My hobby: Interpreting Meaningless Technobabble

in the most ridiculous way possible that still feels like it has enough Connections to make some kind of sense

So in TRON (1982), just before Tron finds Yori, we see her at work on the Solar Sailer dock. The guard supervising her asks, “what’s the progress on the simulation?” Yori reports: “30, 56, 99 are correct. Limited 4 and 8 are missing.”

Yori's supervisor at the Solar Sailer dock asks her: What's the progress on the simulation? (Tron 1982)ALT
Yori reports to her supervisor: 30, 56, 99 are correct. (Tron 1982)ALT
Yori reports to her supervisor: Limited 4 and 8 are missing. (Tron 1982)ALT

but what do those numbers mean for her simulation?

well.

30, 56, and 99 are very correct…

for making a lovely shade of blue.

screenshot of the color with the hex code 305699, a pleasant dark powder-blue color. Above it says 305699 Color Hex. the values 48, 86, and 153 are also shown in parentheses on it, below the hex code.ALT

As for four and eight?

Well, they are very limited, and somewhat missing… because they represent the amount of red in that color.

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Screenshot of text, with the part about the red value highlighted. Text as follows: #305699 color RGB value is (48,86,153). #305699 hex color red value is 48, green value is 86 and the blue value of its RGB is 153. Cylindrical-coordinate representations (also known as HSL) of color #305699 hue: 0.61, saturation: 0.52 and the lightness value of 305699 is 0.39. The process color (four color CMYK) of #305699 color hex is 0.69, 0.44, 0.00, 0.40. Web safe color of #305699 is #336699. Color #305699 contains mainly BLUE color.ALT

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So… if you wanted to read meaning into this entirely arbitrary bit of scripted nonsense?

And if you wanted that meaning to reflect how TRON (1982) adheres to the same “Blue=Good, Red=Evil” theme as Star Wars, Deep Space 9 Season 5, current United States politics, and a variety of other fandoms?

well.

Yori is indicating that Blue is correct, and Blue will win.

because every time Red gets more “limited” and more “missing,” Blue takes over just a little bit more.

And maybe, just maybe?

she’s using her Simulation Skills to influence the color scheme of her workplace… just a little bit at a time… to reflect the growing power of the Blue resistance.

screenshot of a frame from that Yori scene from Tron 1982, being edited in ClipStudio, with the eyedropper tool showing how the background contains colors very close to the one described above.ALT

Yori’s a prisoner of the MCP, being forced to do work outside her purpose. And they clearly have a lot of control over her. There’s not so much she can do to help, materially.

But at least, she can occasionally… “hex” them.