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Powaqoatse posted:also just for posterity Well this sentence is going to inform all my future pees from here on out
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Metaphors and similes are taught in elementary school
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EmmyOk posted:Does anyone have that page of RPO handy that's just a list of 80s things the dude watched and also Ernest Clines weird pornstars are objects thing tia I was just catching up on the funny pictures thread when I ran into this  EDIT: And I'm sure I was also near his gross nerd poetry but I ain't reading that to make sure it's that so good luck finding it
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:It’s a good point and another example of what’s missing from RPO. We I mean the aesop at the end is supposedly to enjoy reality and don't do so much escapism but The self insert wouldn't have won if he wasn't an obsessed nerd who magically memorized literally all of western 80's pop culture The world is essentially post apocalyptic and there's nothing to do but access the free virtual world (except there's still like, sponsors for e athletes and people can afford to buy luxury goods and also have the ability of watching 80's commercials while gorging on dorito chips when they're supposedly on a super limited income) So the book doesn't even have a consistent logic to it
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Feb 14, 2018 17:00
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at all the silly references but as someone whose childhood was firmly in the 80s the missing pieces of pop culture are as obvious as Teela missing her snake armor (hey, I took her in the pool a lot!). I probably said this earlier in the thread but RPO has the same issue as Twilight: the author’s wish-fulfillment protagonist wins everything but doesn’t grow one bit as a character, and the otherwise mediocre story suffers for it.
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Nakar posted:In a way that's exactly what the message of RPO is: You should be obsessed with the awareness that certain things exist because a person older than you decided they were the most important things in the world. The main character doesn't come to his nostalgia for a time he wasn't even alive because he already liked 80s poo poo and that turned out to be advantageous, he explicitly learns all of this so he can think like the guy who created virtual reality and win his dumb contest. Given how many people in the setting are doing the same, it gives the impression that this one rich douchebag has singlehandedly stunted an entire generation of culture by forcing them to waste all their time consuming John Hughes movies instead of creating anything new. 372 pages points out that the Willie Wonka parallel completely breaks up because Ernest Cline won the internet because he was really good at quoting war games and nothing else, while Charlie wins the factory because he's an honest, fundamentally good person who proves his moral fiber time and time again. The nerdman had no challenges, no inner limitations to overcome except choosing what orifices and attachments his sex doll would have
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Feb 17, 2018 19:21
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There was a goosebumps titled the ghost next door and it was about how this girl has these new neighbors who moved in overnight and they're spoOoOoOoky ghosts and then the first chapter starts with the girl dreaming her house was burning down and yeah ok the twist is obviously that she's the ghost so I don't need to read this book now
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chitoryu12 posted:There's some hints as to Wade being that kind of character (he gets a sort of third-person-ish(?) monologue about how he found out that life sucks and there's no God so he may as well play video games all day), but it doesn't get nearly as much time as the detailed descriptions of every pop culture reference. Except it's presented as an edgy 14 year old who doesn't see why he has to go to church to worship the flying spaghetti monster, mom
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