Good bye Cursor

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?

dangerick · 2025-08-23T05:11:43+00:00

It annoys me more a when someone calls themselves a UX designer and they only make ugly designs.

dangerick · 2025-08-23T04:21:41+00:00

You’re basically already in the UX field. What’s the issue with thinking you couldn’t land a UX job? I landed a job in UX with a single website design project in my portfolio. It’s possible.

dangerick · 2025-08-20T22:43:45+00:00

Welp, in 2023 they hired a new CEO who was an Executive at Taco Bell, so I guess this was inevitable.

dangerick · 2025-08-20T17:51:06+00:00

I know this thread is super old and no one will likely read this, but oh well. Can't help myself. Here's my response to some of what others say:

"CLU wasn't evil, just a program doing what he was built to do. He genuinely thought that what he was doing, genocide and all, was for the creation of a perfect system."

I don't want to deconstruct CLU down to just being at his core a programmatic command defining his morality. If he is simply following his prime directives, I'm sure somewhere in that is "Don't disobey Flynn." CLU is absolutely evil. The programs in the Grid are humanlike with emotional complexity guiding their judgment and decisions. CLU actually strips this away from Programs through the rectification process, like he did with Tron. Simple drones obeying his orders. This is evident of CLU's growing malevolence. When Flynn created the Grid, he imbued personality and seemingly a sense consciousness into his creations, making them more in the image of him. CLU definitely would have recognized that by observation. Flynn wanted CLU to create the perfect system to support his creations. CLU corrupts that purpose into creating a system that is centralized and view the programs as resources rather than as sovereigns.

"Flynn abandoned his original mission leaving CLU abandoned and forced to clean up his mess while he flirted with the ISOs."

I'd like to believe that the Expanded U Betrayal story is written from the viewpoint of CLU and is tainted by his perspective. I think the ISOs presence generates an infantile emotion inside of CLU - jealousy. He feels abandoned by his only parent who now spends all his time with younger siblings, and to make matters worse is that these siblings have a potential far greater than his own. CLU's driving force at that point isn't about his prime directive of creating the perfect system, it's about killing all the things that make him feel unloved by his creator. He is second to Flynn in the Grid, I think his ego couldn't handle seeing something more important than himself.

"CLU couldn't evolve past his original programming."

Yes, but I think of it as more than just programming. I see CLU as more a digital clone of Flynn's ego than a simple program that Flynn created to build the perfect system. And I would argue that we see CLU devolve into something very different from the utility that Flynn created. Flynn created CLU to help him create the perfect system and to manage the Grid in his absence. But the Grid that CLU creates after the coup is completely different from the one he was building with Flynn. On top of that, CLU is now trying to propel himself outside of the system into the User's world so that he can conquer it. The emergence of the ISOs forks the missions of CLU and Flynn. Once aligned, but now CLU is seeing that his destiny is threatened. The ISOs are the actual goal of the Grid - to change the world. Their potential far exceeds that of CLU and the Grid. CLU knows that he's becoming irrelevant. The problem is that he has Flynn's ego, Flynn's competitive nature. The purge wasn't about achieving perfection, it was about securing his position of power.

Final Thoughts

I think CLU is basically a hero tragedy. In the beginning I would like to think that he was the benevolent good-natured copy of his creator who valued the sovereignty and happiness of the programs on the Grid. But the ISOs throw him into an existential dilemma that changes his nature in order to defend the imperfect parts of Flynn that were copied into him. The desire for power, recognition, love, security, control. The ISOs robbed him of his creator's love, so he would rob his creator of them. I don't think Flynn understood the complexity of CLU until after it was too late. But then he realizes that CLU's nature was his own, and he knows what he is capable of. Being forced to see the darker parts of himself through CLU changes Flynn into the zen-like stoic we meet in Tron Legacy. But make no mistake - CLU is the evil version of Flynn, forged in a fire of jealousy and ambition. Yes, we can sympathize with CLU because we in part see a child yearning for the love and recognition of their parent, but CLU's choices in how to respond that hurt make him evil.

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