Look who's appearing in Ready Player One movie.

>>15712210
If they want to truly capture the book they need to send ten minutes explaining every reference.

>>15712210
It's a bird?

I APPLAUDED

>>15712210
I CLAPPED WHEN I SAW FREDDY KRUGER AND THE IRON GIANT, I SAW SOMETHING I KNOW SO I CLAPPED

>Search Ready Player One on wikipedia
>literally western isekai

Wasn't there a gundam in the book?

>>15712222

No it's a plane

>>15712266
Isekai shit is better written.

>>15712269
Yes, the RX-78 shows up.

>>15712269
And Raideen, Leopardon, Voltron lions, Minerva X, Valkyries and something from Evangelion.

>>15712283
I guess odds going be low for any of this showing up right? I'm sure sony own the live action gundam rights.

>>15712291
Voltron might show up. And Valks if Harmony Gold weren't assholes.

>>15712306
>And Valks if Harmony Gold weren't assholes.

So no to that then.

>>15712283
don't forget ultraman

>>15712210
Is this that fake nerd book that just name drops as many references as possible?

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>>15712387
Yes. And, apparently, this author wrote another book in this vein.

>>15712283
The final boss was Kiryu.

>>15712232
>>15712258
IT
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NEW
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>>15712210
Why is this a movie? Who wants to see nothing but references to shit they've already seen for two hours?

>>15713143
Big Bang Theory is getting a spinoff, nerd culture appropriation is how you get good ratings in the States apparently.

I thought the references kinda made sense in the book. Like, if you had an MMO where you could create anything, of course there would be a shitton of stuff from pop culture made for it.

>>15712210
Superman?

>>15712283
It's not going to happen. Don't even ask me how they haven't been sued over the book, but you're kidding yourself if you think Warner Bros can acquire the rights to Gundam, Ultraman, Evangelion, Macross, Mazinger, and Raideen for a single tie-in film that is, on all accounts, shitty. If such a crossover were to happen, japanese IP holders sure as hell wouldn't let it be filmed by gaijin, that's for sure.

What really will happen is they'll do some generic knockoff designs and have them fight at the end without explicitly referencing anything.

>>15712269
>reading books.

Get a load of this nerd.

>>15712266
>literally western isekai
I'd argue about the semantics of calling "The Matrix" isekai, but basically yeah. Except I'd argue that mindless virgin power fantasies like SAO and Tetsuya Oniichan are better than RPO, since at least those series know that they're just a vehicle to peddle cute girls.

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The absolute state of modern Western scifi literature,

>>15713641
Spoiler, the Asian dies and a Steve Wozniak stand-in hacks the mainframe and saves the day. Pretty sure the MC gets the hidden Jew gold, too. Been a while since I read it.

>>15713595
>>literally western isekai
>I'd argue about the semantics of calling "The Matrix" isekai, but basically yeah. Except I'd argue that mindless virgin power fantasies like SAO and Tetsuya Oniichan are better than RPO, since at least those series know that they're just a vehicle to peddle cute girls.

Wait, this movie won't have a gaggle of cute girls?

>>15713656
By cute girls you mean obnoxious sassy fat PoC bisexual hacker gamergirl?

>>15713661
and the other one's got a skin condition on her face

take that, beauty standards

>>15713385
>reading books is now considered nerd
Fucking millenials, I swear.

in case you don't know the plot.

>future, over populated, energy crisis, everyone just spends all day in a virtual reality world
>crazy old billionaire that invented the VR world will give his fortune and company to the the person that finds the easter egg in the game.
>protagonist finds one of the three keys that points to the easter egg.
>magical journey filled with pop culture reference vomit.

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>>15712266
>implying the West hasn't been doing isekai first and better than your grorious nippon

>>15712886
VERY COOL! DID YOU SEE DEATH STINGER? I REMEMBER THAT! VERY COOOOL!

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>>15713700
IRON GIANT!
IRON GIANT!

>>15712270
It looks like some pretty face beside the train.

>>15713709
ENDLESS TRASH!

>>15712266
I thought it was more like Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory mixed with TRON and a fuckload of 80's references

>>15712283

I read "Voltron" as VOTOMS and I was hyped to see a Scopedog zooming around as a cameo.

>>15713641
Is the book actually good aside from trying to cram in as many pop references as possible?
I still don't know how this could get a movie adaptation with all the copyrights it'd have to infringe.

>>15713641
Is this a fucking joke?

>>15713953
amerifats don't know what a scopedog is.

>>15713971

I know but still.

>>15712210
I recognize that. Guess I have to go see it now.

>>15713967
It's a really blatant case of trying too hard. Good /ourguy/ stuff is a subtle thing, a wink and a nod. It's sneaking a figure or poster into the back of a shot, or having a character do the Sunrise sword pose in a relevant context. It's harder to do this in text, but you can still allude to the reference rather than make it explicit. You can put a character in an appropriate context where they can say "I came here to laugh at you". I read a pretty good sci-fi novel a year or two ago where part of the climax involves a guy remembering a trick from a video game and applying it to a weapon he has in his glove to Shoryuken his way up a building.

The other option is to go the Heybot/Nyaruko way of actively re-enacting scenes and visuals from what you're referencing. This is a lot harder to do in a novel without just being a ripoff, and it takes a deft hand to even make it work as an anime. Heybot, for instance, manages it by being completely bonkers and referencing such a diverse array of things from so many decades of history that figuring out what a given thing is supposed to be is a game in and of itself.

What you absolutely shouldn't do, and of course what Ready Player One does, is stop and explain the references. It stalls the pacing to a dead halt and fills the page with jargon. Someone who doesn't get the reference isn't going to get it any better from your explanation, and someone who does get the reference is going to think you look entry-level as fuck because your explanation by necessity is going to be superficial and shallow, which makes you the author look superficial and shallow. It doesn't matter how deep the lore you're referencing is if you sound like you read about it on Wikipedia.

In this regard, the film will probably be better than the book simply because the filmmakers won't have that kind of time to waste, or at least I hope they won't. Note this doesn't mean the film will actually be good, just better in this particular way.

>>15713641
fucking western literature what the hell is this

>>15713959
You should be able to tell that it's not considering it's narrated like your drunk friend who tries too hard to talk like a Cracked writer. pre-Buzzfeed

Ready Player One is pure cringe.

>>15713700
At least somebody remembers zoids

>(small tears)

>>15713641
What was that? That gave me headache.

>this whole thread
>"it's only okay when the japs do it"
Admit it, if they made a time travel anime about some schmuck going into a land with 80's anime&OVA references all over the place you would masturbate about it.

>>15714093
nigger did you even read
>>15713641

americans shouldn't be trusted with literature.

>>15714093
Otaku no Video is how you do something full of references to pop culture. Ready Player One is how you do not.

>>15713143
See >>15712258

If you read comments on youtube and stuff, the only, ONLY reason people say this looks good is "Oh my god is that [pop culture character]??? I am SO in, that was my childhood!"

>>15713959
Well, Reddit loves it. That should make everything clear as to it's quality.

>>15714093
>Admit it, if they made a time travel anime about some schmuck going into a land with 80's anime&OVA references
Good thing I'm not one of those Americans who look at the 80s and MUH OH VEEE AYYYYSSSSS with rose-tinted glasses and pretend they were better in any way than any other era of anime.

>>15714093
That's literally what Otaku no Video is. The key difference being that OnV respects your intelligence enough to not spend a billion years explaining every reference.

>>15714211
Kubo stepped in to the elevator (a common form of transportation in buildings). Some loud people (loud is a description of volume) entered the elevator. They were discussing comiket (a comic market) and how there were a lot of beginners (people who just started).

>>15713641
>Kiryu!
>Mechagodzilla intensifies

Please confirm if this is canon. If so, I'm so watching a Mechagodzilla movie right now.

>>15712210
Is this the start of the Referential Cinematic Universe?

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>>15714246

>hasn't already watched Godzilla versus Mechagodzilla

GET OUT

>>15712210
>cultural appropriation the movie
Why was this allowed?

>>15714456
Dude, main characters in this one are nerdy boy who has enciclopediac knowledge of 80s pop culture, big bottomed bisexual black girl and white girl with huge birthmark on her face who writes the most popular blog on the net. Who cares about cultural appropriation when your cast is 100% SJW positive.

>>15714456
I know this is a shitpost, but, becase 'XD I got that refrence because it's *insert known movie nearly everyone has seen here* or it's *insert thing people know about but may not of seen here* and I'm a nerd and I get this stuff!!!!1111" and that shit sells.

I know I sound like a pessimistic little shit, but I mean that's why. Brilliant really, attach Speilberg, put in beloved icon refrences low effort like, some okay ish cinamatography (I don't know if it's okay I like robot cartoons I wouldn't know the ins and outs of filmaking if it kissed my ass) and boom money printing, it's genius really.

>>15713967
Some people say it's the point. I think it's dumb myself but that the idea is "popculture overshadows original thought"

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As an American I suggest that we stop America once and for all.

Ready Player One is such a painful read. All of the references are so heavy-handed and reek of "get it? It's so nerdy! Look at all this obscure nerdy stuff!"

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>>15713641
>Minerva X
>obscure
This bothers me more than referring to Mazinger as Tranzor only to go on to refer to it as Mazinger. Make up your mind if you wanna talk about the dub or the actual show instead of flip flopping if your character clearly knows both.

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>>15714448
Wrong chart dipshit.

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>>15714525
I'd be willing to take that idea seriously if it were written by anyone but this guy.

>>15713641
Can superversive sci-fi save us from this glut?

>>15715053
Why hasn't North Korea killed us yet?

>>15715139
OH EM GEE I GET THOSE REFENCES ECKS DEE

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>>15715139
jesus fucking christ

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>>15715139

I RECOGNIZE THOSE LOGOS. I CLAPPED!

>>15715184
>>15715184
>>15715168
>>15715164
>>15715139

All of those patches are the really cheap Ebay ones they sell as SCI FI MOVIE PATCHES. So he bought a ton of them and stuck them on that jacket.

>>15715139
>Network 23 patch

If he's actually seen Max Headroom, I'll suck his dick.

>>15713641
I want to die.
Please, fucking kill me

>>15715139

He looks exactly like the type of guy that would write nostalgia pandering shit, jacket or no jacket.

>>15715124
To be completely fair, Tranzor was actually... SOMEWHAT popular. My dean in high school actually watched it as a kid. Don't know all the details, but maybe Minerva X was never actually in Tranzor Z. Considering how much censorship was in it, I wouldn't put it past them.

How did this get a movie? I thought it was a shitty self published book that everyone made fun of.

>>15715275
americans are tards and throw money at things.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71VFzClEoG0

>>15715268
It's that he claims Minerva X is an obscure character when everyone who knows Mazinger or fuck even just SRW should know of Minvera that annoys me. As far as Tranzor goes I'm alright with him talking about it but referring to Mazinger as both Tranzor and Mazinger rather than just one or the other like what literally everyone else does is just taking my tism for a splism.

>>15715187
And?

>>15715139
George R R Martin wrote Ready Player One?

>>15715275
All the innovative Ashkenazi left for academia. The only ones left in Hollywood are the dumb as soup Sephardics

I noticed in one of the teasers they were using the MA5Bs from Halo

>The BOOK is honeslty amazing. So many references.... LOVED IT. I will be reviewing this film soon. Do keep an eye out. It'd mean alot! (Haters be kind)
>i cried like a little B1tch with iron giant
>the book was good though, I dont know what to expect from this movie
>More CGI garbage. The Chinese will love it.
>Iron giant, Akiras Bike and the Back to the future car, im sold.
>Was that the IRON FUCKING GIANT!?!?

>>15713641
Christ my ass clenched up hard

>>15713641
I took a few minutes to shit out a rewrite of the first half of this scene to show how to reference properly. I've changed the robots around.

>This was my first opportunity to see which machines Aech, Artemis, and Shoto had selected after clearing the Second Gate. Artemis, as usual, had gone for something on the obscure side: a big, beefy suit of black armor that resembled a beetle of some kind more than anything else. Between the joints of the armor you could just barely see the tiny pink robot wearing the shell like a muscle suit, carrying a pair of guns that poked out from underneath the heavy plating.
>Aech's robot would have made even that tiny pink robot seem massive, a stout little green thing that reminded me of a gun-toting dwarf wearing night vision goggles. Still, I knew how fast she could zip around on those little rollerskates.
>Shoto's robot was massive by comparison, with a dragon's head for a chest and a pair of huge golden horns crowning its own head. It carried an axe as long as it was tall in one hand, a small shield strapped to the other, deceptively simple weapons for a robot loaded with tricks.

>>15716734
That's hot.

I have a bad feeling most of the /m/ shit is going to be excised. Even little things like the one guy who is going around in the Bebop.

Because let's face it... it's a lot easier getting the rights to Iron Giant, a one off movie that has no sequel or franchise around it, then Ultraman, a still running franchise. Even if Ultraman is actually plot important

>>15713641
I want to die

>>15716765
I was going to complain about your prose being lame but fuck it beats the shit out of what you had to work with.

>>15714100
>>15714211
Otaku no Video is goddamn masterpiece, its value isn't absolutely defined by the references.

>>15716869
>>15714100
>>15714211
OnV, by being a visual medium, is able to SHOW its references without being bogged down by lengthy text explaining what each thing you're seeing is.
RPO movie could be an improvement over the clunky narration in >>15713641 by being able to show all the various pop culture references rather than explain them.
With a lesser director, I'd say it would be an inevitability that the camera would linger on the various references as if to visually say, "Look at this pop culture reference! We're such nerds! lol!"
With Spielberg, there's a chance it will just pass over them and let those who get it get it.
Of course, this is NuSpielberg, who hasn't exactly been on a hot streak with his movies lately.

>>15716889
Bridge of Spies was great. Of course that was working off a Coen brothers script while this will be Cline and whatever poor writer they got to make a screenplay out of his mess.

>>15713641
This makes LNs like Knights and Magic look like fucking Shakespear.

>>15716714
>So many references.... LOVED IT
Everything wrong with modern media

>>15713641
I know mentioning it's from the original Gundam series implies it's the RX-78-2, but would it have killed to add the '-2' there? Also if I remember right none of the Gundam's armaments were mentioned at any point, just that it had "considerable firepower".

>>15716906
Great? More like ok.
There wasn't really anything exceptional about it.

>>15717047
wiki didn't have them listed

>>15713209
you're fucking kidding me right?

>>15717047

OG beam javelin fuckin' wrecks, dude.

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>>15717183
MAZINGA

>>15716276
No the other dude did goober.

>>15715139
If I didn't know who those people were, I would guess that both of them were some kind of nerd, but only one of them was an insufferable shit.

>>15712221

/m/ screencaps of this book's heavy handed references keeps me from ever being interested in this show/book

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>>15717331
if the guy knew a damn thing about anything he was writing he could work in subtle exposition about them
too bad he just rewrites lists from wikipedia like Pooh's Adventures autists

>>15713641
>look at all these things i can reference, am I cool now???
>calls it Robotech

fuck this douchelord

>>15717331
Your not really missing anything. There's plenty of good scifi lit and mecha anime out there.

>>15717344
But Macross sucks.

>>15717358
fuck off Ernest Cline, you're the one that sucks

>>15717047
>pilot just wrecks everything with the Beam Javelin, Gundam Hammer, and Doan's MS Martial Arts

>>15713209
>>15717240
Thankfully the trailer they have for it just reeks of something that's going to air for about five or six episodes before it gets canceled and you read about it a decade later on wikipedia they planned up to 13.

>>15712210
My entire childhood just orgasmed.

>>15717935
Pretty sure that's illegal.

>>15712291
The book has literally hundreds of references, they'll have a lot of stuff in there but I doubt they'll include any gook shit apart from the obligatory battle shonen

>>15717344
>While there are plenty of Japanese references, it focuses mostly on AMERICAN 80s culture
>Plenty of kids grew up with Robotech in the 80s rather than Macross
>Ernest Cline sucks because he references the version of the show most people in the States who grew up in the 80s are going to know

Yeah, okay, Anon.

>>15716765
Black Sarena, Scopedog, and the Daiku-Maryu version of Gaiking?

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>>15715139
Is he a fucking stoner

>>15713641
The worst part is
>(Even though I now knew Aech was actually a female in real life, her avatar was still male, so I decided to continue to refer to him as such)
It just feels so fucking unnatural. He stops the action from a slog to a complete halt just to explain a word choice. WHY.

>>15717956
Yeah. Not my best work, as >>15716850 notes, but it's something I wrote in around five minutes at four in the morning and it's still better than Ready Player One.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSKBkahjtOc

This was written by the person who wrote this shitty film.

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>>15715139
Why his face looks photoshoped?

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>>15713641
This has made me doubt my friendship with two fellas I know who have shown good taste in anime and sci-fi in past now they praise this novel like second coming of Asimov and have expressed their excitement over the movie.

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>>15719734
I'll deepen your doubts.

>>15719763
Now I really wonder if I should take their opinion seriously or not.
I am very baffled now. How come someone who had recommended me Solaris, Roadside Picnic, The moon is a harsh mistress and other classic would fangasm over this?

>>15719794
>would fangasm over this?

It sounds like a gigantic grinder in vein of SRW, but somehow even more blatant than Banpresto's work.
Turn off your brain, pirate a copy and it shouldn't be all that bad.

>>15719810
SRW has a fun game wrapped around its fanservice faggotry.

Ready Player One just has painfully bad prose wrapped around its fanservice faggotry.

>>15719763
> Star Blazers
> I wasn't some dilettante
> Acting as if it's obscure, and still calling it Star Blazers

oh yeah that reminded me, one of the challenges to get the secret stash of SecondLife Jew gold is to repeat all of Holy Grail in one go

>>15714093
I think references are fine when they're within the same genre, and they don't have to be explained to the audience. Look at Wreck-It Ralph for example, there are a ton of video game references in a movie specifically about video games, and the references aren't so blatant. There's no "Oh look, it's the King Koopa Bowser (first appearance Super Mario Bros 1985)"

>>15719763
>orgasms about the 80s
>doesn't even talk about hip-hop

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>>15719763
>I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.

I don't know what baffles me more, that this book is allowed to be in libraries, let alone exist, or that it has a sequel called Armada.

>>15720578
Wasn't Armada just a straight ripoff of the Last Starfighter? Knowing Cline be probably namechecked it.

>>15720578
Aramada's not a sequel, it's basically just The Last Starfighter. It's also waaaaay better in how it handles the references as they're just sprinkled throughout. The story's the focus here, as opposed to Ready Player One having more of a focus on the references.

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>>15713641
I don't know if to apologize to isekai or if this just means that any asshole can get a book published.

This isn't a story. It's fucking string of references.
Out of the ones I can recognize, I'm reading about 11, IN YOUR FACE NAME-DROP REFERENCES WITH THE BRIEF EXPLANATIONS ABOUT WHAT IT IS. I can hardly follow the fucking story. Is this some sort of toy commercial? Jesus Christ.

I honestly rather hear about a Twilight revival. I don't like it or read it, but with that, I can at least garner some understanding about what people like about it. This? I...I don't know. What, do people just wait until the thing they like gets name dropped?

I mean, I don't think of myself as a highbrow viewer of anything...but what is this junk? Is this what people go for nowadays?
This is a shitty fanfiction that got published.

>>15720614
>>15720646
Correct on both counts, though it is at least seen as a follow-up.
https://twitter.com/mrfeelswildride/status/888879069994958849

>>15720847
Goddamn. Did his parents beat him for playing video games and watching Star Trek?

>>15717344
At least Macross makes sense.
The main character is WAY too fucking young to make a reference to Tranzor Z rather than Mazinger.

>>15719443

>Brazil

Fuck, I really do need to watch this again.

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>>15720847
His poems are even fucking worse than RPO and Armada, holy fucking shit.

http://www.ernestcline.com/spokenword/messiah.htm

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>>15721430
Okay seriously what the fuck is up with this guy. That was unbalievably bad. And they way he talked about the jock makes it sound like he's a beta cuck regressive. I can give Ready Player One a little bit of pass just becasue it looks like it makes a decent setting that could translate well to film. But that fucking poetry was just the worst.
>Haha what if Jesus was in college. Isn't that funny an interesting.
Shoot me in the head. Please...

>>15713641
>>15719763
Problem I see with the writing style in these two pages is it feels like being lectured about the things that makes the author nostalgic about the 80's rather than POV of someone who lives in a post apocalyptic time who is mesmerized by the things of a bygone era. It requires a certain amount of subtlety to pull that in such setting otherwise you end up with "in your face" eulogy that feels like brick.

Maybe its author's fantasy where everyone is forced to engross in the stuff he is a fan of as there is a prize for that.

>>15719443

And we wonder why market is saturated with sequel, remakes and reboot these days.

Nostalgia is fine until it blocks anything beyond it, resulting in stagnation

>>15713641
Knights and Magic is a masterpiece in comparison

>>15713641
How the fuck has he had the time to watch all these things, get good at video and also keep fit

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>>15720739
>This is a shitty fanfiction that got published.
Did you know that Fifty Shades of Gray is LITERALLY Twilight fanfiction that she changed the names of the characters so it could get published? Yes, the best selling piece of literature of all time is Twilight fanfiction. This is the world we live in now.

>>15712317
I almost want someone to assassinate those guys. aaaaaalmost...

>>15721681
He's not. At the beginning he's generically "overweight" when he should probably be at least borderline obese.
>My appearance was part of the problem. I was overweight, and had been for as long as I could remember. My bankrupt diet of government-subsidized sugar-and-starch-laden food was a contributing factor, but I was also an OASIS addict, so the only exercise I usually got back then was running away from bullies before and after school. To make matters worse, my limited wardrobe consisted entirely of ill-fi tting clothes from thrift stores and donation bins—the social equivalent of having a bull’s-eye painted on my forehead.
Later on he loses weight by mapping the game's controls to an omnidirectional treadmill, which is in all honesty a stupid way to try to control a character with superhuman abilities.

That's not a mecha tho

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>>15715304
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSKBkahjtOc
We gave the man who wrote this a movie.

>>15721760
Oh, right, there is this scene where he shaves off all his body hair to increase synchronization with his new super advanced OASIS terminal.

>>15713688
>he actually reads books
You're getting a swirly, nerd.

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I unironically like the book. It's not quality literature, but if you read it like a cheesy '80s movie it works. Basically the book version of the Wraith or some other popcorn movie, good way to kill time on a long flight. Granted, I got my copy for free so I'm less inclined to criticize it, but still.

>>15721845
I'm sorry, no amount of 80's nostalgiafaggotry will make me get past the highschool-tier writing.

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i didn't know they were making an srw movie

sign me up!

>>15721864
Enjoy western robots and Donut Steels replacing everyone in that scene.

>>15721862
No worries bro, we all like what we like. Got any book recommendations?
>>15721880
I can live with them cutting the background characters and Kiriyu because Toho is a bitch with licensing, but the fact that Ultraman probably won't be involved fucking sucks.

>>15721884
Traces by Steven Baxter and Globalhead by Bruce Sterling.

>>15721880

just kidding bruh. I hate iron giant and I want to vomit when I think steven spielberg actually acquired the rights to profane kanade's cycle for this fecal singularity

>>15721891
I'll keep an eye out for 'em, thanks.

>>15721884

ntg but if your into bookreading, I'd recommend ancestral machines

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>>15721896
If you want something that's a bit more /m/ than the two books I just mentioned, Leviathan is quite decent, especially for a steampunk YA lit book. Plus, even if you hate the writing you can look at the cool illustrations.

>>15721897
Books are great, thanks.
>>15721901
More /m/ is never a bad thing.
For a return recommendation, try The Cybernetic Samurai by Victor Milan. Interesting look at artificial intelligence, and even though the pacing's a bit off at times it's a pretty good read.

>>15719763
>Star Trek
>I watched them all in chronological order
Did this faggot start with Enterprise?

>>15713641
>The absolute state of modern Western scifi literature,
Sure if youre a surface level that barely reads

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>>15715283
>>>/int/ samefag slav

>>15721845
I've seen a ton of '80s movies and not one completely stopped the story in order to reference something and then proceed to explain the reference in case no one got it.

this will have nothing to do with the book

and no one will ever noticed because no one ever finished the book unironically

>>15722151
How can you finish reading something ironically?

>>15721809
I honestly can't understand how this guy became became a bestselling author, other than the novelty of having shitloads of pop-culture references in something that wasn't a comic.

>>15722300
Well, if Chuck Tingle can become famous, anyone can.

>>15722324
Pounded In The Butt By 80s Nostalgia's Butt

>>15722324
At least Tingle's work is clearly just a joke and no one bothers to read past the cover. No one claims it's a masterclass tribute to a bygone era.

>>15722324
>implying anything written in ready player one can reach the level of Tingle's book titles

>>15712210

Jesus, this novel was bad. It was just ALL REFERENCES. I mean, Nick Cole's Soda Pop Soldier was significantly better - though the hero was a complete non-entity in that one - but somehow RPO was insanely popular.

Like, am I insane here? Ernest Cline's a horrible writer. Did anyone see how bad Armada was? It makes no sense, HOW?

>>15722398
RPO is really masturbatory people just feel good recognizing thing when it's brought up even if it's well known.

>reading any book that came out after the 90s
Why tho ?

>>15721715
>piece of literature
How dare you call it that ?!

>>15712210
RP1 is American Sword Art Online, and not just because muh VR, it is self insert fanfiction with waifus, trash writing, asspull endings and villians, its the American version of the trash lite novel, and the film is looking like the SAO anime (faithful but it shows you how bad the source material is)

>>15713209
Please god no

>>15721809
What's up with lefties? Women who do porn and/or get boob jobs aren't women, they're just objects and "fuck bunnies"? Who even speaks like this outside of porn and maybe roleplaying in the bedroom with your actual spouse. It's one thing to be a bad writer and it's another thing to be a sack of shit

>>15724289
Can we please not havea fjeio32m543 41022....................v tew5 23

>>15713143
>Who wants to see nothing but references to shit they've already seen for two hours?
Normal people.

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>>15712232
RLM fans are the worst

>>15716276
It's the same level of quality as his work.

>>15721715
Yeah, I know.
As horrible as it is, I can at least see how that trash would have some appeal. Isn't there a huge audience for people who like trashy romance novels?

This? I don't get it. Literally every page is full of references and explanations of those references. I mean, can you even call it fanfiction? It's like a fucking commerical

>>15713692

isekai =/= time travel

>>15722324
HUGO AWARD WINNING

>>15719763

Does anyone take this serious? It should be feasibly impossible to do everything he claimed to do in five years. All of star trek alone is about 24 straight days without sleep, a month with some sleep.

Let alone reading the entirety of each of those authors, or digesting all those other shows, anime, music, and books.

>>15727422
Also that doesn't take into account how long it took to find and download everything. Sure, the bulk of it is probably readily available thanks to the treasure hunt, but what about the more obscure stuff that few people really care ab-- wait, shit, nevermind. There's no normalfag cred to be earned by mentioning anything actually obscure, so of course that wasn't taken into account..

But watching all of that and completely memorizing so many different works are another herculean tasks in and of themselves.

>>15719763

Youkahainen thus made answer:
"I can tell thee still a trifle,
Tell thee of the times primeval,
When I plowed the salt-sea's bosom,
When I raked the sea-girt islands,
When I dug the salmon-grottoes,
Hollowed out the deepest caverns,
When I all the lakes created,
When I heaped the mountains round them,
When I piled the rocks about them.
I was present as a hero,
Sixth of wise and ancient heroes,
Seventh of all primeval heroes,
When the heavens were created,
When were formed the ether-spaces,
When the sky was crystal-pillared,
When was arched the beauteous rainbow,
When the Moon was placed in orbit,
When the silver Sun was planted,
When the Bear was firmly stationed,
And with stars the heavens were sprinkled."

>>1571370
I knew it was the death stinger
But isnt it too small to be it?

>>15713700
I knew it was the death stinger
But isnt it too small to be it?

Fucked the first one

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>>15715324
you realize that you sound exactly like a character out of ready player one and that was the point? to poke a little fun at how obsessive you types can be about your nerd love for something?

>>15728200
he's not making fun of anything, he's not self aware enough.

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>>15712283
>Raideen
>Shoto stood several heads taller than both of them, concealed inside the cockpit of Raideen, the enormous red-and-blue robot from the mid-’70s Brave Raideen anime series.
Fuuuuuck, that's a clunky reference

>>15728208
Not to mention Reideen is three times the size of Gundam.

>>15728208
>Fuuuuuck, that's a clunky reference
welcome to Ready Player One

>>15728208
Painful as fuck.

>>15728204
maybe, but the reason that so many sane people have recommended the book isn't because of the blatant references, it's because of the theme and story underneath, which if you are hyper-focused on the cringe the whole time then it's hard to see. It's weird for me because I actually enjoyed the book when i read it a few years ago (right when it came out actually, recommended to me by a friend so I had no hype or info on the author or story at all), I didn't really pay attention to all the references and just considered it part of the characters quirk to be an aut all the time, which to me reflected how bad the real world really was, because from the characters eyes we knew nothing about it due to him being too absorbed in this fantasy egg chase. kind of sad that it ended in a really cliche way, I was hoping that he would not get the egg and IOI would so that everyone would be forced to deal with the world, but the whole "big giant off button" in the end room was a piss off. Still, I think the book did have some merits, but it's definitely not a godsend of literature or anything. And maybe you're right that the author really is a spaz and wrote in all those extra detail because HE thought it would be cool, but that doesn't mean that the book doesn't work the way I described it, by considering the spazziness a character flaw.

>>15722019
It also means he watched The Cage before The Menagerie, thereby completely ruining the appeal of The Menagerie, and it means he jumped between TNG, DS9 and Voy when the broadcasts all overlapped. What a doofus.

>>15728233
>jumped between TNG, DS9 and Voy when the broadcasts all overlapped
that's actually kinda fun
there's a few times I've queued up a particular week's content, like "the second weekend of July 1997" and wrangled up that week's X-Files, Trek, MST3k, whatever else I could grab

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>>15728232
That's certainly one way to redeem the book. Probably makes things like Cline's election and atheism-rant bits actually tolerable instead of fedora-tipping garbage.

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>>15728467
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>>15721809
Also what the fuck cough is up with Cline and sex. I found this one while looking for the election bit.

>>15717331
Did anyone show you the gundam's appearance in the book?

>>15721884
I know it's a classic but everyone should read Shōgun.

>I stepped out of my RX-7 Gundam (the original 80s version, not the gay boy band 90s Gundam), which if you didn't know was a large robotic "Mobile Suit," a weapon designed to fight Zentradi, giant humanoid warrior people.
>The other person dismounted from their own Veritech-- a large, black mech called Minerva X (apparently from the Japanese version of 60s cartoon "Space Gundam V," which only true fans know was actually the first robot in fiction).
>The first thing I noticed about the pilot was that they were overweight- which I don't have a problem with, colored (I have black friends), and physically deformed (check out how inclusive I am). "Hey," xie said. "You're really good at video games, writing books, and creating vast worlds that I can really get immersed in. I love your pop culture references and the depth of your characters."
>Woah.
>That floored me.
>I'd never heard anyone say that before.
>"I'll love you forever and always," I said. "Your sight, my delight. Will you marry me?" (a line in reference to Space Gundam V, an anime that aired in Japan back in the 80s, my favorite decade).

>>15729645
It's like a much more pretentious Spaceboots.

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>>15729645
>(the original 80s version, not the gay boy band 90s Gundam)
I fucking hate this guy already

>>15728232
I read that book too, years ago. I found it decent, barely.

I wasn't disturbed by the blatant references, geekeries and the political opinions of the MC, because it was expected. It's a book in first person. If you follow a racist, autistic, moron, I see no issues with having racist and autistic comments. It's coherent. The MC is a geek with no life passing his life away in VR. He's a decent character in his own right, with of course warped views about pretty much everything.

No, what upsets me is the absence of thoughts given to how the VR works. As a computer scientist, I want to know the technology. The freedom offered by the architecture. The code. And it was solely lacking. How is it possible that no one has the code source of the biggest VR online? How is it possible that there is virtually no concurrence? No cheap Chinese knock off? What exactly are people allowed to do online? What about private calls? What about teleportation? Flying?

Second Life has a very interesting system where everyone can inject both 3d models and scripts into the gameworld. That is why it is so popular, and why people can use it to do pretty crazy shit, though it taxes the server heavily.

In RPO, the only VR simulation in the world is a fucking game with virtually no way for the players to meaningfully change/script the simulation. This is absolutely moronic. We want VR because it is, you know, useful as a day-to-day tool. WoW will never be used to teach children in a virtual school. WoW will never be used as a communication device. WoW will never be used by engineers to model planes. Because WoW can't into giving people freedom.

The premise of RPO is so absolutely, mind-blowingly stupid, I couldn't even.

>>15713641
This is an awful, awful bit of writing, but I still think it would be really cool to see Minerva X vs Gundam vs Raideen vs MechaGodzilla vs Voltron vs Macross vs Eva in a movie with a gigantic budget.

>>15729882
As would we all.

>>15728200
If you've seen what the author looks like in real life and some of the past stuff he's written you'd know damn well that isn't the case.

>>15728475
All he needed to say was, "look like Max Headroom." That's it, that would've been fine on its own.
Why does he bother going on with a fucking WIkipedia paragraph about when/where the character appeared and how the visuals were done? If you expect the reader to get the reference you don't need to explain it, if you don't you shouldn't be making it in the fucking first place.
I realised the other day that this isn't exclusive to nerd shit either. You get low-tier military writers doing this stuff as well; sperging out, naming and describing every bit of equipment the characters are within 5 miles of like they're trying to sell it to you.

>>15713641
How embarassing.

>>15713641
I think I've already seen this movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WgT9gy4zQA

>>15730146
You know that sounds an awful lot like Tom Clancy.

>>15729645
The worst part is that this is exactly how he writes.

>>15726260
Camelot was not a historical location.

>>15721664
This isn't /b/, frogposter. Get lost.

>>15732280
I thought it was real at first

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>>15721760
I read the first few chapters of the book a while back and assumed that since he powered his Oasis setup with an exercise bike, he had incredibly toned legs but everything else was out of shape

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>>15736373
Marie Curie was famously married, dipshit. How can you go around bragging about how feminist you are if you don't know about a famous woman scientist?

>>15736506
She was in her late 20s when she got married so she probably did masturbate before then. Cline's still a dipshit.

>>15724289
A number of porn stars have views and thoughts opposite of the modern left, too.

>>15736968
Of course they do, because they're people and people have all sorts of opinions. You can find a number of black people who think blacks are genetically inferior if you know where to look.

This is not to defend Cline, mind, who's a fuckwit. You can be a leftist and a fuckwit just as much as you can be a /pol/tard.

>>15736926
Yeah but she wasn't jerking off her way through her radioactivity career, was she? I'm sure the reason Steven Hawking is a genius is because he masturbated so much in school, he totally wasn't a rich chad before Lou Gherig's ghost knocked him out of the park.