Roosevelt posted:

idk what exactly's going on here, but if they hollowed out that loaf and stuffed a bunch of sandwich filling in it, then party on wayne

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

https://twitter.com/chaeronaea/status/939997196908486656

PokeJoe posted:

i don't recall people never shutting the gently caress up about great 60's pop culture in the 90s, or 70's poo poo in the naughty-aughties. what is it about the loving 80s

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2015/07/armada_by_ernest_cline_follow_up_to_ready_player_one_reviewed.html

this is art

it also better written than anything ernest cline has ever done

quote:

Armada reads like a coming-of-age fantasy for people who came of age long ago; despite the fact that Zack Lightman is only 18 years old, he drives a 1989 Dodge Omni, watches ’80s movies like Say Anything, and can't stop listening to ZZ Top. We're told that he's just immersing himself in the beloved media of his dead father, but hearing a modern-day teenage character talk about ’80s culture with the intimacy and nostalgia of his 43-year-old creator feels more than a little contrived.

echinopsis posted:

what’s rp0

Chris Knight posted:

heh

sounds like the title character from "juno", the expert on the era that they weren't even alive for

the prequel

quote:


We're also told the government has been tracking the habits of its elite players, and when they arrive at their virtual battle stations, they find their favorite snacks waiting for them, their favorite songs queued up to accompany their virtual space fights, not to mention a “special strain of weed that helps people focus and enhances their ability to play videogames” that's been cultivated just for them. In one revealing moment, Zack calls his mom in midst of the alien invasion and says the words that burn in the heart of every gamer who has ever felt demeaned for the hours they lavish on their favorite hobby: “All those years I spent playing videogames weren't wasted after all, eh?”

Zack’s mom is one of the very few women in the book who get any airtime at all, as is his love interest, a fellow gamer recruit named Lex. You might wonder: What is Lex about? What motivates her? It doesn't matter. What's important about her is that she's a hot girl from Austin who gets his jokes, has “alabaster skin,” sports a seminude Tank Girl tattoo, and wants to make out with our hero after hearing that he's one of the best Armada players in the world:

“My Terra Firma ranking is too abysmal to say out loud,” I said, laying on the false modesty with a trowel. “But in the Armada rankings I'm currently sixth.”
Her eyes widened, and she swiveled her head around to stare at me.
“Sixth place?” she repeated. “In the world? No bullshit?”
I crossed my heart, but did not hope to die.
“That's some serious bill-paying skillage,” she said. “Color me impressed, Zack-Zack Lightman.”
“Color me flattered, Miss Larkin,” I replied.

It's a cringingly terrible and transparent bit of self-indulgence, one of many in the book that walks so close to the line of video game fan fiction that it becomes nearly indistinguishable.

quote:

But in a brief and fleeting moment of insight, Zack finally decides to close up the boxes and move on with his life. It was “high time [he] grew up,” he decides, adding that “the time had come for me to stop living in the past.”

The novel spends the next 300 pages doing the opposite.

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2015/07/armada_by_ernest_cline_follow_up_to_ready_player_one_reviewed.html

this is art

it also better written than anything ernest cline has ever done

quote:

Ready Player One was far too joyously self-absorbed in its referential excesses to step back and examine what they might mean. It was still a page-turner, though.

Sapozhnik posted:

prefect posted:

i hope steven spielberg falls down a well

Agile Vector posted:

you say that in the past tense…

wayfinder posted:

fishmech posted:

Well he's 45 now

Chris Knight posted:

the 20 year rule started in the 70s, with happy days and other 50s nostalgia being a thing

the 80s had lots of 60s throwbacks with the return of hippies, increased popularity of the grateful dead, the whole paisley underground scene, etc.

90s had a ton of 70s throwbacks with grunge and big guitar rock coming back

there were also lots of brand new things going on at the same time

except for the fashion industry, which constantly tries to bring back the 70s whenever trying to do new things becomes too hard

Roosevelt posted:

youre probably right that decades are getting blurred wrt whatevers popular. all i know is that early 90s was a lot of neon and now it's hitler youth and man bun haircuts. 2000 - 2010 has no identity for me

Roosevelt posted:

90s also had the weird ska thing happen. i knew a kid in high school who had a full on black and white pinstriped zoot suit with the fedora and everything. he was really good at swing dancing, could do all the moves and flips and twirls, etc. he was goddamn ridiculous (i said to myself whilst adorned in flannel and ripped jeans in the corner of the school dance, while every qt girl was literally standing in line for a turn to dance with him)

C.H.O.M.E posted:

things from the early 2000s that i am not looking forward to becoming retro

nu-metal
boot cut pants with that weird bleach pattern on the legs
frosted tips

things from the early 2000s i want to see more of

pink velour tracksuits
frosted tips

muckswirler posted:

Future RP1:

It was a chilly fall day, just like every day since yesterday. The leaves swirled around like a million multicolored spidermen lilting drunkenly through the finger family song. In an alley nearby, charlie brown was pissing in garfield's refrigerator, angry that he got his period before the rest of his class. SlayQueen TayTay had seen it all before. "I wonder if I'm gay?" Ronald McDonald Trump ejaculated from a telememe screen floating next to the Uber4One jitney. She was ready to make money moves, it wasn't me shakirashakira.

Shaggar posted:

Disney is going to own like 90% of pop culture tv and film.

FMguru posted:

the 1950s had a fair amount of nostalgia for the 1900-1910s good ol days. the first part of disneyland (opened 1955) that you entered was main street usa, with nickelodeons, barbershop quartets, stores with jars of penny candy, horse-drawn carriages, a train station with a steam locomotive, and all that

Meskhenet posted:

pretty much just a bland never ending run on

wayfinder posted:

insanely rounded

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

lol is this a disney property now

Kenny Logins posted:

Lysidas posted:

why is copyright date on volume 3 newer than is the one is on volume 1

Cat Face Joe posted:

volume 5 was recorded in 2013 despite having a publishing date of 1984 explain that smart guy

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

lol is this a disney property now

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

is that ed norton