Ready Player One

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It's here. More cool stuff than orks, dwarfs and swords.

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i read like half the book and got really sick of how fucking pathetic the main character is
does anyone know if it gets any better?

nope, it gets worse

he mopes and loses his OC gf and magically gets her back at the end
finds a magic item that lets him get the last key after everyone else gets nuked
also pop culture references

yeah he seemed like a self insert for a wet blanket of an author who has nothing to say but le epic 80s nerd references

It gets so much worse.

So many shoehorned and superficial nerd/80s culture references that you can almost hear the "How do you do, fellow kids?" line on repeat.

Isn't this lit.erally Reddit? Like I know we throw that term around a lot but this is L I T E R A L L Y Reddit.

>the most epic book of all time gets adapted into the most epic movie of all time
GET MOFUGGIN HYYYYPE

So, who's Halliday, why does he have such generic taste and why is the narrator so bent on sharing it? His love interest?

The guy who invented the Virtual Reality Internet that everyone in the world uses was an actual autistic man obsessed with the 1980s

So when he died in the 2040s his will stated that his entire company and fortune would be left to the first player of the VR game that could solve a massive trivia challenge based on his life

It's the same concept as Willy Wonka was searching for a child that matched his mindset

Oh. I see. This sounds like something out of Snow Crash, only for idiots.

This is just Spy Kids 3

who the fuck would ever willingly call themselves a gunter
did the author not know what a gunt is?

Short for "Grail Hunter" and no

No, it is shit

This is how the final chapter opens

yeah i know im the guy who read half of the book. the term always bothered me

Pretty sure the author has never met an actual Japanese person

>I watched them in chronological order
>not production order
pleb

>he dragged gundam into this shit
whyyyy

Literally fucking redit.
Removing this shit from my Goodreads read list PRONTO.

>mechs from Neon Genesis Evangelion

Wait shit there's mechs involved, now I'm interested to see how they look in the film. Other than that it looks horrible.

>literally member berries and pop culture the movie

BOJANGLES

What's the scorpion thing in the trailer? Is that from Dune?

Funny how the only women on that list are the cute geeky girls playing ukeleles

And captain Janeway

>heavy orchestral version of "Pure Imagination" from Willy Wonka segues into Rush
lmao

how is the book so popular? who reads this trash?

Felicia Day recommended it to her three million Twitter followers and it took off from there

I never read the book but knew it had a ton of glowing reviews at release
Like everyone was talking about it and praising it.

If it's as bad as these passages say it was how did it get so well regarded and popular?
I mean everyone is shitting on it. Even thr same reviewers and websites that were praising tthe books years ago

>Felicia Day recommended it to her three million Twitter followers

O, Whore of Babylon.

looks pretty lame to be honest family

jesus christ, how old is the writer? this is really fan-fiction tier writing, it's horrible

Says he's 45. Here he is in his Delorean with GRRM

But Willy Wonka was searching for someone who was pure and kind hearted, not someone who could learn every individual ingredient that goes into every type of candy the company produces through obsessive, rote memorization

There is a moment the protagonist decides to infiltrate enemy headquarters and get fit and ...
it goes nowhere

Does grrm actually like his book?

>I read an ARC of the long-awaited new novel from Ernie Cline of READY PLAYER ONE fame. ARMADA, like READY PLAYER ONE, is a paean to the videogames of a bygone era, and like READY PLAYER ONE it is a tremendous amount of fun for anyone who remembers that time and played those games. (Those who did not may find it incomprehensible, admittedly). Those of you who liked the old movie THE LAST STARFIGHTER will really like this one. Hugely entertaining... though it does make me wonder if we'll ever see Ernie write something that isn't about videogames. He's a talented guy, and I am sure that anything he writes would be terrific.

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did he fapped to those underage geeky gorils?

Goddamnit, this better be a good movie.


>"And the meek shall inherit the Earth"~

It was released at around the time the popularity in the neo-80's stuff first took off.

Felicia Day promoting it does help sales a lot, not to mention that the target audience isn't the hardcore SF&F fanbase, who read authors like George Alec Effinger, Phillip K. Dick, Tim Powers, etc, but the people who watch shows like Big Bang Theory and Community.

how the fuck does Felicia Day have 3 million followers. what the fuck does she even do?

she shook her ass and sang about world of warcraft guilds during peak world of warcraft popularity

Starred in a cult hit web series ten or so years ago.

She's Queen of the Geeks

>shook her ass
link plox?

Don't forget how Whil Wheaton is President of the Internet™

Off with her head already.

VICE. People always forget that

Cory Doctorow is President of the Internet and Wil Wheaton is second banana

She used to have a cringe worthy piece of trash show on jewtube called The Guild, where she played herself playing Warcraft. She is also wrapped up in the nerd circlejerk of people like Whil Wheaton playing board games, dnd and whatever else.

She is basically a nerd idol, who is famous now for being somewhat attractive and liking video games.

Search for "Date my Avatar The Guild" on jewtube, but you can't unseen that cringy shit fair warning.

You come at the Queen, you better not miss

Oh, well its been a few years since I read this crap.

why do they keep letting spielberg do future stuff? His future aesthetic is horrible as fuck.

Why is Spielberg wanting to make this piece of shit?

So is this pretty much Daicon IV, except shit?

He gets to fuck more kids.

DAICON IV had all those delicious trademarked characters because it was a fanmade thing for a scifi convention. Reddit Player One: The Movie will have the Iron Giant and then some generic mecha that is sorta almost like Eva and Gundum because there is no way in hell that they'll be able to get all those copyrighted characters into a major Hollywood movie.

I can say with complete honesty that this is my single most hated piece of media I've ever encountered, and this image sums up most of why. I hope the film bombs and speilberg falls while cleaning his kitchen

The book was fun to read and I bet the motion picture will be fun to watch.

Playing the devil's avocado here:

Maybe Spielberg will transform the shitty ideas in the book into a real social commentary, a metaphor of the increasing NEET/Yolo lifestyle.

Cline is a retard, but Spielberg is not. Also, how is this any worse than capeshit?

Fuck this reminds me so much of Victoria: a Novel of Fourth Generation Warfare.

I hate capeshit, but at least it tries to create its own characters and scenarios instead of just shoving in more ebin pop culture references.

Nerd culture was a mistake

>Also, how is this any worse than capeshit?
Capeshit is bad but at least it doesn't stop every minute to remind you it's based on an obscure comic book from 1995, the limited edition that was was sold out in a few days and you had to get through mail order.

Ah. The Miller-Vaughn effect. Wherein Matthew Vaughn takes Miller's edge and smoothens it out into something viewable and passable. I think this might apply to RPO.

It's not. The problem is that this is based on a real book, with lots of words and sentences. Not a big picture book with just a handful of words.

The average Sup Forums poster is lacking the concentration and attention span necessary to read books. Comics and movies based on comics is the most demanding thing their tiny ADHD brains can comprehend.

>robotech
>robotech
>ROBOTECH
holy fucking shit of all the things wrong with this tightly wrapped coil of a book this is what gets me, he spends an entire fucking book making pointless reference after pointless reference to get some kind of pro geek cred or some shit and yet he calls it fucking robotech instead of macross

>Wait shit there's mechs involved, now I'm interested to see how they look in the film.

1000% guaranteed that most if not all anime references get wiped out. The Iron Giant showing up in the trailer is most likely a replacement for one of the mechs.

he calls Space Battleship Yamato fucking Starblazers as well.

The book was shit, I am actually convinced that the people hyped about this haven't even read it.

reddit was a mistake

>Cline is a retard, but Spielberg is not.
he kind is though.

>and of course
>kevin smith
yeah fuck this

Kevin Smith wasn't even an 80's thing.

>Can pick any mech
>Not Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Some nerds they are. Have fun losing, dipshits.

Snow Crash is Snow Crash for idiots.
RP1 is Snow Crash for the actually mentally handicapped.

Something strange is happening when Sup Forums itself is sick of pop culture while the rest of the media wants to drown in it.

Chalk it up to Halliday watching the dubbed versions in the 80s when they were on TV. Same reason he mentions Tranzor Z. Wade probably knows the real series but refers to them by the names his idol used. It would explain why he uses the real names for the other stuff, they were probably added by other gunters since Halliday wouldn't necessarily have watched Eva or Gundam, in the fiction of the book he was already locked in on the 80s and working on computer stuff by the time they became popular in the west.

I've been meaning to read that, what's the equivalent laundry list of references? Gun porn?

There were only ever 16 specific mechs available to people as they completed the First Trial

The real question is if Mechagodzilla were objectively so OP why they allowed the bad guy to have it when he got fifth pick.

Yeah, but you'd think some mega autist like Halliday would refer to them by the original nippon names once he found out their true origins through the internet.

He was probably patrician enough to prefer the dubbed version.

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from the author of this book.

Halliday never even bothered to figure out how many protons were in hydrogen

a lot of the epic references are not even from the '80

This movie is going to put VR at the front of the line in 2018 every kid will want one.

This is fucking painful. And this guy is 45?

For fuck's sake.

I'm so glad that the worst fucking scene in this entire awful book seems to have made it to the film

Frankly, the film will be a lot like Steven Spielberg's other recent works. Out of touch. He isn't the blockbuster king he once was. Hollywood is dying and media has changed. This film would have been great in the 80s. But today it's bland.

Ah, he's one of those guys who thinks he's a feminist because he wants to fuck a nerdy girl. Ask him how well that worked out for Joss Whedon, who's currently apologizing for not making Buffy diverse enough.

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Here's another one of his that really gets the noggin joggin'.

>ordering alcoholic drinks in virtual reality
for what purpose

>consumable cosmetic DLC that disappears five seconds after you pay for it
The video game dev's ultimate dream frankly

I had to choose where to cut it, but this is the same scene where he rolls up to the ball in a flying DeLorean which also has KITT from Night Rider as an onboard AI and is also somehow Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters

Later on he will amaze his hacker waifu by activating a mod that makes his character dance well

Man, I'd never heard of this book until the other day when my friend told me about the author and how he wrote about how if he shot porn it would be all nerd girls and not bleached blonde bimbos. Is he /r9k/ incarnate?

No, /r9k/ are at least self aware enough that they can joke about being pathetic.
This guy is earnest about this shit.

This is the gayest thing I've ever read.

His poetry is even worse, somehow.

>Because Ultraman is Airwolf!
>mvq

It's clear he thinks he's channelling Douglas Adams despite not having anywhere near the humor or talent.

He writes like what he thinks a "nerd" is supposed to be, but forgets there are sports stats nerds, politics nerds, etc. The ultimate tryhard.

>Duran Duran, nineteen eighty-three

This shit is so fucking painfully awful that there's 0 way it wasn't designed to be deliberate. Like the author is going to jump out after the movie releases to reveal it was all a big joke.