#Circuits

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more 8:11 pictures on a displayyyyy

tiny update.

if you look closely, in the previous post with the display the picture was rendered a little crookedly and it felt like there was not 1 image, but 2. it annoyed me, and i first looked into the code, and then into the program itself that sent the picture to the board. the solution turned out to be completely different - i just needed to save the bitmap file normally, and not anyhow. i did it with paint, so now everything is fine.

oh, and one more thing. this time i used nano instead of uno, although it seems to me there is no special fundamental difference - the pinout is the same.

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NETWORKING NETWORKING NETWORKING

it is fairly difficult to take pictures of silkscreen prints man, especially with my bad phone camera. but looking at how this came out is a ton of fun. I need to play more with inks overlapping one another

little bit of progress under the cut!

the digital mockup before printing things out!

immediately followed by all three layers of the film stacked up before i exposed them onto my screen! you have to do each layer individually but i thought it looked really cool like this

the first two layers of ink laid down! i finally figured out how to get my ink to the right consistency so it's not having terrible dry-in all the time, but unfortunately i figured that out AFTER i placed down the green. but that's alright!! it looks cool

finally, i spent a decent amount of time trying to get the right orientation and styling for the font. this was one of the first mockups using impact. wasn't my favorite, it detracted from the actual drawing.

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07// No Hard Feelings

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a 1989 Mexican stamp from a series on Mexican exports

[ID: a postage stamp with an illustration of a circuit board rendered in yellow ink. the circuit board has been labelled "componentes electronicos". the face value of this stamp is 450 Mexican pesos. end ID]

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Remembering how certain Programs in the original Tron movie have much more complex circuitry on the back (and butt) part of their Unitards compared to other Programs who have far less complex back circuits, what is your explanation(s)/headcanon(s) on how they gained them?

Hmm! Well, the first comparison that comes to mind is between the Warrior programs like Tron, and the dock workers like Yori:

Clearly Yori's circuits are much simpler and more minimalistic, and Tron's are vastly complex. This seems to go for others in their respective lines of assigned work, too-- the other programs working on the Solar Sailer dock with Yori, and the other warriors fighting alongside Tron.

At first one might be tempted to think it's something about what kind of programs they are. Yori, as her intended purpose, is part of the laser's programming, and thus very connected to the User world; her name appears on the screen each time the laser activates. She is perhaps the only program we see having something that resembles a graphic user interface.

...And no, in this case when I say "graphic user interface" I do NOT mean explicit sex scenes between Program and User. I mean the specific WAY that the Program/User sex happens. (Contact between Program and User is a sex thing for most programs, in my headcanon. But to be honest, the kind without a graphic user interface seems more intimate to me, personally.)

Tron, designed as a security monitor, is meant to do his work behind the scenes, several levels removed from any User except his own.

So, one tempting interpretation is that Tron just happens to have especially exposed "backend code."

Which is a term I half-jokingly use for his nice ass-- but in programming it refers to the code that happens behind the scenes, not visible in the software's user-interface. If that does in fact "manifest" as the circuitry on Tron's literal back end, it might indicate that he doesn't have much of a GUI-- and instead wears all his code out in the open, like his heart on his sleeve, untranslated into anything but its most direct meaning.

But I hesitate to jump to that conclusion. Because that would mean the simplicity of Yori's coworkers-- and the complexity of Tron's fellow soldiers-- is very close to uniform, across the board.

And I don't think that's how they naturally are.

I think most programs at Encom are custom-written for their purposes, each in the idiosyncratic style of their own programmer-- and thus, in their natural state, they'd have a huge amount of diversity.

So I lean toward the assumption that the dock workers got simple circuits and the warriors got complex circuits because that was how the MCP decided to dress them, and their "true" form has more individual variation.

Now, why would the MCP make that decision? I don't imagine him having much in the way of aesthetic preferences-- his focus is on efficiency.

So I think the most likely explanation is that the density of circuits all over the back of a warrior program has something to do with connecting to the weaponized Identity Disc that the warriors were forced to use in fights.

Yori and her colleagues were never shown to have discs. Now, I personally theorize that they did have them, but not weaponized ones-- just simple data discs for updates and backups-- and they were not allowed to carry them when at work.

(I've written elsewhere about the idea that this is why Yori was so zombie-like when Tron found her-- it had been a long work shift, she hadn't gotten to sync with her disc in a long time, and her identity was starting to fade. Intentional or not, this ties in very neatly to the related plotline in TRON: Uprising-- where Tron can be seen doing for Beck exactly what he did for Yori in that scene-- shaking her out of her disc-deprived daze by giving her a familiar face to focus on.)

So, that may explain why Yori and her colleagues weren't considered to need complex back circuits, and warriors like Tron were.

It doesn't, however, explain the way Tron's complex back circuits extend right down into the butt crack.

Out of universe, I have a scandalous little suspicion that this part of the costume was originally on the front, and was changed because it accentuated the front just too perfectly.

I have only one piece of evidence for that, but it's a compelling one: a picture I found of an original warrior costume up for auction.

...Yeah. Holy Dickbutt.

But.

Anyway.

As for an in-universe explanation?

Hmm.

it's possible that the butt section of that circuitry is all part of the same mechanism, and does the same thing the rest of it does.

Evidence for that: we do see it all light up simultaneously, when Tron is being forced to fight in the Games:

And yet-- strangely enough-- it's the only part of his circuit array that didn't light up when he drank from the energy pool.

I have no idea why that would be-- I mean, besides "someone in post-production decided that energy pool scene was already too horny without Tron's ass glowing."

Are the butt circuits added specifically as a modification to augment the weaponized use of the Identity Disc?

Do they only glow when the Disc is being used for violence?

...and not when Tron is happy, and at peace, and getting intimate with his loved ones??

....Huh.

Who'd have known Tron had an ass that was made specially for ass-kicking.

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Day 425: Game Boy

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Title/Name: Wojak Blue Circuit Board Wojak Series: Feels Guy (Variant) Image / Art by: Unknown Main Tag: Circuit Board Wojak

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