Ready Player Two (the book) is Also Terrible

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  • Two years ago, the film Ready Player One entered our hearts and exited somewhere unmentionable. That same year, two things happened: I did a review on the 2011 book it was based on, and Ernest Cline started writing a sequel to allow for a larger franchise. Now, all these years later, Ready Player Two (or Ready Player One 2?) is out to the public and already causing much controversy online. But is the novel as bad as people say? Yes. But let's jump into nuances to the conversation anyway.
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  • @QuintonReviews
    @QuintonReviews  4 роки тому +335

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    • @FKP_1510
      @FKP_1510 4 роки тому +6

      If they ever made a ready player two and asked you to be in the movie would you do it?

    • @DukeJohnsonTheDuke
      @DukeJohnsonTheDuke 4 роки тому

      LOL 42069 nice bruh

    • @RabidDogma
      @RabidDogma 4 роки тому

      Congrats on 400k!

    • @mori2037
      @mori2037 4 роки тому

      iCarly babyyyyyyy

    • @RabidDogma
      @RabidDogma 4 роки тому

      Oh my god, the Korone reference. You have no idea how happy it makes me seeing her referenced in other media now.
      Truly the best doggo.

  • @CM-ne9ej
    @CM-ne9ej 4 роки тому +6140

    The idea of sword art online being historical pop culture is maybe the scariest part of this novel

    • @Grummar
      @Grummar 4 роки тому +244

      "nooooooo this extremely niche kinda meh game was very important for me so everyone should know it unless they are a philistine reeeeeeeee"

    • @theblandcharlie822
      @theblandcharlie822 4 роки тому +248

      In 2077, what makes someone a criminal? Dissing old shows.

    • @catlover0000
      @catlover0000 4 роки тому +462

      My headcanon is that the abridged series has so overshadowed the original that it's been forgotten.

    • @nataliapatolamoosmann8290
      @nataliapatolamoosmann8290 4 роки тому +89

      catlover0000 now that I could get behind

    • @caseys2698
      @caseys2698 4 роки тому +41

      @@theblandcharlie822 *“GETTING COC-“*

  • @reflectingh9997
    @reflectingh9997 4 роки тому +2765

    Fun fact: Cline and the guy who made sword art online personally know each other and are fans of each others work

  • @theoneandonlymichaelmccormick
    @theoneandonlymichaelmccormick 4 роки тому +956

    I got hit by Karl Marx, The Matrix, and Sword Art Online in really quick succession, and now I think I need to have a lie down.

  • @dandanboy97
    @dandanboy97 4 роки тому +1207

    Can we talk about how Shoto’s wife is pregnant when her brain is copied into the space ship meaning that that version of her is never going to get to meet her child. That’s psychological torture

    • @SynGirl32
      @SynGirl32 3 роки тому +49

      Excuse me *what?*

    • @anthonythompson6053
      @anthonythompson6053 3 роки тому +172

      This is why most of the media that deals with mind uploading/immortality make the implications of that the main point of the plot. Things like that literally fill books.

    • @isaacgruver7061
      @isaacgruver7061 3 роки тому +115

      I think a good question is: Will her clone be pregnant forever? Or will her digital self be pregnant for the length of time remaining until she was supposed to give birth? Once it reaches that time, will she have a simulated child? Or will her body just reset to the not pregnant state?

    • @eisinger2
      @eisinger2 3 роки тому +13

      Holy shit. I didnt even think of that.

    • @ratter88
      @ratter88 3 роки тому +113

      @@isaacgruver7061 it'd actually be kinda cool idea, if the child born, having no brain scan, would end up mysteriously developing a strangely human mind, and grow up as something not quite human, a spontaneously generated A.I, born of humans.
      And then you have a premise of all the brain scanned people, over time, creating more completely new copies, that after generations are something completely different. Not degenerated, just new and alien.
      If the ship could somehow come to replicate itself, you'd have a pretty solid star trek episode, when humanity meet them in the future, at the far fringes of space, the children of children of children of children of the copies of a bunch of nerds from the ancient past.
      Who all still remember Sword Art Online.

  • @juanjuri6127
    @juanjuri6127 4 роки тому +2086

    " "gamers rise up"
    - Karl Marx "
    - Ernest Cline

    • @weedAndTransRights
      @weedAndTransRights 4 роки тому +40

      by Fall Out Boy

    • @miguelsalas4417
      @miguelsalas4417 4 роки тому +6

      im not reading all of that

    • @Lesandira
      @Lesandira 4 роки тому +35

      "We live in a society."
      - Karl Marx
      - Kirigaya Kazuto

    • @ridhosamudro2199
      @ridhosamudro2199 4 роки тому +15

      Feat. Dante from Devil May Cry

    • @wildfiresp9606
      @wildfiresp9606 4 роки тому +2

      Funnily enough this is also basically a scene in the latest Sword Art Online season

  • @driveasandwich6734
    @driveasandwich6734 4 роки тому +677

    I really appreciate how the "I'm making Bee Movie jokes; it really is 2018 again!" showcases your point of Bee Movie being more nostalgic than Ready Player One.

    • @seandwalsh3
      @seandwalsh3 4 роки тому +3

      Yo Drive a Sandwich! Funny seeing you here.

    • @driveasandwich6734
      @driveasandwich6734 4 роки тому +3

      @@seandwalsh3 Wow, it really is! Second time it's happened right?
      Hey man, sorry for leaving the Discord, I've just been kind of busy lately and wasn't active already, but I do plan on coming back. The community is super cool.

    • @seandwalsh3
      @seandwalsh3 4 роки тому +2

      @@driveasandwich6734 yeah, crazy stuff!
      No problem, people come and go all the time. I’ll be glad to see you back when it happens! Thanks!

    • @grahamkristensen9301
      @grahamkristensen9301 4 роки тому +1

      Well Bee Movie is older than Ready Player One.

    • @bloodyhell8201
      @bloodyhell8201 4 роки тому +2

      @@driveasandwich6734 holy shit, youtube extended universe

  • @Blue-rz1cv
    @Blue-rz1cv 4 роки тому +373

    The first article that showed up after looking up "ready player two"is titled "ready player two is a warning about artificial intelligence. An ai could write a better book" and im r o l l i n g

    • @KaiKrimson56
      @KaiKrimson56 4 роки тому +20

      I got suggested an article saying Ready Player 2 was a copy of a copy or something like that. And it is with that batshit ending and the fact the O.N.I. isn't really that impressive since it's just Oasis with Wii controls and AI slavery.

    • @Blue-rz1cv
      @Blue-rz1cv 4 роки тому +1

      @@KaiKrimson56 omg i need that link if you find it-

    • @KaiKrimson56
      @KaiKrimson56 4 роки тому +2

      @@Blue-rz1cv www.theringer.com/2020/11/30/21726033/ready-player-two-ernest-cline-ready-player-one-sequel-creep

    • @sambradley9091
      @sambradley9091 4 роки тому +1

      ANNUS!

    • @StarWarsbyBennett
      @StarWarsbyBennett 4 роки тому +1

      UNUS ANNUS
      UNUS ANNUS

  • @powergannon
    @powergannon 4 роки тому +1613

    If everyone knows what Sword Art Online and Sonic.exe is in 30 years, we should probably just call it quits as a species right now.

    • @ekajikabos6728
      @ekajikabos6728 4 роки тому +43

      I wondered at this myself... the best I could come up with was: fandoms are quickly immortalized as worlds within the Oasis, where they become destinations/quest centers/etc, the user's experience of the world might vary greatly from their experience of a show/etc---as in, if a quest bearer or boss on that world dropped a highly exploitable item or one of extreme usefulness, you might be compelled to learn a great deal about the environment/fandom merely to complete a quest, get a drop, etc.
      Also.... a lot of people have bad taste. Like... a lot...

    • @DoctorLazers
      @DoctorLazers 4 роки тому +24

      I dunno. Plenty of mediocre anime from the 80s/90s is still remembered today.

    • @harrietr.5073
      @harrietr.5073 3 роки тому +14

      Technically because how nostalgia works, we will be nostalgic for it.
      Get ready for being nostalgic for 2016.

    • @greatestscott6599
      @greatestscott6599 3 роки тому +10

      Why so negative? I mean, I _personally_ hope we're
      🎵 *never gonna give them up, never gonna let them down...* 🎵

    • @canaisyoung3601
      @canaisyoung3601 3 роки тому +7

      @Dillon O'Dell Hey. COVID-19 is doing the best it can. Not its fault that people out there want to live and haven't completely given up on humanity.

  • @lincolnjohn8227
    @lincolnjohn8227 4 роки тому +938

    Let's be real Quinton. Quoting Karl Marx in one breath and name dropping SAO in the next is pretty much the energy of this entire youtube channel.

    • @DetectorCliche
      @DetectorCliche 3 роки тому +32

      But at least here unlike with the novel, that same energy has better direction.

    • @edgarallenhoe3518
      @edgarallenhoe3518 2 роки тому +12

      It's also 100% the kind of thing a teenager would say.

    • @FIRING_BLIND
      @FIRING_BLIND 2 роки тому

      @@edgarallenhoe3518 without understanding a word of what they said either

    • @IamX000
      @IamX000 Місяць тому

      It's also a weird critque because obsessing about old fantasy and scifi media is a pretty significant plot point of all the Ready Player One/Two books. Samantha is also clearly someone deeply conscious about the needs of others so quoting Marx makes sense.

  • @scootersocks2793
    @scootersocks2793 4 роки тому +929

    Characters in universe be like: I was born in the wrong generation, I wish I could watch Sword Art Online while it was airing.

    • @Gusarapo45
      @Gusarapo45 4 роки тому +102

      @Eden Kennedy "I wish I could stay at home all day like grandpa did in the 20's"

    • @TheVojvoda
      @TheVojvoda 4 роки тому +11

      The hipsters that dress like homeless people dress like the weird goddamn high fashion and call it "retro". Full on turtlenecks that go over your entire face.

    • @ELMedain
      @ELMedain 4 роки тому +6

      then they truly have no reason to live

    • @partylikeits1066
      @partylikeits1066 3 роки тому +4

      don't speak it into existence

    • @_ikako_
      @_ikako_ 3 роки тому

      @@TheVojvoda who are you even getting mad at here?

  • @mayajohnson1585
    @mayajohnson1585 4 роки тому +460

    “They would split her coding into seven different pieces” so not only are we taking the plot of sword art online, but we’re also copying Harry Potter? We’re turning Halliday’s dream wifu into Voldemort now?

    • @ClayMurray8
      @ClayMurray8 4 роки тому +30

      They even make reference to horcruxes in the book. It’s shameless.

    • @Fuhrer_Plumpus
      @Fuhrer_Plumpus 4 роки тому +5

      And red vs blue

  • @lonelychameleon3595
    @lonelychameleon3595 4 роки тому +2563

    If you’re an aspiring writer, it’s good to know that the ceiling is this low

    • @Feasco
      @Feasco 4 роки тому +93

      It's this all over, paper-thin romances and military thriller wank sell like hotcakes and stories with actual thought put into them being wildly successful happens to only the lucky few or the big name authors

    • @Loki-pz1uk
      @Loki-pz1uk 4 роки тому +34

      **if you are a cis white dude**

    • @volerasphere
      @volerasphere 4 роки тому +49

      Recently finished writing my first novel. Trying to get it published has been stressful, and I’ve worried about whether my book is good enough. Believe me, this makes me feel a hell of a lot better.

    • @josephuuqt
      @josephuuqt 4 роки тому +16

      @@Loki-pz1uk ? tf does that have to do with anything?

    • @xopasstheaux6617
      @xopasstheaux6617 4 роки тому +7

      @@josephuuqt she's likely a self hating lesbian who hates white men and believes they're the only reason she's not successful

  • @smoov22_sonic
    @smoov22_sonic 4 роки тому +745

    “Who is rewatching SAO in 2052”
    Everyone hyped that the 246th episode of SAO abridged has come out that’s who

    • @queencyrys6309
      @queencyrys6309 4 роки тому +31

      32 years is really good time to get 231 episodes out

    • @smoov22_sonic
      @smoov22_sonic 4 роки тому +19

      @@queencyrys6309 hoping by then there’s “auto-dub” technology or something
      maybe wade can invent that instead

    • @johnblunt6693
      @johnblunt6693 4 роки тому +5

      The only really good thing that happens in the ready player 2 world

    • @iamaperson5729
      @iamaperson5729 4 роки тому +31

      It’s a big misconception in 2052 that the abridged series wasn’t just the original series.

    • @WhatsaboutSingapore
      @WhatsaboutSingapore 4 роки тому

      Sadly Sao final arc is around the corner, I am hoping that this wouldn't truly be the end

  • @EtchJetty
    @EtchJetty 4 роки тому +1451

    "Did you just quote Karl Marx.... in a Ready Player One novel.... and immediately follow that up by referencing *Sword Art Online*?"
    Good shit.

    • @R3D-3Y3-B4ND1T
      @R3D-3Y3-B4ND1T 4 роки тому +112

      @kaza12345678 Saying it's going downhill implies it ever had a good start

    • @olivianicholson7957
      @olivianicholson7957 4 роки тому +43

      @@R3D-3Y3-B4ND1T hey, at least Aincrad was salvageable, even if it’s only mediocre at best. Some of the shit from the latest arc is hilariously bad, not to mention the fact that the rape trend in the series never died.

    • @jaybee27D
      @jaybee27D 4 роки тому +3

      @@olivianicholson7957 I heard they’re doing a reboot of the series from Asuna’s perspective based on a book series that was actually good. Idk, I haven’t followed the series in years, but it might be the start of an improvement for the series

    • @PancakemonsterFO4
      @PancakemonsterFO4 2 роки тому

      you die in the communist manifesto you die in real life

  • @idna832
    @idna832 4 роки тому +640

    "Anorak just went Sonic.exe on us!"
    Is a real line , from a real book

    • @mousesnow3900
      @mousesnow3900 4 роки тому +55

      That's one of those lines I'd expect from a kid's fanfiction who just wants to make something as edgy as possible.....butttttt this is a grown man trying to present himself as a s e r i o u s author-

    • @MustacheDLuffy
      @MustacheDLuffy 4 роки тому +3

      This is a fan fiction for sure.

    • @v3ck1n
      @v3ck1n 4 роки тому

      @@ecru_5819 same

    • @commandercaptain4664
      @commandercaptain4664 4 роки тому +14

      A real nerd would've said "Sanic.jpg"

    • @uzytkownik15
      @uzytkownik15 4 роки тому +6

      Yeah, long dead memes are sure a thing that ages like gold. Also isn't anorak a type of a jacket?

  • @tripled2096
    @tripled2096 4 роки тому +577

    "PERRY THE PLATYPUS! BEHOLD, MY *SWORD-ART-ONLINE*-INATOR!"

  • @lilhonor5425
    @lilhonor5425 4 роки тому +1774

    I saw the “non binary sex” paragraph on Twitter and I thought it was a joke at first partly because the title Ready Player Two sounds fake to me.

    • @theuncannydag
      @theuncannydag 4 роки тому +141

      That's how you know it's beyond parody. No fic writer or abridger could make this shit more ridiculous than it is & not a fun kinda ridiculous

    • @enkays_den
      @enkays_den 4 роки тому +192

      out of context read makes it look like his heart was in the right place but the language is glaringly indicative that Cline didn't really consult any LGBT+ research or perspectives. will edit if quinton mentions a context that justifies the grossness
      EDIT: while wade is crafted as an intentionally unlikable character and the dialogue reflects that, the "I experienced memories of all people so it's good" mentality isn't great and should not be internalized. It's similar to "All Lives Matter" in that tries to push equality without navigating any of the nuance that LGBT+ issues require in order to create constructive progress.

    • @user-xs3lc4ky4h
      @user-xs3lc4ky4h 4 роки тому +10

      I found out about it from Roblox. ;-;

    • @vylbird8014
      @vylbird8014 4 роки тому +44

      Reminds me of a quiz I found a couple of years ago, where it presented pairs of really horribly written erotica. The test was to guess which one was an extract from the Fifty Shades of Grey novels, and which was from poorly written fanfics or furry smut.

    • @OverlyPositiveFanboy
      @OverlyPositiveFanboy 4 роки тому +64

      I'm just wondering how "non-binary sex" would even work. I mean, as far as I know, there's no physical differences with a non-binary person and someone who identifies as a man or woman.
      Unless what the file is actually referring to is intercourse with intersex people or something.

  • @BugsyFoga
    @BugsyFoga 4 роки тому +1407

    You might as well call this sequel "I can't believe it's not sword art online " , cause would certainly be the more honest title.

    • @torgan
      @torgan 4 роки тому +60

      It's a novel for incels and cucks, of course it's SAO

    • @grkpektis
      @grkpektis 4 роки тому +14

      I just recently read the book Demon, it's has a similar plot to RPO (it came out before RPO) except it has actual stakes, tension,, good characters that develop and best of all no god damn pop culture references stuffed down your throat. Instead of being wish fulfillment bullshit it's a terrifying horror story about real life becoming like video games

    • @ztrb0820
      @ztrb0820 4 роки тому +12

      I was thinking of .Hack//sign

    • @Miraihi
      @Miraihi 4 роки тому +1

      Tad Williams' "Otherland" stays uncontested.

    • @simpsonwizekid
      @simpsonwizekid 4 роки тому

      @@ztrb0820 same here

  • @ELMedain
    @ELMedain 4 роки тому +1010

    SAO is already regarded as a sub-par anime, the fact that it can hold any relevance in the future terrifies me of how their media became .

    • @DinoDudeDillon
      @DinoDudeDillon 4 роки тому +44

      SAO is something I can enjoy on the level of 13 year old male fantasy. Like, I realize it's immature, but it's immature in the same way that I once was immature as a child, and so I can, for a minute, return to that part of my personality while watching it. I remember the romance plot being reductive (it's been years since I've seen it so don't remember the details). But it's reductive in a young male fantasy kind of way. There's an innocence to it.
      Whereas, though they share interesting similarities, I find I can't enjoy ready player one on that level though, because it's trying too hard. It's too intertextual. It takes me out of it, and it makes me feel condescended to. Referencing a better movie does not a good movie make. Whereas SAO is just unapologetically and sincerely an anime that's aimed at nerdy gamer preteen males like my younger self. It's an original story that doesn't try to borrow anything from any other story. It also has a unique and original aesthetic which I enjoy. Ready Player One thinks it can rely on the visuals of other, better films, and it is sorely mistaken. I mean, for all the expensive special effects, the film is just... bland, y'know?
      Ready player one reminds me of the big bang theory -- that show is constantly making pop culture references... as if that, in itself, constitutes comedy. Putting an obscure reference in your joke can make it funnier, because only a select few are "in the know" in some sense, and it feels good to be "in the know." But there still needs to be some kind of punchline -- you can't rely solely on the fact that you've made a reference to something the audience knows/likes.
      Similarly I feel like Ready Player One makes pop culture references as of that, in itself, constitutes narrative. Which is an even greater sin than thinking a pop culture reference constitutes comedy. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth, because I feel like the Shining references are unearned because the Shining is a much better film.

    • @DinoDudeDillon
      @DinoDudeDillon 4 роки тому +1

      Oh, lol I responded before finishing the video. Yeah it def seems like the second book is trying to make every criticism the author knows of seem intended, and therefore invalid, lol. Bad writing 101 lmao

    • @DinoDudeDillon
      @DinoDudeDillon 4 роки тому +4

      I was responding based only on the knowledge of the broad similarity between sword art online and the movie Ready Player One. But he actually straight up ripped off Sword Art Online knowingly and intentionally in the sequel, and told everyone he was doing it in the text 😅 Incredible

    • @Pheatan
      @Pheatan 4 роки тому +16

      Sao will only keep relevance due to something witty entertainments abridged series. Honestly the only thing that's made me think of it since its release.

    • @eliasalbarracin5549
      @eliasalbarracin5549 4 роки тому

      @@Pheatan Same, but sometimes, somewhere, I can hear the faint call of GGO's opening for SAO II. And then I think about that opening, and think about why I would ever continue watching the series.
      Dear god, I need to watch more anime again.

  • @jellewijckmans4836
    @jellewijckmans4836 4 роки тому +446

    "Who is rewatching sword art online in 2052?" You are assuming it stopped, it never stopped. Reki Kawahara's soul has been trapped so he can make his work eternal.

    • @blarg2429
      @blarg2429 4 роки тому +22

      Trapped as a digital copy in vr, or just straight-up necromancy?

    • @jellewijckmans4836
      @jellewijckmans4836 4 роки тому +45

      @@blarg2429 Yes

    • @anthraxcrab2222
      @anthraxcrab2222 4 роки тому +13

      @@blarg2429 yes

    • @blarg2429
      @blarg2429 4 роки тому +5

      @blarg2429 Yes

    • @theblandcharlie822
      @theblandcharlie822 4 роки тому +17

      You fool, Reki Kawahara disguised themselves as a hive mind of SAO waifus and became a v-tuber to gain funding for hyper-cryostasis

  • @waifuwilson6061
    @waifuwilson6061 4 роки тому +891

    "What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor...."
    -Kirito, Sword Art Online (2012)

    • @silverlightsinaugust2756
      @silverlightsinaugust2756 4 роки тому +105

      “What the fuck is Yoda? Yoda is a space pickle. Like, a sea cucumber, but a space... pickle.”
      -My wife

    • @electricvancompany3847
      @electricvancompany3847 4 роки тому +53

      "Dogs are kinda cute I guess" - Adolf Hitler

    • @entityoflunar
      @entityoflunar 4 роки тому +29

      "if you doodoo on yoself..." - Tyler, The Creator.

    • @witchflowers6942
      @witchflowers6942 4 роки тому +25

      @@electricvancompany3847 Hitler literally thought dogs were just as smart or smarter than humans. He dedicated a lot of research to this. He was not a healthy man.

    • @Dan-vm4yb
      @Dan-vm4yb 4 роки тому +17

      @@witchflowers6942 considering he also had Parkinson’s and was slowly dying by the end of the war, I’d say you’re correct

  • @josemaria8177
    @josemaria8177 4 роки тому +1192

    There's a Ready Player Two? I didn't know until now that it existed, but seeing Quinton destroy it is just what I need to have a great day

    • @ubermaster1
      @ubermaster1 4 роки тому +41

      it just recently came out and to absolutely no fan affair so I dont blame you for not knowing

    • @ravenpotter3
      @ravenpotter3 4 роки тому +15

      I knew it because roblox has a Ready Player Two event....

    • @gizmodobaggins7040
      @gizmodobaggins7040 4 роки тому +22

      Ready Player One 2*

    • @TooRudeProductions
      @TooRudeProductions 4 роки тому +2

      You should probably try watching the video before leaving a comment

    • @allisonfarrell7968
      @allisonfarrell7968 4 роки тому +3

      I knew because of an academic book of the same name that came out first, then THIS popped into my GoodReads search

  • @perciusmandate
    @perciusmandate 4 роки тому +437

    This sounds like exactly the same problem I had with the first book. Ernst is king of "Tell, don't Show". He spews a bunch of pop culture references onto the page and then tells us how his super cool OC did a bunch of really awesome stuff with it. But he never actually DESCRIBES most of the cool stuff. He leaves the reader to just sort of piece the scene together out of their own memories of those tidbits of pop culture. If you don't already know what the reference is, you're left with a word on a page and a blank.

    • @jflanagan9696
      @jflanagan9696 4 роки тому +23

      His writing targets a very specific audience.

    • @MrHawkelement
      @MrHawkelement 3 роки тому +44

      I wanna point out that some of the references he makes, don't even work. Like Sonic exe. Let's pretend for a moment, that it's somehow popular in 20 years, even though it isn't popular anymore now. Even if it is, sonic wasn't a rogue AI, like how the book uses the reference. Sonic exe was a demon or whatever. So not only is the author just chucking references at the wall, but he doesn't even manage to make those correctly.

    • @SaSPonchICo
      @SaSPonchICo 3 роки тому +11

      @@jflanagan9696 I would even say he writes to people who usually don't read and are more likely to overlook that he's really on the nose.

    • @pool8443
      @pool8443 3 роки тому +6

      i had this very issue with the 3rd shard. I completely skipped 3-4 chapter, because my mind could not create an image in my head for what was being described. I never saw any of these movies, so i all i got were random names with no meaning behind them.

    • @Evbuscus1
      @Evbuscus1 3 роки тому +12

      I'm reading it right now, and even with that knowledge, it's a miserable read. Give me cool descriptions! Paint a picture with words! Your character is LITERALLY EXPERIENCING A DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS CAMPAIGN IN VR give me some fucking descriptions oh my god. I want to hear about ancient, eroded walls, crumbling as our lead passes by them. Iron rings set into the stone, glinting in the torchlight, fiery yellow and damp. But no, "I made it through the dungeon and cleared the traps" is plenty, gotta keep that word count down so we can have pages upon pages of meaningless references and painfully awkward flirting! Fuck this booook

  • @eIIedritch
    @eIIedritch 4 роки тому +1225

    hear me out: the franchise is called ready player

    • @silverlightsinaugust2756
      @silverlightsinaugust2756 4 роки тому +38

      What about Player One Wins? Because it’s like the end, and Ready Player One is the beginning

    • @thatonegooze
      @thatonegooze 4 роки тому +27

      @@silverlightsinaugust2756 There ain't no 80s sequel that has wins in place of 2. You don't see Terminator Wins or Ghost busters Wins

    • @sambradley9091
      @sambradley9091 4 роки тому +60

      @@thatonegooze Well, now I do want to see Terminator Wins

    • @silverlightsinaugust2756
      @silverlightsinaugust2756 4 роки тому +3

      @@sambradley9091 fucking truth

    • @silverlightsinaugust2756
      @silverlightsinaugust2756 4 роки тому +18

      @@thatonegooze there doesn’t have to be an 80’s movie! This book is all about Sword Art Online! And nobody wins in that shit. They just blow up.

  • @ratchetxtreme6591
    @ratchetxtreme6591 4 роки тому +529

    A part of me wants to believe Spielberg was secretly SAO fan and wanted Ready Player Two as a scapegoat to make a SAO adaptation.

    • @ratchetxtreme6591
      @ratchetxtreme6591 4 роки тому +6

      @@SunlitSonata14272 huh , well that's interesting

    • @electricvancompany3847
      @electricvancompany3847 4 роки тому +1

      @@ratchetxtreme6591 you used scapegoat wrong

    • @KeyTryer
      @KeyTryer 4 роки тому +4

      Sword Art Online is like 10 times worse than Ready Player One.

    • @nyahnyahson523
      @nyahnyahson523 4 роки тому +4

      @@KeyTryer It's really, *really* not. SAO as a franchise gets creepy, but even then, it's not anywhere near RPO.

    • @KeyTryer
      @KeyTryer 4 роки тому +28

      @@nyahnyahson523 RPO is a story with a weird self-insert where the main character gets the girl at the end.
      SAO is a story with a weird self-insert where the main character gets the girl at the end, but there's also copious amounts of rape and incest fetish.

  • @unknownuser3926
    @unknownuser3926 4 роки тому +947

    The "nonbinary sex" quote immediately made me worried about how someone as close to incel culture as Cline would handle it. The same thing with the trans character.

    • @SpeedyLara2012
      @SpeedyLara2012 4 роки тому +28

      Yeah same here but from what I’ve seen it’s just there?

    • @HorrorLover
      @HorrorLover 4 роки тому +95

      Part of me hopes he's a bit more self aware now that he realizes his self-insert neckbeard is the character nobody likes, and changed him accordingly.

    • @sofiapicasso1915
      @sofiapicasso1915 4 роки тому +268

      @@SpeedyLara2012 the whole "finding out trans character is trans by invading her privacy and spying on her and her past + being cool with someone being trans because you're into all types of porn" is pretty icky tbh

    • @silverlightsinaugust2756
      @silverlightsinaugust2756 4 роки тому +4

      I mean I don’t know much about incels, but wouldn’t incel culture overlaps with non-binary and trans culture the same way it overlaps with straight and gay culture?

    • @xilj4002
      @xilj4002 4 роки тому +59

      Better than expected, if you can trust Jessie Gender.
      I mean he totally doesn't know anything about anything, but at least he (supposedly) goes down the route of "nah, I tried all kinds of sex in all kinds of bodies, everyone over 18 did, all the three genders are cool", which is ... headache, but sorta non-malicious headache. Sure horrible, but it could be some where-incel-and-terf-overlap bs and like revenge hacking the trans woman's avatar or something, and it *tries* to be accepting as much as someone who sees every human being on a scale of how useful they are for sexual pleasure can make something accepting.

  • @oppakunn328
    @oppakunn328 4 роки тому +325

    Am I the only ine who thinks the reason he sent a 19-year old clone of himself in space was so he would have material for a book series where Wade will just travel the galaxy?

    • @littlefieryone2825
      @littlefieryone2825 3 роки тому +31

      Ready Player One, except instead of the 80's, Wade is now a nerd for astrology.

    • @gamsssreal
      @gamsssreal 3 роки тому +20

      Wades guide to the galaxy

    • @mungdaal9643
      @mungdaal9643 3 роки тому +20

      Ready Player 40k

  • @Tiedyeban
    @Tiedyeban 4 роки тому +430

    Jesus I didn’t know the writing was that bad. He’s literally just listing stuff off like a Wikipedia page. It sounds like an enthusiastic version of your gamer from Mars parody.

    • @elvellarambles9151
      @elvellarambles9151 4 роки тому +5

      Not to ‘splain if you’re familiar with RP1:1, but what kills me is that RP1:2 seems to be a step up

    • @crytkryssus9851
      @crytkryssus9851 4 роки тому +10

      There's a way to homage. Cline's books are just self insert fan fiction.

    • @Mario_Angel_Medina
      @Mario_Angel_Medina 4 роки тому

      While reading the book, at times I thought "you're breaking the rule of three, dude. Three examples are enough, Cline, putting more is just padding"

    • @blasphimus
      @blasphimus 4 роки тому +1

      In the first book I didn't mind it. I was born in 89 so the 80's stuff wasn't in my life that much. It kind of helped to get things in historical context which was kijfnkf nice.

  • @tomatoanus
    @tomatoanus 4 роки тому +3363

    wait hold up, that ending sounds like a straight up rip off of SOMA lmao

    • @SJKlapecki
      @SJKlapecki 4 роки тому +108

      If only this book had the same quality.

    • @calmkat9032
      @calmkat9032 4 роки тому +94

      Lol, literally the only bad part of SOMA's story is the best ending of these two books, and that's not saying a lot.

    • @RabidDogma
      @RabidDogma 4 роки тому +26

      Not only that, the whole thing of being able to feel as if you're experiencing someone else's life/reality is a straight-up ripoff of the movie Strange Days with Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett.

    • @dudeist_priest
      @dudeist_priest 4 роки тому +41

      Of course the speed runner beat me here.

    • @idanordmark1786
      @idanordmark1786 4 роки тому +3

      For real, though! Except worse.

  • @nathifantin
    @nathifantin 4 роки тому +528

    "...he builds a space station"
    OOOOH, it's Elon Musk. Got it, it's Elon Musk.

    • @silverlightsinaugust2756
      @silverlightsinaugust2756 4 роки тому +8

      But in this case the musk is real...

    • @KaiKrimson56
      @KaiKrimson56 4 роки тому +13

      It's the Justice League Space Station, but it's built by Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luther obseesed with 80's pop culture.

    • @bebebebota11
      @bebebebota11 4 роки тому +15

      I think he's a mix of Elon Musk and Disney, with the whole monopoly of entertainment thing.

    • @notevenusingthisanymorelol
      @notevenusingthisanymorelol 4 роки тому +2

      Don't forget Dr Eggman

    • @vaiyt
      @vaiyt 4 роки тому +7

      Ready Player Two perfectly encapsulates the transition from nerd to techlord.

  • @maggiejenson4129
    @maggiejenson4129 4 роки тому +129

    the year is 2076. youtube is but a shadow of a memory in the backs of the public's mind. the few remaining users are surprised to see a notification from the channel "quinton reviews" -- they have not posted since 2020. the video is entitled "I finally read every animorphs book." a single tear falls down the viewer's cheek. "we made it honey," they say to an urn on the mantle. over 50 years later, quinton finally managed to complete the series and bring peace to the world.

    • @ConvincingPeople
      @ConvincingPeople Рік тому +1

      He has said that he's working on the longest video he's ever made right now, and unless the second half of that Sam & Cat retrospective gets *real wild* (which it totally could), I wouldn't be entirely surprised if it's the Beginning of the Animorphs-ening. Or the Homestuck-ening. Either would scan at this point.

  • @eliseallen5024
    @eliseallen5024 4 роки тому +555

    I actually cannot believe "Ready Player Two" is the book name

    • @shawnhoelscher8164
      @shawnhoelscher8164 4 роки тому +22

      Get ready to roll your eyes when you read the book and find out why it's called Ready Player Two

    • @Numskull6900
      @Numskull6900 4 роки тому +3

      @@shawnhoelscher8164 I really like Ready Player One, the book and movie, so lemme take a guess... Do Parzival and Art3mis have a kid?

    • @thatoneguy9582
      @thatoneguy9582 4 роки тому +30

      in their defense i cannot think of any other name a sequel to Ready Player One would have
      Ready Player One Two doesn’t count

    • @shawnhoelscher8164
      @shawnhoelscher8164 4 роки тому +18

      @@Numskull6900 the high five all get married and begin families on Earth BUT that's not when Ready Player Two comes up.
      When Wade first uses the ONI tech, three words pop up on his console. He thinks those words will be Ready Player One, which became an OASIS staple every time someone logs on. But for some reason unknown, when you sign into the OASIS using ONI tech it says Ready Player Two. Even though Wade was playing by himself???

    • @Numskull6900
      @Numskull6900 4 роки тому +1

      @@shawnhoelscher8164 Damn, I was close. Maybe the change has to do with the different tech?

  • @CoffeeMugTwentyFive
    @CoffeeMugTwentyFive 4 роки тому +713

    I think the title should have been, "Continue Player One".

    • @dillonfisher7615
      @dillonfisher7615 4 роки тому +65

      Nah. That's too good for this book. 😂

    • @HadleyCanine
      @HadleyCanine 3 роки тому +54

      No Wait Stop I'm Not Ready Yet Player One

    • @greatestscott6599
      @greatestscott6599 3 роки тому +74

      II. _Continue Player One?_
      III. _Quit Player One?_
      IV. _Rage Quit Player One_
      V. _LJN: You and Your Friends Are Dead. Game Over... One_

    • @kennapersonal
      @kennapersonal 3 роки тому +9

      Set player one

    • @that_deadeyegamer7920
      @that_deadeyegamer7920 3 роки тому +2

      Ready Player 1-2

  • @staticshyguy4961
    @staticshyguy4961 4 роки тому +337

    The title "Ready player two" honestly sounds like the title a person writing a fanfiction of RP1 would give

    • @silverlightsinaugust2756
      @silverlightsinaugust2756 4 роки тому +17

      Ready Player Zero Zero One One Zero Zero Zero One (that’s 1 in binary)

    • @commandercaptain4664
      @commandercaptain4664 4 роки тому +1

      @@silverlightsinaugust2756 *Bender Bending Rodriguez TRIGGERED*

    • @arianrhodhyde7482
      @arianrhodhyde7482 4 роки тому +4

      if it was a fanfiction they'd be obliged to give it a title from like, a Hozier song lyric it's the fanfiction law

    • @MrSmithers
      @MrSmithers 4 роки тому

      Is it not fan fiction?

    • @razr7r531
      @razr7r531 4 роки тому +4

      when the first movie came out , me and my friend make a joke about the sequel called ready player 2 . so yeah

  • @ajlxiii1312
    @ajlxiii1312 3 роки тому +140

    Honestly, if Ernest Cline DID make a third book where wade regresses in any of his character development and just turns into like a crazed pop culture referencing lunatic dictator, i would almost be impressed. But the problem with that is Ernest would have to have the self-awareness to turn his fucking OC into a villain, which i just...don't believe he can

  • @ratchetxtreme6591
    @ratchetxtreme6591 4 роки тому +545

    "Anorak just went Sonic.Exe on us "
    - a legit quote from Ready Player Two 😑

  • @an2wei
    @an2wei 4 роки тому +356

    The real dystopia is imagining that people still likes Sword Art Online in the future.....

    • @17kimberlyhayden9
      @17kimberlyhayden9 4 роки тому +4

      I've heard SAO is good now idk

    • @an2wei
      @an2wei 4 роки тому +12

      @@17kimberlyhayden9 as far as I'm aware(and I've stopped folowing the show a long time ago so this is second hand information) the most recent seasons seem to be way better than the rest of the show but still not great, there is a particular arc called mother's rosario which features different characters(i dunno if they stay on the show after the arc) that I've actually seen a few people saying it's really good.

    • @luminocuratoria1335
      @luminocuratoria1335 4 роки тому +1

      I like SAO. Im I gonna destroy Humanity?

    • @robert18productions
      @robert18productions 4 роки тому +6

      @@luminocuratoria1335 Yes.

    • @robert18productions
      @robert18productions 4 роки тому +3

      @@luminocuratoria1335 Nah I’m just playing lel

  • @teecee1827
    @teecee1827 4 роки тому +585

    What I learned : Steven Spielberg is SAO's secret author.

    • @hillocat101
      @hillocat101 4 роки тому +4

      Hahaha makes total sense now.

    • @neetwithajob
      @neetwithajob 4 роки тому +4

      would explain the quality.

    • @eliasalbarracin5549
      @eliasalbarracin5549 4 роки тому

      @@neetwithajob Can't tell if this is a diss at Spielberg or SAO...

    • @demsterclippy4252
      @demsterclippy4252 3 роки тому

      ouch

    • @honeyOTU_
      @honeyOTU_ 3 роки тому

      ohhh so HE'S the one who wrote that one chapter...y'all know which one I mean

  • @erikm8373
    @erikm8373 3 роки тому +245

    Personally, I think the idea of being able to connect a computer to your brain is really cool.
    I do not, however, believe any company powerful enough to own that technology could be trusted to do it.

    • @_ikako_
      @_ikako_ 3 роки тому +17

      if the software is entirely open-source and run by and ngo non profit, sure. any other circumsance, no thanks.

    • @edgarallenhoe3518
      @edgarallenhoe3518 2 роки тому +17

      @@_ikako_ I agree but I'd add that the existence of hackers is enough of a deterrent on its own. In addition to unscrupulous corporations I have a "how much damage could an abusive ex with computer skills do" test.

    • @manuelmialdea5127
      @manuelmialdea5127 9 місяців тому +2

      Brain adds. Just... Brain adds.

  • @bigsky1047
    @bigsky1047 4 роки тому +683

    The fact that Kline read Sonic.exe, liked it, and then referenced it in his book is amazing. It also shows exactly who the audience was for those awful gaming creepy pastas, and Ready Player One.

    • @realhumanbean7915
      @realhumanbean7915 4 роки тому +6

      He referenced it? Based.

    • @piotr4198
      @piotr4198 4 роки тому +45

      I'm willing to bet he didn't actually enjoy it that much and just referenced it because he felt like there should be a reference there and that's the best he could come up with.

    • @bigsky1047
      @bigsky1047 4 роки тому +46

      @@piotr4198 That's probably true lol. It is still a horrible reference because who the hell is reading Sonic.exe so many years later? That story isn't even relevant to creepypasta today. Let alone relevant to horror in the decades to come.

    • @thatlycantomboy
      @thatlycantomboy 4 роки тому +9

      it’s especially insane since I’m pretty sure that even the author of sonic.exe hates sonic.exe

    • @MmeCShadow
      @MmeCShadow 3 роки тому +24

      He didn't even use it *properly*. He used in reference to encountering a rogue AI. Sonic.exe isn't a rogue AI-- even in the original story it was supposed to be some kind of supernatural demon.
      Never mind that it's such a weird, obscure piece of Internet trivia that most of his readers probably wouldn't know what it's in reference to. It's a situation where it's a name-drop that, if you don't understand it, there's no context in the book that helps explain it so you can get it; if you *do* understand it, the context is completely nonsensical.

  • @Ann-jh3kj
    @Ann-jh3kj 4 роки тому +452

    If you do end up reading the Animorphs series, u gotta read the parody spin-off called Vegemorphs where the kids turn into vegetables.

    • @alejandrovasquez8527
      @alejandrovasquez8527 4 роки тому +50

      I can't believe I'm doing this reference in 2020 but I TURNED MYSELF INTO A PICKLE MORTY

    • @gracekim1998
      @gracekim1998 4 роки тому +2

      Wow

    • @juanjuri6127
      @juanjuri6127 4 роки тому +6

      but isn't that just that one dril tweet

    • @apex2000
      @apex2000 4 роки тому +8

      If an alien is plant based with animalistic abilities... Can animorphs become it? Also what about fungi which is closer to animals than plants.

    • @kramenisfalling
      @kramenisfalling 4 роки тому +7

      @@apex2000 I don't know about animorphs, but it seem like they might hit on that subject in the parody book. The full title is Vegemorphs: The Fungus Among Us

  • @epicgamerhank9509
    @epicgamerhank9509 4 роки тому +160

    Ernest Cline seriously referenced a creepypasta, and not even a good one at that?
    What is Jeff the Killer also in this book?

    • @artttard
      @artttard 4 роки тому +3

      Well, he was gonna put the Grifter in, but it was too scary.

    • @DavisPeck
      @DavisPeck 4 роки тому +7

      No, but Herobrine is, about a couple paragraphs above the Sonic.exe mention. It's...really something

  • @lauriechan1426
    @lauriechan1426 3 роки тому +181

    Must be a horrible fate being the exact same age, stuck with the same people and in the same place forever...with no purpose. That is the ultimate torture, making wade a horrible, horrible being

    • @jimcat68
      @jimcat68 3 роки тому +18

      It's hell, being with those other people and having no exit.

  • @iancole2279
    @iancole2279 4 роки тому +286

    Hot take. Unlikable protagonists are an interesting medium of storytelling and should be explored more.
    The book is still terrible though.

    • @Trebuchetify
      @Trebuchetify 4 роки тому +84

      The problem is unlikable protagonists that everyone else within the narrative love. Makes you think that maybe the author wasn't trying to write an unlikable protagonist

    • @aquanecromancer5776
      @aquanecromancer5776 4 роки тому +35

      They've been very thoroughly explored in literature for the last century. Not to say it doesn't still have value, just a lot of ground already covered there.

    • @jays.6843
      @jays.6843 4 роки тому +4

      Chainsaw Man

    • @theblandcharlie822
      @theblandcharlie822 4 роки тому +5

      The Prince
      Makeoveli did a good job with tha book showing people how tyrants work

    • @leeshajoi
      @leeshajoi 4 роки тому +58

      The problem is, every time a story with an unlikeable protagonist gets popular, a significant chunk of its fanbase decide that the protagonist is someone you're supposed to like and emulate. See: Fight Club, Rick and Morty, even fucking Lolita.

  • @sylvisoul164
    @sylvisoul164 4 роки тому +3039

    the trans vtuber was handled terribly too, her being outed to wade by him literally completely invading her privacy is really fucking creepy and bad and it's made worse with his justification for accepting her solely being that he's experienced all kinds of sex. kinda just doubles down on the societal misconception that being trans is a sexual thing

    • @dreye3215
      @dreye3215 4 роки тому +489

      Yeah, that whole part was gross. I don't know why straight cis guys think they need to justify respecting trans women through sexual attraction.

    • @razriri1467
      @razriri1467 4 роки тому +273

      @@dreye3215 This is the relationship a lot of cis/straight guys have with women in general

    • @Invizive
      @Invizive 4 роки тому +93

      @@razriri1467 only creepy ones are treating women this way outside of appropriate context
      And only the creepiest of them are ignorant enough to put it into their glorified fanfic as something normal

    • @jamesdonoughue4557
      @jamesdonoughue4557 4 роки тому +22

      Heaven forbid everything and everyone doesn't accommodate your every whim

    • @deletedaccount3047
      @deletedaccount3047 4 роки тому +218

      @@jamesdonoughue4557 this, my good sir, is a dumb comment. If you have not talked to trans people about their experiences or experienced them yourself then please do yourself a favor and go learn so that you can become better informed!

  • @denisthomass.dasallas6513
    @denisthomass.dasallas6513 4 роки тому +162

    You had me at the “Are you quoting Karl Marx and name dropping Sword Art Online” part

  • @Hakumeiun
    @Hakumeiun 4 роки тому +363

    I once read a review that seems applicable to this book. It began, "Let's start with the positives: this book is obviously written in English..."

    • @tejpatel5320
      @tejpatel5320 4 роки тому +8

      Lol, i want to read that review now

    • @canaisyoung3601
      @canaisyoung3601 3 роки тому +12

      Yes, but it's the kind of English that makes people think the language is dying. When really, languages are considered dead when there are no more words to add, which explains Latin and Yiddish.

    • @_ikako_
      @_ikako_ 3 роки тому +7

      @@canaisyoung3601 i thought languages were dead when nobody spoke them natively? and anyone who thinks english is dying because new words are being created are dumb old people who don't realise that language changes over time.

    • @magusperde365
      @magusperde365 3 роки тому +13

      Oh shit the book I'm writing is in french.. it means I suck doesnt it 😭😭

    • @s4juno693
      @s4juno693 2 роки тому

      Gracias a Dios por eso.

  • @boiyado6717
    @boiyado6717 4 роки тому +461

    Ah yes, Sonic.exe and Sword Art Online, both very good quality pieces of art that have very much cultural relevance, sureeeeeeeeeeeee. At least the quality between them all is similar.

    • @crimsondynamo615
      @crimsondynamo615 4 роки тому +25

      They’re both the slices of bread on this shit sandwich

    • @MissJukeBox8
      @MissJukeBox8 4 роки тому +46

      I will personally make sure that Sonic.EXE is still known by the masses in 2052

    • @joshshrum2764
      @joshshrum2764 4 роки тому +7

      Oh dear god not Sonic.exe.

    • @rinrinrinrinrinrinrinrinrin
      @rinrinrinrinrinrinrinrinrin 4 роки тому +10

      @@MissJukeBox8 o7 thank you

    • @Yoyoitsyoji
      @Yoyoitsyoji 4 роки тому +8

      What’s funny is that these references are both already wildly outdated at the time of release for the novel (2020). Not only does that make it less likely to be referenced in 2054 or whenever the book takes place, but puts a shelf life on the book- at least the 80s movies from the first book already stood the test of time by when the book had been written

  • @RaggedyCatProductions
    @RaggedyCatProductions 4 роки тому +330

    "Its cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere" - you can't sneak a Red Dwarf reference past me.

    • @andrewgutierrez4841
      @andrewgutierrez4841 4 роки тому +4

      Nice catch

    • @maxkennedy7430
      @maxkennedy7430 4 роки тому +4

      Oh Smeg.

    • @Shintigercurl
      @Shintigercurl 4 роки тому +4

      glad i'm not the only one who caught that. :D

    • @rubywest5166
      @rubywest5166 4 роки тому +12

      "Please say "All alone, more or less", please- HE DID IT! HE SAID THE LINE!"

    • @jonahbardwell551
      @jonahbardwell551 4 роки тому +4

      Just something kind of neat, I read your comment right as he was saying it

  • @exquisitecorpse__
    @exquisitecorpse__ 4 роки тому +167

    Only Ogden can kill this evil Halliday that noone else can touch, and so logs on to the rpg with his special sword that can do it.
    This is an episode of South Park

    • @chespin3910
      @chespin3910 4 роки тому +17

      no, it's just sword art online again

    • @GreaterSeraph
      @GreaterSeraph 4 роки тому +4

      [Live to Win intensifies]

  • @ob2kenobi388
    @ob2kenobi388 Рік тому +21

    I am 21 now. If I were stuck as my 19 year old self forever, that would literally be hell. I had figured out I was trans but hadn't yet come out or started HRT, so I'd be trapped in that eternal existence inbetween worlds-finally knowing the full scale of the horrors I've lived through, but not yet possessing the tools nor the courage necessary to combat them.

  • @gbrading
    @gbrading 4 роки тому +171

    The ending is literally SOMA. And SOMA realized the whole thing was a nightmarish horror.

  • @Kedai610
    @Kedai610 4 роки тому +187

    "Did you just quote Karl Marx in a Ready Player One book!?"
    Theodor Adorno would have a field day with this franchise

    • @kofi9212
      @kofi9212 4 роки тому +2

      I would want to see Mark fisher’s take on the rampant nostalgia in the novel/movie, and connect it to capitalism😅

    • @magnopere
      @magnopere 4 роки тому +6

      @@kofi9212 I'm being haunted by the spectre of Ready Player One

    • @magnopere
      @magnopere 4 роки тому +4

      @SandboxArrow wow cool skull profile pic bro very cool

    • @marawisworkmusic
      @marawisworkmusic 4 роки тому

      Not enough jazz to trigger him

    • @kofi9212
      @kofi9212 4 роки тому

      @SandboxArrow cope

  • @battleupsaber462
    @battleupsaber462 4 роки тому +868

    Honestly this series has been such an inspiration to me. If even someone who sounds like a stereotypical Reddit neckbeard can get his glorified fanfiction turned into successful books and a Spielberg movie, anything is possible! Just got to hold on to your dreams ❤

    • @11th_Endor
      @11th_Endor 4 роки тому +64

      That’s, actually a great way to look at it.

    • @Sajirah
      @Sajirah 4 роки тому +99

      I mean, E.L. James was able to make money off her badly written x-rated Twilight AU so clearly anyone can get published...you just have to shamelessly cater to the fantasies of your audience. If you do that they won’t care how bad your writing is.

    • @aegisScale
      @aegisScale 4 роки тому +21

      Yay optimism!

    • @PosthumanHeresy
      @PosthumanHeresy 4 роки тому +12

      @@Sajirah The secret is, human population is so massive that even 0.1% of people is a group 7,594,000 strong. So as long as you appeal to a demographic, you should be good. What once were bestseller numbers are now midtier. We see some things have sales numbers indicating more people bought it than were even alive a century ago. As long as there's a group that exists to appeal to, these days it'll likely be big enough to make you rich because people can't stop breeding for five milliseconds.

    • @pepinopepino7
      @pepinopepino7 2 роки тому +1

      @@PosthumanHeresy gotta love this piece of advice

  • @exploderwrestlingpodcast2721
    @exploderwrestlingpodcast2721 4 роки тому +58

    This book sounds like 20 years of comic book writing done during an overnighter by 1 guy on Adderall and crystal meth.

  • @AveryTalksAboutStuff
    @AveryTalksAboutStuff 4 роки тому +333

    Wade is the most r/niceguy main character I've ever read about.

    • @crimsondynamo615
      @crimsondynamo615 4 роки тому +41

      I could smell wade just from the text

    • @alikhamis3367
      @alikhamis3367 4 роки тому

      :v

    • @Mockthenerd
      @Mockthenerd 4 роки тому +5

      100%. I'd have clicked on those sex files instantly and my wife would have given me the thumbs up!

    • @_ikako_
      @_ikako_ 3 роки тому +1

      @@Mockthenerd my wife's boyfriend would have even bought me an Oney(ng)!

  • @c3r6s9
    @c3r6s9 4 роки тому +1647

    the fact that he includes m/f, f/f, and "nonbinary" sex (whatever that means) but no m/m shows that he rly just sees nonbinary ppl as alt girls, lol

    • @v.e.jansen7720
      @v.e.jansen7720 4 роки тому +150

      Yeah it really comes off as disrespectful

    • @moonfestal
      @moonfestal 4 роки тому +47

      @@AlexanderMartinez-kd7cz Bad take

    • @SomeSomeCruzz00
      @SomeSomeCruzz00 4 роки тому +32

      @@AlexanderMartinez-kd7cz yes

    • @SomeSomeCruzz00
      @SomeSomeCruzz00 4 роки тому +107

      @@AlexanderMartinez-kd7cz in a society that is fiercely anti non binary practically all of them would be considered non functioning members. Making this distinction between respectable and non respectable non binary people is a bad mindset.

    • @moonfestal
      @moonfestal 4 роки тому +20

      @@AlexanderMartinez-kd7cz yet another awful take

  • @commandertorres
    @commandertorres 4 роки тому +240

    Im reminded of how Micheal Crichton wrote the lost world because fans and spielberg wanted a book sequel so a movie can be made.
    Notice the difference being “People ASKED for a sequel to Jurassic Park”

    • @maxximoramirez
      @maxximoramirez 4 роки тому +11

      yeah i remember that mess with the movie and the books, if i recall:
      The Lost World movie is a sequel to the book Jurassic Park
      but The Lost World book is a sequel to the movie Jurassic Park

    • @smolexfundie6458
      @smolexfundie6458 4 роки тому +7

      And surprisingly, I enjoyed the lost world even more than the first book! It could just be nostalgia thought, because I read the lost world first.

    • @elif6908
      @elif6908 4 роки тому +1

      +

    • @manospondylus
      @manospondylus 4 роки тому +11

      @@maxximoramirez No, the TLW novel still plays in the same continuity as the first novel and the TLW movie plays in the same continuity as the first movie. The fate of Gennaro in the novels is an example of this.
      I think you‘re mixing this up with the game Jurassic Park: Trespasser, which used the timeline from the novels but still references events from the movies and was released in the wake of the second movie

  • @danieljohnkirby9412
    @danieljohnkirby9412 4 роки тому +52

    13:25 The entire premise of RPO is that all the things that Ernest Cline personally likes are weirdly popular in 2052.

  • @NaramSinofAkkad790
    @NaramSinofAkkad790 4 роки тому +111

    Holy shit Earnest played Soma and didn't realize it was a horror game.

  • @LazloKatamari15
    @LazloKatamari15 4 роки тому +266

    Should've called it Ready Player One The Squeakel.

    • @mikvance
      @mikvance 4 роки тому +12

      Ready Player One Two Electric Boogaloo

    • @Wired4Life2
      @Wired4Life2 4 роки тому +4

      _Ready Player Onesies_

    • @DingoWalley01
      @DingoWalley01 4 роки тому +1

      Ready Player One: Escape 2 Africa

    • @thatsastick13
      @thatsastick13 4 роки тому +3

      Ready Player One 2 The Third Forever After

    • @videogamenostalgia
      @videogamenostalgia 4 роки тому +2

      Ready Player One: Back 2 Tha Hood

  • @electricvancompany3847
    @electricvancompany3847 4 роки тому +493

    If your book is synonymous with incel culture, false gatekeeping and Roblox's incompetence all at the same time then maybe don't make a sequel.

    • @A_Toaster
      @A_Toaster 4 роки тому +21

      I dont see where fucking roblox comes in on this

    • @notenoughmemes1847
      @notenoughmemes1847 4 роки тому +68

      @@A_Toaster You don't want to know where Roblox comes in on this

    • @nelsondestefano4150
      @nelsondestefano4150 4 роки тому +8

      Please tell, i imagine it’s just because the virtual game in the books is basically a supped up roblox, but if it’s something else than could you please explain

    • @dylanchouinard6141
      @dylanchouinard6141 4 роки тому +4

      @@notenoughmemes1847 please tell us

    • @evanchismark3092
      @evanchismark3092 4 роки тому +18

      Forget roblox, I want to know the difference between false gatekeeping and true gatekeeping.

  • @RevolutionaryLoser
    @RevolutionaryLoser 4 роки тому +821

    People having nostalgia for Sword Art Online in 2052 is the most dystopin idea anyone has ever had.

    • @Anna-tk7ui
      @Anna-tk7ui 4 роки тому +27

      @Untitled Title NO GOD PLEASE NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    • @AnakinFury
      @AnakinFury 4 роки тому +32

      @@Anna-tk7ui Hey we got SAO abridged from it, which was one of the best things I ever watched. A soul for a soul.

    • @eliasalbarracin5549
      @eliasalbarracin5549 4 роки тому +15

      @@AnakinFury But human transmutation is strictly forbidden, for what could equal the value of a human soul?

    • @Lunar_Atronach
      @Lunar_Atronach 4 роки тому +18

      Is everyone ignoring that sonic.exe is also a household name in 2052?

    • @antipsychotic451
      @antipsychotic451 3 роки тому

      @Untitled Title that;s fucking rich

  • @dreamof_me
    @dreamof_me 4 роки тому +78

    I’m having such horrific flashbacks to watching and reading SAO in high school

  • @ninjasanin500
    @ninjasanin500 4 роки тому +177

    Imagine the Sonic.EXE line being in an actual movie 5-10 years from now...........

  • @IsaacMayerCreativeWorks
    @IsaacMayerCreativeWorks 4 роки тому +504

    “no one begging to hear more about [the Avatar] story”
    Jenny Nicholson begs to differ, and is definitely not being compelled by a large pulsating alien pod to do so

    • @commandercaptain4664
      @commandercaptain4664 4 роки тому +26

      Did _Rise of Skywalker_ teach her nothing?

    • @PosthumanHeresy
      @PosthumanHeresy 4 роки тому +6

      I know somewhere where you can buy one of those.

    • @ShibuNub3305
      @ShibuNub3305 4 роки тому +8

      @@PosthumanHeresy It’s wish.com isn’t it.

    • @bakingbad2992
      @bakingbad2992 4 роки тому +12

      Hail the pod

    • @danhemming6624
      @danhemming6624 4 роки тому +7

      One day, one day Avatar, you shall be watched by me.
      Probably not.

  • @tap5263
    @tap5263 4 роки тому +532

    Meanwhile, in sao abridged: "Have any of you seen Tron?"

  • @iateabagelonce
    @iateabagelonce 4 роки тому +68

    It's becoming clearer and clearer that Ernest Cline doesn't think about the repercussions of Wade's decisions because Cline thinks of himself as someone who would never lead the world astray because he's Such A Nice Guy

  • @shocknawe
    @shocknawe 4 роки тому +168

    Holy shite.
    This book's ending is LITERRALLY the terrifying existential ending of the game SOMA.

    • @anubisizzy
      @anubisizzy 4 роки тому +1

      How it end

    • @enderdrache
      @enderdrache 4 роки тому +33

      ​@@anubisizzy While the protagonist finds himself inside a virtual reality drifting through space, guaranteeing that at least a remnant of humanity will continue its existence for a couple more thousand years. There is also another version of him, still trapped in a mangled body on the floor of the Atlantic ocean, no longer able to deny the reality of his situation now that the task of preserving humanity is done.

    • @shocknawe
      @shocknawe 4 роки тому +16

      @@enderdrache pretty much. Gives me chills just by reading. One of the most impactful games in my life I've never player.

    • @shocknawe
      @shocknawe 4 роки тому +7

      @@anubisizzy If you do not want to play it, watch Joseph Anderson's review. Edit: thats what I did.

    • @anubisizzy
      @anubisizzy 4 роки тому

      @@enderdrache what happened to the body

  • @drugstoredilemmas7962
    @drugstoredilemmas7962 4 роки тому +191

    Eh, that Avatar sequel has been kicked back further and further for at least a decade now. I won’t believe Avatar 2 is real until I see it in theaters

    • @JackedThor-so
      @JackedThor-so 4 роки тому +33

      The ONLY reason I have any interest in the movie is it means we'll get a Jenny Nicholson video the length of a miniseries out of it.

    • @Flamewarden_Honoushugoshin
      @Flamewarden_Honoushugoshin 4 роки тому +8

      Did you know that Avatar starts with a cyberpunk dystopia and a great barfight scene and the Protagonist's disability comes from serving in the US occupation of
      Venezuela? I had completely forgotten almost immediately 10 years ago when it came out. I can almost guarantee you it's better than you remember, seriously. If you don't believe me go ahead and set aside a few hours to rewatch it or better yet listen to the Chapotraphouse podcast they did on it, really put things in perspective for me (ep 478 "World Tree Center"). Seriously changed everything I though I knew about the movie, everybody only remembers like 2 memes about the movie, which were the on the nose satire of boneheaded jingoist military speak and corporate imperialist extractivism and the "no body remembers the casts names", which while fair, if you dig into them some of the names are pretty well done, like the professional managerial class scientist lady being named Grace Augustine after Saint Augustine's thesis on Grace and Free Will, or the antagonist Colonel Quaritch who I think is named after Horace Geoffrey Quaritch who was a British adviser and upholder of British Imperialism to Kings Rama VI and Rama VII of Siam.

    • @jackthorton10
      @jackthorton10 4 роки тому +2

      @@Flamewarden_Honoushugoshin Now that is interesting

    • @MrHawkelement
      @MrHawkelement 3 роки тому +3

      @@Flamewarden_Honoushugoshin You kinda hit the nail on the head; That was the problem with Avatar. The dialogue was subpar, even if the actors were great. The story was forgettable (and done better elsewhere, so not original either) but the world looked good. I don't know anyone dying to see characters from Avatar again, but I knew plenty of people who wanted to see the new Terminator's. One had fun characters and a fresh look at a Machine vs Man story, and Avatar....looks pretty. (The terminator sequels sucked but obviously no one knew that yet at the time)

    • @octoisgay
      @octoisgay 8 місяців тому

      how was it

  • @PaintedBB
    @PaintedBB 4 роки тому +250

    THIS IS REALLY IN THE BOOK:
    Players are able to record their memories in real time, so new mothers record themselves giving birth... specifically so their children can play the memory and experience giving birth to themselves.
    I had the audiobook and wanted to throw my phone across the room.

    • @realhumanbean7915
      @realhumanbean7915 4 роки тому +27

      Oh my fucking god no

    • @PaintedBB
      @PaintedBB 4 роки тому +23

      @@realhumanbean7915 God has no place here. Not in a Cline book...

    • @PosthumanHeresy
      @PosthumanHeresy 4 роки тому +35

      That is literally a joke line in Cyberpunk 2077 about the same tech, listed on an editor's notepad (Judy, if you're trying to find it) as a potential idea that nobody has done yet. It's amazing how important _setting_ is for your tone.

    • @ShibuNub3305
      @ShibuNub3305 4 роки тому +10

      *I’m going to rain napalm on Ernest Cline and every editor who let that slip by.*

    • @valrond
      @valrond 4 роки тому +8

      I ordered my first ever refund in audible shortly after thag.

  • @heyitsstarf
    @heyitsstarf 4 роки тому +46

    "It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere"
    -hey wait a minute

  • @billyweed835
    @billyweed835 4 роки тому +81

    It is the nature of humanity that, every so often, someone reinvents Sword Art Online.

    • @fightingmedialounge519
      @fightingmedialounge519 4 роки тому +2

      Which is funny since sao is derivative itself

    • @thanatoast
      @thanatoast 4 роки тому +1

      Sao abridged was and still is the only good thing to come out of Sao

  • @DaughterOfFrankenste
    @DaughterOfFrankenste 4 роки тому +183

    I actually want this man to undertake the reading of Animorphs. This actually excites me.

    • @Hippiethecat124
      @Hippiethecat124 4 роки тому +13

      I'm so fucking pumped, Animorphs is actually really good science fiction with a fascinating universe that tackles the ramifications of having literal child soldiers as protagonists. And fun animal facts!

    • @SOLOcan
      @SOLOcan 4 роки тому +7

      @@Hippiethecat124 Its like Evangelion for YA

    • @imperfectly_megan
      @imperfectly_megan 4 роки тому +2

      Me too! I'm mad I can't subscribe twice lol.

    • @davidmaxwell4696
      @davidmaxwell4696 4 роки тому +1

      My god you're right. It IS Evangelion for kids lol. God I hope Quinn covers it, its one of my all time favorite series

    • @SOLOcan
      @SOLOcan 4 роки тому +4

      @@davidmaxwell4696 yeah but sometimes I feel the animorphs do even more f'ed up things that Shinji and co don't even have to do.
      Trapping a dude in the body of a rat is some I have no mouth and I must scream level level of hell. The book even ends saying people who are near him can hear his psychic screams. Its kind of funny how I never really noticed this stuff as a kid

  • @MegaStevo1993
    @MegaStevo1993 4 роки тому +238

    Hey i cant and wont stop you from buying all the animorph's books, but the author made them all available for free as PDFs

    • @GhostIsMostly
      @GhostIsMostly 4 роки тому +23

      That sounds dope as hell, thanks animorphs author!

    • @goldbergshekelwitz1596
      @goldbergshekelwitz1596 4 роки тому +4

      He's just setting up to ask for money.

    • @michaelwebster-clark9865
      @michaelwebster-clark9865 4 роки тому +18

      Note that this is a *little* funky because K.A. used ghostwriters for like half the series, and I'm not sure if those people have also consented to have their work online for free-that said, I'm pretty sure purchasing the books doesn't get those people any money regardless, so who cares.

    • @marocat4749
      @marocat4749 4 роки тому +7

      The relinguish the rights when ghostrighting which, they may like having more exposure.
      Read the coment quinton san.

    • @EmileeAria413
      @EmileeAria413 4 роки тому

      Yo shit, really? That’s awesome!

  • @avivastudios2311
    @avivastudios2311 2 роки тому +18

    "... but it's important to understand that at this point in the novel, everyone in the world hates Wade Watts."
    Why did that make me laugh so hard?

  • @areallyboredindividual8766
    @areallyboredindividual8766 4 роки тому +54

    Ready Player One is proof that you can be a successful author without having any creative talent.

  • @kipgodoy2739
    @kipgodoy2739 4 роки тому +120

    so are we not going to talk about the splitting her dead wife into seven pieces is stealing horocruxes from, yes, Harry Potter ? No?

    • @blarg2429
      @blarg2429 4 роки тому +30

      Also, how is splitting her into a bunch of not-individually-functional parts philosophically distinct from killing her? If it's the act of bringing her back that makes it different, then until she's reassembled she's still dead.

    • @theblandcharlie822
      @theblandcharlie822 4 роки тому +5

      @@blarg2429 well, it was consensual and doesn't technically 'kill' them, it's like cryostasis

    • @blarg2429
      @blarg2429 4 роки тому +9

      @@theblandcharlie822 It's more like dismemberment _followed by_ cryostasis, then followed by an extremely good surgeon reassembling the body a la _Frankenstein._ But sure, okay. This may as well be a thing I guess.

    • @theblandcharlie822
      @theblandcharlie822 4 роки тому

      @@blarg2429 bruh dismemberment isn't that bad my man

    • @blarg2429
      @blarg2429 4 роки тому +4

      @@theblandcharlie822 How do you know? Anyone ever dismember you? Anyone ever take your brain apart and turn it into a scavenger hunt for children? If not, may I be the first? 👀

  • @HerrDeutschBlood
    @HerrDeutschBlood 4 роки тому +314

    That line about Wade Watts telling the reader about the splendor of losing his virginity had given me some really strong Chris-Chan vibes there.

    • @KaiKrimson56
      @KaiKrimson56 4 роки тому +46

      It kinda is a Chris Chan story: fat guy obsessed with stuff from his childhood and videogames gets a girl, has no idea how to write in lgbt as well as non-binary characters, is immune to the law, is so rich he can do anything, can win at anything, steals story ideas from other media, forces references into everything he writes, sucks at world building, has weird fetishes, and forces his powers onto his friends and other people so they can have the afterlife he wants for them.

    • @tessfabled4115
      @tessfabled4115 4 роки тому +3

      It's just CWC's ideal world honestly...

    • @JackedThor-so
      @JackedThor-so 4 роки тому +11

      Right down to the homophobia as well

    • @GladiusTR
      @GladiusTR 4 роки тому +1

      @@KaiKrimson56 She's actually a woman now, for whatever help that does

    • @GladiusTR
      @GladiusTR 4 роки тому +5

      @@KaiKrimson56 Whether she's a bad person, whether the LGBT community "wants" him, whether she's a woman right now just because and will change her mind later, doesn't matter.
      When someone says they're a certain gender, shrug, they're that gender, for whatever reason. If she's doing it because she has issues to work through, that's on her. But from the outside we have no say.

  • @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770
    @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 4 роки тому +103

    I love the ‘annoying nerd’ voice you did for Waid. It reminds me of the voice Linkara does for Peter Parker.

  • @221B-x3r
    @221B-x3r 4 роки тому +93

    I can't even begin to explain how awful that end sounds, like, imagine that you die and the person who loves you never let you go, buys a clone of yourself and pretends nothing happened or even worse, imagine that you are one of those clones and you are forced to expend the rest of your life with a person you never knew

  • @Nilnot
    @Nilnot 4 роки тому +89

    We don’t just demand Bee Movie 2. We deserve it

  • @Torthrodhel
    @Torthrodhel 4 роки тому +139

    1: I noticed nerds exist, the book.
    2: I noticed nerds exist, the book... in space!

  • @MajorAndrew7000
    @MajorAndrew7000 4 роки тому +74

    I absolutely love how the book suggests that in the future Sword Art Online is considered not only “high art” on par with the likes of the Matrix but also an ideal base for a moral framework as the protagonist’s ex-girlfriend is in fact a better person for having watched it. Ready Player One 2 is almost certainly the best work of literature of our generation.

    • @WarDaddy417
      @WarDaddy417 Рік тому

      Pretty positive the references made to SAO and the matrix is only as a comparison to show the dangers of plugging your mind into a machine, not made out to be "high art".

  • @Vesperitis
    @Vesperitis 4 роки тому +99

    Oni is the least unrealistic piece of technology ever.
    Like it wasn't instantly leaked with its full suite of sex programs?

  • @klarag.1010
    @klarag.1010 4 роки тому +158

    We did it guys, he's gonna make the frickin iCarly video. Hell yeah.

  • @geekwhoeatsrice
    @geekwhoeatsrice 4 роки тому +100

    It almost feels like this book should've been sponsored by wattpad.

  • @dammit3048
    @dammit3048 4 роки тому +248

    I normally have no confidence in my writing capabilities. But this makes me feel better about myself

    • @lelandvaughan4429
      @lelandvaughan4429 4 роки тому +21

      Bro just get out there and write. When you read or listen to qudiobooks like I do. Pay close attention to how the author conveys what he's trying to say. Pay attention to how he structures his sentences and paragraphs to draw you in. When you pay attention to these minor details and begin to develop a sense of what draws you in, you can help to hone your creative voice.
      Also read all sorts of genres, try to stretch out and try different things. Each genre with what it has to say and how it says it is crucial to the human condition. Not saying you have to read classics, but take a chance.
      Finally, don't be afraid to drop books if they just don't catch your interest (don't count out skimming though), but be sure to take note of what it was specifically you didn't like.
      Wow, dunno why, but I was struck with the need to try and motivate you. Have fun out there!

  • @ratman5538
    @ratman5538 4 роки тому +142

    How do you know the that they were already a step ahead and the series is called "ready player" and they already were adhering to 80's movie tropes

  • @astoldbyneon43
    @astoldbyneon43 4 роки тому +613

    You know, it might have been kind of cool that there was a cannon trans character for a book to a "major" franchise, if only she wasn't made to just be a fangirl to our asshole protagonist, whose initial reaction is to sexualize her once realizing that is she is trans. Just another conversation of bad representation vs. no representation for us to have, I guess.

    • @PosthumanHeresy
      @PosthumanHeresy 4 роки тому +16

      Does representation exist though if nobody cares about the thing it's in except to make fun of the thing?

    • @GladiusTR
      @GladiusTR 4 роки тому +25

      @@PosthumanHeresy It exists, but it's... static. Not really useful, but I guess not as harmful as it could be otherwise?

    • @eliasalbarracin5549
      @eliasalbarracin5549 4 роки тому +65

      @@PosthumanHeresy The problem is that when representation is included, but it's really bad, the usual anti-SJW crowd will come and say it's the fault of feminists and progressives for pushing propaganda or some shit. Then we have to defend the character because it's bad but it's also the only prominent representation out there at the moment. Then there's back and forth, and yadda yadda yadda. It can be exhausting, but there's not much else you can do.

    • @gloriazarate7154
      @gloriazarate7154 4 роки тому

      It probably couldn't figure out what to call itself.

    • @gloriazarate7154
      @gloriazarate7154 4 роки тому

      *fanboy

  • @DwRockett
    @DwRockett 4 роки тому +108

    I’m so glad people are talking about how dumb the “artificial intelligence immortality” thing is. Like sci-fi writers, it *really* is not that good if your goal is immortality

    • @drakinkoren
      @drakinkoren 4 роки тому +21

      Let's go easy on sci-fi writers and just say that how it might be handled in this book sounds dumb and probably just a surface level cool-factor plot device. There's plenty of meat to chew on in a concept like "artificial intelligence immortality", even if the goal people set out with is the immortality, maybe even especially because immortality is the goal. "*Why* is Immortality the goal?" can be a good question to explore in sci-fi or probably any other genre, if handled by someone with some skill and talent.
      For instance, when someone's mind is captured and digitised, how close does it need to be to the original to be allowed to 'live'? Is this a rule that applies throughout the lifetime of the AI? If it is, are AIs just forever booted up and run until they deviate from some metric only to be erased and restarted? Or is there a point where data corruption can lead to a True Death in some far off future? What happens in a society with everyone seeing upload as the norm, a proper transitional life event, when someone can't be uploaded? How do they cope with suddenly finding out that they don't have eternity like everyone else around them? Would they shunned? Would people think that there was less value in time spent getting to know them because they're just going to not be there any more? On successful upload of a mind, is the body destroyed as there are rules around only a single instance of any identity being active?

    • @ChangedMyNameFinally69
      @ChangedMyNameFinally69 4 роки тому +10

      @@drakinkoren You put more thought into it than a lot of sci-fi writers who think AI being sentient is some new plot thread. Mind uploading is impossible, you can connect your mind to a robot or create a copy of your brain, but you can't upload your mind without a brain to a robot. That's not how information works. Or brains. I'd rather have stories about AI clones over just going into a computer

    • @irockdirtyshoes
      @irockdirtyshoes 4 роки тому +3

      He put 2 dead people who know they are actually dead into a space ship with human embryos. Sounds like kinky torture

  • @jonloc8535
    @jonloc8535 4 роки тому +90

    Fanfic: The Movie: The Book

    • @battlion507
      @battlion507 Рік тому

      Fanfic: The Movie: The Game: The Book
      Inspired the Metaverse.

  • @tashaem1
    @tashaem1 4 роки тому +112

    Why is the Ready Player Universe' s depiction of 80s American pop culture so...to put it bluntly...middle America nerdy white male? Where's the references to Axel Foley or Madonna or Prince or the DeBarges? Mr. T was one of the biggest stars in the world, Michael Jackson was the biggest star. What about sport stars? No one in the VR world is running around in Jordan 1s or as Joe Montana? No references to Jem or Police Story?

    • @thepants1450
      @thepants1450 4 роки тому +9

      That's a really good point

    • @4dultw1thj0b
      @4dultw1thj0b 4 роки тому +14

      At least they got Prince clones

    • @sydposting
      @sydposting 4 роки тому +27

      I saw a reference to Sailor Moon on a “planet Usagi” that was so blatantly written by a dude whose only exposure was the DiC dub it made me full-body cringe. It’s like naming Hyrule “Zelda” in a tribute to the series. Ernest you fake geek girl you.

    • @EternalDensity
      @EternalDensity 4 роки тому +11

      You know why.

    • @TheFunwichHorror
      @TheFunwichHorror 4 роки тому +21

      Probably because it was written by an American nerdy white male lmao

  • @BadKEMistry
    @BadKEMistry 4 роки тому +116

    "It's going to help humanity in ways unforeseen, because it gives people a greater means of-"
    Empathy?
    "-Escape"
    Oh. Right.

    • @skepticmoderate5790
      @skepticmoderate5790 4 роки тому +2

      My thoughts exactly! How he did not come to the idea of empathy is beyond me.

    • @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770
      @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 4 роки тому

      I was thinking that it would give people greater means of production.
      Guess they’ll have to like, get them some other way. Maybe try and, I don’t know, seize them for theirselves or something.

    • @MrSadisticLlama
      @MrSadisticLlama 4 роки тому +1

      What Empathy? Having human beings know what it feels like to be someone else, to know how they struggle or feel everyday, allowing someone disabled to walk again or feel like walking or to allow a trans person to know what its like to be the Right sex?
      NAH FUCK THAT, ITS TO HELP ME ESCAPE INTO MARIO WORLD IN THE OASIS XD

    • @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770
      @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 4 роки тому

      @@MrSadisticLlama I don’t know man. Mario World is pretty tight.

  • @debro28
    @debro28 4 роки тому +187

    "They split her code into seven different pieces" thats a horacrox
    oMg ThAnKs FoR tHe LiKeS
    (But really thanks thats the most likes i’ve ever had)

    • @skibidibap4411
      @skibidibap4411 4 роки тому +1

      Well aktually horacrox's are really just splitting the soul and Voldemort is really just crazy rekt

    • @debro28
      @debro28 4 роки тому

      @@skibidibap4411 yes, but code in a video game is more or less the character's soul

    • @skibidibap4411
      @skibidibap4411 3 роки тому +1

      @@debro28 mibor spellimg mikake :( you wum

    • @debro28
      @debro28 3 роки тому

      @@skibidibap4411 lol

  • @MrSadisticLlama
    @MrSadisticLlama 4 роки тому +50

    So Ready Player Two ends up being SOMA in the end, where most of humanity is just Brain scans living it out in the fake virtual world for all eternity

    • @FyeRye
      @FyeRye 3 роки тому +1

      Sounds like us rn.. :)

    • @tea_time_t
      @tea_time_t 2 роки тому +4

      SOMA at least was aware that it was a horror story.

    • @MrSadisticLlama
      @MrSadisticLlama 2 роки тому +1

      @@tea_time_t and written much much much better

    • @utopes
      @utopes 9 місяців тому

      This is just above the other Soma comment lol

  • @alexrexaros9837
    @alexrexaros9837 4 роки тому +163

    "Hey Kid, remembuuur the 80's???? Uh? Remember REFERENCE???? Yeah, that's right, don't grow any curiosity for anything else, just rewatch and remember REFERENCE"

    • @frameturtle
      @frameturtle 4 роки тому +2

      Yeah I 'member!

    • @Pheatan
      @Pheatan 4 роки тому +4

      @007 megaoof its always the scratching the surface everyone knows about that shit kinda 80s too, im born in 2001 and nearly everything referenced, i was atleast aware of. Obviously I hadn't played through some of the MUDs but they definitely aren't obscure.

  • @venomouscantaloupe7152
    @venomouscantaloupe7152 4 роки тому +86

    i can't imagine how surreal it would be to have steven spielberg unintentionally describe the plot of sword art online, and then to go with it anyway. nor would i really want to.

  • @TooRudeProductions
    @TooRudeProductions 4 роки тому +186

    I want a Bee Movie 2 just to keep Jerry Seinfeld off the streets

    • @shawnhoelscher8164
      @shawnhoelscher8164 4 роки тому +29

      Bee Movie 2: Bees in Cars Drinking Coffee

    • @livingminimumwage6359
      @livingminimumwage6359 4 роки тому +10

      What's the deee-al with bee movie sequels!

    • @HandmadeGoose97
      @HandmadeGoose97 4 роки тому +4

      I'm pretty sure he owns an estate, that dude ain't becoming a hobo anytime soon

    • @princetonalec8695
      @princetonalec8695 4 роки тому +29

      @@HandmadeGoose97 Won't lie I thought he was implying Jerry is a menace who must be kept busy so he stops his crimes.

    • @angelTechnician64
      @angelTechnician64 4 роки тому +4

      @@princetonalec8695 also where my mind went, knowing Jerry