Ready Player One podcast and (not scintillatingly positive) thoughts, oh and spoilers woo
they got to the part where the MC has to... quote the entirety of War Games, and the value that's attributed to this, and they make the aside that "hey remember in grade school, how you could be the *funniest kid* by being able to quote from "The Mask" or whatever the funny movie/comedian du jour was?" and I'm like YEP. YEP, THERE'S YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE.
Ready Player One podcast and (not scintillatingly positive) thoughts, oh and spoilers woo
I am *frankly shocked* that Monty Python has not come up at all, or at least they haven't mentioned it, because I KNEW PEOPLE (multiple people) who thought the fucking ~height of social discourse and wit~ was *equivalent* to being able to quote large chunks of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (for some reason "Life of Brian" and "Meaning of Life" were never as popular).
Ready Player One podcast and (not scintillatingly positive) thoughts, oh and spoilers woo
for a while I had a housemate (this is part of why these memories are so fucking cringingly terrible) who continued to believe this well into his forties, but unfortunately he kept GETTING THE LINES WRONG. like "look how awesome I am, I can quote demi-relevant chunks from MPatHG!" and I'm gritting my teeth "NO YOU HAVE GOTTEN THAT DIALOGUE WRONG IN FACT, SHUT UP SHUT UP I HATE YOU"
Ready Player One podcast and (not scintillatingly positive) thoughts, oh and spoilers woo
and evidently that's it. this is a fantasy world created so that rote memorization of geek-popular properties will win you ACTUAL SOCIAL STATUS AND MONEY. and I just. I'm starting to *really hate* this whole concept.
Ready Player One podcast and (not scintillatingly positive) thoughts, oh and spoilers woo
@green ... wait... is this a movie or a game show?
Ready Player One podcast and (not scintillatingly positive) thoughts, oh and spoilers woo
@JulieSqveakaroo it's a movie about a game show, where an encyclopedic memorization of trivia from 80s pop culture can win you (or rather, the pasty nerd kid main character) trillions of dollars in a horrible post-apocalypse dystopia. DOESN'T THAT JUST PIQUE ALL YOUR INTERESTS.
Ready Player One podcast and (not scintillatingly positive) thoughts, oh and spoilers woo
@JulieSqveakaroo nope, if he fails he will be consigned to an even worse fate: BEING CALLED DEROGATORY NAMES. like "loser" and "nerd" and stuff.
..... yeah my interest in this scenario is pretty much zero. XD
Ready Player One podcast and (not scintillatingly positive) thoughts, oh and spoilers woo
@green I'm... genuinely confused at how losing at a game of social-recall nerd knowledge warrants the name-calling of 'nerd'... purely for context's sake...
... but, yeah. No interest in this movie, at all.
Ready Player One podcast and (not scintillatingly positive) thoughts, oh and spoilers woo
@green . . . umm. . . no. . . no, it does not. . . unless, of course, there is pain of demise at failure. . . but this does not sound like that sort of game show. . . movie. . . thing. . .