40: Ready Player One - Thom Dunn

CW: GamerGate, Jordan Petersen/Toxic Atheism, Fatphobia, Racism, Toxic Masculinity, Neurodivergence

They had time to unpack all of it, but they didn't. Today, guest Thom Dunn (@ThomDunn, https://linktr.ee/thomdunn) discusses Ernest Cline's READY PLAYER ONE, which has helped define Geek culture and absolutely for the worse. With no desire to dissect the world he's creating and asking the ultimate "why?", RPO takes a great storyline about governments, tech, and surveillance and does nothing with it.

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SUMMARY

Wade, codename Parzifal, lives in the OASIS, an immersive VR world, trying to solve puzzles to inherit the OASIS creator's fortune. His two best friends, Aiche and Art3mis, help him on his quest to defeat the militaristic IOI organization's quest to destroy the virtual world .

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