Remember how Andy Weir (author of The Martian) wrote a piece of fanfic that Cline thought was so good he had it included in future printings of the book About how the corporate bad guy (Nolan Sorrento) wants to destroy the OASIS because his sister died of VR addictionhttps://twitter.com/ShadowTodd/status/1334220750383763457 …
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I dunno, Weir's version of Sorrento comes off as a hell of a lot more heroic than Wade There's no material benefit for himself - he knows for sure his corporate masters will have him assassinated as soon as he destroys the prize he was hired to retrieve, and doesn't care
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In the sequel his big scene does in fact have him demand Wade hand over the Big Red Button to wipe the OASIS servers, but this is just presented as him being an unhinged madman who wants only petty revenge for being beaten in the last book It's a damn waste
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I'd say something about how disaster recovery plans should absolutely not be assuming that any part of the internet is still up, let alone VR, but that's putting more thought into it than Cline did
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There's really strikingly little about what the OASIS even really is, other than an 80s Movie Theme Park. What does everyone else do all day?
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Which would be a great criticism of real life capitalism if... a good author had written the book.
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"Sir, shutting down the 24/7 global VR server would safe enough energy that we can reverse decades of environmental damage." - "Yes, but look at this graph. This number would go down instead of up."
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I feel like Cline fell into that thing where a creator only listens to the audience with the most fawning praise for their work, in part because the criticism of RP1 is so fish-in-a-barrel simple and omnipresent that separating constructive wheat from chaff becomes really hard.
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And that's not to defend him or either book, to be clear.
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