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Geek Matrix Parody
jarv writes "While idle, a friend messaged me with the URL to an incredibly funny (geared towards us geeks of course) Matrix parody.
It's not quite complete, one page is added each day. It's worth it.
Go...read...laugh." We're posting this in case there's a Slashdot reader who hasn't seen (and submitted) it yet. It's been all over IRC for the last week.
I would have liked it more if Neo had died.
No sequels!
now in your galaxy!!
FAT-TIME!!!!!
Yeah, but Mahir was funny..
Hard to derive humor from something that takes 18 tries to load. I don't put that much effort into anything but the sw33t noodie honeyz or the latest war3z.
holy fucking jesus that was the funniest thing i've ever seen in my entire life.
Tori called, she wants her smirk back..
The author of that utterly ridiculous article you linked to has missed the point. (Morpheus, btw, is the greek god of DREAMS.)
A week or so ago there was a whole enlivened discussion about how s**tty NT servers couldn't handle the load, when a server got /.'ed. When is someone going to start a thread about those lousy Apache servers, now that this one can't keep up? N.B. the one referred to by the previous discussion, though folks said it was an NT box, identified itself as Apache, too. Consistency anyone?
I'll be sure to avoid that one like the plague!
deal
... but this is hella-lame.
I just love the O'reilly book "Finding Morpheous"
I plan to use mine as a crime-fighting sidekick!
It's "Lego" NOT "Legos"!
One and the only Effnet... where channels need users work on protections and dont rely on the fancy magick services (or whatever they are called, forget actual spelling), like Dalnet/Relic is (ie: ChanServ, MemoServ, NickServ series)... Undernet had for a while a set of X/W bots to do similiar job... havent there been for a while anyways... effnet is what separates script kiddies (who learn how to operate the chanserv/nickserv/memoserv) from the real men who setup botnets and eggdrop and shell accounts.. Hmm...
Whatever you do, if you haven't ever heard of IRC, do NOT take this guy's advice. Your freetime will thank me.
It was also in the latest quickie explosion.
don't you really mean: "effnet is what separates script kiddies (who learn how to operate the chanserv/nickserv/memoserv) from the real script kiddies who setup botnets and eggdrop and shell accounts. [and floodnets and smurf attacks and script-kiddies IRCops.]"
Hmmm.
One and the only Effnet... where channels need users work on protections and dont rely on the fancy magick services (or whatever they are called, forget actual spelling), like Dalnet/Relic is (ie: ChanServ, MemoServ, NickServ series)...
Undernet had for a while a set of X/W bots to do similiar job... havent there been for a while
anyways... effnet is what separates script kiddies (who learn how to operate the chanserv/nickserv/memoserv) from the real men who setup botnets and eggdrop and shell accounts..
Hmm...
Anyone hear when the Natalie Portman DVD is going to be released?
its been on the slashdot comments for a while..i remember seeing it at least two weeks ago if not more.
YEA! Im not the only one
THIS WAS ON HERE LIKE 2 DAYS AGO WAKE UP
I heard about it on Undernet about a week ago.
Of course the pple who were spreading the word were from Efnet.
But the Hemos DVD will be out this Feb.
No, actually you are wrong. Open source means that the end user always has the power, your example of sending suggestions to the developer does not fit this description because it relies on the _developer_ making the final decision. With Open Source you can always take the code and run with it, although that _would_apply to a web page since I can just save the images and HTML, change and post to my own server, copyright issues notwithstanding.
-- Remember: Wherever you go, there you are!
From hell's heart I stab at thee! *pokes AC with a plastic fork*
The shell prompt for root is wrong in this frame... :( /root]$ ping -f _ /root]# ping -f _
[root@nebuchadnezzar
should be
[root@nebuchadnezzar
!!!!!)#%*!)#%*)!@#&%!&%!)?%!
Not to mention that on page 9 one of the monitors is displaying the frontpage of Slashdot.
I don't remember that from last time I looked either... Of course, I can't check now because the site has been Slashdotted. :(
:)
Dammit, I want to see the new Page 13!
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
To you I say 'wah'. I for one thought it was quite funny. If you don't like it, that's your business, and your decision - you don't have to like it, but please don't whine because others do.
Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Max: "I'd be peeing my pants if I wore any!"
That's not quite how an open-source project works. I can't download this page, make changes, and upload them back to the server and have them be incorporated into the framework.
No, this is a 'closed-source' parody, a funny one to boot. I wish people would quit tacking on 'open-source' to everything just because it sounds cool.
I think the "coming back to life" thing was integral to the plot. For one thing, it was about mysticism as much as technology. The Oracle (or maybe she was just a database ), prophesies, all that stuff has little or nothing to do with technology. When Neo came back to life, that was representing that he had truely gained control of the matrix.
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Why can't I moderate something "Wrong" or at least "Grossly Misinformed"?
I love it, I am laughing, though some panels almost seem tacked on, like he had to keep the whole, two by three format and had to pull stuff out of thin air, so it lags here and there, but hey, can't b*tch about that can we, anyone who takes the time and dedication to do something like this with that kind of off-beat humour is OK in my book. And it made me laugh enough that you don't care about the slight stupid joke. So all in all, i give it a..oh...A- very very nice :)
You know, I could've sworn that wasn't there before. Anyone else agree?
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But Morpheus is the greek god of dreams, and the symbolism there is very obvious you don't need to stretch his name into one that makes him a figurehead for all black oppresion.
I couldn't figure out why the author was trying to stretch the movie to fit some kind of "black power" message until I saw that the article was from TheAfrican.com.
There were other little factual errors in his summary and analysis of the movie; maybe he should have been watching the story that was actually there.
<nitpick>
* Nebuchadnezzar was not a "space-ship"; they were on Earth the entire time. It might be some kind of genre blind-spot ("flying ship" = "spaceship").
* Zion was not "the real world", it was the last remaining city for humanity, deep below the surface. He claims that "their real selves in Zion also die [if they are killed in the Matrix]" yet we never actually see the city in the movie.
* The author tries to make "Tank" into some kind of metaphor for "life" (by pointing out that "ankh" is included "phonetically" -- the same sloppy reasoning that gets us "Moor + Orpheus = Morpheus") I took "Tank" and "Dozer" to be solid characters, grounded in the real world (as opposed to the unplugged ones, who tend to have technological or mythological names).
</nitpick>
Jay (=
Not to mention that on page 9 one of the monitors is displaying the frontpage of Slashdot.
You know, I could've sworn that wasn't there before. Anyone else agree?
How sure are you that it wasn't there before?
<grabs cell phone>
"Tank, this is TrentC. We need an exit out of here, and fast. I think there are agents in the vicinity..."
Jay (=
(who shoulda eaten the red pill)
What the hell is so funny about AOL and script kiddie jokes? The fact that frames from the Matrix were used?
IMO this is completely witless. I don't know why you guys enjoyed it so much.
Reminds me of America's Funniest Home Videos. Everybody and their dog loved hearing Bob Saget add lame and annoying dubbed-over audio to real video clips, but I always thought it was a waste of airtime.
Hands in my pocket
Anybody know of any mirrors, the site seems pretty slow.
No man is an island, But if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie them together, they make a pretty good raft.
I was ROTFL when i read it.
Yeah, I started doing that on the second page. Have to hit back after each one tho, which is more hit-or-miss accesses.
Intolerant people should be shot.
Well, once again, the art of "slashdotting" claims another casuality. When I clicked the link it said "page can not be displayed..."
-- Shadowcat
kageneko@kageneko.net
"I can roleplay. I can frag. I can PK while you lag."
I've seen this link on slashdot before,
:-)
it was in a reply to a quicky's post a few days ago.
very funny site, made me LOL then,
and I laughed again when I saw it again today
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i consider myself a geek, and i always dressu p in raincoats and black sunglasses even way before the matrix :)
is it then not already a geek parody ?
mvg,
Kris "dJOEK" Vandecruys
Exercise caution when modding this message up: the author acts like a jerk when his karma is excellent.
"Almost all the symbolism was taken from Christianity, with Neo representing a "Christ" figure."
... this movie was a big hit among Tibetan Buddhists. One of the Centers in our tradition even did a mini-course based on it.
Interesting that different people can see different things in a movie. The Matrix was chock-full of Buddhist symbolism, including some very high Tantric stuff near the end. The whole world being generated in people's minds is a close approximation of the Buddhist doctrine of Emptiness; Neo's awakening after death is closely analagous to enlightenment. The death itself was not death, but the mind of "Black Near-Attainment", which does occur at death but also occurs just before enlightenment (the Tibetan Book of the Dead is probably one source on this, although my source is a qualified oral lineage).
Ever wonder why they dropped that bomb when they were going up the elevator shaft? Everyone in the lobby was already dead. The elevator shaft is the central channel, and the explosion is igniting the Fire of Tummo as they go up.
I could go on and on
So anyway, the symbolism seems to be a mixture of a lot of things, since such different traditions and Christianity and Tibetan Buddhism (Mahayana/Vajrayana) both see tons of symbolism in it.
Dave
-- "You're not fooling me, young man - it's turtles all the way down!"
The article you linked to at "The African" is
r kgdshm.html
very interesting and the author is spot on about the biblical parrallels, he made one glaring
mistake. He thinks Morpheus name is a coruption of Orpheus (the greek bard who goes to hell to rescue his dead wife) and a combination of "Moor+Europe". I.e. the moor in europe and then makes him into a symbol of white oppression of blacks.
But Morpheus is the greek god of dreams, and the symbolism there is very obvious you don't need to stretch his name into one that makes him a figurehead for all black oppresion.
I like this definition I found here
http://templar.bess.net/Comp_names/bookofgods/g
Morpheus
The god of dreams and the son of Somnus (god of sleep). Morpheus formed the dreams that came to those asleep.
Very appropiate for the Matrix.
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work." -Flaubert
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work." -Flaubert
OK, fine, I give up. I take back any interesting aspect of my original comment. This does not relate to open source. It completely lacks any relation. The fact that we can see it as its being developed has nothing to do with the fact that we can take part in the development process of open-source software, nor can the two things be related in any way, however slight or obscure. I'm dropping the whole issue. Any further correspondance on this should be considered off-topic. This issue no longer pertains to any discussion. It should be considered non-existant. This movie has nothing to do with slashdot other than its content. End of discussion.
--TheOrangeSquid Is it any wonder things seem so awry? We swim in a sea of confusion and don't have to think to survive
The way this is being done reminds me of a web site I saw once where somebody was writing a movie involving the X-Files and R.E.M.... they added a few pages every week or so. This seems kinda like an open-source writing project - you can see it as its being written, like you can see open-source software as its being developed.
--TheOrangeSquid Is it any wonder things seem so awry? We swim in a sea of confusion and don't have to think to survive
Looks like another poor server falled under the well known slashdot effect :)) still cant read the pages from italy, guess the guys who offered the hosting wont be so happy about this :)
Bye bye all you slashdotters
ZCool / Orda delle Badlands
2000-01-04 14:32:34 "The Matrix" for geeks (articles,news) (rejected)
Anybody else have this problem with /.?
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A/S/L in the middle of the MAtrix. l o l
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I wrote a similar parody of Romeo and Juliet as a project for a class in school. Because it went over the teachers head I got the best grade in class. It should be posted here Keep in mind that this was written for people who use the internet at school on macs and have no concept of the real internet. It was simplified for them. On another note it seems that due to the amount of hits it is getting and the bandwidth it draws it making difficult for the pages to load. I have had to constantly re-click links and reload individual pictures.
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If you don't want my respect, expect mine before you give it.
On Xoom, no less. =)
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Pablo Nevares, "the freshmaker".
I thought we established this already on the Userfriendly bashing thread.
Everyones idea of what is funny is different. That is part of what makes you an individual. You are not required to accept the opinion of someone else and make it your own.
I personally think that the netsplit reference when they cut the hardline is very funny, but thats just me. You are entitled to your own opinion.
PS. I hope that anti-creative thinking, anti-legos guy replys to this.
Semper Ubi Sub Ubi
-- .sig files go when they die?
Child: Mommy, where do
Mother: HELL! Straight to hell!
I've never been the same since.
Just like driving a car:
(D) to go forward
(R) to go backward
The funniest scene in the whole thing (so far) has to be the part where Cypher is looking over Trinity's helpless jacked-in body and goes "l00k a7 m3 tr1nity. 1 m @n 31337 h@x0r.", or whatever. That part had me laughing out loud! :D
With spending like this, exactly what are "conservatives" conserving?
(Reference to page 3) The bots in quake 3 (on nightmare mode) NEVER miss.. It's an awesome challenge for anyone to even think they can beat ... well, close enough to ... perfection..
I'm on the first level on tier 6.. beat every level on nightmare so far.. Anyone else trying to pull this insane task off?
Hilarious joke though.. I swear I say that a hundred times while fighting Anarki or Klesk on their one on one boards...
-Dextius Alphaeus
-- Java is not a Jedi trait... "do, or do not, there is no try" --
There seems to be some sort of server overload.
I either get "Connection refused" or broken
images. Oh well, I'll just have to bookmark it
and visit it when it has been forgotten by the
rest of the world.
I agree. Very hilarious.
I am going thru this right now , this is great but it was mentioned that it was floating around on the irc, as an understudy I was curious as to which one?
While the movie had some obvious Christian archetypal images. It missed the chance to make a much more interesting epistemological points.
The dream motif could have been played with more to stretch the questions out of what real is. If the goal was truly to start epistemological points, it may have even used the archetypes if that was needed to make the point more effectively.
Read Decartes' meditations for a much better and more interesting discussion of what reality really is.
"Anyone who cannot understand math is not human" Lazarus Long
P.S. However, the parody does catch what the true goal of the movie was to be as cyber-punk as possible.
"The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm; usually because they could not walk" Nietzsche
This is probably the best parody of anything I've ever seen. Man talk about funny I was laughing out loud most of the time and the rest of the time I could barely keep it in.
I have spoken to the Author of this site and by the sound the site has become the next best thing since Mahir Cagri
If you are willing to help by hosting it on your T3`s please msg him now on efnet #nerds ok!
l33T Dude!
V.funny, you have to see this site!!!
That cookie better lighten up Laurence...
The point of the Christianity symbolism and the story beigning based on the bible is not, because the bible has such a reviting story, or how many copies it sold, it is becuase the Bible is God's word.
Can't tell if it's any good or not, as it's too slow for me to look at atm, but I'd bet that given the number of people who read /., and the fact that it's so slow, means lots of /.'rs didn't hear of it. Seems a large majority of people, in fact.. guess I'll wait a week or so to read it. :)
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which was watchable, until the "coming back to life" thing they had - Anyone else think the film would have been better if he had just died?
I'm afraid you are missing one of the major points of the movie. Almost all the symbolism was taken from Christianity, with Neo representing a "Christ" figure. One of the essential elements in Christianity is the death and ressurection of Christ. The Wachowski brothers could not eliminate that essential element in order to have their astounding metaphor complete.
There are plenty of other symbols to lead you to this conclusion, such as the name Zion representing the better world, Trinity is the one who effects the resurrection, and Cipher is an obvious Judas character, betraying the messiah.
For a better analysis than mine, go look at this article.
Some guy named Chris
I don't get early half the jokes on there. I think it has something to do with observing the daystar during non-business hours. :)
I mean, what the hell is IRC?
Pope
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
Oh, and I have it all zipped up too.
.zip
http://members.xoom.com/arealms0/cr0bar
Hope this helps
- ed.
I understood that.
I just thought it would have been better
had he died, as it would have been that the matrix had won, that maybe the matrix was real, and still had the power over us, and lots of other better things like that.
a parody that is funny
without being just rude words put in everywhere (qv Dilbert hell)
I liked this much more than the real thing (which was watchable, until the "coming back to life" thing they had - Anyone else think the film would have been better if he had just died? Would have had a whole new subtle meaning, but wouldn't have been as ratings friendly)
What the hell is so funny about AOL and script kiddie jokes? The fact that frames from the Matrix were used?
,..
IMO this is completely witless. I don't know why you guys enjoyed it so much.
Reminds me of America's Funniest Home Videos. Everybody and their dog loved hearing Bob Saget add lame and annoying dubbed-over audio to real video clips, but I always thought it was a
Hands in my pocket
I'm having to reload each page repeatedly to try to see all the panels. This is going to take awhile....
Intolerant people should be shot.
published by O'Reilly of course...
There had to be, and here is Mr. T vs. The Matrix site.
Okay, it is time to establish my credentials as a net.old.foggy, not that I expect anyone to believe me or care. This reminded me a bit of the Usenet Olympics. Okay, the content is different, but the excellent use of net references is dead on. There are two more olympiads in that directory. And not all of the naes you'll see are ancient history. Yup, back in my day, Sonny, all we had was text, and we were glad to have it because we knew people with online services that weren't connected to the Internet. Heck, we had to use it in the dark days before Al Gore invented it.
The net will not be what we demand, but what we make it. Build it well.
The frame that had me in stitches was the first exchange between Morpheus and Neo:
Welcome Neo. As you may have guessed, I am mOrpheus.
-- What? Don't you mean 'Morpheus'?
Right, and I bet you think "Zero Cool" isn't taken yet either.
"The question of whether machines can think is no more interesting than [] whether submarines can swim" - Dijkstra
"I was in the server room at the moment," recalls one geek, "and one of my friends told me to go to the page. As soon as I saw some of the pictures, I collapsed on the floor laughing, and caused a lot of damage to some of the servers. We had about three hours of downtime."
The geeks are contending that a warning entrance page should have been posted before the actual pictures, so that the readers could be given a chance to sit down and put down their drinks.
Cr0bar could not be reached for comment.
(I must be dreaming! Slashdot replaced all the zeroes with O's in Cr0bar!)
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the entire thing should be on
http://members.xoom.com/arealms0/ in a few minutes.
- ed.