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Yorkshire Pudding posted:Is this the book where it's cyberpunk but the hero saves the world by having more knowledge of popular nerd culture than everyone else? The evil corporation looked up the script on the internet because they have no honour.
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The only winning move is not to see the film.
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Mar 8, 2018 17:34
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I'm sure I'll watch this movie on an airplane someday, which is damning with no praise. The movie deserves to be watched in a metal tube that is 50%oxygen and 50% fart methane.
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Mar 8, 2018 17:41
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Zeluth posted:I want VR gear to eat these: This but Gamer Fuel. 
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Mar 8, 2018 17:46
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Oops, Gamerfood I meant.
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Mar 8, 2018 17:47
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I wonder what it's like being a dead American soldier and looking up from Hell to see that you fight and died so that people could make this movie
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Mar 8, 2018 17:51
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FactsAreUseless posted:The OP is the most insane troll I have ever seen. You're really gonna put this over Dare and Gurf?
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Mar 8, 2018 18:06
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olives black posted:You're really gonna put this over Dare and Gurf? yeah
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Mar 8, 2018 18:07
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Murray Mantoinette posted:Good job Jose
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Mar 8, 2018 18:07
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:I think Ready Player One is a cultural landmark. A very significant cultural landmark. Perhaps even the most important and final cultural landmark. here lies culture peperoni and chease
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Mar 8, 2018 18:32
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Hey I remember that ad campaign.
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Mar 8, 2018 18:36
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Ours' is a decadent culture. The terrorists deserve to win.
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Mar 8, 2018 18:53
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Is that a quote from the book? I'm honestly not sure Anyway, did you know that Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One, is also a poet? Well you do now! 
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Mar 8, 2018 21:26
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A Fancy Hat posted:I pulled my combination Delorean/Ghostbusters car in my Ninja Turtles sewer headquarters. Things were great, I had saved the world. I felt like Indiana Jones, or maybe Link from The Legend of Zelda series by Nintendo. Then I realized someone else was in my HQ. I reached for my weapon of choice - the gun that Snake Plissken used in Escape from New York. It also had a flamethrower attachment, codenamed JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING. I had nicknamed it the Porkchop Express, which was the truck in Big Trouble in Little China. do they sell that return of the living dead shirt irl
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Mar 8, 2018 21:31
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Pththya-lyi posted:Is that a quote from the book? I'm honestly not sure sadly yes
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Mar 8, 2018 21:34
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Jesus Christ. I had been thinking "This book can't really be as bad as people say it is," but I guess I was wrong.
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Mar 8, 2018 21:40
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If I hadn't seen pictures of the author I would be convinced the book was a misunderstood satire.
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Mar 8, 2018 21:42
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Pththya-lyi posted:Is that a quote from the book? I'm honestly not sure Ah, the dearth of hipster/geek/amateur porn in the modern age of soulless fake corporate porn is an issue, I guess.
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Mar 8, 2018 21:46
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JediTalentAgent posted:Ah, the dearth of hipster/geek/amateur porn in the modern age of soulless fake corporate porn is an issue, I guess. The more I think about that poem it the angrier it makes me "The problem with mainstream porn isn't that it objectifies women, it's that it doesn't objectify the kind of women I find attractive. I am an enlightened man."
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Mar 8, 2018 21:50
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I also ready every single entry in the SAclopedia. If it was a tired forums injoke, like Doobie’s Doghouse, bronies, Jim’s hole, goatse.cx, “I’m gay”, or mangosteen, I researched the lore until I knew it by heart. I devoured each thread of what the Forums called “The Comedy Goldmine”: the “death zipline” threads (GBS and FYAD), all MS Paint threads, Keyboard Goop, and P-P-P-Powerbook… I also absorbed the complete post histories of forums’ favorite posters. Hakan, Ingwit, Rorschach, Dannymanic, dad gay, Prospector, Everdraed. And, of course, DocEvil. I spent three months studying the niggerstomper58 post and memorizing all the key catchphrases. I got obsessed with the concept of “irony”. My thought processes got really bizarre. You could say I say I covered all the bases. I studied Schmorky. And not just The Flash Tub, either. Every single one of their animations, drawings, comics, and every appearance with Lowtax in Gaming Garbage (including a couple of “lost” episodes that were DMCA’d by Youtube). I wasn’t going to cut any corners.
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Mar 8, 2018 22:17
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Will General Dog inherit Lowtax's fortune??? Probably not, because Lowtax has kids
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Mar 9, 2018 00:12
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Spielberg doesn't make good movies anymore
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Mar 9, 2018 00:17
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Uncle Wemus posted:Spielberg doesn't make good movies anymore And he went back and edited the guns out of ET, ruining the film retroactively.
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Mar 9, 2018 00:35
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Everything Hollywood puts out these days is just trash that normal people like me can't relate to. Surely I wasn't the person that only got to be player 2 (on a third party controller).
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Mar 9, 2018 00:44
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Wreck-it-Ralph already cornered the "movie centered around popular videogames" shtick and actually succeeded at being watchable while carefully sprinkling the pop-culture references. Sequel doesn't look too shabby, either, if the end of the trailer is anything to go by. Unless it pulls a Verhoeven and satires the hell out of itself I have very low hopes for this movie.
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Mar 9, 2018 02:01
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Uncle Wemus posted:Spielberg doesn't make good movies anymore
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Mar 9, 2018 02:15
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I picked up the book at an airport, and enjoyed it. Not cause its great writing or a great story, but I liked it because I actually got 95% of the pop culture references, easily. I felt like all the nerdy poo poo I did as a kid was justified! (It was not.) Apparently I'm almost the exact age of the author, and I'd be damned if he wasn't into the exact same stuff me and my friends were into as a kid. Joust, D&D, Zork, Rush lyrics and jacket covers, Ultraman were all hyper cool stuff to me when I was growing up. The final battle at the end might be fun to watch. I'll probably get it on Netflix in a couple years. Edit: for those that haven't read it, the earlier satire post is a bit over the top, but not much. The writing is pretty bad. Internetjack fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Mar 9, 2018 |
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Mar 9, 2018 02:40
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Internetjack posted:I picked up the book at an airport, and enjoyed it. Not cause its great writing or a great story, but I liked it because I actually got 95% of the pop culture references, easily. I felt like all the nerdy poo poo I did as a kid was justified! (It was not.) it’s swirly time for u
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Mar 9, 2018 03:02
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Internetjack posted:Joust, D&D, Zork, Rush lyrics and jacket covers, Ultraman were all hyper cool stuff to me when I was growing up. Sounds like something Ernest Cline would say 
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Mar 9, 2018 03:07
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let it mellow posted:it’s swirly time for u No worries, I deserve it. So many hours after school and on weekends playing through Zork and Zork2 at my friend's house on his Compaq "portable" that weighed 30 lbs and had a 9" green screen. And then my family got one; beginning of the end and all that, I guess.
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Mar 9, 2018 03:12
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Is there a player putting on his wizard hat and robe? I want to see that reference in the movie.
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Mar 9, 2018 03:12
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King of Bees posted:This but Gamer Fuel. that dude looks 40.
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Mar 9, 2018 03:25
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waiting for the reference ouroboros to circle back to the tail and see a movie that treats this one like it treats ghostbusters or whatever.
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Mar 9, 2018 03:27
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Dapper_Swindler posted:that dude looks 40. You're post made me curious. He's 37 it seems. No idea when the pic was taken.
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Mar 9, 2018 03:32
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:Is this the book where it's cyberpunk but the hero saves the world by having more knowledge of popular nerd culture than everyone else?  Imagine this guy writing hundred of pages of Mary Sue bullshit about how all his nerd knowledge will save the world. It's bad. Realllll bad, but nerds ate that poo poo up. Raged fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Mar 9, 2018 |
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Mar 9, 2018 03:34
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:waiting for the reference ouroboros to circle back to the tail and see a movie that treats this one like it treats ghostbusters or whatever. We're almost to this point, the pop culture singularity is coming
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Internetjack posted:I picked up the book at an airport, and enjoyed it. Not cause its great writing or a great story, but I liked it because I actually got 95% of the pop culture references, easily. I felt like all the nerdy poo poo I did as a kid was justified! (It was not.)
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Mar 9, 2018 03:44
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myt friend made me read the book and the guy was a fat slovenly loser for like 60% of the book but in the trailer he doesnt look like that at all. talk about a piece of poo poo. the girl was also fat as hell and an internet loser.. but i bet those sick creeps in hollywood ruined it. book is mediocre p much but in the biginning when the skeleton guy challenges him to a joiust duel i said in real life "its gonna be a cool skeleton guy and hes gonna make em play a old arcade game" and then i read on and guess hwt!! i was right!! this happened a lot in the book which was cool i guess kuz im really stupid and never see the epic twists coming while my big brain friends roll their eyes and make me suck their cocks, etc.
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Mar 9, 2018 03:48
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a lot of ppl rly hate this book/movie lol. good idea for a thread.
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Never have I read a book that managed to get so deep into my psyche. This book simply blew me away. As other may have said, I feel it was written just for me. It touches on some obscure stuff, even items that most people don't even know about...as I'm sure the less familiar items were the same for others. Words can't describe truly what an amazing adventure this was. So well written yet avoiding the trap of being gratuitous or over indulgent. There was one part in the book, in particular that just freaking blew my doors off...still reeling from it hours later. Without giving anything away, the author made a very brave decision to venture into certain hallowed territory...a very dangerous gamble...But he feakin NAILED it! At this point, this book sits clearly on the top as the best book I've ever read. It's not overly complicated or full of intertwined plots. It is a simple book that starts at point A...and rockets you to point Z. Clean, polished, researched and very well constructed. Immensely satisfying and worthy of Spielberg or Lucas to make a movie out of. Just outstanding. Having the Kindle copy isn't enough, I'll be buying the paperback tonight! Cover to cover in 3 days, yeah, that good. - I'm a wise ol' mid-40-something and one thing I've learned is to be VERY careful of reviews. I briefly skimmed over one or two before I made the purchase, probably not reading an entire one. And if you've read this far, might I advise you to just buy the book and don't spoil it for your self. So many things could have been ruined in innocent reviews not intending to. Don't do that to yourself, not with this book....All you need to know is if you were an 80s gamer/geek/music lover, any or all....then this book has your name all over it.
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