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In Ready Player Goon I want to be Geddy Gandalf. I'm going to fly around the Oasis in Airwolf. E: R2D2 will be my co-pilot and I totally speak droid. My avatar will definitely have a denim jacket. And there will be a boombox, just sitting around in Airwolf as needed. Internetjack fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Nov 29, 2020 |
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Fried Watermelon posted:Going to steal all the posts in this thread to make Ready Player Goon, an erotic pop culture referencing book Actually I copyrighted pacmans humming fuckhole so you owe me
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Ror posted:My sister got me the first book a couple Christmases ago accompanied by the bone-chilling "this book is SO you!" I didn't have the heart to tell her what I thought about it but I might have to if she gets me the second one. Did she also tell you that you should totally watch The Big Bang Theory because there's this character who's just like you in it?
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Technocrat posted:I read the first book before finding out the broad consensus about it, and I was originally convinced that it was like American Psycho, written from the perspective of a self-centered protagonist who doesn't get just how terrible the world outside has become thanks to universal Oasis addiction. There's a reason Palmer Luckey gave a copy to every employee at Oculus and essentially forced them to read it.
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The insanity of these stupid books is such that every single post in this thread could plausibly be true
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StarChild felt the brim of his shock-white hat-- a nanoreplica of the iconic one worn by Michael Jackson in Moonwalker-- and surveyed the jump. He knew his Bionic Arm from the NES game Bionic Commando could bridge the gap, but he also knew that in the 20 years since it was discovered, no one had been able to nail the final jump of the "Henry Jones, Jr. Commemorative Archeolobstacle Course". There had to be something he missed. Reaching into his Captain N jacket, he pulled out Brett Hart's iconic holovisor, which he had personally modified to be a full-spectrum analyst tapping into the World's code files. It immediately caused a feedback loop that made the environment swim and ripple. He'd gone fuzzy. This wouldn't be easy.
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ErrEff posted:There's a reason Palmer Luckey gave a copy to every employee at Oculus and essentially forced them to read it. God, I couldn't remember if it was Luckey or Musk that gave a copy to all his employees. Somehow this is funnier.. Whatever happened to Occlus after they got bought by facebook
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Happy Landfill posted:God, I couldn't remember if it was Luckey or Musk that gave a copy to all his employees. Somehow this is funnier.. edit: musk did not hand out rp1 books. He did send everyone to The Martian though
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Nov 29, 2020 09:42
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Zeinin posted:Palmer now runs a cool new defense contractor and calls me pathetic on facebook, despite naming his company after a lord of the rings reference. He also hosted post covid trump at his mansion for a fundraiser. This is about what I expected, honestly.
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I just loving love that in the movie they spend a strange amount of time in The Shining, like yeah it was 1980 but who the hell sees it as an 80s movie in the same vein as breakfast club like yeah gamer wars atari poo poo Doing the underwear shuffle from the money movie with Tom Cruise goofing off like Ferris Bueller getting chased by the naked old lady from the Shining wait what
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Nov 29, 2020 12:22
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Alan Smithee posted:I just loving love that in the movie they spend a strange amount of time in The Shining, like yeah it was 1980 but who the hell sees it as an 80s movie in the same vein as breakfast club Warner didn't have the rights to War Games, so they subbed in The Shining.
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Happy Landfill posted:God, I couldn't remember if it was Luckey or Musk that gave a copy to all his employees. Somehow this is funnier.. Bezos also loves the poo poo outta the book, amazoo executives have to read it or they're ostracized. Bezos doesn't give out the book tho because Amazon is cheap as gently caress.
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Happy Landfill posted:Whatever happened to Occlus after they got bought by facebook lets just say they pre-ordered Oculus on the hype when they should have waited for reviews
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https://twitter.com/AngstHarrier/status/1333488705848311810
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"Woah, are you guys seeing this?" The Death Star rose over the horizon like a metallic sun, huge and foreboding. The laser array began to glow green, even from thousands of miles away it was a terrifying sight. "Oh no, it's aimed right at us!" said Cheetara. "Not even I'm fast enough to outrun this. Our planet is doomed!" All around, people were crying in terror, hugging loved ones. A few brave ones tried to keep a brave face. Sonic was handing out chili dogs as a final feast, while Gizmo was leading dozens in a prayer service. He had become an ordained minister several months ago, but never expected to have to use his skills like this. "Now hold on just a second, this isn't the end!" said Wade, who was the bravest person ever to enter OASIS and also had a huge penis. "This is just the beginning. A great man once said 'Never give up, never surrender!' That was me, I'm saying it right now." The crowd began to murmur, then cheer, then starting an elaborate choreographed dance to show their admiration for Wade. "Wade, I love you. Please come back to me in one piece." said Jessica Rabbit. "Don't worry, I will. Roger might not have known what he had, but I do. He might have been content to drink away his life in some bar in the middle of nowhere, but I'm only happy around you, babe." Wade gave Jessica one final passionate kiss, then starting running as fast as he could. He tapped into the digital code of the OASIS to make himself faster than light, then launched himself at the Death Star. "Hey, Skeletor? I know you can't hear me because I'm moving faster than light, but I hope this hurts... a lot!" Wade altered the digital code even more to make himself weigh thousands of pounds (he was normally a very healthy weight) and to make himself invulnerable. He hit the Death Star with an almost infinite amount of force, causing it to explode. Back on the surface, Muldoon from Jurassic Park looked up. "Wow, what a clever move. Pure genius." "Yes," replied the Toxic Avenger. "And it makes more sense than if, say, this happened in a movie and you were trying to steer a ship through faster-than-light travel into another ship in some kind of suicide move." "Agreed," replied Brainy Smurf, who was wiping tears of joy from his eyes. "It's also worth noting that writing a novel takes a long time and any ideas that might appear to be copied from, let's say, a movie were probably inside the author's head for much longer than that. If you choose to call the author a hack, the burden of proof falls on you to discover exactly WHEN the author first had this idea. Oh, what's that? You can't? That's what I thought."
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Baba Yaga Fanboy posted:The insanity of these stupid books is such "Later skater!" I felt myself exclaim as I pressed the tiny red button (a clever joke by the suit designers, referencing the ominous "Big Red Button" in the 80s anime Pinky and the Brain) which summoned my exclusive, one of a kind replica Tony Hawk custom skateboard - upgraded, naturally, with small rocket jets and decorated with stickers of my favorite 80s bands (They Might Be Giants and Harvey Danger)
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I have a ready player one story for the thread. When I used to work maintenance we had allot of downtime so we’d bring in books to read, well the guy working the other shift brought in a book called Ready Player One and being bored one day i flipped through it and laughed my rear end off at it. The next day i was pretty pumped to roast him for liking it but he had been fired. In conclusion do not read Ernest Cline or your career will suffer
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imagine how you'd feel if you spent all your time trying to get famous in the nerd realm and when you finally do it's because you plagiarized GameMasterAnthony.
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Waterbed Wendy posted:Actually I copyrighted pacmans humming fuckhole so you owe me Pacman's loving humhole
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Do you think pac man would stop sucking u off after you came or would he just keepin on suckin?
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Fried Watermelon posted:Pacman's loving humhole Love it. One note, how about Manpac's loving humhole.
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massive spider posted:The whole thing: Is this a poem? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrvAnPKv4Ro
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runnypoops posted:Do you think pac man would stop sucking u off after you came or would he just keepin on suckin? do NOT allow pacman to suck your dick, as soon as he notices your balls he's gonna eat them
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If I posted real excerpts from the book, nobody would believe they were real.
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quote:After Purple Rain Prince and his two attack doves finished their bombing run, Cloud Suit Prince descended. This incarnation wore a sky-blue suit covered in white clouds. And he apparently had the ability to turn his suit invisible and phase-shift, rendering him immune to our attacks. quote:“Hey,” I said. “Wouldn’t we get there faster…in a Ferrari?”
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I genuinely cannot tell what is a real excerpt and what is not. I have a high school classmate that I exchange emails with occasionally (I wouldn't quite call him a friend) who is very excited that Ready Player Two is coming out. I can forgive him some, I guess, because he's literally a shut-in due to a slow moving ALS sort of illness and is probably the sort of person who would really enjoy the OASIS, but I think we're about to have a discussion about the portrayal of female characters.
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numberoneposter posted:There is a whole lot going on in that regarding trans and stuff that I can't articulate so I'm just going to quote the stand out sentence of "all different kinds if sex". theres just regular and mouth and butt, right
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bird with big dick posted:theres just regular and mouth and butt, right Expand your mind.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:I genuinely cannot tell what is a real excerpt and what is not. Ok well the rest of us were joking around. So.
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chitoryu12 posted:If I posted real excerpts from the book, nobody would believe they were real. I refuse to believe that Ernest Cline is cool enough to even know that Prince had a song called "Gett Off"
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Simone Magus posted:I refuse to believe that Ernest Cline is cool enough to even know that Prince had a song called "Gett Off" Prince is the enemy boss though. Cline is obviously working out his repressed hate that he totally didn't get Prince back in the 1980s. In the first book Rush was a big plot point, because that was Cline's jam. As you'd expect from the whitest guy to ever whrite.
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ernest cline does not know how revolvers work
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Wall Balls posted:ernest cline does not know how revolvers work Ernest Cline doesn't know how most things work except a word processor.
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chitoryu12 posted:Ernest Cline doesn't know how most things work except a word processor. Even that is debatable
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I want to know why this specific terrible crossover fanfiction got really popular. There are a lot of terrible crossover fanfictions out there, there always have been, but why has this specific one become mainstream. Also how does it stand legally when its making money off of other company's IPs, is that allowed? Can you just write a book and bank off of everyone else's poo poo with little/no effort of your own and just become a millionaire? If so why havent more people made their horrible crossover fics into dollars? When is the superwholock/twilight/MLP omegaverse movie coming out?
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chitoryu12 posted:Ernest Cline doesn't know how most things work except a word processor. including the English language. Christ, his prose is so singularly, staggeringly loving wretched
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Bismuth posted:I want to know why this specific terrible crossover fanfiction got really popular. There are a lot of terrible crossover fanfictions out there, there always have been, but why has this specific one become mainstream. Also how does it stand legally when its making money off of other company's IPs, is that allowed? Can you just write a book and bank off of everyone else's poo poo with little/no effort of your own and just become a millionaire? If so why havent more people made their horrible crossover fics into dollars? When is the superwholock/twilight/MLP omegaverse movie coming out? Most crossover fanfic isn't a mash-up of hundreds of movies/games/whatever, most of it is "what if Harry Potter AND Star Wars???" Short references to other works probably falls under fair use, while writing a new "Harry Potter as a Jedi" novel clearly doesn't. That's why Fifty Shades of Grey was rewritten for publication (it was originally a Twilight fanfic).
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jkk posted:Most crossover fanfic isn't a mash-up of hundreds of movies/games/whatever, most of it is "what if Harry Potter AND Star Wars???" Short references to other works probably falls under fair use, while writing a new "Harry Potter as a Jedi" novel clearly doesn't. That's why Fifty Shades of Grey was rewritten for publication (it was originally a Twilight fanfic). "short" references maybe, but the book's entire foundation is referencing other properties, I feel like disney or hasbro could add up every reference to one of their properties and come up with 1/3+ of the book that is entirely using them as life support
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Bismuth posted:I want to know why this specific terrible crossover fanfiction got really popular. There are a lot of terrible crossover fanfictions out there, there always have been, but why has this specific one become mainstream. Harry Knowles championed it and used his platform to make the deals happen after Cline's film Fanboys got made. Him and Cline are longtime friends since the early days of Knowles' Butt-Numb-A-Thon film festival.
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