the world is a simulation – Two Nerds Sitting On A Couch

The Matrix Resurrections

Posted by Ceridwen Posted on January 28, 2022 0 Comments

Posted in futures, movies, podcasts, the world is a simulation, video game movies Tagged blurring the binary, Carrie-Anne Moss, fin de siècle, Gen X, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Resurrections, The Matrix Revolutions, The Wachowskis, trans allegory, Wayward Children

two hands held out in a black background, one holds a red pill and the other a blue pill

As Gen Xers, Two Nerds have some pretty Strong Feelings about the Matrix movies, so it was with some trepidation we watched The Matrix Resurrections. A late-period fourth movie appended to a long-completed trilogy almost never goes well (e.g. Indiana…

Bliss

Posted by Ceridwen Posted on May 21, 2021 0 Comments

Posted in books, movies, parallel worlds, podcasts, the world is a simulation Tagged Another Earth, Bliss, Colossal, The City & The City, The Matrix

We went into the movie Bliss pretty cold. The really quite terrible blurb said something about how maybe reality is a computer simulation, and that sounded close enough to our theme of alternate realities that we gave it a go….