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chitoryu12 posted:If this is our generation's Neuromancer, does that mean all future cyberpunk is just going to be pop culture references? So far all signs point to yes. Goonspeed chitoryu, I have nothing to offer you but my [5].
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30 light hours/side, a light hour is about 1.1 billion km in length, so (30*1,100,000,000km)*(30*1,100,000,000km)*(30*1,100,000,000km)=2.97e+13km3, or 29,700,000,000,000 cubic kilometers.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:The easter egg is done so poorly in this because look at how quickly ARGs and game secrets are solved these days. Scott Cawthon kept burying things in FNaF with increasing difficulty and people solved them in weeks, if not days after release. Ever since the Marble Hornets stuff people almost expect there to be hidden content of some kind and comb all sorts of games for them. Hell, when I played WoW I’d explore for fun and stumble into things! Adnachiel posted:I started reading the book about a week before this thread started and one of the things that bothers me is how Cline overestimates how long it would take the future VR Internet to solve these puzzles. Even without a Reddit or a 4chan-sized community working together, I guarantee you that more than one person would have had the same mental tangent Wade had, decide to look around a map of Ludus for the hell of it, and found the tomb. All things considered, Evil!ISP would have found it years ago since they have hundreds or thousands of people working around the clock to solve these things every day. But of course, that would make Wade look less impressive. Yeah you look at the Secret Finding Discord for WoW, those people are organising and weaponising their efforts to find some insanely obscure poo poo. They might not be finding things that are as complicated as this poo poo, but there's only a few hundred of them doing it with any dedication. There are supposed to be millions of these hunters and some of them have the money of a multi-national corporation behind them. How the gently caress didn't they find it 17 hours after it was announced?
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Mar 16, 2018 00:41
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JacquelineDempsey posted:probably the only woman scientist who he's heard of There's no probably about it. I'd say that motherfuckers forget about Hedy Lamarr, Lise Meitner, Grace Hopper and Rachel Carson but the chances of them ever having heard of those women is slim to none.
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He's not even memorising it, is he? Doesn't he just have a  PDF of the module opened up in his field of view so he can walk past everything by looking it up?
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Mar 16, 2018 04:38
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steinrokkan posted:My only question is You mean you have to use your hands? That's like a baby's toy!
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Mar 16, 2018 23:52
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Orthodox Rabbit posted:I liked that Wade could only beat the demi-lich Joust boss because he told the lich to let him play as player 1. He only knows how to play games as the first player because he's never had any friends to play games with. Congratulations on putting more thought into the implications of Wade switching sides than the author did.
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Liquid Communism posted:There's another question about this whole disaster of a world building attempt. You have a long running semi progressive nerd President. Why is the country still a corporate dystopia if the position has any power? President Trump broke it so hard it became a figurehead position.
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Mar 18, 2018 08:34
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Shark Sandwich posted:I feel like dumping a Spielberg movie based off a successful nerd property before blockbuster season means they don’t have a lot of faith in it Hopefully it gets murdered by Black Panther like Tomb Raider did. I doubt it, even with the legs BP has had it probably doesn't quite have the legs for that. edit: drat, i just checked it out and BP is about to overtake The Last Jedi for the #6 all-time domestic box office record. https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/domestic/all-movies/cumulative/all-time
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Mar 21, 2018 06:33
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Zanzibar Ham posted:Cline didn't really care about the story and just wanted to cram as much of his nostalgia into a book as he could. that's_a_bingo.gif
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quote:Ain't It Cool News Holy poo poo I just got a 10-year-old joke from The Simpsons 
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steinrokkan posted:meme culture of the 10s ... Portal Portal came out in 2007 and was completely dead as a meme by early 2009.
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Mar 24, 2018 14:43
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Good news everyone! Ernie Cline Penning A Sequel Novel To READY PLAYER ONE 
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Calaveron posted:Wardoor, sagecage, dropcop, joltvolt motherfucker was Dr Seuss all of a sudden Memento posted:Congratulations on putting more thought into it than the author did. This should probably just be the thread title at this point.
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Mar 26, 2018 02:50
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chitoryu12 posted:Guess I know what we’re doing after this thread! Take a cleansing dive into someone who can write first. I'm currently plowing through all the Discworld novels after bashing my head against some particularly dry geochemistry texts for the entire latter half of last year. Most of the way through Moving Pictures now.
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Mar 26, 2018 04:26
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Choco1980 posted:I'm the farthest thing from an expert, but I thought burning titanium was a monumentally bad idea? Burning it would create titanium dioxide which is just run-of-the-mill bad for your lungs. It's much harder to get heavy metal toxicity from Ti than it is from things like lead or mercury. Again, more thought than the author etc.
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Mar 26, 2018 10:20
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nine-gear crow posted:It may horrifying (and possibly delight) you to know that Cline is in fact married, to a woman who is an author/poet in her own right, and her books are infinitely better than her husband's and much more well received, if nowhere near as popular. I think back to myself in my early-mid 20s (I'm in my early 40s now) and I realise that even though I had a few medium to long-term relationships, I doubt very much I ever knew what size they were or how much they weighed, because of how self-centered I was. I my defense I've grown up a lot since then. What's Cline's excuse?
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Stand by for answers, Gorilla Salad.
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This dude. No, wait, this chick. Mildly  , both taken from the Awful Mods Thread.
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Mar 28, 2018 10:06
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nine-gear crow posted:Too recent for Cline's nostalg-o-vision to detect and too obscure for his wading pool-depth tastes. Is TTGL actually all that obscure? I barely watch anime and I've seen it. Too recent is a legit concern though. Also of concern is that Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is on the order of 50 billion light-years tall.
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Young Freud posted:Something that I thought of: has anyone actually rewatched some of their childhood faves and be disappointed by some of the content. For example: I have friends do a rematch of the first Ace Ventura movie and somehow forget about how transphobic it is. Yeah Ace Ventura is basically "Let's Laugh At Trans People: The Film", and Me, Myself And Irene is "Let's Laugh At Mentally Ill People: The Movie". What i'm saying is that maybe Jim Carrey is actually an enormous piece of poo poo.
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