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I'm so confused. So energy is now expensive which is why we can afford to run all these VR headsets? But not run an electric car or something to get around? Also was there a nuclear exchange in the first paragraph? Cline posted:Normally, the newsfeeds didn’t interrupt everyone’s interactive sitcoms and soap operas unless something really major had happened. Like the outbreak of some new killer virus, or another major city vanishing in a mushroom cloud. There's a loving nuclear war going on, and these kids are just allowed to sit around and play video games instead of being drafted to fight? Cities are going up in atomic flame and people are seriously just sitting around playing an MMO? Sure, it's been 5 years since the nukes were launched but I can't imagine the government just letting 18-year-olds play video games all day. This is the kind of poo poo that would cause martial law to be instituted, not provide an acceptable excuse for dicking around in the magic bullshit MMO!
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Uh...Acerak's not even a level check, he's a puzzle boss. For someone as steeped in the 80s as Cline seems to be you'd think he'd figure that out.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Wait, you mean this novel of pure white male fantasy might have a character who is still in love with a tragically died too young woman who was the only one who ever understood him buy married someone else and yet he still dedicates his greatest works to her because he is a tender and noble soul who truly would have lived her most ...Beatrice, is that you? I mean yeah it's a stupid modern Nice Guy thing, but it's not exactly a new concept. Granted in this instance it just reinforces what a loser Clinaday. You loved her so much you can't use her real name ahahahah pfffft.
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Mar 18, 2018 00:21
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Beavis and Butthead had a deeper insight into blade runner than this stupid book.
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Mar 24, 2018 18:48
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What you could also do is have Wade start as an 80s-obsessed weirdo but then realize he cares more about Aech, Artemis, and the Japanese brothers (who would be less racist). The 80s nostalgia crap would just be an in to bond with these people and get him out of the house. Hell, end the book with the game being a giant troll and it turns out Halliday's 240 billion dollars went into being startup money for IOI.
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Mar 26, 2018 21:38
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For a world set in a video game, you'd think more people would be hacking/trading in exploits to do stuff. Also if IOI has assassins in every trailer park how have they not pulled the source code off GSS's servers?
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Apr 4, 2018 08:26
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So what I'm noticing is that even though Wade loves the 80s and Halliday's lecture is laughably ineffectual, Wade still throws away his lifelong obsession when confronted with the chance to get his dick wet. It's kind of amazing.
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So this MIGHT be a crazy suggestion, but... Someone needs to bring a Martian Tripod from War of the Worlds so that people are totally loving confused about what it is. "What the hell is that? That's not from the 80s! Anyone know what it does?"
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