{"id":1806,"date":"2008-11-11T13:54:02","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T21:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2008\/11\/11\/aaand-seven-years-later\/"},"modified":"2008-11-11T13:56:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T21:56:49","slug":"aaand-seven-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2008\/11\/11\/aaand-seven-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaand seven years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally figured out an in-continuity reason why the <a href=\"http:\/\/everything2.com\/e2node\/Burly%2520Brawl\" title=\"'Most of these niggles were rectified' has the potential to be a disastrously mispronounced sentence.\">Burly Brawl<\/a> looks like a crappy video game for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yxc5l3dqGD0#t=5m30s\" title=\"Oh, Wachowskis.  I bet you were proud of it, too.\">its second half<\/a>!  It <i>is<\/i> a crappy video game!  The rendering engine for the Matrix itself can&#8217;t keep up with that many polygons moving that fast at a lifelike framerate, so everybody&#8217;s faces and clothing lose polygonal depth and end up looking smooth and unrealistic.<\/p>\n<p>I only regret that this does not explain the increasingly monologue-driven and stupid plot.  (To see me regrettably attempting to do just that, please reference <a href=\"\/nfd\/2002\/05\/29\/1539\/#grandallencompassingstarwarsconspiracytheory\" title=\"Consider the first half rejected.\">The Grand All-Encompassing Star Wars Conspiracy Theory<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally figured out an in-continuity reason why the Burly Brawl looks like a crappy video game for its second half! It is a crappy video game! The rendering engine for the Matrix itself can&#8217;t keep up with that many polygons moving that fast at a lifelike framerate, so everybody&#8217;s faces and clothing lose polygonal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}