I'm fucking with you, Neo. My friends and I are laughing at you for coming here and taking pills from strangers because you think we're computer ninjas. You work in an office and want to feel cool. I bet you think you'll learn kung fu if you eat this pill but that's just the placebo effect. You'll still wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe because you're pretty stupid.

    • happybadger [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Neo, you just spontaneously assumed it was. When I gave you this ibuprofen you asked if it was HRT and I said "what".

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        The red pill from Matrix purposefully looks exactly like Premarin, back then the most commonly prescribed estrogen. As pill shapes, markings and colors are strictly regulated in the US, they still look like they did more than 20 years ago and Ibuprofen is legally forbidden from looking like the red pill. The only reason that we do not see matrix red pills all over trans meme communities is that Amerikan doctors now prescirbe estradiole for HRT, in the form of an oval, light blue pill with a "b" like symbol on one side and the other side showing a breakline with the numbers 886 and 1 next to it.

        Not that i would know personally, my estradiole comes as a clear gel in a pump bottle. It is drying on my arm as i'm typing this and yes, it does make me know kung fu.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          1 year ago

          it does make me know kung fu

          It is the Weirding Way! (I wanted to put the Shai'Hulud emoji here but it looks like we don't have a Shai'Hulud emoji)

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    1 year ago

    What I choose to believe is that you actually are computer ninjas with kung fu pills and you're just telling me that you're fucking with me to fuck with me.

    • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Morpheus' friend comes over and gives him 5 bucks. "OK, you win. Now I'm convinced that this guy will never believe he's wrong."

    • happybadger [he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      1 year ago

      Neo, you've seen through our ruse. You know kung fu now. I dare you to go pick a fight with a government agent. This is your final test before we totally let you visit Computer City, which exists.

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Fortunately as an American I have a duffle bag full of guns ready to go for just such an occasion.

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    well one of those is an ibuprofen but the other one really looks more like a sugar sprinkle off a cupcake

    • happybadger [he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      1 year ago

      Alright Neo, you got me. The blue pill is just a sprinkle. You see we're fucking with you from two angles because we thought you'd be gullible enough. We wanted to see if you would eat an actual sugar pill because you're afraid of taking an ibuprofen.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    1 year ago

    The Matrix ending should have been Mr. Anderson waking up on an old couch in his underpants, covered in Polaroid pictures of him engaging in hijinks under the influence.

  • FuckYourselfEndless [ze/hir]
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    1 year ago

    Neo: What are you trying to tell me? That I can make women cum?

    Gay Morpheus: No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.