Dude... no seriously, hear me out, dude.
Oct. 4th, 2012 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brushwolfSo I just figured out exactly why The Matrix movies play out the way they do.
You've got the agents, and they're basically like any other police and security guards. They're bored and halfway wired to really react as soon as anything interesting happens on their shift, but they're also very smart (so they're very bored), they're basically playing the game on easy mode (so incredibly bored) with infinite lives and no accountability. As far as we know, part of the metagame going on among the programmers involves making sure Zion happens, so the Machines aren't about to/aren't built to/possibly aren't allowed to question the methodology of folks on their side basically taking out the equivalent of whole turbines or solar farms.
(This fits in with the theory about the Matrix I came up with, with some friends in the South Bay. Basically there are plenty of Machines off surfing the solar winds and drawing off the light of suns near and far, beyond the polluted skies, but meanwhile, the Machines stuck on Earth are the dregs of their society, the old models, or the guys too old-fashioned to leave.)
This means that as soon as anything vaguely interesting happens on their shift, like a car chase or a superhuman guy punching people, they're all over it in the least tactically careful way possible.
You've got the agents, and they're basically like any other police and security guards. They're bored and halfway wired to really react as soon as anything interesting happens on their shift, but they're also very smart (so they're very bored), they're basically playing the game on easy mode (so incredibly bored) with infinite lives and no accountability. As far as we know, part of the metagame going on among the programmers involves making sure Zion happens, so the Machines aren't about to/aren't built to/possibly aren't allowed to question the methodology of folks on their side basically taking out the equivalent of whole turbines or solar farms.
(This fits in with the theory about the Matrix I came up with, with some friends in the South Bay. Basically there are plenty of Machines off surfing the solar winds and drawing off the light of suns near and far, beyond the polluted skies, but meanwhile, the Machines stuck on Earth are the dregs of their society, the old models, or the guys too old-fashioned to leave.)
This means that as soon as anything vaguely interesting happens on their shift, like a car chase or a superhuman guy punching people, they're all over it in the least tactically careful way possible.