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Being stuck in a pod by yourself makes it kinda difficult to get intimate with someone in the real world.

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[–] [email protected] 194 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)

The answer is in the movie. When explaining the Matrix to Neo, Morpheus says: "There are fields, endless fields, where human beings are no longer born, we are grown."

https://youtu.be/IojqOMWTgv8

Doesn't specify the exact how, but it's strongly implied that it is through either cloning or artificial gestation.

[–] Dasnap 71 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They use robo arms to just rub people's limp bodies together.

[–] hakunawazo 97 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Upvote for the hillarious image in my head.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

For me, that, but with “Now Procreate!”

[–] w2tpmf 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's cloning. That how Neo has been born over and over again.

The machines stores the generic code of all the first humans they put in pods and then they just crank out copies.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I completely forgot about that part of the movie. Thanks for the reminder!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think you are due for a re-watch! It's great when it's been a few years and you can enjoy some of the bits you forgot about.

[–] Anticorp 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately we can never experience the big reveal for the first time again. It was absolutely mind-blowing watching him wake up in the pod on the big theater screen for the first time. That was the coolest movie experience I've ever had.

[–] Jarix 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind. So many firsts to revisit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying to watch ESotSM, or to utilize its one weird trick?

[–] Jarix 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I cannot forget even a second of The Matrix.

Fortunately, I don’t need to. It’s like listening to this yet again. It’s beautiful even though I know every note and can listen to the whole thing in my head any time I want: https://youtu.be/LZ48G9UziRs?si=WdHnkS5bvDNdF1wv

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They actually touch on it in the animated movie that spanned a series of vignettes from that universe.

Spoiler alert: it ain’t pretty.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

artificial gestation

The word "matrix" literally means "womb" in its older sense.

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[–] UnspecificGravity 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why even grow them with arms and legs if they are just going to be batteries? Wouldn't it be easier to just grow cows instead?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Because shut up. /s

But really though, the entire concept of using humans as batteries is absurd. Don't think too hard about it, just enjoy the movie.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

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[–] TheBat 80 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Robot spiders steal cum and inject it in another female.

[–] Plopp 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't know about y'all but I can't even get aroused anymore without having a robot spider jacking me off.

[–] TwilightVulpine 15 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Gotta wonder how that robot feels about humanity

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Sticky, mostly.

[–] Rhynoplaz 8 points 9 months ago

Meh, it's a living!

[–] RizzRustbolt 7 points 9 months ago

"It's a living..."

[–] Anticorp 2 points 9 months ago

That robot is most likely not sentient.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

That's some Rule 34 material right there.

[–] dylanTheDeveloper 8 points 9 months ago

Cummy spiders 😩😩😩

[–] Ziglin 4 points 9 months ago

Eww I was just going to suggest it goes through all the little tubes attached anyway I'm leaving before I see anything else

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago

They probably extract sperm and eggs and gestate them right in the pods

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You see, when a daddy battery and mommy battery love each other they hug and grunt and that's how babby formed

[–] teft 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No they just merge their codebases and create a new life that way.

Example:

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[–] SeabassDan 2 points 9 months ago

You mean ram sticks

[–] feedum_sneedson 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"combined with a form of fusion"

it's right there in the script

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