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Lumpy the Cook posted:I just found out about Ready Player One and complaining about lack of minority representation or w/e in this seems really dumb because it's the absolute worst thing that's ever been put to paper and having more minorities wouldn't change that: truly, a contemporary Thomas Pynchon
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Ein cooler Typ posted:it's funny how normies think references are jokes have you seen an SA photoshop thread in the last 10 years
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Jul 26, 2017 21:13
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The book ends with the hero reenacting all of Monty Python's Holy Grail, and the bad guys falling behind because they have to watch the scenes first to reenact them.
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Jul 26, 2017 21:14
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Lumpy the Cook posted:I just found out about Ready Player One and complaining about lack of minority representation or w/e in this seems really dumb because it's the absolute worst thing that's ever been put to paper and having more minorities wouldn't change that: This is the worst thing I've ever read
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Here's a good start on what's wrong with the book http://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/2014/06/19/010-ready-player-one-w-mike-sacco/ its a podcast or something I dont listen to them but someone linked me this and it was p accurate listen to it while doing chores or something
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Jul 26, 2017 21:17
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This is the worst poo poo of all time but I'd probably have loved it at age 13
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The other Indiana Jones movies, from Crystal Skull onwards does he live in a universe where there was a sequel to Crystal Skull
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Ein cooler Typ posted:The other Indiana Jones movies, from Crystal Skull onwards 'The Hero is Defeated' Timeline
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Oh forgot to mention, this book is now required reading for incoming freshmen at about a dozen universities in the US
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I was joking earlier, but I am seriously impressed at how terrible those two excerpts are. Not even You-tube "I am pretending to be UPSET! at how TERRIBLE this is!", but confused and repulsed.
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Madcosby posted:Oh forgot to mention, this book is now required reading for incoming freshmen at about a dozen universities in the US this is not true. no way
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/us/college-summer-reading.htmlquote:Several other commonly assigned titles reflect anxiety about the internet and gaming. Those include “The Circle,” a novel by Dave Eggers about a young woman drawn into the nefarious practices of the global tech company for which she works (chosen by Auburn University and Ohio Northern University, among others); “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed,” the journalist Jon Ronson’s take on social media mobs (Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, Ramapo College in New Jersey); and “Ready Player One,” a sci-fi novel by Ernest Cline in which a teenager confronts real-world social inequalities embedded within a utopian virtual reality game (Washington State).
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Jul 26, 2017 21:47
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Lmfao. They should rescind federal funding for any schools that assign this garbage
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Madcosby posted:Here's a good start on what's wrong with the book I love that they get into a sidebar on how terrible Cory Doctorow's Little Brother is.
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Jul 26, 2017 23:06
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They say the book is better than the movie but Steven Spielberg is going to prove them wrong
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Buccaneer posted:They say the book is better than the movie but Steven Spielberg is going to prove them wrong This is probably true, from the trailer the movie looks like a wackier version of Tron with a typical Spielberg kid protagonist, while these excerpts from the books look like atrocious fan fiction
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bluetail posted: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 Lol what on Earth
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I had no idea Boomerjinks made memoirs.
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Entropic posted:I love that they get into a sidebar on how terrible Cory Doctorow's Little Brother is. Oh yeah speaking of Cory Doctorow, in Ready Player One he's the president and Wil Wheaton is VP
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Standing on the left side of the runway was my battle-worn X-wing fighter. Parked on the right side was my DeLorean. Sitting on the runway itself was my most frequently used spacecraft, the Vonnegut. Max had already powered up the engines, and they emitted a low, steady roar that filled the hangar. The Vonnegut was a heavily modified Firefly-class transport vessel, modeled after the Serenity in the classic Firefly TV series. The ship had been named the Kaylee when I’d first obtained it, but I’d immediately rechristened it after one of my favorite twentieth-century novelists. Its new name was stenciled on the side of its battered gray hull. I’d looted the Vonnegut from a cadre of Oviraptor clansmen who had foolishly attempted to hijack my X-wing while I was cruising through a large group of worlds in Sector Eleven known as the Whedonverse.
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I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization. Our hands evolved to grip tools, all right—including our own. You see, thinkers, inventors, and scientists are usually geeks, and geeks have a harder time getting laid than anyone. Without the built-in sexual release valve provided by masturbation, it's doubtful that early humans would have ever mastered the secrets of fire or discovered the wheel. And you can bet that Galileo, Newton, and Einstein never would have made their discoveries if they hadn't first been able to clear their heads by slapping the salami (or "knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom"). The same goes for Marie Curie. Before she discovered radium, you can be certain she first discovered the little man in the canoe.
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In that moment, I felt like Luke Skywalker surveying a hangar full of A-, Y-, and X-Wing Fighters just before the Battle of Yavin. Or Captain Apollo, climbing into the cockpit of his Viper on the Galactica’s flight deck. Ender Wiggin arriving at Battle School. Or Alex Rogan, clutching his Star League uniform, staring wide-eyed at a hangar full of Gunstars. But this wasn’t a fantasy. I wasn’t Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon or Ender Wiggin or anyone else. This was real life. My life. I, Zackary Ulysses Lightman, an eighteen-year-old kid from Beaverton, Oregon, newly recruited by the Earth Defense Alliance, had just been reunited with my long-lost father on the far side of the moon— and now, together, we were about to wage a desperate battle to prevent the destruction of Earth and save the human race from total annihilation.
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“I wish someone had just told me the truth right up front, as soon as I was old enough to understand it. I wish someone had just said: “Here’s the deal, Wade. You’re something called a ‘human being.’ That’s a really smart kind of animal. Like every other animal on this planet, we’re descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago. This happened by a process called evolution, and you’ll learn more about it But trust me, that’s really how we all got here. There’s proof of it everywhere, buried in the rocks. That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. “Oh, and by the way … there’s no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid Deal with it.”
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I hope they show the complete run of pac-mac, otherwise we get ripped off.
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This better be in the soundtrack though, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReCdPcaDn4M otherwise, trash
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Good god. How long has higher education been rubbish for babbys?
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I can't watch this without also watching this afterwards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp0wSiQ_Nnc
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Madcosby posted:Oh forgot to mention, this book is now required reading for incoming freshmen at about a dozen universities in the US You're a loving LIAR, that can't be true!
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Crazypoops posted:You're a loving LIAR, that can't be true! Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
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turn off the TV posted:I think about killing myself every time that I'm reminded this exists. same but every time i wake up having not died in my sleep it's not enough that everything in our superficial, triviality-obsessed culture is a reboot or a cinematic universe or a costumed super hero from childrens comics, now we have to have all that stuff chewed up together and spit back into our idiot beaks. this book/film is evidence of how far we have fled from the grace of a loving god
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Maybe it's an indication of mental problems, but I have a hard time parsing "Ready Player One" and immediately think of Realplayer. Like, if it was written as "Ready, Player One," I'd totally get it. However, here I am thinking that it's a media player of some sort until I remember what it actually is.
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Universe Master posted:Search your feelings, you know it to be true. I know that! I know that reference!
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Milky Moor posted:Standing on the left side of the runway was my battle-worn X-wing fighter. Parked on the right side was my DeLorean. Sitting on the runway itself was my most frequently used spacecraft, the Vonnegut. Max had already powered up the engines, and they emitted a low, steady roar that filled the hangar. The Vonnegut was a heavily modified Firefly-class transport vessel, modeled after the Serenity in the classic Firefly TV series. The ship had been named the Kaylee when I’d first obtained it, but I’d immediately rechristened it after one of my favorite twentieth-century novelists. Its new name was stenciled on the side of its battered gray hull. I’d looted the Vonnegut from a cadre of Oviraptor clansmen who had foolishly attempted to hijack my X-wing while I was cruising through a large group of worlds in Sector Eleven known as the Whedonverse. i believe all these quotes are very real, and am glad vonnegut didn't live to see his unwilling involvement in whatever this book is supposed to be
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My sister (who is a writer) and a friend who is super critical of the arts (who works in film and TV) both really loving like this book, so after seeing this thread I was a bit, "wtf, are those excerpts massively out of context?" Went and read the first couple of chapters in a book store today. Ummmmmmmmm It's super goddamn cringe bad. There's a whole three page part (sub part? Like bunch of paragraphs separated with stars, I dunno) about "why did adults lie to me all my childhood? God is a lie and I'm so smart because I worked it out"  I'll probably keep trying because despite all mounting evidence to the contrary I do trust their opinion, and like maybe the narrator is supposed to be a cunte and the story is good, but, I've got a sneaking suspicion that it's just the author's voice. It's really painful how he doesnt make allusions, he just references directly. Like: "I'm in the toilets in B.A's Bar, doing a line of soma. WakaWaka! That stuff is strong!" Is obviously still poo poo, but is leagues better than: "The bar is owned by Hannibal from the A team. We're taking pills like in Pac man". !Klams fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Jul 27, 2017 |
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Steven Spielberg is a hack who has never had an original idea or made a great movie. A real stinker. 
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This is like Food Fight except with pop culture
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!Klams posted:Like maybe the narrator is supposed to be a cunte and the story is good, but, I've got a sneaking suspicion that it's just the author's voice. Yeah, exactly. If the book had any self awareness at all it could probably do something interesting with how obsession ove rnostalgia is bad and we need to grow and yadda yadda yadda. But no... Talking about Go-Bots all day is LITERALLY the best thing in the world. Actually watched the trailer and it was just a nightmare of cgi nothingness. BUT I SAW DUKE NUKEM FIGHTING FREDDY KRUEGER!! FUKKEN EPIC!
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