Latest Animatrix Short Released 308
martyn s writes "The latest animatrix short, The Second Renaissance, Part 2 is finally out. This short is the continuation of The Second Renaissance Part 1. Taken together, these shorts document how, in the matrix universe, 'Man was the architect of his own demise.'"
And here's the
BitTorrent link.
Nice to see slashdot promoting legitimate p2p (Score:5, Insightful)
Because it needs a centralised server (the tracker), it will be easier to knock out!
.zip?? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Feeling a little empty after watching (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Preaching? (Score:2, Insightful)
Something with actual conflict or shades of gray would be nice. Especially with the complete reversal of roles in the Animatrix.
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Re:Feeling a little empty after watching (Score:4, Insightful)
And it made it worse when the narrator stated that (SPOILER?) "the machines turned to an alternate and readily available power supply, the bioelectric, thermal and kinetic energies of the human body. A newly refashioned symbiotic relationship between the two adversaries was born. The machine, drawing power from the human body, an endlessly multiplying infinitely renewable energy source. This is the very essence of the second renaissance. Bless all forms of intelligence."
Arghh.. bless all forms of intelligence to have a 7th grade understanding of thermodynamics. It's too bad they didn't take the chance to use these shorts to clarify or correct the human battery crossed with a form of fusion explanation from the first movie.
what about nukes EMPs? (Score:1, Insightful)
2. Refering to the nuclear war between ZEROONE and humanity, TSR says: "The Machines were unaffected by the radiation" What about the EMPs that nukes generate?
Minor spolier (Score:5, Insightful)
That is a major plot hole for me, and I hoped they would use the possibility here to explain it in greater detail. But noo. Just a tiny bit of plot that amounts to 'the war started, we darkened the sky, then we lost and got put in the Matrix'.
(Since this is anime, they could have gone wacky with this. For example, say that humans posess a unique ability to harvest immense amounts metaphysical energy, and that the Matrix somehow taps this energy. Much better than the 'new form of fusion' crap explanation.)
Interseting (Score:4, Insightful)
Use the main link (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Preaching? (Score:3, Insightful)
Taken together they present a different picture than they do on their own.
Re:Minor spolier (Score:5, Insightful)
So what?
The laws of thermodynamics guarantee that you're always going to put more energy into a machine than you're going to get back out. This can't be a surprise to anyone who has taken high school physics. Converting energy from, say, the chemical bond energy of the wood in a tree to another form, such as heat, is still a useful process, even though you're putting in far more energy than you're getting out.
What if, for instance, the machines are feeding us their waste products? And our metabolisms conveniently convert this waste into useful heat energy? As long as the process is efficient enough to be useful, it makes sense.
Re:Feeling a little empty after watching (Score:3, Insightful)
Still, nobody ever got rich overestimating the American public's intelligence. Better to have a thermodynamically impossible but easy-to-understand explanation than one that's a little harder to grasp but works better both in the philosophical and scientific cases (a brain-machine interface is at least somewhat plausible).
Re:Minor spolier (Score:3, Insightful)
Botton line, they need an external power source, you can't recycle a closed system indefinitely unless you have 100% efficiency, which doesn't exist.
Re:Depressing? (Score:2, Insightful)
Guess I really don't like anime.. I've tried watching a several different anime movies/shows, and each time I've found the violence to exceed what even most R rated movies contain.
I don't mind the animation style of anime, though I find the sharp edges and harsh, abrasive lines a little irritating. Just to me it feels like the over the top violence seems like some kind of pent up childish nerd/geek angst. I just find it hard to connect with that, I feel like I've matured beyond the need for cruel retribution.
And yes, end of humanity and/or the world scenarios do tend to be depressing.
I'm sure the wrath of the anime zealots will burn my karma.. Oh well, screw 'em - I'm a computer geek and I think anime sucks.
Re:Feeling a little empty after watching (Score:3, Insightful)
It might not make any sense to the spoilsports in Slashdot, but I like it.
That aint a plot hole, its a McGuffin (Score:3, Insightful)
No, the energy stuff is called a McGuffin. A Mcguffin is anything in a movie that keeps the plot going. For instance a super-secret agent chasing down a beautiful super-model who is also a super secret agent because she's carrying the microfilm. What's on the microfilm? It doesn't matter.
So the writers needed a reason to keep the Matrix going, or the machines would just kill the humans and be done with it. Other acceptable alternatives would be to examine their strange minds, keep them in a zoo, morally against genocide, etc. Who cares? Energy works just as well.
A plot hole happens when parts of the movie are so badly edited that an event happens which doesnt fit in with the rest of the linear story. Or more rarely when the story was just bad to begin with.
> They still don't explain how a human in itself can generate more energy than it costs to maintain that very same human alive and well in the Matrix.
You forgot to add your Professor Frink noise after the end of that sentence.
Re:detective story and trinity...the first matrix? (Score:2, Insightful)
animatrix is BASED on the matrix universe so to speak, it doesnt have to follow a story.