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[–] [email protected] 109 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I could be wrong, but I think the original idea for the matrix was that they were using human brains for processing power and not energy. But someone in the movie making process decided people wouldn't understand that and instead went with the battery analogy.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Studio executives made the decision, you know… because there hasn’t be a long list of projects they’ve fucked over the years with their notes. 🙄

[–] finitebanjo 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I feel so bad for the people who remade The Thing because the studio executives literally forced them to make everything CGI.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sort of a remake, sort of a prequel.

[–] SuperIce 4 points 2 months ago

A premake

[–] GraniteM 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Morpheus is the only one we ever hear the battery analogy from anyway. He might well be wrong about that interpretation, and the brain processors are what's really going on.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My headcanon is that he tried the more technical and correct explanation, but most people he told it to started to go a bit glassy-eyed during that part, so he simplified his pitch.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

The showing of the battery is a good visual to sell the explanation too, regardless of it not making sense "realistically"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I believe Switch refers to Neo as coppertop at some point which would be the battery analogy as well too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They've probably all heard the speech at some point. Except those born at Zion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Also there's plenty of precedent for everyone being wrong about something big, like everything revolving around Earth.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

The real reason is the machines are using all the human brains to fake generative AI responses to keep share prices going up in line with their original programming.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The humans blocked out the sun, and probably dashed all other power sources available to the Machines. What you have left are self-replicating humans. Makes sense to keep them alive and farm them just enough to tide you over before their next breeding cycle

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How do you farm anything without the sun?

[–] sandbox 3 points 2 months ago

They just eat the other humans remains, duh!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

that's what they did, I guess got food from indoor farms?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That takes a ton of electricity. How do you power the indoor farms?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well they scorched the sky which created lots of wind and lightning storms. Maybe they harnessed those sources, or this being the future, used the scant antimatter generated from each strike?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So they do have energy sources after all! So tell me again why do they need to farm humans?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Mmm I'm beginning to see. Even in their own lore, Operation Dark Storm was a failure that crippled humanity and only temporarily halted the machines.