It’s al fun and games until you run out of blue pills
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The least realistic part of matrix resurrection is the idea that the blue pills are centrally supplied by the matrix. Basic conspiratorial mistake. Blue pills are 80% a home brew cottage industry.
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Some bulk raw materials are centrally produced, but most blue pills are home-made to a personal improvised prescription based on a tacit consensus recipe agreed upon by the 3-4 closest people to any individual
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Think of the 3 people whom you are closest to, and spend the most time with. They secretly cook up batches of your particular blue pill every month. And you do it to them too.
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Massively decentralized mutually assured gaslighting
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Midlife crises happen when your close friends/family start getting too tired and exhausted to continue making your blue pills
The effects of starting to miss blue pill doses are not the same as taking a red pill. The unpilled state is just dreary, exhausted nihilism.
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Since the pills are metaphors for code changes to your sim, logically:
red pill = jailbreak code, once is enough, but then you’re on your own on raw hardware
blue pill = OS updates and patches
unpilled = your version of OS is no longer supported, so bugs go unfixed
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Now add the wrinkle that your OS is some weird homebrew Linux version maintained by 3 incompetent friends/family, rather than a major distro… and you start to see the problem of local blue pill supply chain failure
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