I could go on and on about why Ready Player One looks like a steaming pile but if there’s one thing that absolutely pisses me off is that in this game where you can be anything, everyone chooses to be a character like Tracer or a battletoad and nobody looks like this
Like you wanna tell me there’s nobody out there who’s just a walking abomination with the name ‘undertale_real_420’? Have you played an MMO?
The most emotional moment in Ready Player One is when Gandalf the gray, and Gandalf the white, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail’s black knight, and Benito Mussolini, and the Blue Meanie and Cowboy Curtis, and Jambi the genie, Robocop, The Terminator, Captain Kirk, and Darth Vader, Lo-pan, Superman, every single Power Ranger, Bill S. Preston, and Theodore Logan, Spock, The Rock, Doc Oct, and Hulk Hogan all came out of nowhere lightning fast and kicked Chuck Norris in his cowboy ass.
I’m sorry but I won’t be able to take Ready Player One seriously. We’re supposed to believe a worldwide online forum where you can be anyone and anything would look like this
when in real life the concept has turned out far more like
Every time I see a gifset of ready player on I just get reminded about what an enormous piece of shit the book is
whenever people go “it’s not that bad”, i just
You guys are forgetting about the absolute wealth of writing talent that is the scene where an asian kid is explaining to the protagonist that his older brother had committed suicide and Ernest Cline had the balls to replace the word suicide with seppuku in a completely non-sword related death.
you’re forgetting how whenever he writes the name of anything japanese he spells it phonetically, even when it’s completely english words
or how when it’s time for an action scene it degrades into full on ebony raven way-tier ‘it was just like in that movie x, when’
well i guess this is it 