thatsprettylane:

Thinking of all the cool ways bugs could show up on The Grid, like fault lines, tears in the sky, giant monsters, plagues, disappearances…

so a while back I was chatting with someone about gridbugs and how in that scene in 1982, they spawn out of the gridded ground

(not really clear where, since it’s something Yori points out to Tron and Flynn while they’re over the Sea in the Solar Sailer, but it doesn’t show WHERE this is in relation to the Sailer, and it definitely doesn’t look like the sea? maybe it’s on an island below them or something?)

anyway each bug starts as a little square at the intersection of lines in the grid

and then, when it comes out of the ground and leaves, that little square isn’t there anymore

so I’m thinking about programs exploring, and I imagine, when they see an area of the ground that’s gridded in that specific way, with squares at the intersections… they know it’s a place at risk for gridbugs spawning

which… is funny because I’m almost sure I have seen some tile patterns like that IRL

(I think it would be hilarious if the floor was patterned like that at a convention, and a lot of people in Tron cosplay were just standing around staring at it worriedly)