text.

[axeyou]

So if you're talking about the newly unplugged, do you say "floppy baby" or "noodle"?

Personally I like floppy baby. It's way more universal.




And to all you newborn floppy noodle babies out there: hi and welcome.

Comments

[sfoils]

Not the way you're saying it.

[axeyou]

Oh, please. How else should I say it? It wasn't real. Do I have to be nice about it?

[sfoils]

I'm not asking you to be nice about it, I'm asking you to shut up.

[axeyou]

And I'm refusing.

[sfoils]

You're just playing right into their hands, you know.

[axeyou]

What the hell are you talking about. I know you're waiting for me to ask.

[sfoils]

About the stuff in there not mattering out here.

It's lies. All of it.

[axeyou]

It's not.

Because it didn't happen. Did you miss the part where you got unplugged and flushed out all floppy baby naked and bald and stupid? Did you miss the part where you lived a whole life while you were really just jacked into a program?

[sfoils]

Then what name did you chose?

[axeyou]

What?

[sfoils]

Your name. Was is it?

[axeyou]

Johanna Mason. Why.

[sfoils]

That's not a Zion name.

[axeyou]

It's my name. And I'm in Zion. So now it's a Zion name.

Anything else?

[sfoils]

No. You answered my question.

[axeyou]

Did I?

Because I sure hope you knowing my name is the same doesn't make you think I actually secretly give a shit about anything that went on in the Matrix, because let me tell you: I don't. I kept my name the same because I'm not some sad sack who spends all their time crying about wasted time and making these big dramatic gestures about how different everything is now. And I'm also not some sad sack who thinks that all of what happened matters so much. I wasn't like that when I was plugged in. I'm not like that now.

I don't waste my time thinking about any of it because it's fucking useless crying about any of it.

I hope that really answers your question.

[sfoils]

[ Wedge never replies to this.

The defensiveness, however, is noted. ]