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whats really shameful is that no one in the big robot war thought to pick Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
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EVGA Longoria posted:
Their size is 'whatever will make for an interesting shot'.
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Apr 4, 2018 02:20
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Mel Mudkiper posted:whats really shameful is that no one in the big robot war thought to pick Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Too recent for Cline's nostalg-o-vision to detect and too obscure for his wading pool-depth tastes. Anyway, ENDLESS TRAAAAAAAASSSSSSH!!!!
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Apr 4, 2018 02:21
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Angry Salami posted:Why do the Sixers even have a Mechagodzilla anyway? Isn't their whole thing meant to be 'souless corporate machine'? They should be using some untextured blob they programmed themselves that doesn't look like anything but gets the job done because they don't care about '80s poo poo, just money. From a few pages ago, but this is Cline. Obviously, 80s* pop culture beats everything so of course the sixers have to use it too  * for certain values of 1980s
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Apr 4, 2018 02:29
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nine-gear crow posted:Too recent for Cline's nostalg-o-vision to detect and too obscure for his wading pool-depth tastes. Is it actually doing that well though? It only made 50 mil in its first week and it had a budget of 150 mil, considering the advertising that went into they need at least 300 mil to make a profit. I havent checked the foreign numbers but I cannot imagine China is particularly interested in a bunch of references they don't know about. Also holy poo poo just checking and this whole time I thought the main character was played by Miles Teller, how the hell is there a second dude who has that same weird rear end face.
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Apr 4, 2018 02:30
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I havent checked the foreign numbers but I cannot imagine China is particularly interested in a bunch of references they don't know about. They didn't care to the tune of over 60 million dollars.
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Apr 4, 2018 02:35
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howe_sam posted:They didn't care to the tune of over 60 million dollars. huh, I guess they played up the VR poo poo more than the pop culture poo poo over there
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Apr 4, 2018 02:36
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Easter weekend boost gave it roughly 60 million domestic, 125 international on a 175 budget. It might have another week of staying power considering that April is a hellscape for collecting mass audience profit until Infinity War comes out but it's possible another movie based on a game (Rampage) could handily dethrone it. It's not wholly unreasonable it could double its budget come the last week of April which is the bare loving minimum of "profitable" in Hollywood. But then consider the marketing. And how it was advertised out the rear end. And how marketing and ad money are not included in budget. It is super not making a bare minimum profit based on that metric alone. My prediction for Armada: they cut the budget by 50-75 million. Less well known cheap actors than the people for RPO. A workhorse director whose best work is inoffensive and worst work is forgettable. More of a focus on live action bullshit (a given based on how more stuff happens in reality outside of the training game, but). Finally the ad campaign ups the emphasis on COOL SCI-FI and KICKASS ACTION and SAVE THE WORLD than the nostalgia hammer used for RPO. Less of an advertising blitz, a huge emphasis on trying to make it appear to be an original work BY THE CREATOR OF READY PLAYER ONE and less "Ender's Game meets a movie people don't remember outside of the plot getting referenced in pop culture", big emphasis on how Bland Nostalgiamensch is the Chosen One and You Can Too.
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Apr 4, 2018 02:52
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Hostile V posted:Easter weekend boost gave it roughly 60 million domestic, 125 international on a 175 budget. It might have another week of staying power considering that April is a hellscape for collecting mass audience profit until Infinity War comes out but it's possible another movie based on a game (Rampage) could handily dethrone it. It's not wholly unreasonable it could double its budget come the last week of April which is the bare loving minimum of "profitable" in Hollywood.  if you think that the Armada adaptation is going to be close to anything to the book. It's going to have the basic premise but everything else will be crafted by another screenwriter.
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Apr 4, 2018 03:13
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Young Freud posted:
e: also because I fully believe that the Hollywood instinct of "gently caress it, make it" will prevail over "changes should be made" in the case of a spiritual sequel of a popular book being turned into a spiritual sequel/quick profit. Vox Valentine fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Apr 4, 2018 |
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Apr 4, 2018 03:21
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Young Freud posted:
The basic premise is literally just The Last Starfighter. Actually why not just remake The Last Starfighter?
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Apr 4, 2018 03:29
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:The basic premise is literally just The Last Starfighter. Because Robert Preston died.  Seriously, though, you wouldn't even need to change that much about the premise. Just make it "we didn't even know this machine was still operating" rather than "this one was supposed to go to Vegas" and pretty much everything else falls into place.
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Apr 4, 2018 05:03
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chitoryu12 posted:The sequel to this book is just going to be legal documents isn't it? I hope it's full of GSS board meetings and really dry courtroom proceedings. Was it one of the 372 Pages guys who joked that they stopped reading at "then we all died"? That's a good place to end it. Then we all died. The end. Okay, byeeeeee!
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Apr 4, 2018 05:34
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:The basic premise is literally just The Last Starfighter. Wasn't...Seth Rogen going to remake that, and then stuff happened and it fell apart?
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Apr 4, 2018 05:37
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chitoryu12 posted:The will isn't entirely specific, but Halliday says that the winner earns his entire estate, including a fortune of more than $240 billion and his controlling stake of stock in GSS. So presumably Halliday's personal fortune is separate from the actual money and assets GSS has. Also, Wil Wheaton is only the VP of OASIS and Wade outright says he ignores real world elections because only reality TV stars and evangelists can get elected now. Going back to this, the rate of inflation by 2040 is expected to be about 195% of today's dollars. At approximately $240 billion 2040 dollars, that is about $123 billion in 2018 dollars, which is Jeff Bezos level. If they split it, it's approximately $31 billion each. Interestingly, Wikipedia maintains a list of wealthy historical figures, with their fortunes adjusted to 2010 figures. If you compared Halliday (and Wade) to them, he would occupy the 10th slot. His fortune would be eclipsed by the Vanderbilts, Andrew Carnegie and John Rockefeller when their net worth is adjusted.
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Apr 4, 2018 05:40
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Mel Mudkiper posted:whats really shameful is that no one in the big robot war thought to pick Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Did anyone pick BattleTech? Because if not, that's just 
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Apr 4, 2018 06:09
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Sperglord Actual posted:Did anyone pick BattleTech? Because if not, that's just Of course not, it was a 90s cartoon so was outside of the books frame of reference 
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Apr 4, 2018 06:26
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nine-gear crow posted:Too recent for Cline's nostalg-o-vision to detect and too obscure for his wading pool-depth tastes. Is TTGL actually all that obscure? I barely watch anime and I've seen it. Too recent is a legit concern though. Also of concern is that Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is on the order of 50 billion light-years tall.
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Apr 4, 2018 06:37
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Hostile V posted:I appreciate your SCP joke, chitoryu12. And I apparently COMPLETELY missed it. Welp, no key for ME!
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Apr 4, 2018 07:57
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Paingod556 posted:it was a 90s cartoon Is this a joke? I really hope this is a joke.
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Apr 4, 2018 08:23
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For a world set in a video game, you'd think more people would be hacking/trading in exploits to do stuff. Also if IOI has assassins in every trailer park how have they not pulled the source code off GSS's servers?
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Apr 4, 2018 08:26
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Sperglord Actual posted:Is this a joke? I really hope this is a joke. Considering Cline treated Tomb of Horrors as some obscure tabletop supplement, I can see how his only possible exposure to Battletech involved Adam 'MY HOME PLANET' Steiner, never knowing the game exists (except for Mechwarrior, and then only because of huge MW2 was)
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Apr 4, 2018 08:36
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chitoryu12 posted:I've read the first few pages of Monster Hunter International and this is the best goddamn book I've ever read. Tip of the ice berg, my friend. Wait until we get to his weapon of choice.
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Apr 4, 2018 08:48
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chitoryu12 posted:
Dude, they're sitting in the same loving room as you are. They can reach out and touch you. Maybe even pull out one of your earplugs and talk to you directly. 
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Apr 4, 2018 09:16
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So that's the climax of what's been called "Willy Wonka Meets The Matrix." Hmm yes, I can see the resemblance if neither Neo or Charlie needed to have a profound moment of understanding or demonstrate their quality of character, just straight up given their reward, no questions asked. Someone else took a stab at "Ready Player One But For Girls" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/excerpts-from-my-upcoming-novel-ready-player-two-girl-stuff
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Apr 4, 2018 09:19
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The various RP1 parodies floating around made me think: What would be the inevitable porn parody's name? Halliday's challenges would consist out of faithfully recreating famous 80s porn scenes, of course 
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Apr 4, 2018 09:56
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System Metternich posted:The various RP1 parodies floating around made me think: What would be the inevitable porn parody's name? Halliday's challenges would consist out of faithfully recreating famous 80s porn scenes, of course Ready Layer One, obviously.
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Apr 4, 2018 10:19
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Ready Player 69, dude. I caught a bit of the film last night. Random scene I walked in on was Wade reciting fact about The Shining followed by a nightmarish roller coaster scene of a goblin being chased by zombies with axes and giant monsters. It was somehow worse than I'd imagined.
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Apr 4, 2018 10:38
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Ready Player Bone
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Apr 4, 2018 10:41
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Drunken Baker posted:Ready Player 69, dude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOugNisFgVo
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Apr 4, 2018 10:58
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nine-gear crow posted:Too recent for Cline's nostalg-o-vision to detect and too obscure for his wading pool-depth tastes. “Arbogast had then assembled a dream team of creative consultants and contractors to help make his bold claim a reality, luring some of the videogame industry’s brightest stars away from their own companies and projects, with the sole promise of collaborating on his groundbreaking new MMOs. That was how gaming legends like Chris Roberts, Richard Garriott, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Gabe Newell, and Shigeru Miyamoto had all wound up as consultants on both Terra Firma and Armada—along with several big Hollywood filmmakers, including James Cameron, who had contributed to the EDA’s realistic ship and mech designs, and Peter Jackson, whose Weta Workshop had rendered all of the in-game cinematics.” ― Ernest Cline, Armada
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Apr 4, 2018 12:19
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Oh my god, don't name real people who are alive and working right now and just put them in your bullshit like that. "And then I met Michael Jordan and he said, wow Ernest Cline, you're so cool can I be your friend? You're so good looking and great, I bet you have so many girlfriends."
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Apr 4, 2018 12:45
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Liquid Communism posted:“Arbogast had then assembled a dream team of creative consultants and contractors to help make his bold claim a reality, luring some of the videogame industry’s brightest stars away from their own companies and projects, with the sole promise of collaborating on his groundbreaking new MMOs. That was how gaming legends like Chris Roberts, Richard Garriott, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Gabe Newell, and Shigeru Miyamoto had all wound up as consultants on both Terra Firma and Armada—along with several big Hollywood filmmakers, including James Cameron, who had contributed to the EDA’s realistic ship and mech designs, and Peter Jackson, whose Weta Workshop had rendered all of the in-game cinematics.” Yeahhhh I dunno, I've already read Reamde. e: I'm pretty sure Shigeru Miyamoto would be fuckin' miserable working on a serious dramatic space MMO
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Apr 4, 2018 13:12
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Samizdata posted:And I apparently COMPLETELY missed it. Welp, no key for ME! Put the Stephen King joke into Google.
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Apr 4, 2018 13:17
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:The basic premise is literally just The Last Starfighter. Supposedly there's an issue where one person controls the rights to it and they refuse to remake it.
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Apr 4, 2018 13:37
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"Now that I'm the most powerful man in the world I can finally achieve my lifelong dream, meeting carrot top."
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Apr 4, 2018 13:44
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loquacius posted:Yeahhhh I dunno, I've already read Reamde. Yeah, as usual for Cline, that list is just a Wikipedia entry of top names in gaming. Gabe Newell hasn't done any game design in decades, and even then he barely touched any of Valve's stuff as he was focused on Steam as a platform. Lord British and Roberts are each into their own several years without any results post-Kickstarter schemes, and Miyazaki is a project manager (and a drat good one) more than a game dev.
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Apr 4, 2018 13:53
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System Metternich posted:The various RP1 parodies floating around made me think: What would be the inevitable porn parody's name? Halliday's challenges would consist out of faithfully recreating famous 80s porn scenes, of course The main character is named Wade Wadd (taking the surname of John Holmes' detective character) and the whole thing is basically a trip throughout the history of porn, from Christy Mack mohawk starlets of the 2000s to the big fake tits of eastern Euro emigres in the 1990s, big hair and cocaine fueled pornstars of the '80s, etc. Also, there's a character whose basically Traci Lords, but, because of the underage controversy, she's whited-out like that episode of Black Mirror, White Christmas.
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Apr 4, 2018 14:12
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muscles like this! posted:Supposedly there's an issue where one person controls the rights to it and they refuse to remake it. Holy poo poo, integrity?!
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