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Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by The Doctor (?) » Thu Jan 25, 2018 4:55 pm

:whatsup: I wish to share this pain with others.

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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by Aria Genisi (?) » Thu Jan 25, 2018 5:07 pm

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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

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Aria Genisi wrote:
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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

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Aria Genisi wrote:
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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

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Aria Genisi wrote:
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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

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What's the book equivalent of a paintube?
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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

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OOH Poo-pooing a The Doctor thread is old hat
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OTOH he's fishing for it
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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

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"doctor thread" and its ilk got old years ago, hth.
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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by The Doctor (?) » Thu Jan 25, 2018 9:23 pm

No, seriously, I want people to chat with about how hilariously bad this is.

This book makes me realize how clever and subtle The Big Bang Theory is with pop culture references by comparison. At least in that show, the heavy handed references. There's a sense in the show that at least the characters come off as liking these things they reference. And then every reference needs explaining.
IOI required its egg hunters, which it referred to as “oologists,” to use their employee numbers as their OASIS avatar names. These numbers were all six digits in length, and they also began with the numeral “6,” so everyone began calling them the Sixers. These days, most gunters referred to them as “the Sux0rz.” (Because they sucked.)
This book throws dozens at you and it feels like the author is just going down a list, not that there's any fond remembrance of these things. And the main character is.... incredibly bad. Every nerd stereotype rolled into one and supercharged.

Today's adventure. The hero gets dumped, and goes to buy a sex bot.

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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by Daikatuna (?) » Thu Jan 25, 2018 9:30 pm

"yes a publsihed novel. how about that"

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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by The Doctor (?) » Thu Jan 25, 2018 9:32 pm

I've been listening to the audiobook, and I legitimately feel bad for Wil Wheaton.

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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by ixnay (?) » Thu Jan 25, 2018 9:54 pm

I haven’t read it but I have listened to part of the podcast that a couple of the RiffTrax guys did where they read and discuss it

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/372 ... 70692?mt=2

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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by Aria Genisi (?) » Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:00 pm

And Steven Spielburg directed a movie version of this that's coming out this year.

i don't understand why.
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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by Blarghalt (?) » Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:17 pm

ixnay wrote:
Thu Jan 25, 2018 9:54 pm
I haven’t read it but I have listened to part of the podcast that a couple of the RiffTrax guys did where they read and discuss it

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/372 ... 70692?mt=2
I'm not trying to be an ass, but is there a way to listen to this that doesn't involve iTunes? :ponder:

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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by Angel Beat (?) » Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:23 pm

Aria Genisi wrote:
Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:00 pm
And Steven Spielburg directed a movie version of this that's coming out this year.

i don't understand why.
Out of love for the so-


bwaaahahaha, I can't even finish that sentence.

At least the movie has Tracer and FemShep in cameos, even though they're not from the 80s.

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Poor Tracer and FemShep.
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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:33 pm

Angel Beat wrote:
Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:23 pm
At least the movie has Tracer and FemShep in cameos, even though they're not from the 80s.

:ponder:

Poor Tracer and FemShep.
This is the real WTF for me. If Ready Player One is meant as a love letter to the '80s, why are there any characters more modern than that in the movie? Could it be that the book and movie are not meant strictly as nostalgia vehicles for '80s kids, but are meant more as generic geek bait?
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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by drunkill (?) » Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:34 pm

Aria Genisi wrote:
Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:00 pm
And Steven Spielburg directed a movie version of this that's coming out this year.

i don't understand why.
He loves videogames (creating the medal of honour franchise along others) and half the references are his films so no doubt he loves it.
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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by Pocket (?) » Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:42 pm

I might have said this before, but what really gets me is that the book seems to be a love letter to the kind of gatekeeping that's made geek culture so toxic lately. Like, the contest that's central to the plot is the ultimate act of gatekeeping—taking the biggest fortune ever and leaving it to whoever knows the most geek-culture minutiae.

Also, the trailer for the movie uses "Tom Sawyer", a song that I've been led to believe is literally about John Galt, or at least that type of person. As if it couldn't get any cringier.
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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by The Ghost of Ember (?) » Fri Jan 26, 2018 12:26 am

i read a little bit of rpo and it felt like a guy really trying hard to relive his childhood through the lense of a future which is infinitely worse than his childhood (which was the best time to be a child, obviously)

if it were a satire on 80's nostalgia it might've been worthwhile. instead it just cashed in.
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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by ixnay (?) » Fri Jan 26, 2018 3:39 am

Blarghalt wrote:
Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:17 pm
I'm not trying to be an ass, but is there a way to listen to this that doesn't involve iTunes? :ponder:
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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by The Doctor (?) » Sat Jan 27, 2018 1:11 am

And I'm done with that.

The movie will surely be a spectacle to see, but man is this a bad story with some bad characters.

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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Jan 27, 2018 5:51 am

Lotta Sux0rz in this thread who probably don't even have every episode of Family Ties memorized

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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by ToastGhost (?) » Sat Jan 27, 2018 5:58 am

I only have every episode of Family Matters memorized. :fluttersmith:
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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by Smoke (?) » Sat Jan 27, 2018 9:42 am

I read Ready Player One a while ago. I think the part where the protagonist describes his totally cool DeLorean from Back to the Future with Knight Rider scanner and Ghostbusters symbols and license plate slapped onto it accurately describes how the book itself is just a random pile of 80s pop culture crap stuck together with little thought about if it even should go together like that.
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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by RIP Syndrome (?) » Sat Jan 27, 2018 9:46 am

Is it really as bad as people say


I'm curious
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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by Perrydotto (?) » Sat Jan 27, 2018 10:52 am

RIP Syndrome wrote:
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Is it really as bad as people say


I'm curious
Considering it's not just a shitty pile of nerdwank, but also offensive, racist and sexist, yeah
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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat Jan 27, 2018 11:03 am

Daikatuna wrote:
Thu Jan 25, 2018 9:26 pm
I feel like the character and plot just slipped through my mind while listening to it. All I heard were a list of 1980s pop culture references.

How about that indeed.

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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by sharkmafia (?) » Sat Jan 27, 2018 11:45 am

By the way armada is even worse (that's his newer book)

you all should read the expanse instead, just listen to the podcasts for this book it doesn't deserve a purchase
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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by W.T. Fits (?) » Sat Jan 27, 2018 9:13 pm

Wasn't this the book with the scene where the protagonist admits to the girl he's chatting with online that he's basically been stalking her to make sure she was really a girl or something when the subject of, "What would you do if I was a guy in real life, though?" came up, or something along those lines?

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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by minty (?) » Sat Jan 27, 2018 10:13 pm

That video looks like a horrible message board I'd avoid.

I think the 80's need to be erased from our timeline, even if it means erasing me.

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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by The Doctor (?) » Sat Jan 27, 2018 11:28 pm

All "geek credibility" of this book should be lost when they proclaim Indiana Jones 4 as an unwatchable abomination, but talk about how they watched the Star Wars Prequels.

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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

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The Doctor wrote:
Sat Jan 27, 2018 11:28 pm
All "geek credibility" of this book should be lost when they proclaim Indiana Jones 4 as an unwatchable abomination, but talk about how they watched the Star Wars Prequels.

:smug:
The Prequels are entertaining in a B movie kind of way, where Crystal Skull is mostly just boring.

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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by The Doctor (?) » Sat Jan 27, 2018 11:40 pm

W.T. Fits wrote:
Sat Jan 27, 2018 9:13 pm
Wasn't this the book with the scene where the protagonist admits to the girl he's chatting with online that he's basically been stalking her to make sure she was really a girl or something when the subject of, "What would you do if I was a guy in real life, though?" came up, or something along those lines?
Kind of. The girl in the book runs a super-famous blog. He's a fan of said blog and reads it, he doesn't really stalk her. They end up meeting and becoming friends. Then she dumps him.

Then he literally...



That "what if I was a guy" thing totally happened though.

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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

Post by Logicgate (?) » Tue Jan 30, 2018 11:37 am

And gets explicitly transphobic, isn't that fun?

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Re: Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

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Logicgate wrote:
Tue Jan 30, 2018 11:37 am
And gets explicitly transphobic, isn't that fun?
I'm not sure Cline even has enough awareness to count as transphobic.
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