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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.
They were the contractors he hired after he'd finished his blueprints!
I liken the recent rebirth, revelations, and renaissance of trolling on Slashdot to the soon-to-be-classic epic battle between Neo (played by actor Keanu Reeves) and the rogue virus Agent Smith (portrayed by the esteemed actor Hugo Weaving).
In this climactic and feverishly pitched battle, a rejuvenated Agent Smith confronts Neo. Neo (cmdr taco) has increased his power (anti troll filters) exponentially. Agent Smith (troll) has since developed the ability to infect the "shells" of others, a process which he uses to effectively multiply. At the outset of the battle, Agent Smith attempts to first infect Neo and spread into his "system". The troll filters prove amiable, and Neo easily repels this clever initial attack. Undaunted, the troll (Agent Smith) seeks to gain assistance from those in his surrounding environment. With the most excellent and well placed of trollings, Agent Smith captures the hearts and minds of many others, effectively creating an army in his own image (Trollkore, CLIT, You Fail It, IN SOVIET RUSSIA, etc).
This new army of Agent Smiths pour down upon Neo in a glorious wave of absurdity, brutal character attacks, vulgar ASCII imagery, and unprecedented and unusual tales of sexual escapades. The ensuing melee is a remarkable epic of good vs. evil, as the many trolls continue to pour down upon cmdr taco, seeking to defeat him with an avalanche of numbers. The outcome to this bitter rivalry has yet to be seen.
Which is where we find ourselves tonight gentlemen.
This is a war, and we are soldiers.
Why are we using BitTorrent to spare AOL's bandwidth?!?!?!? We never use BitTorrent to spare the poor guy who builds a lego robot or whatever and hosts his site on his DSL and then gets slashdotted. Sometimes Slashdot editors can just be so dumb...
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If you went along earlier today there would have been the pages accessible to download Part 2, except all of the links pointed to the first episode! I think a professional site could do a bit better than that. As some of you may have discovered after downloading a hundred megabyte file. :)
wget -c http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixlgfinal_dl.m ov
For those of you who keep getting dropped or get half finished downloads...
PepperHacks - Hacking the Pepper Pad
Just finished watching it, and I'm a smidge disappointed. I thought the first half set up an excellent backstory, but here, it's just "We attacked them, we lost, we're a power source," without any kind of expansion. It feels like this half just ended the story without trying to make any details beyond what we've gleaned from the first movie. Wasn't there a first Matrix that crashed and burned due to the people not able to accept it as reality? Was there any debate at all over how long the Dark Storm would last, unless they had some way to clear it afterwards? When did the AI develop the spidery robots?
While I think the Animatrix project has been pretty damn good, I think this one has fallen way short of expectations.
Those direct links are for the FIRST episode (hence the "Episode1" in the URL). And post the sizes next to the links, these are HUGE (e.g. 140 MB). Better yet, just link to the page, it's really well done and quick.
One simple rule for its versus it's
The latest animatrix short, The Second Renaissance, Part 2 is finally out. This short is the continuation of The Second Renaissance Part 1.
Thanks for clearing that up for me...I was wonder what part was before part 2
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson
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!
I dunno, man, I feel like I'm being preached to, again. Like:
Clean out the fridge before you eat something moldy which will make you sick.
Driving an SUV supports terrorism
Ordering french fries supports evil regimes which have WMD
If you don't pick up your room it'll lead to communist world domination.
Technology advances faster than our ability to manage it, eventually it will manage you if you don't watch out.
Some year, first the Matrix 2, then T3... What's the message here? Fear technology? Screw that.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
The "direct links" are wrong, they point to the episode 1. Here are the correct ones:b online/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/2R2_640_dl.zip: //progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/2R2_480_dl.zip: //progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/2R2_320_dl.zip
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http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixlgfinal_dl.m ov (640x272) / progressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixmedfinal_dl. mov (480x204) / progressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixsmfinal_dl.m ov (320x136)
http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline
http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline
Please note Tubgirl link in parent. You naughty boy.
Arnold? Is that you?
I didn't know they even got the Internet in Austria...
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
I think those links are wrong, I only tried the large one. Here's some new links -
Large 640x272 - 138 MB
Medium 480x204 - 87 MB
Small 320x136 - 31 MB
Or you can go here.
The entire series of 9 short CG-Animatrion/Japanese Anime films will soon be available on DVD. Depending on your MPAA stance (and what day of the week it is) follow the white rabbit via one of the links below to pre-order your copy.
Official web site
Amazon US: available 3 June
Amazon UK: available 2 June
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Never saw this one coming... :^)
You are in a maze of twisted little posts, all alike.
I think these were the worst shorts of those that I've seen online and in the theaters. The plotline, while interesting, is overly simplistic with the nice, sweet, never-harming robots simply wanting their own state while the cruel, evil humans only want to enslave them. It glosses over issues such as the previous human occupiers of the new robot state, or human sympathizers (geeks?) and the real problems with granting sentient-status to the machines. I realize it's just a short, and that it's told from the perspective on another computer (the Zion archive...?), but I still felt that it was a (very) poor-man's Metropolis. If you did enjoy it, please pick up Metropolis and check it out, you'll probably love it.
The wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.
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
a bittorent site specifically for slashdot victims.
go to
BitTorrent Files for Slashdot Effect Victims
You might not get much compression, but at least you'll know that that 140 meg file you just hauled down isn't corrupt three-quarters of the way through.
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.
;)
;)
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
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
Watch out for spoilers -- there's a multi-page section discussing the plot which is well-marked with warnings.
Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?
It appears as though the 480 wide movie and the zip file from the official website are both corrupted.
SF should not be taken literally, after all it's F for fiction. However, The Matrix has many interesting philosophical points and it's a lot more than just technofetishist action. It makes you think about things from different angles than what we're used to in our boring, 9 to 5 working lives. (and that's for the fortunate ones who have a job. *sigh*)
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
That makes abolutly _no_ sense. Entropy makes it very unlikely that getting energy from people would be more efficient than converting the stuff they're using to feed the people directly into energy, especially given the "along with a kind of fusion" remark in the first movie. Even if that weren't true, _cows_ would be a much better source of energy, they're 100% herbivores and thus more efficient, and the machines wouldn't need to bother with the matrix at all for cows.
The only reasonable explanation is that Morpheus doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. He assumes the people are being used as a power source because he's not up on his basic physics, in actuality the people are being used as processors for tasks that the human brain is well suited for but the machine style AI can't handle efficiently.
Unfortunatly with the Second Renaisance Part 2, we need to expand the circle of people who have no clue what they're talking about and include the archivist, or whatever the narator is, in the group.
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If I ran a website with over 700,000 daily technically-minded readers, I'd happily take cash from the bittorrent guys twho want to beef up their network with my drone army.
I'm a girl too! See naked chicks in my journal!
Nukes don't automatically generate EMP. The military found that the effect occurs when a nuke is detonated high above the ground.
D'oh -- the stuff that buys me beer! Ray -- the guy who sells me beer!
As usual, no way to watch this in Linux.
/usr/lib/win32/qtmlClient.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/qtmlClient.dll :( /roam/dm/.mplayer/codecs.conf from etc/codecs.conf
Take for expample MPlayer's complaint:
Opening video decoder: [qtvideo] Quicktime Video decoder
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: qtmlClient.dll,
invalid qt DLL!
VDecoder init failed
*** Try to upgrade
*** If it still does not work, read DOCS/codecs.html!
DOCS/codecs.html said, a bunch of confusing stuff, mainly "go to our website and get more confused". Why can't video people ever write stuff in english?
After reading a particular article in the Matrix philosophy section, I've gotten a little less annoyed with the bio-electric power, because they put more emphasis on telling a story and seeding discussion. --although I still occasionally get knee-jerk desires to yell out, "OMG that's so BS," at the "bioelectric" energy plot-hole/saver(?). One possiblity: The machines, following the "essence of the second renaissance", chose to "bless all forms of intelligence" and preserve humanity for ethical[?] reasons and subsequently did something useful with the human "flesh" the machines had demanded from the people at the United Nations HQ(?) --sounds like a Computer Lifeform's Burden argued for by the human rights faction of the artificial intelligence collective =D[1]
Maybe he film producers are well aware that people don't generate power, but they're trying to show that people are always getting used for power today (politically) and in the future (elecrically [electronically]?) Human-brains-as-computing-source plot device wasn't used, emphasizing that the machines could do all the processing "needed", relegating humans to --exceedingly-- menial power generating duties, a form of role reversal showing how far man had fallen from their earlier thought-of-as superior position.
After all, having "long studied man's, simple, protein based based" bodies, the machines could have engineered blocks of cancer-like bioelectric flesh superior in most ways to the human-power-cells for their power duties because the blocks reproduce, come in adjustable shapes, and are very very unlikely to rebel [al la Neo] ;) ) But, they'd be boring, they'd kill the "save the enslaved masses" plot, and wouldn't be as ironic *heh*
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[1]All quotes occur near the section where a machine intelligence is meeting with human leaders in Second Renaissance Part 2 before the building blows up like Neo Tokyo in Akira
First it is clear that there is a lot of infomation that is left out because it muddles the story. This series does give us some clues to the back story of the matrix while continuing the serial thriller feel so that we will buy the DVD. Again I think that they are telling a great metaphysical story and that the ideas the directors/writters are producing are helping to bring philosphy back to in line with the ideas of science. Why is it always so dark?
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
// Slashbots off the starboard bow!
>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.