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Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by myspy »

EGreg wrote: post #54
hirundo wrote: post #43

I'm reading here various conspiracy theories about how the current time was inserted by one technical trick or another. We should at least consider the possibility that this was simply a preview of the matrix we all live in, and to prepare us for waking up in a vat of mucus.

Actually, that world was also a simulation. The machines realized that some people wouldn’t accept the program that their primitive brains kept trying to wake up from. So they made an imperfect world but some people still wanted to wake up. Thus, they made a “real world” where people thought they had woken up, but where a blind neo was able to still able to sense the machines. What if you’re never really sure you exi…

At the time after reloaded came out, this was my favourite theory - that it's just another simulation - but they didn't take it into account which was a bummer.

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by [deleted] »

jumelles wrote: post #125
PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not just movies. There has been some interesting writing (none of which I've been able to find with google) about the ways in so many different aspects of western culture (and maybe more) have really gotten stuck for at least 30 years. Hair, fashion, cars, music, food, film, writing and more.

No way, you can find all sorts of types of each of those things if you look past the mainstream.

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Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by gmt2027 »

ogwh wrote: post #86
dotancohen wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

That's not his voice, but whoever it is sounds similar. Same accent, similar voice but not as deep and with less variation in emphasis. I'm guessing whoever it is is playing Morpheus' son.

That sounds a lot like Yahya Abdul Mateen.

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by ranguna »

AUSNA-ZI wrote: post #110

When I change the position of the video, it resets and brings me back to the pills (RWD or FF)

Probably to prevent changing the position to when the time is displayed before it should.

I started the video very close to 9:02 but was still 9:01, when the time was displayed on the video, it was actually 9:02, so I'm guessing they don't displayed the time of when the video started, but instead they display the exact time it should be when the time is displayed.

If you could change the position, this would break the affect, I can't pause either.

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by AfterShave »

josephcsible wrote: post #68
EGreg wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, that world was also a simulation. The machines realized that some people wouldn’t accept the program that their primitive brains kept trying to wake up from. So they made an imperfect world but some people still wanted to wake up. Thus, they made a “real world” where people thought they had woken up, but where a blind neo was able to still able to sense the machines. What if you’re never really sure you exi…

> When you’re dreaming, you often think you’re awake. Is this the case, or is it just that when you're dreaming, you don't usually think to ask yourself whether you're dreaming or awake? (And when you do, you either become lucid or wake up?)

I spent some time trying to have lucid dreams. I distinctly remember times where the question didn't result in either. But instead a suspicious half lucid state. Where you are a lot more aware that something is wrong. But not quite sure you are actually dreaming.

One of the simplest methods was to look for a clock. Look away, and see if it changes. The realization of "hmm, I should find a clock" making them appear on every street light and building. Wasn't always the obvious indication of a dream it might sound like. Instead leading to a very confused dream wondering if reality always looked that way.

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by dynamite-ready »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #82

As many have figured out, these are pre-generated mp4 files. There's no 'magic' in the video files themselves (i.e. the video is not generated on the fly) 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 func…

Might these not have been cached?

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by thinkingemote »

motohagiography wrote: post #102

Perhaps a bit meta, but between a new Matrix reboot, this weekend's Rick & Morty finale, and previously even Midnight Gospel among quite a number of other cultural themes about meaning, reality, good & evil, nihilism, I'm feeling a little metaversed out and wondering whether this kind of entertainment is a healthy thing to indulge in. The idea that it is good to be unmoored from our senses and experiences in favour o…

Wait for it to come out. If current movies are anything to go by, expect your expectations to be subverted.

The lesson therefore of Hollywood is don't believe the hype.

Re: Matrix trailer dynamically uses current time

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Post by chakhs »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #82

As many have figured out, these are pre-generated mp4 files. There's no 'magic' in the video files themselves (i.e. the video is not generated on the fly) 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 func…

I'm disappointed, would've been cool if it was done on the fly
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