How do I get rich writing dated and inaccurate references to pop culture?
How do I get rich writing dated and inaccurate references to pop culture?
Eli Moore
Sebastian Roberts
ngl I read the first one in one sitting and enjoyed it for what it was and might check this out if I can find a leak
John Sanchez
I actually really liked the worldbuilding, maybe in this one he'll take some of the critisism on board and tone it down with the references.
That said I've always found it funny that everyone shits themselves over how the oasis has so much pop culture in it, despite that's pretty much how a VR MMO of that scale would be like, probably even worse in reality
Kayden Cox
>tfw you will never be a humble wizard chugging around your magic-only quadrant on your space barge, charging shitloads of coins to any retard that accidentally flies their ship past quadrant borders and becomes powerless, just to give them a tug back.
David Bell
only saw the movie but i did hate that it was non-stop pop culture references in a virtual world.
and then i saw VRchat and fuck me they were right all along bravo
Carson Ross
do it first, or do it well
it's all about pretending just well enough that you and the consumer are kind of like old pals by themselves against the world
Gavin Barnes
>Hentai. JAVs. Please, I saw them all.
Julian Richardson
Hehe I read this in my grade 9 english class. Reading the lines about how this dude fucked a sex doll was on the same tier as getting a free pass to say 'nigger' during To Kill a Mockingbird.
Alexander Taylor
god damn that was a cringy read
allowing normies on the internet was a mistake, i blame smartphones
Sebastian Morgan
>tone it down with the references.
Leo Young
Not video games
Jeremiah Lopez
I don't have a problem with the oasis. My problem is every other line in the book is "It was just like that scene in [80s movie]!" Like holy shit how can you write something like that after the age of 7
Alexander Bell
This is literary crime on par with murder.
Jordan Morgan
Christ, it's like a tvtropes article.
Julian Wilson
gunter?
Tyler Howard
It's not enough to make the fucking references, he has to fucking explain them
If you're making references, people are supposed to get them without reading up on them, right? What's the point? Is it padding?
Noah Scott
Ready Player One could have been a brilliant fucking commentary on how millennials, and younger Gen X to an extent, have managed to turn pop culture into a religion, over valuing the commercialized media they consume as their culture and have become nothing more than manchildren who obsess more about the fiction they see on a screen than the real people around them
Then you see a picture of the dude who wrote it and his fucking Delorean with Ghostbusters decals and realize this dude isn't even slightly ironic about this shit, he literally writes garbage books who's entire identity is pop culture references and is the wet dream of Funko Pop collecting sóyboys
Joseph Reyes
>Then you see a picture of the dude who wrote it and his fucking Delorean with Ghostbusters decals and realize this dude isn't even slightly ironic about this shit
Lucas Taylor
Don't ask questions, just consoom product and get excited for the next product.
They don't care about the reference, they care that it is a reference.
Joshua Roberts
Juan Garcia
Someone please end this man before he can cause more damage.
Owen Wright
I stopped reading this when the evil badguy corporation blew up his fucking house out of nowhere
Ayden Cooper
>I have impeccable taste and am smarter/cooler than everyone else, the scentence
Cooper Hughes
It wasn't out of nowhere. It was just another day on the stacks. Shit settled and happened like that all the time.
Not trying to defend this book. I did enjoy it a bit and I'll read this next one. Considering every game like Fortnite wants to be Oasis now it's bound to have more relevancy and intrigue.
Nathan Lopez
I would've been laughed out of my novel writing class in college had I turned in shit like this.
Nathaniel Adams
>Zig Forums has such shit taste they actually enjoy RPO
why am I ever surprised
Nathaniel Morris
Have connections in the industry, have a bunch of pointless degrees, and know how to pander to brain-dead retards.
Isaiah Miller
There should be an award for making this terrible book into an even more terrible movie.
Caleb Hernandez
My mom got me this as a Christmas gift a few years ago. Read about half a chapter before I had to drop it for being absolutely fucking dreadful.
I cannot conceive of someone enjoying it.
Carter Williams
reminder that Ernest Cline also wrote... whatever the fuck this is
Benjamin Flores
lmao fucking rekt by your own mom
Alexander Wood
Why the fuck does he write like that? It looks like bad poetry
Michael Brooks
Jackson Gray
On one hand, porn can be fucking dehumanizing as shit to the people in it, that's absolutely true
But every "I'M NOT LIKE OTHER GUYS, I LIKE GIRLS FOR THEIR BRAINS" ends up either being a sex offender or an angry moviebob-esque incel
Carson Morris
Yeah whatever nigger. At least she still gets me shit.
What'd she give you last year?
Elijah Bennett
>entire fucking book is nothing but back to back to back to back nonstop pop culture references
imagine a Zig Forums version that was nothing but shitty board jokes
Gavin Campbell
While I relate, this is quite literally what the doujin scene is for.
James Nguyen
That one is bad poetry.
Jose Jenkins
>WOW A LIST OF THINGS I LIKE! LETS MAKE THIS INTO A MOVIE!
Nolan Gomez
>It looks like bad poetry
because thats literally what it is lmao
Nathaniel Thomas
Could actually be decent.