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Time for the

THIRD ANNUAL

VIXENS VALENTINE'S DAY DANCE!!

Old Hammerville High - Dannah Heights East hardline, Richland

Saturday, February 14 2009

12:00 noon Megacity Time (3pm Eastern, 7pm UK)

This is a high school dance themed party so come wearing your very best duds! There will be games, trivia, tons of money to give away and some surprise prizes as well!

Enter the school behind the building, through the door facing the hardline.

MUSIC SERVICES BY CATZI RADIO

See you there!

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Time for the

THIRD ANNUAL

VIXENS VALENTINE'S DAY DANCE!!

Old Hammerville High - Dannah Heights East hardline, Richland

Saturday, February 14 2009

12:00 noon Megacity Time (3pm Eastern, 7pm UK)

This is a high school dance themed party so come wearing your very best duds! There will be games, trivia, tons of money to give away and some surprise prizes as well!

Enter the school behind the building, through the door facing the hardline.

MUSIC SERVICES BY CATZI RADIO

See you there!

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Tune in and enjoy the grind!

ASNA'S GRINDHOUSE

EAR CAFFEINE FOR THE MXO GRIND

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11 2008

7:00PM MCT | 9:00PM CDT | 10PM EDT

CATZI RADIO

Tune in and enjoy the grind!

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Clearly they just have no idea.

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Sorry if this has been asked and answered elsewhere, but ..

Why is Lil Persephone "lil" ?

And why is Wet Seraph "wet" ?

Were these plot points that I totally missed somewhere?

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*giggling madly* ooh, talk about some drama. And here I though Maple Story was all cuteness and light ..

http://www.startribune.com/nation/3...UMEaPc:UiacyKUU

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Let's see .. it would be 2003. What video games were you playing?

I was full into my Sims phase, playing The Sims (the first one) for hours on end! I used to sit in bed into the wee hours running all my little Simlets' lives .... and woe be to they who displeased me!!!! I could be a truly merciless all-powerful being ..

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Here's a question I was going to ask as a "trivia" question, but I decided better of it since it's pretty abstract and there's no definitive correct answer (even though I believe a strong argument could be made).

If Club Hel represents Hell, Mobil Ave. Station represents Limbo, and the Matrix represents the world ... where is Heaven?

I thought of at least two answers to this, one I think is stronger than the other, but it's arguable so I decided not to ask it as a "trivia" question. But I'm still interested in what people think.

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Here's some of the questions I posed last night as trivia questions. Answers are at bottom.

Asna's Ridiculous Matrix Trivia Stumpers

Q1. Neo is delivered to and from the Oracle in a black Lincoln Continental in the first Matrix film. What is this vehicle's license plate?

Q2. Neo keeps illicit software in a hollowed out copy of the book "Simulacra and Simulation". Who wrote this book?

Q3. Two crew executives in all three movies--people in charge of a department--are shown as having the same surname, but they are not related. Their first names are also very similar. Who are they?

Q4. In Matrix Reloaded, Neo, Trinity and Morpheus meet the Merovingian in his restaurant, which has a French name. What is the name, and what does it mean translated to English?

Q5. Agent Smith refers to Cypher using his bluepill surname. What is it?

Q6. Name two major characters from the movies which transitioned into MxO without voice talent.

Q7. At the end of Matrix Reloaded, the crew of the destroyed Nebachudnezzar are picked up by another hovercraft. What is his vessel's name?

Q8. The character Thadeus is the captain of which vessel in the Zion hovercraft fleet?

Q9. What is Trinity's rank aboard the Nebachudnezzar?

Q10. In the beginning of the first movie, a phone number is being traced which leads to Trinity's location at the Heart O'The City Hotel. What is the number, with area code?

Q11. After Neo takes the red pill, he is led into another room with several of Morpheus' crew. Not counting Morpheus or Neo, name the people in the room.

Q12. The character Switch teasingly applies what degrading slur to Mouse?

Q13. The character Cas is related to Link exactly how?

Q14. In the first film there is a reference given to a real-world location which is outside of the Mega City and its environs, one of the few indicators that the Mega City is situated somewhere in the real world as we know it today. It is NOT the name of another city. What is the reference? (Hint: The reference is made within the first 10 minutes of the movie.)

Q15. How do Trinity and Ghost refer to each other, and why?

Q16. After Morpheus is freed from the agents by Neo and Trinity in the first film, Tank directs them to a hardline for extraction. What is the location?

Q17. In the first film, Agent Smith is usually flanked by two other agents. Name them.

Q18. In the Matrix Reloaded, Neo confronts three "upgraded" agents early in the film. Name them.

Q19. Machine Sentinels are referred to by Zionites using two other colloquial terms. What are they?

Q20. The Kid is special because he was the first person who successfully removed himself from the Matrix without outside help. What is this called?

Q21. What is the room number of the room where Smith ambushes and kills Neo at the end of the first film?

Q22. The Fed Ex delivery guy has exactly two lines of dialogue in the first movie. What are they?

Q23. On Neo's first day of training, Tank excitedly skips past the "major boring sh*t" in favor of starting him off with something else. He holds up a data card with something handwritten on it. What exactly is written on the card?

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answers

A1. AA034

A2. Jean Baudrillard

A3. Original Music: Don Davis. Sound Design: Dane Davis.

A4. Le Vrai, translated it means The Truth (or The Real)

A5. Mr. Reagan

A6. The Twins and Ghost

A7. The Mjolnir

A8. The Osiris

A9. First mate

A10. (312) 555-0690

A11. Apoc, Switch, Trinity, Cypher

A12. 'Digital pimp'

A13. Sister-in-law, kinda. Cas was Dozer's wife, Zee's sister-in-law while Dozer was alive. It isn't explicit in the films that Link and Zee are married, but it's strongly implied.

A14. Heathrow Airport

A15. Brother and sister, because their minds were freed from the Matrix on the same day

A16. Subway, State and Balbo

A17. Agent Brown and Agent Jones

A18. Agent Johnson, Agent Thompson, Agent Jackson

A19. Squiddies and calamari

A20. Self-substantiation

A21. 303

A22. "Thomas Anderson?" "Have a nice day."

A23. Jujtsu 2.0

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Edited for typos.

MILE HIGH SEXY PARTY

TOP OF THE GOVERNMENT BUILDING

SATURDAY OCTOBER 4, 2008

12:00 noon Megacity Time | 2:00pm Central | 8:00pm UK

Blue Sky Prizes * Millions of $info

*SYNTAX SERVER*

Get your Syntax alt (or make one!) and come see what Vixen parties are all about!

SEE YOU THERE!

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MILE HIGH SEXY PARTY

TOP OF THE GOVERNMENT BUILDING

SATURDAY OCTOBER 4, 2008

12:00 noon Megacity Time | 2:00pm Central | 8:00pm UK

Blue Sky Prizes * Millions of $info

*SYNTAX SERVER*

Get your Syntax alt (or make one!) and come see what Vixen parties are all about!

SEE YOU THERE!

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MILE HIGH SEXY PARTY
TOP OF THE GOVERNMENT BUILDING

SATURDAY OCTOBER 4, 2008
12:00 noon Megacity Time | 2:00pm Central | 8:00pm UK

Blue Sky Prizes * Millions of $info

SEE YOU THERE!

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Video game players round the country, raise your glasses in toast!

http://kotaku.com/5054772/jack-thompson-disbarred

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Come and celebrate with 7h0r and Devilssib as they make it official!

CAMON HEIGHTS CHURCH
(Camon C hardline)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 2008
4pm Megacity time | 6pm Central time | 12am UK time

Reception immediately following at Club Duality!

See you there!!

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Looking for stacks of these red frags. They look like this:

Clothing Patch

Clothing Subroutine

Willing to pay $2 million for stacks of 20. Will take any quantity.

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Looking for consumable subs. Willing to pay $5 million for stacks of 20, or $250,000 per for quantities smaller than that. Will take any quantity.

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It's 3 in the morning and I can't sleep. I don't know why, but my brain is going sixty miles an hour and I can't seem to still myself long enough to fall asleep. Since all I can think about is the Matrix, and how Zion can win the war, I'm gonna try to capture some of these ideas here. No particular order. They probably won't even make sense in the morning. Feel free to ignore me.

1. What is control? The ability to destroy something isn't control; it helps, but it isn't. But without POSSESSION, the ability to destroy something is very difficult. Humans must possess the Matrix if they are to control. That means from the outside -- the Matrix servers themselves, and the means to program it.

2. New Zion defense. What Neo gave Zion is a [i]second chance [/i]at defending the city. A second attack is inevitable now. What we have learned from the last battle is

Bullets and conventional weapons are all but useless against the size of the invading force.
The machines have no defense against EMPs.

Therefore the best defense of Zion is to offer no defense at all. Seal the dock gates and let the machines in through their freshly dug tunnel. When the bulk of their invading force has arrived, light off EMPs by remote. Alternatively, if drones carrying EMPs can be flown in above or alongside the machines as they were still digging, but before breaching the Dock walls, the drones could light off their EMPs interrupting the flow of sentinels down the machines' tunnelled path, the bodies of the fried sentinels will plug the tunnel up and the machines will have to dig them out to get back down .. or start afresh. This defense can be repeated as often as necessary until the Machines come up with a new attack method. As long as all computer systems within the dock are powered off, the EMP cannot affect them (the Neb could still fly after discharging its own EMP, because its systems were rendered safe first). The biggest problem with this method is not loss of life or equipment, but what to do with 250,000 sentinel carcasses littering the dock floor. (And one bigass digger.)

Don't build Zion Command in the dock tower crane. That tower can clearly be destroyed by the armada of machines. The Dock must be completely evacuated of personnel once the machine army arrives.

3. The power lines from the fields above ground to the Machine City are undefended. What happens if we cut them or otherwise render them inoperable? What happens to the Machine's power grid if an EMP is set off over the fields? Over the power lines? How many such power lines exist?

4. Has it been attempted so far to capture a sentinel "alive"? What could we learn from it? How does it communicate with other sentinels? How autonomous is it? Can it be reprogrammed to return to the Machine city and act as a spy, gathering information on defenses, mainframe locations, possible vectors of attack? (Is it capable of FEAR??? Muahaha!)

5. If Neo's mind successfully penetrated the Matrix without being jacked in, would it have been possible to jack out into another body in a totally different location? Could it be possible for Neo to successfully "transplant" his mind into the body of a machine, such as a sentinel? Could someone invade the Machine city this way?

6. Why didn't the EMPs of nuclear weapons affect the machines during the initial (above ground, pre-sky-scorching) wars?

7. Would Niobe be prepared to sacrifice most of the people jacked into the Matrix if it meant victory over the Machines was thus made possible? Ultimately, this war will not be over until one side or the other is defeated. If it is impossible to control the Matrix from the outside (i.e. direct control of the servers and reprogramming of the matrix environment), then it must be destroyed and all those minds unfreed would be killed.

8. Crazy-*CENSORED* ideas: Tunnel under the machine city. Set off enough nukes to either open up spaces for magma to erupt from beneath, or nuke a canal from the nearest major body of water. See if a tectonic event could be triggered which could decimate the machine city, or at least set them into chaos. Could magma be harnessed as an effective weapon against the Machines from beneath? Could it be used to defend New Zion?

9. If Smith could find a way to inhabit the body of a human, could an exiled program like Merv?

10. Ultimately, Zion would have had a much better chance of surviving the machine attack had it not been for the Kid. Think about this. As the crew of the Neb were on their way back into the Matrix to answer the Oracle's call (M2) Bane was about to attack Neo with a knife from behind. The Kid called out, and Bane was saved from being discovered as a threat. Had he attacked Neo, it's possible Neo would have been killed or severely injured, but Bane would have been subdued and he would NOT have later set off the EMP which crippled the whole of Zion's fleet of EMP-bearing hovercraft, resulting in the slaughter of their crews. In short, if the Kid wasn't such a Neo-worshipping zealot determined to deliver a meaningless trinket to his idol, Zion could have successfully defended their city without such overwhelming loss of life.

11. Does everybody eat that goop in Zion? There's no sunlight, so plants don't grow, and there was no sign of animal stocks in Zion that we were shown. Does this mean that only pod-born humans, capable of being plugged into an artificial simulation, can enjoy the taste and tactile sensation of eating real (albeit simulated) food? Does pigging out in such a simulation make you less hungry when you're unplugged? Does it effect your real body's metabolism? (If not, OMG! I'd never stop eating EVER!!! I'd *LIVE* at Coldstone Creamery!! Do they have Coldstones in the matrix??)

12. Obviously, there is a way from within the matrix to access the machine mainframe. (Neo used it and the Architect was waiting to receive him.) Is that the only way? Could other access points be hacked from within? Could life in the machine city be disrupted resulting from such hacks? Could control of the matrix servers be compromised from within?

What time is it? going on 4am ..... sigh.

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One of our most beloved friends is leaving us this Friday, and we want to give her a proper send off.

You are invited to Asagi's going away party, to be held this FRIDAY ~~JUNE~~ JULY 11th at 8:00pm (Central) till whenever, at DEBIR COURT, MARA.

Come say goodbye to one of Syntax's most enduring and truly wonderful players, and maybe get in one last duel SMILEY<img src=

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Thank you to everyone who came to make Tame's special night super awesome!

Special thanks to Criingey, Darsana, Vinia, Namroc and Harkee .. and of course our special guest Niobe!

Oh yeah, and we had another special guest last night as well ....

WTG M0net for landing the killing blow!

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