This is how our hero describes the brain-interface VR research and development process, and just want to note that while this is not how science works, it *is* how H.H. Holmes built his murder castlepic.twitter.com/iFkV73mp7I
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This is how our hero describes the brain-interface VR research and development process, and just want to note that while this is not how science works, it *is* how H.H. Holmes built his murder castlepic.twitter.com/iFkV73mp7I
I slept, I ate, I’m back. So after 100 pages of backstory/80s references, the QUEST begins. It is exactly what you expect. One puzzle in the quest is solved by the hero narrating a first-person walkthrough of the game Sega Ninja/Ninja Princess that goes on for 7 pages.pic.twitter.com/r59anOs71x
Subsequent quests involve going to a simulated Shermer, Illinois and reenacting every John Hughes movie simultaneously, and fighting seven different versions of the musician Prince. But I’m not going to talk about that. I’m just going to post this.pic.twitter.com/YMxwv1icO9
Actually I lied, I am going to share one excerpt from your extremely long battle with Princepic.twitter.com/RIySjUt2lY
At one point, and this is amazing, the sociopathic serial killer/terrorist/bad guy shows up and offers a pretty cogent analysis about the pitfalls and diminishing returns of obsessing uncritically over nostalgia and everyone is like GET OUT OF HERE YOU VILLAINpic.twitter.com/mxfRrTdSjA
Well, I finished the book. There were moments when Wade was so unbelievably shitty I thought it HAD to be setting him for some sort of awakening. He does eventually acknowledge, for example, that there was racism/sexism in the 80s, and his former hero actually sucked.pic.twitter.com/x1mZfMfRXP
After treating his ex like shit bc she DIDN’T UNDERSTAND the genius of his new technology and had super legit concerns, a potentially apocalyptic catastrophe makes him realizes he was wrong and he apologizes. Not for stalking her. Still, a step in the right direction, you'd thinkpic.twitter.com/FZil2KCNk3
You would think wrong. By the end of the book, we learn that Wade was COMPLETELY RIGHT the whole time, that the technology unlocks digital immortality and THANKS TO HIM humankind has now conquered death for eternity. His ex apologizes, says how grateful she is, and marries him.pic.twitter.com/UlvtvVaP6V
The immortal AIs created from their VR brains scans get uploaded to a ship searching for a new Earth, along with AIs created from millions of OASIS users without their permission, because our stalker hero is now AWARE of consent but still doesn't actually care about it.pic.twitter.com/qEHeQrmx3k
He and his girlfriend and their buddies get to live forever in space with all the ‘80s books and movies and games they love, and he never has to deal with aging, moving on, or losing anything ever again. He wins the “game” of life. T H E E N Dpic.twitter.com/Q503Ndjlif
So he uhhh...he really took criticisms of the first book to heart, huh?
In true tech dude fashion he makes like, some really superficial gestures about how he listened and now cares and then is exactly the same
I liked the part where the authorial insert looked up everyone in his world who made fun of him and then killed them. But then eventually stopped before he got in trouble, like a hero.
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