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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.
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 didn't think it was really all that funny, but I laughed when I saw Cypher say "1 g0t r3wt on al j00r box0rs" -- until I realized it didn't say "I got root in your boxers" ;) ;)
:)
.. and that first joke's not fair. I watch Dawson's Creek -- occasionally.
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...
I think I may be the first to defeat the slashdot effect in one day! Well, okay, the link has moved to the bottom of the main page but STILL, I managed to keep the site accessible for most of the day. "How did you do it, uncle cr0bar?" Simple, I put up five mirrors and set up rotating .htaccess files to redirect people to a different one every 3 minutes, effectively splitting the load by 5. Brought to you by *nixx. *cough*
As the author of the Matrix bastardization, I am pleased to see it linked on slashdot =). You know what they say, if you haven't been slashdotted, you haven't.
Well, okay I made that up....but the site has been a real rush ever since it exploded in popularity recently.
Mirrors are OK, but please give proper credit and link back to the "home" site! We seem to be dealing with the 'slashdot effect' rather well....
cr0bar out!
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.