Denis
Dr. Maddkap, WerepsychologistEver since the Matrix was released in 1999, cell phones have been steadily replacing landlines - which were shown to be the only way to escape.
Ω 🌍 Gus Posey@drmaddkap *puts on suit and waits for the end*
Hal Aetus@drmaddkap OMG you're right. No more payphones either. We'll never get out of this hell now!
NosirrahSec 🏴☠️ guillotine enthusiast@aetus @drmaddkap I know where some exist!
@NosirrahSec @drmaddkap better keep track of those. Quietly. X>
Cy
Log 🪵@drmaddkap Most terrifying thing in that movie. The only way to escape the simulation that allows AI to use your brain to play DOOM or Progress Quest or whatever is to answer a ringing phone with no caller information. What if it's not the way out, and is just another robocall? Shoulda taken the yellow pill...
KanaMauna@drmaddkap That’s why our machine overlords have worked so hard to make cell phones sexy. Keep us trapped in our pods.
Greem (Graeme. Not Graham!)@drmaddkap Left.
No, the other left!
PassengerWith that line, the Wachowski sisters predicted Leftist online beefs back before most people currently alive were even born!
Morgan ⚧️@passenger @greem @drmaddkap I don't think most people currently alive are under the age of 26 tbh 😅 weren't boomers named for how many there are?
@raphaelmorgan @greem @drmaddkap
Huh, you are correct. The world median age is 30.6 years. I thought it was much lower. TIL.
@passenger @raphaelmorgan @drmaddkap STOP
STOP
PLEASE
I'm nearly 55!
@greem @passenger @drmaddkap says less about you and more about how few people survive past our 30s... You're not old, it's just that a lot of people die young 😥
MDMRN@drmaddkap @lisamelton And that is why I still have a landline at home, obviously 
But no, for real, I do have a landline at home. I refuse to give mine up.
Brielle Labingi@drmaddkap
Vague recollection of escape happening other ways, I'm gonna have to re watch though hard agree with the post in principle 💯
@terra
Vague recollection of escape happening other ways, I'm gonna have to re watch though hard agree with the post in principle 💯
@terra
Thomas Rigby@drmaddkap I know where all the public phones are in town just to be safe
whimsyAt this rate Trinity is going to have to break into a hospital, tear apart their fax machine, plug in a receiver, and get her ears blown out by the fax machine screeching just to make her dramatic escape.
Hopefully she can do all that before the truck hits her :ablobfoxdundundunowo:
#The-Matrix
Hugo Mills@drmaddkap You can still escape through two tin cans connected by a piece of string. But due to the limited bandwidth, it takes 18 months.
Parade du Grotesque 💀Coincidence? I think not!
Denys Dmytriyenko@drmaddkap I still keep my landline for that reason
AskPippa🇨🇦@drmaddkap I found that Bell Canada still prints paper phone books for Toronto. I ordered one. It is a fraction of the size of phone books from 20-25 years ago. And since it lists only land line phone numbers, it's a good indicator of how many landlines are left in the city.
We should form a club.
We should form a club.
rozodru@AskPippa @drmaddkap we also have a few payphones left in random places like in scotiabank arena and the lower levels of the TD building hidden away in random corners. its actually kinda spooky when you find one in the PATH.
@rozodru @drmaddkap Most of the payphones I've seen have been vandalized beyond use. :(
Raven (she/her) 
@drmaddkap https://ravenwinters.org/posts/pdx-matrix/
I wrote about the very few free payphones in #pdx just in case ppl need an exit from the matrix
Futel: How to Exit the Matrix in PDX
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Jaymi Elford (she/her)@sparklepanic Huzzah for the home town! 🙌🏼
Arc<dyn fnrir> 
'; DO A FLIP; --
Sam Livingston-Gray@drmaddkap @davetron5000 normal market behavior, or a concerted attempt to reduce access to Hardline Retreat Tactics (HRT)? 😜🏳️⚧️
Melroy van den Berg@drmaddkap I now only have fiber.
F4GRX Sébastien@drmaddkap oh my gosh
Sin Ser'Hao 
@drmaddkap we live in a society
Bård H. (lvl 49 🇳🇴)They did use a Nokia 8110i at one point!
Guess that's why they took down the original gsm and 2g networks..... 😬
Viral Obscurity@drmaddkap they kinda resolved this in Resurrections with exit locations but I get that there are people who don't consider that film canon
Max@drmaddkap @thegibson Mirrors were also another way to Exit in the first Matrix, landlines were just less trippy/more convenient/faster. (Neo’s first Exit is a Mirror.)
(Then Resurrections suggests that you never really needed an Exit anyway, it’s always all in your mind. *Keanu Whoa*)
Brandon Mitchell@drmaddkap the Matrix was also intentionally set in the late 1990s because that was the peak of human civilization. We're in the downward spiral.
Pseudo NymDoes a home landline that is actually VoIP work? Or does it have to be POTS?
Bryan Redeagle 
@drmaddkap That's why I'm safe, bitches. I'm a Telecom Engineer.
Jargoggles@drmaddkap
Find the nearest law office. You're guaranteed to find a fax machine there.
Find the nearest law office. You're guaranteed to find a fax machine there.
Lee Hauser@jargoggles @drmaddkap Doctor’s offices, hospitals and pharmacies, too!
M0tty@drmaddkap but if you understood the trilogy correctly, you know there never was any escape at all... 😭
@M0tty Wasn’t there? Neo broke the cycle of Zion. At least I thought he did.
@drmaddkap the "reality" that is presented to the viewer is in reality an other layer of software. It's just a subprogram for those who doesn't tolerate the main program of the matrix. So the "reality" is still the matrix, just an other version. It's explained by the Architect in the second opus. But not very clearly, to be honest.
And it's because it's still a program that Neo can stop the sentinels with his hand like he does with bullets.
StarkRG@drmaddkap A non-wireless VoIP connection probably still counts.
Robin Adams@drmaddkap Because picking up a landline made the Matrix drop its Internet connection.
Jima 
@drmaddkap @arrjay IIRC, the opening scene of 'Phone Booth' (2002) also hinted at the beginning of the trend away from pay phones. 😕
Robots can be gay deal with it@drmaddkap Sword Art Online also shows you how easy it is to trap you in the fantasy world, just make sure to stop watching when the out of nowhere step-cest happens, the story dies before it concludes.
@drmaddkap I should probably say more than that... The new oculus is released, and it goes deep into your brain, but Zuck does a cult leader and suicide rituals himself after revealing that if you try to take off the headset it will do to your brain what a microwave does to a hamster. He also takes the log off button like he has always wanted to do with Facebook. He also scanned your body in, so no more egg cracking. In the real world, hospitals are suddenly full of gamers needing feeding tubes and people die of starvation if they live alone. Despite all this, there's an LLM baby and step-cest. Literally, stop watching when you feel bored and you will have watched all the good parts. If you make it to the point where they for some reason re-enter the game but with guns then you're a stronger man than I.