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Sorry do you mean that not all b, g, etc. argument values are possible? So b1 g2 for example might be possible, but b2 g1 might not exist? i.e. are values truly random / uniformly distributed?
any combination is possible but, e.g., all blue videos with g3 will have same g segment.
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(Further Matrix Online spoilers) The main storyline of the bulk of the time that The Matrix Online was, uh, online was the resurrection of Neo (or "the retrieval of Neo from the Source" if you prefer that nomenclature). Morpheus sacrificed himself as a part of that effort. From the stand point of "Morpheus sacrificed himself for Neo", that's a good story, even if very few players were around for the game event where…
If Matrix Online had an important part of the plot then Matrix 4 would include that story to catch everyone up.
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I'm disappointed, would've been cool if it was done on the fly
Their static file approach makes sense. There's "only" 1440 combinations and the site is going to get a lot more views than that so why bother re-rendering everything dynamically?
But while conceptually easy to do this, I've never seen other streaming servers do this, certainly not open source ones. And of course the most obvious, simplest way is to just pre-render a bunch of static files and serve using a dumb HTTP server.
I am wondering why it thinks it is 8:24am when my computer says it is 9:24am ... Google is able to detect my time, why cant the matrix?
I am wondering why it thinks it is 8:24am when my computer says it is 9:24am ... Google is able to detect my time, why cant the matrix?
Its a ploy of matrix to keep you convinced it doesnt exist.
I was genuinely curious as to which time field it was picking up in my browser - I suspect it is ignoring daylight savings time offset? Got downvotes instead so wtf would I know!
There are a lot of more variations than these, but is enough for what it is
https://gist.github.com/gil0mendes/398550cba7c96cb291b76cc41...
(Not to mention the simple fact that neither Wachowski has made anything good since the first Matrix.)
Found a teaser (possibly testing one?) with WB Marketing watermarks: https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/_nuxt/videos/qu...
Good find! Unfortunately, the file has since disappeared..! Did you download it by any chance?
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Good find! Unfortunately, the file has since disappeared..! Did you download it by any chance?
https://web.archive.org/web/20210907191313/https://thechoice...
Few interesting things about that file:
- that video has a higher bitrate -- ffprobe shows 4338 kb/s, which is probably an average value. One of the "regular" MD5-named videos I tried has 2256 kb/s as its bitrate
- the resolution of the file is the same as the regular MD5-encoded filename videos i.e. 1080p
- as the https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28448361 comment mentions, it does have WB watermarks
- the Internet Archive grabbed 4 similarly non-MD5-named videos in total:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://thechoiceisyours.whati...
(I can't link to the list of files directly because the asterisk in the URL breaks HN formatting -- follow the "Click here to search for all archived pages under" link)
- The 7000k/12000k values in those URLs do correspond to bitrate. The 12000k video (downloadable from the archive.org link above) has an average bitrate of 6131 kb/s. It also has watermarks.
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Do you want me to translate this from Hollywood BS? Hugo probably thinks it’s a stinkerrrr.
That's definitely a possibility. Hugo said he read and wanted to be part of it despite some initial reticence about going back to the franchise again.¹ I guess we'll see. I'm surely not betting on being as good as the first. ¹ https://www.gamespot.com/articles/matrix-4-hugo-weaving-spea...
Tbh my impression is there was some genius ghost writing done by one or multiple individuals on Matrix 1, which as per Hollywood rule, is never to be acknowledged (this happens all the time). The Wachowskis are now stuck in this weird loop of making films that are not as good as that one while having far more than enough opportunities to do it at this point.