In 2008 was Thunder Cade, which is like, what if Billy Mitchell found out that someone had gotten a better score than him at Donkey Kong and then went to go crush them? Well, it's not about Billy Mitchell, but that's the idea. So yeah, I guess at the time it would have seemed like a good premise for a movie. Yeah, I don't know that it ever got made.
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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