The nostalgia thing seems to be at odds. You talked a lot about the like you know that his friend presents as a white male and that it's like wall wall white dudes with terms of the references. I think that's at the core of where some of this toxic nerdom vis-a-vis gamergate is focused. We haven't even gotten into reading the list of references. That's the plot to the extent that I'm really interested in talking about it.
Put another quarter in the coin slot folks, because it's time to talk about Ernest Cline's Ready Player One. Topics include bad fan culture, the narrowness of the characters' "exhaustive" knowledge of 80s popular culture, and why the critical response to this book has shifted so much in just a few short years.
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