It was a reference to what agent Smith said in the movie.
But also yea, it seems like standard of living peaked around that time where everything was affordable (in North America at least), people weren't addicted to their tech and still generally had a third place. Politicians also didn't lean as much into rhetoric.
I worship The Matrix as much as the next guy but these leather-clad domination fantasies are absurd.
All those shiny leather karate superheros need giant strap-on dildos. Just part of the costume. Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, all of them. Big shiny plastic dicks. Just wear them. Nobody says anything. They just hang there and throb. It would be hilarious.
Yeah, this is the thing that didn't make the Matrix chars realistic to me - I would innately try to crash the system. Not abandon it, just crash it, wait for reboot, you know, find the limits, really make peoples brainholes in those comfy pods work for it.
Sure, ofc I would spawn a trillion wheels of cheese over a city.
Naturally I would grow my ass that big it would dwarf any super-massive black hole (and in the process make sure Uranus gets into myanus).
Absolutely I would kill all other processes to see just how good it can run Doom.
You think I wouldn't install the most cursed and most blessed of mods?
IIRC, they tackle that in one of the Animatrix episodes. Some kids find a forgotten corner of the simulation where gravity breaks down and stuff gets weird.
In the original version of the script, the point wasn't to use humans as batteries, it was to use them as processors. The Matrix runs on human brains, and all the leftover brainpower is used on real world problems the machines were dealing with. They turned humans into the computers.
So, trying to overload the processing limits of the Matrix would just kill people. They'd drop dead from the mental strain. Best case scenario, you give everyone in the Matrix a hangover before the automatic safeties kick in.
Ohh, they weren't CPUs? (like in >!Hyperion cantos!< by Dan Simmons)
I prob just assumed it/headcanoned it bcs just the batteries is ofc stupid.
would kill people
(Crashing your "computer" doesn't usually fry your CPU, just crashes the software, nor does 100% CPU load necessarily crash your PC, just keep the CPU cool and within safe amperage/voltage specs)
Yes! But they have spares, and hot & cold redundancies. Just wait for the reboot, the robots do all the admin work (wait, the Matrix robots are not furries? Another stupid script inconsistency/decision!)
And now try with a bit less cheese/a smaller ass.
You gotta find a spot that those brainholes can still process in real time - it's not just the point to see at what size your butt crashes the system, but also to see what's the max butt size you it can still successfully process twerking - the true cosmic clappening.
Imagine billions of people thinking at 100% capacity about every detail of your butt.