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Buccaneer
Jun 24, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
It's called "Ready Player One" and it's based on the book of the same name. It's about a white guy who plays video games

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Julien Sorel
Jan 27, 2006

Voted Worst Marksman of 1830
a bunch of my friends who hate family guy because it's nothing but pop-culture references from their youth are excited about this movie, lol

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
player 2 has left the game

myDad
Jan 20, 2010

ce n'est pas ma mère
College Slice

Orkin Mang posted:

player 2 has left the game

Sand Dan
May 15, 2017

welcum 2 our
sick cyberpunk h e l l
Red Warrior ate the food. :btroll:

SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


Oh word?

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.
gently caress me runnin the bastards really did it

VikingSkull
Jan 23, 2017
Look Viking you're a trash Trump supporter what the fuck makes you think you can have an avatar that isn't what I decide? Shut your fucking trap and go away. Your trolling is tiresome and just shits up the forum.
Easter Egg: The Movie

Entropic
Feb 21, 2007

patriarchy sucks
That book was so bad trying to read it made me respect Cory Doctorow's writing by comparison.

theperminator
Sep 16, 2009

by Smythe
Fun Shoe
I hope this doesn't mean Wil Wheaton gets another job, that useless annoying sack of poo poo needs to starve to death.

Entropic
Feb 21, 2007

patriarchy sucks
The only good thing about Ready Player One is that it's not his second book, Armada.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2015/07/armada_by_ernest_cline_follow_up_to_ready_player_one_reviewed.single.html

quote:

Armada is a story about how gamers are the most important people in the world. This is not a new story; it's served as the inspiration for countless video games over the past 40 years, not to mention the recent harassment campaigns that spawned out of gaming culture and the wounded, entitled pride at their heart. While the aims of the novel are onanistic rather than malicious, Armada nonetheless demands to be bronzed as the perfect embodiment of the impulses that so often make games—and gaming culture—boring, self-indulgent, and regressive.

Armada is the highly anticipated second novel from Ernest Cline, who hit the best-seller list in 2011 with his debut, Ready Player One. Set in 2044, that first sci-fi adventure took place in a dystopian future in which people escape their lives by jacking into a virtual reality universe. This VR world was created by a programmer who was obsessed with ’80s geek culture and built an elaborate treasure hunt into the game based on his very specific predilections. The resulting journey was a confectionary pastiche where the player who essentially “got” the most ’80s references was promised vast, godlike abilities, and the worship of nostalgia was framed as the path to happiness, salvation, and power.

Although this sounds like fertile ground for a critique of the inward-facing tendencies that so often pervade modern gaming, Ready Player One was far too joyously self-absorbed in its referential excesses to step back and examine what they might mean. It was still a page-turner, though. Armada is neither as immersive nor as fun, though it remains just as committed to sucking the sweet, nostalgic marrow from superior works of science fiction and pop culture.


quote:

Armada often feels like it's being narrated by that one guy in your group of friends who never stops quoting the Simpsons, a tic that feels increasingly tiresome and off-putting in the face of the novel’s supposedly apocalyptic stakes. On more than one occasion, soldiers salute each other en route to world-ending battles by solemnly swearing that “the Force” will be with them, and one character flies to his supposedly tragic and moving death while screaming quotes from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. This is a book that ends with someone unironically quoting Yoda.

Buccaneer
Jun 24, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

theperminator posted:

I hope this doesn't mean Wil Wheaton gets another job, that useless annoying sack of poo poo needs to starve to death.

Can't stand Will Wheat thin

Owlbear Camus
Jan 3, 2013

Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?



List of Things You Remember: The Book: The Motion Picture.

Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

https://twitter.com/neilcic/status/888866630306082817

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
Somehow he's going to find a way to portray Germans as being subhuman subcreatures

Buccaneer
Jun 24, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

That's not the official trailer

Uncle Wemus
Mar 4, 2004

It looks like total poo poo

a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
what we need today are less players and more prayers

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

a bone to pick posted:

what we need today are less players and more prayers

a prayerful response. may the lord be with you. keep it real, dill pickle

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'
they should've called him earnest decline imo

Beef Turret
Jul 9, 2009

by Lowtax
Videogames are for children

Schweinhund
Oct 23, 2004

:derp:   :kayak:                                     
They said the same things about Jaws before that was released.

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
itt goons are mad they didn't write the book and make gigadollars considering it's aids tarded writing, feeble-minded narrative, and subject matter upon which they are experts lol. That fucktard cline sucks! Decries increasingly unhappy aging millennial with 5000 posts in the games forum.

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Buccaneer posted:

That's not the official trailer

Aw drat I was all pumped up. :gbsmith:

Drunken Baker
Feb 3, 2015

VODKA STYLE DRINK
How is this book real?

Pitdragon
Jan 20, 2004
Just another lurker
it has that thing i like from back when i was a kid! boy those were the days!

Crazypoops
Jul 17, 2017



Have you ever wanted to see all of your favorite pop culture entertainment from the 80s/90s mashed together in a mushy indecipherable mess with a monochrome filter?

bluetail
Jul 8, 2012
everyone knows that ready player one is 300 pages of bazinga but not many people know that ernest cline used to write "poetry" and it's the cringiest, gooniest poo poo imaginable

a new york times best-selling author posted:

I've noticed that there don't seem to be any porno movies 
that are made for guys like me.

All the porn I've come across
was targeted at beer-swilling sports bar dwelling alpha-males
Men who like their women stupid and submissive
Men who can only get it up for monosyllabic cock-hungry nymphos
with gargantuan breasts and a three-word vocabulary

Adult films are populated with these collagen-injected
liposuctioned women
Many of whom have resorted to surgery and self-mutilation
in an attempt to look the way they have been told to look.

These aren't real women. They're objects.
And these movies aren't erotic. They're pathetic.
These vacuum-headed gently caress bunnies don't turn me on.
They disgust me.
And it's not that I'm against pornography.
I mean, I'm a guy. And guys need porn.
Fact.
"Like a preacher needs pain, like a needle needs a vein,"
Guys need porn.

But I don't wanna watch this misogynist he-man woman-hater porn.
I want porno movies that are made with guys like me in mind:
Guys who know that the sexiest thing in the world
is a woman who is smarter than you are.

You can have the whole cheerleading squad,
I want the girl in the tweed skirt and the horn-rimmed glasses:
Betty Finnebowski, the valedictorian.
Oh yes.
First I want to copy her Trig homework,
and then I want to make mad, passionate love to her
for hours and hours
until she reluctantly asks if we can stop
because she doesn't want to miss Battlestar Galactica.
Summa cum laude, baby! 
That is what I call erotic.

there are like 8 more paragraphs of this

Neurosis
Jun 10, 2003
Fallen Rib
i have not read the book because it sounds like adolescent poo poo and will not see the movie because it'll be a movie based on adolescent poo poo but i do look forward to the redlettermedia review

Orkin Mang
Nov 1, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Neurosis posted:

i have not read the book because it sounds like adolescent poo poo and will not see the movie because it'll be a movie based on adolescent poo poo but i do look forward to the redlettermedia review

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
what was the last good steven spielberg film

Wizard Master
Mar 25, 2008

I am the Wizard Master
Before googling him try to picture what Ernest Cline looks like in your head, then congratulate yourself for being right.

a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

Wizard Master posted:

Before googling him try to picture what Ernest Cline looks like in your head, then congratulate yourself for being right.

I imagine he looks like you

putin is a cunt
Apr 5, 2007

BOY DO I SURE ENJOY TRASH. THERE'S NOTHING MORE I LOVE THAN TO SIT DOWN IN FRONT OF THE BIG SCREEN AND EAT A BIIIIG STEAMY BOWL OF SHIT. WARNER BROS CAN COME OVER TO MY HOUSE AND ASSFUCK MY MOM WHILE I WATCH AND I WOULD CERTIFY IT FRESH, NO QUESTION

Smythe posted:

itt goons are mad they didn't write the book and make gigadollars considering it's aids tarded writing, feeble-minded narrative, and subject matter upon which they are experts lol. That fucktard cline sucks! Decries increasingly unhappy aging millennial with 5000 posts in the games forum.

nice meltdown

putin is a cunt
Apr 5, 2007

BOY DO I SURE ENJOY TRASH. THERE'S NOTHING MORE I LOVE THAN TO SIT DOWN IN FRONT OF THE BIG SCREEN AND EAT A BIIIIG STEAMY BOWL OF SHIT. WARNER BROS CAN COME OVER TO MY HOUSE AND ASSFUCK MY MOM WHILE I WATCH AND I WOULD CERTIFY IT FRESH, NO QUESTION
i mean sorry ppl made fun of a thing u like, but chill

Cephalectomy
Jun 8, 2007
So this is pixels without Adam Sandler and somehow even worse? gently caress that

End of Shoelace
Apr 5, 2016
i think this will be the type of movie that rewards the audience when they wrack their brains for small descriptive details of stupid bullshit from almost 40 years ago

Drunken Baker
Feb 3, 2015

VODKA STYLE DRINK
It reads like some kind of weird parody of what someone would think a film about nerds should be. But it's 100% genuine and people 100% love it and think it's epic. Hahaha.

TheMostFrench
Jul 12, 2009

Stop for me, it's the claw!



In the grim darkness of the future, there is only nostalgia based consumerism.

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Prawned
Oct 25, 2010

Smythe posted:

itt goons are mad they didn't write the book and make gigadollars considering it's aids tarded writing, feeble-minded narrative, and subject matter upon which they are experts lol. That fucktard cline sucks! Decries increasingly unhappy aging millennial with 5000 posts in the games forum.

hurtful

e: also ernest cline secret account spotted

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