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I liked that comic run, Gotham Central, but that was a loooong time ago in terms of police in the USA. Should make No Man's Land instead.
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 18:16 |
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Chairman Capone posted:The funny thing is, the book Ready Player One actually does end with the game creator telling the protagonist, "Hey, maybe this was a bad idea and you should just delete the Oasis because it hosed up society." I also remember the book ending with the protagonist telling the girl "I love you" and her responding something like "Oh... uh...." Those stuck out for me as being fairly self-aware for a book that was completely absent of that until that point. No, she's totally into it, she's just nervous about her curvy body and wine stain birthmark not being good enough for him. She's fully in favor of using the billion dollars to try and rebuild society, and he just wants to use it to party harder in the virtual world. The compromise they come up with is that the Oasis (which has created an emergent economy with millions of people having real financial dependence on their roles in it) will now be closed on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 18:24 |
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feedmyleg posted:I don't see how it could get any worse than the first book. A mysterious signal (only available in Apex) from the creator of Oasis reveals that the entire world was created to safeguard against the ReddiChan invasion. The book ends with "hmm. Maybe all opinions aren't equal" as the main deletes the internet.
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 18:41 |
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There's really no way Armada could be significantly worse than Ready Player One. No, really. I mean you could show me any number of pages from it, but a certain point it's just meaningless degrees of "loving terrible". I'd attribute it more to the most bottom barrel laziness, even though it's all about the laziest worst writer of the last century: "why make 'a movie based on a book from the writer of ready player one' when we could just...make the sequel to ready player one?"
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 19:32 |
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I honestly wonder if Cline is going to try to cater more toward the turbonerds, or toward the general public/media who for some insane reason loved the book. I can see him toning down the encyclopedic nerd stuff because he knows that the audience for the book isn't just neckbeards. One thing I absolutely cannot see him doing, though, is listening to any of the incredibly valid criticisms.
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 19:40 |
Just any excuse to post Ready Player One's theme song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMBylNJQEbg
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 19:58 |
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Oh, Quibi... Starring Anna Kendrick!
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 20:10 |
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I’m seeing an insane number of quibi ads on Facebook
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 20:13 |
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I got one on youtube for some sort of 90s smalltown murder mystery thing with uhh queen latifah It almost felt like a real show!!
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 20:17 |
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We should all have quibi shows Beats waiting for another stimulus package
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 20:21 |
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I saw an article that said after the 3 month trial expired, Quibi now has only 72,000 paying users.
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 20:25 |
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Wasn't it something like 90% of subscribers quit at the end of the trial?
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 20:40 |
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Codependent Poster posted:I saw an article that said after the 3 month trial expired, Quibi now has only 72,000 paying users. lol, it has $1.75 billion invested in it. No way are they even making a fraction of their money back.
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 20:43 |
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feedmyleg posted:I honestly wonder if Cline is going to try to cater more toward the turbonerds, or toward the general public/media who for some insane reason loved the book. I can see him toning down the encyclopedic nerd stuff because he knows that the audience for the book isn't just neckbeards. I haven't read anything by Cline so I'm asking from a place of ignorance, but wouldn't toning down that stuff require some sort of talent to, you know, actually write? Something that, as far as I gathered, Cline is loving godawful at.
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 21:25 |
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I know there's no real hope for this to come true, but I want Ready Player Two to be about how Wade has to deal with the many responsibilities that come with his newfound power, and being completely ill-equipped to handle anything that comes his way because all he knows how to do is defeat the straw hat guys from Big Trouble in Little China or quote St. Elmo's Fire or some poo poo
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 21:35 |
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Ready Player Two is going to open with Cline fridging the first girlfriend to give the main a revenge plot and then introducing a new hotter girlfriend who the main has to teach/mansplain all his insane 80s pop culture knowledge to. You all know this going to happen.
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 21:40 |
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IShallRiseAgain posted:lol, it has $1.75 billion invested in it. No way are they even making a fraction of their money back. *Katzenberg taps at an enormous Texas Instruments calculator* okay let's raise the subscription fee to $25,000
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 21:42 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Ready Player Two is going to open with Cline fridging the first girlfriend to give the main a revenge plot and then introducing a new hotter girlfriend who the main has to teach/mansplain all his insane 80s pop culture knowledge to. You all know this going to happen. i sipped her gamer girl bath water but she was nought but a fake e girl thot who did not send nudes now she is queen of a Simpire with a reply guy army
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 21:52 |
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Alan Smithee posted:I’m seeing an insane number of quibi ads on Facebook Codependent Poster posted:I saw an article that said after the 3 month trial expired, Quibi now has only 72,000 paying users. It's like when a star goes supernova. The company is producing an increased number of ads like so many torrents of cosmic dust and radiation, but soon enough it will become a husk of its former self, until all that's left is a white dwarf (katzenburg)
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 21:55 |
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https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1280161504180961280?s=20
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 22:03 |
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Grendels Dad posted:I haven't read anything by Cline so I'm asking from a place of ignorance, but wouldn't toning down that stuff require some sort of talent to, you know, actually write? Something that, as far as I gathered, Cline is loving godawful at. I think I realized Hollywood hit a nadir when Cline and Cargill, loving AICN talkbackers, were getting screenplays picked up. Big Mean Jerk posted:Ready Player Two is going to open with Cline fridging the first girlfriend to give the main a revenge plot and then introducing a new hotter girlfriend who the main has to teach/mansplain all his insane 80s pop culture knowledge to. You all know this going to happen. Will this also lead to the world’s worst love confession scene ever like in the first one, where it becomes clear really quickly that Cline has never met a woman with even reasonable self-esteem?
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 22:06 |
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an Oedipal journey in which a gamer rises up to defeat an MLG pro strat no scoper who claims to have hosed his mom gamer removes her Metroid (get it?) helmet to reveal that she is in fact his mom
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 22:14 |
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The Cameo posted:I think I realized Hollywood hit a nadir when Cline and Cargill, loving AICN talkbackers, were getting screenplays picked up. loving Cargill’s interview at double toasted about working at marvel “just a bunch of cool nerds talking about cool nerd stuff” drained my soul from my body and made me cynical about the possibility of ever seeing a good movie ever again, just the most vapid bullshit
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 22:16 |
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That’s one way for him to reword them telling him “could you actually add something weird to this script called DOCTOR STRANGE, please”
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 22:23 |
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Money Plane https://twitter.com/BoxrecGrey/status/1279215739459776512 Money Plane
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 23:06 |
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That’s IT! I have had it with this motherfuckin’ money on this motherfuckin’ PLANE!
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# ? Jul 10, 2020 23:26 |
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I am watching The Old Guard on Netflix and it's basically Highlander with less white dudes, except this time the immortals work together. Charlize Theron is, of course, killing it, but it's otherwise kind of boring. Now I wish I was watching Money Plane instead.
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 00:08 |
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ALFbrot posted:I know there's no real hope for this to come true, but I want Ready Player Two to be about how Wade has to deal with the many responsibilities that come with his newfound power, and being completely ill-equipped to handle anything that comes his way because all he knows how to do is defeat the straw hat guys from Big Trouble in Little China or quote St. Elmo's Fire or some poo poo This is just like the episode of Ninja Turtles where Shredder took over the world but sucks at his job and wants to go back to being a two-bit supervillain
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 03:11 |
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You guys heard of this thing called Money Plane? Idk what it is but I hear its all the rage these days
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 05:10 |
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I want a RPO prequel with just a bunch of references from the 40's and 50's.
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 05:19 |
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Ernest Cline just seems like a guy that's about to be exposed as a molester some time soon. Better greenlight that RP2 movie adaptation fast.Codependent Poster posted:I saw an article that said after the 3 month trial expired, Quibi now has only 72,000 paying users. Apparently at this rate the investors would need over 400 years to make their money back. In other news, https://twitter.com/THR/status/1281769694584864769
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 05:35 |
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If they don't have time travel that doubles as a Back to the Future crossover I don't know what the point is
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 06:05 |
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I love these stupid rear end movies so much
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 06:15 |
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Man at this point just have the opening sequence be a shot-by-shot remake of the beginning of Heavy Metal.
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 07:51 |
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Dom Toretto must find the Loc-Nar.
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 08:01 |
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I live my life a quarter light year at a time
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 08:06 |
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I gotta see Vin Diesel putzing around the solar system in a spaceship with Frank Frazetta artwork all over it.
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 09:19 |
Dom meets his long lost brother, Riddick.
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 09:28 |
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"Dom, you can't go use the NOS in space, youll go faster than C! You could end up lost forever somewhere in the past" "The I guess I'll C you again" <plays sad song while Dom ends up back in Fast and the Furious 1, setting up a new reboot timeline where he plays an old mentor figure to young Toretto>
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 09:54 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 07:06 |
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Barudak posted:"Dom, you can't go use the NOS in space, youll go faster than C! You could end up lost forever somewhere in the past" Motherfucker. I can actually hear him speaking this line.
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