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I never understood the plot of the matrix. Why the fuck would you want to live outside of the virtual reality world? Just let the machines make the vr world awesome if you promise not to break out. The whole “the world was too good and the humans noticed so we had to make it shitty” plot point was stupid as fuck. If the world was too awesome you think I’d ever want to leave that world?
My biggest problem with The Matrix is where the machines are getting the food from to feed the humans. You need a continuous supply of food to support continuous energy conversion; that energy isn't being created from nothing. Normally that comes from the sun photosynthesizing plants (which then works its way up the food chain), but with no sunlight then plants can't grow. They say they feed the liquified remains of dead humans to the living ones, but even if digestion were 100% efficient (which it definitely isn't), the amount of usable "food" would constantly decrease until there's nothing left.
It originally used humans' brains as "wetware," or extra processing space. Imagine everyone's playing an MMO, but the computers are all rendering their own copy of stuff so the server doesn't have to do anything but handshakes and data transfer. The matrix is handled, in part, in our heads.
The test audiences got confused so the whole "lol, people are just batteries ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ " plot was put in place instead.
Oh my god this makes so much more sense