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How did Guy Goodbody not post this already? It's garbage.
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my fifth child will be named "garbage", because that's the only thing I have ever produced.
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Jan 31, 2018 16:30
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areyoucontagious posted:You’re not excited about listening to the protagonist describe getting lost in his elaborate VR/prosthetic porn setup for a few months? Don't forget slamming the pacing to a dead-stop to explain every single goddamn reference in complete detail instead of letting them pass by off-hand. I think some of which went for entire pages.
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Jan 31, 2018 16:35
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areyoucontagious posted:You’re not excited about listening to the protagonist describe getting lost in his elaborate VR/prosthetic porn setup for a few months? I've had the book recommended to me several times by both Amazon and my library's e-book lending system, and I kept waiting to pull the trigger because every review I read was basically "This tickled my geeky bone, and flipped all my nostalgia switches" without really getting into any reason why the book might actually be good. Then the movie was announced, and people started posting excerpts from the book, and stuff like Neil C's thing came along to convince me I was absolutely right to never read it. https://twitter.com/neilcic/status/888866630306082817
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Jan 31, 2018 16:49
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:my fifth child will be named "garbage", because that's the only thing I have ever produced. Butch Vig?
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Jan 31, 2018 17:14
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The protagonist of RP1 is a shut-in who lives in a literal fantasy world, where the cool people all obsess over 80s trivia. He is rewarded for this behaviour by winning billions in a contest. His heroic feats include memorising the whole script of Wargames. The evil corporation cheats because they have no honour. Charlie Brooker should do a Black Mirror episode of this poo poo.
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Jan 31, 2018 17:45
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bitterandtwisted posted:The protagonist of RP1 is a shut-in who lives in a literal fantasy world, where the cool people all obsess over 80s trivia. He is rewarded for this behaviour by winning billions in a contest. His heroic feats include memorising the whole script of Wargames. The evil corporation cheats because they have no honour. never heard of this book/movie, now i'm pulling out my hair imaging people trying to tell me it's their favorite movie in 6 months.
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Jan 31, 2018 17:49
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bitterandtwisted posted:The protagonist of RP1 is a shut-in who lives in a literal fantasy world, where the cool people all obsess over 80s trivia. He is rewarded for this behaviour by winning billions in a contest. His heroic feats include memorising the whole script of Wargames. The evil corporation cheats because they have no honour. They did already, it's called "Shut Up and Dance"
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Jan 31, 2018 17:50
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I hadn't heard of Ready Player One until I saw the announcement about filming it. At first I got excited because I thought it was going to be based on Douglas Coupland's book "Player One" which is quite a good read.
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Jan 31, 2018 17:50
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LifeSunDeath posted:How did Guy Goodbody not post this already? It's garbage. That picture is in no way funny. It's sad and creepy
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Jan 31, 2018 17:51
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bitterandtwisted posted:The protagonist of RP1 is a shut-in who lives in a literal fantasy world, where the cool people all obsess over 80s trivia.
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Jan 31, 2018 17:52
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A few years back I had a free audible credit so I listened to Wil Wheaton read RP1, ask me how you too can come to envy the dead
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Jan 31, 2018 17:52
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Guy Goodbody posted:That picture is in no way funny. It's sad and creepy
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Jan 31, 2018 17:52
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Make this a pupusa cake, and I'm all in. I'll settle for this, though.
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Jan 31, 2018 17:54
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LifeSunDeath posted:never heard of this book/movie, now i'm pulling out my hair imaging people trying to tell me it's their favorite movie in 6 months. I promised my brother I would hate read it in order to better mock the movie drunkenly when it comes out. Couldn't force myself to read it after the most  internet atheist argument within the first 20 pages. The audiobook is narrated by Wil Wheaton. It is loving terrible.In the book black people, especially black women, love the MMO world because they can pretend to be white men. Yay racism solved forever, thanks Ernest Cline 
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Jan 31, 2018 17:55
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I read some into the book. It had one good concept for a scene where the kid is playing Joust on an arcade cabinet against some lich king. Of course the execution was poo poo and everything else I managed to get through was as well.
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Jan 31, 2018 18:09
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I'm Lenny Kravitz and I think those knits are appropriately sized. I want to knit away
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Jan 31, 2018 18:15
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Zanzibar Ham posted:I read some into the book. It had one good concept for a scene where the kid is playing Joust on an arcade cabinet against some lich king. Of course the execution was poo poo and everything else I managed to get through was as well. That lead up to him discovering the first key was actually pretty entertaining. Everything thereafter descended further into hell.
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Jan 31, 2018 18:30
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RP1 was way too heavy handed with the nostalgia and his fawning over some girl all the time was cringe worthy. If you want to read a book about a dystopian future where people live in virtual worlds via VR headsets I recommend The Peripheral by William Gibson. That was a very good book that owned on many levels.
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Jan 31, 2018 18:36
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Jan 31, 2018 18:44
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Blind Rasputin posted:RP1 was way too heavy handed with the nostalgia and his fawning over some girl all the time was cringe worthy. If you want to read a book about a dystopian future where people live in virtual worlds via VR headsets I recommend The Peripheral by William Gibson. That was a very good book that owned on many levels. Seconded. Book is quite good, and definitely the direction I could see the American South going in a few decades.
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Jan 31, 2018 18:48
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"Spartans! what is the chemical symbol of Gold?"
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Jan 31, 2018 18:49
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Elizabethan Error posted:"Spartans! what is the chemical symbol of Gold?" AU? Idgi
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Jan 31, 2018 18:59
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Fister Roboto posted:I want to knit away 
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Jan 31, 2018 19:00
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The Bananana posted:AU? Ow! Alternatively: Ey, you! (idgi either)
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Jan 31, 2018 19:19
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The Bananana posted:AU? Hirayuki posted:Ow! 
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Jan 31, 2018 19:26
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:I promised my brother I would hate read it in order to better mock the movie drunkenly when it comes out. Couldn't force myself to read it after the most If you can't hate read it (and I can't blame you), maybe listening to other people who have hate read it talk about it is more your speed. http://www.idontevenownatelevision.com/2014/06/19/010-ready-player-one-w-mike-sacco/
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Jan 31, 2018 19:27
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"Ladies and gentlemen" as suggested by a known sex monster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNSf-KQORRk
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Jan 31, 2018 20:13
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this is really good because they could only think of two personal names and ended up having to use two place places to keep it going 
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Jan 31, 2018 20:41
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"shall" 8 times
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Jan 31, 2018 20:48
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BRISTOL PALINS BABY posted:"shall" 8 times not a single "whom'st've"
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Jan 31, 2018 20:59
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Pesterchum posted:If you can't hate read it (and I can't blame you), maybe listening to other people who have hate read it talk about it is more your speed. Oh I heard that two years before I hate listened. Their follow up with Armada was also quite good
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Jan 31, 2018 21:01
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BRISTOL PALINS BABY posted:"shall" 8 times Does it follow RFC 2119? Edit: quote:1. MUST This word, or the terms "REQUIRED" or "SHALL", mean that the definition is an absolute requirement of the specification. So, very unlikely.
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Jan 31, 2018 21:06
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Chard posted:A few years back I had a free audible credit so I listened to Wil Wheaton read RP1, ask me how you too can come to envy the dead Did you do this on purpose, or were you tricked? I can't imagine seeing an audiobook being read by Wil Wheaton and thinking "Yeah, this seems like it'll be pleasant". I'm not even one of those goobers who dislikes Wil Wheaton. I actually appreciate him because if he's involved with something, I can be pretty sure that it's going to be dumb and bad.
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Jan 31, 2018 21:06
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Hirayuki posted:Ow! In Spanish, the letters A and U are pronounced "ah" and "oo". Which is the sound they make when they shout in reply. "Ah-oo" Language.
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Jan 31, 2018 21:09
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:I promised my brother I would hate read it in order to better mock the movie drunkenly when it comes out. Couldn't force myself to read it after the most Yeah, I have actually read the drat thing cover to cover (it was before I had an ebook-reader and there was no other book around, okay?) and I could not tell you a single drat thing about what's in it. It's just so utterly, impossibly bland. Imagine if you took every popular thing from the popculture of the last 30 years, dumped it all into a blender, and then blended the whole thing until it was a perfectly featureless, textureless mush. That's what this book is. It's set in a dystopian cyberpunk-y future with full immersive VR and all kinds of theoretically cool poo poo, and yet I cannot recall a single thing that was at all interesting.
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Jan 31, 2018 21:17
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Perestroika posted:Yeah, I have actually read the drat thing cover to cover (it was before I had an ebook-reader and there was no other book around, okay?) and I could not tell you a single drat thing about what's in it. It's just so utterly, impossibly bland. Imagine if you took every popular thing from the popculture of the last 30 years, dumped it all into a blender, and then blended the whole thing until it was a perfectly featureless, textureless mush. That's what this book is. It's set in a dystopian cyberpunk-y future with full immersive VR and all kinds of theoretically cool poo poo, and yet I cannot recall a single thing that was at all interesting. I call Bullshit. It taught me that in Japan they had a spiderman show where spiderman had a giant mecha spiderman he piloted. Before that all I knew was tentacle porn.
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Jan 31, 2018 21:21
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DandyLion posted:I call Bullshit. Typical SA newbie bullshit, there have been multiple threads on these very forums about that show (and the Italian version of Spider-man, as well).
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Jan 31, 2018 21:29
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I will name my first son SHAUN! I will name my second son SHAUN! I will name my third son SHAUN! I will name my first daughter JASON! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWlmE51efA4
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Jan 31, 2018 21:32
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Guy Goodbody posted:That picture is in no way funny. It's sad and creepy Much like my Tinder profile.
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