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I just found out that there is a new Matrix movie and I am honestly a little bit horrified. I have zero confidence that the downhill progression in movie quality will somehow be turned around given the current state of Hollywood.
In https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/_nuxt/commons/a...
The client side generates an unobfuscated string such as:
red-a-b1-c1435-d-e2-f-g3-h2-i
where 1435 is the current local time (search for `key: "teaserSrcProps"` in the code to find the relevant function)
Then "17" is prepended to that string ("BOND_OBFUSCATION_SALT" in the source code), and then the video file name is simply the MD5 of the string.
To find the video URL:
// change 1435 for any HHMM time
timeStr = "red-a-b1-c1435-d-e2-f-g3-h2-i"
videoFile = MD5("17" + timeStr) + ".mp4"
url = "https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/high/" + videoFile
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All 1440 red pill video URLs (tested all of them in bulk without downloading any using `wget --spider -i allurls.txt` — spider is a cool option!):
https://gist.github.com/gregsadetsky/cb4754d123f0ea1eae26820...
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No Hugo Weaving either it looked like.
Hugo at least was in talks and read the script. It's just that scheduling conflicts didn't allow it. > Hugo Weaving, who starred in the franchise as Agent Smith, was originally approached to reprise his role, but he had scheduling conflicts with his involvement in Tony Kushner's theatrical adaptation of The Visit, leading Wachowski to conclude that the dates would not work after staying in touch with Weaving for a wh…
Who had the Matrix screen saver back in the day? I was in an open plan office at the time of about 30 desks. Every single one of the machines had this screen saver running.
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Disagree, the trilogy is one of the best Sci-Fi trilogies available and utilizes ideas about people and computing in unique ways. I always heard that the sequels didn’t live up to the hype and avoided them during release. It was only later that I rented them and found out I was taking advice from lowest common denominator action movie fans. I only label those fans like that because their criticism only makes sense if…
I agree to the extent that the Architect in Matrix 2 [?] had some interesting things to say, and his explanation about why the machine needed humans almost redeemed the idiotic rationale of the first movie (electrical generators???). But, that and few other interesting ideas aside, I found them tedious and not well constructed.
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executiv...
so they can bring back reeves but not fishburne? fishburne says they never even called him. imagine being fishburne and not even getting a text message and the matrix 4 is filming.
I just watched the trailer, if you click the red pill it certainly sounds like his voice narrating. And his character is also portrayed. https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi...
https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/_nuxt/videos/qu...
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Not that many chunks, looks like the entire video is re-generated. My browser fetched https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi... which is for 1:54.
I'd bet all the marbles that they're "JIT" rendering the full video upon request. Intro + hour chunk (12 options) + minute chunk (59 options, skipped if minute is 0?) + am-pm chunk (2 options) + Outro. If you open the page in two different browsers at the same time and chose the same pill color, the resulting video file URL is different; this suggests to me that they're not caching the compilation results for the nex…
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Disagree, the trilogy is one of the best Sci-Fi trilogies available and utilizes ideas about people and computing in unique ways. I always heard that the sequels didn’t live up to the hype and avoided them during release. It was only later that I rented them and found out I was taking advice from lowest common denominator action movie fans. I only label those fans like that because their criticism only makes sense if…
I think they were too cryptic and the Wachowskis were consumed by the grandiosity of their own mythos, but they were still impressive for what they attempted to do: build a sci-fi epic.
Reloaded, the cerebral philosophical expository arc. And then Revolutions, just guns and fists a-blazin'.
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I agree to the extent that the Architect in Matrix 2 [?] had some interesting things to say, and his explanation about why the machine needed humans almost redeemed the idiotic rationale of the first movie (electrical generators???). But, that and few other interesting ideas aside, I found them tedious and not well constructed.
I read on here a long time ago that it wasn't just supposed to be humans as batteries, but as CPUs/algorithms (some good further discussion too, about the Architect): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12508832 I thought I'd seen an earlier discussion on a mailing list or something but can't find it now. I remember coming up with an idea, which I thought was original, of us being in a simulation where all our life…