Ready Player One (the book) is Terrible
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"...if you can name the planet Luke Skywalker is from..." Ah yes, the obscure, cult classic 'Star Wars'.
Iss like toondoran 4 or something
Wow that's funny because I never liked Star Wars, only seen Empire Strikes Back (SE) ONE TIME as a kid in 1997 and the prequels and I still know that Luke Skywalker is from Tatooine xDD
Did that movie ever even get a sequel?
But he was born on an asteroid...
Space Lesotho
In year 2044 people would be still nostalgic about 1980's, because Hollywood would be still making remakes of 2010's remakes of 80's film.
큐베다이스키 I'm pretty sure baudrillad said something about this...
큐베다이스키 thats some real shit my nigga
As Amber from Chapo said, THEY'RE FUCKING ROCKABILLIES.
You know things are bad in an post apocalypse when people accept reboots as fuel for nostalgia.
+ULGROTHA Now be prepared for people nostalgic for the 90's and 2000's.
Hilarious that Ernest is complaining that porn isn't made for 'nerds like him' , considering the sheer volume of hentai out there and that the vast majority of porn is made with only men in mind.
Yeah but that's all CRASS and CRUDE, not like fantasizing about fucking someone while dressed as Luke Skywalker. That's CLASSY.
It was that part that really made me realized this was just a Onision book that was published.
Honestly you don't even have to go to animated or drawn porn. There's plenty of porn spoofs of "nerd" things like Star Wars.
Sir... Star Whores was made in 2001
Something tells me he's never heard of Rule 34.
"It takes five years for someone to look for an invisible wall in an Easter egg hunt." Meanwhile someone figured out in dark souls 3 you can use a certain spell in a certain place to turn yourself into a certain object that magically gives you access to a certain ladder. Now just imagine if money was on the line to find a way simpler secret
Yeah actually oh shucks
I mean someone found a super Mario 64 Easter egg a couple months back
@@MeatCatCheesyBlaster Yes.
Jr Beans
It would make the “it took 5 years to figure out” feel more plausible more then just “drive backwards mate.”
they figured out Silent Hills P.T in less than 2 days and that requires looking in *very* specific places and saying *very* saying specific things into the Playstation mic
Ready Player One had the potential to be a hilarious satire of modern pop culture's obsession with 60s through 80s nostalgia, but instead both the movie and the book turned out to just be "Big Bang Theory meets Sword Art Online".
negative man Or basically VR-Chat without memes
Disappointed Turtle so, worthless?
I know right, he was talking about thinking of interesting ideas then just awkwardly fumbling past them and I thought of SAO immediately. It even has the same fucked up thematic elements about escapism because the creators are both pathetic manchildren. Really makes you think huh.
Fuck man, the movie isn't a masterpiece but....ouch man. I dunno, I can't stand BBT and find SAO mediocre, but I enjoyed the movie adaptation quite a bit. Okay the movie, was kinda mediocre admittedly, but much more entertaining than SAO. I'm not touching the book with a ten foot pole, though.
negative man ew
"Beam me up, Chewie." -Gandalf
Jeeves Anthrozaur that was my favorite part of “Harry Potter and the “Star Trek and the “Star Wars and the quotable lines”””
"Set fasers to a fluid that is almost but not quite completely unlike tea"- quentin tarantino
That was from the avengers right?
"Use the fasers, Bilbo!" - Dumbledore
Dude! Don't post Game of Thrones spoilers on here!
Must’ve been difficult for Cline to type out that whole poem one-handed
Thanks to speech-to-text programs, he won't need his hands to type it out.
The most unrealistic thing about Ready Player One is that despite the fact that the Oasis a super-customizatable character creation system with nonexistent censorship, everyone has these super-detailed, well-designed avatars. We have VRchat. We know damn well that's not what would happen.
Like, where is the sentient inanimated objects, humanoid shape made of random household items, muscular man 3d model with anime head from MMD slapped on top of it, a literal PNG, and a fucking crab with blade weapon?
@@majorblitz3846don't forget the forbidden love child of Michael Myers and a Dust buster.
Fun fact: you’re wrong.
Firstly, the book takes place in a time where there is overpopulation, weak governments, and the threat of nuclear warheads. Many movies and various other stories take place in similar times, and you can’t say that it is unrealistic because you aren’t witnessing it.
Secondly, it’s a fictional book. You can get away with it, even if it never happened. It’s not supposed to be what people live like, it’s supposed to be a story about characters who live in that time. The oasis, as different as it is from our vr, is still a realistic place, given the world it is in and the brilliance behind the makers of it. Just because Newton wrote and came up with the laws of gravity, that does not mean that you can too. Like I said, it’s fiction.
And finally, Terminator and T2 are fantastic and nearly perfect movies, and there is no flaw in their futurist world. Do you see any evil time traveling robot AI? I thought not. But just because there is evil time traveling AI, does that mean that the entire movie is ruined. No, it doesn’t.
All I can say is to not read something that is fictional if you are too close minded to the fact that fiction isn’t real.
@@DaleTheBoulder All good points, I was just joking about how if the Oasis were made in real life there would be a lot more silly and memey characters running around. I know realism isn’t the point, but I wasn’t being super serious.
@@Chromaggia we live in a world on nuclear bombs (not really a big threat anymore), VR, the internet and so much more, but we can’t distinguish sarcasm in a text. I see this as an absolute win.
don't talk to me or my 4.0 gpa ever again
Sarah proud
Hitchhikers Guide was wrong, Vogon poetry is apparently the fourth worst poetry in the universe.
Nukestarmaster 42 points for griffenpuff
Luckily it was destroyed when the earth was.
+Lee Anderson Unfortunately it was recreated when the Earth was.
The Dudemeister
The Joke
=====================================>
Your Head
This joke was funnier than any nerd reference in the entire book
That whole description of his avatar’s custom vehicle made me groan/cry with how cringy and stupid it sounded.
And sure enough, Cline made his own.
No really, he made a car just like that IRL
@@sodaspeak3437 pop culture was a mistake.
I have zero interest in Star Wars and I can tell you that Luke Skywalker was from Tatooine.
Yeah, I love how that's part of the poem like Star Wars is this obscure cult classic from the 70s. Monty Python is a more obscure reference in the US, and everybody I've ever met has at least heard of The Holy Grail.
Jokes on you, it was a trick question. Luke was born in polis massa.
@@thecollector4332 not the question
He’s not from tatooine, he just grew up there
@@Iridesca those are the same thing
So is this guy attracted to like every woman in existence? He did say he’s attracted to any girl smarter than him
Only if the girl can recite Luke's home planet.
That's easy! Corellia!
That's easy! Chicago!
That’s Easy! Coachella!
Mentor Miner That's easy! Clitoris!
Big Bang Theory fans finally get the manga, and the anime, they deserve
Kirbivski 🤣🤣🤣🤣👌
truly, ready player one is the end of evangelion for the tbbt faithful.
And that show is garbage enough already
Where's my Arc of Sheldon San trying to play Mario 64 on an Emulator?
Diego Medina you expect the writers of the big bang theory to know what an emulator is?
The stereotype of smart=ugly is the reason men don't take me seriously in my field because I like being very feminine. In engineering, women feel pressure to dress masculine and somber, and some girls do like dressing that way but not all. I never thought wearing wearing high heels in a STEM field would be political but the amount of "Why do you dress like that? You'd be prettier with less makeup" is way too high.
literally, men do not take women with any semblance of “masculine” interests (such as STEM or things like video games) seriously in general but if you’re a women who has these interests and also happens to enjoy wearing makeup or dressing really feminine it’s suddenly “you’re pretending to be into it for men"
Ready player one’s “geekyness” came off as tryhard tbh
This whole book is just "YoU kIdS lIkE tHeM vIdjA gUmS"
"It's a good thing I know how to play guitar!!!
Anyway here's Wonderwall."
Sophie that’s when you rip the guitar from his hands and beat him to death
Sophie ready player one is like the film version of wonderwall.
Sophie 0-3-5
Sophie Wahey, this is sooo funny, I got this reference!
This one off reference to Rhett and Link is better than all of the book this video is about
The war games scene is worse than you describe. It plays like this:
"You have to re-enact War Games line by line"
"Good thing I have all the lines memorized then"
Book proceeds to re-tell the entire first fifteen minutes of War Games line by line.
vaiyt please don't tell me that happens....please don't tell me that the writer literally does that.
he does, same goes for Monty Python.
Did he need to meet some kind of book length quota or something?
Not really, because if you read his book "Armada" it kinda shows how much of a shitty writer he is when left to his own devices, seriously the guys writing is on the level of a 7th grader, so he needs to stuff as much references as he can.
I didn't see this as an issue. I thought this book was great
I never realized Ready Player One was written by Onision...
Lol 😂
Also, hello person from ten months ago! 😅
@@awkwardorangedrawz5914 Hello person from 6 months ago!
@@thelcpc5163 hello person from 2 weeks ago!
I was lookin for this comment after Ethan Kline’s poetry
I was thinking the exact same thing lmao
the only reason this is popular is because middle school librarians recommend it to every kid.
This is so true
I guess this is the Twilight of your guys school years.
Plus, all the good books have basically been banned due to whiny PTA moms finding them objectionable without reading them for context.
Do kids really listen to middle school librarians?
@@theworkingwriters7214 yep
“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.” -- Ernest Cline, Author of Ready Player One
And people think this guy is a genius.
No No Depending on the level of self-awereness this guy had, he sounds at bets like a very dragged on bad joke, and at worse a depressed obnoxious man-child.
Wait really?
Sound Fuck yes, really. Wade even says that he considers masturbating as normal as breathing, and does it as frequently, in the book
No No lol, that's actually pretty good though
No No yeah the dude talks about feeling guilty/shamed about having a cyber sex doll and then he starts talking about haladay’s philosophy about masturbation. I was a bit confused about that judgement.
"The kind of woman who drives nerds like me mad with desire" Anime 12 year olds?
OwO
Harsh, but fair.
Hey it's not illegal if they are actually 500 years old lol
@@z-teamchainingolem9064 My GF said that she would haunt anyone who dared to lewd Kanna. Please be warned.
Hey is that Digibro in the bac-
The movie was so-so. It blew my mind that it took YEARS to find the first easter egg. Which was literally going backwards at the start of a game level. That's the first thing anyone who's ever played a game does.
I also don't get how Sorrento and his goons can go into a nightclub and shoot it up without there be anti-griefing measures since Oasis is supposed to be a VR MMO.
@@KaiKrimson56 in the book it’s a no pvp zone
thats something i do when i get frustrated with mario kart levels for, like, fun. someone at the very least would have stumbled across it by accident
@@Me-pt8tqIt is actually a PvP Zone in the book as well.
Which is why the book is infinitely better. It is more realistic because almost everything in the book is far more obscure. It does not delve into people learning about the 80s, it delves into people who are fascinated with the 80s. It does not show Halliday as a man who just created the oasis and never delved into him, it showed Halliday as a man obsessed with the 80s, a complete narcissist lunatic that thought that everyone should think like him (it delves even further, and much more horrendously into his character in the second book).
Important question: When he has to recite Montey Python and the Holy Grail, does he have to make the clop-clop sounds of the coconuts with his mouth? Does he sing the songs or just say them?
He plays as different characters in different scenes and just has to recite the lines with the right inflection.
@@christianboi7690 ...That old man better be a trillionare
Doing the extra sounds like the clop-clop just gave him extra points, i think
I would have liked to see ready player one with a person who hated all the 80s references but still forced to learn it to find the treasure.
TheJediChuck Sounds like a Saturday Night Live skit that would be many times more enjoyable than this book
Everyday Half-Elf Bard SNL hasn't been enjoyable since the 80s
TheJediChuck SNL? More like "lets make the 20,000th Trump joke, thats still funny right guys?" the show
That's something that I think this review sort of misses. Wade does actually enjoy the 80's stuff, but most gunters learned all about that stuff because it would be useful, not because it was their favorite thing.
TheJediChuck an interesting small trend I found out is that a handful of people have the names "TheJedi_____" with 3 capital letters in it.
>If you can remember the name of Luke Skywalker’s home planet, you are hired
So literally knowing the most surface level info about Star Wars makes you qualified?
If you can't tell me what Han Solo's ship is called, then you aren't a *TRUE* nerd
Oh I love Star Wars, my favorite character is Guy with breathing issues.
I'm one of the rare people who has never seen a single Star Wars movie, and I know the name just by cultural osmosis lol
Should be like... "What's the name and backstory of the guy who raised the monster in Jabba's pit as his pet"? I can't even remember the name of the monster.
TatWHOMween?
“Inconceivable!”
-Peter Parker, Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
@Schiggy 2319 Wallace and Gromit games are my favorite BioWare games.
@@DrZuluGaming Is this a Pokemon reference?
@@DrZuluGaming My name is Wallace, you killed my dog, prepare to die.
Cline's poetry made me become a retroactive virgin and my entire reproductive system dried up like a snail in a salt bath
Realistic 2044 teen starter pack:
Really into the movies of Michael Bay; "man, he was so misunderstood!"
Wears shirts with out of context David Cameron quotes on because he thinks knowing who Dave is makes him interesting and clever
"Man what's wrong with music now days. I miss the music of Lil Pump"
"I wish horror was still subtle like it was when they made Alien Covenant and paranormal activity ten"
I am throwing this in a time machine.
That'll be interesting
I fear the day Alien Covenant is considered subtle.
Hawl 9000 omg like that Kim jun in guy yeah he was just misunderstood and all
Also, like a 60% suicide rate because 2044 is a hellhole with no future.
"You aren't a real woman unless you can tell me the name of Luke Skywalker's home planet." - Ernest Cline
Trick question. Its Polis Massa.
Luke's home planet? That guy from Star Trek? Its Hoth, right?
im not sure what is worse
the fact that he thinks he can say who has the right to be called a real woman
ir the fact that thats it, like literally, thats his standard, even hardcore sexists want a woman to to be a mother or a wife, he is even more condescending that The Golden One!!!
Cinema Sins ending review line: "We banish you to the point farthest from the bright centre of the universe."
Isn’t it tattoine ?
"My Linkara is pretty much my MatPat."
God I watch too much UA-cam.
I sure wish a billionaire's ghost woulda warned me about wasting my life.
I mean, I don't think he needs them to be that different
Now imagine if the movie stopped and played the entirety of War Games in the middle of it.
"I have seen every Star Trek episode, movie and TV show."
Mike Stoklasa, is that you?
*ENDLESS TRASH ENSUES*
"Well Mike, which episode of Star Trek did Ready Player One Remind you of?"
Oh my goooooooooooddddddddddd
That hack fraud is behind all this!!!
AT-ST!AT-ST!AT-ST!
My god. That porn poem. I'm SHOCKED that it didn't end with a "m'lady".
It honestly sounded like a soy boys secret love poem, how they're bearing their soul out to this girl they want to fuck by saying "oh look I'm better than the other misogynistic guys. I find women smarter than me hot. Please, love me, I'll be your happy little cuck for you if you eventually with your consent of course allow me to fuck you." Like he's trying to sound deep but he ends up sounding like a pathetic loser who wants to emotionally munipulate women into fucking him.
Cline is honestly a "Nice Guy"
Hmm... What rhymes with "euphoric"?
Trijedi Knight Those types of guys are even worse then the regular douchebag misogynists. At least the douchebags are straightforward about wanting to bang the girl and their "she's a bitch for not wanting to fuck me" hissy fits makes them easy to notice and avoid. The pseudo-deep guys will lure you in with a facade of class and depth only to break your heart when they are revealed to be just as much of a shallow misogynist as every other douchebag.
Trijedi Knight So basically modern art and critics?
"Harry Potter for adults"
Most of the people who like HP are adults lmao.
That's worrying.
Why, tho?@@Hawkatana
@@willian2848 How *isn't* it?
@Hawkatana if I did know I wouldn't have bother to ask
The ironic thing about Holy Grail is that it's a spoof of Camalot the musical a film that no one under 50 has seen.
Unless you are a theatre student in which case you’ve seen the songs
Performances in clip form only and nothing else. Lol
This author definitely belongs on r/niceguys after that bit at the end.
I mean I see what he was *trying* to say with that poem, that the type of girl he wants to be with (or have sex with) is a girl that he really connects with on emotional level, that it's not just about appearance and being different isn't bad. But the way he goes about it ends up like "Hey girls ! I'm not like those other shallow guys ! Yeah I know I'm amazing, praise me. If you want to go out with me you have to like the exact same things I like, you must not do things that I deemed popular (and therefore bad). I'm super open-minded, all you have to do is to fit into that specific category I like and we're all fine. Again, I'm amazing, I know."
The Jones Effect then he gets thin and hairless... So... He's hot now, I suppose.
Captain Awesome Writing a whole poem about the kind of girl they want to be with and how special they are and expecting that to come across as deep is a very nice guy thing to do. Nice guys’ main issue is that they are too focused on what they want out of a woman despite claiming to not be that way.
you kidding me?!
this guy is a full on r/incels!!
Will Wheaton blocked me for saying "Big bang theory more like big bad theory"
That's basically terrorism
Will Wheaton blocked me because he's Will Wheaton.
Will Wheaton blocked me because I follow Internet Historian.
i dont even have an official twitter account, but im probably blocked by will wheaton
I post a bit too much political shit on twitter and I still haven’t been blocked by Wil Wheaton
I’m a god
"It's not like I'm against pornography; I'm a guy, and guys need po-"
Suddenly, a different version of the author of this book teleports into scene, shoots at our reality's version of the guy, and screams:
*"FACT."*
I just got to that poem and......... god, I'm never sleeping with men. ever.
Hey were not all like that.
ik ben boe >misspells “we’re”
@@tylerwootton8410
English is not my first language grammar nazi
@@pjishomo Get out of here with your "not all men" garbage.
@@ravenfrancis1476 i mean.... not all men really arent like that
It's to literature what The Big Bang Theory is to TV.
Slashbash you are entirely right.
I have a co-worker who always turns Big Bang theory on every time he's in the break room. I don't eat lunch in the break room any more.
It was decent for about 2 seasons and complete garbage ever since?
Slashbash funny? Oh wait thats an illigal opinion
BAZOOPER
I’d love it if the twist was that the main character actually did read the Wikipedia articles instead of watching the media itself. Then at the end, it shows Halliday telling him about how he made the egg because he was so in love with the 80s, and that he’s glad the reward is going to someone with the same appreciation as him, someone who grew up watching and enjoying the same things as he did. Suddenly, the main character realizes that he never actually got to enjoy the 80s: he just memorized everything to get super rich. He’d still take the money of course, but when he left the game, he’d go back to the real world wanting to truly live and enjoy what the game’s creator did.
Then again, I’m not Ernest Cline (Thank God) and I’ve never read the book or seen the movie.
Michael Olberding Dude. Now THAT would have been such a cool plot twist! That would justify the all of the references, and we could even go a step beyond - what if, when his friends makes references, Wade sometimes just doesn’t process it because he didn’t read or watch the 80s show? It would be foreshadowing that maybe he doesn’t know EVERYTHING. Wonderful comment regardless!
@@gabethehoward That's honestly a fantastic idea. Especially if you explicitly clarify that the reason Wade won was because he spent hundreds of hours researching Halliday's interests in the most surface level way possible so that he could have a massive breadth of knowledge to work off of since he had no idea what Halliday would throw at him next. But then show that his friends (and the others) actually watched and appreciated 80s culture beyond simply extracting the clues needed to solve the puzzles. With the amount of 80s nostalgiabait these days, that would honestly have been an *incredible* deconstruction of how many current day people don't actually "get" the 80s and instead essentially culturally appropriate it (for lack of a better term) for the sake of trying to make a quick buck.
If they managed to squeeze in a comment about how George Lucas made Star Wars because he wanted to give a new generation the same experience he had watching movie serials as a kid, and then showcase how people misinterpret that and simply copy the things that Star Wars did without understanding the mentality that went into it, it would be even better.
@@Nathan-kk6lb The fact that this commentary is pretty much written for you already and he does nothing with it is simple criminal to me.
i thought exactly the same thing and would have been soo much better a story
Somehow, fucking _Sword Art Online Abridged_ pulled a better movie reference quipping plot thread than this.
The MC and the villain being the only two people cringey enough to make that many quips and nerdy enough to understand them is what tips the MC off about the villain, and then them attributing a quote to two different works highlights the difference in their perspectives. It actually serves a narrative purpose beyond showing how 'smart' and 'cool' the chars are.
I feel like, given the setting of the book, the characters should be nostalgic for this time period we are living in right now. The characters should be geeking out over like, Minecraft and Game of Thrones or something.
This would actually be cool af. The pseudo-nostalgia would be interesting
Nope, that’s wrong. If you actually read the book, you would know that the Oasis was the biggest there ever was. There was no mention of anything of today, probably meaning that they died. Another reason why is that everyone, or almost everyone, got inthralled in the three keys and gates the moment the video of Halliday’s death aired. They had to look into the 80s, something Halliday was obsessed and stuck in, and use all the information to try and find the keys. And, to make my point very clear, Halliday was basically a god in the world, so it would make no sense for people to forget about him and the billions of dollars he had.
@@DaleTheBoulder"probably meaning they died"
Sooo, everything from the 2010s-onwards just stopped existing? Or they never existed in the first place? Like Minecraft, the biggest game of all time (released before the oasis) which millions of people have a lot of nostalgia for just died and everyone collectively forgot that it even existed, to the point that there's not a single person in the entire virtual universe where people can have avatars of literally anything they wanted, even cares to make a reference to it?
Lol what a joke
@@nibyafternight1983 If you take our life to disagree with the story, you already should not be reading it. It is never confirmed, so speculation that the Oasis was so popular that Halliday's death caused a massive surge in 80s pop culture again is very likely, but it was never confirmed. Also, we can take the Terminator route, meaning that the world is completely different from what it is now and that it doesn't really matter. So, my point is that you have no point as you miss the point of stories.
"The Making of Ready Player One: A True Story"
"Hey Ernest" a new friend said, "What do you do for a living?"
"I'm a writer." Ernest said with pride.
"Oh yeah, what are you workin' on right now?"
Realizing his bluff has been called Ernest scans his surroundings for an excuse, "Oh.... uh... something..." there sits a model DeLoreon on his desk "inspired by 80's pop culture, very hush hush, but it's going to be great!"
"That is great, can I read it when you're done? I love the 80's! Ronald Reagan was the best! He really moved the country in the right direction economically, what with the trickledown and the unregulated Wall St."
"Yeah, alright, thanx, just gtfo."
And the new friend did.
'Wait just one minute.' Ernest thought to himself now that he was alone, 'now I actually have to come up with a story around 80's pop culture.... Well onto the fun part I guess: disguising procrastination as "research."'
Several months later.
Ernest Cline now looking like Mr. Stay Puft bloated by Cheezy Puffs, Mountain Dew and Doritos lays sedantary on his futon staring dead-eyed as the credits roll on Ghostbusters. His blood is thick as syrup. He's like Koffing in Snorlax's body with Slowpoke's brain. That is to say: he's nearly dead, and this will have to be the final stop on his indefinite binge. He turns the video app off and he's back to the PS4 home screen with all his platinum trophies (actually there's only one, a TellTale game) he stares into his orange stained fingers, the crusty semen on his boxers, then back to his 4K TV and his "badass" PSN avatar, the collection of blu rays stacked like Peach Trees on and around his entertainment system. His exhausted hand falls beside him and lands on a pair of VR goggles, the ones he bought just to play Arkham 3D. (Who doesn't want to be Batman?) Then it comes to him, all at once, well kind of constipated, like a drunken impotent revelation, as he glares into those goggles like an alien artifact, he says out loud "Whoa! Maybe _this _*_is_*_ the story!"_
I think the funniest part of this is that the friend calls Ronald Reagan the best.
@@jacksonlarson6099 A story with no heroes.
@@jacksonlarson6099 He could be a conservative (or not know just how much Reagan screwed up America. This is why we need more emphasis on history classes).
This UA-cam comment deserves to be a New York Times Bestseller
"Will do to geeks what Jaws did to the ocean"
- The Wall Street Journal
Kill a bunch of people?
Yeah that checks out.
"Avoid them." not that people weren't already avoiding geeks.
So people become paranoid of geeks? If you think the 'geeks' in the book are remotely normal and become afraid of geeks, i don't blame you
Hey, slow down! We already have RLM references in here, don't wanna get too crazy by adding a YMS reference...
Not sure I want a book swimming through me
A couple years ago I was writing a story about a really dumb, pop culture cluttered future where fake nostalgia for things you never experienced gave you social status. I had no idea there was already a similar story that took itself seriously.
Good luck on your book
Please I really want to read this now🙏
Id read
Sean Wilkinson
Same!
This sounds phenomenally better than Ready Player One
Imagine if Ernest had the imagination to give the chars a sort of bladerunner-cityspeak or like the lingo in A Clockwork Orange made up of nerdy in-jokes and references. That would have been something.
Ready Player One is literally the only book I have never been able to finish due to sheer stupidity. Usually I can convince myself to finish terrible books out of spite, or to give it a proper chance, but I don't even think I made it past chapter five. The author is incapable of telling the difference between himself and his stupid self-insert OC that it sounds like a forty year old man whining about millenials instead of a seventeen year old boy, and the character is absolutely insufferable because of it. He goes on long drawn out inner monologues about how he's lazy, how he's not attractive, how he doesn't work hard, how he's rude, and meanspirited-- but then immediately turns it around and starts whining about how it isn't fair that he doesn't get what /other/ people have, because wahhhh, life's not fairrrr, I'm a good person, wahhhh, I have to replay the same level in this game everyday and people make fun of me, wahhhh.
He's constantly treating ALL of his friends like shit, since he thinks he's the most important person in the universe. And literally the first time we meet his "best friend" they have an argument like two nine year old boys about what movies are the best, and then when his friend has a different opinion than him he starts throwing a temper tantrum like the world's about to end and his friend gets annoyed, and he plays the victim. Keep in mind that they author was writing this "witty banter" as if it was supposed to be whimsical or some display of childhood "innocence".
Then, to top it all off, every problem is miraculously solved by his dumbass nerd trivia, and it's like the entire point of the book is just to reassure neckbeards and niceguys that it's not /them/ who needs to work on things to improve their lives, it's /society/ who just doesn't appreciate their obvious talents of quoting shitty factoids from things that they never actually watched and sitting on their asses all day.
The narrator is so bitter about everything too, and there's this constant running tone that makes it obvious the author not only believes everything he's projecting through the main character, but that he thinks his opinions are superior to everyone else's. He goes on this whole monologue about Christianity like five minutes in, and it's so preachy and mind numbing that I literally wanted to kick his ass despite not being Christian. This book was marketed as a young adult novel, so it's nice to know that good chunk of kids who ended up reading this were immediately told how stupid they are by the author within four paragraphs of picking it up.
The narrator also has this really creepy way of describing the girl he has a crush on, where he analyzes literally every aspect of her avatar's body and talks about how she's "not like most girls" because she doesn't have a SEXY avatar, and he doesn't LIKE sexy girls, because they're not "real". But literally all it comes off as is, wahhhhhh, someone hot turned me down once, look what a nice guy I am thinking a "non traditionally" attractive person is prettyyyy. It also makes it pretty obvious what he thinks about women in general, because let's face it, if you're a woman who likes to dress up their avatar? Ahhh, then you should feel bad, because you're estranging slugs and their feelings are more important than yours.
I think he thing that annoys me the most about the story is it's also marketed to a lot of people with autism and aspergers because of its representation within the book. I didn't know this going in, but pretty much the minute they did the whole, "Oh yeah, Halladay was a MASSIVE FUCKING DICK, but it's okay because he had aspergers." I got officially pissed off and gave up reading anymore. Literally all of my siblings are on the autism/aspergers spectrum and if this is the shit that people think is "good representation" for them, then I think it's time mommy bloggers start actually reading the books they start toting instead of just adding random crap they find on top ten lists to their own top ten lists.
I think the only upside to this is if a book this shitty can become a New York Times bestseller, there's not much stopping me from writing a dumb fucking book and making millions off of it too.
You know, people today think that every book is great just because is a book, no matter if it's a shitty ass book written for weirdos.
Even nerds hated this crap.
Can I just say how much I hate it when people act like having asperger's or autism automatically robs that person of their agency or personal responsibility? Like, the only ways I've ever seen or heard someone use "they have autism" or whatever, it's almost always to either treat them as if they have no agency by infantilizing them or disregarding that autistic person's behaviour or actions by using "they have autism" as this catch-all shield against any form of criticism.
I love this book. My favorite of all time.
@@beancheesedip8337 I agree heavily. It annoys me so much that people infantilize autistic people and excuse their behaviors just because they're autistic. Like, let that person take accountability like the rest of us holy fuck. Stop being a patronizing and condescending dickwad and realize that autistic people are people in the end of the day and have to be treated as that, not some fucking figurehead for their version of what autism is like!
Such a long winded commentary about a book lmao. You definitely sound pretty butt hurt
IDK man, I foresee Battletoads having a huge revival in 2044
Do you have Battletoads?
A humble pawn shop in Nevada will be ground zero
Krateling We only have the remastered Wii version for the Nintendo Wii U, is that okay?
Plebeian+ does it come with a kiss and a hug too?
Yes
Honestly, as a very casual writer, I feel a bit better about the stuff I write.
Honestly, whatever you write is probably a lot better than Cline's shite.
@one A lot of getting big does have to do with marketing. Skill is great, but relying primarily on word of mouth usually won't get you too far. At best, it'll get you to the point where you'll be able to afford more marketing
Well this is this guys first book
I don't know who's worst, the chick who did Fifty Shades or Ernest.
Omg thought about the same thing, except I really really have to begin writing.......
This is why it's hard to be a casual fan of anything. Everyone expects you to know everything.
I got bullied the whole way through an engineering project for not being an expert plumber by people who use software to design nuclear generators for fun 🫠
Standards are through the roof and here I am still sitting on the ground
For the book you really don’t have to know anything. It’s like your on crack and it feels weird that everybody else knows what you don’t in pop culture. The books aren’t really supposed to make you know anything, as most of the stuff is pretty obscure and even the 80s obsessed characters actually have to think to find out that a key is hidden inside a cereal box. I’d say the best thing about the books is that they aren’t supposed to have perfect characters and they aren’t going to explain every detail to you until they figure it out.
I love how it took someone 5 years to solve the first part of an arg when the solution is literally just to drive backwards, especially with money on the line. Has this guy seen any of the theorists who obsessively look through every cranny of args to find even the smallest details? This would be solved in a day.
This book come wearing its own fedora??? Jesus, this sounds exceptionally vapid.
"Mr. Potter, I don't feel so good..."
-Luke McFly, Mad Max
Ah, Mad Max was my favorite book in the Legend of Zelda series made by TSR!
NO!
Mad Max is from the Doctor Who series.
I CLAPPED BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT THAT IS!!!!
more like Mad Picard
I’m bored so here’s a list of references in your comment:
- Harry Potter
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Star Wars
- Back to the Future
- Mad Max
Ah yes. A story about a gatekeeping misogynistic nice guy’s self insert Mary Sue fanfiction. Pass
This is bad comedy
"My Linkara is basically my Matpat" is probably the most underrated quote from Quinton.
I see you've got a Friday the 13th pfp
I clapped when I saw the Akira bike! I know what an Akira is! This series BROKE NEW GROUND!
'GRAAAOWNND!!!!'
Did you clap for any of the new and original characters?!
Were there any?!
NOOOOOOOO
I KNOW WHAT THAT ISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
I RECOGNISED IT AND I CLAPPED
Remember Akira? *THAT'S FROM JAPAN*
Omg that poem is awful. Starts off referring to women as objects and ends with the whole “you ARE beautiful” thing.
"But m'lady, i am different. I am not one of those bad boys, who will only use you because you are pretty or hot. Those things don't matter to me, because all i want is to shoot the weak spot of your Death Star with my X-wing"
im not sure what is worse
the fact that he thinks he can say who has the right to be called a real woman
ir the fact that thats it, like literally, thats his standard, even hardcore sexists want a woman to to be a mother or a wife, he is even more condescending than The Golden One!!!
So... this book is sexist? Sounds like my book!
How are women not objects? Self aware, concious objects. Does that not describe what people are?
@@Xvladin why are you making this point??? are you just a compulsive contrarian or is this actually going anywhere?
glad to know I can achieve a lucrative porn career regardless of my capabilities or presentation as a pornographic actress simply by knowing the barest of Star Wars trivia.
When I was 14 I wrote a bit of a story that was basically just every idea I liked directly lifted from Lovecraft and Tolkien, and written like a 14 year old who is still struggling with all sorts of grammatical pitfalls and cringey teenager logic.
It still had about 100 times more integrity and literary value than this work by an actual adult haha
I unironicaly want to read this, sure it might not be perfect but it sounds interesting.
"This is spoken poetry, so I could be playing the actual author saying all of these things and you'd feel a lot grosser!"
"Ohoho, yeah, that sure is the truth! Good thing that's not actually what you're doing though."
*It starts playing, killing me instantly*
The worst part, the absolute worst part, that you didn't hear from the clip he played, is that at the end of that "speech," there are people clapping. There are real actual people clapping and cheering at the disgusting scenario he described, and that makes me not only lose hope in humanity, but also fear what it may become in the future
The Ready Player One book is like a poorly made self-insert fanfiction, written by a borderline niceguy.
Borderline? I'm pretty sure he's already there.
+Alienwey-re Bordeeline personality disorder I presume.
@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 Hey man, no need for that. You don't need a personality disorder to be a fuckass
@@silver5341 Already there? Dude he surpassed the final phase of niceguyism years ago
I remember back in the day when people were like "Oh my god, this book is so great and it's such a shame that they'll never make a movie about it because of all these licensed characters!"
Funny how all those people are just absent now, isn't it?
20:15 What's extra hilarious about that line is that the veledictorian at my high school was a cheerleader.
Yeah you actually had to maintain good grades to be a cheerleader I heard. People usual associate cheerleaders with romcoms
@@kappadarwin9476 just to play sports in general, ive had some friends leave the football team because their grades sucked
@@kappadarwin9476 Not romcoms; high school movies and TV shows.
In response to people who are trashing the author, calling Ernest Cline a toxic virgin fanboy and stuff, he's changed a lot since he wrote Ready Player One (which came out 7 years ago) and the similarly problematic novel, Armada (which came out 4 years ago). He had since gotten married and lot of his more recent work reflects the change in his viewpoint (though he hasn't written much since his wedding, only penning two television episodes and co-writting the screenplay for Ready Player One). Going as far as to write a revised version of Ready Player One that is much more in line with the film and is expected to be published next year, and also planning a sequel to said revised edition co-written with Stephen Spielberg it's kind of obvious he's trying to fix the mistakes of his previous work. Except for Armada, which he stated that he plans to never touch again since after rereading it he hates the final product and has vowed never to touch it again. Yes, while his earlier works are very problematic, the film adaptation of RPO shows that perspectives can change, and that even toxic fanboys can grow up.
I hate the word 'problematic'. What is the problem? A guy wrote a piece of fiction that incidentally hurt your feelings? I really enjoyed the book, and the movie both were fun rides. And I recall most people really enjoying the book until it became trendy to not like it. Most of the issues this reviewer has with it is that it /could/ be social commentary, when it IS social commentary. I don't understand how he can't make that distinction. It may not be the best written example of such, but it is very clearly satirical. People seem to be reflecting a bit in thinking Wade is some perfect character. He's a loser, he's got mental issues, he's socially fucked. When I read it, I was reading social commentary, while this reviewer and all of these comments, want the author to slap you in the face and say, "SEE, THIS IS SATIRE, SEE HERE," I prefer it when its low key. It's from the perspective of this obsessive kid, so of course its going to come across as shallow, obsessive and offbeat. I don't understand this new generation of people who seem to take every word an author writes as his/her own thoughts. These are characters for fuckssake, this is fiction. The people who need to grow up are the people who think this shit is problematic. It's a science fiction novel.
@Raphael Lim Thank you, and another thing (I just remembered and have to keep ranting about) the comments don't seem to get are the pop culture references seeming obvious or shallow. Like the much quoted Luke Skywalkers home planet thing. This is like *edit* 30 years in the future. How many 70 year old films do you know? 1949. Let's hear an 18 year old rattle off his knowledge of Battleground or The Sands of Iwo Jima. The whole point is that the people in the book are discovering these things again in order to crack the code. It isn't nostalgia driving them, and that was very clear in the novel.
boy.... i wanna hear more about Armada
Slimecore
Calm down and watch the review again with the fanboyism down.
That's good to know.
The worst part of the damn movie is that people used their vr sets OUTSIDE (kicking and walking around), WITHOUT any accidents. In real life, people would get ran over by cars, run into each other, get robbed, etc etc. There is no logical way that would ever be a thing (walking around with a vr set outside of your home).
Maybe, in the future, Tesla will add an auto-walk feature to their neural-links.
I'd guess it'd do the same as SAO's Nervegear and map your nerve impulses to the controls, but that'd be giving a shit about it and it wouldn't imply getting out-world-built by Reki fucking Kawahara
hell pokemon go proves vr isnt even necessary... just have people look at their phones and they will happily walk off cliffs and into traffic
If Ernest Cline had not listed 1000 references then I think the book would have only been 100 pages long.
John Glue It felt like a geek dick measuring contest.
and in not sure id have better or worse content
It's basically "Name Dropping, The Book".
100 is optimistic
It's more like he read American Psycho, read all the references to the beauty products in that book and thought to himself "I can do this too, but with pop culture references!" without having any clue as to what those excessive descriptions of Patrick Batemans bathroom routines actually meant within the context of the novel.
> 80s Saturday morning cartoons
> Schoolhouse Rock, which debuted in '73
> Land of the Lost, which isn't even a cartoon
@@WhoTookSaltyCabbage holy shit i didn't even notice that
"What?? Where does that come from? That's not the theme of the book! Don't pretend that's the theme of the book! That's not the theme of the book!!"
Also me, upon finishing the book.
Ernest writes like I wrote once in middle school, read it, and said "I will never write like this again."
And it still wasn't this embarrassing.
Andre Moreau Sometimes I look at what I'm writing and think "That's not good at all. I should start over."
Then I read stuff like RPO and think what I write isn't so bad after all.
You guys are lucky. My writing was just as hackneyed and brain-dead as his. But I'd like to think that after years of growth and introspection and practice, I can write something that at least doesn't offend and bore everyone that reads it at the same time.
@@trenvert123 Honestly, most of us writers think this way about our stuff, old and new. If you view your work with a critical eye, chances are it's a lot bettet than you feel it is! I bet your writing is and always has been great. :D
I recently found a diary from when I was in high school, flipped through it and promptly burned it. How Ernest didn't feel the need to turn Ready Player One to ashes is baffling.
Oh wow, the book really did come with its own fedora.
The character doesn't even sound like an actual atheist. They sound like a 14 year-old internet troll who wants to annoy people online, and obsesses more over God than some people of religion.
Man, straw-man atheist characters in sub-par Christian films seem more believable.
ellie
I KNOW RIGHT !!!!
I’d also add that he sounds like a desperately attention-seeking “edgy” person
ellie
He talks like a 15 year old who just became an atheist and wants to flaunt how much smarter he thinks he is than everyone else.
I'm an atheist, and even when I was an irritating teenager who just wanted to be right all the time, I was still never **that** bad. The author is either a kinda shitty 12-year-old that's bad at writing, or a VERY shitty adult that's bad at writing.
I mean, I was exactly like that when I was 12.
But I was 12 and neither the author nor the character have that excuse.
I know, dude! Remember Jeff from God's Not Dead?
The directing of Steven Spielberg was for me the saving grace of Ready Player One.
The heavy use of reference makes this basically a self insert fan fiction and I hate how it’s not recognized as such
"It takes five years for someone to look for an invisible wall." Bunch of amateurs. Did no one put together a wiki for this place or what? It took me only five minutes to find all the hidden walls in Dark Souls.
I guess that in 2044 Speedrunners have gone extinct
Dont forget data mining. This whole Easter Egg hunt would have died out in like a week, either because people found the solution or becuase the game had to be shut down due to rampant hacking.
@@testname4464 Don't forget that the reward was overship over the RICHEST COMPANY IN THE WORLD. Tons of companies would do anything for that, and will finish the game in the first few hours.
Clearly nobody played Zelda Second Quest, there, uh?
@@oxygeninhaler4542 Which raises the question: what happened to companies like Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, etc. when Oasis came out? I know Atari, Intellivision, and Old Nintendo consoles, maybe the Megadrive too would get alot of use for the Easter Egg hunt, but did everyone in the world stop playing consoles that aren't from the 70's to 80's? Do they all make games for Oasis? And if the movie cosmetics are canon, what does Microsoft get out of letting players be the Spartans from Halo? And how far does modding go if Aech can just mod in the Iron Giant without a huge lawsuit? Does his cousin work at Warner Bros.?
So... the film is better than the book?
*_gosh that felt so satisfying to say_*
pulpshitpost even better example is The Shining. Still a favorite
No country for old man is also a good example that the film is better then the book
Any of the bond movies based on books and also fifty shades of grey. The films are terrible but theyre a smidgon better than the shitpile the books were
No Country for Old Men is a masterpiece.
I would say, Coraline is a pretty good example of that too.
I came back to this 4 years later, and the need porn poem honestly made me leave my nerdiness behind. I want to be the opposite of what these guys want. Mixed with some real life harassment because of my looks and interests, and I totally revamped my style to be less nerdy. I don't even wear my glasses anymore because of it.
Eh, you can wear glasses without look nerdy, depend on certain fashion style of course.
But you have a good point, I select thin metal glasses frame on purpose of not being lumped to the same group of specific category of nerds.
Whenever I feel uncreative or get depressed when I think that none of the things I write will ever get published least of all get popular or get a following, I can just remind myself that Ready Player One and Twilight are still things and I feel like I still have a chance.
After watching Family Guy I got sick of references. Constant references feels lazy and a cheap gimmick to pull in audiences with nostalgia and fads. It's feels like it's hiding the bad writing too.
Benki it doesn't help that it's not even integrated in these two media. It's just showing something and letting it do something it's known for. No integration into the plot or themes.
PokeEmblem 692 "yes yes you just did" ( phineas and ferb reference)
Benki References should be sprinkled in like seasoning. My personal favorite use of them is Anohana, but that's likely because of nostalgia
The writing is terrible, so dry that many times I felt I was reading a half-assed encyclopedia.
I feel as though you can have as many references as you want as long as they're subtle, not in your face like "Oh look it's star wars! Get it? Cuz it's Staaaar Waaaars".
References should simply come up and disappear as if they never happened, and they shouldn't take away your enjoyment if you don't get the reference.
Now I want a Ready Player One audiobook by Quinton sarcastically reading it.... Make it happen Audible
James Hughes that would be awesome
I'd buy it.
Quinton, I'm happy that you made this review. I worked with a guy that RAVED about this book. He wouldn't shut up about how much I would love Ready Player One, considering that many of the things referenced in the book I do genuinely love. He even loaned me his copy of the book, which was really nice of him, and every day he would excitedly ask "What part are you at!?"
After about a month I finished the book, and while there were a few parts but I did enjoy, like the bio suits that worked you out IRL while playing the game, I couldn't believe how disappointed I was in the ending and the whole "nerd gets the girl trope".
Like you said I just feel like he could have done so much more with the concept, but instead played it safe I suppose. I still haven't seen the movie but someone pointed out that the plot the film adaptation is the exact same as Spy Kids 3-D. Maybe you should look that up.
Anyway I'm new to your Channel, and I appreciate your videos! Keep up the great work
It seems like a book written for nerds, about nerds, by someone who hasn't even met one.
Real nerds like more obscure shit.
@@cypher838 gatekeeper alert
Pretty sure by "for hours and hours" Mr. Cline meant "for about five minutes, but it feels like hours to her as she realizes what a terrible mistake she made".
babe, can we just watch battle star Galactica and cuddle?
I had to read this for a class. It felt like a CTRL ALT DELETE comic in book form
I’m sorry for your I II II L
the worse part Tim Buckley and this guy really have a similar mindset, but Ernest Clean is like 50 years old, hes a fucking adult!!!!
@@user-nw1je1ur6t No way, Tim Buckley is like in his mid 30's, at least. They're both adults, making this more worse off for them.
you hear about video games?
I listened to the entire discography of They Might be Giants, multiple times. Kids' albums included. I have pored over potential meanings of their songs, and come up with several theories of my own. You could say I've made a little birdhouse in my soul.
Okay, so besides the fact that nobody supposedly thought to look for an invisible wall in an easter egg hunt, are you really gonna stand there and tell me that nobody datamined the SHIT out of that game in FIVE YEARS?
Haha, this video is an ex-parrot.
That was a reference to a famous sketch from the eighth episode of Monthy Python's Flying Circus, in which John Cleese and Michael Palin plays customer and shopkeeper in a petshop. In the sketch, the customer complains to the shopkeeper, that the parrot which he had been sold only half an hour earlier, was in fact dead. The shopkeeper claims that the parrot (Which by the way, was a "Norwegian Blue", which you may have inferred is a fictional species, as there are no parrots indigenous to Norway) is simply resting. This leads to a heated argument, in which the customer attempts to waken the bird by smashing it repeatedly into the counter. The shopkeeper however, refuses to admit that the bird is dead, which enrages the customer, and after a short tirade he exclaims, humorously, "This is an ex-parrot!".
I've got Spielberg on the phone right now, we gon make a movie my man
If you were on the book you would NEED to fully explain the reference, because nerds don't just casually quote things without saying the name of what they are referencing.
Matt I. Yea like who are these Monty Python people I have no idea about any fairly popular pop culture that a good amount of people know about Jesus man I can’t relate at all why aren’t you explaining it better in this book literally marketed as a book about nerdy references
That parrot sketch is one of my favorite pieces of media of all time. It's just such an absurd premise acted out as if it's so common we have all been there before. I don't even care for Monty python. I could take it or leave it. But that parrot bit is fantastic. I was trying to explain it to my bf a few weeks back n did not do as good a job as you did explaining what happened.
Lol
(I wish I could follow with something more creative, but "Lol" is all I've got right now.)
"I Studied Monty Python" i mean, i love their movies but...........study? really????????
Fierce Kitty My friend (a film major) actually took a class on Monty Python studies, it's a thing apparently.
We live in a wonderful world
Fierce Kitty I mean, to learn about comedy, I'd imagine it'd teach you something.
There's actually a lot of thought and even history that informs the gags in Monty Python movies. For example, the "Anarcho-Syndicalist peasants" scene - I'd always considered it to be a simple anachronistic gag (pun unintended) but after reading more about the time-period it turns out that communes like the one the peasants describe weren't exactly an unheard of phenomenon. In fact, that's how the Italian city-states and some of the Swiss cantons were founded - peasants banding together into communities to keep the landowning gentry and bandits at bay. Not exactly Anarchist as far as our conceptualization of the term in the 20th - 21st century but certainly close for the times, it gives the joke itself multiple layers of understanding. We can understand it as a simple anachronism and laugh at the "help help I'm being repressed!" antics and we can also appreciate it as parodying an actual phenomenon of the time-period by putting it into a contemporary context. They may have been goofs but they were also quite bright, those degenerate Pythons.
Likewise, the premise of "Life of Brian" also has some historical context, as during the period of Roman occupation it wasn't exactly uncommon for the Jewish folk to look for messiahs and guard themselves more in their faith, turning to it in times of duress. It sounds ridiculous but there's some substance to the course's existence.
"I memorized every last Bill Hicks stand up routine"
Okay that one's probably true considering how the book turned out
Damn, I uh, remember this book a lot differently...
In essence, Ready Player One has the potential of being a satirical statement on the state of nostalgia in the modern society, but instead fails to provide any kind of philosophical insight and only serves as a self-insert scifi story that constantly reminds the reader of how the writer has no sense of geek culture, direction for his narrative or what an audience looks for in a story that promises scifi action and referentual humour. That's all we need.
Hm, I think you missed the part where it is filled the wackiest bullshit that it became a satire of itself while also telling a story of horribly flawed characters left right and center.
Incel player one
Yeaaaaahh
And r/iamverysmart with a pinch of r/niceguys
Candy Ninja666 and just a hint of foreskin
"It's better than Harry Potter but worse than Terry Pratchett". Well, that's one huge range.
Wow.... so the final challenge of the movie adaptation was way more meaningful as a challenge than the actual final challenge in the book....
I havent read the book, but I felt genuine excitement when in the movie they mentioned that the last challenge was in an Atari game. I practically jumped out of my seat and said " its fucking Adventure, I'm calling it right now". 20 minutes before the characters themselves ever mention the game. And then when Parzival is playing the game and talking about the Easter egg itself it felt so fucking cool. Because that's something I knew because I cared about video games enough to learn about the history. It was a bit of video game history that as someone who loves video games meant something to me, and I imagine would also mean a lot to a game developer too so it was perfect for that to be the solution. I would've loved to see more things like that. Or like the famous quote from Satoru Iwata, former programmer and late president of Nintendo: "on my business card I am a corporate president. In my mind i am a game developer. But in my heart, i am a gamer". Stuff like that means something to people. Memorizing Monty Python just shows you have a lot of time on your hand and liked the movie.
Oh, that bit is in the book too. _After_ the monty python bullshit. And the monty python bullshit is treated as far more important
@@SharpieSkunk Which is perfect, as the egg hunt was created by Halliday, about Halliday. You can’t say that a madman wouldn’t include his favorite movie into the challenge, as easy at it was.
Every time you read a passage from the book I feel like I'm on the edge of a stroke
I just ate a shawarmas full of greasy garlic and poutine. I am on the edge of a strokèancijfblqh4m3kqbcja
Frank Cauldhame fuck me that's what it is.
This might have been interesting if this book had a poorly written character ON PURPOSE (which is why the writing is so terrible, since it is first person) who learns that he immersed himself in all of this for NO REASON because the "Easter egg" wasn't trillions and control of the most important platform and media in the world, but a trolling gif.
Then the rest of the book is about how the protagonist realizes that he has no personality, no interests, no real friends, and no life, and has wasted so much time being obsessed with somebody else's life and interests, and has to go on a journey of self-exploration to figure out who he is.
And the writing slowly gets less horrible as this goes on.
There could even be a subplot to the second half of the book where he tries to expose this fact to the world about the "Easter egg" but nobody believes him or listens. It could be biting social commentary on the fact that you can't save a person who doesn't want to be saved, you can't force people to open their eyes if the fantasy is better and they want to ignore reality. There could be a whole group of people who already found the Easter egg, hundreds of them over the years, and they've created an underground society that he stumbles upon in a Matrix-like way.
Man, I wrote the plot to a much better story in ten minutes.
eh, RP1 was never written in a way to make the reader think thoroughly about themselves, it was all a bunch of references so cline can jerk off
Damn, I'd kill for a story like that. It sounds like an alternate universe version where it trades off blatant references for human introspective, starting with a blank canvas and working from there. I want it.
I hope you dont mind if i copy paste this summary into google docs and start plotting an outline
I would read this book.
THATS AMAZING
Ready Player One in a nutshell: “Ooooo look! It’s thing I recognize from the past!”
I have to say. Despite wayde saying he’s watched all of monty python.
It seems like ernest cline has only watched holy grail. Considering nothing else ever comes up
Edit: also note how he just has to point out that he seen things “apart from holy grail”, which gives off the feeling cline hasn’t actually seen anything else.
If this main character was a girl they'd be calling her a Mary Sue. Amusing how people don't seem to notice how rampant flawless male characters are who can surmount any challenge with limited ease, but virtually no one calls them Gary Stews.
...They actually call Him Gary Stu,or at least my group of friends
This guy isn't really a Gary Stu, he is like the exact opossite because he has no redeeming qualities.
@@matti.8465 ...That was an unexpected burn
Im pretty sure half of anime's main characters are deemed gary sues
original next time learn how to define gary stu
I can't believe RPO was written by a "nice guy".
All of this makes so much more sense now
One of my biggest complaints is how Wade somehow never got past being level 1 until he beat the first puzzle.
Meaning? He is poor as fuck, and the book explains this far better. The movie is nowhere as good as the book, but if you want a story that everyone can relate to, I suggest you watch Titanic kr something, because neither of them would work. You have to pay with in-game currency to get around in the book oasis, and he got the money by finding the first key, which was on a free planet.
I remember getting the audio book thinking "Oh people really like this book, huh?" Listened to it
and regretted buying it.