God, After Hours episodes continually get longer and longer. I love it don't stop. Soon we'll have a 60 minute episode where they analyze how the Powerpuff Girls are all actually one girl and she has multiple personality disorder.
We can't let the Michael S.W.A.I.M. Know that he's stuck in After Hours. I told the admin of Cracked not to end Does Not Compute.. He's going to realize his world isn't real.
my theory has always been this: the matrix has been rebooted 7 times... so the programs say but instead of that, the machines just built one matrix on top of another 7 times so you have a matrix in a matrix in a matrix. like a russian doll... cage ... thing if you escape the lowest level, you are still stuck in 6 other matrixes. and since humans do still have a lifespan, and it took neo 30 years to escape just one, what are the odds you're actually gona make it through all 7. because neo still thinks the 6th matrix (the one with zion) is the real one this also explains why neo can just stop a squid thing with his mind. he's still in the matrix
No, Neo gets out of the "6th layer" at the end of the trilogy. He figured it out when Agent Smith blinded him, but it wasn't a whole 30 years. It's more likely there are multiple layers so that the 1% which rejects the first layer, gets to be the 99% of the second layer; of which 1% goes to the second layer, of which 1% of them get to the third layer... and that's why you'd have nested layers. It's not because the trap is perfect with three layers so lets make four more for no fucking reason.
@@greywolf7577also a time traveller here, you guys will be okay until 2033. Still better vote in the next few elections though. You cant really prevent 2033 just have the appropriate amount of lead available
Budsygus I second this opinion. I mean, they must know that After Hours is their most successful series, more effective clickbait than any lying title, and often more funny than anything else they write these days. From a business perspective, this should be After Hours: the channel, and they can just keep an archive of the good stuff.
OH SHIT! Remember when Neo goes to Zion and the bald skinny guy gives him a spoon "from one of the orphanage kids." Why would the orphan send him a spoon when he's already in the real world? Maybe he's telling him that, just like in the matrix, here too "There is no spoon" that if Neo focuses on the spoon in Zion, it too would bend because it is also a simulation
@@RDeemedMSmith it feels like they were planning to go this with with the trilogy and at the last minute backed out and decided Neo is actually Super Jesus was a better story. Only they would know for sure but it seems like the sort of thing that test audiences would enjoy more so than a properly thought out philosophical point. I definitely think it would have been a better ending for Neo to somehow see through the simulation of Zion and end the movie as humanity begins its real awakening from the Matrix.
The Matrix: merely a hi-tech activity and coloring book to keep those pesky computers occupied. Watch the whole damn thing right here! #itsavideomfers #AfterHours
Cracked You know what I think?! I think the Matrix trilogy is just stupid-ass, silly, overly cliched fucked up idea. It's just one good action movie that is followed by two shitty-ass sequels. That's it. Get over it!!!!
You know something that always bugged me about the matrix? Babies. Is every child "born" in the matrix simulation a program? This has always been very confusing to me. Does the matrix control when the people have a child based on when the machines would have a baby ready to be plugged in for them? If so, why would it look like it's "parents"? We've seen that a person looks the same in and out of the matrix. The whole thing makes even less sense if you think about that.
Well it's established that the agents of the matrix can control the people in it. So they could just make random people fuck and just assign them a clone.
I always assumed the babies were just placeholder programs put in temporarily, until a genetic clone of the two people who copulated was made and grow to sentience. That's why the moment you go from a "no thoughts, head empty" child and become an actual sentient human being feels so jarring and the memory of the previous years as a baby always feel hazing and disconnected. That's just the moment when the machines plug you in and replaced the temp. code that was operating your matrix baby stand-in.
@@BlackundetectedAnd even if 2 people met in the matrix, being digital representation of their residual self or whatever morpheus says, the machines would just have to get the egg and sperm of said humans they've already got plugged in, logged and tracked and then you have your baby-a-like to its parents 😅
After Hours started good, then got more good, then continued to be good until it piled good on top of good and achieved goodest. It's pretty good is what I'm saying.
Matt Pieman a little bit, but if you think about the Simpsons as a shorthand for all of the sitcoms. every person who stayed would either be thrown into a small group with like minded people or possibly even put into a fabrication where they are the sole human in a world of AI's and they would live out life times having fun. look at family guy, the show has had thousands of characters, but for the most part there are only 12 that matter, and all 12 of them are like minded and compatible, even brian and quag who hate each other have the same ideologies, one is just preaching about it while the other is living it. you could even expand the idea to other TV shows. Doctor Who is a single person's world, but it has transient minds jump in from time to time as kind of a purgatory for other worlds. that is why companions are about 5:1 when compared to doctors. That and the whole reason TV shows get cancelled at all, is the main mind either dies or unplugs. That is why you have spin offs, and even why the dude who plays castle was also a space pilot once. he got bored of being a space robinhood and decided to become a batman/stephen king
That's pretty spot on NoESanity. It's just that the whole entire never grow up and stay in one place you're entire life could be used for a lot of television shows (such as Family Guy as you mentioned)
It also doesn't make a lick of sense in terms of the way the human brain excepted the Matrix. According to Agent Smith, entire crops were lost on previous iterations of the Matrix because human brains refused to accept a Utopian version. I imagine a Simpson's version would cause aneurysms.
KirKanos08 there is a difference between trying to trick them and people becoming defiant because of glitches, and people knowing exactly what is going on. the whole "refusal" concept doesn't exist anymore due to the fact that people are willingly accepting it, instead of being tricked into it.
You're forgetting about Mouse, and we ALL know he's the one who.....who.....he........tasty wheat. WAIT. THAT'S how the machines know what tasty wheat taste like! right? D:
Mouse's point being if there was at some point an original tasty wheat, it may have tasted totally different from the machine-made tasty wheat. Maybe it tasted like the fake machine-made cocoa puffs or something. That's his point, maybe what we think of as chocolate is actually what really apples are supposed to taste like.
Wait, Neo is a program? Can someone explain this to me if this is the case? If it is, I must have missed some very important parts of the matrix trilogy.
Yeah, this was revealed during the whole "The Architect Explains Everything" scene in... I think it was Reloaded. Basically, The Architect tells Neo that he isn't real so much as the latest The One program in a long list of The Ones and that Zion is just another layer of The Matrix and that he's a cog in this never-ending cycle featuring the destruction and rebuilding of Zion. Apparently, some humans need to fight for their survival and don't accept Matrix-y paradise, so the machines built this post-apocalyptic level for the humans that can't accept their Matrix Reality. The One's true purpose is to provide a myth for the people of Zion to believe in and then when The One does show up, he gets to choose the new founders of the next Zion after the machines destroy the current one. Except Neo is the first The One to completely reject this - supposedly because he is the first The One to ever fall in love. Rejecting his duty to choose the founders of the new Zion basically dooms humanity because Zion is scheduled to go to pot and w/o The One to choose the founders of the next Zion, humans would, I dunno, start failing as power sources due to ennui or something. (None of this makes any logical sense.) So, instead, Neo makes a deal with the machines, "Yo, I will take care of your Agent Smith problem, if you just not destroy Zion this time. Existential human battery ennui problem solved."
Just to be clear, I'm being really facetious during that last bit. On account of the Matrix sequels being even more stupid when you actually take the time to think about it.
theoriginalsache So Neo wants the computer simulation Zion to continue, despite Zion basically just being another part of the Matrix, or are there actually liberated humans somewhere? A real Zion type of place? Sorry, I am confused about this. I never heard this side of the story. Or at least was too young to comprehend when this explanation was given in the movie.
Yeah, that's never fully explained. The choice he's given is that he can basically save Trinity or do his job, regardless, Zion is doomed, and Neo basically decides, "Screw it, I'm going to save everybody!" and then he does. Keep in mind that if you die in the Matrix, you die in "Real Life" so saving Zion, even if it's a construct is still saving the lives of the inhabitants of Zion. So, either he's just trying to save people, or Neo thinks that The Architect is lying to him. Which is also possible. There was definitely some denial going on when this was all being explained to him. And maybe The Architect was! The Wachowski's never 100% commit to it either way. On one hand, even the machines at the end talk about Zion like it's a Real Place, but on the other hand, even though Neo was in the "Real World" and completely blind, he could still see in code and manipulate the machines, which he shouldn't have been able to do if he was an unplugged human. I think it's one of those things that they leave hanging so you can have nerdy conversations on the internet about it.
theoriginalsache Well ok then. Thanks for the explanation. Until seeing this video I thought that Zion was real and Neo a human, but damn. Lots has come to light. Perhaps I should rewatch the trilogy. I was rather young when I did.
I always saw the Merovingian and Persephone as earlier iterations of Neo and Trinity. But why were they allowed to stay in the matrix after surviving the reboot? Is it 'cause, as the architect says, the Matrix is forced to include anomalies after each reboot?
Possible. In myth, Persephone isn’t really a consort, but a co-ruler. Compare that to her aunt sisters-in-law, Hera and Amphitrite (not to be confused with Aphrodite). They aren’t in charge, and have to put up with cheating husbands.
AliG6252010 But "Hell" as a word was derived from the Norse Hel, because language. Hell, itself, was not even the same concept that we know until it was translated to English, because the Bible in prior editions had three different ideas/places that were all lumped together by the English version under the banner "Hell". These being Sheol (or the Greek Hades), the grave; Gehenna, the burning lake of fire that acts as the final resting place of the unsaved after Judgment Day; and Tartarus, where the fallen angels are incarcerated.
hollywood would not be able to comprehend the duality of your request. they understand the words "reboot" and "good" individually - but requesting a "good reboot" will somehow result in a number of internal errors... i however get what you're saying, and with some major cast changes and plot revisions, there should be enough material to work with. maybe not for a trilogy - but because money, that's no doubt what we would get
There's a theory that the Matrix trilogy itself was an attempt to "reboot" a franchise that failed to catch on. Watch the Nostalgia Critic's review(s) of the Matrix trilogy.
I Always Thought the Matrix Trilogy was About Two Rival Artificially Intelligent Virtual Reality Simulators Fighting a War in Cyberspace (i.e.: "The Matrix"), Where Neo & the Humans are Actually Avatars of One AI Computer Simulator and the Agent Smiths are Avatars of the Other AI Computer Simulator that Both Meet & Battle in the Matrix, and Humanity has been Extinct for Centuries but The Computer Avatars are Still on Autopilot Fighting the Same War, Over & Over & Over Again, Forever!!! 🤔
"Tumor Talk" so gonna be the name of my podcast. also the original idea for the matrix was it to be used as a neural network but they were forced to change it to the battery thing because they didn't think people would understand the neural network concept but everyone knows what batteries are. Stupid change and has been admitted as such
According to the Matrix wiki page, apparently the Merovingian was the entire Operating System for the Second Beta version of the Matrix, which I assume is the role the Architect plays for the current iteration. That would make him one of the most powerful programs in the Matrix, though I don't know how much he could actually do. That would be like Windows '95 trying to overwrite the actions of a Windows 7 command.
Let's say nested , 'Inception universes' are possible, this means that simulated universes far outnumber our one 'real universe'. Let's not stop there, assume that there are aliens who can also simulate universes, and that there are also other universes in the multiverse. This means that the number of simulated, nested universes are probably infinitely many more than real universes. We are far more likely to live in one of the infinitely many simulated universes than a real universe.
GuyWithAnAmazingHat Occam's Razor, my friend. We need to shave off unnecessary assumptions (in this case, your assumptions are unnecessary because they draw little evidence, if any, from the Matrix Trilogy).
Keeseman These aren't my ideas, they are proposed by physicists. You may want to read Nick Bostrom's simulation argument and James Gate's discovery of error correcting code in super string equations. Mathematically, our universe is far more likely to be simulated than real.
GuyWithAnAmazingHat This is where one brings in Alder's Razor, or "Newton's Flaming Laser Sword", - what cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating.
Henry Humphreys It's amazing how something can be called a Flaming Laser Sword and be so... boring. I mean, in practical science it makes sense, but for places like RUclips comment sections, there's really no reason not to consider the "hey guys, what if..."-theories. Also, I hear that guy has an amazing hat. We should hear what he has to say.
GuyWithAnAmazingHat Oh, I thought you were talking about Dan's argument about the Matrix universe, and since this video was discussing that, I read your post contextually. If we're theorizing about the Matrix universe, then these further ideas about "infinite simulations" are unnecessary to the argument Dan presented. I'm not going to comment on the real life "simulation argument", though. It sounds like bullshit to me, but I'm no expert and I don't want to bother to look into it. Your argument, as you present it, reads as "let's assume these things; thus, it is true." The actual argument probably doesn't sound like that, but I just wanted to let you know the way you presented it was philosophically confused.
Reminds me of the Star Trek: TNG episode where an A.I. version of sherlock's greatest enemy Moriarty gained sentience and demanded to be released into the real world (something he thought was possible via teleportation and matter creation combining or something) but Picard simply pretends to let him exit by having him enter into a fake version of the real world, which is revealed to be what looks like a external hard drive that Picard says has enough data on it for them to be happily live for 100's of years without ever knowing it's fake.
This conversation reminds me of an episode of StarTrek: Next generation "Ship in a Bottle". The holodeck program of Prof. Moriarty takes over the Enterprise, forcing them to come up with a solution to make holograms "real". Eventually the Enterprise tricks Moriarty into thinking they found a solution and beam him into the "real world". Moriarty, is in fact, beamed into a another program to simulate the real world. Picard ends the holodeck program and talks with the crew suggesting maybe their reality is might be a device on someone's table.
I just miss these so much. They are so well written and so compelling... SNL did a jumangi skit recently where they fought over what it means to be jumangi'd... and I feel like that would have been the garbage that the cracked people would have discarded... but... not because it wasn't good... but because it wasn't up to their standards. For real... these are so damn good.
Re-watching this, I am reminded of the Star Trek episodes with Professor Moriarty, who is created as a simulation capable of giving Data a challenge and becomes sentient. Long story short, they created a simulation of the universe to make him think that he is free so explores a universe that he believes to be reality just to keep him busy.
I have just started getting into these Cracked after hours videos and I'm loving them! This one especially has blown my mind and my wife is pissed off I refuse to clean up my brain goo from the floor.
01 in binary is just 1. The leading zero being colloquially used in computing to indicate that we're not using decimal. It is a useful meaning in that it is the first machine city.
About the 3 worlds proposition, the actor that brings that up also questions why the authors would name a city 01, well the greatest number you can represent with two digits in binary is 3. Add that to the pile of nonesense
😂😅😆🤣😝OKAY, THAT'S TUMOR TALK. How I LOVE this foursome and miss watching new posts. But I will rewatch as programmed by The Matrix, to entertain, distract and make me think but about geeky, superficial stuff. Thanks for posting! 😍😘
Usually I don't understand what they're talking about in After Hours, but I like listening to how excited they sound as they rant and think up conspiracies.
I can't believe how after all these years there are new little details to discover, like at 10:54 when Michael is saying "more and more meta" he flashes a direct glance to the camera xD
does anyone else think that Dan's theory of the heat sinc sounds a lot like all these movies about the little guy that revolts against the powers that be only to win and change things for the better do to us in real life?
Buffoon1980 they don't tend to use it anymore, but they used to do said animations when a certain character goes on a tangent or describes some really weird imagery
so can any one tell me why the heck the machines don't build a sky bridge or use rockets or what ever tec they currently have to go into space and get all the free solar energy and endless resource in the universe instead of stupid endless war with there current power sources?
It has been confirmed that the Merovingian's purpose prior to exile was the Operating System (like Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X) for an earlier version of the Matrix, the second of the two Matrix betas. Thus the Merovingian's original role was a leadership position, coordinating activity and information in the Matrix beta. He would later make good use of these skills in exile as a power broker and trafficker of information. It also explains why the Merovingian is so skilled at rewriting Matrix code to create new custom objects. Persephone has said that the Merovingian used to be "like Neo" when she spoke of initially falling in love with him. As the Merovingian's power lies more in subtle rather than gross manipulation of information, he may not be a previous One. Most assume Persephone is saying that the Merovingian was not always a cynical hedonist, but was once driven and purposeful.---Wiki
It seem like the first movies in a trilogy are always the best. Well except for the Christopher Nolan Batman series, the dark knight was better than batman begins.
***** Watch the first one, 2nd and 3rd really optional, even if you like the concept - they're very different (also 2 has like 1-2 good action scenes, rest shit... 3 is shit all the way). Also, not true about the trilogy thing. Examples : Star Wars (peeking at 2), LotR (some would say 3 is best), The Godfather (2!), Terminator (2!), Alien franchise (original trilogy, where 1 & 2 are different but equally awesome in their genres), Spiderman (2!)... Lots and lots of trilogies where the 1st isnt the best, the 2nd often is though.
Robots don't need to feel dominant. They don't need to feel. They didn't build the matrix to satisfy a need for emotions they don't have. They did it for practical reasons! For electricity!
Plague Doctor But in the real world the matrix would cost more energy than it generates. The virtual reality system the humans are plugged into is the most costly part of the whole thing. If they used humans with bad genes that kept them from growing more than their brain stem they wouldn't need any costly VR program or the hardware to run it. In the real world humans don't need a mind to have a body survive. I'd rather not talk about how I know that fact. I know the story is driven by fantasy/sci fi/anime rules, but the cracked theory really helps fans of the movie that have trouble getting past the facepalm inducing science errors in the movies.
Tach IIRC, in the book, the reason they breed humans is to use their brains for processing power. They changed it to energy for the movies because they deemed the average person too stupid to understand the other explanation.
Okay so Daniel is still writing for Cracked right?? He and Jordan sound EXACTLY alike....it pleases me that Daniel still exists in the world somewhere😊💖👍👍
You know wha confuses me? They've made it clear in a past episode that the premise behind this is that they're four Cracked employees who go to the diner after work hours to eat and chat. Meaning that they're already employees for several web series. Does Michael think the cameras follow them from work and film them to put up extra material for Cracked?
I actually really liked The Keymaker. The Train man was a filler character whose sole purpose was to act as a bridge between the two movies, which wouldn't have happened at all if the Wachowskis had just made one sequel instead of two by (Probably) splitting one good script into two mediocre ones.
In Animatrix, why won't the humans simply ask the machines to travel to other worlds to live? They're machines. They don't need food or sleep and they could wait for thousands of years inside ships while going to Alpha Centauri or something. Why would the machines stay on Earth when the humans were so assholish???
Anime Alex Well being machines they could for example use a nuclear engine/solar sail/ramscoop etc. to achieve a significant velocity over decades and centuries (5 - 10% speed of light?). They wouldn't mind radiation/cosmic radiation (given proper circuitry etc.). What energy they needed then could be had via their engine that wouldn't be needed for thrust once a certain speed was acquired (as there's no air in space to slow you down)
Yeah. The only meaning any binary value has is the numeric value it represents. They can be associated with the meaning that comes with like ASCII values or RGB values, but that's user stuff. As far as machine language is concerned they're all just equally distinct, arbitrary switch configurations. Null is the only value that has any special significance.
I do, i was just pointing out his grammatical error in using the symbol "1" and not the spelled out form "one" but I instinctively used the latter. It will be changed in my original post.
I love how the guys were like making "No! Abort! Abort!" motions when she started "Row Row Row Your Boat" to calm him down when he's freaking out about life being an illusion.
To me the whole "using humans for batteries" is never how the matrix was. In reality, the original script the wachowski's wrote involved the computer using humans to create a giant neural network for computational purposes, like a giant supercomputer: this is not only plausible (in a "scifi" kind of way) but is a LOT more interesting as well, as it offers even more food for thought. I hate it when ppl point out the battery thing as a major plothole in matrix, it's not like the eagles in LotR, which tolkein DID acknowledge as a "plot hole" of sorts and said that he didnt just use them all the time because that would ruin the entire story. This is ACTUALLY how the original story was written, and the studios thought that audiences of the time would be too dumb to get it (maybe idk) and made them change it.
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January 2022, and I still come back to watch these guys hang out at the diner. I miss waiting for new After Hours from Cracked!
January 2023
Yeah same, it was a better era of Internet
June 2023
June 2023 as well
@@quackenbush723same
It's 2024, and I still miss After Hours.
Ditto. I miss the gaming one too.
Seriously simpatico with this dude.
In case any haven't caught it, there's an After Hours reunion video from this summer!
Same
@@rebeccat.6134 Off hours isn't quite as good, but there's 3-4 episodes of that, too.
Soren may be the "jock" stereotype, but there's no denying Dan is pretty jacked as well. Daaaaaaaang, those guns
I know right? #nohomo btw
Preach
Shhhh he's gained weight and it's beautiful he's our little chubby pop culture lover and he's adorkable
Dan is the cable guy that comes to your house and you try to flirt with him and he ignores you because he's too good for you.. (Based off true story)
True
God, After Hours episodes continually get longer and longer. I love it don't stop. Soon we'll have a 60 minute episode where they analyze how the Powerpuff Girls are all actually one girl and she has multiple personality disorder.
sadly it's gone now
@@starbucks3954 Ah what did i do?
I'm commenting because I'm sad.
gg - What's wrong with you?
gg Get fucked, guy
Row row row your boat gently down the stream merrily merrily merrily life is but.. Real.. Very real
zenbun12ha how crazy...
Prove it
That's how I remember that song ending.
Everyone is wearing grey and black except Daniel, who has the blinking halo-esque sign above his head
Nice catch. Soooo he is the admin?
I think its because he was the only one who didnt want to talk about it
Maybe he wrote this episode. Or created this show?
Yup. Created by Jack O'Brien and Dan O'Brie.
O'Brien*
HE'S BECOMING AWARE!!! SHUT IT OFF! PULL THE PLUG NOW!!!!
We can't let the Michael S.W.A.I.M. Know that he's stuck in After Hours. I told the admin of Cracked not to end Does Not Compute.. He's going to realize his world isn't real.
"Merrily, merrily, merrily, life is...... real."
"That's how I remember that ending."
I like how Soren and Dan both get there before Katie does.
my theory has always been this:
the matrix has been rebooted 7 times... so the programs say
but instead of that, the machines just built one matrix on top of another 7 times
so you have a matrix in a matrix in a matrix.
like a russian doll... cage ... thing
if you escape the lowest level, you are still stuck in 6 other matrixes. and since humans do still have a lifespan, and it took neo 30 years to escape just one, what are the odds you're actually gona make it through all 7. because neo still thinks the 6th matrix (the one with zion) is the real one
this also explains why neo can just stop a squid thing with his mind. he's still in the matrix
actually, Neo is able to tap into the Matrix wirelessly, but yeah, the "real" world is probably a Matrix for the malcontent humans and programs
But Neo is a program, so obviously he’s in the matrix except if he has a cyborg body.
7 Matrices? Sounds similar to Dantes Inferno. Also, could point to the 7 Virtues and the 7 Deadly Sins.
No, Neo gets out of the "6th layer" at the end of the trilogy. He figured it out when Agent Smith blinded him, but it wasn't a whole 30 years. It's more likely there are multiple layers so that the 1% which rejects the first layer, gets to be the 99% of the second layer; of which 1% goes to the second layer, of which 1% of them get to the third layer... and that's why you'd have nested layers. It's not because the trap is perfect with three layers so lets make four more for no fucking reason.
The Matrix is NOT Inception: ruclips.net/video/Exv5p3cYOUA/видео.html
2028, and I'm still coming back to watch these After Hours
Time traveler, I need to be reassured that America doesn't become a dictatorship in 2025.
@@greywolf7577also a time traveller here, you guys will be okay until 2033. Still better vote in the next few elections though. You cant really prevent 2033 just have the appropriate amount of lead available
Your silence worries me, traveler.
Dear Cracked,
Two things: 1) More After Hours. 2) Less of EVERYTHING else that gets in the way of #1.
Sincerely,
Everyone.
Budsygus Agreed.
Budsygus I second this opinion. I mean, they must know that After Hours is their most successful series, more effective clickbait than any lying title, and often more funny than anything else they write these days.
From a business perspective, this should be After Hours: the channel, and they can just keep an archive of the good stuff.
***** True, but they could at least try harder to make good stuff.
Budsygus I like 'does not compute'...well everything that had Swaim in it.
TheOrisya I'm fine with anything that doesn't slow down production of After Hours.
Clearly, though, the whole Matrix trilogy is just a dream that a duck had?
I cant believe that this is the earliest thing I can s
well this was nice. see you all in 2 months for the next episode
Dale Whyte they've come out monthly for almost three years now
I will be dead by then, unfortunately
sonny lee So instead of 7 billion people I don't give a shit about there will be 6.9 billion people I don't give a shit about....big whoop.
Mystogan Edolas actually there will still be 7 billion people just 7 billion and odd thousand number people.
Anime Alex
You're that special kind of stupid arn't you? (Retorical)
OH SHIT! Remember when Neo goes to Zion and the bald skinny guy gives him a spoon "from one of the orphanage kids." Why would the orphan send him a spoon when he's already in the real world? Maybe he's telling him that, just like in the matrix, here too "There is no spoon" that if Neo focuses on the spoon in Zion, it too would bend because it is also a simulation
Thank you! Zion was a simulation for the ones who reject the matrix. Even Morpheus asks is this real.
@@RDeemedMSmith it feels like they were planning to go this with with the trilogy and at the last minute backed out and decided Neo is actually Super Jesus was a better story. Only they would know for sure but it seems like the sort of thing that test audiences would enjoy more so than a properly thought out philosophical point. I definitely think it would have been a better ending for Neo to somehow see through the simulation of Zion and end the movie as humanity begins its real awakening from the Matrix.
The Matrix: merely a hi-tech activity and coloring book to keep those pesky computers occupied.
Watch the whole damn thing right here! #itsavideomfers #AfterHours
Cracked Please tell me the name of the song at 0:37
Cracked at 10:54, cody forgot to wipe michael again for the 13th time.....(from the after credits on the whedonverse episode)
Cracked You know what I think?! I think the Matrix trilogy is just stupid-ass, silly, overly cliched fucked up idea. It's just one good action movie that is followed by two shitty-ass sequels. That's it. Get over it!!!!
Cracked The Animatrix is a decent to pretty good film.
Cracked Watch the Star Trek: TNG episode "Ship in a Bottle."
You know something that always bugged me about the matrix? Babies. Is every child "born" in the matrix simulation a program? This has always been very confusing to me. Does the matrix control when the people have a child based on when the machines would have a baby ready to be plugged in for them? If so, why would it look like it's "parents"? We've seen that a person looks the same in and out of the matrix. The whole thing makes even less sense if you think about that.
Maybe it's when they clone them
Well it's established that the agents of the matrix can control the people in it. So they could just make random people fuck and just assign them a clone.
I always assumed the babies were just placeholder programs put in temporarily, until a genetic clone of the two people who copulated was made and grow to sentience. That's why the moment you go from a "no thoughts, head empty" child and become an actual sentient human being feels so jarring and the memory of the previous years as a baby always feel hazing and disconnected. That's just the moment when the machines plug you in and replaced the temp. code that was operating your matrix baby stand-in.
@@BlackundetectedAnd even if 2 people met in the matrix, being digital representation of their residual self or whatever morpheus says, the machines would just have to get the egg and sperm of said humans they've already got plugged in, logged and tracked and then you have your baby-a-like to its parents 😅
upon re reading I think you've said this already but its late, this video is 7 yrs old of a 20yr plus old trilogy and I'm high af 🙃
After Hours started good, then got more good, then continued to be good until it piled good on top of good and achieved goodest. It's pretty good is what I'm saying.
2024 & still like these
That Simpson's theory was a bit far fetched
Matt Pieman a little bit, but if you think about the Simpsons as a shorthand for all of the sitcoms.
every person who stayed would either be thrown into a small group with like minded people or possibly even put into a fabrication where they are the sole human in a world of AI's and they would live out life times having fun. look at family guy, the show has had thousands of characters, but for the most part there are only 12 that matter, and all 12 of them are like minded and compatible, even brian and quag who hate each other have the same ideologies, one is just preaching about it while the other is living it.
you could even expand the idea to other TV shows. Doctor Who is a single person's world, but it has transient minds jump in from time to time as kind of a purgatory for other worlds. that is why companions are about 5:1 when compared to doctors.
That and the whole reason TV shows get cancelled at all, is the main mind either dies or unplugs. That is why you have spin offs, and even why the dude who plays castle was also a space pilot once. he got bored of being a space robinhood and decided to become a batman/stephen king
That's pretty spot on NoESanity. It's just that the whole entire never grow up and stay in one place you're entire life could be used for a lot of television shows (such as Family Guy as you mentioned)
Matt Pieman Thats why its not simpsons specific but an open ended answer to what a downsized matrix would look like.
It also doesn't make a lick of sense in terms of the way the human brain excepted the Matrix. According to Agent Smith, entire crops were lost on previous iterations of the Matrix because human brains refused to accept a Utopian version. I imagine a Simpson's version would cause aneurysms.
KirKanos08 there is a difference between trying to trick them and people becoming defiant because of glitches, and people knowing exactly what is going on.
the whole "refusal" concept doesn't exist anymore due to the fact that people are willingly accepting it, instead of being tricked into it.
Why are they moaning over the Animatrix? The Animatrix is the only good Matrix sequel.
Would probably explain why despite knowing where Zion is, the machines take their sweet ass time getting there.
Because.... Neo has to go to the giant baby face after meeting the Architect to reset the system
You're forgetting about Mouse, and we ALL know he's the one who.....who.....he........tasty wheat. WAIT. THAT'S how the machines know what tasty wheat taste like! right? D:
Doesn't tasty wheat taste like chicken? Or is is the other way round. God i haven't seen the matrix in years, probably time to refresh before the 4th.
Mouse's point being if there was at some point an original tasty wheat, it may have tasted totally different from the machine-made tasty wheat. Maybe it tasted like the fake machine-made cocoa puffs or something. That's his point, maybe what we think of as chocolate is actually what really apples are supposed to taste like.
Wait, Neo is a program? Can someone explain this to me if this is the case? If it is, I must have missed some very important parts of the matrix trilogy.
Yeah, this was revealed during the whole "The Architect Explains Everything" scene in... I think it was Reloaded.
Basically, The Architect tells Neo that he isn't real so much as the latest The One program in a long list of The Ones and that Zion is just another layer of The Matrix and that he's a cog in this never-ending cycle featuring the destruction and rebuilding of Zion. Apparently, some humans need to fight for their survival and don't accept Matrix-y paradise, so the machines built this post-apocalyptic level for the humans that can't accept their Matrix Reality. The One's true purpose is to provide a myth for the people of Zion to believe in and then when The One does show up, he gets to choose the new founders of the next Zion after the machines destroy the current one.
Except Neo is the first The One to completely reject this - supposedly because he is the first The One to ever fall in love. Rejecting his duty to choose the founders of the new Zion basically dooms humanity because Zion is scheduled to go to pot and w/o The One to choose the founders of the next Zion, humans would, I dunno, start failing as power sources due to ennui or something. (None of this makes any logical sense.) So, instead, Neo makes a deal with the machines, "Yo, I will take care of your Agent Smith problem, if you just not destroy Zion this time. Existential human battery ennui problem solved."
Just to be clear, I'm being really facetious during that last bit. On account of the Matrix sequels being even more stupid when you actually take the time to think about it.
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So Neo wants the computer simulation Zion to continue, despite Zion basically just being another part of the Matrix, or are there actually liberated humans somewhere? A real Zion type of place? Sorry, I am confused about this. I never heard this side of the story. Or at least was too young to comprehend when this explanation was given in the movie.
Yeah, that's never fully explained. The choice he's given is that he can basically save Trinity or do his job, regardless, Zion is doomed, and Neo basically decides, "Screw it, I'm going to save everybody!" and then he does. Keep in mind that if you die in the Matrix, you die in "Real Life" so saving Zion, even if it's a construct is still saving the lives of the inhabitants of Zion.
So, either he's just trying to save people, or Neo thinks that The Architect is lying to him. Which is also possible. There was definitely some denial going on when this was all being explained to him. And maybe The Architect was! The Wachowski's never 100% commit to it either way. On one hand, even the machines at the end talk about Zion like it's a Real Place, but on the other hand, even though Neo was in the "Real World" and completely blind, he could still see in code and manipulate the machines, which he shouldn't have been able to do if he was an unplugged human. I think it's one of those things that they leave hanging so you can have nerdy conversations on the internet about it.
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Well ok then. Thanks for the explanation. Until seeing this video I thought that Zion was real and Neo a human, but damn. Lots has come to light. Perhaps I should rewatch the trilogy. I was rather young when I did.
I always saw the Merovingian and Persephone as earlier iterations of Neo and Trinity. But why were they allowed to stay in the matrix after surviving the reboot? Is it 'cause, as the architect says, the Matrix is forced to include anomalies after each reboot?
Possible. In myth, Persephone isn’t really a consort, but a co-ruler. Compare that to her aunt sisters-in-law, Hera and Amphitrite (not to be confused with Aphrodite). They aren’t in charge, and have to put up with cheating husbands.
Here's my theory: The Wachowski siblings had no idea what they were doing.
Hahahahahaha
I mean it does feel that way in hindsight.
They just wanted to do something cool
@2manynegativewaves Have you read simulation and simulacra? I did...
what if the matrix is just a thing in a movie made by people in order to keep the masses occupied
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I can't believe they all groaned at The Animatrix, that was better than the ACTUAL Matrix movies!
It is the best installment because it pays homage to the inspiration for most of the story boards that became the original Matrix movie.
Umm the button said "HEL" as in the Norse underworld, so technically they're combining two mythologies
AliG6252010 But "Hell" as a word was derived from the Norse Hel, because language.
Hell, itself, was not even the same concept that we know until it was translated to English, because the Bible in prior editions had three different ideas/places that were all lumped together by the English version under the banner "Hell". These being Sheol (or the Greek Hades), the grave; Gehenna, the burning lake of fire that acts as the final resting place of the unsaved after Judgment Day; and Tartarus, where the fallen angels are incarcerated.
Dan is seriously one of my favorite writers and people on this channel.
Plus you just want to give him hugs :)
You know what? The time is ripe for a new Matrix trilogy. C'mon, Hollywood, you love lazy reboots, do it with this! But make it good.
no, they will ruin it even more
hollywood would not be able to comprehend the duality of your request.
they understand the words "reboot" and "good" individually - but requesting a "good reboot" will somehow result in a number of internal errors...
i however get what you're saying, and with some major cast changes and plot revisions, there should be enough material to work with. maybe not for a trilogy - but because money, that's no doubt what we would get
"But make it good."
Now that's something that's never going to happen.
There's a theory that the Matrix trilogy itself was an attempt to "reboot" a franchise that failed to catch on. Watch the Nostalgia Critic's review(s) of the Matrix trilogy.
PaperbackWizard What franchise was that?
Wow! Even with surely very serious brain tumor, Daniel sacked this match! (NEEEEERD!!!) Point for him.
Daniel: 18
Soren: 13
Katie: 14
Michael: 18
“Keanu Reeves is Kung fu super Jesus!”
I fucking love this show!
01 isn't a null value. It is literally "1" in binary.
Yeah that bugged me too. Also it's not like a binary number can only stand for one thing
01 is false true
Actually it's Number 2... So the Ying/Yang theory of Neo/Smith being two separate parts of The One holds up.
I don't think they realize that a null means that it's nothing. Not zero or not a space. It's literally missing data. 01 is a lot of data
@@charliepotatoes001 how is it 2, binary is read right to left is it not?!
I liked The Animatrix. Hrmph!
New theory. After Hours shut down because they couldn't find t-shirts small enough for Dan any more.
I believe when Persephone said that "He was like [neo]" she meant emotionally. Given the context this is a pretty straight foward conclusion.
Neo had emotions? He kept them well hidden.
If Freddie Krueger were real, the Matrix would be a buffet.
I Always Thought the Matrix Trilogy was About Two Rival Artificially Intelligent Virtual Reality Simulators Fighting a War in Cyberspace (i.e.: "The Matrix"), Where Neo & the Humans are Actually Avatars of One AI Computer Simulator and the Agent Smiths are Avatars of the Other AI Computer Simulator that Both Meet & Battle in the Matrix, and Humanity has been Extinct for Centuries but The Computer Avatars are Still on Autopilot Fighting the Same War, Over & Over & Over Again, Forever!!! 🤔
If you haven't already, check out a tv series called Person of Interest .
That’s scary ...
"Tumor Talk" so gonna be the name of my podcast.
also the original idea for the matrix was it to be used as a neural network but they were forced to change it to the battery thing because they didn't think people would understand the neural network concept but everyone knows what batteries are. Stupid change and has been admitted as such
According to the Matrix wiki page, apparently the Merovingian was the entire Operating System for the Second Beta version of the Matrix, which I assume is the role the Architect plays for the current iteration. That would make him one of the most powerful programs in the Matrix, though I don't know how much he could actually do. That would be like Windows '95 trying to overwrite the actions of a Windows 7 command.
Anyone notice the blinking neon "open" sign over Dan's head looking like a halo???
Let's say nested , 'Inception universes' are possible, this means that simulated universes far outnumber our one 'real universe'.
Let's not stop there, assume that there are aliens who can also simulate universes, and that there are also other universes in the multiverse. This means that the number of simulated, nested universes are probably infinitely many more than real universes.
We are far more likely to live in one of the infinitely many simulated universes than a real universe.
GuyWithAnAmazingHat Occam's Razor, my friend. We need to shave off unnecessary assumptions (in this case, your assumptions are unnecessary because they draw little evidence, if any, from the Matrix Trilogy).
Keeseman These aren't my ideas, they are proposed by physicists.
You may want to read Nick Bostrom's simulation argument and James Gate's discovery of error correcting code in super string equations.
Mathematically, our universe is far more likely to be simulated than real.
GuyWithAnAmazingHat This is where one brings in Alder's Razor, or "Newton's Flaming Laser Sword", - what cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating.
Henry Humphreys It's amazing how something can be called a Flaming Laser Sword and be so... boring. I mean, in practical science it makes sense, but for places like RUclips comment sections, there's really no reason not to consider the "hey guys, what if..."-theories.
Also, I hear that guy has an amazing hat. We should hear what he has to say.
GuyWithAnAmazingHat Oh, I thought you were talking about Dan's argument about the Matrix universe, and since this video was discussing that, I read your post contextually. If we're theorizing about the Matrix universe, then these further ideas about "infinite simulations" are unnecessary to the argument Dan presented.
I'm not going to comment on the real life "simulation argument", though. It sounds like bullshit to me, but I'm no expert and I don't want to bother to look into it. Your argument, as you present it, reads as "let's assume these things; thus, it is true." The actual argument probably doesn't sound like that, but I just wanted to let you know the way you presented it was philosophically confused.
Reminds me of the Star Trek: TNG episode where an A.I. version of sherlock's greatest enemy Moriarty gained sentience and demanded to be released into the real world (something he thought was possible via teleportation and matter creation combining or something)
but Picard simply pretends to let him exit by having him enter into a fake version of the real world, which is revealed to be what looks like a external hard drive that Picard says has enough data on it for them to be happily live for 100's of years without ever knowing it's fake.
This conversation reminds me of an episode of StarTrek: Next generation "Ship in a Bottle". The holodeck program of Prof. Moriarty takes over the Enterprise, forcing them to come up with a solution to make holograms "real". Eventually the Enterprise tricks Moriarty into thinking they found a solution and beam him into the "real world". Moriarty, is in fact, beamed into a another program to simulate the real world. Picard ends the holodeck program and talks with the crew suggesting maybe their reality is might be a device on someone's table.
I just miss these so much. They are so well written and so compelling... SNL did a jumangi skit recently where they fought over what it means to be jumangi'd... and I feel like that would have been the garbage that the cracked people would have discarded... but... not because it wasn't good... but because it wasn't up to their standards. For real... these are so damn good.
Re-watching this, I am reminded of the Star Trek episodes with Professor Moriarty, who is created as a simulation capable of giving Data a challenge and becomes sentient. Long story short, they created a simulation of the universe to make him think that he is free so explores a universe that he believes to be reality just to keep him busy.
when in the matrix did it actually state, or even imply that the end of the matrix trilogy did anything for the people still plugged in?
Is that a Tesla shirt, Soren? My crush on you just multiplied by 6
I have just started getting into these Cracked after hours videos and I'm loving them! This one especially has blown my mind and my wife is pissed off I refuse to clean up my brain goo from the floor.
uploaded 2 minutes ago......and im watching it, I feel sad
Don't be such a dramatic Dan.
+Wilh el Kim
Why do they all groan when Dan mentions the Animatrix?
fruit salad Nerds like to ostracise their own nerds, it seems.
The song at the beginning is California Dreamin' by The Mamas and the Papas.
01 in binary is just 1. The leading zero being colloquially used in computing to indicate that we're not using decimal.
It is a useful meaning in that it is the first machine city.
It's 2021 and I still miss After Hours.
i don't i just rewatch like 60 episodes of it every month like a lunatic.
2022 now, my friend, and I still hear you.
I don't know if someone else has pointed this out already or not but nice Nikola Tesla T-shirt.
About the 3 worlds proposition, the actor that brings that up also questions why the authors would name a city 01, well the greatest number you can represent with two digits in binary is 3. Add that to the pile of nonesense
all computer count from 00, meaning that 01 is the second iteration of the machine city, or the name was chosen because 01 is the machine zion
"...to further endear ourselves to our blenders" made me do a spit take on my desk...
Fantastic work guys. You never let me down. These videos are a constant source of happiness in my life. Thank You :)
Rewatching this after just now watching the Matrix Resurrection is so much more meta!
I wish they could make a new episode for The Matrix 4
😂😅😆🤣😝OKAY, THAT'S TUMOR TALK. How I LOVE this foursome and miss watching new posts. But I will rewatch as programmed by The Matrix, to entertain, distract and make me think but about geeky, superficial stuff. Thanks for posting! 😍😘
I'm thinking I need to rematch these movies
Usually I don't understand what they're talking about in After Hours, but I like listening to how excited they sound as they rant and think up conspiracies.
"Life is.. r-real."
That's great!
I can't believe how after all these years there are new little details to discover, like at 10:54 when Michael is saying "more and more meta" he flashes a direct glance to the camera xD
This aged well. Ai is slowly taking over
does anyone else think that Dan's theory of the heat sinc sounds a lot like all these movies about the little guy that revolts against the powers that be only to win and change things for the better do to us in real life?
Stupid question, perhaps, but what exactly do the credits at the start mean? As in, who are the people that are credited as the brains of the cast?
The people credited as the brains are the people who do the animation for each of the characters thought bubbles.
Bella giov Okay then, another stupid question, but... what animation? What thought bubbles?
Buffoon1980 Things like: ruclips.net/video/Urk1Eib9_Rs/видео.html
Buffoon1980 they don't tend to use it anymore, but they used to do said animations when a certain character goes on a tangent or describes some really weird imagery
Buffoon1980 Watch any of the Season 1 videos. They had a lot more of the animations in those.
"... okay now that's tumour talk" 5:39 #Katie2016
finally!!!! Missed you all I've been waiting for this!!
so can any one tell me why the heck the machines don't build a sky bridge or use rockets or what ever tec they currently have to go into space and get all the free solar energy and endless resource in the universe instead of stupid endless war with there current power sources?
Because the Desert of the Real is not real either. That is why the world has a ceiling and not a night sky. Not enough memory for infinite stars.
@@charliepotatoes001 *facepalm* what an idiot....
It has been confirmed that the Merovingian's purpose prior to exile was the Operating System (like Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X) for an earlier version of the Matrix, the second of the two Matrix betas. Thus the Merovingian's original role was a leadership position, coordinating activity and information in the Matrix beta. He would later make good use of these skills in exile as a power broker and trafficker of information. It also explains why the Merovingian is so skilled at rewriting Matrix code to create new custom objects.
Persephone has said that the Merovingian used to be "like Neo" when she spoke of initially falling in love with him. As the Merovingian's power lies more in subtle rather than gross manipulation of information, he may not be a previous One. Most assume Persephone is saying that the Merovingian was not always a cynical hedonist, but was once driven and purposeful.---Wiki
March 2024 here, coming back jut to chill with these friends 😢
Since there are remakes of everything else, why not a Matrix reboot?
That Matrix-Simpsons theory is so fucking hilarious, mind-blowing, and a work of art... *Chef kisses
Agent Smith is the one.
Agent Smith and Neo together are the one. Both sides, same person. It is a Ying-Yang thing.
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That would also explain why Neo had magic techno powers in the "real" world.
I never got into the matrix movies, out of the three which one was the best?
The first one is a stand alone movie, while 2 and 3 expand the story, watch the first, then if you liked it continue
I might give it a try.
***** Certainly, the first is a masterpiece and also the height of the career of the Wachowski brothers.
It seem like the first movies in a trilogy are always the best. Well except for the Christopher Nolan Batman series, the dark knight was better than batman begins.
***** Watch the first one, 2nd and 3rd really optional, even if you like the concept - they're very different (also 2 has like 1-2 good action scenes, rest shit... 3 is shit all the way).
Also, not true about the trilogy thing. Examples : Star Wars (peeking at 2), LotR (some would say 3 is best), The Godfather (2!), Terminator (2!), Alien franchise (original trilogy, where 1 & 2 are different but equally awesome in their genres), Spiderman (2!)... Lots and lots of trilogies where the 1st isnt the best, the 2nd often is though.
0b01 = 1. Not a null value or meaningless.
he says it has a 'known' value.
also, it's not 0b01, it's just 01. like he said, without any more context it's just a 'known value'
Why do i like katie so much? =3 That ending was incredible
7/2021 checking in: man, this was peak Internet wittiness. Is there ANYTHING comparable out there?
2015 was good. :'(
Wisecrack passes the time 🤷🏿
Robots don't need to feel dominant. They don't need to feel. They didn't build the matrix to satisfy a need for emotions they don't have.
They did it for practical reasons! For electricity!
Plague Doctor But in the real world the matrix would cost more energy than it generates. The virtual reality system the humans are plugged into is the most costly part of the whole thing.
If they used humans with bad genes that kept them from growing more than their brain stem they wouldn't need any costly VR program or the hardware to run it. In the real world humans don't need a mind to have a body survive. I'd rather not talk about how I know that fact.
I know the story is driven by fantasy/sci fi/anime rules, but the cracked theory really helps fans of the movie that have trouble getting past the facepalm inducing science errors in the movies.
Tach IIRC, in the book, the reason they breed humans is to use their brains for processing power. They changed it to energy for the movies because they deemed the average person too stupid to understand the other explanation.
Victor Bergara
That makes sense
Tach
I know how you know that fact. Those poor deluded parents...
Okay so Daniel is still writing for Cracked right?? He and Jordan sound EXACTLY alike....it pleases me that Daniel still exists in the world somewhere😊💖👍👍
They actually had some merit with that last theory of theirs...
the matrix is a trans metaphor
You know wha confuses me? They've made it clear in a past episode that the premise behind this is that they're four Cracked employees who go to the diner after work hours to eat and chat. Meaning that they're already employees for several web series. Does Michael think the cameras follow them from work and film them to put up extra material for Cracked?
Nathan Deaton they're becoming self aware, shut it down!!
I actually really liked The Keymaker.
The Train man was a filler character whose sole purpose was to act as a bridge between the two movies, which wouldn't have happened at all if the Wachowskis had just made one sequel instead of two by (Probably) splitting one good script into two mediocre ones.
Kung-Fu Super Jesus!
Wachowski's have successfully uploaded their findings from reddit/90s equivalent from their threads.
Good work.
Yay, new After Hours!
Anyone here after watching new trailer for Matrix 4?
the animated matrix and they called it...
Easier to use the human brain for computing than a battery.
In Animatrix, why won't the humans simply ask the machines to travel to other worlds to live? They're machines. They don't need food or sleep and they could wait for thousands of years inside ships while going to Alpha Centauri or something. Why would the machines stay on Earth when the humans were so assholish???
Hannibal Barca Watched the video. Nevermind
Hannibal Barca You sir, made a good point.
Hannibal Barca It will be in the reboot
Hannibal Barca but they need energy..and a lot more to even achieve space travel.
Anime Alex Well being machines they could for example use a nuclear engine/solar sail/ramscoop etc. to achieve a significant velocity over decades and centuries (5 - 10% speed of light?). They wouldn't mind radiation/cosmic radiation (given proper circuitry etc.). What energy they needed then could be had via their engine that wouldn't be needed for thrust once a certain speed was acquired (as there's no air in space to slow you down)
And just like The Matrix Reloaded, I had to replay certain parts of this episode again and again.
01 in binary is 1, Daniel. C'mon.
Yeah. The only meaning any binary value has is the numeric value it represents. They can be associated with the meaning that comes with like ASCII values or RGB values, but that's user stuff. As far as machine language is concerned they're all just equally distinct, arbitrary switch configurations. Null is the only value that has any special significance.
no "1" is 00110001
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00110001 is the ASCII designation for the symbol '1' not the value. Maybe you know that, I can't tell.
I do, i was just pointing out his grammatical error in using the symbol "1" and not the spelled out form "one" but I instinctively used the latter. It will be changed in my original post.
Nobody differentiates between 1 and one when talking about binary numbers.
I love how the guys were like making "No! Abort! Abort!" motions when she started "Row Row Row Your Boat" to calm him down when he's freaking out about life being an illusion.
It’s 2024 and I miss after hours
To me the whole "using humans for batteries" is never how the matrix was. In reality, the original script the wachowski's wrote involved the computer using humans to create a giant neural network for computational purposes, like a giant supercomputer: this is not only plausible (in a "scifi" kind of way) but is a LOT more interesting as well, as it offers even more food for thought.
I hate it when ppl point out the battery thing as a major plothole in matrix, it's not like the eagles in LotR, which tolkein DID acknowledge as a "plot hole" of sorts and said that he didnt just use them all the time because that would ruin the entire story. This is ACTUALLY how the original story was written, and the studios thought that audiences of the time would be too dumb to get it (maybe idk) and made them change it.