paradisa | second glitch

[anyone listening to the journal today might pick up a very steady, consistent sound, almost like a metronome:

flip.
flip.
flip.
flip.

at odd intervals, there'll be a soft thud, a scrape, and then the flipping continues. anyone who ventures onto the second floor of the library will find the source of the sound: CLU seated at a table, behind a MASSIVE pile of books. there's a tall glass of some sort of glowing, blue liquid off to one side, but other than that, it's just him and the books.

to the uninitiated, it'll look like he's not even reading. he just turns a page, blinks, and repeats the process ad nauseam. but he's definitely reading, scanning each page and its contents quickly before moving on. occasionally, if a spread is dense with text, or a concept it details is completely foreign to him, he'll pause a moment before turning the page. but for the most part, he just. keeps. going. after he finishes one book in particular, he stops, and scowls down at the journal]

[he's careful to keep his tone light, though, because That Is How You Make Friends And Influence People.] These are the most inefficient systems. I don't see how any of you can cope. Don't you get impatient?

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[lightly] Oh, but they weren't my thoughts. Your program brought them over to my system from the old one. Remnants. They were just askin' to be defragged. Don't make me out to be some bad guy when I'm just doin' my job.

That was before I had the privilege of meeting him. I didn't know, and I didn't cause them.

You're just like the MCP you tried to get rid of.

Hey, you gotta problem with my programming, man, you take it up with my User.

Or is he too busy right now to care? You're gonna be surprised how often that happens, I bet.

I'm sure he'd be more than willing to fix it for you.

So why's it your problem, then?

Because Kevin's my friend. And because of what you did to Tron.

It's my responsibility to make sure the code you corrupted is fixed.

System upgrade, User.

No rollbacks.

[We'll see about that. He did it once, CLU, he can do it again!]

Have you ever heard of "entropy", CLU?

... [he thinks about that] If I say no, you gonna tell me about it anyway?

For all intents and purposes, it's complete disorder. Every atom equidistant from each other - every program equidistant from each other, like those lines of soldiers and programs afraid to associate with each other. [That's right. He's seen.]

Basically, it looks like your version of the Grid. Your perfection isn't possible.

[everything equidistant, but interconnected, that's pretty much his perfect Grid .... yep. he's having a very hard time seeing the User's problem here] Programs aren't atoms. You work with your user laws, I'll work with mine.

The concept is the same.

Concept ain't the execution, either. [amused and bemused] You are having the hardest time listening to me. It's that age thing, isn't it? I've heard Users get worse at things when they get older.

Cute. But it's more a problem of your methods than any ability of mine.

[He didn't get his answer and this conversation is going nowhere, only serving to make him more frustrated. He's about ready to wrap this up.]

Leave the Flynns alone. Leave Tron alone.

[a dark little chuckle is Alan's only response for a moment.]

Easy enough for me to do.

[but will the Flynns leave him alone? and besides. Tron isn't Tron anymore, so it's almost impossible to NOT leave him alone. you're making this too easy, Alan-1]

[He knows you well enough to clarify once he hears that chuckle, CLU.]

And by 'Tron', I mean Rinzler.

Now, see, that's gonna be a problem.

He's done enough.

I think I beg to differ. We're just getting started.

There's no way for you to reprogram Users to submit to you. We don't have code.

We're not helpless against you. [And unlike Flynn, some Users very well can blame you for grossly overstepping your directive, CLU.]

There's always a way. [the way he says it, even as nonchalant as he is, makes it clear: that was an answer to both statements]

That works both ways.

second glitch

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Alan-1, to end, already /inefficient

[CLU 2.0 to the end]

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First I forget part of what Alan was saying, then I forget to change his icon...OTL

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