Everyone should read "Ready Player One"

[Madeline]

For what it's worth I like your opening a heck of a lot better already

I tried! My consolation prize is that, no matter where life takes me, I will never have to live with the shame of having written “Nerd Porn Auteur”

[Octavia]

Certified Fresh

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ready_player_one/

I wonder if it still would be if it didn't have Spielberg tied to it

[Mr. Big]

That revised opening was much better, Madeline! Easy to follow and understand what the mood should be with no vagueness.

[Logicgate]

The podcast that was linked earlier, where the RiffTrax folks read the book, mentioned that there is a scene with characters "dressed in 80's styles, dancing 80's dances". And they play a game where they rapidly go back and forth mentioning what specific details you could include if people were dressed in "80's styles". The book isn't even about the author's nostalgia: he's leaning heavily on yours in filling in the gaps he hasn't written.

[Highbrow Dash]

I saw the movie and it was pretty bad.

My favourite thing is how ultimately none of it matters in the real world. The world's still a mess, the bad guys have only been mildly inconvenienced, and while the protagonist has endless resources now he has no plans to achieve anything with them.

Seriously, after 2 and a half hours of movie the end result is that they start tuning off their MMO for 2 days a week so people can go outside a little. Oh, and they cut off the debt slavery centres so they can't farm MMO gold anymore... So I guess they'll just go back to good old fashioned slavery since that's apparently legal now.

It's very meta in a way, their world's a fucking mess and instead of fixing it here they are wasting time on a bunch of regurgitated pop culture garbage. Makes u think

[The Doctor]

Another problem with the movie is none of the characters are interesting at all (except the guy who made the game and starts the contest. I actually enjoyed all the flashback scenes with him, and I think I would have liked Simon Pegg's character more if we had actually gotten more of his character).

[Fizzbuzz]

I saw the movie and it was pretty bad.

My favourite thing is how ultimately none of it matters in the real world. The world's still a mess, the bad guys have only been mildly inconvenienced, and while the protagonist has endless resources now he has no plans to achieve anything with them.

I clicked on this thread and read these sentences, and for some reason my brain snapped to the MLP Movie when I read "the movie," so I was really confused for a bit there

[Smoke]

Just saw the movie (in 3D IMAX because that's how I roll), and it's a decent bit better than the book. Still nothing great, but at least it has decent pacing and the challenges were a hell of a lot better than the dreck described in the book at some points. One to watch for the visuals more than the plot.

EDIT: The stupidest trivia was that the creator of the OASIS had as favorite FPS Goldeneye in Slappers Only mode as Oddjob. Which is a terrible thing to like.

EDIT 2: The other stupid thing is that the entire cast of main characters/friends all happen to live in the same relatively tiny area.

[Gloomy Rube]

"My favorite FPS is where I'm half the size of the other characters in a melee-only situation that lasts a long time and my attacks do the same damage as everyone else's."

seems like a dork to me, imo

[SlateSlabrock]

Gamemaster Anthony, Crossover Fanfic Legend, Reviews Ready Player One

[Pocket]

I'd never heard of this meme before and I was momentarily shocked because I recognized his name and signature and that board style looks exactly like how the Ozy and Millie fan forums looked at the time.

[SlateSlabrock]

* (seriously, where the fuck are the furries)

Turns out Spielberg has your back.

[Perrydotto]

[PhoolCat]

Went and saw this because Dormouse was bored. Entered expecting to hate it, left having quite enjoyed a classic Spielberg movie that felt like it was made in the eighties.

[Perrydotto]

I'm not invested in seeing this at all but I'm glad to hear it at least improves on the book and leaves out a lot of iffy shit so win-win for everyone involved

[Pocket]

As far as that post-credits segment goes: Somebody else compared the writing to those scenes in Bill and Ted where he's just like "OK, remember to go back in time and set up a trap for the bad guys" and then they spring a trap that wasn't there a moment ago. Except that was funny and clever and actually made sense because they have a time machine and can do that.

[Daikatuna]

ready player bazinga

[Auxiliatrix]

I heard Simon Pegg was not just in the film, but also a bit off. Is that true? I still haven't seen it and don't quite plan to.

[The Doctor]

I heard Simon Pegg was not just in the film, but also a bit off. Is that true? I still haven't seen it and don't quite plan to.

He was barely in it, and it just seemed a waste of a good actor.

[Daikatuna]

372 pages we're never getting back is a podcast made by the rifftrax crew reading the book

it's a bad book

while i managed to survive listening to them go through ready player one

i bailed after a few episodes of armada

i have been defeated

[West Filly]

I finally watched this movie with some friends.

They tried to make the female lead unattractive but all that Hollywood could muster is a beautiful person in a cardigan with a pink mark on her face. Because of this my friends and I spent the whole movie screaming "IT'S HIDEOUS, KILL IT" and the like whenever she appeared on screen, and I think that was the main enjoyable part of the experience.

I was also hugely disappointed that the holy hand grenade didn't sing "hallelujah" before it exploded. If you're going to make a nerd movie about the nerd fantasy of being able to use obscure nerd knowledge to achieve a nerd victory, you really need to get details like this right.

Also more of a biker thing than a nerd thing: Kaneda's bike from Akira is electronic. He talks in the movie about its coils and it makes whirring noises that sound like a jet engine. Hearing it roar like a V-Twin in this movie was another complaint, but I did hear them briefly mention that it's a skin for another in game bike model?

[SlateSlabrock]

Look, you can't expect all the little details to be correct in a story where the main character has to recite all of Grail perfectly.

[West Filly]

Also what kind of pervert wears the nut tactors on their haptic suit in the office :v

[Daikatuna]

cline, probably

[Daikatuna]

also if you can't stomach listening to 372 pages doing armada, just listen to the last episode

[Daikatuna]

it would seem he didn't know how to end it so he just slapped something togehter and clicked save

[Highbrow Dash]

Also what kind of pervert wears the nut tactors on their haptic suit in the office :v

I just want a realistic experience, okay?

[Madeline]

he just slapped something togehter and clicked save

That’s his entire creative process in a nutshell

[Daikatuna]

i wish i had the confidence of a male nerd writer

[Angel Beat]

i wish i had the confidence of a male nerd writer

cursed

[Daikatuna]

cursed

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

ready player none

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

while i managed to survive listening to them go through ready player one

i bailed after a few episodes of armada

i have been defeated

also for fuck's sake what the hell was i thinking

[Fizzbuzz]

also for fuck's sake what the hell was i thinking

It's okay. That was a different time.

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

i am my own greatest enemy

[Gloomy Rube]

372 pages went on to do other bad books.

Eye of Argon is its own genre, I defy you to try to understand an entire page of that book

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

Eye of Argon is its own genre, I defy you to try to understand an entire page of that book

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

i see they did tekwar

i heard of that thanks to gdq running the tekwar video game

[SlateSlabrock]

Tekwar sure is an adventure of some sort, somehow.

I was burning through old episodes of 372 Pages when the gym was still open, but The Mister was a real struggle, and Truckin' Through Time even moreso.

[Venusy]

i'd say trucking through time is at least kind of entertaining in its own way, but the willow one is just such a slog