Question in regards to Loyalty...

[Neoteny]

I absolutely hate the fact that Rarebit/Chadders looked at and addressed that question of "how does it work/where does the power come from?" and then gave (as a fact) that the machines were gathering a minimal amount of power from the pods (something like 1%? I forget exactly).

This destroyed a lot of Matrix cannon to simply prepare way for the Oligarch storyline (which, in my opinion, was an abortion at best). It begs the question of why there are wars in the Real between humans and machines if the machines are caretakers. It begs the question of why the machines antagonize humans who escape the matrix. Furthermore, it begs the question of why there is a damn matrix to begin with, since (if I remember correctly) the movies tell us that the mental stimulation is to ramp up the power. It would be much more cost-effective to grow humans and keep them in persistent vegetative states without running a massive computer mind simulation if ramping up power output is not object.

Sure, the Architect stated "there are measures we are prepared to accept," but that doesn't mean "lawl, we don't need u noobs. GTFO." That was meant to mean "We don't want our power supply to die out, but if that happens, we can scrape and go on low-power mode until we grow enough of you to build another one."

It also made the redpill/bluepill question irrelevant, since bluepills were unnecessary, there is no real reason for the machines to require bluepill matrix inhabitants. Anyone would then be justified in offering the redpill to anyone, and that whole Machine anger over controlling extraction numbers - you know, the one that caused them to invent Cypherites and all that funky jazz? Yeah, again, completely unnecessary.

Just had to put that out there. As far as my character went, I kind of disregarded the whole report from the General, and when questioned said, "I don't believe that's true. How can we trust what information he has?" Made it easier to justify code bombs, and made them seem to have an actual impact.

On top of that, the justification was that bluepills are minds wasted, and since they have no real connection to the Real, they are worthless. If one does not survive a codebomb, one never could have been freed, therefore, one was worthless. If one survives a codebomb, they are freed, and the job is well done, and expedited.

Ah, the convoluted logic of a madman. I miss that RP.