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[Astaldo]

[UPDATE] Beth's Metadex and Zip Files [Nov 5]

[Wix]

Put it all together v2.0

[trip]

Thanks Wix! That made it really easy to follow.

Here is what I gather:

He shows up at her house. She says, "It's you again!" He says, "Yes, it is me."

She says, "How did you find my address?" He says, "I looked it up on your PDA." (Obviously he has the ability to interface with her PDA, to leave and gather information from it.)

She says, "So it was you who left those files on my PDA?" He says, "Yep, that was me."

She goes, "Yeah, I figured as much." He's all, "Well, congratulations!"

She's like, "So, dude, wtf was up with that tent?!" He's like, "Yeah, at that point in time, the system's visual and physics code was corrupted, so it had to be rebooted."

She says, "So, like, why can't you talk?" He's like, "I can't, my natural language program is corrupted."

So she's like, "Man, wtf do you want from me?" He's all, "Pleeeeese I want you to fix me! My memory and data-collection is corrupted. It sucks!"

Then she tries the 20 questions stuff. He checks himself. "Animal? Mineral? Vegatable? Nope, I'm none of those. BUT, I'm like totally real."

Then he's like, "Uh oh, I think someone might be coming. I'm outta here."

(Valley Girl accent added by me as a tribute to my home state, California.)

Only part I didn't get was this, when determining he was indeed real:

[trip]

Oh, another thing I wanted to add. It is fitting he connected with Beth when he needed someone to fix his corrupted memory. She having worked at Metacortechs and being a programmer should actually be able to help him.

So, he's very clearly a machine/program as evidenced by the 20 questions answer. But, where did he come from? Is he just a Matrix program? Is he a messed up agent?

I'm sure eventually she will figure him out and probably fix him, then we should be able to have him talk and get some real information from him.

I'm disappointed Beth couldn't figure out the code yet, she being Employee of the Month at the world biggest software company. I think YeahYeah figured it out first, right? Perhaps YeahYeah should be given her job at Metacortechs. Perhaps the machine would have been better off contacting YeahYeah.

[bakntime]

[trip]

[Ahriman]

[Darkshadow]

[bakntime]

I hope it's not Smith... First of all, I think he's nice

But really, I just hope no Matrix movie characters show up in the game. I think it's just better that way.

Also, it doesn't quite make sense that it's Smith, or even an "evil" agent for that matter. He just doesn't seem to fit the mould for a "bad guy".

[Ahriman]

[mulder]

[yeahyeah]

[Azathoth666]

hehehe... either way, "spooky monacle guy" is the Metacortex Employee of the month for December! Lets see just how far we can influence game reality, huh?

On a serious note, I can't forget the Matrix when considering AI man... I mean, he's an Artificial Intelligence not a robot: the only way we can consider him is as an agent-like slab of code: not necessarily an Agent as in Smith, but potentially a software agent disconnected from the rest of the system, like the keymaker, the twins or any of the other "old programs" hiding in the matrix...

[2501]

have any of you seen ghost in the shell? some of you must have and those that remember the film will know that project 2501 is a "ghost" born within cyberspace evolved from an information/intelligance gathering program who finds its self a cyborg body then demands amnesty as a living free thinking entity.
on metachortechs in the news section they anounce the new 2500 projects going underway or something of that effect and the brothers W have said on numerous occasions that ghost in the shell was one of the biggest influences of the story.
I think its very possible that the strange pda man is a simmilar program.
Did beth work on the 2500 project? is she his unknowing mummy? Ie: has he indeed come to her for help?.
just a shot in the dark.

[Wix]