/vx/ - Videogames and Paranormal

People latched onto The Matrix as a symbol of counterculture and conspiracy because it's easy to get into and it's low-effort to read.

It's fun movie, but it's neither a bastion of truth, nor a good translation of the spiritual landscape at large. The low-effort-premise is both what caused it's rise but its ultimately it's greatest weakness too. The premise of "the modern world" being a simulation, while "the real world" is a post-apocalyptic hellscape runs fundamentally backwards to the Astral Plane and it's existence.

"The real world" in the matrix is a sterile, broken, shattered world where there is nothing but ash, blackness, scattered rocks, and machines dependent on humans to keep them powered. The Astral is a multidimensional, flourishing, complex, vibrant, and varied infinite that contains just as much good as it does evil. The "agents" of the Matrix are malicious entities whose only goal is to destroy dissident, they are emotionless, unfeeling, and seemingly-all-powerful. The Astral is spectal in it's entity hierarchy, there are beings that range in all power-levels from weak little insects all the way up to literal-not-hyperbole-gods, their nature of good and evil being all over the place, from black and white to all sorts of weird shades that seemingly make no sense to mortals.

Even then, the entire premise of the matrix being about "needing humans as a power source" is completely insane, given that nuclear energy could power the entirety of the machine network without the need for test-tube babies and their "perpetual warmth". But then again, this is a fault of low-effort writing looking to make things more cyberpunk-dystopian-conspiracy rather than actually thinking a universe through.

Despite all the spiritual themes and all the religiousness of humanity in "the real world" the rest of humanity seems to have forgotten about all the mental work that spiritual gurus from many religions have taught. This would allow them to effectively work around or even nullify the whole "your mind makes it real" problem that causes people to get hurt or die in the matrix, the only problem is, this would basically a cheat code that undoes any stakes the series needs for plot convenience.

Believe it or not, the "balancing the equation," stuff in revolutions, which is criticized as one of the dumbest parts about the matrix franchise, is low-key one of it's better ones, spiritually. If not because of dumb luck on the writing's part. The thing about "the equation," is actually that IRL it's Karma that is equivalent to "the equation" in the matrix. Karma is also, really, really weird, and is often given credit for doing things that justice should be given credit for.

Also, Mr whats-his-fuck who programmed the girl in the red dress, and his spiel on "tastes like chicken" is dumb as fuck, because anyone who actually eats different meats knows that most meats usually have distinct tastes on their own. The "tastes like chicken" trope only exists either as a shitty joke in movies or television, or because people actually, functionally have no taste.

>>169278
>Even then, the entire premise of the matrix being about "needing humans as a power source" is completely insane, given that nuclear energy could power the entirety of the machine network without the need for test-tube babies and their "perpetual warmth". But then again, this is a fault of low-effort writing looking to make things more cyberpunk-dystopian-conspiracy rather than actually thinking a universe through.
This has always been the stupidest part. The machines could just use nuclear or geothermal energy to power themselves. No matter how much energy that humans bodies produce, it would take more energy to keep them alive.
The Matrix is based on Plato's allegory of The Cave, with the machines being the Form Holders. The "humans as fuel" world-building may be lazy and stupid, but the point is to create a motive for the matrix to exist: the concept that somebody benefits from keeping you in the cave and stopping you from experiencing the true reality.

>>169278
>anyone who actually eats different meats knows
In his defense, he's never eaten real meat. Maybe in the matrix chicken really does taste like everything. I thought he was funny.

>>169281
It's actually middle managers and looming bosses saying that machines use Brains as processors or RAM is too complex for the small brain audience to understand.
So forced to change from what makes sense to that or else.

>>169286
Why would they use brains when they could just use computers?

What would you guys think of Kundalini?

>>170159
I think the sacred science of kundalini has been lost or sequestered away, and outside a thorough initiation to some highly-privatized group or tradition, what we know of kundalini is he McDonalds version

>>170555
>check his early life
Every single time.

>>170555
>HI3rd
Unfathomably based.
>>170597
VIsari's and Stalh's speeches are timeless.

>>170977
>Martinists
>freemasonry but somehow gayer
fucking kek

Got some old 8-/fringe/ reposts on satanism that I'd like to share.

>>171520
Ah yes, nature morality. Niggers and kikes are the most moral of all creatures as they only operate according to their nature as the post even states. The thief is entirely moral by being true to the nature of a thief. Stealing, killing, and subversion is godliness. After all, those that desire to preserve their material possessions and backwards Christian systems are ensnared within their spiritual chains, refusing to break free of the societal norms.

They also strive for nothing but the growth of their life experience towards consciousness, breaking free of the material existence of their racial enemies to live in eternal peace (godhead). Society has already been restructured to bring this about. I'm glad we are achieving enlightenment at such a fast rate too by releasing moral criminals and building a puppet Zionist government. May we all arrive at the gnosis through the work of white genocide. Black Shalom, my rabbi. Satan be with you.

>>171521
Dude what?

That's a repost about ex-satanists, not jews.

>>171522
Let me help you a little bit on reading comprehension. I stated that this was about morality, as per my first sentence. The image shared displays a moral system with bullet points numbered 1-4. I am commenting on the logic bound within this morality system by using a hyperbolic example.

>>171526
KEK

I'm holding off until it goes on sale for $14.88.

This will never bring more people to the site. You have to shill on 4chan ever once in a while.

>>173495
Why are you posting it in this thread?

>>173496
Why would I start a new thread in order to say
>The "Post to this thread every time you visit /vx/" thread will never bring more people to the site. You have to shill on 4chan ever once in a while.

Ponies are fucking gay

im just here to check all the image boards that can be accessed with my job wifi, since every other post is pony porn migth as well post this here, this is an interesting place to say the least.

>>173635
Welcome. Hope you have fun time here.

>>173635
that bitch look like April O'Neil, except she has a real job not journalism

>>166212
>literal first HoI4 game I ever play last night
>play as germany off a guide's recommendation, doing well and setting the pace fairly well for alternate WW2 scenario
>italy joins axis
>italy pesters me to join the war in ethiopia
>say no, working on solidifying my european holdings and turning the east euros into a defensive line against stalin
>reichskomissariats are up, Romania and Hungary join the axis and italy's still-not-done war in ethiopia
>mind you, it's 1938 by now
>Stalin's justifying on me, gotta hold off on the paris blitzkrieg
>ITALY DECIDES TO INVADE GREECE NOW
>am forced to either join italy's suicide war or leave the faction I've built from the ground up
>join so I don't lose everything
>Greece joins allies, France immediately sends troops through the netherlands to ravage my western border
>barely hold them back, losing on all fronts
>ragequit and vow that my next germany game starts with the total and complete annexation of italy
yeah, I get it

>>174314
thats the way she goes

>>174315
after having played 2 more games and failed them both due to bullshit civil wars, I have decided that this game simply isn't for me. I'm going to stick to playing a game that's actually winnable, like stellaris.

>>174317
Civil wars? in your faction or?

>>174318
in my country. The AI would always take more than half of my army and immediately use it to start taking my territory, all while I'm still waiting for my army to go to the front line that their troops all immediately spawned on. I decided to have fun with a cheated hyper-tech finland though, and after re-establishing the Finnish Khaganate and moving to seize both Mongolia through Russia and Korea through Japan, I think I'm starting to not hate this game.

>>174771
we wuz aliens an sheeit

>>174771
Space niggers not even once

>>170977
>>173491
Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esiijJs7UWE

Lol, /mlpol/ is a lich. Its dead, but its also very alive and active and shit

>>176778
I think the foalcon scared people off. Also, mlpol needs more political discussion.

>>177399
What it needs is pony threads, even shitpost pony threads. There's quite a few /pol/ threads already.
Also, maybe clean up the shittier boards. All of /ub/, /cyb/ and even /vx/ could be shitcanned and replaced with something better.

>>177399
What about this thread suggested that this is the correct place to voice a concern?

Test

new crowbcat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31LpUdgIjDU

Hey everyone, it's been a while. Did you know resting on God or near God or with God, is not the same as resting in God?
It's not the same.
One can imagine resting anywhere with God as we are to come boldly to His throne. It's like huffing thin water vapor with important ingredients and calling that a full ocean of water.
So, imagining going into Jesus as if He is a gate (and he is) reaching our Father and then doing the same into our Father.
There's a detectable difference. Resting inside of God. As if even if all the world falls apart and rises to full hostility, there's peace and an enduring love I didn't think I have for all especially for the enemies who would do the worst to me and mine and everyone else.
There's an unbridled joy constant and growing.
Before talking with God happened, but it was clinical as if I was deaf unable to hear the emotions.
Only able to get the content and context that imply a deep loving emotion, without feeling.
Now healing that deafness.
You are loved.

https://youtube.com/shorts/RvfaVGnd83s?si=liPEtWlFGcSbXE-G
Hey look, the military figured out long range faerie fire

>>181139
Lel, halo's always ahead. Unlike star wars troons.

>>181298
Faerie Fire is a spell in Dungeons and Dragons. You know /vx/ is a roleplay and gaming board, right?

As uh, as a proud, Bat colt, ahm tarred of all the raycism in MLP. Ahm tarred of all the negative stereotypes surrounding my race, you feel me?
Just because bats are responsible for over half of the blood drinking of other species, doesnt mean that all bats are vanpires. And, lets stop with the mango stereotypes, ya dig? I mean, mangoes are fire, but still. It ain't like we ALL like mangoes,... ya got any? (Scratch scratch)

>>182669
Hit the bricks mangohead, this an Earth pony neighborhood

>trapsense activated

Theres a feels pressure plate here, be careful
https://youtu.be/4RvBatR5k6E?si=CDsjwgHtZNRw-qfr

Phasmophobia is a game for ppl who like to get ghosted

>>182669
Cute Bat

>>186179
OH, A competition is it
https://youtu.be/31FrY7Ysn6I?si=Sdj4xdumT7J4E3Ac

>>186118
"We canst be called upon to submit ourselves further, surely? Thou... dost wish to... explore the ahem, dark curtain,... we blush merely saying such a thing,... oh!"

Still, for future use :3
https://youtu.be/WGQQbMUKH8k?si=7Fto8IWLpjkl6dMQ

This one goes out to old-school snekfren
https://youtu.be/ttQoiOx6Z94?si=CauAO5IwP2NmLVIw

Allow me to spin you the tale of team Judas?. Yes, you read that correctly.
Yes, this is a back-handed blogpost, except it kinda isn't, which is the troll.

It was a team fortress clan. No, not the gay half-life one, the original. Back when the maps had testicular fortitude, there were ample sploits for the smarties, and if you fucked up you exploded everywhere. this is mid 90s. QUAKE Team Fortress. Well, there was a clan. They never WON any tournies, but they earned their stripes. They went by the name "Who Shall Be Judas?". The principle was that if it ever became A. expedient or B. Funny to either kill (on pvp servers) or launch (on frenly fire servers), it was not only expected, but priced in and do it. It wasn't an ACTUAL betrayal (though we would portray it as such in chat), it was more about the theatre of it.

I mentioned sploits right? I was a sniper. Did (you) know of course (you) don't, being likely too young to be hot in the TF servers at the time; ask Joe Rogan about quake that if you aligned the target reticle along the vertical axis of another player - any player - then a sniper shot will somehow automatically count as a headshot? No one ELSE figured this out, and I certainly didn't say shit about it,... anyway, alot of people blew up. Sometimes frens, sometimes foes, sometimes both, and 0 exceptions were given (except the servers where frenly fire was disabled).

Oh yeah, and team heavy was another formation that made bitches cry

Imagine peeking out your base and seeing a sniper off in the distance. Snipers are particular, you have to watch for the X reticle that indicates where the shot will land. But this one doesn't seem pointed at anywhere viable, In fact, a very observant player might notice that THIS sniper's reticle is pointed at the ceiling. The CEILING? What an idiot.

Until they crossed the axis. It didn't matter. As long as it landed on the vertical axis. I was fucking Sasuke with that thunder lion from the heavens technique. Everyone exploded. No one knew what was coming except those who had seen this move before, and they still died. Cuz he was paying attention to your awareness of his technique, and everytime he showed technique, next time he was in position to counter the counter to his technique. Except the frenly servers, where teammates only got yeeted.
Mr. Bob is what I went by in those days

Fun fact for gamers and audiophiles
First reference, Sam Reigel from Critical Role; yes Scanlan. Yes, he plays other epic roles, but dude Scanlan.
For the Audiophiles, Les Miserables. Remember the little scamp in the rebel squad, the one who gets shot while trying to mine gold?
Original cast, yes, that's Sam Reigel.