# So, I'm plugged into The Matrix: Sounds good to me!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-plugged-into-the-matrix-sounds-good-to-me/175654>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 16, 2003, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-plugged-into-the-matrix-sounds-good-to-me/175654 "2003-05-16T11:07:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-plugged-into-the-matrix-sounds-good-to-me/175654/1 "2003-05-16T11:07:56Z")

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Welcome to the Matrix debates. I, of course, am the charming and articulate Inky. My opponant is the somewhat inarticulate surfer guy Keeanu Reeves – er, that is to say _ **Neo** _ and our moderator for the evening is, inexplicably, Sinistar.

Sinistar: **Beware, I live! I hunger!!**

Inky: Quite. So Keeanu…

Neo: It’s “Keanu”.

Inky: Yeah, whatever Keershaw. So, in the matrix I get virtual steak twice a week. Have a nice virtual apartment with clean virtual sheets and I ocassionally get some virtual nookie. Granted, it involves an unrewarding virtual job, but how is that any different from life in “The Real World”? As far as I can tell, working in The Real World involves hazardous duty on funky space-hovercraft or Robotech-inspired gunner thingies.

Neo: Your free, dude! Free from the machines! Free too…

Inky: - free to live a sunless subterranian existance like some cliff-dwelling indian, eating ‘synthetic single-cell proteins, vitamins and minerals’, not to mention the crappy hippy-ass loom woven clothes. What’s the big payoff eh?

_anybody care to take over?_

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**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-plugged-into-the-matrix-sounds-good-to-me/175654/2 "2003-05-17T05:00:55Z")

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Neo: Whoah.

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**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-plugged-into-the-matrix-sounds-good-to-me/175654/3 "2003-05-17T14:58:36Z")

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Neo: Well, dude man, you get like, to mack on chicks!

S & S: Trinity’s hardly what I’d call a chick myself, but hey! whatever turns you into an amorphous blob that we can only guess whats what on.

Neo: Woah! You guys were filming that?