Is anyone else psyched for this? I'm a 90s kid but thought the book was epic. looks like Spielberg is directing:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ben-mendelsohn-eyed-villain-role-852265
>mfw plebs
the book was one pop culture reference after another with a bunch of unmemorable characters. written badly.
>>64600737
i know /tv/ hates wheaton, but the narration was pretty based. probably because he got all of the geek references
>>64600737
4chan will say they hate it but only because reddit loved it.
>>64600737
this book sucked
it was just DUDE 80s LMAO
>>64600737
>epic
>>64600737
I thought the book was enjoyable. I was younger then.
A friend of mine practically jizzed when they mentioned that one D&D campaign. No idea what the fuck that was all about.
>>64600877
will he be in the movie?
>>64601127
Almost definitely.
>>64600737
>muh 80s movies and videogame references
No thanks. Book is overrated as shit.
Hyped to see how Spielberg is gonna pull this off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qHNfsst8_c
>>64600737
LITERALLY THE PLOT TO ENDERS GAME AND THE LAST STARFIGHTER
REEEEE
>>64601234
He hasn't made a good movie in almost two decades. I'm sure this will be shit too.
>>64600914
...or because it was a bad book
>>64601260
I think this author's second book was the Ender/Starfighter one. Not sure though, I haven't read it.
>>64600737
Im looking forward to it. Spielberg is the perfect director for this movie too.
>>64601313
Wait you're right my bad
He's still a hack tho
>>64600737
is it true that it has a lot of Ultraman stuff in it?
is there a chance that the movie will have that too?
This book is a piece of shit. I got a little angry after finishing it that I had heard it recommended by several different sources.
>>64601589
They'll probably change Ultraman for Optimus Prime tbqphwy
>>64600914
>>64602174
WHAT THE FUCK
HOW CAN PEOPLE READ THIS SHIT UUGGGHHH
The book is unreadably bad
>>64602174
he's such a nerd
>>64602174
Reads like a parody done by one of us desu farn.
>>64602174
the most triggering thing ive read today
>>64602502
You wish
>>64602992
>>64602174
The modern male everyone
Filling his life with frivolous pop culture.
I cringed
>>64602174
Literally why haven't I written a book yet. Shit like this gets praised and the author now has a full lifetime career. I gotta write a fucking book.
oh look /tv/ ruined another thing i liked
>>64600737
id prefer a daemon adaptation
>>64602561
Always happy to share these excerpts with people unfamiliar with the book
>>64603439
Why did you like it in the first place?
>>64602992
Hoo lee shit
>>64603325
Literally me tßh
>>64600877
can someone teach that buffoon how to say foyer
is there anything more pleb than writing in the first person
>>64603695
Get into weight lifting or start reading some philosophy or pick up a sport or something man
Don't live your life grime one meme to the next
>>64603791
It's obviously the authors self insert
>>64601127
>>64601153
Wil Wheaton is actually a character in the book.
He's Vice President of the Internet.
>>64603912
hoo boy
>>64603912
I'm fucking done
Fuck you for posting this
Fuck the author for writing this
Fuck it all
>>64603823
Thanks for the words, I'l try.
I was doing pretty good a year ago (playing bass in a shitty band, jogging, being pretty fit and OK looking), but then I had to move back to parents, started working in a dead-end labor and relapsed into "shitposting and eating my free time away" lifestyle. Gained almost 40 pounds in the last 5 months.
Shit sucks.
>>64603912
This shit literally reads like it was written by a 16 year old autist in an English class. How does shit like this get so popular???
>>64602174
I'm cringing mostly because of how many guys I know who are literally this.
>>64603575
holy fucking shit, did a 13 year old from /r/atheism write this book?
>>64604231
because there is no bigger money printing machine in the universe than nostalgia exploitation.
> OMG REFERENCES
>>64604252
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>>64604231
Well, Googling the author's name immediately brings you the guy sitting in his DeLorean with GRRM
>>64604199
I know it's hard when you get stuck in a rut man
You should visit /fit/ sometime it's pretty great for support with these types of things
>>64603823
>>64604199
agree that logging out and moving around are the best thing you can do.
wait, which site are we on again? oh right
KEK NIGGERJEW DR PAVEL I'M CIA I'M A BIG GUY FOR YOU SOMEBODY GET THIS HOTHEAD OUTTA HERE WHAT DID HE MEAN BY THIS JUST FUCK MY SHIT UP LITTLE WHITE DICKS BIG BLACK COCKS INTERRACIAL BREEDING GROUNDS FLICKS MOVIES FILMS CINÉMA ABSOLUTE KINOGRAPHY WHO WILL PLAY HIM IN THE INEVITABLE BIOPIC VIETNAM MOVIE IT AIN'T ME STARTS PLAYING LITERALLY REDDIT: THE MOVIE HOL UP YOU SAYING WE SUM KINDA SU SIDE SKWAD BRAVO NOLAN MOM'S GONNA FREAK I DIDN'T GO TO FILM SCHOOL I WENT TO FILMS OH IT SHOWS QUENTIN A REAL HUMAN BEAN AND A REAL HERO WHAT'S GOING ON HERE CLASSIC PAUL DANO DUDE WEED LMAO DUMB FROGPOSTER WELL HELLO BEAUTIFUL THE REST OF Y'ALL KNOW WHEN I DURN TO YAH AVATAR NIGGER RUN NIGGER FLEW THEATER SHOWERS NO SINGLES POLICY CRABS LEGS CHILI AND SEA BASS LUKE DID I EVER TELL YOU ABOUT SHEEV HE WAS A GOOD FRIEND WAS HE AUTISTIC OR JUST A KEK STOP MY INVINCIBLE SON ROBERT DOWNHERE JUNIOR WHY WAS SATAN IN STAR WARS MY HANDS ARE A LITTLE DIRTY I BET HE ENJOYS THE FILMS OF WES ANDERSON A NIGGER COOK SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME SO WHY DID MARV TURN INTO A SKELETON THIS LOOKS REALER THAN REAL LIFE YOU JUST KNOW IMAGINE BEING ARNOLD CASPERE KNEW THIS WHAT DOES /TV/ THINK ABOUT HER BODY OF WORK THE WAR WAS LOST YOU CAN HAVE
>>64604495
chili and sea bass is an underrated one
>>64604495
>that wasn't copypasta
Anon...
>>64602174
Is this what the entire book is?
>>64604427
Yup
That's exactly what I expected him to look like
>>64604479
>>64604495
Cheers, anons.
>>64603912
>Wil Wheaton protecting free speech
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HOLY SHIT
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>64604619
Sort of. He also starts out a fat manlet and then magically gains muscle and height through the magic of his computer + treadmill
>>64604619
Maybe?
>>64605068
Ok so this dumb sack of shit could not write his own concepts
He LITERALLY ripped this shit out of animes and inserted it into his shitty fan fiction
>>64605068
Literally My Immortal for boys.
I bet he took it to the publisher as a joke/"social experiment" and couldn't believe it when they went for it.
>>64603912
This shit is horrifying. I wanted to add something funny, but I decided it wasn't appropriate.
>>64605824
Picking through this train wreck for sick references is more fun than actually reading the book was
Ha, the amount of hate in this thread is amusing but predictable from a such a shallow board as /tv/. Even a seventh year could note the level of penmanship, nuance, and craft that went into a great literary work like Ready Player One.
Truly it is a fascinating read that plays with the very human notion of obsession and delves deep into a exploration of our everyday interactions with the technological world, asking difficult questions about reality and what it means to be human in the process.
I bet you plebs thought American Psycho was bad too because "muh ocd narrator and all the references."
>>64602174
Oh look, it's a list or things that occurred from the 80s to the 90s.
>>64605366
you are overestimating the people's tastes, anon
remember that John Green is a worldwide success
>>64603575
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>>64600737
>I'm a 90s kid
Please tell me all about the history of the world before you were born.
>>64603695
Lift, read, learn a new skill. Gradually reduce shitposting on Cambodian cartoon forums.
>>64606118
0/10
>>64605257
arghhh
>>64604495
Tell that to Kanjaklub
Didn't Spielberg say he was removing all the cultural references?
>>64606509
then there's no story lol
>>64606509
If he did so there would be no movie to shoot
>>64606509
All reference to his own movies
>>64606355
Thanks. I'm a reader and I lift at work, but badly need cardio.
What kind of skills do you recommend?
>>64602174
This is like a checklist for how to be a shallow fad-following pseudo-nerd.
Will they give her the Gwyneth Paltrow in Shallow Hal treatment?
>>64606726
I'm sorry senpai, but there's no way you could argue how someone that took the time to read/watch/play ALL that shit is not a true nerd
>>64606806
>left half of her face was covered with a reddish-purple birthmark
hmm. katawa shoujo?
>>64600877
Wait, you mean...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Player_One
>The audiobook is narrated by Wil Wheaton.
brb gotta torrent this
>>64606509
What else is there?
>>64607086
There's this.
Also this is a major plot spoiler.
Also this is totally going to be Leslie Jones, right?
>>64607332
Black lesbian huh?
Instant success
>>64607332
Ah crap I stopped too soon, the final line here is the best part of the excerpt
>>64607627
My race is a pretty big part of my identity and has shaped who I am. My sexuality (straight) is as well.
What a fucking hack.
>>64603575
>About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit.
He said, right after he uses the term "Christ".
This is actually really pathetic.
I was born in 1998 (just turned 18), anyone else think that 2006 was the best year of all-time?
All of the kids in the neighbourhood would swim at our neighbours’ pool, where she would play “Bad Day” on repeat. I watched Hannah Montana after school while eating my ham and cheese sandwich with sun chips on the side. Sigh.
>>64607332
>Marie used a white male avatar to conduct all of her online business
>because of the market difference it made in how she was treated and the opportunities she was given
Jesus Christ, it's fucking everywhere.
>>64607867
Shut the fuck up t͏͏b͏͏h f͏͏a͏͏m
>>64607856
Besides, it would be obvious that anyone playing an adult white male in VR is actually a black lesbian because all of the actual white males would be playing 10 year old Japanese girls
>>64607851
Miley Cyrus going full whore mode is the only thing I envy about you tween faggots.
All I ever got was Amy Jo Johnson doing one softcore scene and apparently the high point of my dad's life was when Vanna White did Playboy magazine.
>>64600737
>I'm a 90s kid
kys
>>64606806
Sickfu NO
I hope they at least pay her millions of dollars for this bullshit
>>64607961
Thanks for posting this gif, really cooled me down after reading all the shit from the book.
I know the phrase literally reddit is thrown around a lot.
But reading these excepts, I haven't seen anything come closer
>>64608576
I always felt this was the Reddit Catechism.
>>64608576
Agreed, you can't get anymore reddit than this.
It's filled with 80s/90s references, political correctness, and atheism.
>>64608576
nah, it's literally deviantart
>>64608704
Literally Deviantart is already claimed, there is no dethroning this.
>>64608576
Agreed
>>64603575
>I wish someone had just said:
>"Here's the deal, Wade. The Holocaust didn't happen. "
>>64606809
Most only take the time to learn the names of all that shit. Like the number of people with Tri-Force tattoos who haven't even beaten Ocarina of Time.
>>64602174
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>>64607627
Jesus Christ.
I can't even believe what I'm reading here. People slog though this trash?
Unbelievable. Just unbelievable.
I know we throw around 'reddit' like an insult, call one person 'reddit' for having an opinion, and call people who call something 'reddit' in response if we disagree. I never ever engage in this sort of shitposting, in fact I post very rarely. This is the first time, and hopefully the last time, that I'll ever say this, but
IT'S LITERALLY REDDIT: THE BOOK
>>64609573
Yeah, I felt like I was taking crazy pills when I found out the book was wildly successsful, and critically well-received, and Steven Fucking Spielberg is now spending $150 million fucking dollars to make a movie out of it.
>>64609573
:^)
>>64609917
She is ugly as fuck.
>>64609955
Reported for camelphobia
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>>64609917
The brainless masses who honestly enjoy this shit simply don't deserve to live. Holly shit I'm incredibly mad right now, I could just choke someone to death. I can't stand it. This is insane. DO SOMETHING WITH YOUR LIFE DAMNIT
>>64610335
These are also the brainless masses that think picking up any random novel from your local Walmart makes you smarter.
It makes me angry too, anon.
>>64602174
My first thought is, since this is a Willy Wonka plot, the rich dead guy created such a massive trivia challenge in the hopes that his successor would carry on his legacy because the winner would have an extremely similar decision making process, having grown in the same pop culture environment and taken in the same moral lessons and goals. There's diversity in any fanbase, but if you somehow could filter the entire human race for someone who likes EXACTLY everything you've ever liked, you probably share a lot with him culturally/socially/morally/etc.
My second thought is I probably put more thought into that concept than the guy that actually wrote the book.
>>64609917
D R O P P E D
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>>64602174
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNDSmHif3BQ
>>64607332
>Also this is totally going to be Leslie Jones, right?
Whatever happened to the chick that played Precious?
>>64608576
Pretty much this
>>64600737
This post is reddit incarnate.
By why is Spielberg directing something that's such a wankfest to his work?
>>64613806
>By why is Spielberg directing something that's such a wankfest to his work?
You've answered your own question.
>>64612231
She was in Star Wars: TFA as the dark background in space. They sprinkled some glitter on her to get the stars effect.
>>64602174
Literally the Goldbergs: the book.
HEY LOOK, THIS IS A THING THAT HAPPENED!
>>64602174
This page is taken out of context.
The MC is only saying all of this because he had to study absolutely all of the game creator's interests to know any clues that could come up on the hunt for a prize of a multi-billion dollar fortune.
The deceased creator of the virtual world the book takes place in is the guy who is genuinely obsessed with this shit. On another page, it's stated that he even fired employees for not knowing the littlest pop culture reference.
>>64614943
I understood the context just fine, and that page is still retarded as shit.
>>64614943
It's the tone of the thing, not necessarily its contents. The narrator just sounds so fucking smug about it.
>>64615150
>>64616188
I get where you're coming from. This Halliday guy just reminds me of all the obnoxious 80's kids like Doug Walker on his worst day.
>>64600737
>psyched
>90s kid
>epic
shoot yourself reddit
>>64606806
I'm still pretty upset thatMae Whitmanwon't be playing Art3mis.
>>64606866
Yeah, sure.
/tv/ hates everything, especially before release.
just remember at all the TFA posts, that was sure a failure like /tv/ predicted.
>>64602992
>Galileo, Newtown
>devout Christians
>masturbation involved in their success at all
please
>>64617749
Galileo and Newton were hardly devout Christians
Newton especially was big on the occult and focused more on alchemy, astrology, and other pursuits considered questionable by the religious authorities at that time
>>64600737
>psyched
>I'm a 90s kid
>epic
>Spielberg
Hello Reddit
>>64607851
sh-shit, i've had that opinion for a long time too anon. born in the same year. it was a really comfy year for me as a kid. i'm australian.
>>64617770
Newton was a heretic, but nonetheless he spent a lot of time devoted to theological matters and was fairly devoted to his own ideas about God, though he had to keep them hidden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#Religious_views
>>64617949
oh yeah he had interest in religion, but I wouldn't call him a "devout Christian" by any stretch of the imagination. Fedoras from both the atheist and the theist sides always make it sound like every scientist in the last 400 years was shaped solely by some easily-categorised religious views
>>64602174
Halliday was a pleb at everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWh1f301Xb0
>>64617550
retard
>>64600737
>I'm a 90s kid but thought the book was epic
Come on man at least leave "epic" out if you're just going to try and stir shit up. This is just too obvious.
>>64602174
>Yes indeed. Anime and live-action
Yet he proceeds to list only versions of certain anime that were cut to hell and back to the point where they're pretty much a new show.
>>64609718
I can see why it's so popular if these few pages posted here accurately represent the whole book. The constant 80s references are pretty much jacking off those I'M SUCH A NERD XD types for being aware of a show that was popular 30 years ago.
>>64619643
Very much so. Its as millenial as they come. The book is a fast read, because half of it is fucking references and the other half is poorly fleshed out and uninspired. It felt like the thing was proof read or ghostwritten by Seth Macfarlance or any pop culture reference spewing "geeknerd"
>>64605068
I wouldn't mind this so much if it weren't for the name dropping on top of it. Gundam fans already know what the hell the RX-78 is from and just simply listing the series it's from won't do anything to help anyone who doesn't know about Gundam.
>>64605068
>>64619740
Also who the fuck name drops mecha anime to show their nerd cred yet says "Robotech" instead of the actual anime Robotech took its footage from? Some of this shit reads like he just copy pasted info he got from wikipedia and doesn't actually know anything about the franchises he's referencing.
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>>64603575
Please post the part where he chats with the girl. That shit is awesome.
>not just reading the book
>not following literates on youtube
fucking plebs, get your shit together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWh1f301Xb0
>>64600737
I was born in '81.
This book is trash.I loved it though and with Spielberg directing think the film will be amazing
Shit books sometimes make for decent movies so there may be hope
>>64600737
>90's kid
>people think Spielbergo is going to make an 100% accurate adaptation of the book
He took the novel of JAWS and threw it right in the garbage can. He can do whatever the fuck he wants with this.
Dunno why you guys sperg out so much, the audio book from that shit helped me fall asleep instantly for at least 3 months.
>>64602992
Is this the pleb bait to surpass The Martian?
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>>64609573
fuck you this book is the voice of my generation
>>64609917
> nomz
this woman is almost 40 fucking years old. when did acting like a child become a thing?
>>64607627
>in the most intimate way possibly. We'd connected on a purely mental level.
This is what beta orbiters really believe
You know that friend of yours who thinks reciting lines from Monty Python is the pinnacle of humor? That's basically this book.
No, literally, that's the climax of the book.
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>>64620508
>thinking Spielberg literally writes movie scripts
he was ahired gunon JAWS with no creative control
>>64614943
That doesn't make it right, anon.
>>64614943
>#Only80sKids work here.
>>64602174
>And of course, Kevin Smith
>>64614943
>it's stated that he even fired employees for not knowing the littlest pop culture reference.
sad thing is that I know people who are exactly like this. outside of references, they have zero personality
I'm glad that Mecha Anime will never be mainstream enough to be ruined by appearing in a work like this.
>>64620851
I'd say around 2007
>>64619204
now, this is even more irredeemable than the book
>>64614943
the whole book is cramped with references, not just these pages
>>64621116
Anon? >>64605068
why didn't they case these two as the leads?
> HEY DO YOU REMEMBER POP ROCKS AND MATTHEW BRODERICK? I DO!!
I hated this book, and hate the internet for telling me to read it.
>>64620882
>No, literally, that's the climax of the book.
Wow you weren't exaggerating at all.
http://readyplayerone.wikia.com/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail
>>64621416
Because the leads aren't in their 40s
>>64621336
Im fucking speechless
>>64600838
/thread
>>64600737
>Literally Reddit the movie
>>64621416
Because they need people who can act.
>>64619822
Nerd alert!!
>>64620882
Do people still do this? I figured Monty Python was too old for people to even care about.
>>64624229
They just did this a few months ago
>>64619481
Well yeah. The ones that aired on US television in the 70's and 80's, which is what the Willy Wonka type was obsessed with. Makes perfect sense in the context of the book.
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>>64606806
I've said this a couple of times now, but as this gets closer to production and starts picking up more steam they're going to catch so much shit for this from the exact people who championed this book and made it popular.
>not getting Abigail Breslin
Complete and utter fuck-up right off the bat.
>>64600838
This. It's like a Family Guy episode without the jokes.
Skip this cheap shit and just make Snowcrash already.
I started reading the book and the writing is fucking awful and the most of the gaming references are cringe. The book seems to be aimed at 14 year old boys.
Neuromancer movie when?
>>64624447
disgusting fat cow
>>64624707
Low test detected
>>64624651
Hasn't one been in development hell basically forever?
