Or the original plot of The Matrix, before the studio execs decided audiences were too stupid.
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recklessengagement@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is just the game “Hypnospace Outlaw”
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
I mean, to be fair, they were.
What started as an allegory for the path of a trans person realizing they’re trans and taking “the red pill” to find the reality of their world and escape “the Matrix” that forces them into a confined box in which they don’t actually fit…
…turned into the dumbest bro’d out bullshit from people who think the “red pill” means you’re the strongest smartest man who is has figured out society and you’re a superman like Neo who can fly and shit.
kinkles@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I don’t believe The Matrix was created as a trans allegory, it’s just that you can apply the fundamentals of its story to many concepts, the most popular being trans considering its creators transitioned years after the original trilogy ended.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Part of the script that got cut by Hollywood was literally Switch being a different gender inside the Matrix and outside.
That’s literally why they were originally named “Switch.”
watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Glad to see I’m not the only person on earth who has played it. Such a remarkable, funny and weird game. Still trying to get that damned Seepage song out of my head.
BlindFrog@lemmy.world 4 months ago
PROFESSOR HELPER HERE! READY TO HELP!
watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
That was one of the (many) things that mad me go “Yes! That’s what it was like! That’s what the internet was really like in 1999!” And those download accelerators, which we then recklessly installed on the family computer and gave it virusses.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 4 months ago
I just hope the devs are more competent and don’t [spoilers].
ReynT1me@lemmy.one 4 months ago
Everyone needs to be warned about the danger of Beefbrain