I guess I'll talk about Ready Player One

[@IzayaV]

hey cool egg snake and ET hoodie boy

[@novakkliendienst8696]

hewwo? anywun dere?? owo how do u have 90 subscribers

[@panafexcompany]

It sounds as contradictory as everything else. Hmm

[@ShaunCheah]

It'll be a long long while before I understand what gets a comment pinned around here.

[@TehComs]

my favorite piece of 80's nostalgia revival trash is the giant por-ohwait

[@MariWakocha]

AN EASTER EGG

[@vicentetemes5793]

The producers expected this movie to be big. It was actually reubenesque.

[@rickyshiffer1519]

Why, Steven Spielberg? Why?

[@HoloTheWolf]

Thank you. I laughed so hard at your comment

[@nancyjay790]

😹

[@oneoranota]

That movie was actually good sized.

[@ezekel.4656]

🤣😂

[@Vegas242]

Wait are you telling me that's there's more to enjoying media than just painstakingly memorizing every minute aspect of it in an effort to show your superiority to others?

[@blokey8]

I ended up in a conversation about this phenomenon, and you'd be amazed how defensive people are about canon information being prioritised above all. Just go watch The Sanctity of Canon.

[@baguettegott3409]

@@blokey8 It's pretty crazy. When I got into LOTR and Tolkien in general I actually set out to intentionally NOT acquire lots of canon information, because I felt like it would mean joining a war I'm bound to lose when there's literally people out there who speak elvish. I felt like, well... the only winning move in that game would be not to play. I failed, though. Turns out accumulating nerd knowledge is just too much fun and I couldn't resist, so here we are. But I still immediately drop out of the conversation when it becomes a contest... that takes away all the fun in it (and I'm gonna lose anyway, I'm not even through the Silmarillion yet...)

[@blokey8]

@@baguettegott3409 I agree it can be fun for sure - I've read the Silmarillion cover to cover - just that for me it's part of a bigger picture when it comes to enjoying a story.

[@bussymaster13]

Lol you probably just offended like half of the Star Wars fan base

[@qoyote]

​@@blokey8 I've never understood the idea that rebooting a story destroys the original. Like, Force Awakens exists. Cool, I can still pretend it doesn't and treat the Expanded Universe as the real Star Wars timeline. People act like they retconned real life so the books were never written.

[@UTAU53Yui]

"This girl's been selling, like, thousands of Crash Bandicoot t-shirts and suddenly no one can sustain damage" okay that got me

[@decasuffrage9021]

12:48

[@shroompurchaser2123]

@@decasuffrage9021 than k yo u u

[@Cool_Calm_Cam]

Honestly, genuinely *such* a good callback.

[@offscreen6578]

"Nice Zuko costume! But your scar's on the wrong side."

[@benjatambour3153]

offscreen 6 thank you 🙏❤️

[@dangerouscool]

This needs more likes.

[@elvellarambles9151]

THE SCAR IS NOT ON THE WRONG SIDE WADE

[@samkeiser9776]

Dang you beat me to it.

[@dooshmasta]

Naw that’s just her bf clocking her for not doing the dishes.

[@1baltimoron]

“People are dying, James. People are living in piles of trailers and regularly those trailers just fall. We have trailer avalanches and they crush people. They get crushed in their trailer slums and you are quoting Bill and Ted at me right now.”

[@TheGateShallStand]

This will be all too much a reality

[@BradTheAmerican]

Reminds me of Altered Carbon where the Golden Gate Bridge was turned into a slum of shipping container homes

[@ExcitingOnion]

BOGUS

[@urbanarmory]

@@BradTheAmerican look up Virtual Light

[@thewittyusername]

Apparently the message about regurgitating others ideas for nerd cloud was lost on you.

[@espeh75]

Porg is Rubenesque.

[@jimmothyjohnson]

Porgy is perfect

[@stinky2040]

Un chat domestique In a Romanesque Cinemathique, our Rubenesque Porg-san is in another Picaresque. Will Porg's technique of sculpturesque help them escape rest on a catafalque ? Porg is not a Dominique by the way, maybe that'll clear up some mystique. I'll stop for now.

[@KathleenPayton]

😂

[@josephThaPimp]

He's more brown-ish than anything

[@isaacmarwell5435]

Un chat domestique fyi, Bae's name is Porgy

[@KeyBladeMaster-Dan]

Jenny has clearly been banished from the Fire Nation

Man, if it had been Azula instead, the show would have lasted two episodes. And ended with the line "Father, I bring you the Avatar... because I am not a failure unlike SOME people coughZukocough".

[@greenyawgmoth]

@ That or Azula going "fine, I'll make my OWN fire nation! With blackjack, and hookers!" and coming back in season 3 with her nation of disaffected firebenders.

[@naomivandernoot-rodriguez9659]

@@greenyawgmoth 👌😂

[@bepkororoti8019]

Honor!

[@Apollomasque]

I love how committed Jenny is to the bit that she would hideously deform herself with a slight pink blotch over her eye that is barely visible on camera.

[@stevewestenra1881]

I'm glad someone else noticed the irony of the villain's comments. That movie (and possibly the book?) was so disturbingly unaware of its own gross commercialism. I also felt that during the scene when the villains were plotting to fill the screen with advertisements (which the audience is supposed to be horrified by), and I couldn't help but think to myself--"But that's exactly what this movie already is."

[@owlblocksdavid4955]

Ads: annoying. not evil. Edit: actually sometimes I like them, because they allow some things to be free, like many KZbin channels... for a time...

[@starduststriker8792]

@@owlblocksdavid4955 that's cool and all but if a movie says that commercialism is bad while it is a glorified commercial that people have to pay to watch then its message is hypocritical and hollow.

[@zakhawker344]

@@owlblocksdavid4955 Also evil, because there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Not only does advertising enable capitalism, it also reinforces it and even expands demand (read: exploitation and destruction) to new and wholly unneeded areas thru coercive ads.

[@katatonikbliss]

@@owlblocksdavid4955 nah ads are pretty evil

[@nobodycares4321]

@@zakhawker344 capitalism by itself isn't evil, you sound like an edgy 12 yesr old.

[@ellijahminogue344]

I just find it hard to believe that in 2045 people would still be referencing the 80s. Wouldn’t early 2000s or even early 2010s make more sense with the time period?

[@MegaGanash]

I don't wanna defend the movie, but in the book it's clear that 80's culture got big AFTER the Easter Egg hunt started. Cause like, the promise of 100 billion dollars and the implication that the obsessive weirdo's interests are the key, caused a fad of 80's obsession. After a couple years it sorta died down but the now die-hard egg hunters still use the lingo and looks and trivia obsession, creating a little culture of itself. Which, to me, is what Halliday really wanted: he wasn't Willie Wonka looking for successor and he mostly didn't care about his company; he wanted a whole bunch of people to be obsessed with the same stuff that he was obsessed with.

[@ellijahminogue344]

@@MegaGanash That makes sense.

[@kaylahouvenagle3866]

Huh. Good point. Also from a real world market standpoint, wouldn't they catch a bigger teen audience if they went for the 2010's? I mean, teens didn't grow up in the 80s, they grew up (at least partially) in the 2010's. This means that teens (who seem to be the book's target) would have personal nostalgia for the things referenced in the book. However, it also means they're more likely to notice if the author misrepresents something.

[@princetomorrow342]

What if a couple people did fortnite dances instead of making 80s references

[@Lucy-ng7cw]

Bruce Wayne Give it another 30 yrs. people get nostalgic. They would have said the same in the 80s

[@MidwaytoMainStreet]

Luckily if the cross country bus did end up getting attacked by a pack of roaming bandits, Wade knows the entire script to Mad Max by heart.

[@kailavogt8512]

Rob Plays I love seeing other youtubers I watch commenting on content that isn't theirs!

[@leah6831]

Omg yay my fave disney KZbinr!!

[@henrysheffield3998]

Woah! I didn’t expect to see you here Rob! I love your videos!!

[@nicholastosoni707]

"Come on, you guys....Why can't we all just get BEYOND Thunderdome?"

[@mudcrab3420]

Oh? Okay... Ummm... "Big Bopper to March Hare?" "I am the Rocker. I am the Roller. I am the out of controller. I'm a fuel injected suicide machine." "What a turkey. Hey, Mate? You're a turkey!" "See you on the road, Skag." "That there's Cundallini, and Cundallini wants his hand back." Sorry, a little rusty, only watch it once a year at Christmas.

[@cadaverillavigne5371]

Jenny's analysis of the economy of the Oasis and spending real-world money on fake-world goods is absolutely spot-on for 2021 NFT discourse. The terror of prophecy.

[@NextianGeometry]

Right? That was my immediate thought.

[@StandardGoose]

It was a thing long before NFTs. People were buying fake land in video games 15 years ago. NFTs just added environmental damage to the mix.

[@clark_johannes]

At least we are in a decline of NFTs now so that's good news!

[@ZeranZeran]

oh my god it's true

[@nuclearpotato4073]

@@clark_johannes It's hysterical that NFTs were such a literal flash in the pan that a comment lambasting how much they suck, accompanied with a reply mentioning how irrelevant they now are, is just a year apart

[@NINI-xc6my]

im still impressed by Jennys make up skills...she managed to transform herself from looking like this cute girl into basicly the hunchback of notre dame...

[@agatacoelho1579]

Underrated comment

[@adamlane6453]

I don't mind.

[@cardboardu6019]

So funny

[@user-zh4vo1kw1z]

Ikr? It's a good thing I had an empty stomach when I clicked, otherwise my phone woulda been ruined.

[@buddyguy4723]

It is difficult to improve upon something regardless of how or what it is but it is usually very easy to ruin it

[@JoJoFriedRice]

“It’s okay Artemis, I don’t mind your face.” “._.” An American Love Story

[@billvolk4236]

Still a better love story than Twilight

[@PancakemonsterFO4]

Not Noodles but at least one of them has to be overweight

[@xdevantx5870]

I'm glad that you picked out the Iron Giant specifically. The whole plot of Iron Giant is how he doesn't want to fight. Then RP1 has him fighting. This whole movie was "Spiderman is cool, right guys!?!". But never once does it bring up the fact that Peter Parker's life is hell and he's only Spiderman because he feels a crushing and overriding responsibility to live up to his dead uncle. It carves the soul out of everything it references. It's Family Guy the movie minus jokes.

[@GeneralNickles]

I'm pretty sure "carving the soul out of everything it's referencing" is kind of the point. It's suppose to be a metaphor for internet culture. How shallow and tenuous everything on the internet is. The denizens of the internet latch onto something and obsess over it until they randomly decide it's not cool anymore and immediately find something else to obsess over. Ready player one has no substance, because internet culture has no substance.

[@bashbashfulsson4540]

@@GeneralNickles I'm not sure it's meant to be a commentary on the way that modern nostalgia culture takes the meaning and value out of things. I think it's an example of that tendency.

[@ahhh4117]

@ Bruh every night he goes home to a shitty apartment and like half a can of Arizona in the fridge. The economic reality of living in poverty is high key hell

[@duffman18]

@@GeneralNickles you're giving the book WAY too much credit. It's not satirising the thing, it _IS_ the thing. Go look at interviews of the author or his readings of the book and you'll see what I mean. He takes this all really seriously. It's a complete naive attempt to be deep using something inherently shallow, and he doesn't even realise it.

[@LegallyDistinctVALISclone]

Tbh, that's really why RP1 works at all: Cline pulls so many references so hard that anyone who gets the references can basically project whatever meaning they want onto it based on however they interpret the original works being riffed on.

[@Lori_P89]

The fact that we didn't see a single piece of Inflation art on a T-shirt or in a picture frame nor a single Friendship is Magic horse is just a misrepresentation of the internet (just like the lack of furries and anime maid cafes)

[@ErebosGR]

It must mean that in 2045, MLP or anime didn't withstand the test of time, but Joust did... /s

[@smonkk8556]

@@ErebosGR there is no way inflation porn hasnt survived into the 2040s i REFUSE to believe everyone just got up and went home off of deviantart

[@fulldisclosureiamamonster2786]

@@smonkk8556 Maybe it's an extremely optimistic interpretation of the future. Like Star Trek, but with Internet degeneracy.

[@NIHIL_EGO]

Like seriously, if the Oasis was real, one of the first thing I would is indulge into my weird fetishes. And I know that I would be FAR from being the only one.

[@milesgaunt6767]

@@fulldisclosureiamamonster2786 we cant have utopia with kinkshaming

[@tommyestrada2986]

It's OK Jenny, I don't mind your face.

[@timothybarrett7626]

i

[@owlblocksdavid4955]

I do. It's terrible. Unsubscribed.

[@PIKL_Creep]

That bit of red just RUINS her entire face it's like completely obstructing her head

[@Eamonshort1]

Then your a better man with a stronger stomach than me

[@captainamerica7800]

Who wouldnt? Shes so beautiful.

[@SkyCinema]

"It's okay Artemis, I don't mind your face". This is perfect :')

[@raventrunite6459]

otp

[@oo_de_lally]

This is going into my "explaining how this book is sexist" arsenal...

[@N-HTTi]

Why is Ur channel check marked? And why did write Ur email?

[@rewking2317]

Quick check, are people still doing 'better love story that Twilight' jokes? Asking for a friend who isn't down with kids 😎

[@cgi_angel6001]

@@rewking2317 absolutely

[@harper7455]

the fact that no one had a garfield avatar really took me out of the movie

[@larisarojaza]

Harper Don NOW I WANT TO SEE IT

[@ThreadBomb]

Also Peanuts. Lucy would kick ass!

[@jasonfenton8250]

Enough chit chat, let's get some grub going.

[@davidkeener5063]

Gib lasaga

[@negligible_reality]

@@ThreadBomb honestly she absolutely would though, Lucy was a menace

[@AdventuresWithNicB]

Very late but the fact that Wade just shuts down the Oasis a couple of days each week when he says earlier in the film "people live & work in this world" means there's a lot of people who no longer have access to their incomes & can't pay their rent. Very cool

[@aaronmoon1805]

I think like one or two days a month would make a lot more since. I mean you can go an entire day without needing to access your bank account, but like 8-10 days a month? Wow. I agree so hard

[@margo3412]

also ppl in the real world still live in these stacked trailers!! like they used the oasis as a form of escapism from all the shitty stuff in their life, but wade's just like, "ppl need to live in the real world from time to time." like dude it still sucks outside, not everyone became a multi-billioniare!

[@mooncake4371]

I mean don’t we have 2 days a week off from work in the real world?

[@casual1118]

@@mooncake4371 ya but not everyone has the same day off. Like sure a lot of people have weekends off like teachers, etc. But what about everyone else?

[@afckingegg7585]

​@@mooncake4371no, some people work 7 days a week

[@NekoMouser]

Those weird skills were my main problem with the book. I don't care how much the kid studied dude's life, there's no way he had EVERY line in War games memorized (not even a single character or scene, but the entire movie). AND could play a perfect game of PacMan. AND beat Joust on one try. AND... I mean, no one who grew up in the 80s, when all that was actually happening, could do all those things. One of them maybe--but not all. And even then, one would be fairly rare. It took what, 30 years, for someone to finally play the first "perfect" game of pacman? It ws so incredibly Mary Sue. It would have been far more interesting to have him fall short and that be how you won. That the creator was like "good, don't waste your life memorizing every line to a movie. That's the lesson here if you want to run things."

[@nonya_bidness]

yeah he came off a bit gary stu like

[@higuide2]

Funny.... I have The Breakfast Club memorized line for line. I used to run VHS tapes thin when I was a kid. Music tapes as well. They would play what was on their other side. Maybe it's just an 80s kid thing. *shrugs*

[@SvarogAristaeusAllen]

@@higuide2 r/iamverybadass

[@seemlesslies]

I feel like none of you ready the book. These people spent their entire lives going over this specific material. Like the main character devoted his entire young adult life spending every single day going over this material. I've seen the Ginch, and Fight club my two favorite movies of all time roughly seen them 10-20 times. I can quote most of the movies. This dude has likely seen these main movies 100s of times if not 1000s of times. At that point it becomes like a song to you. Can you sing an entire song? Can you sing an entire album? Can you sing an entire musical the answer to that question is yes. Why is it so hard to assume someone couldn't quote an entire movie they have seen 100s of times. The reason is because no one does it but if were talking billions of dollars behind it you sure bet they would. Just read the fucking books smh. In the book he spent months trying to get a perfect score on pacmen. The reason he was good at Joust is because that's one of the few games he constantly played because it was one of the favorite games of the dude. Don't blame the story for plot holes the book never had. Blame the movie for failing to write a good story out of the book.

[@seemlesslies]

@@higuide2 my brother did this with Topgun actually. Broke the damn VHS he watched it so much.

[@_JayRamsey_]

0:28 I mean, the things CinemaSins points out aren't plot holes anymore either. They're usually just...whatever is happening in the film.

[@alexturlais8558]

"Characters talk in a scene. DING"

[@shrekonion8307]

What does cinema sins know about movies?

[@Benbeasted]

I used to watch their stuff. I stopped when they dinged the scene of a guy who was crying because his dog died and they said 'just get a new dog."

[@jackgerig8910]

@@Benbeasted Holy shit thats awful

[@metaford3746]

Movie Character makes a joke Cinema sins: proceed to spend 2 minutes explaining how that joke is physically impossible and unrealistic in the real world*DING*

[@queeenbeee5238]

What disappointed me was that I loved the book, but when I watched the movie it made me take a step back and think about it. Hallidays weird “nice-guy” attitude was portrayed so explicitly in the novel that I thought the whole point was to prove that Wade’s biggest, most world-winning idol was truly nothing but a sad, socially awkward, misogynistic guy, and to shine a light on the reality of idolisation and glorification. Then I watched the movie and realised “Oh. It’s not a cool highlighting plotline about glorification and misogyny and the reality of those concepts when applied to a person. It’s just saying ‘aww woman broke up with him aw isn’t that sad what a poor guy look how romantic he was aww’” and that really upset me and changed my views on the book, because apparently I was intellectualising it and interpreting it as ironic and mocking of it’s own tropes but NOPE. :(

[@GhoulishGrime]

Isn't it terrible when you take things as a joke in good faith...and nah- they were being serious the whole time lol

[@justineberlein5916]

You're talking about Wade and basically all of his interactions with Art3mis, right? Like how he literally learned how to be creep- sorry, "woo a woman" from 80's movies. (I may or may not have gagged when Decker was mentioned)

[@lyricmailloux2803]

The book WAS like that!!!

[@mostlyguesses8385]

.... about ready player one, , , , it is like ""2001"" the movie and its ONLY point was to show the cool future , , , , , , the book was 1st book to show VR maybe is inevitable and it will be so different but basically super great and fun and happy, , , , , , the book was written 2010-2011 and Oculus Rift was 2012 so it really was early , ,,, , , , Kline had no moral point so please dont slam him, like 2001 and all of "hard scifi" Arthur C Clarke are mostly 100% happy with the path humanity is on and they have no warning or lesson intended they just are painting a picture, , , , , the Oasis at the cost of a $10 visor and 10 cents of electricity lets people enjoy views and sounds that are super enjoyable and go to great schools costlessly and this is such a helpful thing on a depleted Earth it is a help to humanity even if some problems remain , , , , just the book showed us our likely future and had a weird plot and not I think ever a moral point,, , , I could be wrong , , , ,, But it is still valid to say maybe VR will be how we spend our days and this book made us consider this possibility for first time, , ,, it is weird we can't see a movie without trying to politicize it, like ET or Raiders or Star Wars was never claimed to be saying what our politics in 2000 should be they just were pretty and fun ,, , ,, , , so maybe be OK with the book and movie they were great on exploring VR pretty early on, , , ,,, ,maybe there can NOW be a real moral movie about VR if people , ,, ,, peace

[@Crowcaller]

@@mostlyguesses8385 why did you write this like you're a homestuck alien

[@papapalps3513]

I can't believe one of the challenges in the movie is to drive backwards, you're telling not one person out of a few billion haven't thought of driving backwards

[@xavierfauver]

Also going backwards really fast is one of the first strategies people try when trying to find fast ways to beat something

[@idiotcube]

@@xavierfauver I tried it when I first played Mario Kart 64 because I thought I could trick the game into thinking I did a full lap. I was SIX!

[@alepenagorbe9135]

If speedrunners have taught me anything is that any video game challenge you throw at the internet will get absolutely beaten in less than ten years. Multiply that by Owning Oasis Reward and you'll get it beaten the HOUR Halliday puts it out.

[@Schnort]

@@alepenagorbe9135 The way people have crumbled FNaF Security Breach, a multi hour game, and can consistently beat it in less than a minute is proof of that. There were sub 5 minute runs in the first week after launch. Even if the world of RP1 had really solid code, there is no way speedrunners, glitchhunters, and hackers haven't cracked it. Let alone driving fecking backwards, particularly because backtracking has been a well encouraged video game thing for ages.

[@XiaoIsMyHusbandBTW]

exactly, especially if basically the who world plays it. also the fact that nonone lags is also strange

[@sheren_b]

"People are getting killed right now and you are quoting Bill and Ted at me" and "it's like watching a speed run.... of a book" are two of my favorite takes from this, thank you-such a brilliant video

[@GomerJ]

"Its like Simon Pegg, cosplaying as Martin Freeman, playing Bilbo Baggins, in old man prosthetics"

[@nicholastosoni707]

I still wish Morrow and Halliday had been played by Mike Myers and Dana Carvey respectively.

[@turtleanton6539]

@@GomerJ 😂😂😂

[@DisDatK9]

There should be an Awesome Books Done Quick, where we just have a camera zoomed In on the pages of a book and right as you’re finishing up the page the speedrunner changes it.

[@INFILTR8US]

@@DisDatK9 Huh?

[@xingcat]

Giant porg looking at ET thinking, "I'm almost entirely sure this guy isn't Yoda, but I'm going to treat him nicely, just to be safe."

[@handsomebrick]

ET's homeworld belongs to the Republic from Star Wars, according to the prequels, so the porg should know the difference. (edit: also according to the movie ET.)

[@xingcat]

True! Though porgs seem fairly bird-analogous and limited to their world, so they'd not have experienced ETs, and Yoda probably has taken a ghost-stroll to check in on Luke and the tree books once in a while, so I'm sticking with my internal monologue for the stuffed animal on the bed.

[@ShaunCheah]

Wendat, why you spamming that Grinch song everywhere? But yeah xingcat I was about to ask if Porgs would know of Yoda but then I remembered his presence on their island as a force ghost and then I read your comment and discovered it was your head-canon, too, so I'm pretty please with how this whole sequence of events turned out. Edit, one week later: There was this guy, Wendat, and he was posting the lyrics to "You're a Mean One, Mr Grinch" after, like, every top comment. It was very strange and I did not understand why. I still don't understand why, but at least his comments are gone now. I mean, I say that, but the mystery is only enhanced by his disappearance.

[@maurofitermannmoreira7953]

+

[@xingcat]

I love it when my odd little thoughts are the same or similar to other people's odd thoughts, LOL.

[@jillmo6458]

Ready Player One sounds wild. Like, the big villain twist is that he ... isn't a nerd? The scandal. Usually it's that they're unmasked and revealed as someone trustworthy or have a secret child or were blackmailed but here, he just doesn't like 80s flicks enough?

[@kyleperkins93]

He also tries to kill off the entire cast, and in the book manages to kill one of them. But, you know, not being a nerd was pretty bad too.

[@1Seanmb]

Yeah, but they could have just had the moment where he tries to kill Wade be the moment he's revealed to be a psycho instead of making the fact that he, like 90%+ of the entire world doesn't get the stupid 80s references Wade is making be the antagonizing moment. Imagine how much better of a moment it would be for Wade to just go and talk to this guy, have a normal job offer like situation, decline the offer, and then return to the real world, only for his trailer tower to be blasted. The realization for the reader that this person and by association the company he works for is both powerful and dangerous is so much stronger than just telegraphing his immediate evilness through a lack of Monty Python knowledge.

[@kyleperkins93]

The company already had a bad rap. Wade didn't like him because of his company's reputation.

[@erinw.9256]

It was an acid trip. And the 80s references made it weird and obvious just how out of touch the creator of Ready Player One is.

[@higuide2]

As a VR dev, I'm a as aware as I can be about use cases, but we're working blind and ad companies don't care about people. They care about numbers and red lines. I honestly don't know how long we'll be able to hold them off of the whole ad thing. Do you know what lucid dreaming is? How would you like it if I put ads in your dreams? It sounds crazy doesn't it? But it's not.

[@user-jj6xp2ln4d]

Wade actually worried me throughout the book. Sometimes it’s cool and interesting to have an unlikeable main character, but he went above and beyond that. He shaves all his hair so he doesn’t need to spend time in the real world taking care of it. He texts Artemis, sends her gifts, and *shows up at her doorstep* when she made it very clear she didn’t want to talk to him until the egg was found. (basically stalking her) I could go on and on about what a mess Wade is, but the thing is, that could’ve been a good thing if Cline had played his cards right. Wade’s oasis addiction could’ve been pushed to the extreme, showing the lengths gunters were taking to find the egg. But no, Wade just gets every key handed to him on the first try and wins the girl at the end even after being so slimy and creepy to her. I really didn’t like this book because of what it could’ve been- not just an amalgamation of 80s references but real commentary on technology addiction, social isolation, and the dangers of glorifying your idols.

[@julianbello8376]

God I hated the hair shaving scene. It's just sad and weird and uncomfortable

[@Crystal2193]

Doesn't he shave all his hair so that the haptic suit can attach to him better?

[@steviecopeland]

You didn't even mention the entire chapter spent on him buying a sex doll that he fucked in vr

[@LevonBlueoak]

​@@Crystal2193 does that make it any better? It's still the same addiction to the Oasis that causes it either way.

[@wesleyoldham4222]

"Neopets, still stubbornly functioning" The craziest part about Neopets still functioning in the Oasis is that it would still be running on Flash instead of whatever 3D immersion technology everything else is using.

[@geekwithglasses2897]

I know I’m late but the book is legit the worst I’ve ever read. The main character is the least likeable in the entire history of books and it’s written in a way where it’s geared towards tween boys that think girls are stupid because they didn’t fall in love with them after saying hi yet all the 80’s references make no sense to someone of that age. So either the book makes no sense to the demographic or people looking for nostalgia hate the writing style and protagonist. He thinks they’re dating and she breaks up with him and she literally says that she wasn’t ever dating him and that wasn’t even hinted at he just thought a girl was cool and being kinda nice to him so they were dating. And in the book Halliday is confirmed to be on the autistic spectrum. I’m on the spectrum so seeing another “he’s a genius but socially inept” depiction of it made me want to die

[@justineberlein5916]

I'm literally reading Twilight after hate-reading Ready Player One as an apology to... 51% of the population, I guess? There are still issues, like how Edward's a textbook abusive boyfriend, but it's at least not an incel wish fulfillment book.

[@thursdayplurbonym-boyporri1457]

@@joey_bonzo The way you just dropped in mien kampf so nonchalantly had me w h e e z i ng

[@Morgan-oq7uj]

@@joey_bonzo Try Name of the Wind. That's a main character that will make you want to eat paper.

[@aflyingdudeother9410]

Lolol the two non-Aech main characters annoy me in the book, I just appreciate the concept/world

[@amberwarnke6434]

Also unlike in the movie he does not try to save his aunt from getting blown up

[@rorystewart9549]

Jenny's really rocking that future ruler of the fire nation look

[@ethanrichmond3992]

But everything changed when Ernest Cline attacked...

[@keisha8270]

Oh my god, yes

[@TheTwilitHero]

Her scar is on the wrong side.

[@SPDYellow]

The whole thing with the birthmark just illustrates how much the movie/book is just a male geek masturbation fantasy. Author is like, "Okay, I need to give my hero a girl, because how can he properly win, if he's not rewarded with sex?" so he created Art3mis. But in an attempt to forestall criticism that she is basically a geeky realdoll, he gives her the birthmark so he can say, "See she's not just a masturbation fantasy. She has a flaw in the form of a birthmark that she's ashamed of, which gives her character, depth." But of course, the birthmark is barely noticeable, because this is a geek masturbation fantasy and you can't have the hero fall in love with someone who isn't hot. But seriously, it is such a masturbation fantasy. Here, being obssessed with pop culture and having no social skills makes you the coolest person around and makes you famous. Men want to be you, women want to have sex with you. The "People shouldn't spend all their time in escapist entertainment" moral doesn't really fly, since the hero gets everything because of his obsession with entertainment.

[@paulhumphries7246]

Yeah, he easily could've made it a "love conquers all / knows no boundaries" deal. 'True names' - a book written just at the start of the internet (1981) does this so much better - she turns out to be really old and basically incapable of physical love. It's a good move because the ravages of time happen to us all, it's the ultimately relatable disability and therefore, can't really offend anyone. Honestly, I would recommend 'True names' over RP1 any day, and it's all the more impressive having been written 40 years ago. It basically inspired the matrix, and RP1 before we even had mobile phones or a computer in every household. True genius.

[@Cdr2002]

And to make it worse the sequel attempts to deepen her character and represent real marginalized people by making her a trans woman. The “hero” discovers this about her by stalking her, and her transition is framed as having come purely from the desire to have sex with men, because that’s totally the only reason people transition, right? It’s not because of oh I don’t know, Dysphoria and self-identity? Fucking dreadful

[@pokelover02]

It literally is a masturbation fantasy. Had to put the book down after Wade shaves his head and holes himself up with basically a futuristic sex doll and masturbates for something like 3 months straight.

[@JohnSmith-kf8mv]

The birthmark in the book takes up HALF her face. Not the "barely visible" one in the movie.

[@sev1120]

It's a book written by entitled idiots for entitled idiots

[@chrisschuenke8316]

"Its like watching a speed run... of a book." -Jenny the Alchemist, spinning words into gold.

[@thegooddinggleberry]

The movie was going to have pacing and plot issues.

[@tobiasbanks3743]

"Simon Pegg cosplaying as Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins in old man prosthetics" is the greatest description of anything I have ever heard.

[@ChronoGamerOne]

I think the book wasn't a love letter so much as a "look how much I know about this stuff" -- especially in the book, with a whole gratuitous description of the SwordQuest fiasco at the very beginning... which the author could learn in about 30 minutes at a retro game website. Your point about Sorento just "reference dropping" for his own personal gain being kind of what Ernest Cline has done hits the mark solidly and is the overall impression I get. Ernest Cline kept an eye on the Nostalgia Cycle and released his book with perfect timing.

[@theomegajuice8660]

It wasn't a love letter to nerd pop culture, it was a spite letter to the writer's parents and teachers who kept saying his nerd culture knowledge was a pointless waste of time.

[@aloevera3317]

"Wade tells Artemis he loves her an hour into their first date? What kind of socially awkward--well, okay, that one checks out actually."

[@ninjanippledog725]

yeahhh thats what she said in the video, good job? lol

[@Gladiva19]

That's not socially awkward. That's a complete lack of boundires and falling in love with the idea of someone and forcing the nearest person into that mold.

[@milkinamug3357]

As a woman with pink hair that's into comics and anime, I have had many guys tell me they love me in like an hour of meeting me and it's a yikes every time.

[@edgystuffretarkidnormcring330]

I’ll do one better: you don’t go one date before saying I love you like wtf ??? I’ve seen the trop so many time and I never understood: x and y have been together for two month, x says I love you and y freaks you like omg x loves me like yeah you’re together that’s the point ????

[@timothymclean]

@@edgystuffretarkidnormcring330 I'm aromantic, so I just kind have to guess what's going on in alloromantic people's heads. But from what I've seen...it seems like lots of people go on dates with people they kinda like but aren't sure if they _romantically_ like, to try and get their feelings sorted out? I can see why the other person blurting out an "I love you" (implicitly encouraging you to reciprocate) when you're still trying to sort out your feelings would be unpleasant.

[@PlasticraicGaming]

I have to agree with you on the Iron giant, I absolutely love that film and was horrified when He was pretty much used as an uber weapon. which totally goes against the whole premise of the Iron Giant.

[@DrewLSsix]

skarnir. I keep hearing this, but in the premise of the film that doesnt matter. The Oasis is basically Garrys Mod x10000. A place where you are likely to get shotgunned in the face by a racist SpongeBob.

[@PlasticraicGaming]

DrewLSsix Film reminded me more of Rust than anything else.

[@DrewLSsix]

skarnir. Really? An open space littered with largely unrelated items from pop culture is more G mod than any stand alone game imo.

[@PlasticraicGaming]

It was more the aspect of dying and losing all of your progress, Rust being the only game where I have experienced it to the same level. In respect to the visuals I think your comparison to G mod would be fair.

[@GreatGodSajuuk]

Same with Gundam. Gundam was a show that really really wants to tell you WAR IS BAD but I guess that is just too complex of a message to the director.

[@aliquidcow]

"I don't mind your face" That's going on a Valentine's card.

[@mudcrab3420]

Woooo! Tomorrow is Valentine's Day for me! I shall go to work tomorrow and say it to every single one of my workmates, including HR who I will TOTALLY end up dragged in front of... Then I can spend Friday updating my CV while I bask in the romantic after glow... :D

[@QuintonReviews]

My god that's genius. Ready Player One 2 should be entirely based off of references to iconic moments in Ready Player One. Also, congrats on making a really entertaining video about the movie. I couldn't think of much to say.

[@J.Skyler]

Quinton Reviews Was just watching your channel this morning. Fancy seeing you here.

[@pliskin101]

Oh hi Quinton

[@gregorhodson3741]

Ready Player One 2 is a very clunky name...

[@lunasperidot8760]

I see you everywhere. Man. You did mention her in your last video so I suppose I should have seen this coming.

[@derfe]

Ready player two*

[@OnlyRoke]

Wade is literally a Gary Stu character. Your post-credit bit is amazingly accurate in how this movie tackles conflict. "Very weird and obscure issue arises" - "Welp, good thing I did this exact thing 200 times before, because I am a nerd or something." I seriously hoped that this entire book would've been a send-off of Gatekeeping Culture (since that is BASICALLY what Wade is constantly doing, he gatekeeps "being a Halliday fan" to an extreme degree) where at the end Wade's basically either broken down by someone else (perhaps Ogden, as the sane non-crazy one of the two old dudes), or Wade is being put in front of such a niche challenge that even HE has to admit how this entire ordeal is bullshit. But nah, the NiceGuy wins at the end and he's still a massive dick to basically everyone and everything.

[@MysteriousMrL]

The worst "fortunately I already know this and can do that" bit in the book is when he finds the guitar in the stone. He never mentions being able to play guitar before, let alone that he happens to know the specific song he needs to play there by heart, and of course this completely out of nowhere musical talent never comes up again. I kind of shrugged off most of the explanations like "oh yeah, luckily me and Aech spent countless weekends playing Joust," but the guitar thing was where I actually had to put the book down and say, "Are you kidding me?"

[@alexwright4930]

Smarmee If you think it through how on earth did Parzival have the time to memorise all this stuff, play all those obscure games etc especially when - in the book - he was still at school?

[@Davidsworldtravels]

The book is full of huge leaps in logic combined with pointless lists. Like she said is this supposed to be satisfying? There's no change or growth in the world or characters. It starts mediocre and gets much worse from there.

[@stk0308]

Does every character in every book you read give a list of their entire skill set early in the book? You expect to never learn something new about a character as the story progresses?

[@Davidsworldtravels]

stk0308 if the characters are well written and their actions when they meet a challenge come about organically then it's fine. This book has more oh by the way I'm also an expert in this even though I never mentioned it type of nonsense than anything else I've read. That's not a well written character it's just making it up as you go.

[@MysteriousMrL]

David Dubov Exactly. There's a big difference between revealing new information about a character as a story unfolds in an organic way, and what Ready Player One does. Also, Parzival literally does take paragraphs just listing off the things he's an expert in. The games he's mastered, the old TV shows he's seen every episode of, the movies he's watched so many times he's memorized. And even after all that he still pulls the, "Oh by the way..." thing whenever he faces a new challenge.

[@wickedelphaba2185]

I'm just waiting for the movie adaptation of Ready Player One for Girls

[@GskitzIndustries]

Wicked Elphaba Ready Gender XX

[@sp5989]

Someone needs to make a subtitle for the movie based off the 'Girl' version, that includes a lot of overexplaining so you can't read it without pausing, and a pink filter. Perfect.

[@take2productions570]

Yeah

[@queenoffabulous2156]

Yeah I tried to watch the movie but my female brain just couldn't understand all those references

[@matman000000]

So Gilmore Girls with VR?

[@JamesMcCormickIV]

"People are getting killed right now and you're quoting Bill and Ted at me." LOL

[@cassiel.6918]

I couldn't finish this movie. The idea of people being obsessed with a rich tech guru and knowing everything about him is so uncomfortable to me for some reason, it feels like watching a movie about Elon Musk fanboys without acknowledging the creepiness of their obsession. It's weird, I just hate the entire concept.

[@FrNSICs]

holy shit, spot on

[@SpaceJockey805]

Whole heartedly agree… except I actually finished the movie and I want 2hrs of my life back.

[@Stargazer3147]

"What he tries to do with Halliday?" Remembers how in the beginning Wade says that organised religions suck and God doesn't exist. And then he spends the next 5 chapters telling us about his religion where Halliday is basically God, he did create the world they live in, and how they worship him. I just hope the irony was intentional.

[@emilydurkee8664]

It wasn't :(

[@ell4736]

it definitely wasn't lol I highlighted that when I read it dkfjnd

[@ethanrichmond3992]

“I flew into the party in the Ghostbusters firehouse with the jet pack of the Rocketeer and a phaser - set to stun. I was in my full 80’s attire, with Han Solo’s jacket, an ET hoodie, and my customized Breakfast Club gloves. Plus I had my Link to the Past-era Master Sword, just in case there was trouble.” Can you honestly guess if this line is in the book or not?

[@ethanrichmond3992]

Okay, I forgot I ever made this comment, and in rewatching the video, I scrolled down and saw it...and genuinely thought I had been quoting the book. Jesus Christ...

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

Ethan Latinum It’s not...I read the book when I was fifteen.

[@Kuaheak2018]

It's not.....but it took me a minute to think

[@arrynliu337]

This line legit sounds like something I’d be writing on Wattpad in fan-fiction

[@ethanrichmond3992]

@@Kuaheak2018 As I commented a few weeks ago, I forgot I ever made this comment, and then I saw it and thought it was an actual quote from the book.

[@SargentGrey]

In the outro Jenny explains EXACTLY what made me dislike the novel. There was no tension! Not once did Wade even come close to failing a challenge. He had an absurd amount of knowledge, skill, and resources perfectly suited for the Easter egg hunt. So damn boring to read through! I also thought that the dialogue between the kids was cringeworthy and the reliance on pop culture references bordered on lazy. Ready Player One stinks of being a movie pitch, and a movie that would only ever be greenlit to make a quick buck from 80s nostalgia at that.

[@SKyrim190]

I found the description of speedruning a book quite humorous. I imagine if we could set up a competition of this kind. What would be the WR of glitchless Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (the community call it glitcheless hpss) ?

[@juliahcornell]

Huh, I actually found it really engaging. I'm not saying it's well-written, but I found myself really drawn in to the book. It caught my attention and imagination the way that fantasy books used to more readily when I was a kid.

[@gustavogutierrez2709]

Wade and the gunters spent almost every second for about 5 years studying all the references in Halladays almanac.

[@pegsies.]

Everyone is pointing out that they liked it, therefore its okay. Just because you can enjoy a piece of art doesn't make it actually devoid of substance. The main character has dedicated his whole life to this, wins almost every challenge, and has no life other than the game. If the author did make him not win, or literally anything other than "we have knowledge, we used it, we won" it would've actually been good, but since the character has no actual substance beyond his study of useless 80s trivia, and the story has no reason to be told other than to tell the events of a game, no character growth, no actual plot other than we must win, if it went any other way thered be no point.

[@fearfulcat]

I think what fascinated me about the book (and I might've had a different experience with it because I listened to the audio book read by Wil Wheaton while stuck in a 4 hour traffic jam) is the intensity and earnestness of the main character's obsession with this world and his worship of Halliday, its creator. You had to admire the level of dedication he had to completing the mission. You cheer for him when he finally gets that perfect game of Pacman, then you realize how many hours of his life he spent getting that perfect game of Pacman and you realize that there are no worthier options for him to dedicate his life to in this world and you feel really sad because you realize that that fictional future is now. It's already here.

[@piperian3962]

The book was written by that one kid in Elementary school that claimed to own Pokémon cards that didn’t really exist.

[@fredericksmith7942]

Hey c’mon we do not claim Ernest Cline.

[@Znijik]

The proper term these days is *T H I C C*

[@bucketspree4952]

T H I C C and rubenesque are kinda different esp since THICC has been warped into that kinda "general positive trait"

[@fungusonus]

THICCenesque

[@narwhalgirl12]

Znijik aaaaannnddd you killed me.

[@donglyknog]

Peyton Swartzell yeah. I honestly don't understand why when people hear that a girl has even just a little fat on them, they're immediate response is "THICC" even if the girls body is literally anorexic skinny and she just so happens to have a slight big butt. Like????

[@ThreadBomb]

+Peyton Swartzell Rubenesque is not a negative description. It generally means chunky but attractive.

[@robertovillalobos3383]

Spoiler: Did I miss something or did they just glaze over his aunt's death

[@SahiPie]

Roberto Villalobos wasn’t that basically the same thing in the book?

[@tungsten_talons]

You're missing everything. Everyone's missing everything. Oh god this movie doesn't make sense.

[@TheFiresloth]

It happens, but it's... not that big a deal ? Like, his aunt was mean to him once, so it's okay she blew up ?

[@owlblocksdavid4955]

I think Wade has a few interpersonal... deficits in skill. You know, like how he continues to obsess over the Easter Egg after all the sane people stopped caring.

[@mrs_plinkett]

@@tungsten_talons this has nothing to do with the video, but I absolutely love your pfp and name!! 🐛 hsjsks

[@emperorbailey]

It’s pretty grotesque watching this video with that faint, slightly red mark over one eye of your traditionally attractive face. I mean, some of us are trying to eat here.

[@fearless4him595]

emperorbailey 😂 Seriously, the guy in Maze Runner: The Death Cure was grotesque to look at and I watched it in Dolby Digital.

[@oof-rr5nf]

emperorbailey 😂😂😂

[@IIIWITHOUTaNAMEIII]

emperorbailey right?!?

[@Mngalahad]

I dont mind her disgusting birth mark :) Im such a gentleman.

[@stacylowell4124]

Conventionally attractive*

[@whatthetrend8323]

She looks like if genderbent Prince Zuko got into dubstep

[@justineberlein5916]

The scar's even on the right side of her face! (For the record, this is both a reference to the Ember Island Players *and* how book!Samantha's birthmark is on the *left* side of *her* face, that is, the same side as Zuzu's scar)

[@milesgaunt6767]

@@justineberlein5916 thanks for explaining the reference halliday

[@OurFantasyLife]

I was actually kindof confused by the "reveal" that Artemis was kindof hot? I never read the book so I was thinking Artemis was going to be a man, and they'd figure out they still liked each other but then I remembered it was a Stephen Spielberg film and set my expectations to about 10% of what they were when I first heard about the film and everything was fine.

[@JohnSmith-kf8mv]

In the book the two of them spent months chatting on line and thus he formed a believable attraction to her, so when they eventually met and he saw her birth mark and roobineque form, and it did nothing to deminish his attraction to her, methinks no reader wrote that off as unbelievable. But in the movie, we only get to see them interaction , what is it, twice, before they met in person ? So had she had a hideous birthmark and been 25 stone, I just don't think movie goers would buy into his "I ain't disappointed" because we hadn't seen them spend hours and days getting to know each other and go on missions together 'n stuff. btw: definitely recommend the audiobook, read by Wil Weaton. So many things are better in it. So many things. And I have listened to it 3 or 4 times and will do so again very soon.

[@berilo.8044]

I wouldn't recommend the book. It's something only someone named John Smith would love.

[@JohnSmith-kf8mv]

@inSherlock - hmmm, technically yes, but I don't think it is that black/white. They end up together, right, and NOT because he wore her down, not because she gave up trying to escape his advances, not because he threatened her into submission. They ended up together because they were right for each other. She "called things halt" for the wrong reason, believing he wouldn't love her if he saw her. She didn't say stop because she didn't like him. And how did she go about ending things? Was it by cutting all ties and saying nothing, not explaining? Need to read the book again but when he was dumping leaflets on her house and playing music, did she say "just stop this", or keep quiet. Was he just looking for an explanation? He had a right to get that explanation, after the months of daily chats. But, she also had the right to hold that back, and methinks a simple "please stop with this, I want nothing to do with you" would've ended his attempts at contact.

[@anonb4632]

@@JohnSmith-kf8mv Rubenesque. Rubens was a painter who liked to paint fat and curvy women.

[@ThunderStruck15]

TheSportsGuru I fear for your future love life

[@simbapins7036]

My favorite line from the movie was when wade said "you killed my mothers sister" in an extremely serious tone.

[@LittleMissLounge]

Max Musto "... Your aunt?" "What?"

[@AlbertoMartinez765]

he really didn't like her................)

[@gretablackwell495]

My 10th grade English class had this book as a reading option. I vividly remember everyone being asked to find an example of imagery in their books and I was reading RP1 so I just couldn’t find anything besides endless pages of brand names

[@leandroaraujo9515]

"I don't think he thought about the meaning of anything he used" I don't think Ernest Cline was thinking about anything at all. I think he willingly turned off his brain while writing this, which is preferable to believe he's just like that

[@theoriginalsangster1570]

I have a theory that Ernest Cline was drawn to writing about VR because the visors would cover his scary eyes

[@ShaunCheah]

He does have The Scariest Eyes.

[@take2productions570]

Lol

[@Feasco]

He always has that "Posing for class photos" look on his face.

[@Tamaki742]

Ernest Cline is not trying to say anything, because he never actually intends to. Ready Player One is basically just one giant, terribly written, nerd pandering book. None of the supposed nerdy characters, whenever they referenced something, actually does it like normal human beings. And Wade is... Wade's a total mess.

[@kyleperkins93]

That's what I liked about it though. Wade WAS a total mess. He wasn't even the smartest character or the best at everything. He was a damaged human being. I thought it was written really well because of this. People just expect the main characters to be perfect all the time, and when genuinely flawed characters are the main character people take that as poor writing. Cline wasn't trying to say that Wade was the perfect human being or that people should look up to him. He was a horrible human being that threw himself into VR because he couldn't handle reality. His dad was killed and he never knew him, and his mother was a prostitute that died when he was young. He was being raised by an aunt that stole his food rations and he had to take side jobs so that he could eat. He was broken.

[@Tamaki742]

Kyle Perkins Oh, I'm not talking about how he's a mess as a person, I'm talking about his writing. Yes, he's objectively very infuriating, but do you not notice that how he's written throughout the book is the opposite? He wins every challenge, he wins the hunt in the end, and Ernest Cline somehow thought that if he kept spewing a bunch of pop culture references that sounds more like wiki pages and sound very pretentious, he's suddenly the greatest person ever. There's not a moment of self - awareness in this novel at all. Like how really, they're only in this because of the money at the end of the day, or how it's ironic that his uses future tech to replicate something used back in the 80s, like his Max Headroom replica. At least the movie has scenes that makes him more likable.

[@kyleperkins93]

But most of the challenges either took him multiple tries or his friends were in his ear helping him out and giving him tips. And you HAVE to win every challenge to get the prize at the end. Everyone won every challenge. Even the IOI won every challenge. Wade literally only won one challenge by himself and that was the first one. Every challenge after that he had help finding or completing. It's no surprise that he won the end prize because he's the main character. Also, among the Egg Hunters spewing info like wiki pages and sounding pretentious was how you made it as an Egg Hunter. They were valued for their knowledge so that makes sense within the world. These guys weren't just geeks, they were geeks with an end goal of getting a crap ton of life changing money. No one thought Wade was the best guy ever. Even his best friend started to think he was a sorry excuse for a human being halfway through the book and only helped him find the second key because he felt that he owed him for finding the first key. The book even let the readers know that Wade was becoming a total dick when he let fame get to his head when he told Aech that the only reason he got the first key was because of him when they were having a stupid argument. And why is it necessary to point out "Hey, isn't it ironic that we're using future tech to replicate something used back in the 80s?" We do that to this day! People are constantly coming out with emulators of old Atari and Nintendo consoles. Why would it be weird to have a virtual arcade? Or to use the Oasis to re-create someone's home town as they remember it when they were children?

[@Murasakiriyu]

The theme as tacky and overdone as it us, was about corporatization of the internet. Independent creators and communities have to fight against capitalist structures, to prevent monopolization. (The ridiculous element of course is that the independent creators have the monopoly). So yeah it's pretty poorly thought out.

[@thevioletbee5879]

Tamaki 742 Your profile pic shows good taste. Edit: Except for the fact that it isn't Watanuki and Doumeki.

[@theeemadimargarita]

1:18 Honestly, the conflict with Artemis was the biggest thing that bothered me from the movie. As someone with sws and a birthmark that covers 1/3 of my face and leg, her being so horribly insecure and feeling so horribly unlovable over her birthmark was just... really?? And then the main protagonist, what's his face is just like "Well I don't think you're ugly" and that being.... It, like she's all okay now, hurray. And I get that there was almost no more movie left and they had to focus on the world ending or whatever but it just felt really annoying that she felt ugly because she had a birthmark because of course she did, but it's okay because this one guy she likes says it okay. I don't know if that makes sense, I'm probably just making a mountain out of a molehill but I just really hated this episodes version of "girl has insecurities so that the main character can be romantic by not being a jerk". And this in particular was upsetting because I've had people assume that I must be insecure and struggle with self image because my skin is purple in some places. Idk obviously this is a huge personal gripe that's honestly kind of petty but I've heard literally no one else even mention it at all ever and I appreciate that I'm not the only one who noticed so, genuinely thanks for that 👏👍, this has really been bothering me since I saw the movie 😖

[@RobinTheBot]

It's not even a guy she likes. It's her stalker. I don't think it's petty at all. The story makes no sense unless you accept a small facial blemish is a full and complete justification for crippling self doubt and a suitable explanation for her social ostracism... Despite her literally being movie star pretty.

[@doctorwholover1012]

Ready player one embodies the classic male fanboy stereotype of collection, intimate knowledge, and detailed replication of their beloved content, and takes it to the logical dystopia extreme of a man absorbed by what he loved who created a bizarro world level race where random people living in the slums spend their lives completely obsessed and enveloped by media from the past bc it's the only option they have of escaping the hellsih reality they live within.

[@TheFunwichHorror]

Wait a minute, I could've sworn I saw an avatar that was a weird cat furry with uncomfortably big dodongos in the movie. I think it was in the dance club scene and she snitched on the good guys' location by contacting T.J Miller or Ben Mendehlson's character. Though I don't blame Jenny's brain for blocking away the memory.

[@TheFunwichHorror]

Yes! I knew I wasn't crazy! I literally searched 'Ready Player One furry' on google and it's this creepy fucker right here knowyourmeme.com/photos/1356741-ready-player-one

[@amberwingtundrawing776]

Hermit Craf there was one, you're right

[@QuarrelsomeLocalOaf]

ＢＩＧ ＤＯＤＯＮＧＯＳ

[@ShaunCheah]

Khajiit has dodongos if you have coin.

[@russetwolf13]

As a furry dat cat thing is creepy... Nice Dodongos though.

[@Patrick-Phelan]

You know, this has made me realise that Ready Player One SHOULD have the Iron Giant being used as a weapon, and to make it explicitly show that the people latch on to the aesthetics of what they claim to love without learning anything from it. Ideally that would then lead to something happening in Act 3.

[@Schnort]

I feel like RP1 could have easily turned into a morale message about cultural appropriation. People latch on to things because of the aesthetic, but don't understand or ignore the underlying meaning and struggle it represents. Obviously people treating the Iron Giant like a killing machine because of how it might look on the surface instead of recognizing the anti-war message is not as big of an issue as white people stealing black people's hairstyles or how our current ideas of the witch and witch hats completely ignore their antisemitic history, but it gets the same idea across without the "controversy." The whole plot point about how knowing some details and spouting out references to stuff without actually knowing the topic in depth is really close to this idea.

[@lithose1764]

That’s retarded considering you can “kill” people in the Arkham Batman games and the new Spider-Man games Doesn’t mean those games aren’t faithful to the soul of the characters. You’re forgetting this takes place in a video game, niggas do not care for Spider-Man using a pick axe and sniper to kill fools in fortnite, it’s just fun. You’re getting upset over something that you yourself would do.

[@harpodjangorose9696]

So, going backward in the opening race was the trick.... ...exploring hidden territories in a game is the first damn thing everyone does! How was that missed by a million players? Sorry for my nerd rant.

[@jjj7790]

Realistically, the whole puzzle would've been solved in a day because nerdy people be like that.

[@MegaZeo]

If you don't try going backwards in your first... hmm... 5 to 10 times of playing a level, you have never played a video game before.

[@TheSolarWolf]

Nobody even tried to drive backwards, not even as a joke.

[@beowulf1005]

@@jjj7790 the reddit sub would have it solved in three hours.

[@dearthunderstorm4062]

Realistically it would’ve been solved in a matter of minutes because someone would have booted up the race and pressed the wrong pedal on their vehicle

[@MooTV]

I would buy an irl version of that Crash Bandicoot "impervious to damage" shirt

[@nicholasmoore2112]

Then check the Hidden Easter Egg in the video description :)

[@MooTV]

I just bought an irl version of that Crash Bandicoot "impervious to damage" shirt

[@ShaunCheah]

Still a better character arc than Ready Player One.

[@Feasco]

It would be impervious to damage from everything but rolling boulders and falling wooden crates

[@hippiedave1362]

Same

[@austinbaker8042]

YES! That triggered me beyond words when Artemis turned out to be just as cute and confident and badass as her avatar if not more so! She and the movie outright lied. And they really couldn't give her a birthmark at all? They just had to slightly discolor the skin around her eye which looks super cool and cute at the same time?! There was no reason for her to fall for Wade either! It was so cliche. I really wanted him to get together with Aech, how much better would that have been?! So stupid.

[@JennyNicholson]

Yeah in the book Aech was stated to be gay but in the movie that was never established and it made her earlier jealousy play like she had feelings for Wade, which was never really resolved

[@austinbaker8042]

Yeah that scene was weird, it set up something that didn't go anywhere. I guess that makes sense, but it could just be an excuse to make Artemis the only viable girlfriend for Wade. That's a trope I've seen more than once before.

[@Robin-cy8pp]

Jenny Nicholson actually in the shinning scene they actually had aech say that "I'll just go with it" when the naked Shinning woman was coming onto her, so I'm pretty sure she's still gay

[@Robin-cy8pp]

Also she's just way too good for Wade

[@take2productions570]

Jenny Nicholson *They still hinted she was gay in the movie in the horror house*

[@yeenosaur2620]

Who else cringed when he caressed her chin and hair toward the middle of the movie? The fact that she enjoyed it made me cringe even harder. They didn't even know each other and they were already ready to kiss. It was just too weird to me and it made me feel uncomfortable. lol

[@kyleperkins93]

In the book, towards the very beginning, Wade said his online friends were real friends. So in Wade's eyes, he knew her just as well in the Oasis as he would if he met her in real life. Perhaps even more so. To him he didn't care what people looked like. He preferred the Oasis because everyone's attraction was based on pure personality.

[@yeenosaur2620]

Yeah, but she also pushed him away in the movie. He said they should meet in real life and she pushed him away. She obviously didn't want to meet him.

[@kyleperkins93]

She did that in the book as well, but it was expanded upon. In the movie, they barely knew each other when Wade said that he wanted to meet. In the book, by the time they made it to the dance club, they had been spending a lot of time with each other for a semi long period of time. She realized that Wade was distracting her from her goal and pushed him away because she was also starting to fall for him. The difference is that Wade started prioritizing his relationship with her over the Egg Hunt, and she prioritized the Egg Hunt over her relationship with Wade. Also, it's worth mentioning that she believed that Wade would find her ugly if they met in real life. Unlike the movie where they meet halfway, in the book they don't see each other in person until the third to last page of the book.

[@Threethreethreezero]

Well... They did know each other.

[@Multifixated]

I have def gone farther than a kiss in less than 4 hours so I don’t think this is too weird

[@osmocinema]

One thing I love about your videos is that you just talk in a normal tone (like a friend would do) and discuss some interesting points without exaggerating everything and shouting (as most of nowadays KZbinrs do). I just wanted to say how much I appreciate that.

[@NoahWeisbrod]

So... Ready Player One is about companies cynically throwing together media with a ton of pop culture references to appeal to nerds without truly understanding the deeper meaning behind the things referenced. This is either the most self aware or least self aware movie ever made.

[@ijeo2000]

Noah Weisbrod least, definitely least

[@deviija]

Definitely the least.

[@samdaniabdulaziz7492]

deviija

[@samdaniabdulaziz7492]

Nostalgia Weisbrod

[@zanderperkalator9129]

I snuck into the theatre after paying to see Ponyo. B E A S T M O D E

[@dearvariant8682]

Here's the secret. Ernest Cline is not a great writer. Like at all.

[@Kumagoro42]

But he's a Rubenesque writer.

[@derinedala5032]

He's not just a terrible writer on the level of being able to carry a consistent theme or think through the symbols he's using or the messages he's implying. He's bad on the level of basic craft. His word choices and paragraph structures make me want to claw my eyes out.

[@dearvariant8682]

Jack Madscientist Morally rather dubious too.

[@ClassicRockLivesOn]

Really? I thought the story was very Kafkaesque

[@dearvariant8682]

How on earth can you describe it as never predictable. That is incomprehensible.

[@lunatick9792]

You know why I hate such "attractive" miscasts for "unattractive" characters? The message changes completely. When it's supposed to be: "You're beautiful, even with your obvious superficial flaws, you are worthy of being loved by yourself and others!" It becomes: "When you look like this drop-dead gorgeous actress it doesn't matter if you have small, barely noticeable flaws. (But god forbid you're obese or something! Then there's no redemption for you, buddy.)" That's just wrong. Edit: Sorry, I just had to rant about this somewhere.

[@Tito151]

Oh man, you nailed Ernest Cline's writing style. Reading RP1 continually gave me that sense of "Oh, you just happened to have all this preparation done... Cool."

[@AllTheFishAreDead]

"I didn't see a single furry in this movie" absolutely needs to be on a t-shirt.

[@jankk]

She’s so right though.

[@SWALLDOG]

What about that cat lady at the club that sends the message to I-roc that Wade was there? Should she be a furry?

[@LevonBlueoak]

​@@SWALLDOGsure, but that was in a club. For any true representation of us furries, it'd have to be like on Death Planet or like someone in the shopping area

[@samkj1953]

​@@LevonBlueoakhow about instead of complaining about the movie you stop being sexually attracted to animals

[@JordanSugarman]

If you've ever known anyone with a real port wine stain birthmark on their face, it can be pretty drastic. The one they gave Artemis in the movie was ridiculously subtle. Because Hollywood.

[@Pineappolis]

My first thought when I saw it was that, if I'd been in the protagonist's position without the benefit of the movie's framing, I'd probably have gone weeks without even noticing it. Now, in fairness, I'm near-pathologically unobservant but its still a pretty ringing indictment.

[@El1society]

hollywood always tones down facial scars and deformities. they've done it in both live action versions of Zuko.

[@LevonBlueoak]

​@@El1society tbf with Zuko, it's a massive burn, they were probably worried how people would react to a realistic live-action version being marketed to kids.

[@jams8015]

Last time I saw someone’s eye that red it was because Frank threw a tomato at it

[@doublehelixalchemist8678]

Robosaurus lol!!!

[@HarleyQuinn-ur5rm]

Talk about eye candy!

[@decidiumz175]

" how to get a sharingan DYI "

[@angiegarciaangiejupiter]

You a real one, Robosaurus.

[@StarWarsomania]

Robosaurus Someone should make a RPO of increasingly meta references to Jen's channel.

[@Zanyotaku]

I felt vaguely unsettled the entire time I was watching the movie and I still can’t really pin down why but maybe it’s at least partly bc most of the main characters felt like people who would roll into my DM’s and insult me for not knowing the entire Meta game of an mmo that dropped 36 minutes ago or just get so pissy on voice chat over things no grown person ought to get that heated over.

[@writerchick4eva]

Look, all I could think about the Oasis and it's in-game economy throughout is that if listening to Gaia Online, Neopets and Maplestory players gripe on has taught me anything it's that in-game economies, 99% of the time, end up so hyper-inflated because they're not backed by any standard that everybody ends up poor and destitute and can't buy things so a more realistic Oasis would just have people running around in their generic Oasis signup just-joined default clothes stuck minigaming for money for days on end while rich players asshole around all day so really how would that be any different from the slum-ridden reality they live in at that point

[@kusawwwwww]

This is so apt. I still have a comment on my old Gaia account page where someone was thanking me for buying them the item that finally earned them a million gold. That was in 2013. It seems so quaint to think about now. (For those not in the know inflation on Gaia has gotten so bad a mil now is equivalent to like a thousand gold then.)

[@ThreadBomb]

What Jenny was saying about Oasis inflation - never heard of in-built obsolescence? My guess is it's an Oasis seller requirement that all virtual goods deteriorate. Otherwise you'd have the inflation problem described (though you might also see viruses released that hack competitors' non-destruct code).

[@StarWarsomania]

writerchick4eva Well, hyper inflation is a problem in Neopets, but the idea that you can't ever get anything is hilarious. Most people complaining about things costing too much just didn't want to put in the time to learn how to RS, or learn how to play literally any of the games where you earn decent NP (Food Club, Plushie Tycoon, etc). There are tons of ways of earning NP, but surprise surprise they require you to put in time, effort, and gain a skill. There are literally guides out there for _every single way_ to gain NP.

[@StarWarsomania]

Thread Bomb What? NO! That would make the problem _worse!_

[@PancakemonsterFO4]

StarWarsomania that’s why EA and other companies jumped on the „Lootboxes/EXP Booster in fullpriced Videogames“-Bandwagon

[@tallyboyle9148]

Interesting points about items created within Oasis. Odd fact- the currency of Oasis was based on the real Life economy of Second Life. Which had the same issues about value of things. Quite a lot was written about it. The virtual currency ended up being worth actual USD and since anyone could create anything the value of things came down to how much you willing to pay. In the end beautiful things became worth more. Since the skills were universal- those who were better at crafting were seen as worth paying more. But then came the problem that some folks just wrote scripts that enabled them to copy a well crafted item and then sell it themselves. In the end true financial success came down to real estate (owning space within the virtual world), IP (owning a script that everyone used in their own builds) and currency transaction (moving virtual currency to real currency). If that helps any...

[@heyamberray]

I remember when Second Life was so big, real companies were in it. I went to a few legit author readings, a city made by the travel department of Sweeden, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art which was funded by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. That was about when the US started passing tax laws regarding the exchange of virtual goods and people started using other users over the unsolicited use of scripts. I was a bit disappointed that a lot post-2000 gaming history was ignored in RP1, despite the real world implications it had.

[@snazzy9175]

That's insane

[@celinak5062]

That ended up sounding to much like the real world, housing crash, copyright, wall street.

[@turtleanton6539]

Crazy!!!

[@higuide2]

Spot on. One exception though. I might be mistaken, but Linden lab (I thought) had made it so the linden currency could always be exchanged for real money through exchange. The problems not only came about with the taxation, it was a money laundering magnet. Not only did people use it to run guns, they used it to traffic people (yes children as well). When you see the lady on the stripper pole in RP1 (movie)... THAT was a huge money maker for 2nd life. Web cam girls flooded the place. I imagine we're in for a re-run of the whole mess.

[@gabifabozzi]

The worst thing about Artemis' birthmark is she could easily cover it with makeup. For something so integral to the love subplot, it's such an obvious plot hole and makes her character seem like an idiot who's complaining over nothing. If she's insecure wouldn't it be so much more realistic if actually tried to change herself?

[@gabifabozzi]

Grace Harrington That's actually a really smart way of explaining away this plot hole (makeup not being mass-produced) unfortunately the actual writer of both the book and the movie failed to acknowledge it at all. It could have even been an interesting to explore what products only applicable to the real world had become now that the Oasis had taken over most of modern life. I feel as if this plot hole highlights my main problem with this film which is its overall rushed presentation and failure to really think through many of its ideas and plot lines.

[@StarWarsomania]

Grace Harrington ^This. I couldn't understand WHY my coworker seemed to love it so much. When I pushed him on it, he would just talk about how great all the references were. "But there were TIE-fighters!!1!" seems like an incredibly bad argument to me. He literally never brought up the characters, plot, or theme as reasons why he liked the story. On the flip side, "because there is magic" doesn't even break my top ten reasons why I love Harry Potter. I could talk to you _all day_ about why I love those books and never once bring up the use of magic.

[@csmith2005]

Honestly to me it feels like the book was just trying to give her a "thing" so she wasn't a total Mary Sue - like giving a perfect character the gift of clumsiness (*ahem*bellaswan*cough*) or a funky but cool scar to balance out their perfectness. Just slap some birthmark on there and presto! Instant character flaw without actually having to think of something tragic or complicated to add to the complexity of the story. Like she could have had an actual disability, like been a paraplegic, which could have added some depth to the world, or have had a horrible past that left her with lasting trauma, but we never learn anything about Artemis period except that she's Canadian, or she could have an anxiety disorder, like agoraphobia which would give insight into her character. But no, the ONLY interesting thing at all about Artemis is the birthmark, which is sorta gross and sad, like she should have been so much more. That whole thing and the Aech reveal really left a really bad taste in my mouth. The whole book to me was about a 3/10. Would not recommend, and I didn't bother watching the movie.

[@brianad1556]

That's not what a plot hole is.

[@FrankysABoysName]

falls into that "you don't know you're beautiful" - girl doesn't value herself so she's open to completely average "hero" character

[@Necroskull388]

"It's like a speedrun of a book." Holy shit, I actually laughed out loud.

[@thedanajamesjones]

Your porg is rubenesque.

[@ivanterrible7362]

"What kind of socially awkward...wait,that checks out." Brilliant!

[@fnord3125]

i've never read Ready Player One, or watched the movie, and every thing I ever see about either of them makes it more and more clear that avoiding them were the correct choices.

[@melware1372]

Why be ashamed of that birthmark, it looks rad as hell At least you didn't get it because your father burned you in an Agni Kai Oh my god now *I'm* referencing pop-culture what is this curse

[@jamesbajzer9436]

Oh God, Ready player two with 2000's pop culture references

[@jamesbajzer9436]

Wait I was just memeing WTF. I just found out that there is an actual ready player two

[@jaccedar5598]

I like how this is just in the near future and no one is like, "Hey, I like your birthmark! You look like Shoto Todoroki!"

[@timothymclean]

There are tons of comments comparing Jenny and Art3mis to Zuko, but this might be the only one comparing them to Cooler* Zuko. _*It's just a pun. Zuko has better daddy issues._

[@spencers5898]

Now hold on, Jenny, you're telling me that an author who referred to masturbation as "knocking a few protons off the hydrogen atom" DOESN'T think about meaning? I can't believe it.

[@jadesfire7920]

I'm sorry he said what

[@cam4636]

@@jadesfire7920 Oh yes. His nerdy reference for masturbation--I'll refrain from any snide comments on that--is EXACTLY what that guy there just said two years ago. "Knocking a few protons" you know, nuclear fission "off the ol' hydrogen atom" you know, the _singular proton._

[@chancellorepiclord9349]

When you're going down the KZbin hole of content when jenny uploads and gets you out of there... for now...

[@mightybaloo1880]

Pizaz azaz when you're going down the KZbin hole of content when Jenny uploads and gers you out of there when you click on the notification when you see the 1 avove the app when you look at your phone when you take it out of your pocket after it vibrates when you took it off the charger before you left your house....

[@ShaunCheah]

Mighty Baloo: what.

[@brunovega6479]

It won't be long now, you'll be back.

[@andrewdevine3920]

It just occurred to me that Artemis's scar is just like Zuko from the Last Airbender's.

[@YamiSpyroX]

There was 1 single Furry in the movie and it was the weirdest most out of place character in the whole movie. I was waiting for the reveal of this random large breasted cat lady to be this charter's 2:26 avatar but that never happened. Speaking of character profiles that are popular on the internet I'm stunned that this movie about pop culture didn't have one single dragon in it. How did one of the single most famous mythical animals seemingly went up and vanished in Oasis? Was there no room amongst all the King Kongs, T-Rexs and giant robots? You'd think there'd at least be one Skyrim dragon or a Toothless but no there wasn't. For someone who loves dragons I'd sure hate to live in this future.

[@nomiddlenamedavis]

Oh my god Jenny that scar its... actually pretty cool. Looks like Zuko’s scar

[@Shinigamimon434]

I wonder when we’ll get a Kellogg’s Cinematic Universe

[@QuarrelsomeLocalOaf]

_Tony the Tiger vs Toucan Sam: Dawn of Breakfast_

[@mothcub]

Hopefully featuring the cornflakes homunculus.

[@isaacmarwell5435]

Erik Muhlberger Your comment is Grrrr-eat!

[@roguishpaladin]

When Kellogg's stops getting self-conscious every time a furry tweets, "Daddy!" to Tony the Tiger.

[@caesarspeaks]

They killed all the furries in this universe

[@anonb4632]

* put down.

[@NoReplyAsset]

F

[@Azuraii]

noooooo

[@SharkyMcSnarkface]

Good. They didn’t deserve to be put through the torment of being in Ready Player One

[@grusha9516]

Good, we've suffered enough already

[@FaithfulofUltramar]

I love how you broke this down. The whole arms race thing in the Oasis is spot on. Unless there is some sort of Oasis UN, everyone will be tooling up and creating more powerful weapons at every instance.

[@AverieMc]

That end bit is EXACTLY how I felt after reading the book......literally every little conflict or hurdle Wade knew just what to do to get himself out of it. so convenient for him....

[@kennybrightwell1877]

AverieMc well, except for the second challenge. Aech has to help him with a hint. But the rest of the book he’s a nerdy Gary Sue.

[@beLIEver31415]

HAHAHAHA THE END RANT IS EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER HATED ABOUT THIS BOOK!!! I wanted to love it so much but by the end of the first challenge I couldn't take any more of the insane plot armor and it was the most difficult book to finish for me!!! I just wanted him to lose, at anything. It actually makes me furious thinking about it and I don't know how anyone actually liked reading it...

[@JohnSmith-kf8mv]

try the Wil Weaton read audiobook, might find that easier to finish. The books version of the barrier take down at the end of the movie is sooooooooooooo much better.

[@beLIEver31415]

John Smith I did finish it, however it was painful. I’m not sure I would like it even if someone else read it to me because it was the plot I had a problem with. I’m glad you enjoyed the movie though.

[@JohnSmith-kf8mv]

him winning at everything ? Didn't have a problem with that. Maybe I look at the book as a fun time read/listen, rather than a classic story with few (if any) gaping plot holes. An easily listening time. :)

[@VeritasSeek]

beL13ver I didn’t realize this was a sad occasion.

[@MovieTrollop]

I just read the book because ALL of my friends insisted it was amazing... it’s not great. I had to go and ask them what they liked about it. Was it the epic robot battle that almost happened before it totally didn’t? So many things. SO MANY THINGS COULD HAVE BEEN GOOD. It was a collection of things that almost were awesome but definitely were not because abruptly interrupted by useless trivia that served the story in no way... for like three pages at a time. Nobody is reading this comment and I just need to yell into the void. Lol

[@mariam19554]

Little easter egg in the background... wHAT'S IN THE EGG?!?!

[@CarBenDioxide]

Maria M more snakes, obviously

[@ShaunCheah]

Inside the easter egg, there make be snakes.

[@EwanMakeMovies]

The egg is a swerve. It's all about the ouroboros.

[@angrytheclown801]

A trillion dollars and control over a pay to win game.

[@chandlerj333]

Nothing, it’s just an Easter egg ultimately devoid of content.

[@IamMissPronounced]

"He has social anxiety" and there we have it folks, the integral motivation of Ready Player One. Probably the only actual relatable part of it too

[@matthewcochran619]

"This is what the human body can do in the future if you don't spend 12 hours a day sitting in your gaming chair" *looks down*

[@arrowhead4229]

"At least 30% of these avatars would be furries, and some of them would be in diapers" its so funny b/c its true.

[@PaleoWithFries]

Came here to like but cannot because nice. Jenny you are a national treasure.