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Writer of various things. Previously @ Wired, Verge, Offworld, Femfreq. Chaotic good, optimistic cynic, total champ.

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    1. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

      Baby, it’s onpic.twitter.com/In8EhYgDAa

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    2. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

      And yes, there will be a review — I'm cracking the spine now and have put aside the day to read it. (I don't want to undercut my own work, but I may share some thoughts in this thread.) If you've never read my reviews of his work before, well... enjoy.https://slate.com/culture/2015/07/armada-by-ernest-cline-follow-up-to-ready-player-one-reviewed.html …

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    3. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

      Oh boy. Page 1: We learn that Aech, his friend he thought was a white dude but found out a fat black lesbian and GRACIOUSLY accepted anyway by saying that her true identities “didn’t matter,” immediately disappears to Senegal because she is Black in case you forgot she is Blackpic.twitter.com/tKqb7TG2Bu

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    4. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

      In case you were wondering if Ernest Cline is still being Ernest Cline, I present to you Page 3:pic.twitter.com/3wtkXtrb9z

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    5. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

      thanks i hate itpic.twitter.com/TGxr7Wy3gm

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    6. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

      Great news Ready Player Two just solved poverty in the most horrifying Silicon Valley way imaginable Why actually feed poor people when they can just buy your tech and pretend to have dinner in their minds Let those fuckers eat digital cakepic.twitter.com/mpmDirHvdC

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    7. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

      I am walking to the store for snacks so in the meantime feel free to read this piece I wrote about how Ready Player One is a roadmap that leads directly to the digital dystopia of the present; I feel it is about to become freshly relevanthttps://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17250892/ready-player-one-book-facebook-internet-dystopia …

      6 replies 56 retweets 489 likes
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    8. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

      See this is why I won't make parody jokes about RP2; per Poe's law they feel destined to come true https://twitter.com/david_wolkin/status/1331280051090952194 …pic.twitter.com/ezqZNgupej

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    9. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

      This is how the third chapter begins. I’m going to take a walk.pic.twitter.com/qOoi5GICMv

      32 replies 66 retweets 807 likes
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    10. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

      Ernest Cline writing about sex is exactly how you would imagine Ernest Cline writing about sexpic.twitter.com/SwoLS1Q1XL

      59 replies 163 retweets 1,112 likes
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      Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

      Aech, who went to Senegal because she is Black in case you forgot she was Black, returns to shout an 80s catchphrase and immediately disappears to Africa againpic.twitter.com/0AELGzwwuR

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        2. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

          After solving world hunger with digital cake, our hero decides to reboot the US police as a force of drones and tactical robots, because as ever the billionaire tech CEO motto is: “I just can’t foresee anything going wrong with this so why bother worrying about how it could?”pic.twitter.com/0TztFBqlXD

          24 replies 40 retweets 549 likes
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        3. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

          I can’t tell what bothers me more: the way Aech, the queer Black lady, pops up on cue to agree with the hero’s shitty ideas and paper-thin understanding of the world, or how the ideas that Cline puts in her mouth are so unintentionally stupid it also feels like doing her dirtypic.twitter.com/bY6VIB1Vsz

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        4. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

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          To be clear, I am only on page 34 of 377 https://twitter.com/Megan_Nicolett/status/1331341606071439362 …

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          19 replies 17 retweets 735 likes
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        5. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

          Lol he programs his robot butler BELVEDERE never to speak to him because he’s 1) an asshole 2) he’s afraid of robot servants turning on their masters? side note, this is four pages after he replaced the entire American police force with robotspic.twitter.com/WDZCWKBjE3

          12 replies 85 retweets 903 likes
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        6. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

          The only good thing that’s happened is his now ex-gf dumped him bc he sucks, then RINSED him in the press when he spent a gajillion dollars on an elite space bunker he and his friends can bail to leaving the earth and everyone else on it to die he “doesn’t see it that way” lmaopic.twitter.com/cnnnyJYLI8

          33 replies 42 retweets 668 likes
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        7. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

          Hahahahaha the main character sucks so fucking bad Eventually Aech gives him a speech about having “an attitude of gratitude” and he goes to a simulated therapist that looks like Robin Williams in Good Will Huntingpic.twitter.com/94wMDT8oop

          15 replies 12 retweets 409 likes
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        8. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

          Hmmmmmm Ready Player One tricked me into thinking this many times but... is this self-awareness? 🦋pic.twitter.com/vTSeG0XUIg

          9 replies 10 retweets 385 likes
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        9. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

          Nope incorrect he is right back at itpic.twitter.com/vTkJSfoNFZ

          22 replies 6 retweets 386 likes
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        10. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

          why is this so appropriatepic.twitter.com/WSrYD3YQni

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        11. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

          I have returned from my reading break to find our hero spying on the account of a female player who gives him a quest tip so he can watch her conversations with her friends Check out this authentic feminist dialogue they’re havingpic.twitter.com/cnuLgWYzDh

          14 replies 26 retweets 516 likes
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        12. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

          Then he taps into her camera to spy on her IRL, and digs up her private documents to learn that in addition to being hot and naturally, his biggest fan, she’s trans — which he assures us does not make him feel weird about having a crush on her! Shitty!pic.twitter.com/X8A5e797gg

          20 replies 15 retweets 555 likes
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        13. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

          As a general concept I think it’s cool that completely immersive brain interface VR could let people experience and express gender and sexuality in different ways, but ofc Cline immediately makes it clear that he doesn’t get itpic.twitter.com/d55k48aSuo

          6 replies 8 retweets 371 likes
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        14. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

          “Thanks to the OASIS Neural Interface, your gender and your sexuality is no longer constrained — or confined to — the body you are born into” Uhhhh that is true right now my man You did not “solve” sex and gender with your startuppic.twitter.com/GTJRlYG7c3

          11 replies 41 retweets 806 likes
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        15. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 24 Nov 2020

          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

          18 replies 65 retweets 721 likes
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        16. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 25 Nov 2020

          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

          13 replies 11 retweets 357 likes
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        17. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 25 Nov 2020

          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

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        18. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 25 Nov 2020

          Actually I lied, I am going to share one excerpt from your extremely long battle with Princepic.twitter.com/RIySjUt2lY

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        19. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 25 Nov 2020

          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

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        20. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 25 Nov 2020

          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

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        21. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 25 Nov 2020

          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

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        22. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 25 Nov 2020

          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

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        23. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 25 Nov 2020

          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

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        24. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 25 Nov 2020

          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

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        25. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 25 Nov 2020

          Thank you for taking this terrible journey with me, old friends and new. I'm gonna take a long walk and stare at a pond or something, then write the review I am actually being paid for. Trust me, I saved some good stuff. I'll post it at the end of this thread whenever it goes up.

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        26. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 25 Nov 2020

          Well mine is cached but people are telling me this is happeningpic.twitter.com/J9XMdn9X8A

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        27. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 25 Nov 2020

          Very curious to see if the image that is just a page of dialogue from The Princess Bride goes down

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        28. Laura Hudson‏Verified account @laura_hudson 25 Nov 2020

          Relatedly, here are a few quotes where the hero talks about how he used to be a huge asshole who would silence his critics and how he eventually stopped doing that and grew and became better, just to revisit the “was anything actually learned” theme Excited for these to go downpic.twitter.com/tAtjd7BNrm

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