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The bikes have two vehicle actions: Go the Distance, and Change the Lighting. Go the distance is the standard assumption, and acts like a Dash, while change the lighting allows you to turn on or off your wall, erasing any parts you may have laid when turned off. How you use these actions can mean the difference between defeat and victory.
- You need graph paper and a pen/pencil
- Start on opposite sides of a sheet of graph paper
- Alternate in taking turns
- You can accelerate and decelerate by one square and turn by 45° each turn.
- Keep in mind that diagonal movement is only half the amount of squares that it would be orthogonally
We did all kinds of crazy stuff with those core rules: Race tracks, skill points to improve stats, using a geo ruler for more varied turning, weapons like missile launchers and mines, skill checks, and so on
I recommend checking out Lazer Ryderz by Greater Than Games. It's a weirdly physical tabletop light cycle game, where your entire tabletop becomes the play area.
Done right, oh my, puns will burn. And every single one here was a beauty!
At least here, their chance of losing didn't go up in a puff of smoke. Traffic wasn't gridlocked either. But their wordplay certainly didn't leave them on cloud 9, though with the numerical advantage some systems place on height, it took their breath away.
Puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuns <3
What rock would someone have to live under *not* to recognize what they're doing?
Granted, I'm a huge nerd and only a year younger than the movie in question.
I feel so old.
Granted, I'm a huge nerd and only a year younger than the movie in question.
I feel so old.
Technically, the version pictured is from the 2010 movie; OG lightcycles could only do right angles.
Yes, this comment is superfluous, but hey, my favorite thing got a cameo, I'm allowed to be excited.
Yes, this comment is superfluous, but hey, my favorite thing got a cameo, I'm allowed to be excited.
And if you like this, I suspect you'll recognize what scene the next comic was inspired by. (If heavily modified for this arc's plot.)
I feel that Tron 2 failed because it didn't have enough of these vehicle games like the cycles, or a Recognizer chase or something. The movie felt like it was 85% talking.
As someone who absolutely loves it, Legacy failed because almost everyone in it is a dumbass and it makes zero sense. It's pretty and that's about it. It's the kind of thing you have a lot of fun fixing if you're in the fandom.
Not only are they moving in curves, but panel 7 looks like a hill or non-flat surface.
Legacy ...
You can argue that Legacy was about the horrors/problems of trusting a badly programed computer. The key plot point revolved around 2 concepts:
1, a programmer who continued to use a system that had no real failsafe and pushed the time involved near the failure point (believable), and
2, a computer program/AI that followed it's instructions and programming. Heck, it even was smart enough to ask "Hey, have our goals changed?".
When told "No, the goals have not changed", well, it just went ahead and enforced the goals.
Conclusion?
If it was an attempt to tell a "Don't trust AI's without an override", it did a bad job -- that plot was buried, and not well fleshed out.
If it was an attempt to tell ... umm ... what else was it attempting to tell ... boy meets girl, boy loves girl, boy takes girl home to "caretakers"?
Actually, now that I think about it, who was taking care of the kid while his dad was gone again? There was someone, just completely unimportant.
"Legacy" failed for me because it felt more like a setup for a series, and less like a completed story.
Legacy ...
You can argue that Legacy was about the horrors/problems of trusting a badly programed computer. The key plot point revolved around 2 concepts:
1, a programmer who continued to use a system that had no real failsafe and pushed the time involved near the failure point (believable), and
2, a computer program/AI that followed it's instructions and programming. Heck, it even was smart enough to ask "Hey, have our goals changed?".
When told "No, the goals have not changed", well, it just went ahead and enforced the goals.
Conclusion?
If it was an attempt to tell a "Don't trust AI's without an override", it did a bad job -- that plot was buried, and not well fleshed out.
If it was an attempt to tell ... umm ... what else was it attempting to tell ... boy meets girl, boy loves girl, boy takes girl home to "caretakers"?
Actually, now that I think about it, who was taking care of the kid while his dad was gone again? There was someone, just completely unimportant.
"Legacy" failed for me because it felt more like a setup for a series, and less like a completed story.
The way I understood it, ISO's were essentially the computer equivalent of "naturally evolved life". A true Computer Intelligence without the "Artificial" tag appended to the front like C.L.U.E. or the M.C.P. would have had, and so, similar to the in-setting "Users" they were unbound by the constraints of the system or any programming they may oversee, but since they were programs they could interface, interact, and be interacted with, through the underlying nature of the system more directly than a User could, and so, like geneticists studying DNA, a programmer could examine an ISO's Code (which for some reason takes the form of a triple helix DNA structure) and gain a better understanding of the fundamental nature of the universe... or something...
Returning to this comment years later, and I find Winged Cat making a guest comic with Gin Gear.
Speaking as Gin's former DM, run. Run fast and run far. Gin is a pony of the apocalypse.
Speaking as Gin's former DM, run. Run fast and run far. Gin is a pony of the apocalypse.
Artist: Digo Dragon
Guest Author's Note: "If you don't recognize what they're doing, search on 'light cycle game'. The example referenced here dates back to 1982, and the one player 'snake game' version back to 1976.
But they weren't winning in this fashion back then."