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[King Mob]

Play nice, Diandra.

[umdesch4]

Heh. I hadn't gotten around to reading that, but it's not that much of a reach. I thought it was an obvious idea right back from when we first read that email from rootSPLATlittle-boxes.net.

[ParityBit]

[King Mob]

Anyone want to try applying the paintover Congrats pic to this one?

[Mod]

Teleportation is out of the Matrix rules. Creepy.

[yeahyeah]

[niobexrev]

I don't even think this is a bold statement, but I think it's safe to say that the idea that this is simply an X-Files case involving the paranormal is wrong. It's definitely involving AI. And Beth is trying to figure out his purpose, meanwhile "My Friend" as he is currently called, is controlling the world around him.

Uh, if this is an AI and he is controlling things like weather and levitating things, controlling certain things in the world that Beth lives in, would that not imply that the world Beth lives in is a program? Are you going to call me captain obvious or say that I'm reaching for something that isn't there?

I think "captain obvious" would be the correct choice, but that's just me. You've got Metacortex, Thomas Anderson is transferred, you've got pictures of some guy in a suit and sunglasses wearing an earpiece. Now you've got AI man changing the world around him which obviously must be a program. Er, unless the world is in fact real, and AI man's purpose is some sort of experiment for the weapon's division.

Ah, well, still inconclusive isn't it...

[niobexrev]

In all seriousness (just... disregard what I said up there ^) I think that the AI man, whatever his original purpose is, his purpose now is self-deletion. Just an idea.

Also can someone actually plot those points out on a visual map? We know the locations, but what does it look like on a map. I can figure out on my own, but I have no idea how to post it here.

[King Mob]

Well, I for one would never call you 'Captain Obvious' , but I think we have two groups of people playing here: those that are willing to play as in-game 'characters', but while on the forum go all out with the philosophy and Matrix references (I think we're both in that group Niobexrev); and then you have those people who would prefer to play as type of in-game 'character' both while talking to Beth and whilst in the forums. Until they get some undeniable truth that the Matrix exists; ie Neo flying in and rescuing Beth from an exploding eighteen-wheeler, they're going to continue to play Devil's Advocate. Don't get me wrong; I think that's a good thing - keeps us grounded, but at the same time at can be like trying to convince sceptics that UFOs really do exist. Just my 2cents (although it's probably worth less )

[King Mob]

Check this thread for the map, Niobexrev: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=29578#29578
And, sorry, I'd already typed up my reply and didn't realise you wanted me to disregard what you'd said! Ah well...

[bakntime]

Her last entry:

[King Mob]

Well, arguably, if you're a mathematician or an intense computer programmer, you can find beauty in algorithms and 1's and 0's.
I wonder if computer programmers and hackers would be more able to adapt to the knowledge of the Matrix then? That, while they might acknowledge it's evil, they might see beauty - "the boundaries of perfection" - in the coding of the Matrix?

[mainro]

[King Mob]

You think that's air you're breathing, Beth?

[Marauder]

But does that mean he is able to "affect the future"? Did he actually do something like put in a command now to change the wind in 10 minutes, or did he just wait ten minutes to change the wind?