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What do Harry Knowles, Kevin Spacey and Harvey Weinstein have in common, aside from being awful sex pests? Why, they were all involved with Ernie's first movie project: Fanboys! You have them (and many other people who are probably not sex pests) to thank for this. Their actions on getting that film made put Ernest Cline on the radar, giving him inroads to pitch all his script proposals to various publishers who would've otherwise thrown his requests in the trash. Now that he's proven himself capable of producing garbage that sells, vultures that thrive on exploiting "geek culture" are lining up to work with him.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:372 Pages is already on this poo poo. First episode just launched. The only good way to experience these things.
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Technocrat posted:I read the first book before finding out the broad consensus about it, and I was originally convinced that it was like American Psycho, written from the perspective of a self-centered protagonist who doesn't get just how terrible the world outside has become thanks to universal Oasis addiction. There's a reason Palmer Luckey gave a copy to every employee at Oculus and essentially forced them to read it.
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Bismuth posted:I want to know why this specific terrible crossover fanfiction got really popular. There are a lot of terrible crossover fanfictions out there, there always have been, but why has this specific one become mainstream. Harry Knowles championed it and used his platform to make the deals happen after Cline's film Fanboys got made. Him and Cline are longtime friends since the early days of Knowles' Butt-Numb-A-Thon film festival.
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Re: Legal liabilities, it helps to have your mega-crossover fanfiction sold by the largest publisher in the world. Imagine being the lawyers having to vet all this poo poo.
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Agent Escalus posted:IGN rarely reviews books, but I guess they really wanted to publicly say that RP2 sucks! quote:Ready Player Two trades the fun and wish fulfillment of its predecessor for a fundamentally flawed, inconsistent quest towards the singularity. Nerdy references abound, but they’re not enough to save a story centered around a protagonist who’s even tougher to root a second time questing after an artifact you start to wish he won’t find. The OASIS is still full of iconic pop culture mainstays, but this time around, there’s little heart to be found and this sequel suffers as a result. "I still clapped each time I saw the references, but the subtext is bothering me a little, I'm just not sure how to parse it - almost like it's the author's genuine opinions and not a fantasy" And here's the review for the first book, from 2012: quote:Ready Player One is geek crack, a novel that reads like a cross between Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Tron, with a healthy dose of Avatar, The Matrix, The Last Starfighter and The Hunger Games thrown in for good measure. The reviewer's bio: quote:Chris Tilly is the Entertainment Editor for IGN in the UK and although he was born in the 1970s, he considers himself a child of the '80s. Chris can be found going on and on about Back to the Future on both Twitter and MyIGN. Chris Tilly and Ernest Cline are, allegedly, not the same person.
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Ready Player Two Is a Horror Story but Doesn’t Know Itquote:Wade begins to abuse his powers in tyrannical ways large and small: tracking down his online critics and using his godlike admin power to kill their avatars; filing lawsuits against a band that made fun of him and suing its members into bankruptcy; digging into the personal documents of a female player who tries to help him, hacking her camera, and spying on her chats; and casually offering a $1 billion reward to anyone who helps him solve an ’80s trivia riddle while most of the world lives in crushing poverty. quote:Wade announces that he has single-handedly solved police brutality and systematic bias by replacing human officers with security drones and remote-controlled “telebots” (because nothing would solve the problems of the police like transforming them into a force of private-funded robocops administered by a tech megacorporation). quote:If there is anything relevant to praise about Ready Player Two, it is how Cline inadvertently nails the inner monologue of entitled, out-of-touch tech moguls, particularly their limited understanding of how human beings actually work, their belief that deep, systematic problems have simple technological solutions, and their conviction that despite all evidence to the contrary, they are a still a hero whose haters would stop them from changing the world for the better.
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