Hmmmmmm
Ready Player One tricked me into thinking this many times but... is this self-awareness?
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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
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.
Well mine is cached but people are telling me this is happeningpic.twitter.com/J9XMdn9X8A
Very curious to see if the image that is just a page of dialogue from The Princess Bride goes down
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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