The Worst Sci-Fi Novel of 2020 | Ready Player Two Review, Part 2

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• 少年

  @少年ハト · 10 months ago

  Using AI to "recreate" dead people from their data has really turned into a far, far darker subject in the span of just 4 years

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• CH

  @charlesboudreau5350 · 4 years ago

  Wade : &quot;Gee, Halliday sure turned out to be a creep in the end. I can&apos;t think positively of him the same way anymore.&quot; &nbsp; <br>Also Wade : <b>stalks his ex and feels better about himself by abusing his powers to bully inconsequential trolls</b>

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• AR

  @Arella17 · 5 years ago

  Krimson siting upon a throne of books, thrashing a bad book, whilst petting his minion cat is a perfect image.

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• KM

  @KM-hv1jg · 5 years ago (edited)

  Cline describes fight scenes like a bad creepypasta author. “And then the music from Earthbound started playing and kefka showed up and laughed and attacked us with the Master Sword EXCEPT IT WAS BLACK AND RED”

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• BI

  @BiggerinRealLife · 4 years ago

  Reading Ready Player Two was like sitting at a lunch table in high school, trying to keep up with the conversation of people who were SUPER INTO THIS ONE THING &nbsp;but you don&apos;t know it - or them - very well. After a few times of trying to break in and offer something to the conversation and getting sneered at, eventually you start to wonder if there&apos;s any reason for you to be there other than to affirm their own superior knowledge of whatever they&apos;re into, and you start to wonder if having company is better than just listening to your own thoughts. And after a few more minutes and realized you&apos;d wasted most of your lunch break, you get up and wander off, and they don&apos;t even notice you leave, so wrapped up are they in their own air of self-satisfaction.

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• MS

  @mst3kharris · 5 years ago

  I named my playlist for this two-parter, “Ready Player Ew” and I’m way more amused by it than I should be.

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• NP

  @npiper · 5 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KL7ythWXPw&amp;t=3825">1:03:45</a> You can tell he&apos;s not even remotely familiar with the culture around LoTR because there&apos;s no &quot;Why can&apos;t we just ride the giant eagles&quot; joke.

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• TR

  @TravisBroski · 5 years ago

  “I’d be hard pressed to think of anything worse than this.”<br>Careful, remember what happened the last time you said something close to that…

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• TH

  @TheCrimsonIdol987 · 5 years ago (edited)

  &quot;Ew, we have to work with hobbits!&quot;<br><br>Me: <b>thinking it&apos;d be a ton of fun hanging out with the hobbits drinking beer, eating second breakfast, singing songs, and smoking pipe tobacco</b>

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• NU

  @nuclearglory0363 · 5 years ago

  This book can be summarized as the Pac-Man theme, ninja turtles theme, and Mario theme, as well as the song “I just had sex” playing all at once

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• BU

  @Bushwhacker-so4yk · 5 years ago

  “There is a machine that teaches empathy. It’s called a book.” That is the greatest thing you have ever said. I’m autistic (and yes, the vilification of Halliday for his autistic traits is super wrong), and reading taught me a whole bunch about understanding other people’s feelings as well as my own.

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• CY

  @cyanidesmile7263 · 5 years ago (edited)

  I think the fact that Cline couldn&apos;t even come up with a plot and had to essentially copy SAO but add a time limit and reference it by name to somehow avoid people calling that out really speaks to how little he actually cared about writing this and just wanted a cash grab.

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