Hi, I come from the net. Through systems, peoples and

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>>85626354
What brings you to this corner of the web, guardian?

I GET THE REFERENCE!

My format?
Virus

>>85626489
The web really was a horrendous eldritch horror
I wonder what they'd do for today's web... well, other than make it live action garbage that should be burned from the history books proactively

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>>85626354
I come from a different part of the 'Net.
You got proof of age, kiddo?

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>game over
>user wins

Shit got too real too fast

So is reboot actually good? Every time I look at it the cgi is so horrendous I can only imagine people liked it ironically

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Lots of people are pissed off about the new show coming out next year but I like that it will have a Tron/battle Network vibe. Sure it will have Teens but it will have the real world having problems that require Users digitising and interating with mainframe to save it!

>>85627482
It's great you faggot

>>85627482
Yeah its full of pop culture and references. It goes to 11 once the web starts getting involved!

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>>85627399
>mfw realizing that because this was a mortal kombat spoof, the user fucking did a fatality on enzo, a fucking kid, and they had to watch

It was so worth the wait to see matrix splatter his fucking brains

>>85627320
My format?
My Format? I have no Format. I am a Renegade. Lost on the Net

>>85627482
I believe it was the first show to use exclusively CGI - Computer Generated Images.. Whoa! Back then most people were still oblivious to the internet, even dial-up.
The story and characters are the best thing about reboot. I'd highly recommend checking it out, but if the cgi is that distracting , I don't think the story will help.

>>85626354

Okay seriously, what is the NET and what is the WEB? These two similar terms have confused me ever since. Only one of them can be the internet, so what is the other?!

>>85627767
I always took it as the difference between the internet and the darkweb

>>85627767
Net is a subset of the Web.

The web is vast and refers to the vast interconnection of global machinary and electronics. 'The Net' could refer to the same thing, but it is a much mroe flexible term and can refer to a local network Intra-net or the larger Inter-net.

>>85628274
Yeah, I always took it to refer to a corporate intranet or LAN (And we're referring to a time when corporations actually had mainframes)

>>85627482

For mid 90's CGI it was fucking amazing. There are CGI cartoon on the air RIGHT NOW that don't look even half as good as this show did.

Seasons 1 and most of season 2 are pretty poor due to ABC meddling with just about everything they did (supposedly the S&P binome in Enzo's is a direct response to what they had to put up with). Season 3 though is a god damned treasure with 4 being two short movies that may or not have been split into 8 episodes depending on when / where you get the files from.

>>85627491
Yes, all the things that aren't what the original show was about.
They might as well have spit in the face of all the shows fans and said "Fuck you, we're taking the name and using it for something else", because that's what they're doing.

I was going through some boxes the other day and found my Matrix and Andrea plastic statues. Pretty Alpha Numeric.

>>85632077

Nice, I had always hoped to find one of the loading mechs but I heard they were crazy fragile and I don't want to pay collectors price for them.

>>85627767
In Reboot?
Basically the Web was the eldritch-horror chaos ocean of the internet.
The Net was the orderly controlled outer-space of it.

Chaos plane VS Law plane

WE NOW RETURN TO REBOOB

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There is an old Readme file that says:
Never stick your dick in crazy

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>>85634346
Phong would if he had one.

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>>85627320
>To corrupt... and conquer!

Oh yes, that's the stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYrKYETorM8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8z6C1SXQFI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzSNrwNpw0g

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>>85634635
What a voice.

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My format?
Supervirus.

>>85631962

No, no it isn't. But please, do go and react like a twat fan who thinks the original makers can't try something new and original with their work.

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>>85627378
Why yes, I am older then 18, as you can tell because I'm clicking the older then 18 button, which I could only click if I was an adult over the age of 18!

>>85635360
Did you just get off work at the job factory?

>>85635025
Fuck Daemon was such an amazing villain.

I'd love to see more if this kind of antagonist, whose particular brand of malice is so fundamental to their being that they genuinely don't understand why anyone would want to stop them, and actively try and fail to sympathize with the heroes, because they bare no actual dislike for them.

Evil as a fundamental directive, not a willful act for one's own benefit.

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>>85635393

Yes, where I did a business! Us business adults enjoy going the web after we do a business at work!

>>85627491
I didn't think Mainframe could afford shills.

>>85634346
I'm willing to risk corruption for that.

>>85627767
In Reboot, this. >>85633546

IRL, a net is a network of any kind. THE net is the Internet in its entirety - every network of any kind that is connected to the global system using the Internet Protocol. The Web is the portion of the Internet that is navigable by hyperlinks (it is composed of "web pages"). So kind of the reverse of the Reboot usage, though as the other anon mentioned, the small size of the Net could imply a private network rather than the Internet itself.

Where's the best place to watch Reboot? I want to rewatch it since it was on Toonami, but I can't deal with old CGI and poor video quality at the same time.

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Guess I'll try it again here : Making a spiritual successor to Reboot in a vaguely-the-same setting. What should the main characters name be?

>>85639330

Roy.

>>85639330
Steve

>>85636342
>>>/v/

>>85639330
Float

>>85639330
Mike

>>85639330
gotta have tech puns, whatever they are

>>85639330
Bobby

>>85641743
Bob was named after the software program Microsoft Bob. His name was originally going to be Chip.

>>85639330
Rorre

>>85639330

Clippy

The v thread from yesterday was fun

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>>85639330
Ewe S. Bee
wait. That's not as useless as SCSI was.

>>85627697
IIRC the episode where >>85634635 [YouTube] Reboot - Megabyte and Bob guitar duel - (Full version) - HD (embed) happens even made use of the original CGI models from Money For Nothing.

Mainframe was heavily involved in early CGI history, and Reboot is part of that legacy.

It's also fucking awesome thanks in no small part to talented voice actors like Tony Jay (F TO PAY RESPECTS).

>>85642004
Maybe Sam after Microsoft Sam?

>Sam Ram, Private AI.

>>85635536
She was the Borg Queen more or less, with conscious drones.

>>85643865
I. Love. This.

>>85626354
They'll never get that reboot of Reboot off the ground. It's just been too damn long.

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>>85643865

>>85634889
He was also the Elder god in the Legacy of Kaine

>>85634889
>>85649837
It's a shame what happened. He is one of those distinctive voices, instantly recognizable, that we'll never be able to replace. And it wasn't even the tumor that killed him, the tumor was non-cancerous. It was complications from the damn surgery!

Reminder that these guys are all dead now. Trashed a long, long time ago after their user got a new, better computer.

Also, anyone else ever find it kind of hilarious how the fate of every single mainframe rests on how shitty the user is at video games? That in order for a mainframe to stay safe and stable, the user is never allowed to win a single game, ever?

Most mainframes must be a complete wreck.

>>85650330
>>Most mainframes must be a complete wreck.

but then you have the fact that they just do a system restore at some point. Remember that mainframe successfully crashed and it just got reboot back to normal, minus the fact that matrix was in game sprite mode so it didn't recognize him in the system and restored his back up.

That and the Twin city never came back but that's a different matter

>>85650955
I liked evil latex fetishist Hex better than good bondage fairy Hex.

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>>85634116

>some say the user lives outside the net, and inputs games for pleasure.
>no one knows for sure, but I intend to find out!
>spends the series doing fuck-all to find out

Oh I simply adore children

but I could never eat a whole one...

>>85652499

This.

That's like saying "Some say God is a omnipotent being that lives far beyond this earth, no one knows for sure, but I intend to find out!"

And then taking a shit or something.

>>85635536
Yes, innocence can be evil, too.

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>rainmaker were the ones that really pioneered and dove into cgi when it was new, and also make really good envelope pushing stuff
>Pixar comes along and takes all the glory by riding off their work
>rainmaker is just the latest version of fleischer, they did all the early work someone had to do to figure out how this crazy animation thing worked, and then Disney comes along and everyone pretends like they invented 2d animation

It isn't fair

>>85639129

A few years back they re-released the whole thing on DVD so there should be some pretty good rips floating about on various torrent sites.

>>85654468
The Adventures of André and Wally B.

>>85643675

That could be a subtle joke about how USB as of version 3.0 implements the SCSI commands for transferring data.

>>85649837
Watching the videos they took of recording those voices was enjoyable. They all seemed to be having quite a bit of fun with each other.

>>85649653
they will never resolve that cliffhanger in season 4

and no that shitty fancomic dosent count it just gave more questions

want to put benis in hexadecimal bagina

>>85627767
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/Web_vs_Internet.asp

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>>85654798
Season 4's two plot BOTH needed more time. Daemon was great, but could have been incredible with a 13-episode season to work with.

And with another season for the second half's plot, that cliffhanger might not have ever fucking existed-!

>>85654468
That's just how D*sney works, anon. They're vultures. They're also the biggest cancer in big business, but hey, at least spergs get their Frozens and their Kingdom Hearts.

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What do we want?! We want to be Viral!
When do we want it?! NOW!
What do we want?! We want to be Viral!
When do we want it?! NOW!
What do we want?! We want to be Viral!
When do we want it?! NOW!
What do we want?! We want to be Viral!
When do we want it?! NOW!

My copy brother was quarantined! Let him go! It was a false positive! Why don't those trash files from head office get scanned every single day like the rest of us?! Why do they get whitelisted?!

>>85657425
>That's just how D*sney works
That's how second place works. Second place is best. Someone busts his head pioneering shit, and then you come along, take his work and improve it while still being fresh and rich. It's like that in every field.

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>This crossover will never happen

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>>85657138
Is that book worth getting?

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>>85626354
4chan. My format: Shitposter, to condescend and offend. To offend my new found friends, crush their hopes and dreams. To pretend to be their enemies. They say the janitor lives outside the net, and deletes posts for free. No one knows for sure, but I intend to find out.

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>>85650938
>Its even hotter when you remember the twist

>>85647017
But the Borg Queen fucked up ST and the borg lore. She was pretty much intentional evil mustache twerlling and took away the whole just doing my job gig.

Damion is closer to the nameless drones with a cute ass.

Daemon was hot as fuck as a kid. Single handedly gave me a mind control fetish.

>>85659948
kek

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>>85660560
The Borg Queen was fine. Honestly the Borg kept having more and more added to them anyway. Not their original version which had no interest in assimilation because the Enterprise was too primitive, their desire to add "biological and technological distinctiveness" was itself a later addition. Queenie isn't even Species 1, she's from Species 125, so probably not among the first iteration of the Borg but added early on. We already know the Borg will occasionally create personalities, like Locutus. Frankly more bullshit was how the Voyager's doctor was able to create a solution to Species 8472 that the entire collective failed.

Daemon was fun. Some asshole created her specifically to crash the Web after she infects every system she can find. Cron, man. Her only purpose was inviting everyone into her loving fold and then cause them to self-destruct. When the Daecon fails she graces him with early activation of self-deletion, and the dude was HAPPY for it. That's just fucked up.

A really horrible introduction is if they ever have that Reboot reboot that involves adding a bunch of kids from the real world who help Bob fight viruses.

>>85634635
If they were to *ahem* "Reboot" the series, who'd be a good voice actor choice for Megabyte?

Personally, I think Fred Tatasciore's take on Mass Effect's Saren is pretty good, imo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzIOjhLU2KI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph-5jPMZ2pg

>>85660494
Thats not trojan!megabyte though

>>85639330
I/C Queen
Black/White/Grey Hat
Mal's Wares

...you know come to think of it I pirate a ton of shit. What would that look like in a computer system. I had two or three malware programs which would nag me to pay up but always kept working regardless. I had, basically, a revolving door for viruses and other forms of malware with those programs chasing down whatever made it into my system and room was always pretty low because I liked to hoard images and games and videos.

christ I have an ancient group of images I can't even look at because they're an archive of shit from some early usenet forum for anime nerds. Softcore hentai or some shit and I'm too lazy to figure out how to read the format and just keep it as an example of historical stuff and try to remember where nerds like me came from.

>>85662179
not that guy.

Look I will be the first person to admit that Stark Trek is not the highest form of science fiction out there and has plenty of dumb, campy, fun bullshit but the borg queen is not fine. The point of the borg was always that they were a collective, an utterly alien form of life. Technology that had gone completely out of control and become an end in and of itself. All the terrors of a post singularity society.

Then you have the borg queen who is an individual, an easy villain you can view as an antagonist which is honestly a serious downgrade in concept and threat level. I like Daemon, really I do.

But the borg queen is bluntly noncanon, no one acknowledges her existence, even STO which revives the Kzinti stuff via caitians and ferasans and recycles stuff from the Animated series doesn't mention it.

>>85659948
Brilliant

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>>85664461
But isn't the Borg Queen? She's not someone converted to lead, she's like Locutus. She's a personality generated by the collective, like a central processor. It's a totally emergent personality. They mean it literally when they say she is the collective and the collective is her. Saying the Borg cannot perceive of the value of such a thing, well again there was Locutus. They understand and deploy a single representative who is of the Borg, speaks for the Borg, and yet is still in a fundamental way unique. (Hell, how long did it take for Hue Borg to become an individual? He just chilled with Geordie for like a weekend and bam. Humanity is catching, especially when you were probably human or a close enough aliens species anyway).

Reboot kind of touched on this a bit. AndrAIa was just a slightly higher order adaptive game Game Sprite, but she ended up functionally identical to a regular Sprite. She even aged like one (no idea if the icon they gave her might have changed her code or not). Emergent AI or sentience is always rather fascinating. It especially got trippy when they turned Hex into a Sprite.

>>85665359
The Point of Locutus was to understand, and undermine the federation. He wasn't an emergent personality, he was barely an antagonist for the audience to understand and fear. I mean yes he was from the story structure but his explicit purpose was to become a weapon for the borg to use against the federation. What practical USE does the borg queen have for the Collective? The simple answer is none, if she's some kind of aggregate personality then she's not actually leading, she's just a simulation run in the background for vanity purposes.

I don't know where you're getting AndraAI from in concerns to this line of thinking. The Borg Queen has nothing to do with either Daemon, except perhaps as a one time antagonist. (and Daemon was fine for reboot conceptually. She didn't clash with anything where as the Borg Queen directly clashes with the entire concept of the borg) Where as AndraAI is a game sprite that decided to quite her job. Hell she didn't even quit her job really she loaded a copy of herself onto Enzo's badge (christ it's been ages I can't remember what they called those things) who then lived out her own life.

Reboot does not mimic machine functions 1:1 or even try like Tron did on some level. Aside from looking at computers and vidya for some reference points to extrapolate some kind of narrative it's best not to even think of the character's present as anything more than a neat idea spawned by something.

>>85665047
what the fuck happened to that guy, his vids were the best

>>85665359
>Hue Borg
Hugh Borg.

Reboot had a hard and loose system for how they worked. How the Web and the Net worked or how games transferred AndrAIa and Matrix from computer to computer. I still love the idea that the user for Mainframe probably spent ages pissed the fuck off that his computer was refusing to go online (not entirely sure how much time even passed in the real world versus how long Mainframe was forcing itself offline).

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>>85659739
not when you can find downloads online

>>85665571
Where did you get that Locutus was an emergent? I said the Queen was. Locutus was an interface. The Queen emerged from the collective because she was plugged into the entire collective, she only had the collective to draw from. We have no idea what the original person is like, but we do know she's not that original person given command over the Borg. The Queen as an individual was created by the Borg itself. They created Locutus, an individual voice that was still part of the collective, for a different purpose.

As for Reboot, well firstoff it's a Reboot thread not a Star Trek thread so I'm just thinking along those lines. And people were first talking about her in relation to Daemon in terms of her acting as a single (female) figure bent on assimilating everyone into her collective. Whereas AndrAIa was a normal enough Game Sprite until introduced to stimuli that initially confused her, basically Enzo treating her as a person Sprite rather than a game entity. She was a learning AI meant to adapt to the User to make the game more challenging, but she instead adapted to Enzo and became like him rather than just a better User killing machine. Your mistake, ironically enough, was in thinking I was referring to the Queen and AndrAIa in a 1:1 fashion rather than just about how a machine intelligence can represent itself. In Reboot's case they are ALL machine intelligence, but the Sprites (and binomes) are treated more as people while Game Sprites overwhelmingly are not.

If you'd rather not talk about Reboot and instead talk Star Trek, you're best off in another thread, likely /tv/ unless you want to start a Star Wars thread on /co/ with some of the comics. They do have some Borg based stories, you know.

>>85665837
It was very strange when they had Enzo and Matrix running around together.

>>85665907
I liked Enzo as a foil to Matrix

Like what if you had an alternate you, younger but never having to deal with some of the worst events that you had to deal with

spooky right?

>>85665963
Matrix was such an over-the-top painfully badass action cliche that it was fun making him face himself as that little kid again. Then when young Enzo tried to emulate him before deciding, fuck it, he'd just let himself grow up into whatever he's going to be and stop trying to be anything in particular. I remember when I first saw the episode realizing that his icon was in game mode, I was thinking he was going to be reformatted into a kid. The whole duplicate thing never occurred to me at the time.

>>85665963
>>85666088
>>85665907
It's funny because forever and a day there's always been the 'tortured badass' protagonist whose really hard to pull off because you need a certain mix of unapproachable and charisma. If you take a look at the Matrix/Enzo plot line you get an interesting message which is basically 'adapting to harsh times is necessary but don't let it make you an asshole.' At first Matrix comes off like the usual BLOODPOUCH stereotypes that were all the rage during the dark age of comic books (nevermind vidya's great wealth of similar testosterone poisoned one dimensional bad asses) or the usual FPS protagonist from a certain period but the more you take a look at him the more you see someone hurt, angry, and well adapted to a live of constant danger who refuses to set down roots who is genuinely afraid to experience normal relationships for a variety of reasons.

I mean yeah, kid's show so I'm reading a bit into it, but the fact that I can read this shit into it seems to speak to a bit of forethought going into his arc.

anyone else annoyed when he didn't finishoff megabyte?

>>85666222
It's been so damn long since I last watched Reboot it's hard to remember with 100% accuracy. I seem to recall being a bit annoyed that whenever Matrix learned to tone it down a bit, or forced himself not not act like a super aggro roidrager, these lessons never seemed to stick.

But really given he's the product of a bad ending of a game that nearly killed him and stranded him from home without any guidance, forced to grow up in various environments that were trying to kill him and his only reprieve being in strange, foreign systems that were probably ALSO trying to kill him, he didn't have the kind of personality flaws you could course correct with a single afterschool special episode. When push comes to shove Matrix is going to instinctively push back, and then order his gun to target for maximum deletion.

>>85666222
Not really.

Maybe Matrix had more of a right to, but Bob is still the main protag.

>>85650955
>>85650938
i never i liked they made her face work normally after season 3, i prefer how she emoted changing her mask that made her such a visually fun character.

>>85666382
He was, but that season was tricky. Bob was missing for most of it. It was more ensemble and plot driven at first until Enzo lost the game, then Matrix was essentially the main character.

Even when they got Bob back his powers were so erratic. Moving into the next season his crippling self-doubt about what he was anymore just got even more in the way.

As I recall the series did struggle with now to use both Matrix and Bob and Matrix ended up thrown around a lot, though GlitchBob's power issues weren't much better.

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>>85666383
I don't know, I liked the change since it was exploring something new and ultimately she returned back to her old self after she consumed enough raw power.

I still hate that to this day we don't really know what she did to little Enzo's icon that was supposed to ensure he never turned out like Matrix. I remember a thread some time ago where people were theorizing that, like AndrAIa copying herself into Enzo's badge, Hex made a backup of herself piggybacked to Enzo's code, basically a harmless viral transfer that would eventually put her back into Mainframe like a trojan horse. And then someone suggested that since kid Enzo doesn't have an AndrAIa of his own Hex's gift would create his very own cute little viral waifu he could hang out with.

That thread got a bit...weird.

>>85666934
I always figured it just gave Enzo the ability to reboot into viral form.

>>85667100
>Congratulations, Enzo! Hex gave you a viral STD!
>T-thanks, Phong.

>>85666222
Its the little things that really gave Mainframe's stuff life. I always remember the look on Matrix's face in the season3 finale musical, when they reenact Enzo getting lost in the web and becoming Matrix you can tell he's taken aback by it and either angry or hurt. There's no reason to do this in a 4th wall breaking , lighthearted scene, but it adds so much.

>>85666934
It allowed his father to be sentient again without her assistance. It was a gift to show that viruses could be good too. There is nothing to speculate about. Pay better attention.

>>85666934
i still find no wrong in Matrix hate against viruses, Hex was the only exception we ever saw of a virus not being 100% evil and that was more to do with Hex chaotic nature than actual convincing, but Megabyte, Daemon and even those viruses Matrix and Andrea encounter while game jumping were all evil.
Hell in season 4 is revealed the destruction of the old mainframe and the creation of Megabyte and Hexadecimal was because Bob had pity on a virus which ended biting him in the ass almost immediately. The show never really gave a reason to trust viruses and the forced moral at the end of the first half of season 4 seem forced.
The ending with Hex saying the intro monologue was cool though.

>>85668038
Hex had the ability to control nulls. Their father was a null therefore, yes, Hex left something in Enzo that could influence nulls.

However that hardly precludes the possibility of Hex having downloaded a copy of herself into Enzo and this was one manifestation of her preence, which was the source of the discussion. Think, McFly, THINK.

>>85668065
Hex and Megabyte were both odd. Viruses are predatory by nature since they are designed by users to fuck with the system, but their creation wasn't by the user. The virus Killabyte was upgraded by his user into what is essentially Gigabyte, skipping a generation. When he arrived in Mainframe an explosion split him into Megabyte and Hex.

Both weren't exactly intended creations. Still I'm not trying to contradict you. Hex has a capriciousness that allows her to be kind or thirst for destruction, something she almost achieved by attempting to destroy the Principal Office when a game cube took her out. Each seemed to be more content to do their own thing for their own goals than fulfilling any task the user of Killabyte presumably intended. Gave us some weird moments like Megabyte just wanting to thrash on his guitar.

It's an interesting topic to speculate about, especially given how little we know about viruses overall and Killabyte's origin and purpose, pre or post upgrade (easier to speculate that Daemon was created by someone who just wanted to watch the net burn). Was Megabyte's intention to reach the super computer and the power there an expression of his original function? He's the obvious skipped generation between a kilobyte and a gigabyte, after all. And Hex was just the coding for Gigabyte's transfinite and other powers expressing themselves with no real purpose attached therefore leading to her chaotic nature?

I don't know. Seems though that Hex's prolonged good spell has more to do with Bob and especially GlitchBob and Hex being reformatted into a Sprite. It let her live as the other half lives for a little while.

Despite the other anon downplaying Hex's gift I do think part of what she did was a potential backdoor to revive her character. Either the backup copy idea or Megabyte extracts her code from Enzo in an attempt to recompile her (assuming he even would). We'll never know now.

>>85668065

One thing I found interesting - I actually had to have this pointed out by a friend who's a much, much bigger ReBoot nerd than I am - is when Matrix is infected by Daemon and Enzo's trying to snap him out of it. Normally, you get a sappy 'remember the good in you, remember your love for your friends' moment, but nope!

"Daemon's a virus, Matrix! You HATE viruses! Go to the dark place! Remember your hate!"

You don't usually see that kind of Aesop in a cartoon targeted mainly at children.

>>85669059
That was good, yeah. It also has a potential there to show Enzo's psychology too. His dad along with Mainframe's sister city were destroyed on the day a virus showed up and damaged Welman's equipment.

Enzo's hatred of viruses was surely born that day, but it's definitely well advanced with Matrix.

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>>85668038
If we're talking about 4chan speculating about a "cute grill virus" then it really needs no reason.

If we're talking about Hex copying herself, well sure we can speculate about that. Why not? We can speculate about anything we want. AndrAIa showed that it's possible for even presumably large, complex programs to be stored in someone's icon and while Hex hasn't been shown with any infection ability, which was Megabyte's primary ability, neither have we seen her able to alter an icon with a touch. And then she spread herself across the entire net. That last bit in particular has been another popular area of speculation about Hex's potential survival if she has a copy or fragment somewhere in the Net.

>>85668166
>>85669506
Fair enough but it it were that easy for copies to be made it would take all the significance out of her sacrifice. I doubt she would ever have been brought back.

>>85669698
Copies are a dime a dozen in Reboot, especially later on. From My Two Bobs to Matrix and Little Enzo.

It COULD downplay the sacrifice but I'd argue that depends on the story. There's certainly ways to do it, but yeah we'll never know now. The last talk of a new show didn't sound like a continuation. Hell, not even a spiritual succession, more a bastardization of the concept.

>>85650938
>Megabyte finds out during the viral hunt
>"She was my sister, Bob."
>"Hey, she came on to ME."
>"We fused together to form Gigabyte, we were as close as two virii could be. SHE WAS MY SISTER GUARDIAN."

>>85663933
I love how they even made it a plot point how the secretly-Megabyte Bob even sounded like the original.

>>85627491
I talked to one of the writers on the show. According to her it will be 50% live action and the internet is animated partly using the Unreal engine. They're really going for the video game feel.

>>85669242
I forget, did Enzo-2 retain all memories of what happened prior to the split that led to him becoming Matrix? If so he would have remembered all of the adventures he had with Bob, most of which were about Megabyte.

In agreement with most of the thread, Reboot really wasn't about learning to love your enemies, was it?

>>85639330

Bit Chass.

>>85626354
Reminder that this was made by the same people who made Tony Hawk's Boom Boom Sabotage

TOMORROW IS SO FAR AWAY

>>85670049
That's a good question. He first appears as the standard ballcap jump on Bob Enzo, but later he manifests the Guardian Code. So I'd say right up the original Enzo leaving the system, just prior to entering that last game that fucked up his face.

I remember Phong was scanning PIDs to ensure everyone was backed up. Apparently since Matrix was scanned in Game Sprite mode the computer backed him up as Matrix. Lucky for him it didn't mind random Game Sprites being present and didn't just delete him! I always wondered about that. I suppose this also means that Hex is in the backup too, but last time accessing the backup required an act of the User.

The poor sister city and all those sprites. Backups can only get you so far, obviously! Actually I wonder why the system restore left the nulls. Does it still think they are the originals?

>>85670836
>Nulls

That's an interesting question as well. Backups restore the system to it's original state or just the last state stored? Maybe there's something about nulls which fundamentally alter the way their data works, so that no matter what they always end up a null.

>Dot meets Bob as a null
That was actually kind of funny somehow, I wish that null kept his dreads.

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>>85670986
Mainframe's Twin City still functioned as an independent system (not sure if it was a second harddrive or another computer on the same local network) so it's possible that when Sprites travelled there the system considered them as relocated. When the Mainframe was restored it wasn't expecting them to be there, therefore it didn't bother to recreate them.

I wonder if they were ever planning on fully restoring Welman Matrix down the road.

>>85669888
After Megabyte is the one responsible for Hex's bondage get up?

groovy

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Anyone else really bothered by the fact that these models aren't ripped anywhere for SFM/GMod/Blender/3DsMAX shenanigans? I mean these were arguably the very first 3d characters to make an impact on the world. At the very least we should be able to make horrible ragdoll porn with them!

>>85671691
That was...odd. I suppose technically it would have been Herr Doktor who rebuilt her from her damaged state.

Kinky german fetish doctor. Pity about, "Mein digits!"

>>85634635
It's been over a decade and I never have found a villain who can match up to Megabyte.

Have you?

>>85650688
I added the twin city is something like a corrupt partition on the hard drive?