![]() The plot follows socially awkward nerd Wade Watts as he figures out all the clues, and the book ends with him being literally on top of the world, essentially a somewhat benevolent tech dictator. ![]() Anybody solving these clues will gain access to his vast fortune and also control of the OASIS. James Halliday, a barely-veiled Steve Jobs and the creator of OASIS, dies and leaves behind a series of clues, all relating to his obsession with 1980s pop culture. To escape their grim reality, people hook into a VR-type situation called the OASIS, which is one part MMORPG and one part social substitute. ![]() To catch you up a bit on Ready Player One: it’s set in 2045, after climate change and an energy crisis has pushed the world into a tech-dystopia. We lost our virginity to each other three days after that first kiss. So, in the interest of making lemonade from rotten lemons, I’ll use this passage as a way to interrogate where Ready Player Two fails, and how. However, there is one good thing about this passage: it quite handily illustrates nearly everything that is wrong with Ready Player Two. And the third? Well, that’s the worst thing to happen to Depeche Mode since the 80s clocked over into the 90s. ![]() The second? Simply reading the unironic use of “the beast with two backs” makes you feel worse about the narrator, the author and yourself. It’s not elegant, and it skates over a significant development in two major characters’ lives, but it’s not inherently offensive. ![]()
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