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I decided I would just geek out and put up all the (newer) TRON-related stuff I have, at the same time...anyway.This guy...I wouldn't be surprised if you had no clue who he is. He's (my version of) Scott Chen from Addventure, Game 3. Way long ago, years ago, I used to write at that site all the time, and one of the things I wrote there that I'm the most proud of was this _huge_ long Addventure thread in which Scott got thrown into the TRON universe. I always kinda wanted to draw a picture of it.
So here it is. Putting aside the fact that it's just Some Random Guy to everybody here but me, I think the picture itself looks pretty cool. That's why I'm submitting it.
(Although don't ask me about the random floating cubes in the background...I have NO idea. I like the TRON style, but I have a hard time emulating it myself, out of my head...)
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Here's a cute thing that is related.
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And to top the good news today: Fairies are real! Robot fairies that look like they came out of Tron. Because Science.
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Holy fuck!Β Somebody tell Rimmer the good news--we've apparently invented "hard light" early!Β
(Also Automan...a hologram you _can_ touch, but it feels like an electric shock. (Well, he DOES need a good portion of an entire city's grid to run...)Β Since we're on the subject of TRON-like stuff.)Β
Yes, but can the fairy fly out of the lab without a mobile emitter?Β
Seriously, that is some mind-blowing stuff.Β Wow.
...Notorious
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awesome!
addventure+tron? Oh too bad I missed it... I wish I could write again.
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Oh, man. That was fun--although I can't really say anything, as it was just about entirely me. I got inspired, took over the thread and just wrote like crazy for a few days or however long it took to get to the ending of that particular plot thread. (Well, I didn't _really_ "take over"...I usually left more than one option at the end of each "page", so others could write it off their own direction, get Scott (or CHEN) out of the computer early and go do something else, whatever. Those options were _there_...but hardly anybody took them.)
Basically it was an entire re-writing of TRON or at least the bits I could remember best, using the Addventure Game 3 characters. It had some original stuff, including a sub-section involving the Game Grid where you could put him into all different real-life arcade games that existed in the early '80s (one other writer did come in and contribute to that, actually) but mostly it was a flat out in my snarky style of the time and references and stuff...with a twist: At the end, Scott Chen permanently gained a new ability that just might've been cool, had the opportunity to use it ever come up in one of his later adventures.
It never came up. The story as a whole seemed to be pretty well-recieved at the time, though.
As for missing it...I actually went in long ago when I was first worried about Addventure shutting down entirely and archived _all_ my best-liked/longest/hardest-worked-on threads into text files on my hard drive, including that one. I could dig it out and send it to you if you like, but bear in mind...this is written in my style of well over a decade ago. It could be really, really annoying. 
And yeah, I wish there was a low-fi, big open (but _somewhat_ moderated) addventure type game out there. Sometimes I miss things like text adventures and Choose Your Owns, because of their very oldschoolness--and when I can't think of a whole story from start to finish? Sometimes adding one bit onto someone else's setup is just what I need to get the creativity going again.
Ah, well. Anyway, sorry for rambling so much (but you're the first person to comment on this who had _any clue whatsoever_ what Addventure even was!) Shutting up now...
...Notorious
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Hey, the BEaddventure is still going it turns out.... I made a FPS/RTS Tron game but it was a bit too complicated so not very many people played it. I liked the old look better so I did a bunch of meshes to bring the Tron 2.0 stuff to the older art style.
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Heh...I'd be tempted, but...I didn't leave under the best of circumstances and I'm not sure how anybody else who might possibly remember me would react. (Mainly, I'm hoping L.E. is not still around. Random _consensual_ sex popping up in storylines out of nowhere no longer offends me, but his CREEPY fetished rubber-suited ball-gagged pain-collared mind-control _rape_ stuff...)
And ya know? I liked Tron 2.0...it still had _pretty_ much the look of the original movie, just...more? More details, less sparse. But I thought it was GORGEOUS. However, the new movie...eh. Not really that interested. Haven't seen it yet, but it seems they took away the main plot elements that made it _Tron_ and it was just...some sci-fi/fantasy film. Which is not bad in and of itself, but...
...Notorious
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Ah yes Tron, the best movie that Disney has ever made, along with the Rocketeer. Thank god, they're making the sequel at last.
You did a perfect job on this. Awesome work.
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Hey, thanks! 
...Notorious
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Awww, thanks!
...Notorious
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OMG TRON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have to admit, that was one of the things I was least expecting.
Seriously Tron, dude! That's awesome!
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A ha ha. A ha ha. A HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
...you have NO idea how much of a TRON fan I am. Seriously. It's one of those things that I didn't just _like_, it GRABBED my imagination and ran away with it, forever and ever. Other things that hit me that way include Hitchhiker's Guide, Discworld, and, of course, Doctor Who. I could go on and on about what an imaginative and still, to this day, artistically stylish movie that is, how the concept of a virtual world fascinates me, the relationship betwen Users and Programs, etc.--but I won't, 'cos I've already done that to death over at The Tron Sector forums, where it's actually appropriate.
Put it this way: "Mistress Control Program" was one of my early 'net names that I used to use a lot. I also did a big _poster_-sized painting--real paint!--based off the movie when I first saw it, on TV in 1992. Dang thing won't fit into my scanner, though.
I'm into a LOT of fandoms at the same time. Way more so than I should be, probably. But I like being me.
...Notorious
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You haven't seen the extent of mine. Trust me. My dad gets worried that I obsess. But it's just who I am.
Hitchhiker's! I've read all the books!
(You probably already knew this, but a rejected Doctor Who script by Douglass Adams ended up morphing into Life, the Universe, and Everything)
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I didn't know about _that_, but I did know about Douglas writing "The Pirate Planet", "Shada" (which was unfinished at the time but they made a full version of the story in _radio_ later on with the Eigthth Doctor--they did _ask_ Tom Baker first, in case you're wondering), and was the script editor for the entire 1979, and in fact bits of "Destiny of the Daleks" such as Romana's rather bizzarre regeneration scene and Four reading a book about the beginning of the universe by _Oolon Colluphid_ were thrown in my Adams, despite that serial being credited to Terry Nation.
And of course, I did know that MOST of "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"'s plotline was taken from a combo of elements from "City of Death" and "Shada". (City of Death is one of my favourite Who serials _ever_, seriously. It's also a mega-popular one, a _common_ one to like, but in this case I don't care--the crowd can be right SOMEtimes. Besides, in this case, "the crowd" is other Whovians, so they're already cooler than your average crowd... 
...Notorious
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And much more intellectually gifted.
Blue stars for everyone!
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These days, TRON is the ONLY Disney film I can stomach. Which reminds me, have you seen that one Honda commercial that they air during the late nights on Adult Swim that looks as if it was influenced by the film's light cycle sequence?
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I really am going to see Tron some day...
He's kind of a delicate little thing isn't he? I love the freckles. And the contrast between the computery stuff and the toga/chiton-esque outfit is quite nifty.
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They actually wore those toga thingies in the movie--well, some of them did. It's like, the "novice warrior" costume, pretty much.
And yeah, Scott is a delicate little thing...well, at least the way I always wrote him, anyway. Heh. If you could see him in the real world, he has red hair, freckles, and glasses (it seems any _physical_ problems get left behind when you're digitized), but just slightly Asian-looking features.
Anyway.
...Notorious
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That is rather impressive for something done in Paint. Nice job
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I think you actually did a really good job on the circuitry look of the glowing markings. Also... The background, although simplistic and abstract, just works with the subject of the picture itself.
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Thanks. I always have a hard time drawing those circuity things.
...Notorious
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Man, I really gotta check out this movie some time. It seems like it'd be something that interests me.
Great job! Your MS Paint skills continue to wow me (assuming that this is MS Paint - either way, it's still damn good).
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Thanks! And yeah, you definitely should. It's...I think it's just a neat idea, and because of that, it doesn't _matter_ how "outdated" it is. It's still neat. (Also, the '80s style computerness is a big part of WHY it looks so damn cool...with smooth, totally realistic CGI instead of glowing edgy geometric neon, it would've been nowhere _near_ the same.)
As for the picture...yes, it was in Paint, really--the only part that isn't is I wanted his glow to be a little more fuzzy/"natural" looking, so I used Paint.Net to blur that a bit. I think this is one of my better ones, too--like, when I look at parts such as, his arms, the black and white parts compared to the glow look _really_ solid and like it's a real 3-dimensional being who's wearing plastic armour.
In case you're wondering about Scott himself, I write him as a young guy somewhere in his 20s with fluffy red hair, freckles, glasses and he's only 5'4". The last name is because he's 1/4 Chinese. Some of that is from the other Authors in the Addventure, some by me...I forget who made up what, now. But that's my version of him.
...Notorious
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