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Jerry Cotton posted:I'm just assuming anyone who thinks it's OK light reading is severely autistic and would also consider The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters OK light reading.  My post previously said that it was neither high art nor good science fiction because it was awful masturbatory nostalgia glurge, written poorly.
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Mar 19, 2018 23:27
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doverhog posted:Ready Player One isn't high art or good science fiction, and it didn't seem like it was really intended as such either. It was fine light read to see what all the hype was about, entertaining like a Donald Duck comic would be. Don't besmirch the good name of Donald Duck, which is a cerebral, polished experience compared to loving RPO.
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Mar 19, 2018 23:35
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The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is one of my absolute favorite stories.
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Mar 19, 2018 23:36
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Donald Duck has a lot more fans than you'd think.  I liked the story about the square eggs.
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Mar 19, 2018 23:38
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Donald's fine, but he'll never live up to his uncle.
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Mar 19, 2018 23:41
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Beachcomber posted:Donald's fine, but he'll never live up to his uncle. I don't know the name of this particular DD artist, but he's pretty much the only good comic author in recorded history.
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Mar 19, 2018 23:45
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Don Rosa. The one and only.
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Mar 19, 2018 23:56
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Jerry Cotton posted:I'm just assuming anyone who thinks it's OK light reading is severely autistic and would also consider The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters OK light reading. The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters is at least whimsical and unpredictable. I'm guessing the penultimate chapter of Ready Player One isn't an incredibly detailed account of the protagonists going to Pizza Hut.
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Mar 19, 2018 23:56
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I'd subscribe to their newsletter, and order a shredder to shred the newsletter.
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Mar 20, 2018 00:00
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No way these are real extracts, it can't possibly be that poo poo.
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Mar 20, 2018 00:03
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Inescapable Duck posted:I'd subscribe to their newsletter, and order a shredder to shred the newsletter. Like a beautiful shredding ouroboros.
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Mar 20, 2018 00:08
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Bushmaori posted:No way these are real extracts, it can't possibly be that poo poo. You came to this thread whole. Right and truth were of your world, strong within you. Beauty was known. Now you’re hosed.
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Mar 20, 2018 00:09
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Bushmaori posted:No way these are real extracts, it can't possibly be that poo poo. Those snippets are cherry-picked and presented out of context. The rest of the book is much worse.
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Mar 20, 2018 00:12
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I found it a moderately fun book, albeit with a writing style that screams of being self published and it contains about 6-8 eye rollingly awful rants by the protagonist/author that would be embarrassing to anyone that's not an angst ridden adolescent boy. Rest of the book is okay with some fun moments, but mostly fun in the "Haha, I understand MMO terminology and reading a story about them is novel" way. I'll watch the movie, won't except much but some spectacle. I'm easy to please.
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Mar 20, 2018 00:23
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Cheshire Puss posted:I found it a moderately fun book, albeit with a writing style that screams of being self published and it contains about 6-8 eye rollingly awful rants by the protagonist/author that would be embarrassing to anyone that's not an angst ridden adolescent boy. Rest of the book is okay with some fun moments, but mostly fun in the "Haha, I understand MMO terminology and reading a story about them is novel" way. Thank you, poster "Trademark Cheshire Grin"
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Mar 20, 2018 00:25
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Bushmaori posted:No way these are real extracts, it can't possibly be that poo poo. These are absolutely real.
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Mar 20, 2018 00:29
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Those excerpts are pretty funny in a Coldsteel the Hedgehog kind of way, but I can't imagine a whole book like that 
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Mar 20, 2018 00:33
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Really puts my failures in cliche fiction into perspective 
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Mar 20, 2018 00:42
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Seriously pro-click. Chitoryu is suffering so we don't have to. As much.
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Mar 20, 2018 00:46
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First, you do not mess with Donald Duck, he'll kill you with absolutely no regrets     And second, let's not forget Ernest Cline's magnum opus: quote:Ernest Cline Nerd Porn Auteur Lyrics I know he was so proud of this that he recorded a reading of it himself but all my Google searches only give me dead links. Maybe someone will be luckier.
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Mar 20, 2018 00:47
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I have not read the book.
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Mar 20, 2018 00:47
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To recycle my own joke from when I saw that before, I thought this was the shredding industry icon!?
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Mar 20, 2018 01:10
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oldpainless posted:I have not read the book. More like oldbookless
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Mar 20, 2018 01:11
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mobby_6kl posted:To recycle my own joke from when I saw that before, I thought this was the shredding industry icon!? Me, respect, women.
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Mar 20, 2018 01:51
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oldpainless posted:I have not read the book. There's no need to brag
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Mar 20, 2018 03:18
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Probably just wants someone to watch this show with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tudors
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Mar 20, 2018 03:19
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Okay, not to continue the dogpiling on RP1, but this particular one kind of sums up what's so off-putting to me: from everything I've seen of RP1 (and I admittedly haven't read it), I don't get the impression that the main character, or Cline for that matter, actually like the stuff they're referencing. It's just knowing trivia. Great, you know the name of an Atari game - do you have any memories associated with it? Does it make you feel a certain way? Can you even say if it's good or bad? Or is it just a name to toss on a list of "things I'm aware of"? Like, there's plenty of nerdy poo poo I'm a fan of, but I could actually talk about why I like it and what it means to me, rather than just recite a bunch of names or references like a walking Wikipedia article. And it's not even like those things are inherently bad; something like Futurama's Star Trek episode is chock-full of in-jokes and references, but it's also a legitimate love letter to the series and tells you why the characters and writers are so attached to it. There's a genuine emotion behind it. Like I said, I haven't read the book, so for all I know the rest of it has more than a surface-level acknowledgement of the things it name drops, but this passage, and the car one, and the one where he just lists names of shows and movies for a page all just feel so empty. I've heard RP1 called nostalgic, but nostalgia is an actual emotion and at least indicates that someone likes a thing. This just feels like a weird self-congratulatory trip about how many nerdy things Cline can name. Anyway, here's a funny picture that only 80s kids will remember: 
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Mar 20, 2018 03:39
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Ready Player One is proof that Something Awful could crowd source a book and somehow manage to get Christopher Nolan to direct the movie adaptation staring a Foreverial nude Tom Hardy.
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Mar 20, 2018 04:04
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Cheshire Puss posted:I found it a moderately fun book, albeit with a writing style that screams of being self published and it contains about 6-8 eye rollingly awful rants by the protagonist/author that would be embarrassing to anyone that's not an angst ridden adolescent boy. Rest of the book is okay with some fun moments, but mostly fun in the "Haha, I understand MMO terminology and reading a story about them is novel" way. Dude, there is a massive genre of MMO novels. It's not exactly high quality stuff, but RPO is the worst. At least read the Overlord series
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Mar 20, 2018 04:07
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That does sound good, I’m tempted to make a call to Mr Laurie Reeves!
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Mar 20, 2018 05:30
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Lord Hydronium posted:Like I said, I haven't read the book, so for all I know the rest of it has more than a surface-level acknowledgement of the things it name drops, but this passage, and the car one, and the one where he just lists names of shows and movies for a page all just feel so empty. I've heard RP1 called nostalgic, but nostalgia is an actual emotion and at least indicates that someone likes a thing. This just feels like a weird self-congratulatory trip about how many nerdy things Cline can name. Oh no, that's all there is. The basic plot is that in the future of 2045, the entire planet's lifestyle and economy revolves around a VR MMO that lets you do pretty much anything and has every fictional universe ever licensed for it. The creator was an autistic guy who was obsessed with his 1980s adolescence (to the extent of throwing temper tantrums and firing employees at his gaming company if they didn't get his references). When he died of cancer, his will stated that whoever completed a scavenger hunt based on stuff he liked would get control of his company and $240 billion fortune. The clues he gave were in the form of his diary entries that are basically a stream of consciousness rambling about his thoughts on life and the recent media he consumed, plus a list of every single movie, TV show, book, and video game he owned at the time of his death. This has caused the world's cultural growth to suddenly cease in favor of obsessing over the 1980s. The protagonist grew up raised on educational games or living in this MMO and is so socially stunted that he has no friends outside the game because he can't handle real life. He's able to complete all the challenges because he has encyclopedic knowledge of 1980s pop culture now and has done ridiculous stuff like watch WarGames over 36 times or watch every episode of Family Ties 3 times. He just has no life except consuming and obsessing over 1980s media and pop culture. There's maybe 5 or 6 sentences in the book that present this as a negative thing.
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MarcusSA posted:Probably just wants someone to watch this show with. Always assume it’s a sex thing.
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Mar 20, 2018 05:55
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Does the book show the negatives of The Oasis and the protagonist rebel against the whole system & lead a real-world revolution with other resistance fighters? 'Cause the trailers hint this is a thing.
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Mar 20, 2018 06:04
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Fried Watermelon posted:Ready Player One is proof that Something Awful could crowd source a book and somehow manage to get Christopher Nolan to direct the movie adaptation staring a Foreverial nude Tom Hardy. Christopher Nolan's Zybourne Clock
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Android Apocalypse posted:Does the book show the negatives of The Oasis and the protagonist rebel against the whole system & lead a real-world revolution with other resistance fighters? 'Cause the trailers hint this is a thing. Barely mentioned and no.
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gently caress it. I'm going in. Pray for me. Lord Hydronium posted:Okay, not to continue the dogpiling on RP1, but this particular one kind of sums up what's so off-putting to me: from everything I've seen of RP1 (and I admittedly haven't read it), I don't get the impression that the main character, or Cline for that matter, actually like the stuff they're referencing. It's just knowing trivia. Great, you know the name of an Atari game - do you have any memories associated with it? Does it make you feel a certain way? Can you even say if it's good or bad? Or is it just a name to toss on a list of "things I'm aware of"? Like, there's plenty of nerdy poo poo I'm a fan of, but I could actually talk about why I like it and what it means to me, rather than just recite a bunch of names or references like a walking Wikipedia article. And it's not even like those things are inherently bad; something like Futurama's Star Trek episode is chock-full of in-jokes and references, but it's also a legitimate love letter to the series and tells you why the characters and writers are so attached to it. There's a genuine emotion behind it. That's it. I could never quite put my finger in it, but that's exactly what's been bugging me about Ready Player One since I first heard about it. Well, apart from the writing itself. It's endless "Hey look a reference!" but there's no context or meaning to any of it. It's like the teenager who screams out Monty Python quotes because he's oh so random and making a reference to some media he's consumed is as close as he can come to a personality. But at least the teenager presumably liked Monty Python, Ready Player One is just reference after reference and, as you pointed out, it's just there. It's a Wikipedia page with a plot. Megillah Gorilla has a new favorite as of 07:15 on Mar 20, 2018 |
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Facebook Aunt posted:No. Just no. Cat tongue is like scratchy velcro hooks. Cleaner butthole and yo butthole dont get bitten. Win/win
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