I really liked the first book due to all the nerdy references and the ending utilizing Monty Python’s Holy Grail. Even when his friend was revealed to be a black lesbian due because it was better to present herself as a white male I just rolled my eyes. The second book on the other hand was garbage. You get the whole women in gaming lecture, the real hero was a woman trope, lgbt stuff of course, and the aforementioned character whining about the lack of representation everywhere they go or whining about the fact that Prince (they visit an area of the Oasis with Prince playing concerts) became a Jehova’s Witness and condemned homosexuality. The book overall seems to use to Sword Art Online plot as well.
It’s like the author felt the need to apologize. Although the the woke crowd a white make nerd from the 80s is evil incarnate it seems
Ready Player One is just dumb. I stopped reading when I was supposed to believe that kids who are in high tech VR were hanging out playing Tron: Deadly Discs on fookin Intellivision instead of, you know, good games from the era.
Yea that was hard to believe but when I was a kid in the 80s 50s nostalgia was huge and we have seen 80s nostalgia in recent years. I did like the concept of the movie game where you had to repeat every line
People are nostalgic for the good shit from the 80s. Tron Deadly Discs was bad then and it's bad now.
People are nostalgic for Commando and Rambo, not the hundreds of flops.
I have noticed that I’ll watch some b movie from the 80s or 90s on Tubi or some other streaming service and had I seen it years ago I would’ve thought it was bad but now thanks to the era we live in a movie where a man is masculine and a woman is feminine and gets an automatic plus. lol
B movie doesn't necessarily mean bad. Games like Tron are clunky and unfun, not charmingly simple like Pacman or missile command. Even then, people are nostalgic for the arcade versions not the Atari versions.