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Last Saturday, I cooked dinner and had sonic, mobbsy, martin, owen, mcg, alex and rob over and to watch Tron. Thank you for coming, it was fun! I was pleasantly surprised everyone got on well. Though I think a couple of people were a bit annoyed at a sudden Poohsoc critical mass :( And Alex was reading from a different page from everyone else as to why anyone would want to watch Tron at all, but I think we all enjoyed that. I lent him a stack of books to turn him into a proper scifi geek.

Tron is good. No, it doesn't make sense factually, but most of it feel right, and looks good.

For the record, apparently red/blue used to be blue/yellow, which is why the lightcycles and a few other other things are confusingly coloured.

For the record, no you *can't* digitise someone like that. Nor do the trials and tribulations exactly make sense from a programmatic perspective.

However, can anyone explain why Flynn goes red when he attacks that guard? Do you think it's just representative of stealing his uniform?

When I first saw it I was very puzzled why this happened (No, not not as a programmer, but just as Joe Average). Does it mean something? Is it just a random effect of the physics?

Date: 2007-02-21 05:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com
OK..... That fits, the evil guys are all red, the blue guys only ever kill red guys (more or less). But then how does he go *blue*?

Date: 2007-02-21 05:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saraphale.livejournal.com
I think it's common for PvP flags to wear off after a period of non-PvP activity.

Of course, I'm making all this up. Mr T's suggestion sounds reasonable.

Date: 2007-02-21 05:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saraphale.livejournal.com
Except the bits about Player-vs-player, which I'm not making up. I wish I thought of these things half a second before clicking submit, instead of after

Date: 2007-02-21 06:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com
ROFL. It's ok. I wasn't taking it very seriously, and did know what pvp is.

Date: 2007-02-21 06:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com
Do you always call him Mr. T?

But that's not quite it, because it wears off exactly when he falls off the ship and Tron catches him, so it's either something to do with death, or to do with contact. That could sort of make sense -- maybe vouching by a never-red player could redeem a red player? :)

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