There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept. However, the relevant issue is whether or not you are ready to accept the responsibility for the death of every human being in this world.

It's basically the same. You take two (previously three) exams, scored out of 800.

Anything below 700-ish should provoke an automatic retest if you're serious about attending a private University. I had a 2200 (730/730/740) when I applied to Ivy League schools (Harvard, Duke, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth), and got only a single interview (Dartmouth), no acceptances. I had the other stuff, GPA, extracurriculars, AP course and exams, letters of recommendation, essays, etc., but it wasn't enough. Scored a 35 on the ACT, too, though I think that's even less important. I had one of the highest scores in my graduating class, and exactly one of us was accepted to an Ivy League school. She had about a 2150, and was accepted to Barnard (Columbia), but her extracurriculars were miles better than mine. She was there on a partial sports scholarship, in addition to having great academics. That girl was brilliant, driven, and talented. She earned that spot. Worked way harder than I did, that's for damned certain. I was reading novels (and later Reddit) in class while she took notes. I played video games and building robots while she studied and did ballet. There's no animosity or envy, there. I was genuinely happy for her, and I imagine she's doing great things with her life.

Anecdote aside, I guess "passing" depends on your goals and it should be noted they're not the only important metric. I don't think they're even the most important.

This is false. They are still ionized, to attract dust particles.

Robots: Organic humans are stealing our jobs!

Probably the worst gimmick a comic ever had.

"Look fellas, we got ourselves a robo!"

"What did you call me!?"

"A robo...you know? A robot hobo?"

"Oh sorry, I thought you called me a romo."

• Futurama

Google offered higher pay and shorter working hours, but the union could only handle one of those numbers. 💾

Little Witch Academia coming to life! Akko to the rescue!

By the time of Neo, the Matrix itself functions as an afterlife for adaptive programs whose functions no longer exist. To do away with the matrix is to risk more aberrant programs like Smith when no secondary option exists for program with no purpose.

None of the scientific understanding in the books/movies/cartoons make any sense. Any form of fusion makes batteries, bodies, humans obsolete. EMP devices being localized to massive ships. Robots who already built the greatest city civilization had ever seen, couldn’t build above an arbitrary cloud point, much less catapult themselves into orbit or to other planets. Everything is wrong to the point that the inhabitants of Zion could theoretically be in a different matrix, potentially programs themselves.

There is a point in the Animatrix where after the machines win the great war and humanity signs the end to the war treaty, the ambassador of the machine world encloses an apple and there is a nuclear flash. I took the imagery and the flesh quote to mean humanity wasn’t used as batteries so much as the machines took whatever transformative code base for humanity into a cold storage form then ended the threat forever through nuclear flash. Even before the end of the great war, the machines had generated contagions to the point that humanity was doomed anyways. The matrix being a story, within a story, within a story. Neo being an emergent truth of the creators, that there was value in philosophical concepts beyond just material understanding that might be being tested out by a more advanced form of sentience. Same way we might try to impute deep meaning from some scrap of parchment or wall scratches.

How is the wife okay with this!?

It IS unrealistic. The sexual events of Grey's Anatomy would never happen in a hospital in the United States!

Britain, on the other hand. . .

/s kinda

I think that the reason explained in the movie was that the simulation was to keep the people functionally normally on a biological level. The brain needs to experience a life in order for the body to produce energy optimally. If the mind dies so does the body hence the need to keep it engaged.

I know right? It's so much better than implying human body is used for its energy production. Cows or goats are way better at it, and there's zero reason to have the whole simulation going if it doesn't have some sort of a twisted purpose.

Not to mention the wack BMI requirements for female donors...

“Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony."

Do you want to buy my worthless Volkswagen after they cheated on the emissions test?

Wow. That explanation of our brains being the CPU's running the simulation and not the power source makes a lot of sense.

My guess yeah, that would kill off anything. A handwave I have is that there's still obviously some light coming through or it would be, well, pitch black, and some algae and lychen are thriving, and these actually give off a lot of oxygen.

But it's no hard science fantasy, it's more of a philosophical anime, so I don't think there's a real explanation.

After all maybe the robots are lying and they have harnessed the nanites a long time ago and keep them in a huge cloud above human's settlement to punish them basically, and the rest of the planet is walled off and there's only server farms between lush forests where robots walk holding hands.

Because the initial idea of humans as batteries was actually "humans brains as the CPUs" but no one knew what a cloud computing is, but everyone used 8 D-sized batteries to power their audio system for 45 minutes, so they knew this metaphor. The idea that Matrix is a human prison ran with processing power of human minds trapped inside is beautifully dark and poetic imo.

i could understand if it was a chocolate hobnob, but this is even cringier when you remember that what american's call biscuits aren't biscuits

Yeah. I think this was depicted in Enter the Animatrix. Still if the Sun was blocked wouldn't the plants die and there would be no oxygen and hence no life?

They've closed a number of offices apparently.

Iirc the people use like the heat of the core to survive. And no one really knows how long it's been since the war. I've read somewhere that if the machines wanted it, they probably can disperse the nanite cloud that shrouds the sun and rehabitate the land. Now that they're at peace after third part, they could theoretically do just that.

Honestly the most shocking part about this is that it happened in Canada.

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This is too wholesome for the Onion.