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Years ago, I remember when the geek community was still rather unpopular and finding movies, TV shows, books, magazines, etc. that actually made some sort of reference to some things fandom would recognize would be sort of charming and get me a bit more interested. Sort of like if I was reading some angsty 90s novel and a character waxes about a random toy cartoon from their youth in a chapter, or a Tarantino script has a Marvel comics reference, a TV show where someone happened to be watching an anime on the TV in the background, etc. To me, it sort of both connected me a bit more to the characters and the story, but it made the characters feel like they had some actual side interests and lives. Now it feels like its gone to far to defining characters by all this. Hell, Brody in Mallrats would seem understated by modern geek standards. In the end, is this why Hollywood and the media is so in love with Ready Player One? Just like Hollywood loves movies about itself, maybe this is sort of a related thing. "Geek culture is so great. Remember, the most important thing is that you keep consuming all this media in all its forms in geek culture. Consume all of it, or you won't fit in with the new hip crowd!*" *Until the bottom falls out and everyone spends the next 20 years acting like they never liked TWD, Star Wars, Marvel, video games, etc.
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JediTalentAgent posted:Years ago, I remember when the geek community was still rather unpopular and finding movies, TV shows, books, magazines, etc. that actually made some sort of reference to some things fandom would recognize would be sort of charming and get me a bit more interested. Sort of like if I was reading some angsty 90s novel and a character waxes about a random toy cartoon from their youth in a chapter, or a Tarantino script has a Marvel comics reference, a TV show where someone happened to be watching an anime on the TV in the background, etc. To me, it sort of both connected me a bit more to the characters and the story, but it made the characters feel like they had some actual side interests and lives. Now it feels like its gone to far to defining characters by all this. Source your quote
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Jul 28, 2017 08:57
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Lumpy the Cook posted:I just found out about Ready Player One and complaining about lack of minority representation or w/e in this seems really dumb because it's the absolute worst thing that's ever been put to paper and having more minorities wouldn't change that: 
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Jul 28, 2017 09:33
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oh. huh. I can't imagine video game people in today's age having the patience to play Akalabeth let alone in 30 years or whenever this takes place.
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Jul 28, 2017 09:37
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Drunken Baker posted:Yeah, exactly. If the book had any self awareness at all it could probably do something interesting with how obsession ove rnostalgia is bad and we need to grow and yadda yadda yadda. But no... Talking about Go-Bots all day is LITERALLY the best thing in the world. I was holding out hope that maybe there was like some deeper meaning implied by the references or something. Like if all the references were somehow symbolic of alternate meanings, however contrived, we could find the Easter egg of the book itself by knowing the 80s enough to 'get' it. Having read the little I have I know that's impossible "purely" from the style of writing. I had Alan Moore in mind, when really I should have had forums user Neo661139 in mind.
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Jul 28, 2017 09:50
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Lumpy the Cook posted:I just found out about Ready Player One and complaining about lack of minority representation or w/e in this seems really dumb because it's the absolute worst thing that's ever been put to paper and having more minorities wouldn't change that:
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Jul 28, 2017 09:54
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I accidentally bought the ebook of this (book was recommended by my bro) preview available: http://www.audible.com.au/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Ready-Player-One-Audiobook/B00FEZBS84 Narrated by Wil Wheaton It is objectively the worst thing. Wil sounds sardonic and bitter and generally like an arsehole, and the main character is also an arsehole. It's a perfect storm of resentment and /incel /internetathiest rage and 80's nostalgia.
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Jul 28, 2017 09:58
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I need to write a book with a similar gimmick, but the gimmick is now fanfic level. It's about fanfic culture glorification and the lead has to ingest every player-made game mod, fanfic, original DeviantArt characters, tijuana bible even porn parody to solve the mystery of the greatest 'user generated' shared universe fanfic universe in an online virtual world.
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Jul 28, 2017 10:04
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JediTalentAgent posted:I need to write a book with a similar gimmick, but the gimmick is now fanfic level. It's about fanfic culture glorification and the lead has to ingest every player-made game mod, fanfic, original DeviantArt characters, tijuana bible even porn parody to solve the mystery of the greatest 'user generated' shared universe fanfic universe in an online virtual world. Just write Sonic erotica. It's far more respectable than anything that would be like Ready Player One.
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Jul 28, 2017 10:06
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READY SLAYER ONE is the story of a kid in the future who has to go into a horror VR world to solve the power up and win the game. He meets Chucky who says, "GIVE ME THE POWER I BEG OF YOU!" Pinhead appears and our hero solves the puzzle box and wins points and escapes from Jigsaw SCREAM appears and asks him questions that he knows, obviously. Hey, Dawn of the Dead! "This music is called 'The Gonk' dontcha know." (+20 points) Candyman shows up and he eats the candy. Pumpkinhead was designed by STAN WINSTOOOOOON! And Don't forget Bud the Chud! And so on.
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Jul 28, 2017 10:44
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but is it better than the emoji movie
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Jul 28, 2017 10:51
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How did the director who brought us "Schindler's List" end up saying yes to "Fan Fiction: The Movie"
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Jul 28, 2017 11:39
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schmuckfeatures posted:How did the director who brought us "Schindler's List" end up saying yes to "Fan Fiction: The Movie" A director who's career highlights were '80s a '90s pop fiction doing a movie celebrating '80s and '90s pop fiction? Let's try and figure this out.
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Jul 28, 2017 11:50
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Universe Master posted:A director who's career highlights were '80s a '90s pop fiction doing a movie celebrating '80s and '90s pop fiction? Yeah, but the point is, he's capable of helming films much better than this pile of godforsaken poo poo. It's kind of like if David Bowie ended up singing McDonalds jingles.
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schmuckfeatures posted:How did the director who brought us "Schindler's List" end up saying yes to "Fan Fiction: The Movie" People getting old and trying to recapture something that they should have moved on from a long time ago
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Jul 28, 2017 12:00
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schmuckfeatures posted:Yeah, but the point is, he's capable of helming films much better than this pile of godforsaken poo poo. Yeah but he had standards. "the guy from coldplay" posted:"One time I sent him a song to ask him to sing on it. He called me and said, 'It's not one of your best,' and there was no coldplay collaboration.
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Jul 28, 2017 12:02
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guys, guys, my brain just shat out a real hot take: it's a "coming of age" movie, only the protagonist... doesn't.
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Jul 28, 2017 12:03
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He comes plenty... With a sex bot. AND IT TOTALLY COUNTS AS REAL SEX.
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Jul 28, 2017 12:18
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I would gently caress a SEXBOT
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Jul 28, 2017 12:21
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She looks like Pris from the movie Blade Runner which was a film that starred a gently caress-bot called Pris. Only this bang-droid is called Kayleigh like from the show Firefly(which came out in the 90s but I'll still wank over it like I do for the 80s stuff) Kayleigh was someone all the nerds wanted to plough because she was also a nerd but a hot one the likes of which we've nver seen the likes of which.
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Jul 28, 2017 13:08
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I just wrote RP1 fan-fic. gently caress my life.
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Jul 28, 2017 13:09
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Drunken Baker posted:I just wrote RP1 fan-fic. gently caress my life. Rp1 is already fanfic so that's like... Homeopathic concentrations of actual creative content.
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Jul 28, 2017 13:13
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Drunken Baker posted:I just wrote RP1 fan-fic. gently caress my life. Literally better than the book
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Jul 28, 2017 13:14
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You're telling me you wouldn't gently caress a sexbot? cmoon cmooooooooon
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Arcsquad12 posted:This is like Food Fight except with pop culture Spielberg could make a movie that's just 90 minutes of flushing creamed corn down a toilet and it would be better than Foodfight! in every capacity.
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Jul 28, 2017 13:31
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Lumpy the Cook posted:I just found out about Ready Player One and complaining about lack of minority representation or w/e in this seems really dumb because it's the absolute worst thing that's ever been put to paper and having more minorities wouldn't change that: Some people, if they were being chased down and mauled by a pack of rabid dingos, would spend their last breath before they were torn to shreds complaining about the gender imbalance of the dingo pack.
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:guys, guys, my brain just shat out a real hot take:
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Egbert Souse posted:Spielberg could make a movie that's just 90 minutes of flushing creamed corn down a toilet and it would be better than Foodfight! in every capacity. I'd pay to see that in the theater, actually
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I get that 80's nostalgia is hot right now due to demographics, but how does Spielberg of all people need money badly enough to sign on to something based on that book. The paragraph long snippets posted here are so loving embarrassing I can barely finish them. It's even more mystifying having just recently watched Stranger Things. Turns out you throw in all the nostalgia you want if you remember to have characters and a story.
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Drunken Baker posted:READY SLAYER ONE is the story of a kid in the future who has to go into a horror VR world to solve the power up and win the game. schmuckfeatures posted:How did the director who brought us "Schindler's List" end up saying yes to "Fan Fiction: The Movie" Spielberg probably sees an 80s-nostalgia-themed action vehicle akin to Tron in the script and thought it would be interesting to get behind and maybe give his commentary on his own legacy. It will probably be a huge mistake, but Spielberg isn't safe from those.
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I want the sequel to this where the virtual world is on online dystopia of failed and unpopular geek stuff. "I got in my Ghostbusters car and felt a bit dirty. It wasn't the Ecto-1 from the original Ghostbusters. I couldn't even afford the vcred for the Ecto-1A from Ghostbusters 2. I couldn't even afford one of the Real Ghostbusters.vehicles. I couldn't even afford the Ecto-1 from the Ghostbusters: Answer the Call. No, this was the one from the Filmmation live-action series. It didn't even have the bells and whistles of the animated one. Eventually earning enough vcreds to put the actual Ghostbusters logo on the doorsI tried take advantage of the complete unpopularity of all of it to spin it as an ironically and intentionally uncool ride. Nope. It just made things worse when people saw it. Of course, I customized it the best I could but going down virtual roads with it, the guys in the real fancy Ecto-Ones would honk their horns and throw trash at me and key it with their lightsabers as they passed by. The cliques who did appreciate it either didn't want a thing to do with me, or vice versa. It took me a few months, but I was able to apply a new skin to it to conceal the car from the other geeks as best I could. The Golden Compass gilded pack made everything look like a tastefully tacky carriage, but the other drivers saw my ride and kept quoting the infamous Kevin Smith story from Kevin Smith's first An Evening with Kevin Smith about his work on the unmade Superman Lives movie and asking me how deadly polar bears were. The only thing that made the virtual world tolerable was that there was hope for something better. All I had to do was be able to afford a virtual Enterprise Holodeck, like out of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and pull the Moriarty Gambit in order simulate a virtual world within the virtual world where I could drive around like the cool kids in their KiTT/Ecto-1/Delorean rides."
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Jul 28, 2017 18:02
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More like Ready movie Player for One steaming pile of poo poo!!
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Chinatown posted:cool a 100% CGI diarrhea fest I don't know, nerds hate being pandered to in principle, but 80% of the time are too stupid to realize when they're being pandered too. This one might be that 20% that's too obvious.
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Jul 28, 2017 18:40
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Ready Player One is legit one of the worst books I've ever had the displeasure of experiencing It's Twilight for guys, probably even actually worse written
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Jul 28, 2017 18:42
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General Dog posted:I don't know, nerds hate being pandered to in principle since loving when did you miss the whole multi-year internet holy war over how kotaku or what the gently caress ever wrote some articles pandering to sensitive college types, instead of The Nerds
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The upshot is this might be the definitive litmus test 80s-90s kids need to realize how we all need to grow the gently caress up and move on from the self-important championing of our childhood pop culture. You could tell me Spielberg picked the project for exactly that reason and I'd believe it.
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mind the walrus posted:The upshot is this might be the definitive litmus test 80s-90s kids need to realize how we all need to grow the gently caress up and move on from the self-important championing of our childhood pop culture. You could tell me Spielberg picked the project for exactly that reason and I'd believe it. just like the boomers ever stopped jerking themselves raw over woodstock and the beatles
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Being pandered to is something you do to the unwashed neurotypical masses who are too busy watching pointless reality TV while engaging in sex acts with other people. But oh my God did you see that DeLorean?! It was so cool and now everyone has to pay attention to us nerds now I heard that if you preorder your ticket now you get a limited edition pog slammer it looks so cool!
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