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BScCollateral said:
The only way to save this series is for Captain Kirk to show up in RP3 where he destroys Internet Fantasyland to force people to "live in and fix the real world."
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Given that RP2 ends with the I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE version of the Helios ending of DX2, I don't think it's likely.
 
I just got to the part in the review where they have to steal a Silmaril from Melkor. I am genuinely mad at the internet. This dense motherfucker bastardized the story of Beren and Luthien and replaced them with his shitty oc and his waifu. Not only that but he had a bunch of magic items from D&D in fucking Middle Earth. not to even mention calling Tolkien a racist because all the characters are white. This ass clown has the balls to shit all over Tolkien after outright stealing every ip he could get his greasy fingers on. I hate this book I hate the author.
Edit: and the idea that NO ONE has completed this "quest" is fucking retarded. You're telling me that NOT ONE PERSON ever thought gee guys why don't we just put Melkor to sleep like in the story? Everyone is so brain dead they all presumably blindly charged in and died. Plus everyone knew about the shards are you really expecting anyone to believe a bunch of Tolkin nerds didn't go shards huh? Wonder if that has any connection to the Silmarils? Cline must think everyone is as stupid and creatively bankrupt as he is.
 
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Dr. Henry Armitage said:
I've been reading the review for this book. Holy shit this is garbage. It's just 80's reference 80's reference 80's reference political sperging 80's reference 80's reference 80's reference they find the thing on to the next planet. The author needs serious psychiatric help. I just can't wrap my head around the authors mind set. Something like LOTR I get, Tolkien wanted to tell a epic adventure about heroes saving the world from evil. It was shaped by his time in WW1 and his views on industrialization destroying nature. As well as drawing inspiration from mythology, literature and his love of language. But RP2 is the fantasies of a drooling manchild who cant face reality. The whole thing reads like a really bad fan fiction with social justice bullshit thrown in.
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You should check out his "poetry" I posted earlier in this thread. I have not yet read RPO2 but compared to his other books (Ready player 1, armada) his poetry is much worse.
 
Dr. Henry Armitage said:
Edit: and the idea that NO ONE has completed this "quest" is fucking retarded. You're telling me that NOT ONE PERSON ever thought gee guys why don't we just put Melkor to sleep like in the story? Everyone is so brain dead they all presumably blindly charged in and died. Plus everyone knew about the shards are you really expecting anyone to believe a bunch of Tolkin nerds didn't go shards huh? Wonder if that has any connection to the Silmarils? Cline must think everyone is as stupid and creatively bankrupt as he is.
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This was bad in the first one, as well. Movie specifically, if I recall correctly, since the first challenge was a race, instead of a game of Joust, as it was in the book. To get the first key or whatever, you had to drive backwards at the start of the race, to get onto the secret track. Minor powerlevel here, I guess, but when I was seven years old, I got Crash Team Racing for Christmas, way back in the Playstation 1 days. First thing I did was try to drive backwards, just to see what would happen. So, you expect me to believe that not a single one of these fucking turbo nerds tried driving backwards, even just for the Hell of it, and stumbled upon the secret path within two days of the race being open? Come on
 
I feel really bad for Mike Nelson finishing this whole book for his podcast, even them ripping on it and tearing it apart was painful and I barely finished the latest episode. Man has courage, great courage.
 
That ending, my God. Clines self insert gets the girl, becomes digital god, and now gets to consoom 80's pop culture for all eternity. This whole book is Clines inability to grow up and face his own mortality. I assume the idea for the book went something like this "Instead of dying what if we use da science to make ourselves digitally immortal that way we can all live in perpetual childhood forever". This man is Peter Pan Syndrome personified. Ready player three should be about people trying to escape from this digital hell and Wade having gone mad with power refuses to let them. But one of Wades descendants has to go into oasis and stop the ghost of his great great grandpa.
 
Ready Player Two really is somehow worse from the source. It's more bloated because modern writers need to always raise the stakes. It wants to go woke while also idolizing white media so it tries to guilt trip the reader for liking the other media made by white people. It tries to bring deep questions but doesn't have any real intelligence to explore those questions. The ending itself is a copout of the highest order since nobody dies and the hero clones himself into being the god of humanity's future without ever paying for the wrong thing he does. The only moral seems to be that once you are rich enough you are basically above morality.
 
Dr. Henry Armitage said:
That ending, my God. Clines self insert gets the girl, becomes digital god, and now gets to consoom 80's pop culture for all eternity. This whole book is Clines inability to grow up and face his own mortality. I assume the idea for the book went something like this "Instead of dying what if we use da science to make ourselves digitally immortal that way we can all live in perpetual childhood forever". This man is Peter Pan Syndrome personified. Ready player three should be about people trying to escape from this digital hell and Wade having gone mad with power refuses to let them. But one of Wades descendants has to go into oasis and stop the ghost of his great great grandpa.
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So, basically, Cline ripped off the ending to Ship in a Bottle, the season six episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Professor Moriarty returns from stasis and takes over the Enterprise-D. Star Trek: The Next Generation was a sequel series to Star Trek, the science fiction fantasy series that ran for three series in the late 60s. Although the show was titled Star Trek, fans refer to it as The Original Series, or TOS, because more than half a dozen Star Trek series followed it, including Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Picard, and Star Trek: Lower Decks. Despite being an official Star Trek series, many fans don't consider Star Trek: Picard to be canon, and instead prefer to view the alternate history in the finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation entitled All Good Things as canon even though in the episode itself the future presented was described as only one possible timeline...

Wait, what was I talking about again?
 
Stab You in the Back said:
So, basically, Cline ripped off the ending to Ship in a Bottle, the season six episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Professor Moriarty returns from stasis and takes over the Enterprise-D. Star Trek: The Next Generation was a sequel series to Star Trek, the science fiction fantasy series that ran for three series in the late 60s. Although the show was titled Star Trek, fans refer to it as The Original Series, or TOS, because more than half a dozen Star Trek series followed it, including Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Picard, and Star Trek: Lower Decks. Despite being an official Star Trek series, many fans don't consider Star Trek: Picard to be canon, and instead prefer to view the alternate history in the finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation entitled All Good Things as canon even though in the episode itself the future presented was described as only one possible timeline...

Wait, what was I talking about again?
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The digital cloning thing is a direct ripoff of the "Bobiverse" replicant stuff, which is a nice homage to a "World out of time". A ripoff of a ripoff.
 
The ending of RP2 really reminds me of the ending of SOMA, a horror game from the same guys who made Amnesia: The Dark Descent. The whole game deals with the matter of transferring one's consciousness between bodies and the consequences and moral questions involved. It's an intelligent game written by intelligent people, so it handles the matter rather well (in my opinion). RP2 attempts some of these same questions in it's ending, but it's written by a brain-dead consoomer and it fucking shows. The idea that a writer cannot write a character smarter than themselves has never been more obvious.
 
As cringy as Ready Player One was, I did really enjoy the book, and kind of like it had autistic shut-in nerds as the main heroes without frontloading a bunch of poz.
Not exactly Don Quixote, but fun and disposable read.
I'm not sure it needed a sequel, and I'm scared of what poz the author is injecting into it.
Also, the movie was terrible.
 
I've read about a 1/6th so far tonight. So far, pretty boring. The oasis was the most interesting part of the the first book, and having the second book focus (so far) on the bickering aftermath of a bunch of autists is not exactly a fun read, especially when Ernest Cline is not exactly a great character writer.
Also, I can tell artemis is being set up as the "awesome female character that has the moral compass none of the male characters have", barf.
I don't know any spoilers, but the whole AI and Matrix thing is pretty obviously laid out.

Also pretty dumb when they have comic book levels of money and missile defense systems on their house. It's like something a 12 yr old would have thought up.
If they're at that level of rich, then the governments of the world are bowing down to them, but yet it seems they're limited to what they can influence.
 
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