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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2018 18:28:04 GMT -5
Read it a month or two ago. Really more of a hate-read, as every single page was like bile and ichor on my eyes. It could almost be worthwhile if it was trying to say "don't be like this", but the author isn't anywhere close to being self-aware enough to make that kind of point.
Before GG, it would have just been annoying. In today's climate, it's like a rallying cry for the lowest rung of nerd culture.
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Post by GamerL on Feb 21, 2018 18:49:35 GMT -5
Sounds like you went in wanting to hate it, why did you even bother in the first place?
And it's got nothing to do with GG, it was written and published years before that, a "rallying cry"? Come on.
That's exactly what I'm talking about, you're projecting your hate of nerds today on this book that has nothing to do it, it's fine that you didn't like the book, but saying it's a "rallying cry for GG types" is BS.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2018 18:59:30 GMT -5
You're right, people can't read a book after it was written and then say that it serves as a model for their views in the present. What was I thinking.
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Post by GamerL on Feb 21, 2018 19:21:00 GMT -5
Yes, because Ready Player One is the Bible for Gamergate, that is a thing that totally happened.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2018 19:29:36 GMT -5
I never said it was, I said it reads "like" a rallying cry for them. Kudos on overreacting again when someone criticized something you like, though.
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Post by GamerL on Feb 21, 2018 19:35:51 GMT -5
It doesn't in any way read "like" a rallying cry for Gamergate.
And it's fine if people don't like the book, but it's taking things out of passages or projecting things on it that bother me.
It's like conservatives slamming The Last Jedi because they see it as part of a "feminist conspiracy", neither that movie or this book have any real political leanings.
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Post by ZenithianHero on Feb 21, 2018 20:29:15 GMT -5
I'll give the movie a try for the Iron Giant cameo.
Recently I read a different book about a video game titled Otherworld by Jason Segal (yes he writes now). Decent read, kinda like a Western take on those VR isekai light novels. Wouldn't mind a movie based on that but I have to wait for the sequel to come out.
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Post by jorpho on Feb 22, 2018 0:24:37 GMT -5
I was thinking: even though VR hardware is now vaguely affordable and somewhat marketable (is there anyone here who actually intends to buy some anytime soon?), there's nothing really compelling out that really takes advantage of the medium and delivers an experience that is uniquely enhanced by VR. Or at least, I haven't heard of any such thing. (Have you?) So what's really silly is that Mr. Cline can't seem to think of anything either! He seems to get all chuffed about the idea that people would want to re-watch their favorite movies from the point of view of the protagonist and recite all the lines they know so well, and the more I think about it, that's the kind of bloody lunacy you'd expect from a drooling 8-year-old, or from a 90's marketing exec trying to peddle FMV games. Not only would such a viewpoint rob you of, y'know, actually seeing the principal actor's acting, but it would also completely defeat all the cinematography and shot composition and directing that actually makes the movie. And somehow this guy got the attention of Spielberg. I expect some kind of witchcraft was involved. It follows that pen-and-paper RPGs would not have survived in their current form if there was not something inherently appealing about sitting around a table with a DM instead of having a computer draw out everything for you. And so on – there are a couple of first-person Mario videos, and while they're amusing to watch, it is abundantly clear that no one in their right mind would seriously want to play a 2D platformer that way, given the option.
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Post by Catalyst on Feb 22, 2018 0:36:37 GMT -5
I read it awhile back when they announced Steven Spielberg was attached, because a friend mentioned how unfilmable it was. Didn't really but into that so I decided to read it and form my own opinion. It was a rather fun ride, the nerdy tid-bits didn't seem casually dropped in. If it wasn't directly added there to be a part of the puzzle, it seemed like it was added in for the world building. I mean it'd be kind strange to have a world built by and mostly for nerds and not have popular pop culture play a huge part in it's description.
The biggest thing I had a problem with was Wade. I'll add on to what someone said earlier. As a character Wade doesn't seem to grow that much, and at the start he seems kinda like a slight jerk. Maybe I'm misremembering but when his set of stacks are bombed, he seems to have very little empathy for the people dead, only seeming to care about one person that mattered to him. I'm guessing that they'll tone down this for the movie, but the movie already seems to bringing forth it's own set of issues. Whereas the book seems to paint Wade as a character whose unphotogenic and overweight, the movies cast a Hollywood boy next door instead. Guess their goes the book's theme of people becoming completely different people online.
Well, I'll be content with the film as long as we get MechaGodzilla and Leopardon. As long as I get that I'm good.
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Post by moran on Feb 22, 2018 8:50:12 GMT -5
It could almost be worthwhile if it was trying to say "don't be like this", but the author isn't anywhere close to being self-aware enough to make that kind of point. It almost felt like cyberpunk Big bang theory at times.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 11:40:26 GMT -5
Yes! That sums it up rather nicely.
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Post by jorpho on Mar 7, 2018 17:11:10 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2018 17:33:01 GMT -5
This is exquisite.
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Post by moran on Mar 7, 2018 17:36:10 GMT -5
Ha, I cringed more and more at every poster I saw the other day
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Post by GamerL on Mar 7, 2018 22:19:43 GMT -5
While I think people are being too hard on Ready Player One, this parody poster cracked me up pretty good, especially the inclusion of the Megatokyo guy.
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