Someone write this for me. You know it would be good!!!
4 thoughts on “The Matrix but Neo is Patrick Bateman”
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SMITH: As you can see, we’ve had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Bateman. It seems that you’ve been living two lives. In one life, you’re Patrick Bateman, vice president at a respectable investment firm. You have a balanced diet, a rigorous exercise routine, and you…tell your fiance you’re at Dorsia. The other life is lived by night, where the ‘real’ Patrick Bateman is replaced by…an entity, guilty of nearly every violence and perversion imaginable. One of these lives has a future, and the other does not.
BATEMAN: Hey, I’m a child of divorce. Gimme a break.
“There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis; my punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing… and now I know Kung Fu”
shitpost aside I feel like it would whip ass to have Morpheus dropping Baudrillard on him and instead of being like “woah” he’s way ahead of him. Is there a way in which being an idea of himself, an abstraction in a simulated world would lead somehow to the same ultimate goal as normal Neo? What take would he have on why destroying the machine overlords is good
SMITH: As you can see, we’ve had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Bateman. It seems that you’ve been living two lives. In one life, you’re Patrick Bateman, vice president at a respectable investment firm. You have a balanced diet, a rigorous exercise routine, and you…tell your fiance you’re at Dorsia. The other life is lived by night, where the ‘real’ Patrick Bateman is replaced by…an entity, guilty of nearly every violence and perversion imaginable. One of these lives has a future, and the other does not.
BATEMAN: Hey, I’m a child of divorce. Gimme a break.
HI,
Are you actively (or maybe not so actively but still…) writing something at the moment ? ( Baru 4, Exordia 2, anything else)
please please please
Yep! I am way behind on a piece of work for hire for an IP (not Destiny) but it is moving. And my day job is in theory writing for Subnautica 2.
“There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis; my punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing… and now I know Kung Fu”
shitpost aside I feel like it would whip ass to have Morpheus dropping Baudrillard on him and instead of being like “woah” he’s way ahead of him. Is there a way in which being an idea of himself, an abstraction in a simulated world would lead somehow to the same ultimate goal as normal Neo? What take would he have on why destroying the machine overlords is good