As far as I know, the "I blame Keith" thing has always been an MxO inside joke. Then again, I've thought that a lot of Internet memes were local to the MxO community, like the whole Mudkipz thing.

MetaLogic wrote:

Ok, so this is a big one, Reinsertion.  Was Rarebit going to leave it as "Reinsertion was a lie" or was there going to be more to it?

This one really bugged me, and I made sure I let Rarebit know. Even as an EPN player on my main, I've always thought the Cypherites were one of the best parts of the story, and while removing reinsertion as a viable option did have the useful effect of making them even more pissed off than they already were, I thought it went too far in pissing them off for real as players. People had already incorporated reinsertion into some of their backstories, and I saw it as just one more stupid restriction that limited what people could do with their characters.

The big issue I had with it was that Rarebit was basing his decision predominantly on what he picked up on from the first film, that the agents never had any intention of reinserting Cypher at all, and that the "continue as planned, deploy the sentinels" line indicated that they had planned on destroying the Neb even if Cypher was still alive inside.

I also had issues with an in-game mission or two that I believe involved reinsertion. Rare pointed out that there was still no indication that the machines planned to go through with it, and that the apprehension of the bluepill involved only further confirmed that he would probably just be killed, rather than reinserted, and that such was more befitting of the machine M.O.

I do have, y'know, a web site called "The MxO Archive" 

I'd be willing to take any content people send my way for archival. I'll also do my best to save as much as possible, with what little time I have these days.

[email protected]

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[email protected]

I really only use GMail chat, but my old AIM handle was CaptainStack (I think).

And yes, I do plan on keeping The MxO Archive online. I may look into getting my own hosting for it, now that I can afford it myself, but at any rate, it should still be available and I'll post any new contact info there if any of these e-mail addresses go down.

I'll go ahead and say outright that I was in LESIG, one of the first set. A couple people knew the entire time, since we didn't immediately set down the secrecy rules, and there were of course the inevitable leaks. I won't post my characters here yet, since I still have plans for them that I (hopefully) have time to play out before the servers are closed. The liaison I did play had many secrets that, sadly, never really got revealed to more than a handful, if any. If I ever get around to writing and posting my full MxO fan fic novel, I'll include the various LESIG characters I played to provide their full backstory, but for now... there are a few secrets I hope to reveal in-game during what little time we have left.

I do want to apologize for letting my involvement in the program lapse. I was spread very, very thin as I was finishing my senior year of college and it got to the point where I didn't even care enough to let anyone know I was done. I still haven't fully picked MxO back up ever since.

I will, however, also relate possibly the most hilarious series of incidents I ever saw in MxO, and while it wasn't directly in the course of my LESIG operations, the true scope of it involved some behind-the-scenes knowledge. Someone on the LESIG forums (I think it was Harkee) posted an anecdote about how Dibol, my trigger-happy factionmate, had been powerlevelling her. In the course of this operation, a hostile landed a shot that made the stability of Dibol's pants fail. He ended up fighting in his undies in front of a Zion liaison officer. He promptly apologized and assured her it wouldn't happen again.

Cut to the next day when I'm on my public main, chatting with Wolfess about how hilarious that was. Dibol and I start running archive missions to get me the agent sunglasses, and we're blasting our way through hostiles left and right. I come under heavy fire, and as I'm running my arse out of the mission area to the elevator, one of the hostile NPCs landed a final shot on me and--you guessed it--my pants disappeared. Not my coat, not my famous purple vest... my pants. My pants disappear the very next day after Dibol's pants disappeared in front of a liaison, while I, secretly, am privvy to this information. I'm busy laughing my arse off and trying to find some replacement pants, all the while hollering tells to Wolfess along the lines of "OMG MY PANTS FELL OFF!! RIGHT IN FRONT OF DIBOL!!" I slip up and post the phrase "YES, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EFFING ELEVATOR!" into team chat.... Dibol gets suspicious, finds me and asks if everything's all right. I'm standing there in a completely different pair of pants, apologizing for a mistell, and saying, "...Please... don't ask."

What killed me was I couldn't explain the coincidence of the situation to him, or to anybody. But I still can't help but giggle at the entire situation.

CPT_Starschwar wrote:

Side note: that Animorphs reading killed a significant portion of my childhood.  Still had a better ending than the actual series of novels, though.

So I hear XD I never read them myself, so my knowledge of the series is limited to our own production.

Cadsuane wrote:

Bwaha, well done.  I thought the voice acting was really good but the narrator needed more enthusiasm and less emphasis on the misspelled words. 

Our narrator is generally within an inch of cracking up in laughter or cursing like a sailor at the absurdity of what he's reading, so it's as much as we can expect of him to do this much. And by our usual recording session standards, this one went much smoother than usual (especially considering we were taking a shot every time we goofed up >_>).

Greetings, MxO, and long time no see. I've been on a bit of a hiatus for the last few months, and during that time I've been helping to produce a weekly radio-drama-esque production called Fan Fiction Mystery Theatre. Each week we take the worst best fan fiction that this series of tubes has to offer and present dramatic readings to our faithful listeners.

Now that the show has some experience under its belt, we felt it was high time that we produce a rendition of the work that first sparked our inspiration: The Matrix Return, by the worst writer ever acclaimed fan fiction author Peter Chimaera. As it was only through this community that I ever found this literary gem, I thought it only fitting that I return the favor for you all.

Huge thanks to Starschwar for first posting the link to the YTMND here several years ago. If it weren't for that, Fan Fiction Mystery Theatre never would've existed in the first place.

ExternalError wrote:

ok looking at all the points made i for one am looking forward to about 80% of these changes.  the ones i dont like are:

iradication of the sub orgs these represent peoples choice in game for instance epn do what zion cannot due to their responsibilities to the people living in zion.  what happens to these proactive members now.

 Removal of LESIG i for know lesig had its leaks and a few of the liasons were just plain rubbish for many reasons. but there have been a few things that have hooked me to a story line here and there.  For one the thermal image fragment story and the 01 mainframe with LESIG gone does this mean this will stop becuase i think we still need a long projected mystery to sole to give those willing to delve deeper a chance.  Also with LESIG gone what happens to Scanline and The Sentinall.  A month or two ago now it was adertised that BA 52 was coming yet we have not seen anything since i guess with the disolution of LESIG this will never come now.

I agree with the Live event changes because they were becoming very samey with the go here do this talk to him/her hack a server meet at a club.  so it will be a fresh change but i do think that it should be mixed up a little now and then.

Rarebit if you read this can you answe these 3 questions as the future of these items was neglected from your post

 What happens to the Sentinal?

What happens to the 01mainframe?

What happens to Scanline?

Basically i still hold a little faith even though your basically screwing my sub org, i just want to know if these deeper plot lines will continue or if they are being removed with the rest of LESIG

Definately things that needs to be addressed in my opinion.

Even though this thread was started about the music on Neo's headphones, I'm going to ask another (as it seems others have on here too).

For 10pts (seems a nice round figure) can someone name for me the music that's playing in the background when Neo speaks with the Oracle for the first time? If you don't know, go look it up, you'll like the answer.

Stack wrote:

As for the original Matrix DVD menu music, I have no idea I wish I knew, too.

Clubbed To Death - Rob Dougan ......is it not that one?

Stack wrote:

Beat it, with a final score of 738 deaths. Hardly the toughest game in the world.

And of course it's now 6 in the morning >_< But eh, it's spring break (woo!), so at least I don't have to get up for anything.

The real question now: How are you going to dignify having spent spring break playing that game?

I won't be able to get a good look at the game until this weekend, so could somebody post the strengths/abilities of the new characters/drastic changes in returning characters?

• Mario
• Weegee (aka Luigi)
  
• Kirby
• Bowser
• Zelda / Sheik
  

• Samus -- not as maneuverable, and her mid-air basic kick attack doesn't own nearly as much as it used to. She more than makes up for her loss of speed once she's out of her varia suit, though, and her hyper beam final smash also rocks.
  
• Link -- not really tremendously weaker, but he's no longer the cheapass ownage machine he used to be amongst the newcomers.
  
• Peach -- her butt-attack doesn't explode anymore >_> and also, her final smash is nearly worthless compared to most of the others.
  

• Pit -- effectively has twice the recovery ability of Kirby: he can fly by jumping multiple times, and can then fly again with Up+B multiple times. His attacks / defense are a bit weak, though.
  
• Ike -- frikkin' awesome, albeit a bit slow. His battle cry with his Up+B move terrifies me every time I hear it and makes up for mid-puberty Roy's corny voice from Melée.
• Meta Knight -- combination of Kirby and Link FTW

• Snake -- very slow, and has some awkward moves, but his final smash involves hanging from a helicopter and blasting the soup out of everyone with a grenade launcher (and yes, you get to aim)
  
• Sonic -- Almost too fast to handle
• Pokémon Trainer -- some of the attacks that the three different Pokémon have are really useful, but it can be awkward switching between them
  

• DK -- too slow and still doesn't really make up for it
• Lucas -- a total clone of Ness and not really giving much new
• Olimar -- really awkward to learn how to use his pikmin in battle
• Diddy Kong -- much faster than DK, but nothing special in terms of power
• Captain Falcon -- not really a meh character, but I'm putting him here simply because his final smash is hard to connect with and only involves hitting your opponent with the Blue Falcon, when really I was expecting something more like this
  

wow!  thanks for the link!

i assume that if i wish to personally layer some .wav files, the referenced audio program would work?

any better programs suggested??

So since this is about the music in the Matrix. Anyone know what songs are playing on the Matrix Reloaded and revolutions DvD's menu? (I get that its Neodammerung in Revo but is it like a remix of it or what?)

Those are pretty cool ^_^

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