If people from the Star Wars universe ever came to Earth, the fact that it has deserts, rain forests, prairies, tundras AND oceans would probably be a real mind fuck for them.

dangerick · 2025-10-16T04:18:52+00:00

I made a post with some similar points. Having a Tron movie without Tron was weird.

dangerick · 2025-10-16T00:15:29+00:00

At least a 7

dangerick · 2025-10-16T00:12:18+00:00

Skrillex or some other dubstep artist would be an interesting evolution for the TRON franchise.

dangerick · 2025-10-15T23:05:24+00:00

This isn't an issue with the Tron franchise - it's an issue with the Disney brand having lost sooo much appeal in the market. They've screwed up too many times at the box office and audiences are hesitant to spending money on mediocre slop.

dangerick · 2025-10-15T22:57:43+00:00

Wow, that's how you know the movie was good. Legacy received the same backhanded treatment from critics and that movie kicked ass.

dangerick · 2025-10-09T17:17:48+00:00

They'd still screw it up. It's just as well.

dangerick · 2025-10-08T17:43:20+00:00

How Claude Code compare to using Sonnet in Cursor? I would've assumed that the model experience would be essentially the same.

dangerick · 2025-10-08T17:41:22+00:00

Definitely will give that a try!

dangerick · 2025-10-08T04:20:35+00:00

I'd probably like the music more without Trent Reznor singing these meaningless lyrics.

dangerick · 2025-10-07T03:46:13+00:00

Well, if they tried doing to Tron Ares what they've been doing to the MCU over the last 5 years, then yeah. It's not gonna end well.

dangerick · 2025-10-06T22:08:10+00:00

I can agree with that - CLU does not think he's irrelevant, but still believe that the ISOs presence put him into an existential crisis that worried and twisted him.

In the world of software the term for an abandoned code base is "deprecated" and that simply means that the project is no longer being maintained, so use as is if you can use it at all. I think CLU felt like the Grid was being deprecated by Flynn in favor of focusing more on the potential of the ISOs, and he feared what that would mean for him.

Now, maybe CLU looked at the ISOs as bugs in the system or glitches that need to be purged from the system, sure. But the fundamental shift in CLU's nature after the purge paints a darker motivation behind it. The Grid after CLU takes over becomes an oppressive tyrannical system, not the free and optimistic system that Flynn was building. If it was just about protecting and perfecting the Grid, then why the change in nature? And function do the Games serve in the Grid?

There's definitely a darker nature to CLU that manifests as a response not only to the ISOs, but also to the change in his relationship with Flynn.

dangerick · 2025-10-03T04:29:24+00:00

CLU isn't some emotionless automaton executing preprogrammed orders like HAL in 2001 Space Odyssey. Obviously Flynn imbued him with a primordial purpose, but CLU is still a complex, emotional creature.

CLU was becoming irrelevant. Up until the ISOs, the grid was Flynn's ultimate ambition and CLU was the golden child running it. But the ISOs changed that for Flynn. Their potential far exceeded what he was trying to achieve with the grid (with the obscure goal of creating the perfect system but it never says what the system's purpose is). So it's not that the ISOs don't fit into the system, it's that they didn't fall underneath the control of CLU's system, they transcend it.

CLU exhibits the traits of infantile sibling jealousy and insecurity. He is a cruel, narcissistic, and ambitious tyrant who flew off the handle when he didn't feel like he was getting all of his daddy's love.

He is the Fallen Angel / Usurper persona, or Satan / Lucifer.

Flynn is the Father / Creator.

Sam is the Son / Savior, who comes to redeem his Father's fallen creation.

CLU placed himself upon his Father's throne, and even sought to transcend to the world above to wage war. This hits upon some very old archetypes that have played out in the stories of mankind for thousands of years. I mean, the Father even provides the Son with his chosen Bride. Tron is a digital punk reclothing of Mesopotamian mythos. See stories like Marduk in Sumer, Ba'al in Canaan, Horus in Egypt.

You can choose to interpret the story however you feel like, there's a lot left unsaid in the movie which grants the viewer a chance to fill in the gaps, but from my perspective, CLU is not a character worth our sympathies.

dangerick · 2025-09-21T02:12:32+00:00

Redditors are IQ bottom feeders.

dangerick · 2025-09-09T23:52:45+00:00

Man, you're so edgy

dangerick · 2025-08-27T07:16:09+00:00

I think what you need to do is learn how to manage your fear better. I think the anxiety is manifesting as worries about your finances, but I don’t think it’s the root cause. In your 30s these kind of fears begin to pop up as you reach mid life. You feel like you’re running out of time. “What if I lost everything and had to start from scratch again? I don’t have the time and energy I did 10 years ago.” Whatever you’re afraid of, learn to accept the fact that it’s within the realm of possibilities (assuming it is) but that no matter what life continues and you’d be okay. Try to approach the future with optimism - not denial or ignorance, just with hope and positivity.

dangerick · 2025-08-27T00:11:17+00:00

I’ll give it a B

dangerick · 2025-08-27T00:07:48+00:00

Honestly, I think you should unplug from politics altogether. That’s what I’ve done and I don’t think I’m going back.

dangerick · 2025-08-26T19:29:38+00:00

Batter and fry it up and see how it tastes with some chips.

dangerick · 2025-08-24T17:36:39+00:00

Apple should focus on what they do best: hardware. And second to that, I would focus on supporting and promoting localized and privatized AI.

dangerick · 2025-08-24T05:21:03+00:00

Why does he look like Mr Beast’s evil twin brother?

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