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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 1h

indian too. when it hits it hits good

kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 12h

correction: it is tron ares that falls flat on the family. tron legacy does all five correctly

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 2d

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 2d

tron is about lasers, motorcycles, music, cyber, and family. tron legacy competently does the first four and then falls flat on its face. i can’t even name a third program character name besides ares and athena, both of which showed the beginnings of character development as the film ends

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 2d

tron is about lasers, motorcycles, music, cyber, and family. tron legacy competently does the first four and then falls flat on its face. i can’t even name a third program character name besides ares and athena, both of which showed the beginnings of character development as the film ends

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 2d

meanwhile, it also soft retires both sam flynn and quorra as characters and then needs to make up tess kim and eve kim as new characters. when we see greta lee play eve kim, her connection to encom’s legacy thins to a wisp. her role as the emotional anchor is justified by an intellectual reason

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 2d

tron legacy dared to talk about genocide. tron ares fully accepts the idea of autonomy of a program, the capability of reverse derezzing them into the real world, and then proceeds to do a Crank style action montage with it, with idiocracy-type stupidity to propel the plot forward

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 2d

you know how the hollywood GitS adaptation stripped the series’ aesthetic for parts and tried to update its core theme to modern anxieties about not owning your digital life because corporations own it?

tron ares did worse. it poorly reconciles the retrofuturism and the reality of tech

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 2d

the red lasers are cool, the deep bass is good, and greta lee served enough for her character to be more than a cardboard and hold practically the sole emotional anchor in the entire film

whereas jeff bridges holds gravitas in tron legacy, in tron ares he is a plot device with 80s graphics

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 2d

after finishing tron ares, my homie and i struggled to think of good things we could say about it beyond:
- music
- visuals
- greta lee’s character arc

worse, afterwards we booted up tron legacy and then just watched it to the end because that’s how well it holds up

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 3d

open source is when people don't make money (unless it's me or someone i like)

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 5d

most typescriptists support this trinity; the rest opposing it is running on dogma

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 5d

你的衝刺點數制用的是不是費波那契式

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André Arko @indirect.io · 6d

web IS NOT browsers
web IS assembly
web IS NOT javascript
assembly IS javascript
browsers IS assembly
browsers IS NOT javascript

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 8d

people who’ve never felt what it’s like to be in a relationship with a non-abuser love to tell you what an abuser uses, without considering that perhaps regular people also use it for normal reasons

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 8d

waking up everyday getting flash banged by current events

Mr Scratch from Alan Wake 2, image caught by a photographic trap laid by Alice Wake

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 8d

for every post someone makes that is in any way related to “being mean to AI”, one of their 5 most recent interactions with a person doing customer service should be chosen at random and appended to said post

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 8d

same goes to ppl who make content featuring clanker with a hard r

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 8d

perfect blend into the ending song too. beautiful moment

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 8d

i’m just saying “perfect” mind uploading also relies on these relationships to be qualitative

anyway, my actual point is that this “half akashic archive” is still immensely useful! and it emotionally makes me feel like i’m witnessing the invention of the mirror

kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 8d

this is the kernel of hope that mind uploading as an idea is built on, no? otherwise it just turns into ghost-dubbing

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 8d

biggest difference here is that these things that felt qualitative can now, with the appropriate angle and conditions, be extended quantitatively (because of the Vectors)

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 8d

watered down akashic records: merely all that which we can index, without words unwritten; thus at best a bound interface into capital-produced rhizomes

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 9d

violence is when i have to read a swear word i don’t like

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 10d

thi4f

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 13d

he looks like the wario of skyler gisondo, the latest jimmy olsen