what are they gonna say. “The first simulation was basically hell where people lived in constant torture, and they didn’t like that so much 🤷”
more like the writers couldn’t think of a better reason imo
If there’s no struggle, people will get bored enough to ask questions or adventurous enough to strain the program.
Or it’s a plothole. I might have seen the matrix twice, and don’t know how tightly designed it is.
It was explained as the first basically in the movie
It’s escapism versus reality. I didn’t think The Matrix is far more nuanced than I initially realised.
It’s not about the better option, it’s which one is least worst
So you choose The Matrix? 🤔