I think some of this is just true to what big tech is right now but you've got like you've got this one dude and his narrow viewpoint of what culture is. He has apparently created something that's intended to be so universal that it like replaces school and shopping and real world interaction for every but for all kinds of people across the world. I always find like oh that's the way it really would have been in the real world to be a disappointing defense in fiction because it just betrays a lack of imagination to me, he says.
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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