USH'S MATRIX GAME- General Discussion

Don't go! It's not a movie prop! It's the beginning of the war...in Chicago! firefirefireph

Hehe. In the original scripts, if I remember correctly, the movies were meant to be set in Chicago.

Oh, and Ush, I really don't recall sentinels ever looking terribly spider-like. Some spidery qualities, but overall looking a hundred times more like squid than spiders. I even pulled out my huge Matrix artbook I have that's got all the concept art, storyboards, and a bunch of movie stills, and most of the sentinels we see really do look more like squid than anything else.

Squids, generally speaking, don't crawl along surfaces or use their tentacles remotely like the way a sentinel does.

If you don't think the allegory holds then fine, but I think that is a spectacular failure of observation about the way they work, the type of eyes they have, the way they look, (most importantly) the way they attack people, and even the way they drop when killed. And that imagery is very deliberate, because spiders have a long association with fear in humans. Whereas as BB pointed out earlier, squids are something you laugh at.

Besides which if you were paying attention you'd know that the earlier version sentinels looked different. These are the shells that Sennacherib gave them an any form of squid would be entirely useless.

So get used to it.

*points and laughs at Lana for fearing spiders*

Squids are also something you eat.

And admittedly I can't remember what the older Sentinels look like as my copy of Animatrix has pulled a disappearing act and I normally would assume my brother had something to do with that but I don't think so this time.

You can't eat Sentinels, though...

...well, at least not without a calamari cooker.

In case anyone is wondering...

Yes. This situation is brutal and exceptionally dangerous (though it is much shorther than other battles).

We're no longer playing around. People can die here and that is now a very definite possibility. The Agent at the end of the second part had good reason to think you doomed.

It's also the battle where it pays to be working for Marduk.

Yeah, I can see that...

Will I literally die if the others don't get in there?

I'd leave the option open to pull you out, but it's a brave person who tries that with that swarm there. Would probably just lead to two corpses.

Yay I want to kill things. Literally. I'm offline for a day and it all goes to hell.

Barb and I are currently net-less at home, hence the lack of yelling at people from me and the lack of...well...ANYTHING from him.

Hmmm, hard and probably impossible... Sounds like something we would do without a second hesitation.

We do have a tendency to completely disregard the risks of things and pull off insanely crazy stuff that by all rights should not work...

Originally posted by Lana
We do have a tendency to completely disregard the risks of things and pull off insanely crazy stuff that by all rights should not work...

Yeah, let's hope our gift lasts...

I'm still about to be eaten alive unless everyone rolls really...really...really well.

Hey if my could make it I would have had him plunge head first into the Spiders to save you 😛

I don't need your charity. 😛

Okay, so.

1) Why are people not paying attention to what is going on?
2) Why are people who can tap like nuts not doing so?
3) Why are there people who don't have any of the mental defenses and thus have NO defense right now?

Well, because the fighting part of Matrix never got me very interested.... but I will try to be more careful now.

Fighting is a major part, however, so it'd be best to be way more careful, or you'll never get to the philosophical parts that you're interested in. Which would be a bummer.

Doesn't really matter if it got you interested or not, paying attention in the fighting part is what determines if you stay alive or not. You'll never get to the Philo stuff if you don't.

Damnit, Zink posted the same thing the same time I did.