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When a vigilante hacker deploys a power-hungry corporation?s experimental software that controls reality, she must exploit the resulting bugs to evade capture and foil their treacherous plot to enslave the world.
I would argue that the inciting incident, since the goal is to foil the plot and save the world, is the moment she realises what their plan is. Maybe she illegally hacks their reality software and discovers the next iteration of their software will do something bad - then her goal is to stop that. WRead more
I would argue that the inciting incident, since the goal is to foil the plot and save the world, is the moment she realises what their plan is. Maybe she illegally hacks their reality software and discovers the next iteration of their software will do something bad – then her goal is to stop that.
Why does she deploy this new software? I see no motivation for a hacker to do this? What does she stand to gain by deploying it?
Why does the corporation want to enslave the world? How precisely are they going to do that? They’re already enslaved in a “virtual reality” anyway right? Surely we’re getting a little too close to The Matrix now?
I like the idea but I think it’s lacking a hook and something that ties it all together.
See less(Revised) In a world that few know is a computer simulation, a mischievous programmer naively installs a greedy corporation’s experimental software update for reality itself, and now must exploit the resulting bugs to evade capture and undo her mistake.
The programmer is not naive; he's reckless, foolish, irresponsible to attempt to install beta ware, experimental software on a mission critical production system (which this virtual system surely is for the corporation).And if he can install it, then the corporate management is not only greedy, theyRead more
The programmer is not naive; he’s reckless, foolish, irresponsible to attempt to install beta ware, experimental software on a mission critical production system (which this virtual system surely is for the corporation).
And if he can install it, then the corporate management is not only greedy, they are also incompetent.? The security environment of the system is managed by blithering idiots.? It requires admin privileges to install critical updates or patches.
You can stretch reality in the genre, but it must not stretch so far as to subvert the suspension of disbelief.? A major target group for this film is computer guys and gals. I doubt they’re going to suspend disbelief and buy the premise that the protagonist can just tip toe through the security system and willy nilly install an untested, experimental update in a production environment. It’s more credible that he intentionally hacks system security and deliberately installs the software.
Just saying.
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See lessAfter two job-seeking programmers accidentally install a greedy biotech corporation’s experimental software update to reality itself, they must exploit the resulting bugs to evade capture and fix the world.
@mikepedley85 ...thanks for the comments... I always find suggestions here to be more and more explicit about things, and find the resulting loglines to be rather unwieldy.? Maybe this? In a world that few have realized is a computer simulation, a mischievous programmer naively installs a greedy corRead more
Mike Pedley …thanks for the comments… I always find suggestions here to be more and more explicit about things, and find the resulting loglines to be rather unwieldy.? Maybe this?
In a world that few have realized is a computer simulation, a mischievous programmer naively installs a greedy corporation’s experimental software update to their reality, and now must exploit the resulting bugs to evade capture and undo her mistake.
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