I don't want it all. The entire premise of this thread is i don't think any of us can have it all barring extreme luck, and that the best shot at *something* for me is integrating with the System Again, I chased my dreams and my dreams punched me in the face so
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @mssilverstein and
oh sure, I'm just saying the System isn't going to reward you either. It has no vested interest in doing so! Bluntly, Cypher had absolutely no reason to believe he wasn't going to be killed and/or mind-wiped utterly the second he was no longer of use.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
The System is dispassionate and only cares about keeping The Matrix up and running smoothly, and part of Cypher's deal was having his memories of the true nature of reality wiped. Plugging him back in costs the System nothing & is marginally better than killing him.
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Replying to @iphone_venez @loudpenitent and
Yeah my headcanon was always that while Cypher has no way to enforce his end of the bargain - his bargain, by its very nature, involves surrendering all power to the Machines - and may not even actually care as long as he gets his revenge first, the Machines do intend to keep it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
I mean, why not keep it You couldn't keep rewriting the Matrix for every single redpill who wants to come back but hey it's a moral victory and one more component for the power plant right Petty cruelty is for humans
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Would "rewriting the matrix" even be that hard? Wipe his memory from when he first learned about the Matrix to the present, wheel him into a hospital, wake him up and tell him that he inherited a pile of money from a rich relative while he was in a coma.
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Replying to @iphone_venez @loudpenitent and
They don't mind wiping *his* mind, I think, but it's said that on this deep aesthetic/spiritual level they hate changing stuff inside the Matrix and "breaking the rules" unless they have to Even though the effort it takes to do so is usually trivial
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
In a perverse way this is why the world of the Matrix is filled with holes and bad patches, because their ethos of non-interference is too strong for them to put the work in to make it seamless
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Replying to @ExistentialEnso @BootlegGirl and
On an entirely unrelated note, am I the only one who found it weird there were no cyborg servitors used by the Machines? Like, literally keeping some humans around in the real world with their creativity intact in order to better sure up defenses?
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Initially the idea of giving humans any power and knowledge voluntarily is seen as an unacceptable risk and deeply offensive to the Machines ideologically After the events of Revolutions, of course, this does end up happening in the Matrix Online canon
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AGirlNamedMei and
Pro-Machine humans, led by the Cypherite faction, become the Machines' most important assets Player characters resolving faction quests It's the whole basis of an MMO
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