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We're halfway through it & only once was I truly annoyed at the baddies (yes I mean writers). Other than that, I agree with you.Originally Posted by StagLefty
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I'm watching Jack Ryan now. Good enough to watch the series. If you want a chuckle, though, watch the first episode and pause it when Greer is looking at Ryan's DD-214. Kinda funny...if you're not military you probably won't get it.
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Finally got around to watching "Ready Player One."
The Matrix - Philosophy + Pop Culture References = Ready Player One
Some of the visuals and set pieces were pretty good but the characters are all forgettable and the conclusions is mostly stupid.
One thing I noticed, even though the movie is chock full of references to other things in pop culture, Star Wars doesn't even get a nod. I choose to believe that this is because in the world of Ready Player One, no one likes Star Wars any more after everyone realized how horrible Episode 8 and Solo were.
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If there's nothing wrong with having to show an ID to buy a gun, there's nothing wrong with having to show an ID to vote.
For legal reasons, that's a joke.
I assume they didn't do a great job with keeping the movie close to the book. The book was all about video games and mentioned many of them. They couldn't mention Mario because of Nintendo's tight grip on that franchise. I don't see where Start Wars would have fallen into the story since it wasn't a video game. I thought the book was pretty good, but I can see how a lot of artistic license with the intent of reaching a larger audience (trading video game history for general pop culture) would confuse the plot and really water down the movie. Too bad.
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There are still lots of video game references, specifically to old Atari games, but yeah, the movie relies heavily on other cultural touchstones.
I wonder what Neal Stephenson thinks of RPO, since it so clearly sources a lot of its ideas from Snow Crash.
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If there's nothing wrong with having to show an ID to buy a gun, there's nothing wrong with having to show an ID to vote.
For legal reasons, that's a joke.
Is that a book or movie, and is it recommended reading/watching?
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You're kidding, right?
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If there's nothing wrong with having to show an ID to buy a gun, there's nothing wrong with having to show an ID to vote.
For legal reasons, that's a joke.
Nope. I can't possibly know about everything in the world.
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Snow Crash is a novel that was years ahead of its time and was part of the late 80s-early 90s cyberpunk school.. It's considered a classic of SciFi.
https://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-No...rds=Snow+Crash
It's well worth reading, even now that much of it is kind of retro. Also, suggest reading Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. It's the only novel I'm aware of that ran into export issues due to ITAR.
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If there's nothing wrong with having to show an ID to buy a gun, there's nothing wrong with having to show an ID to vote.
For legal reasons, that's a joke.
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