@ErnestCushy: It's fan art... and I almost linked back to where I found it, but it was a bunch of excessively NSFW images, so I didn't think it was that useful. If you google for a few moments you'll find it.
So are all the female programs in this new Tron flick going to look like that drawing? Seems almost Venus of Willendorf in its exaggeration--not to mention sexist. I guess to balance things out we could have all the male programs run around built like Greek Gods with enormous units.
I used to come to io9 for opinions. Now I only come for news. Something happened and overnight everything on this site became "wah wah wah change". Seriously. It wouldn't hurt to actually... say something positive once in a while. Embrace change. It may not work out in the short term but the long term benefits will be felt no matter what. Change. Is. Good.
On that note I am looking forward to the new Star Trek. The fanboy whining will just add a layer of enjoyment for me.
@Luke Davies: Gizmodo instituted an instant ban of anyone who posts "FIRST" or "will it blend". I propose the same thing for anyone who says "childhood rape" or "memory rape"
"Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not the CLU. You're the CLU. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing."
You know it occurred to me the other day that if computer programs magically became sentient, that we'd really have no basis for evaluating what their sensory perceptions were like. I mean, maybe they "see" a program mallocing memory as a light-cycle leaving a trail. Maybe they see kill signals as little discs flying around the message bus.
Tron, in that light seems like a pretty interesting exploration of "if your consciousness were to get digitized into a mainframe, how would you map your perceptions of that world onto your existing experience?" Since you don't really KNOW, objectively what the world is like, only what you perceive of the world, who's to say WHAT sentient programs would perceive?
Tron is WAY more post-structuralist than the Matrix. Eat it Neo.
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So are all the female programs in this new Tron flick going to look like that drawing? Seems almost Venus of Willendorf in its exaggeration--not to mention sexist. I guess to balance things out we could have all the male programs run around built like Greek Gods with enormous units.
Why? I gotta ask why do this? Why sex it all up?
03/26/09
I'm relatively certain that's fan art and not concept art. Don't quote me on that though.
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In my pants.
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I have the sinking feeling that Tron 2 is going to rape that childhood memory.
03/26/09
again with the childhood memory rape, can't you people come up with something new to say?
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I used to come to io9 for opinions. Now I only come for news. Something happened and overnight everything on this site became "wah wah wah change". Seriously. It wouldn't hurt to actually... say something positive once in a while. Embrace change. It may not work out in the short term but the long term benefits will be felt no matter what. Change. Is. Good.
On that note I am looking forward to the new Star Trek. The fanboy whining will just add a layer of enjoyment for me.
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Reasons and Arguments? Perspective!?
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and this film is already broke.you can count me out on this unoriginal cash-in of an older flick.
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Tron, in that light seems like a pretty interesting exploration of "if your consciousness were to get digitized into a mainframe, how would you map your perceptions of that world onto your existing experience?" Since you don't really KNOW, objectively what the world is like, only what you perceive of the world, who's to say WHAT sentient programs would perceive?
Tron is WAY more post-structuralist than the Matrix. Eat it Neo.
03/02/09
Also, they have light-cycles and disks and solar-sails simulations.
And David Warner. Everything is better with David Warner.
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I thought geeks were good at math?
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Now, I'm no math wizard...
But doesn't 27 (or any number from 20-29) = 20-something?
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