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Being stuck in a pod by yourself makes it kinda difficult to get intimate with someone in the real world.

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[–] [email protected] 194 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

The answer is in the movie. When explaining the Matrix to Neo, Morpheus says: "There are fields, endless fields, where human beings are no longer born, we are grown."

https://youtu.be/IojqOMWTgv8

Doesn't specify the exact how, but it's strongly implied that it is through either cloning or artificial gestation.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They use robo arms to just rub people's limp bodies together.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Upvote for the hillarious image in my head.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

For me, that, but with “Now Procreate!”

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's cloning. That how Neo has been born over and over again.

The machines stores the generic code of all the first humans they put in pods and then they just crank out copies.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I completely forgot about that part of the movie. Thanks for the reminder!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think you are due for a re-watch! It's great when it's been a few years and you can enjoy some of the bits you forgot about.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately we can never experience the big reveal for the first time again. It was absolutely mind-blowing watching him wake up in the pod on the big theater screen for the first time. That was the coolest movie experience I've ever had.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind. So many firsts to revisit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying to watch ESotSM, or to utilize its one weird trick?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I cannot forget even a second of The Matrix.

Fortunately, I don’t need to. It’s like listening to this yet again. It’s beautiful even though I know every note and can listen to the whole thing in my head any time I want: https://youtu.be/LZ48G9UziRs?si=WdHnkS5bvDNdF1wv

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They actually touch on it in the animated movie that spanned a series of vignettes from that universe.

Spoiler alert: it ain’t pretty.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

artificial gestation

The word "matrix" literally means "womb" in its older sense.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why even grow them with arms and legs if they are just going to be batteries? Wouldn't it be easier to just grow cows instead?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Because shut up. /s

But really though, the entire concept of using humans as batteries is absurd. Don't think too hard about it, just enjoy the movie.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Robot spiders steal cum and inject it in another female.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't know about y'all but I can't even get aroused anymore without having a robot spider jacking me off.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Gotta wonder how that robot feels about humanity

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Sticky, mostly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Meh, it's a living!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

"It's a living..."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

That robot is most likely not sentient.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Cummy spiders 😩😩😩

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

That's some Rule 34 material right there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Eww I was just going to suggest it goes through all the little tubes attached anyway I'm leaving before I see anything else

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago

They probably extract sperm and eggs and gestate them right in the pods

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You see, when a daddy battery and mommy battery love each other they hug and grunt and that's how babby formed

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No they just merge their codebases and create a new life that way.

Example:

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

You mean ram sticks

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"combined with a form of fusion"

it's right there in the script

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