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[–] FlyingSquid 15 points 1 year ago (14 children)

While we're on the subject of the Matrix... what happens if you take both pills?

[–] mriormro 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

You do understand that, within the context of the film, the pills aren't anything special right?

[–] glassware 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Morpheus: The pill you took is part of a trace program. It’s designed to disrupt your input/output carrier signals so we can pinpoint your location.

[–] mriormro 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The movie goes to great pains explaining the notion of experience versus reality within the context of 'The Matrix'. As such we know that there is literally no pill; they do not exist. I guess it can be thought of as a 'sudo' for the trace program? Either way, I don't believe anything is actually being initiated from or by the pill as we understand things. The operator is the one actually executing the program. Why would the operator choose to run a trace program and put someone to sleep? Just because Neo could potentially decide to take both pills?

[–] creditCrazy 3 points 1 year ago

Robot 1: hey why did the server crash and what happened to all the humans. Other robot 2: eh looking at the error console it seems one of the humans ingested to contradictory virus pills causing a feedback loop that crashed the matrix servers and life support. We can turn the servers back on but there's really no point without the humans. Robot 1: welp guess we could try going nuclear. Robot 2: you crazy your gonna kill us all with radiation not to mention the environmental damage just think about the tree matrix.

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