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There’s still a lot of payphones in my country. They’re free now and no longer accept money and they also provide free wifi. Recently I’ve been seeing signs on them that kids can call Santa
Recently I’ve been seeing signs on them that kids can call Santa
That’s adorable :)
Which country? Are you restricted to where you can call? Like local calls only? I’m guessing they are VOIP though?
Australia. I believe it’s local calls only, and yeah I’d assume it’s using VOIP
And Superman doesn’t have a place to change.
They made fun of that all the way back in Superman The Movie (1978)
Telephone booths were still pretty common until the early 90’s
Pay phones =/= phone booths.
You saw them in restaurants and bars, but the companies didn’t want the hassle of maintaining full on booths.
Right even the ones on the street weren’t “booths” they were more like stands. At least in the US.
He’ll simply have to jump into his TARDIS… wait, no. 🤪🦸
Superman almost never changed in a phone booth. He did it in two episodes of the old cartoon and the NES and Atari games, that’s it.
And the radio shows.
Watch the AniMatrix.
There are other ways.
… 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.
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
Are they frame-perfect?
As in, frame perfect execution of some kind of set of inputs, like a speed runner would have to pull off?
No, not in the Matrix canon I can recall off the top of my head.
They’re more focused on an… unwavering belief, or faith, in something.
Not any kind of technical, machine-like ability to execute a complex task, with high precision.
The point is being incredibly human in a way that is not machine-like, that’s the way(s) out, not in trying to out machine a machine.
EDIT:
As the Architect says to Neo in Matrix 2:
Humph. Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.
They cannot fully account for, figure out a way to fully contain what you might call the human spirit, or irrational faith of some kind.
Neo’s particular variant of this kind of irrational drive… is his love of Trinity.
… its rather sappy, actually, lol.
4 more or less inverts this, it is Trinity’s love of Neo that ultimately saves/reawakens him.
resurrections was complete and utter dog shit
They even lampshaded that in the dialogue. Something about a 4th something that nobody asked for or wanted to make.
The whole movie I was trying to figure out if it was serious or a colossal shit post.
The whole movie was made so no one else would make it.
So it actually is kinda like that recent “Eating a bag of silica to escape the simulation” meme, then?
Uh…
I’m afraid you’re going to have to explain that meme to me a bit more, before I can have what I’d call a potentially defensible ‘fan canon’ opinion on that.
If its literally just ‘escape the matrix by poisoning yourself to death, via eating dessicant pouches’…
… then no, thats just suicide by way of being an idiot, I would not think that would … mesh with what the matrix world would seem to define as a viable means of transcending ‘reality’.
Unless there is some kind of…extremely strong, or kind of extremely ‘deep’ belief structure that goes along with this, then probably not, no.
… However…
IIRC… if we expand to include MxO’s character archetypes as potentially valid canon…
Well, one of those archetypes more or less is: you are a paranoid schizophrenic.
So… maybe? Kind of? … ???
The only one I remember was the kid jumping off the building. What others were there?
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!
yeah but the earth was a better place to live then
Well, the Matrix previously simulated a utopia but the humans still rebelled. Then, the Matrix simulated 1999 Earth.
The 1990s was the most peaceful and prosperous time in humanity. This is not universal, if you were in Russia, Rwanda or the Yugoslavia, but overall there was fewer conflict. Humanity as a whole was riding high on the end of cold war, democratisation, and economic growth.
a utopia but the humans still rebelled.
Humans will complain no matter what. There is catharsis.
Some might even say the peak of our civilization
Put down smartphone. Pick up dumb phone.
#2deep4me
If that were really the way out of the matrix, why would they let the secret out in a movie seen by hundreds of millions?
best way to debunk a narrative is to take control of it
I think the word for this is co-opt.
You don’t ‘debunk’ it.
You put your people either in control of, or position them as massively influential figures within it, or coax such people over to your flavor of that kind of messaging.
co-bunk
de-optulate
Right. I have this conspiracy theory that the media and the government encourage UFO conspiracy theories so they can make them look nuts and crazy, so they are easily dismissed by the mainstream population. Same with the JFK assassination and a bunch of other stuff.
They’ve actually been caught doing this, in some instances.
There was a guy picking up radio signals and chatter from a classified test aircraft or something like thag.
He thought it was weird, reported it to local authorities.
Long story short, the military / government gas lit the fuck out him, told him it might be aliens, keep researching it.
He eventually went pretty much completely insane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bennewitz
Do try and keep your wits about you when delving into such stories and theories.
Some are total nonsense spread by grifters, some are innacurate but genuine reports, some are intentional mis and disinfo… and some of it is real.
It’s a fucking mess.
Don’t they use a cell phone in the second one?
They use mirrors, mostly.
No, that’s the fourth movie.
No, the 4th one.
But the question is how deep a conspiracy theorist they are. Therefore did the second one exist? (Or is that just what they want you to believe…)
I’m sure there’s an app for that. You probably have to side load. Apple won’t allow “Escape the Matrix” in the App Store.
They used one in the first one, I thought? Or is that only for communicating?
They can talk to the operator using cell phones, but they can only exit through land lines.
Pretty sure they could use a cellphone to jack out in Ressurections.
They used mirrors in that film
Was Jack out the term they used? Haven’t seen this in forever. Is this one of those “they knew what they were doing” things?
They used the phrase Jack-In but never Jack-Out
The payphones are still available in my country in case of emergencies. They were refurbished and less dirty than they were in the past. But funny enough, some payphones were converted as first aid stations. As much as our government can be deliberately inefficient and corrupt, they are good with adapting to changing times to keep some public services relevant. One thing I’m proud of is our postal service, which branched out to mobile network operator and banking to stay relevant.
Wasn’t Neo mailed a Nokia 8110 to use?
As a burner, not an exit device.
Should have gone for the plan with all the extras included…
that was to communicate. to actually leave they had to have a landline.
We still have just as many landlines, if not more. They are just internet connections now. Probably even more suitable for connecting to the real world.
