If you didn't know, that does make you ignorant. That's the definition.Don't twist it. Someone is making an assumption about me and calling me ignorant. I read the book around 9 years ago and I can't say I remember the content of the book to the degree that with more aware, modern eyes there was problematic content.
I always find it weird when people step up to defend transphobic media on this forum.Oh look another thread where posters get to complain and dog pile about Ready Player One /Two.
Oh look another thread where the RP1 defense force complains that people unfairly bash on the book without offering any defense beyond "I liked it."Oh look another thread where posters get to complain and dog pile about Ready Player One /Two.
This is why I always used to take two books on short trips - the book I was reading, a book to read next, and a book to read instead.
Four.
"I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization. Our hands evolved to grip tools, all right—including our own. You see, thinkers, inventors, and scientists are usually geeks, and geeks have a harder time getting laid than anyone. Without the built-in sexual release valve provided by masturbation, it's doubtful that early humans would have ever mastered the secrets of fire or discovered the wheel. And you can bet that Galileo, Newton, and Einstein never would have made their discoveries if they hadn't first been able to clear their heads by slapping the salami (or "knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom"). The same goes for Marie Curie. Before she discovered radium, you can be certain she first discovered the little man in the canoe."
Lol This is all almost too much. I'm dying.
I listened to the first audiobook around the same time I was getting into modern board games. Wil Wheaton was a big part of both aspects, as TableTop was my go-to resource until I discovered The Dice Tower a few months later. During that short period I went from discovering Wil and thinking he was pretty cool, to being completely over him and finding his voice grating and sort of troll-like. I can't help but read these excerpts in his voice. It makes it all so much worse lol.
As for the first book, I listened to it at work. It was popcorn background noise. I thought the first half or so was ok and a fun concept, but it's all fan service nostalgia and no substance or point. The writing itself is, I'm sure, a lot now palatable as an audiobook. I wouldn't be surprised if he writes these by just talking into a tape recorder and typing it all up later with zero editing
Oh look someone complains I'm part of the RP1 defense force just because I don't feel the need to hate on it. BTW I have yet to make it through the first book, not really my bag.Oh look another thread where the RP1 defense force complains that people unfairly bash on the book without offering any defense beyond "I liked it."
"Knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom"
you think ernest cline has ever read or watched anything nonfiction in his entire life?"Knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom"
Knocking "a few" protonS off the old HYDROGEN atom
GODDAMMIT
Ehhh, RPO is definitely up there, especially as a novel. But sure, I also enjoy some things that are garbage but I have no issue admitting that they're garbage.Yep
Same here. It made for a pretty decent audiobook. Sometimes you just want a silly story that is easy to follow.
Ready Player One isn't high lit, but it certainly isn't any worse than 98% of wrestling, super hero fiction, anime, and a dozen other forms of brain candy that people enjoy on this forum.
Before he died, Halliday used the headset on himself so he could live on. He edited the AI clone's memories to remove the painful ones, but it turned the clone evil.
The AI clone holds everyone connected to the OASIS hostage so he can get his memories back and also resurrect Kira - the girl Halliday fell in love with when he was young.
Ehhh, RPO is definitely up there, especially as a novel. But sure, I also enjoy some things that are garbage but I have no issue admitting that they're garbage.
After two dozen laps in my heated indoor Olympic-size swimming pool—which, thanks to my AR swim goggles, was teeming with rare tropical fish and even a pod of friendly dolphins to keep me company—I was standing in my walk-in closet, surrounded by tailored suits and designer clothes I had never worn and probably never would. I wore the same outfit every day, so I never had to expend any thought on what to wear next. I got the idea from Jeff Goldblum in The Fly, and he, in turn, got it from Albert Einstein.
I think it's the drive by thread whining... about a book you apparently haven't finished or particularly liked?Oh look someone complains I'm part of the RP1 defense force just because I don't feel the need to hate on it. BTW I have yet to make it through the first book, not really my bag.
I'm pretty sure these books are meant for kids with a passing interest in "80s culture" that don't know where else to lookSo, have you ever been talking amongst a group of people and referenced a piece of fiction, only to have nobody around you get the reference? And then you laboriously explain the context of the reference, having to clumsily truncate a lot of it, because you've already derailed the conversation? And when you're done, people nod politely, maybe force a chuckle, but you've now killed the mood and realize that making a reference is pointless unless someone gets it or it can stand on its own?
That's this entire book, except we already get the fucking references, but they're being explained anyway.
one of this dude's greatest strengths is that he knows he's an idiotI'm surprised he didn't double down on the transphobia and sort of addressed it too
I really can't agree with this. Even on your wrestling comment. In wrestling you don't have New Day stopping their match to look into the camera taking 5 minutes to explain exactly what the Final Fantasy fanfare is after Xavier Woods played it on his trombone, then moving on to reference Dragon Ball Z a couple minutes later, repeating the pattern over the course of a 10 hour match. Or a comic book film where the protagonist stops to explain to the audience every single Easter egg in the movie in great detail.Yep
Same here. It made for a pretty decent audiobook. Sometimes you just want a silly story that is easy to follow.
Ready Player One isn't high lit, but it certainly isn't any worse than 98% of wrestling, super hero fiction, anime, and a dozen other forms of brain candy that people enjoy on this forum.
it feels super performative, less like "i understand now sorry" and more "see look stop sending me hate mail"I'm surprised he didn't double down on the transphobia and sort of addressed it too