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Ernest Cline wrote a screenplay and disguised it as a book and then got a movie deal anyway.
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He wrote a first draft and said "we'll hire a scriptwriter to fill in the blanks where jokes and such are supposed to go lol" as he sent it off to the publishers.
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Mar 20, 2018 04:44
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I might be misremembering, but wasn't Wade doing tech support for Oasis while in indentured servitude at IOI? Cause I thought they were like an ISP but if they're involved in the running of Oasis, that would mean they already have some measure of control over the company. Like, I don't go to Comcast when I encounter a bug in World of Warcraft.
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Apr 2, 2018 00:06
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DJPON3Vinyl posted:Who even decides to select the EVAs in the first place? Those things were infamous for A: Running out of power and B: Going out of control and murdering stuff. What would possibly compel the so-called ruthless, sensible corporation with no sense of fun to pick them? The hosed up thing imo is that Cline could've gone for another Hideaki Anno Mecha anime and brought in Gunbuster, but I guess that would've required doing research on a deeper reference and we can't have that!
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Apr 2, 2018 19:18
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Gorilla Salad posted:
iirc it wasn't even a random drop, it was the reward for a quest chain. So there's no reason why Sorento wouldn't have a pile of them from having a couple sixers farming them with a series of new accounts since the item clearly isn't account bound.
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Apr 3, 2018 08:33
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Testekill posted:Because Kline thinks that playing a lich in a lovely arcade game is the height of tension or that references are the height of comedy. It also doesn't help that his understanding of geek culture and the internet tapered off at the early 2000s. Yeah, but this is the movie we're talking about. I think it's more like the creativity of nerds hunting easter eggs or speedrunning stuff is so beyond the pale that most audiences wouldn't get it. Like players wouldn't bother with the search or platforming in the Overlook because it's much faster to go to a corner 40 feet from the entrance and walk diagonally backwards into it while repeatedly crouching since you'll phase out of the level bounds and the game corrects by dropping you at the nearest valid coordinates which happens to be the platform Kira is on. That's not to say Kline would've thought of anything like that, but that's why you don't get tidbits like that in the movie.
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Apr 9, 2018 10:17
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Paingod556 posted:This. Is there any relevance to a song about forced relocation of natives in order to do nuclear weapon testing, to anything in this book? Also, Blue Sky Mine is their best song, Read About It a close second I don't think he thought out any of his references beyond "I 'member that, I should add it to this list!"
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