Admit it user, it's actually pretty good

Hang on a minute, I'm sure someone posted screencaps from Ready Player 1 and I'm sure I've saved them

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That's right.

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Turns out I only got 2.
If anyone wants to see if there's more, use the view same feature in an archive that has both Yea Forums and /tg/

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What gets me is that he doesn't do anything with the references. Like, there's a scene where the heroes visit the Tomb of Horrors from DnD, and if 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back is right, they talk to the demilich there. If no one's ever heard of it the Tomb of Horrors is Dark Souls+bullshit, and demiliches are worse- most notably having an instant kill attack that it can fire off 8 times a day. And none of the pre generated characters for the adventure have anything that can actually hurt a demilich-if you want to actually beat Acerak you have to risk parties of characters you've spent months or years building up

None of that amounts to anything- they get a clue to a distractingly simple riddle and go their merry way.

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sounds like fun

Just read it. He wrote this book exclusively to include (mostly overrated) 80s references. The movie was better.

>OMG, Ernest Cline's Ready Player One!!!!11!!!!!1!!!!!

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This book is reddit: the novel.
It describes everything that is wrong what today's society, and the nostalgia based consumerism that has made of popular culture a threat to the fine arts.
Maybe the author wrote it as satire or a cautionary tale, but I wouldn't know, I don't read trash, my reading time is finite.

Was the protagonist autistic?

It wasn’t. I listened to the entire audio book and it and it was just a bunch of pop culture references. I hated it

No, the author was. This is an actual poem he wrote called "Nerd Porn Auteur," a real thing he published under his own name:

I've noticed that there don't seem to be any porno movies
that are made for guys like me.
All the porn I've come across
was targeted at beer-swilling sports bar dwelling alpha-males
Men who like their women stupid and submissive
Men who can only get it up for monosyllabic cock-hungry nymphos
with gargantuan breasts and a three-word vocabulary
Adult films are populated with these collagen-injected
liposuctioned women
Many of whom have resorted to surgery and self-mutilation
in an attempt to look the way they have been told to look.
These aren't real women. They're objects.
And these movies aren't erotic. They're pathetic.
These vacuum-headed fuck bunnies don't turn me on.
They disgust me.
And it's not that I'm against pornography.
I mean, I'm a guy. And guys need porn.
Fact.
"Like a preacher needs pain, like a needle needs a vein,"
Guys need porn.
But I don't wanna watch this misogynist he-man woman-hater porn.
I want porno movies that are made with guys like me in mind:
Guys who know that the sexiest thing in the world
is a woman who is smarter than you are.
You can have the whole cheerleading squad,
I want the girl in the tweed skirt and the horn-rimmed glasses:
Betty Finnebowski, the valedictorian.
Oh yes.
First I want to copy her Trig homework,
and then I want to make mad, passionate love to her
for hours and hours
until she reluctantly asks if we can stop
because she doesn't want to miss Battlestar Galactica.
Summa cum laude, baby!
That is what I call erotic.
But do you ever see that kind of a woman in a contemporary adult film?
No.
Which is why I'm going to start writing and directing Geek Porno.
I shall be the quintessential Nerd Porn Auteur.
And the women in my porno movies will be the kind
that drive nerds like me mad with desire.
I'm talking about the girls that used to fuck up the grading curve.
The girls in the Latin Club and the National Honor Society.
Chicks with weird clothes, braces, four eyes, and 4.0 GPAs.
Brainy articulate bookworms, with MENSA cards in their purses
and chips on their shoulders.
My porn starlets will come in all shapes and sizes.
My porn starlets will be too busy working on their PhD to go to the gym.
In my kind of porno movies the girls wouldn't even have to get naked.
They'd just take the guys down to the rec room and
beat them repeatedly at chess
and then talk to them for hours about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
or the underlying social metaphors in the Aliens movies.
Buy stock in some hand cream companies
because there is about to be a major shortage.

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This ia your brain on porn

And I'm not just talking about straight porn. Oh no.
There should be fuck films for my nerd brethren
of all sexual orientations.
Gay nerd porn flicks with titles like "Dungeons and Drag-queens."
This idea is a fucking gold mine.
I am gonna make millions,
because this country is full of database programmers
and electronics engineers
and they aren't getting the loving they so desperately need.
And you can help . . .
If you're an intelligent woman is interested in breaking into the adult film industry,
and if you can tell me the name of Luke Skywalker's home planet,
then you are hired.
It doesn't matter if you think you're overweight or unattractive.
It doesn't matter if you don't think you're beautiful.
You are beautiful. . .
And I will make you a star.

Imagine the type of vacuous slime that makes something like this and calls himself a poet.

How could anyone ever think this is okay?

Yeah if you're a neckbeard soishit

>These aren't real women. They're objects
Well, of course, dumbass. It's porn, it shows something otherwise unobtainable to you, it landers to your dreams. Good thing there's a lot of women like you described in this place called "real life". You don't need porn for that.
I genuinely feel sad for him, because this is "poem" only shows how little love did he ever get. I can only hope this is some very old thing and by now he stopped treating women as objects and learned to tell apart porn from reality

I really think anybody who could write that lacks the self-awareness to ever be capable of genuine positive change.

>I'm a guy. And guys need porn.
>Fact.

actually, the harmful effects of porn are well studied and documented. What you need is a good diet and exorcise regimen to attract true love and companionship

t.i only watched 2 porn movies in the 80s

He thought it was so okay that he performed in front of people
youtu.be/LwNOzWXb7RE

"Not watching enough porn" is not the problem that led to this thing's creation

It's bad. Really bad. OBJECTIVELY bad. The characters are shallow, the plot has been done in ten billion other YA novels, and Cline has the prose of a grade schooler. Plus there's no deeper meaning to the novel. It's basically Cline masturbating to his childhood.

Is there anything like this done well? I like the idea of a zoomer-glorified late 20th century nostalgia setting but everything else about it is retarded.

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Bleeding Edge

it's not

Why do people think porn is something liberating and positive for women?

You'd know if you read books about it.

This can't be real

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Part of me still thinks this is all satire and a critique of nerdism that went over everyone's heads. I mean, the book hits all of the check boxes so well with the author's diatribes on atheism, masturbation, and fatness, including the autism of one-upping each other on pop culture knowledge in , not to mention the these . I want to believe Ernest Cline is secretly the greatest performance artist in the making who will eventually come out and completely disown all of his work when the time is right, and say everybody who loved it are self-unaware commodity fetishizing idiots.

Am I the only one who even noticed the alternate reality game plot? All I hear about is the orgy of 80s references, but honestly that was barely even the point of the book. Is everyone just autistic?

I've posted this exact sentiment in threads before, and I would unironically consider him the greatest artist of the 21st century if he came out and did it, but he just looks like such a weak slovenly cunt that the possibility seems too remote.
>that was barely even the point of the book
The book was a masturbatory fantasy where Cline imagines what would happen if everything in the entire world revolved around things he likes, and if the greatest superpower anyone in this world could have was liking things that he likes. That's it. The plot outlining it is lifted beat-for-beat from all other "oppressive government vs. bold revolutionaries" YA schlock, the 80s shit is the only distinctive part.

It’s nothing but long, unimpressive lists of pop culture things that exist as things happen and our protagonist magically happen to know to do exactly the one thing that will unlock some doodad. Calling it pretty good would be an insult to reason.

>where Cline imagines what would happen if everything in the entire world revolved around things he likes
I don't think that's quite it. The fact that everyone in the book would prefer to escape from their problems of living in a post-apocalyptic dystopia by living vicarious lives in the OASIS, instead of trying to fix the problems of the real world shows how gone the author and the readers are in their fetishism of geekdom and nostaliga.

Its a shit book. I got 3/4 through and caught erectile dysfunction from it. I plan to burn it. Fuck, what trash.

>even voyager
wow this guy is hardcore

Isn't DnD a tabletop game? What do you mean sacrifice characters you've spent years building?

This can't be real

give it another chance, it still might surprise you ;)

Every time I hear something like this I always wonder if there are things no one can pull off intentionally- seems like all the best examples of 'satire' are done by incompetents being completely earnest

>and if you can tell me the name of Luke Skywalker's home planet,
>then you are hired.
Technically Polis Massa

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>Reads an entire page of references to the most popular 80s culture artifacts disguised as 'niche' interests
>This is good
Fuck off OP

Leveling up characters in D&D can take months or even years, even if your play group meets once a week. During this time, players will most likely develop an emotional attachment to their characters, which can make character death (which is permanent if you don't have a priest in the party who can bring you back to life) especially devastating for people who wasted many weekends of their lives on a LARP.

(Citation needed)

it's common sense

>well studied and documented
>it's common sense
I was gonna insult you, but why even bother at this point

sources:
incel.me
the daily stormer
trump twitter
jordan peterson
richard spencer blog

>Technically Polis Massa

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The book is a generation X love letter to the 80’s. I was there but I understand completely why younger people don’t give a shit. I wrote three chapters of a sequel (REady Player Two) for shits and giggles but updated it to have Minecraft and more modern shit. I persoanally got bored playing in someone else’s sandbox. I posted the shit on fanfiction.net and forgot about it. People left comments saying they wanted more but I’ve completely lost interest

It goes well beyond the realm of a love letter. The only word to describe it is masturbation. Cline should be ashamed that he would ever write something so completely devoid of soul, and never should have let a single other person set eyes on what he made.
He doesn't just make little subtle winks at the reader that they might pick up on if they played a game from the 80s, he encyclopedically explains every reference and uses it mechanically as a cardboard stand-in for all the times he as a writer should be making something interesting. He rips the soul out of everything he touches and uses things he claims to love as blow-up dolls in his auto-erotic writing, which unless he's faking it all for money can only mean that he genuinely doesn't understand the human concepts of love and attachment. It's a state beyond autism, where his life from childhood on clearly had some sort of tragic wound that hollowed out a part of his soul and made him incapable of really, deeply caring about anything on an emotional or spiritual level. How else do you explain taking everything he claimed to love, all the videogames and movies and tv shows that he rattled off on that disgusting list page, and using them as weightless, interchangeable props so his protagonist could just... Recognize them? Not a single theme of any of that content is touched on, they're all just there for you to clap at.
The "nerd porn" poem makes it even more clear that Ernest Cline as a person is just fundamentally broken, and cannot distinguish between signifiers and genuine things. If you took a pornstar and put glasses on her Cline would suddenly see her as a complex person and project all of his repressed sexual feelings about rejection onto her, and only then would she be a human in his eyes. I guarantee you that he hasn't worn an outfit that didn't reference a videogame or movie in his entire adult life, because he has no external self-actualized identity beyond his list of things he likes. He can no longer separate himself as a personality from pop culture. He's some kind of hollowed-out husk of a person, and his huge success is horrifying.

>Cline was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, the son of Faye Imogene (Williams) and Ernest Christy Cline.

TL;DR

You sound a little bitter, bro. Put on your big girl panties.

And there goes the myth about joos being naturally more intelligent

Thank you, based jew unmasking greentexter!

So when did Pinecone start browsing reddit?

I unironically wrote a story like this about me and my friends when i was like 8 or 9 years old. it was probably better, too.

>And, of course, Kevin Smith

Why is everything in RPO referenced via namedrop in a list format? thats not how people talk
I dont understand

i thought it was pretty shitty with all of its "LMAO EPIC COOL OBSCURE 80's ARCADE GAME REFERENCE AND LE MONTY PYTHON XDDD"

>page 69
>Pynchon uses the word "gamers"

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