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Dec 13, 2017 04:39
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RobotDogPolice posted:Has anyone posted the poem he wrote about porn where girls wear glasses and spout nerd trivia because he thinks having a big brain is sexy unlike ALPHA MALES? I'm fairly sure he took this down from his website a month or two ago, around the time the first movie trailer came out. Which says it all, really.
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Dec 13, 2017 07:25
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So who exactly is this author related to, or otherwise networked with? This novel is printed proof against the concept of meritocracy.
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Dec 13, 2017 07:30
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cool new Polack jokes posted:Thread title reserved until they make BLOOD MERIDIAN dont give franco any more ideas please
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Dec 13, 2017 10:02
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We Know Catheters posted:Wil Wheaton sees nothing wrong with the poster for this trash movie 😑 In the book Wil Wheaton is president.
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Dec 13, 2017 12:12
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in his second book, armada, the guy basically goes on about how good chris roberts and star citizen is
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Dec 13, 2017 12:24
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Milky Moor posted:in his second book, armada, the guy basically goes on about how good chris roberts and star citizen is No way get outta town
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Dec 13, 2017 12:25
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Ready Player One is basically Neckbeard: the book. I can't believe this guy is an adult in his 40's, because it reads like the wish fulfillment fantasies of a nerd in high school. Holy arrested development, Batman. This is like a proud celebration of every negative nerd stereotype out there.
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Dec 13, 2017 16:00
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There is nothing wrong with enjoying trashy pulp media. Everyone needs some escapism sometimes. But I think you've got to be way more selective with books than other forms of media. Most media won't make too much of a lasting impression, just some short lived emotional reaction and maybe introducing you to a new idea. But books can worm their way into your phonological loop and alter your internal dialogue, changing the way you think. There is no way in hell I'm letting Ready Player One into my otherwise pristine mind palace where it will undoubtedly crap the place up by blutacking 80's movie posters to the walls.
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Dec 13, 2017 16:11
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Gammatron 64 posted:Ready Player One is basically Neckbeard: the book. I can't believe this guy is an adult in his 40's, because it reads like the wish fulfillment fantasies of a nerd in high school. Holy arrested development, Batman. This is like a proud celebration of every negative nerd stereotype out there. What drives me nuts is that, while we can all complain about this garbage with valid issues, the dude still got the book bought by a movie company, and now it's a loving SPIELBERG film. How does that loving happen? 
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Dec 13, 2017 16:17
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I don't think the Spielberg name is what it used to be.
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Dec 13, 2017 16:42
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Moon Atari posted:There is nothing wrong with enjoying trashy pulp media. Everyone needs some escapism sometimes. But I think you've got to be way more selective with books than other forms of media. Most media won't make too much of a lasting impression, just some short lived emotional reaction and maybe introducing you to a new idea. But books can worm their way into your phonological loop and alter your internal dialogue, changing the way you think. There is no way in hell I'm letting Ready Player One into my otherwise pristine mind palace where it will undoubtedly crap the place up by blutacking 80's movie posters to the walls. it's just a book dude. yeah it sucks poo poo but it doesn't reprogram your brain or something
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Dec 13, 2017 16:43
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the milk machine posted:it's just a book dude. yeah it sucks poo poo but it doesn't reprogram your brain or something That's what they want you to think
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Dec 13, 2017 16:48
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I was primed to give this book a chance and enjoy it in spite of my misgivings, but no, it really is just that bad. I hate read it one day at work and was astonished this thing became popular. Even if you set aside that the dude can’t write for poo poo nor can he structure a plot without relying wholeheartedly on tropes and clichés, the references that ostensibly make it so fun for Gen X dweebs are so hamfistedly and haphazardly employed that there’s no joy to it at all. Not to mention how surface-level they are. Like, the crux of the dead mega-dweeb’s contest is being able to recite Monty Python and the Holy Grail, possibly the most hallowed nerd property of all-time.
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Dec 13, 2017 16:53
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Life of Brian is better than Holy Grail anyway.
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Dec 13, 2017 16:56
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the milk machine posted:it's just a book dude. yeah it sucks poo poo but it doesn't reprogram your brain or something That's what steven speilberg thought and now look what has happened.
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Dec 13, 2017 16:56
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People want nostalgia for it's own sake because their lives are devoid of meaning. a literal list of callbacks is sufficient and it shouldn't be surprising that it is popular, though it is depressing
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Dec 13, 2017 16:57
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Criminal Minded posted:Like, the crux of the dead mega-dweeb’s contest is being able to recite Monty Python and the Holy Grail, possibly the most hallowed nerd property of all-time. At this point I put down the book and clapped.
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Dec 13, 2017 16:58
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"this book is so dumb and bad and gay and full of 80s references," says the man discussing 90s nostalgia on internet forums.
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Dec 13, 2017 17:00
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ready player one should instead have been a novelization of Robocop (1987), the 1987 robocop film. 80's references remain, but only references to Robocop (1987) the resulting movie would have been better too edit: the more i think about it the more i want "RPO but Robocop (1987) references only", now that's my kind of 'tism
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Dec 13, 2017 17:07
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satanic splash-back posted:"this book is so dumb and bad and gay and full of 80s references," says the man discussing 90s nostalgia on internet forums. That's the way the author frames it to be fair So add that to the list of the author's fuckups I guess
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Dec 13, 2017 17:08
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:What drives me nuts is that, while we can all complain about this garbage with valid issues, the dude still got the book bought by a movie company, and now it's a loving SPIELBERG film. Spielberg got old Flailing around like a blind man WHAT DO AUDIENCES LIKE TODAY? IS IT VR? IS IT MONTY PYTHON, IS THAT WHAT THE KIDS LIKE ????? At least Lucas had the dignity to sell his poo poo and retire fatly
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Dec 13, 2017 17:39
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:At least Lucas had the dignity to sell his poo poo and retire fatly Last I heard, he's fairly grumpy about how the series has been handled since he left it, which is just a massive  that you can't even write. poo poo just writes itself, goddamn.
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Dec 13, 2017 17:59
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Spielberg directs one great movie per decade and he already met his quota this decade with Lincoln. The rest is middling to bad.
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Dec 13, 2017 21:06
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Jaws is a great movie and the book is absolute dogshit so who knows
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Dec 13, 2017 21:11
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Man I tell you what, Ready Player One is a godawful book but it would be a loving amazing movie if Paul Verhoven directed it and gave it the Starship Troopers treatment
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Dec 13, 2017 21:52
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Gammatron 64 posted:Man I tell you what, Ready Player One is a godawful book but it would be a loving amazing movie if Paul Verhoven directed it and gave it the Starship Troopers treatment this. so much this.
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Dec 13, 2017 22:16
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Tim Burns Effect posted:Jaws is a great movie and the book is absolute dogshit so who knows i never knew it was a book. i knew rambo and die hard movies were.
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Dec 13, 2017 22:16
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Gammatron 64 posted:Man I tell you what, Ready Player One is a godawful book but it would be a loving amazing movie if Paul Verhoven directed it and gave it the Starship Troopers treatment Starship Troopers isn't a terrible book though, the politics in it are pretty bad, but they aren't as straight up fascist as is often thought, it's more of an early and much more authoritarian version of Heinlein's later politics really. ' Anyway if you were to do that to RPO then I guess one thing you could kind of do is instead of play up society's (online and offline) obsession with 80s nostalgia (it's not just the main character) as really cool and take the flip side of this and explore how essentially the world the book describes is one where innovation and cultural development are completely dead, only looking back.
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Dec 13, 2017 22:27
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Gammatron 64 posted:Man I tell you what, Ready Player One is a godawful book but it would be a loving amazing movie if Paul Verhoven directed it and gave it the Starship Troopers treatment I would pay big money for a "As his success in the VR world grows, his health and welfare in the real world deteriorates" spin in the movie. James Cameron really dropped the ball with that idea in Avatar.
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Dec 13, 2017 22:31
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the milk machine posted:ready player one should instead have been a novelization of Robocop (1987), the 1987 robocop film. 80's references remain, but only references to Robocop (1987)
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Dec 13, 2017 22:32
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Randarkman posted:Starship Troopers isn't a terrible book though, the politics in it are pretty bad, but they aren't as straight up fascist as is often thought, it's more of an early and much more authoritarian version of Heinlein's later politics really. ' That's what I would do. Comment on cultural stagnation and the reverence of pop culture to the point where it practically becomes a religion. I'd also depict a world where become so obsessed with escapist fantasy that the real world completely goes to hell. Ready Player One is the self-indulgent masturbatory fantasies of a stereotypical neckbeard with no hint of self-awareness at all, but you could take its concept and spin it into a great cautionary tale \ social satire. You could even leave the main character exactly as he is, except instead of having people applaud him for being a basement dweller, he is reviled by everyone, completely alienates all the people he meets, doesn't get the girl (well he may get a restraining order) and he ultimately fails in his quest. It would be like a modern Confederacy of Dunces. One of the best and most accurate depictions of "geek culture" I have ever seen is Eltingville which is hilariously and terrifyingly true to life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gK0uNlLa3s
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Dec 13, 2017 22:49
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mind the walrus posted:Hand to god this would have been a better take on "80s Neckbeard: The Motion Picture" in a lovely 'post-modern' kind-of way. there's just something i really like about REFERENCES: THE MOVIE, except it's all references to one thing/media property
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Dec 13, 2017 22:52
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the milk machine posted:there's just something i really like about REFERENCES: THE MOVIE, except it's all references to one thing/media property
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Dec 13, 2017 22:58
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Gammatron 64 posted:That's what I would do. Comment on cultural stagnation and the reverence of pop culture to the point where it practically becomes a religion. I'd also depict a world where become so obsessed with escapist fantasy that the real world completely goes to hell. Ready Player One is the self-indulgent masturbatory fantasies of a stereotypical neckbeard with no hint of self-awareness at all, but you could take its concept and spin it into a great cautionary tale \ social satire. The book kind of does this actually, though it does drown in all the reference-wanking, there is a kernel of decent, but not terribly original, sci-fi dystopia in there, one that is caused by not just resource scarcity but also that people have abandoned the real world. I wouldn't do the second thing you suggest though, you kind of want to do the Starship Troopers route where on the surface there is a happy ending, but if you look at it a little and think about it, it's ultimately all in the service of a rotten society.
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Dec 13, 2017 23:03
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Last I heard, he's fairly grumpy about how the series has been handled since he left it, which is just a massive He apparently liked Episode VIII and said it is beautifully made
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Dec 13, 2017 23:36
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OG cyberpunk from the 80's accepted that the future was going to be dank and lovely and full of brand names. RPO looks like it takes the brand name aspect and runs so hard and far with it that its feet fall off, as written by a Trivial Pursuit "I Love the 80's Edition" grand champion. I don't mind the idea of a real world that's crumbling because the virtual world is better in every way, but not like this. Not like this. (Which I suddenly remembered is what Switch said in that old movie The Matrix before the evil hacker Cipher pulls out her cyberplug, which kills her by causing her consciousness to flatline. That was the clue I needed to lead me to the Golden Axe which I needed to defeat Dance Dance Karnov.)
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Dec 13, 2017 23:57
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Furia posted:No way get outta town Would I lie in this hallowed thread?  Testikles posted:He apparently liked Episode VIII and said it is beautifully made Which is damning with faint praise.
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Dec 14, 2017 00:24
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Gammatron 64 posted:One of the best and most accurate depictions of "geek culture" I have ever seen is Eltingville which is hilariously and terrifyingly true to life. I read the comic and it's nothing short of horrifying. it's so bleak and misanthropic that in comparison, the over the top violence is almost funny
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Dec 14, 2017 00:30
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Milky Moor posted:Which is damning with faint praise.
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Dec 14, 2017 00:42
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