TheGreatEvilKing posted:

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?


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!

mlmp08 posted:

Holy hell, this is bad.

Also, I'm not some 80s pop culture nerd mega geek. And still, just about everything in that litany of Halliday's favorites are things that I'm just kind of like... yeah? Everyone has heard of that. They might debate the merits, but EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT THESE THINGS. It's difficult for me to wrap my head around reading such a popular and fairly banal list, which admittedly includes some very good work that I like, and then as the reader feeling some connection to how cool you and also this character are.

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Tunicate posted:

well if they remove like 98% of the book the movie might be okayish

nerdz posted:

Also lol that someone that enjoyed blade runner would call the replicants "skin jobs". Way to actually understand the movie, dipshit

NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

I'm way back on page 5 and the Acererak thing is confusing me. I thought that guy was in Tomb of Annihilation.