Ready Player One is nightmare fuel
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Wade gives me the vibes of that type of geeky guy who immediately quizes any woman who expresses even a passing interest in a movie or video game he likes. I just feel like he (and also Ernest, honestly) cannot fathom that women have genuine interests and we must therefore earn our nerd credentials from him.
100% this. Years ago when I was working at a grocery store, I happened to be wearing an Ocarina of Time shirt because it was one of the first games I ever played, and I have a big nostalgic soft spot for it. Some random guy walked up to me and asked me if I was wearing it just to impress my boyfriend, then proceeded to quiz me about the game and all things LoZ otherwise for almost an hour while I was trapped stocking shelves because I'm AFAB and therefore cannot possibly have an opinion on something unless a man tells me to. The second she started describing Wade (and by extension Ernest, because nothing will convince me this isn't a self-insert), my mind immediately went back to that guy.
Ugh I've been SO lucky to avoid these men
He gives, guy at the register asking me to name 10 songs from the band on my t-shirt, energy.
I guess you could say Ernestly ;)
It's so frustrating! I like the piece of media, I don't have to have an exhaustive knowledge of the lore to have a good time!
When you were explaining incels, I remembered this story of an incel "graduating" from inceldom by getting a girlfriend, and his online community labeled him a traitor. I thought the point of being an incel was yearning for a girlfriend, but if one of them does achieve it, they get pissed off. They wanna be miserable together but don't want others to achieve their goals lol. Maybe the feeling of being betrayed also stems from them not being "chosen" over their graduated friend. Like, people tell women to take one for the team by dating incels so they don't become dangerous. But incels still hate that a woman chose someone else, even if it was another incel looool.
This!
Whaddyah mean mentally ill people are irrational and jealous???
How exactly does he expect "nerd porn" to be like?
"Yes! Yes! Harder! Spock would be disappointed in your anatomical knowledge!"
I guess Cline needs to watch cannon compliant xenomorph doing the deed with a loli waifu to actually get it up.
Cline can't even write Nerd Romance- the characters barely have any shared scenes or banter, they break up because the MC has no social skills, then refuses to apologize or grow but then they get back together after a few boring action scenes. I suspect if he tried to write porn, it would be just as bad as anything else.
Lol
Sooo... Fanfiction?
This book feels like Scott Pilgrim vs the World but with none of the author's awareness/irony/nuance.
YES!!!!
god it really is just scott pilgrim if SP wasnt about what a friggin loser scott is
Scott Pilgrim is SO much better than this "OOOH LOOK LOOK POP CULTURE REFERENCE"
Listening to the author's poem again, and while this isn't anything to do with the book itself - GOD I'm sick of women with big breasts being dehumanized. I have them. They are a pain. My bra!tax is exceedingly high, and I can't hide my body from the public. Even when I've lost weight, the boobs remain because genetics suck. I have been reduced to nothing but a pair of big tits by coworkers and the public, and, SHOCKER, that feeling doesn't go away just because someone is trying to be "feminist" or "not like other guys" about it. UGH.
- More related to the video, but this world makes no sense. Noooooooooooooone.
Idk if you watch her channel but SavyWritesBooks talks about being a big-chested woman (though she recently got a reduction) and the conversations she’s had around it? Vital. Totally agree with you.
@@ReadswithRachel I do indeed also watch her! Although I haven't seen many videos, but I've run into some of her comments re: being big-chested and having a reduction, and I felt so Seen, it was wonderful.
Definitely an experience I can relate to... my boobs came in young and just kept growing with me. Can't wear a tank top without someone thinking it's an invitation... ugh
I also have big boobs and I feel this. I have a memory burned into my mind of sitting at the dining hall table in college and one of my friends asked me "who I was dressed up for." I was wearing a top that dipped about three inches below my collar bone. I asked him what the hell he meant, and he said, "Well, you're showing a lot of cleavage." Meanwhile sitting next to me was a friend with a relatively flat chest who was wearing a v-neck top that literally dipped to her belly button.
Also, dude is being hella lazy if he thinks there is not nerdy girl porn out there, including all body types.
I have large breasts myself, and am a nerd. I don't go to cons or anything because I will get quizzed like I know nothing.
A new fear is people like Ernest Cline coming at my writing because they feel some kind of way about it.
Wtf is up with RUclips and their horrendous application of their already terrible rules. I'm sorry your other video was taken down - you do amazing work and your videos are always top tier! ❤️
Thank you so much!
I have yet to read this book so I don’t have a fuller context to it, but how predictable that the female love interest spends her whole life trying to crack at this competition only to have a random dweeb come in and solve it in moments.
I don’t know if it’s a trope by now, but there’s this tendency in media to have a female character propped up as a career/passion person who has invested a good chunk of herself into said career/passion-and build her way up to the top-only to have the male character “prodigy” his way to her level or higher, à la Chosen One, in a shorter time frame.
The male character gets all the focus, as if the universe is saying the male character was meant for this. But the female character? Her achievements and labor are left as background noise. It leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.
I see this play out often in the culinary genre of movies whenever there’s a male-female hetero relationship playing out. Pixar’s _Ratatouille_ is probably the most pronounced example in my mind even if the rat isn’t a love interest.
To be fair to this extremely shitty book, Wade has also put in the work like Artemis did (consuming & studying all the 80s media), but she’s just ~not quite~ as good as he is. That’s why she’s his perfect girl-all the same pop culture interests but with tits
I can’t remember it fully, but i just had to think of „Free Guy“ on Disney+. He is IN THE LITERAL SENSE an NPC and the girly is being outdone by him 😭 at least as far as i can remember i forgot what the characters‘ goals were.
But yeah i think i can kinda see what ur saying
Ugh I feel you. Bahubali is an Indian movie that does the same thing with the main character (Shiva) and the girl who has been working all her life to free Shiva's mother. Women are just pawns in that story. Ugh.
The first and second key in the game was found by Artemis and Artemis won the second key first, wade only got the first key by having luckily masters the game of joust mounted before, so luck, and only found it a month after her, and only found the second key by H giving him a clue so he really didn’t do much as getting the crystal key wasn’t really hard besides going through the IOI job part, which was cool but didn’t have much besides him working and planning
@@jesusdiego6059 thank you for pointing this out
Hello, Rachel.
First off, I had to admit that I actually loved Ready Player One. Initially. As a guy who grew up in the 80''s I loved the pop culture references, the games that I played, book I read, and music I listened to, there was a lot of "Me too!" moments. However, shortly afterwards I realized that was basically what most of the book was. I will say that I enjoy books with puzzles and challenges of any kind and I did love the concept of the book about a virtual space since it already exists on a lesser scale (Second Life). I have watched quite a few of your videos and always find your points well both well-articulated and well-researched. In retrospect, I agree with a lot of the points you made, if not all. I watched the movie as well and it was vastly different from the book and not in many good ways. There was only one scene in the hotel that was actually okay. The rest was forgettable. I also read two of Ernest Cline's other books, unfortunately. Armada, which was predicable, formulaic and had a lot of parallels to Ready Player One. I also read Ready Player Two, which was incredibly disappointing because I realized then how much the author depended on culture references and it got even worse in Ready Player Two. I doubt you'll ever read it, but if you hated the first book, i don't think the second one is redeemable.
"Nobody knows how a album work"
Nobody's know how medieval torture device work but were not bringing them back aren't we?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
At this point I feel like we should because some people need common sense tortured back into them
Hot tip to people who already watched the original but still want to support this one: you can mute the tab & watch another video in the background and/or set it to 2x speed so you can watch the whole thing more quickly!
Ready Player One strikes me as a book written for people who think Big Bang Theory is peak cinema
obsessed with his idea that a woman is "smart" if she watched Star Wars??? Hello????
It's like the opposite of how Andrew tate sees star wars😭
The CD thing annoys me for some reason. They're not iconic 80s. For most of the 80s, we used vinyl records and cassette tapes. Walkman was big.
My mother and her longest lasting boyfriend were big fans of this book. As one might imagine they were not good parents.
The fact that nobody made a copyright strike against this book/movie will always amazed me.
This book is an example of plagiarism on a plain sight.
And yeah, I still think that categorizing people into “high quality” and “low quality” is problematic. It’s superficial and it teaches the society not to treat everyone with human decency but only those high quality who are considered “deserve it”.
Didn't the movie have to pay so much in licensing?? I think I read that on Wikipedia some time ago when I first had to sit through this movie, but I could be very wrong though.
I'm pretty sure the movie couldn't get two or three very specific licenses bc the right holders refused? Something along those lines
My point is just yes, you are absolutely right. Very little in this book seems original. Everything is plagiarized
You can thank Spielberg and the movie’s half dozen production companies for all the cultural references that managed to get included in the film. For many of the rights they couldn’t get explicit permission to use, they still inserted brief cameos and other references to them.
The book actually has a plot point based around Blade Runner movie, but they were denied permission to use it because the Blade Runner 2049 sequel was in production at the same time.
@@soph996super late to respond to your comment, but I think this is exactly why there were such massive story changes in the movie vs book (like the first challenge being a race?????) Because the licensing for all the things mentioned in the book would be astronomical on top of CGI/sfx, it definitely feels less Easter egg and more "I'll just dump in all these IP's cause people are bound to find some they like and relate to"
I had a male friend tell me that God told him we were meant to be together and he was going to wait as long as it took for God to speak to me about it. There's a lot longer of a story to it behind that , but it involves trigger warnings and is a lot to get into in one comment.
JUMP SCARE. Fundie men do this so often and I beg fundie culture to make. It. Stop.
So, I didn't actually get to think to say this on your last upload, but how does this world just... **work**. Like, basic infrastructure? Power grids alone sound like this is a nightmare, and you'd still need RL people to do RL work to make sure the Oasis stays up? And how do they eat? Who's farming? The economy can't be centered on the Oasis since that's all just NFTs, basically... God, this is going to bother me until I die.
These are such good questions and I actually wish somebody who knew anything, unlike Ernest, would answer them
Nope, gotta give more time to explaining how the Full House house looks and quoting every single scene from Wargames
This was exactly my thoughts listening to her talk about it the first time (and when I watched the movie years ago with no idea what it was about) and I'm glad there are other people just as confused about how its world functions at all 😂
@@MissBeeKayEm His idea of worldbuilding is describing existing media, not actually building anything new.
@@ReadswithRachel I have compiled a list of my best guesses based on my knowledge and I want to say that I haven't read the books or seen the movie, just the marvelous videos ripping them apart like this one I am commenting under:
- everything is done and mantained by AI-driven robots
- electricity is produced by power plants dug into the earth crust, nuclear power, crude oil and burning trash
- the pollution comes from the means the last reserves of crude oil are mined for and the trash burning
- everything outside the cities is a barren wasteland, most bodies of water that have not dried up yet are covered in algae
- - the ultra-rich eat vat-grown steaks and plants from giant hydroponic farm that also produce nutrition bars for the masses (that is everyone else but the ultra rich) to subsits on
- the economy is based on an unrealistically extreme form of loot farming in developing countries of our world and time, where people can make more money selling the in-game items from Warcraft and Runescape than they would make working a common job
- suppose the economy of RPO's world collapsed some times after OASIS rose to global popularity and everyone turned to this to make ends meet?
Couldn't have said it any better myself. As my friend best put it: “Sci-fi authors are always like okay here’s my idea for a society also I’m a man and you will understand that deeply.” If I can tell that you're a man just by the way you write… work on that.
The part that really stuck with me was when mc told art3mis she looks more beautiful irl after invading her privacy when she didn’t even want him to know in the first place and then everyone just tells her to chill out about it when she gets upset and its never mentioned again
(and holy shit I would NEVER read this book if i would've known about that poem.. i am disgusted)
I'm so salty that the original was taken down, especially considering some of the horrific content they allow to stay on this website.
Oh my word I know! Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh have channels devoting large amounts of time to tranphobia content and inciting violence and so on, but they seriously go after THIS channel? I used to love YT. I can barely stand it anymore because of all the problems they are putting creators through who do not deserve it.
Only the male dominated 80s though. Like it’s a whole show about a man who loved the 80s but never heard of Madonna?
From what I understood from the movie, everything that was more for girls in the 80s is looked down upon in Ready Player One.
There's a RUclips video who mentioned it in a review of the movie. It went kinda like: "Everyone has their own nostalgia stories. But the corpo bad guy's nostalgia is a book series of a 12 year old detective girl, so he's seen as ridiculous and deserving of being mocked. For some reason, some nostalgia is better than others."
Good point!
I had to read this book in a tech class in highschool (I went to an art and science high school lmfao) I was one of four girls in a class of thirty and this book made me so uncomfortable. I tried to bring up why in group discussions and was majority shot down and degraded. Fun times. A lot of the guys in the class were in fact incels. I was stalked and harassed by multiple of those classmates. You're a hundred percent right about this book.
I’m so sorry that happened that’s so shitty
Why tf did the teacher use a poorly written book as curriculum? That sucks.
"named after the badass from young justice" i was fully expecting you to say the godess but this one mention made me smile, brought back so many memories
I remember reading this with a guy friend when it first came out (or maybe when the movie came out?). He loved it; I told him it was awful. He said I just didnt ynderstand it. I replied with Jenny Nicholson's parody video and he called me a bitch lmao.
Ahhh memories. What an awful book. Hope you get enough ad sense money from the re-upload to justify having to have slogged through it.
🤡 sounds about right honestly
Wow I hope that guy steps on several legos
Flagged the original for... What?
Speaking the Truth? 💅
it’s essentially 400 or so pages of culture references masquerading as a novel
Why the heck did RUclips flag the original?! That sucks so bad, I am so sorry! This is an awesome video!
That explains why this feels familiar
They wouldn’t tell me but I’m still mad at them for it
The yt algorithm is generally bad but always get worse. The latest (?) Update to it is that if you use a word that YT doesn't like (idk, swears, stuff related to weapons or crime. Whatever fleeting word annoys them) within the first 15-60 second of the video. It'll get demonetised.
Sorry about having to reupload, but obviously I'm here to listen to you tear this down a second time. Thank you for the wonderful review!
Thanks for watching again!
I tried to read this book a couple years back after seeing the movie, and I legitimately could not force myself to read past the huge info dump in the first chapter or whatever that was. Guess maybe that was for the best lol
Couldn't get past the first chapter either. It was so dry, dragged, and the main character was barely a character.
I like the movie and I tried to get this on audiobook also and yeah I couldn’t get past it either just too much annoying loredumping from An annoying idiot
That “poem” is nightmare fuel. I’m still stuck on indentured servitude of the main character being glossed over. Like what?!
Omg I totally misheard “parrots” as “parents” and I was like… “pay parents in birdseed;… is she referencing something.” my brain cell took a personal day apparently lmao
All the references would do the opposite of make the book relatable to me, because I'm from a different country
EXACTLY!!!
Frankly, the movie was wayyy better than the book for a number of reasons. Namely, not having to see all the weird creepy shit Wade does and the many, MANY jabs at literally everyone being cut out.
I enjoyed the movie and I won’t be reading the book I couldn’t get past the first chapter it was so boring
Is Ernest that incel dude who recorded himself talking to police about stalking a queer chick and wanting to play her a song so she could see that he was the guy for her and said she should do "corn"
What is happening?
i was forced to read it in my english class my senior year bc it was my teacher’s favorite book (yikes) and it was so awful 😭 i would hold off reading chapters until i absolutely had to for assignments
I am curious. What did your teacher loved about it?
I'll be honest, at the time it came out, I found it a fun popcorn book. Plenty of nostalgia where I was able to skim the descriptions of well-known pop culture. It absolutely had its flaws, but it felt like Dan Brown but knowledgeable about the 80s. I think I went back to read it once, but it didn't hold up as well.
The transphobia in this book is now funny (in a bad way) because in the sequel, he tries so hard to look like an ally by having a token trans character who doesn’t do anything in the plot just to earn some brownie points from the queer community. He didn’t get any of those points because he did a pretty bad job. Stay away from the sequel. According to Krimson Rogue, it’s somehow worse.
I read this book 12 years ago -then a 22 yo baby feminist, and absolutely loved it for the geeky references and the fun world. I remembered it fondly, having forgotten all the content and just clinged on to the feeling it gave me back then.
Then I saw the movie and was bored to tears and started thinking I should re-read the book since I remembered nothing. I couldn't do it, and I tried. It seemed like it was written for people who don't read much so I dropped it after the first page.
Now, watching your video, memories started popping up. I remembered being frustrated by the fatphobia, and the in-book training montage where the protagonist gets fit. Even then I'd think huh, he's a mary sue. But never would I have remembered the amounts of blatant misogyny it had, had I not watched your video.
Yes to everything you said. I even clapped at some parts in the video and plan to send it to my buddies with whom I'd read the book back then. Absolutely loved this.
Went to Goodreads and saw there's a sequel now, I almost hope you'll some day read and rant about it too -but no-one deserves to read ernest twice.
The RUclips worker who took your video down is a RPO fan.
Huh! So this is one of those rare cases where the movie is better than the source material. I remember enjoying the movie despite its flaws, and then I tried reading the book but couldn’t get past the lore dump on the first page and thought it was a me problem. Nice to see I’m not the only one.
It occurred to me that this book came out in 2011, right around the very start of the “if you’re a 90s kid you remember this” age of the internet and before the big nerd culture boom so this book was written back when the “nerd who knows everything about games and books” was still niche and unexplored. The idea of “wow that nerd is actually cool” was still new. Now though, we’re inundated with nerd culture. RUclips channels are tripping all over themselves to share top ten facts about Ferris Bueller or the shining. Having a car in a video game that looks like the ghost busters car sounds like something you can do in fortnight. Memorizing obscure media already had its hay day and now we know that it still doesn’t substitute for a personality.
I can’t believe this video was flagged, so ridiculous, I’m sorry you had that happen!
Thanks for the great video. A friend recommended the book to me way back when, because they like 80s nostalgia (and probably didn't think that deeply about the subtext), but I couldn't get past the first chapter. Side note: what are the odds that Mark Zuckerberg read this book and that's what made him try to make the Metaverse?
Three minutes into the video and it's already been called 'Incel Manifesto'. This one is gonna be scathing lmao
Engaging with this video to combat YT being...unfortunate, per usual. (eternal sigh of suffering) Thank you for this thorough review and critique! I so appreciate you! :)
RUclips just gets shittier by the day. Keep you head up, Rachel. Don’t let them get to you.
Incels are scary IRL. I had situational relationship with an excuse for a man and it ended up badly. I'm fem presenting, enby and discovered he was a nice guy with shite morals. He stopped talking to me, as he killed any way to talk to me. I have fear of him and still get weird feelings when the theme is talked about.
When I read this book ages ago, I loved it. I thought it was the dumbest, greatest, ironic, self-insert satire novel ever. I laughed so hard AT Wade and had a blast wading through the nostalgia dumping and over the top everything. Even the love interest’s level of self consciousness about her face seemed to poke fun at the ridiculous beauty standards women are held to.
It wasn’t until way later that I learned the author wasn’t writing satire. Now, I’m not sure how to feel about this book.
Just imagine it’s satire. It’s good if you think of it like that
I feel that the best adaptation, parody and deconstruction of Ready Player One is in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 when Starlord says he's going to make statues of Pac Man with his newfound powers.
"but it's written by a misogynist" killed me dfjklsdjflsdkj
Ohh I'm sorry you got flagged. Keep up the good work Rachel
Thank you!!
Yeah, this book is literally just Red Flags and References.
I still vividly remember when this movie came out I was working at a hospital's front desk and I was curious bc I usually don't watch much sci-fi so I mentioned wanting to try and read the book and my coworker absolutely saved me from that by showing me an excerpt from it where Wade is like "I feel like Luke Skywalker" or smth and the secondhand cringe took me out (which as a former Wattpad user during the era where every other book was werewolves and One Direction fanfic is saying something)
time to watch again 💕 I’m so sorry you had to go through this
I've recently been on a kick of re-reading things I loved when I was young, and this has been booted from the list expeditiously
I think my rosy memories of this book come from me reading this when I was young and in the thick of my "not like other girls" time (jokes on me, turns out I'm not a girl or a boy). But still, I'm dying a little at how often I've talked about liking this book without revisiting it since the first time I read it back in 2008 or whatever. Sorry it was such a slog, but also thank you for filming this (and reuploading it, I'm bummed I couldn't see the original)
I read this book years ago, in one sitting, and I even thought it was good for about 3 minutes… but I don’t remember ANY of this??? Which I suppose says it all 😅Anyway thank you for all your work on this!
Thanks for watching!
Oh man count this as an engagement comment, Im so bummed that the older version of the vid got taken down. 😥
Commenting for the algorithm! Sucks that you had to reupload it! RUclips truly doesn't care about actual information.
Gonnna replay this 100x on my computer and get you some of that ad revenue back.
Just replaying it again for views and ad revenue. Love your videos.
One time I was out jogging (I live in a super rural area) and a creeper from high school drove past me in a car with his buddies and shot me with a pellet gun. I wasn't really injured, but it was Not Great.
He did it because, and I quote, I liked the movie Van Helsing, and Van Helsing had a gun...
?????
Wtf dude. I didn't know the word incel at the time, but that dude was the winner winner chicken go straight to jail.
I liked the original video and don't understand why it was flagged so I guess I'll give a like to this one. Love your videos.
I started to read this book a few years ago and the first time Wade starts to think about this poor girl my brain immediately went NOPE and I never picked it up again. Now i'm very glad I never felt the need to finish this book. Thank you.
So, i had to read this for book club a few years ago. My friends that i made through the group still find my unhinged vitriol to it one of the most entertaining things ever. So nice when i see others also didn't appreciate this "art".
this made me remember the time when, before the movie came out, everyone added fake shit to the wikia-
like just fake character cameos n stuff
it was very fun!
Posting my original comment that I highly recommend Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin for a truly immersive character study of two people building video games together. The knowledge of coding and the background of loving video games is so apparent through the care she puts into the details of the story and it never feels like an info dump or like you have to go look anything up to understand the references. The video games the characters are building feel so real that I was tempted to open Steam and see if I could download them to play.
Oh and it's also my favorite book of 2022. I know you commented last time that you were adding it to your list so I hope to see you read and enjoy it soon! So sorry for all the video mess and I watched again to give you my singular adsense contribution 🧡
Got this book on your rec! Can’t wait to read it
Just as interesting the second time. Really kicking myself for buying this book for my son when he was a teenager. Oops
I read a YA Romance Trilogy that had better geek representation than Ready Player One. It was actually really fun. It was about the fans of a fictional scifi tv show at a con. The first book is called Geekerella by Ashley Poston.
The more irritating thing about the constant references is that it narratively doesn't work. It's set in 2044 it's making an argument that culture stopped at the 80s, early 00s at best. That would be like if Jimi Hendrix was drawing on Alexander Scriabin rather than Buddy Guy. And fair enough you reference your cultural milestones but his 80s references is geek and John Hughes culture, there is no Eddie Murphy here or John Woo it's a homogenously white time capsule so in the future only these artifacts have remained and dominated the culture he lives in and just to rub it in he misses the early 00s stuff that geeks now are obsessed with there's no LOTR or Warhammer its just all Ernest. He should have just set it in an alternative 2006, this is just one problem of the book but god it's so glaringly bad it makes you wonder what editors and agents even do.
Wade Watts suffers hard from Greg Heffley syndrome, in which the protagonist of a book’s main character trait is being the protagonist, and the motive for the reader to root for them is that they’re the protagonist, and the reason they are good is because protagonists typically don’t do bad stuff.
It is so interesting to hear your description of the book versus what my brother told me it was like. Like, I would not in any way consider my brother an incel, but he totally either missed all of that when he read it (I think he actually listened to the book on tape version) and really just picked up on the whole nostalgia part.
To be fair her interpretation is probably more psychotic. "The book is bad because the characters aren't good people.", "A young man can't handle rejection that means he's advocating for grape and his continued existance is a threat to woman and society as a whole", "read this other book it's better because it features women", etc.
I remember reading this years ago, after my mom recommended it to me, and while I enjoyed a lot of it at the time, that middle third almost made me stop reading the book altogether. Its so deeply uncomfortable to me, both at the time and looking back at it, and after that point I was rooting for Wade's friends more than him.
Also separate thought: a much better story would've been some mad max like world where everyone believes that 80s media was not fiction and formed the basis of some ridiculous religion
Yt what the hell?? Commenting cause you deserve that engagement
Reupload=rewatch this video is one of my favorites from you.
Mostly just commenting to help boost the vid and combat youtube bullshit cause I appreciate what you do. On another note, the only irl person I've ever met who told me they loved this book was literally a fourteen year old- and I don't blame them, they're a kid, they'll learn and grow out of it. But there are plenty of adults who maybe shouldn't have stopped developing their own taste at fourteen years old.
Here for round #2. Sorry RUclips continues its trend of being utterly incomprehensible towards creators.
I remember reading this book, only the first few pages and then stopped. I don’t have it with me anymore.
I wont say this was patient zero but it was definitely one of the early cases of me realizing I was Ace
I was bored to death about this movie to the point that I actually just...put it down during the "80s info dump" and never picked it up. Heard about how it progresses and watched the movie and was pissed by both accounts. Just...I can't get that time back :|
This is a book that had a fascinating impact on me. It inspired me to strive to make video games, however thankfully, THANKFULLY, I did see past all of the gross ideologies and chose not to become like Wade. Call it being blinded by nostalgia, but I will not, WILL NOT, condone any of the messed up things in that book.
Do not read it, EVER. I did not understand it beforehand, but later on after watching this video and moreoff putting the pieces together myself...it's gross.
RIP book. You were liked for a little while, but then we all saw you for what you truly are.
This also sucks for me since there is potential here. It was instead just all thrown aside because the author just didn't care.
Sorry you had to reupload, hope commenting helps!
Thanks again!
sex work is real work. plastic surgery and valuing your looks doesn't make you unintelligent. porn addiction isn't real (but it's okay to set boundaries around porn in a relationship and if your partner can't respect boundaries, that's a bigger problem than porn, men stop scapegoating and blaming women and porn for their own failings challenge). seeking out porn that reminds you of someone you know doesn't want to be with you is fucking creepy. this book is gross, and as someone who has had a stalker, i will never ever understand this kind of narrative being spun as anything but terrifying.
Almost everyone I follow on goodreads gave this shit 4-5 stars and I’m like ??? Wtf is wrong with y’all I know we shouldn’t shame others for their taste in books but FUCK-
It honestly astounds me when guys have the "nice guy" mentality. They never truly are nice. In fact many get pissy and call me every derogatory name when I give them a taste of their own mentality. It's hilarious how strong their double standard is.
cline is literally the stereotype of men who meet a woman who likes nerd shit and then they're like oh you're a nerd? answer my trivia quiz rn or you're faking. except his idea of obscure nerd trivia is knowing a basic fact from star wars that like anyone who is remotely aware of pop culture will know
I read this book and I can't remember a damn thing about it. It's been a few years since I have, but still! I can remember entire series I read as a kid much more than this. Clearly my brain saw it as the irrelevant word vomit it is and didn't commit any of it to memory...
Years before Ready Player One was published, an incel I know introduced me to Ernest Cline's stand up comedy.
Nobody used the term incel or red pill back then, but we still knew those guys.
No cuz I read the book, forced myself through it, and when i finished I immediately went on a walk and dropped it off in my little free library cuz i did not want that book in my house longer than it needed to be
Oh no, shame on them flagging the original upload!
The movie's basically just kinda like disposable but overall fine nostalgia fun that smartly tore out all the junk that makes that book so godawful
Also Miami latina trick: Hand sanitizer for mosquitos bites. Or mouth wash
I'll watch this again so you can make up some more money you lost! Love your videos thank you for making them :)
This seems like the kind of book that I would’ve read in middle school to get away from the school-assigned books that actually meant something, but I didn’t care about that back then.
I despise this book. I got it in a loot crate back in the day and ended up throwing it away. Only time I've ever tossed a book. I couldn't in good conscious inflict it on anyone else. 😅
Wow. I couldn't get into the book, but always figured I would get back to it because I thought the movie was fun. I think I will just skip it. Kinda wish my attempt had been the audio book, as I enjoy Wil Wheaton's reading style, and that might have made the little bit I read more tolerable.
The first time I thought to myself why don't incels hire sex workers, my follow-up thought was "no, let's not subject sex workers to that. They have to deal with enough dehumanizing crap as it is."
apparently misogyny wasn’t enough, the second one includes transphobia
I dont mind a character being classist ("It smells like poor people here") when we´re SUPPOSED to read the character as classist, but it often comes to a place where the author makes it so the "perfect" best boy good guy is saying these things, which doesnt fit.
Everytime i see your uploads i just forget everything i was doing and click play fr
You are so right about this book. I read it, like, 10 years ago because so many people were saying "if you're a nerd you'll love this book!" Once I was finished it, I was so grossed out. Even worse than Wade is the character of Halliday, whom Wade and the author seem to hold up as basically a hallowed god.
I'd add on top of everything you said, that this book was one of the worst I've ever read for shitting upon and hating millennials and "kids these days" (at least the kids/20yo) when the book came out in 2006. Wade doesn't say much about his aunt, but I do remember that he basically blames her and her entire generation for destroying the world and creating the dystopia that the book takes place in, and, yes, his aunt is roughly the age millennials/ gen-Z would be in 2044. He also inshrines the 80s as basically the "Only true Golden Age of entertainment" and says everything that came afterwards was basically gross garbage. I read it at a time when the hate Gen-X and Boomers were throwing at millennials was still going strong and trending, so I could really feel the generational prejudice radiating off of this excuse for a book.
I honestly don't get why so many young people and nerds my age liked this book, since the author basically said anything nerds think they like that isn't from the 80s (or created by Will Weaton) is trash and true nerds (pure nerds) should only like things from the author's generation and, in fact, his personally preferred era of entertainment should be considered godly. This along with the way he talked about women and the super unlikeable MC made Ready Player One, one of the worst books I've read.
The references are also kinda dumb because they don't all work outside of a US audience. You know English is a universal languare right? Some people outside of the US read English books too. I don't think mr Kline ever considered that (but well, he's shooting his own foot ig)
(even in 2006)
Making up your own lore and culture allows the whole audience to be on the same page. When an author relies on real-life references and terms, the audience will be divided because some will get it and others won't.
The poem towards the end destroyed me. Its not even a poem its just an incel manifesto 💀
I remember watching an adaptation analysis over how the book and movie differ and i just remember thinking that if you don't know a lot about the 80s this story offers nothing of interest or joy. All the joy comes from recognizing things he's referencing. There's nothing else of value there.