Uh, I think that second link leads to the Ready Player 2 Thread.
This is the link that I found.
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I have to think the entire idea behind the book is to justify an unhealthy obsession with 1980s pop by artificially setting up a situation where that knowledge is important.
None of the "puzzles" were actually clever or required an understanding of the stuff. "Recite War Games from memory." Really? Cline must be one of the most boring people in the universe.
None of the "puzzles" were actually clever or required an understanding of the stuff. "Recite War Games from memory." Really? Cline must be one of the most boring people in the universe.
Something that's been bugging me a bit lately about Ready Player One is just how the fuck did Ernest Cline get away with including all these copyrighted characters and places in his book so blatantly and explicitly without getting into legal trouble?
There's no way in Hell that either Cline or his publisher could've paid for all of that licensing.
Even E.L. James had to rename the Twilight characters when she wrote 50 Shades of Gray.
There's no way in Hell that either Cline or his publisher could've paid for all of that licensing.
Even E.L. James had to rename the Twilight characters when she wrote 50 Shades of Gray.
That is the million dollar question. I believe in the music industry you don't have to clear with a person or character to reference them. (Michelle Pfeiffer mentioned something about Bruno Mars and the Riptide guy not having to clear it with her to use her name)
Simple: He excluded the ones that would get him into trouble. When Wade cracks the Easter Egg, he finds a simulated version of Halliday's collection and it has all the consoles, which he lists name by excruciating name. But Nintendo and Sega only get mentions of the company name — I'm not gonna be bothered to find the quote but it's basically "and the Nintendo and Sega consoles too."
Also, the retarded-ass "on like Red Dawn" is an obvious subversion of Nintendo's copyright. Not that saying "on like Donkey Kong" once a book is less dumb, but it isn't protected by Nintendo's copyright ninjas. They're blind, but have superhuman hearing, just like the ones from Neuromancer, Blasterisk found himself explaining. "Kill me." he said, a reference to Valve's classic 2011 animated short Meet The Medic where the Spy's head is on a plate and he wants to die.
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Finished reading the Ready Player One on the autoadmit forums. In some ways it's even worse than the sequel, that at least tries to inject some sort of false moral questions and making the protagonist a (wish fullfillment) asshole.
The author is either a genius that manages to distill everything wrong yet popular regarding geek culture into a self parody and somehow sell it as something legitimate, or the absolute king of autists who's coping with reality by simultaneously escaping into his childhood for the "good old days" and trying to justify to himself why all his wasted hours watching the same films ad nauseam will pay him back tenfold. At least shitty japanese power fantasies had the main character die before getting his wishes and interacting and improving his surrounding on their journey.
The book idolizes greed, the hero never once tries to cooperate with his friends despite how absurdly grand the price is, or how big the stakes are (allegedly) and literally suffers no consequences for it. The only thing negative about the hero is having any common trait with his writer. The protagonist even says he'll kill himself if the villains win, it's the pettiness of a school shooter who must blame others in his own fatalistic decisions.
More than that, the book simply doesn't understand (or want to understand) why some of the past was good, and absolutely refuses to accept that a lot of it will now be regarded as shit. All the challenges are based on either knowing references or playing video games, something that is regarded as high skill despite being something every shmuck can do with enough time (and it is written to appeal to those shmucks who will likely understand the obvious answers). You just consoom and consoom and win everything by leeching on someone else's hard work (which is sadly the modus operandi of modern culture).
In the end, Ready Player One is the best symbol of modern pop culture. A shambling corpse of its past that is kept alive by legions of morons who believe that it was better than it actually ever was, including some who weren't even alive when it was originally made. It's a culture of stagnation, of replacing individuality and community with pointless labels to fill the massive social vacuum that was created by the move to social media and breakdown of the family unit by a wide margin of the population.
It is a bad civilization:
The author is either a genius that manages to distill everything wrong yet popular regarding geek culture into a self parody and somehow sell it as something legitimate, or the absolute king of autists who's coping with reality by simultaneously escaping into his childhood for the "good old days" and trying to justify to himself why all his wasted hours watching the same films ad nauseam will pay him back tenfold. At least shitty japanese power fantasies had the main character die before getting his wishes and interacting and improving his surrounding on their journey.
The book idolizes greed, the hero never once tries to cooperate with his friends despite how absurdly grand the price is, or how big the stakes are (allegedly) and literally suffers no consequences for it. The only thing negative about the hero is having any common trait with his writer. The protagonist even says he'll kill himself if the villains win, it's the pettiness of a school shooter who must blame others in his own fatalistic decisions.
More than that, the book simply doesn't understand (or want to understand) why some of the past was good, and absolutely refuses to accept that a lot of it will now be regarded as shit. All the challenges are based on either knowing references or playing video games, something that is regarded as high skill despite being something every shmuck can do with enough time (and it is written to appeal to those shmucks who will likely understand the obvious answers). You just consoom and consoom and win everything by leeching on someone else's hard work (which is sadly the modus operandi of modern culture).
In the end, Ready Player One is the best symbol of modern pop culture. A shambling corpse of its past that is kept alive by legions of morons who believe that it was better than it actually ever was, including some who weren't even alive when it was originally made. It's a culture of stagnation, of replacing individuality and community with pointless labels to fill the massive social vacuum that was created by the move to social media and breakdown of the family unit by a wide margin of the population.
It is a bad civilization:
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I've been following the podcast 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back which was started by Mike Nelson of "former head writer and host of MST3k" and chief Rifftrax writer Conor Lastowka to riff on RPO and then Armada, and they've been tearing into RPT, and they document how far down Cline has gone to scrape the bottom of the barrel. So we have what sounds like two smart and mature grown-ups reacting with humor and disbelief (but dogged persistence) to the masturbatory antics of this atrocious bestselling garbage. Their exasperation with Cline's less than deft shoehorning in of pop cultural references has only been ratcheting up with each episode, like how Cline insists on describing his character playing an emulation of an average 1980s era Japanese videogame level by level and you can feel their level of exasperation climb.
This book is so bad it casts a new negative light on the first one, and movie, which I regarded as comfy garbage, the way I would regard toyetic Saban live action productions or mid 00's kids wb.
Now the first book kinda pisses me off in retrospect.
Now the first book kinda pisses me off in retrospect.
Yeah, okay I'm out. I am not even gonna read this for humor, the cringe from that paragraph alone nearly killed me with it's sheer Chris-Chan level autistic wish-fulfilment waves. I can't believe it was even published.
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Tfw you entomb mankind into a hell of its own making but it's okay because they signed an EULA saying that you aren't liable if you fucking kill them with your hardware.
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For those who didn't read it, this is a literal plot point from the book. And it's especially bad since by where I got in the summary, 11 hours have passed since the bad guy locked out all the users in and being 12+ hours causes you brain-death, so unless the author pulls out something from his ass, there should be at least 80-90% fatality rate by the global user pool (which is a good chunk of humanity).
Continuing on reading the summary, the overall message seems to be the retarded idea of "the person who impacted my life in my childhood is a bad man". It's a very popular post-modernist idea that exists to talk about how white people are evil and justifying taking their hard work and using it as your own creation (especially since it's an idea most people would learn by the age of 16). But unlike games like The Last of Us 2 that atleast had a somewhat justification of why people would want to kill the main character of the previous game, here it's the guy who created cyberspace that was a yucky misogynist incel. Since that guy was basically a plot device in the previous book, there is no real shock or audience investment in the revelation that he was "evil".
Besides that, the inclusion of politics doesn't only break the already shoddy world building, but it just makes the while thing be unpleasant. You can't like anything anymore because everything popular is sexist and racist (including the absolutely retarded idea that LoTR is racist). And the only way to be more accepting of others is getting dicked in the ass (a literal plot point where the author gets fucked in the ass).
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Its probably been mentioned already but the part that stands out the most to me is how often the "game" of faithfully act out a movie seems to happen.
It's never anything like trying to out maneuver the computer in war games. Or trying to stop Decker to save the android in Blade Runner. Help Vader crush the alliance.
Im having trouble trying to explain why but it really bothers me that for their "im such a fan of x" its only a fan to the script and not the world and characters in it.
It's never anything like trying to out maneuver the computer in war games. Or trying to stop Decker to save the android in Blade Runner. Help Vader crush the alliance.
Im having trouble trying to explain why but it really bothers me that for their "im such a fan of x" its only a fan to the script and not the world and characters in it.
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It's never anything clever or interesting.
In its defense, a test like "repeat the script for War Games" is much easier to code than something more interesting, like, I dunno ... "Compare the Star Trek episode Balance of Terror with the movie that inspired it." Which would actually be an interesting topic for a con panel.
I've been reading the review for this book. Holy shit this is garbage. It's just 80's reference 80's reference 80's reference political sperging 80's reference 80's reference 80's reference they find the thing on to the next planet. The author needs serious psychiatric help. I just can't wrap my head around the authors mind set. Something like LOTR I get, Tolkien wanted to tell a epic adventure about heroes saving the world from evil. It was shaped by his time in WW1 and his views on industrialization destroying nature. As well as drawing inspiration from mythology, literature and his love of language. But RP2 is the fantasies of a drooling manchild who cant face reality. The whole thing reads like a really bad fan fiction with social justice bullshit thrown in.
Oh, it's worse than that Blasterisk found himself saying.
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Great, now I'm stuck with all of you faggots.
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's attempt at merging Planescape with Dragonlance (and which is way better than it has any right to be)
