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Latest Animatrix Short Released
martyn s writes "The latest animatrix short, The Second Renaissance, Part 2 is finally out. This short is the continuation of The Second Renaissance Part 1. Taken together, these shorts document how, in the matrix universe, 'Man was the architect of his own demise.'"
And here's the
BitTorrent link.
But, with all the illegal stuff also going around, im sure that the **AA's will be going after bittorrent as well!
Because it needs a centralised server (the tracker), it will be easier to knock out!
What exactly is the reason behind trying to compress already compressed audio and video files again? The size reduction, if you happen to get one, is negligable and it tends to make the file slightly bigger from what I've seen. I've never really understood this.
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
I don't think the other shorts on the DVD are going to explain it any further.
Nothing to see here; Move along.
I got the feeling after the first one that the creators opinion of the average intelligence of its audience was around the level of fungus. So humans are bad evil and nasty with no redeeming qualities, machines are warm and fuzzy and just like us except nicer.
Something with actual conflict or shades of gray would be nice. Especially with the complete reversal of roles in the Animatrix.
Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
It's advisable to download this using Freenet, rather than BitTorrent, as Freenet has a more robust, permanent network, and has many hundreds of nodes that might have never seen this file, but will automatically begin to share it, if it becomes popular.
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That means faster download speeds. The RedHat 9 ISO files were downloading at over 120KB/sec on Freenet.
There is also the advantage that the link does not go down, when the people close their download windows
You can Download a copy of Freenet here, and donate Here
I had just uploaded it, but apparently the direct links in the story were wrong, so I've re-uploaded Episode 1 of the Animatrix. I'll try to provide a freenet link again soon, but I suspect it will be too late for most people
-Colin
Colin Davis
we're a power source
And it made it worse when the narrator stated that (SPOILER?) "the machines turned to an alternate and readily available power supply, the bioelectric, thermal and kinetic energies of the human body. A newly refashioned symbiotic relationship between the two adversaries was born. The machine, drawing power from the human body, an endlessly multiplying infinitely renewable energy source. This is the very essence of the second renaissance. Bless all forms of intelligence."
Arghh.. bless all forms of intelligence to have a 7th grade understanding of thermodynamics. It's too bad they didn't take the chance to use these shorts to clarify or correct the human battery crossed with a form of fusion explanation from the first movie.
1. The Second rennisance is by far the best (two) of the clips. All of the others were mediocre.
2. Refering to the nuclear war between ZEROONE and humanity, TSR says: "The Machines were unaffected by the radiation" What about the EMPs that nukes generate?
They still don't explain how a human in itself can generate more energy than it costs to maintain that very same human alive and well in the Matrix.
That is a major plot hole for me, and I hoped they would use the possibility here to explain it in greater detail. But noo. Just a tiny bit of plot that amounts to 'the war started, we darkened the sky, then we lost and got put in the Matrix'.
(Since this is anime, they could have gone wacky with this. For example, say that humans posess a unique ability to harvest immense amounts metaphysical energy, and that the Matrix somehow taps this energy. Much better than the 'new form of fusion' crap explanation.)
Beyond the sci-fi and action elements of the Matrix it's neat how they are working more of the religios and philisophical elements into the canon ... quite a bit of it going on in this short ... the Boddhavista sitting on the lotus, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. That being said, I was expecting this episode to be a bit more cynical (if that can be imagined, it's pretty dark already) ... I always thought it would be a mind bender to learn that the humans voluntarily hooked themselves up to the Matrix because living that way would be preferrable to the burned out wasteland they created through war.
I started getting it off bittorent then cancelled cause I was only getting like 30k, now I am getting 120k off the main link. The main link stood through the last slashdotting when the last animatrix movie came out, I don't think they will go down this time
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it - Sir Winston Churchill
It is, however, a counterpoint to the "the machines are evil" theme that runs through the first movie.
Taken together they present a different picture than they do on their own.
Still, nobody ever got rich overestimating the American public's intelligence. Better to have a thermodynamically impossible but easy-to-understand explanation than one that's a little harder to grasp but works better both in the philosophical and scientific cases (a brain-machine interface is at least somewhat plausible).
That's it. I'm no longer part of Team Sanity.
Actually still rather sick to my stomach from the first one. The image of the machine cruelly ripping the brain out of a persons skull after the person begged for their life pretty well turned me off from the whole thing.
Guess I really don't like anime.. I've tried watching a several different anime movies/shows, and each time I've found the violence to exceed what even most R rated movies contain.
I don't mind the animation style of anime, though I find the sharp edges and harsh, abrasive lines a little irritating. Just to me it feels like the over the top violence seems like some kind of pent up childish nerd/geek angst. I just find it hard to connect with that, I feel like I've matured beyond the need for cruel retribution.
And yes, end of humanity and/or the world scenarios do tend to be depressing.
I'm sure the wrath of the anime zealots will burn my karma.. Oh well, screw 'em - I'm a computer geek and I think anime sucks.
// harborpirate
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They don't kill the humans because they don't want to be like humans. I like that.
It might not make any sense to the spoilsports in Slashdot, but I like it.
>That is a major plot hole for me,
No, the energy stuff is called a McGuffin. A Mcguffin is anything in a movie that keeps the plot going. For instance a super-secret agent chasing down a beautiful super-model who is also a super secret agent because she's carrying the microfilm. What's on the microfilm? It doesn't matter.
So the writers needed a reason to keep the Matrix going, or the machines would just kill the humans and be done with it. Other acceptable alternatives would be to examine their strange minds, keep them in a zoo, morally against genocide, etc. Who cares? Energy works just as well.
A plot hole happens when parts of the movie are so badly edited that an event happens which doesnt fit in with the rest of the linear story. Or more rarely when the story was just bad to begin with.
> They still don't explain how a human in itself can generate more energy than it costs to maintain that very same human alive and well in the Matrix.
You forgot to add your Professor Frink noise after the end of that sentence.
NO. im not talking about the matrix matrix, im talking about THE MATRIX.
animatrix is BASED on the matrix universe so to speak, it doesnt have to follow a story.
I know you are psychotic, but please make an effort.