MobileSuitLilah

Quaint Witch, Sad Enchantress

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Incredibly based gay trans woman poster 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 | Lover of books, music, and video games ✨| Happily married to @milktea ❤️ | Icon by @peachparfait

Praise for @MobileSuitLilah

“Lilah is maybe the internet’s greatest poster…a unique and very funny sense of humor…her jokes are specific and experimental while still being accessible to a mainstream audience”
The New York Review of Posts

“Men you may not like it but…[Lilah’s posts are] what peak performance looks like”
— Virginia Woolf, author of Orlando

“I’m a huge admirer of Lilah’s posts to the point that I left my wife…only then did I discover Lilah is gay and had also never heard of me”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, an author I guess

"Lilah's posts were a huge source of relief during the development of DonPachi...it's no exaggeration to say Cave wouldn't exist without her posts"
— Tsuneki Ikeda


Nobody can make a Tron movie now and recapture what was great about the original. That movie was so good not just for its very quaint retro aesthetic and stuff like light cycles, but also for its enthusiasm. Personal computers were relatively new at the time, there was a level of optimism and joy about them and how they work that led to that movie and its attempts to personify a computer’s inner workings with gray people with silly lights on their clothes. Technology is so much more commonplace now, we’re all more familiar with and pessimistic about it, and I don’t think anybody making another one would come in with the mindset that led to the original.

Saying that maybe they could still do something cool with it but not with Jared Leto!!! He should never be allowed near anything


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in reply to @MobileSuitLilah's post:

I sure hope it never happens!

Also this was definitely not meant to be an “only the original Tron was good and everything else sucks” post! Just that, despite the merits of stuff like Tron Legacy and Tron Uprising (I realllllly liked Tron Uprising), I do think they lost something from the original

Leto has been spreading the exact same rumors since 2017. I'm just refusing to believe it's happening until there's a trailer at this point.

Hilariously, TRON 2.0 is on sale on gog.com if you want to ignore the even slight possibility of a Leto-led TR3N, and you don't wanna wait for Identity to drop... I don't know if you've played it but I definitely prefer 2.0 to Legacy for how much it feels more like the original movie.

I have played 2.0! It feels like it’s own unique interpretation of the franchise. I definitely agree it feels more like the original movie, and it captures the whole “personifying how computers work” ethos better than any of the other follow-ups

I have soooooooooooo many thoughts about TRON 2.0 so pardon me for putting an unprompted essay in your comments... I feel like 2.0's greatest strength was that it was made by and for people who understand how computers work on a basic level. By being a FPS they could get away with being niche in ways that might have been harder to pitch for a movie of Legacy's scale.

Conversely I feel like TRON Legacy didn't understand that it exists in a world where a huge chunk of its viewers had some computer literacy? Like, the original didn't go into as much detail about how the computer itself worked as 2.0, but back then that would have alienated a lot of viewers. Legacy is interesting in its own right but it really took 2.0's precedent of "not dumbing things down to the point where it could be any other SF/F universe" and threw it out the window. (While copying half of its plot from TRON 2.0 and its ending from TRON Ghost in the Machine...)

I totally agree with you - Tron 2.0 imo has its flaws as a game but the fact that it actually feels like it’s happening in a computer is delightful and the developers clearly had a lot of fun making it and playing with the concept. Whereas you hit Legacy and Uprising and it kind of feels like they just forgot about that. It looks cool as hell but when you get down to it it’s now just a more conventional sci-fi world