Ready Player Two OUT NOW -

[Quantum Diabetes]

You caught my attention here. Can you name some? I used to read/play/watch .hack// back in my teenage years and I'm not really interested in Sword Art Online since Alicization became a thing.
After I'm done with Ready Player Two, I feel like I'm never reading anything from Cline ever again, so any suggestions will be appreciated.

They've yet to be written but expeditionary force and the Bobiverse series both have much better a.i. storylines and dealing with the world becoming shitty. The whole thing with the Oni ripping people's minds to exist in a.i. was clearly wholesale ripped off from the Bobiverse books.

 

[Jazz never died!]

Can't wait to see the movie it'll be the first movie that had no dirrector or plot other than pop culture references.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Continuing reading LR, the author is now in a John Hughes world that has all the director's movies happening at the same time, because it's just a race to peak autism.
The author of course does the "movies in the past are racist for not having black actors", which brings up an interesting point about modern consoomerism and nostalgia culture - it is undoubtedly "problematic" to sjws since it is defined by white males, but they just complain and consoom anyways, at best until some company buys the property, blackwashes it and kills it, and then they move on to the next thing. Meanwhile they absolutely don't touch any recent shit that is supposedly better diversity wise unless it's Disney.
It's all a huge hypocrisy that no one calls out since it's beneficial to everyone involved.

You caught my attention here. Can you name some? I used to read/play/watch .hack// back in my teenage years and I'm not really interested in Sword Art Online since Alicization became a thing.
After I'm done with Ready Player Two, I feel like I'm never reading anything from Cline ever again, so any suggestions will be appreciated.

There is an anime called Log Horizon that has people stuck in video game world and rebuild from there. I don't remember a lot of it but it's more about the economics and social aspect rather than a power fantasy.

 

[Jequiti]

There is an anime called Log Horizon that has people stuck in video game world and rebuild from there. I don't remember a lot of it but it's more about the economics and social aspect rather than a power fantasy.

Indeed. I've been reading the Log Horizon novels, but Touno was involved in some tax fraud scheme back in 2018 and since then the series went into a long hiatus.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

I'm sure they will probably improve the novel quite a bit

https://www.slashfilm.com/ready-player-two-movie/

 

[Activelo]

There's a thread over at the AutoAdmit forums where someone is tearing into RPT piece by piece - and it's a doozy.

I'm up to where the thread author is at chapter 10 part 2, the writing shows that Cline, like many "nerds", doesn't know anything about technology really, just that they make noises and displays of colors and light that sometimes make him clap his hands together delightedly like a toddler.

Spoiler

Science being like magic for nerds like Cline certainly holds true for a passage in which Cline's self-insert character Wade's ex-gf (they dated for two weeks but had SO MUCH SEX YOU GUYS!) escapes her AI-hacked plane at high altitude:








A helpful AutoAdmit poster comments:

Reading the excerpts in that thread really helps the cultural significance of Cline's novels actually achieving bestseller status strike home for me: they provide a vivid picture of the psyche of the sort of people who are only concerned with nothing but living and CONSOOMing their little dopamine hits via BIDEO GAEMS and "geek culture" movies i.e. endlessly rehashing the material they enjoyed as children. The hero-fantasy of RPO and Armada, where the nerd hero's skill at remembering stuff about 80s Saturday Morning Cartoons or being really good at video games is just a cover atop the real fantasy at the center of the premise, which is all about getting to limitlessly consume fantasy escapism with no nagging parents or other authority figure buzzkills to pull the plug or badger them into logging out for awhile.

I archived the sporking up to Chapter 17.

Edit:

My mind went blank when I read that. I genuinely thought the thread author was making that shit up, but I remembered that this is Cline we're talking about here.

The first book was pretty much finished when that shitty creepypasta was published.

IIRC, the OASIS was released to the public in 2012 and the book takes place ten days after the events of the first book. Why the fuck would any of the characters unironically remember the creepypasta decades after it was made?

 

[Coolio55]

There's a thread over at the AutoAdmit forums where someone is tearing into RPT piece by piece - and it's a doozy.

I'm up to where the thread author is at chapter 10 part 2, the writing shows that Cline, like many "nerds", doesn't know anything about technology really, just that they make noises and displays of colors and light that sometimes make him clap his hands together delightedly like a toddler.

Spoiler

Science being like magic for nerds like Cline certainly holds true for a passage in which Cline's self-insert character Wade's ex-gf (they dated for two weeks but had SO MUCH SEX YOU GUYS!) escapes her AI-hacked plane at high altitude:








A helpful AutoAdmit poster comments:

Reading the excerpts in that thread really helps the cultural significance of Cline's novels actually achieving bestseller status strike home for me: they provide a vivid picture of the psyche of the sort of people who are only concerned with nothing but living and CONSOOMing their little dopamine hits via BIDEO GAEMS and "geek culture" movies i.e. endlessly rehashing the material they enjoyed as children. The hero-fantasy of RPO and Armada, where the nerd hero's skill at remembering stuff about 80s Saturday Morning Cartoons or being really good at video games is just a cover atop the real fantasy at the center of the premise, which is all about getting to limitlessly consume fantasy escapism with no nagging parents or other authority figure buzzkills to pull the plug or badger them into logging out for awhile.

Anyone got a link to the first thread? This shit is ace.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

I archived the sporking up to Chapter 17.

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My mind went blank when I read that. I genuinely thought the thread author was making that shit up, but I remembered that this is Cline we're talking about here.

The first book was pretty much finished when that shitty creepypasta was published.

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IIRC, the OASIS was released to the public in 2012 and the book takes place ten days after the events of the first book. Why the fuck would any of the characters unironically remember the creepypasta decades after it was made?

Which creepy pasta is he referencing? I'm not an alpha nerd to know enough.

 

[Massa's Little Buckie]

Which creepy pasta is he referencing? I'm not an alpha nerd to know enough.

Sonic.exe.It says it right there.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Sonic.exe.It says it right there.

Oh Im an idiot. I misread that as shoto referenced a creepy pasta, as in cline fashion he's just letting the reader to fill in that scene of shoto referencing a creepy pasta with their mind and that sonic.exe is some other nerd reference.

 

[Massa's Little Buckie]

Oh Im an idiot. I misread that as shoto referenced a creepy pasta, as in cline fashion he's just letting the reader to fill in that scene of shoto referencing a creepy pasta with their mind and that sonic.exe is some other nerd reference.

Yeah, that "Shoto makes a reference" sentence should've been scrapped. He probably needed padding.

 

[Mr. Skeltal]

Yeah, that "Shoto makes a reference" sentence should've been scrapped. He probably needed padding.

Between the mind-numbing references or cringeworthy dialogue, I don't know what's worse!

Here's a (hopefully) better written and less referential reimagining of that passage:

"You've all seen The Matrix, right? Why would you ever think that handing control of your brain over to a computer is a good idea?"

He laughed, "Just look at what can happen!"

But the gravity of the situation crept into his mind. As what transpired dawned on him, his laughter faded. Concern knitted across his brow and Shoto shook his head.

"We're in some deep shit here; Anorak has [set his plan into motion]. The last thing we need are some two-bit fanfiction assassins after us."

I tried to salvage it but quite honestly I couldn't parse the Sonic.exe reference. I also don't know what this Anorak fellow's plan is, hence the bracketed [insert plot here] shit.

Beyond that, the tonal shift from laughing at retard friends to "Oh God we're so fucked" is jarring to say the least. That's probably why our dear Ernie put that nonsense "Shoto made a reference..." sentence in. It's a fucking literary speed bump.
I tried to give it an appropriate segue but those only work so well.

Christ Almighty his writing is bad.

 

[Blasterisk]

Beyond that, the tonal shift from laughing at retard friends to "Oh God we're so fucked" is jarring to say the least. That's probably why our dear Ernie put that nonsense "Shoto made a reference..." sentence in. It's a fucking literary speed bump.
I tried to give it an appropriate segue but those only work so well.

Christ Almighty his writing is bad.

Mr. Skeltal laughed at his retard friends. "We are so fucked!" he said, a quote from the classic 1980s comic character Sonic.exe. He held up his hand so that his retard friends would know to slow down for the literary speed bump coming up ahead. "Good thing we slowed down for that literary speed bump." said Blasterisk "but now it's back on like Red Dawn! "

"A clever portmanteau of references to classic 1980s flims and video games!" Mr. Skeltal found himself exclaiming.

 

[Mr. Skeltal]

Mr. Skeltal laughed at his retard friends. "We are so fucked!" he said, a quote from the classic 1980s comic character Sonic.exe. He held up his hand so that his retard friends would know to slow down for the literary speed bump coming up ahead. "Good thing we slowed down for that literary speed bump." said Blasterisk "but now it's back on like Red Dawn! "

"A clever portmanteau of references to classic 1980s flims and video games!" Mr. Skeltal found himself exclaiming.

Thanks, I hate it.

 

[Activelo]

Anyone got a link to the first thread? This shit is ace.

Here you go. (A)

Also, if you want to read it, here's the Christian Nation thread as well. (A)

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

What in hell is that writing. It just reeks of 7th grade English class.

This fat fuck managed to make Bank with this shit and I don't understand

 

[Blasterisk]

What in hell is that writing. It just reeks of 7th grade English class.

This fat fuck managed to make Bank with this shit and I don't understand

"What the hell is that writing?" Geena asked herself "It's like Troll 2 but in a book."

"More like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, a notoriously bad video game from the '80s." I quipped back smartly. Little did Geena know that I had mastered the game while gunting for Halliday's Easter Egg two years ago, while listening to Dawkins lectures and watching my mom's stream on my other VR eyepiece. Looking back on it, these were my formative years.

 

[talk sh1t]

They should make a new "Revenge of the Nerds" movie but this time, instead of skinny losers getting revenge on jocks and raping hot girls, you have a group of autists kicking the shit out of a bunch of soyboy consoomers.

 

[A Random]

Yeah, that "Shoto makes a reference" sentence should've been scrapped. He probably needed padding.

That's probably why our dear Ernie put that nonsense "Shoto made a reference..." sentence in. It's a fucking literary speed bump.

I wouldn't correct this if it were legit criticism but that specific line is not in the book. It's the reader pointing it out.

Yes they DO make references all the fucking time but Cline didn't write that line there.

 

[Massa's Little Buckie]

I wouldn't correct this if it were legit criticism but that specific line is not in the book. It's the reader pointing it out.

Yes they DO make references all the fucking time but Cline didn't write that line there.

Ah OK. It seems like something he might put in.