McSweeney’s: Excerpts from My Upcoming Novel, Ready Player Two: Girl Stuff
When parody gets this close to the material its sending up, you know we’re in trouble. #link
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Tag: geek culture
When parody gets this close to the material its sending up, you know we’re in trouble. #link
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I will admit, my primary reaction to Ready Player One was how lacking in imagination the whole thing was. (All those references to leech from, and the best you can come up with includes planets where a single common-or-garden game arcade is repeated in identical instances covering the surface? Really?) But that’s my privilege showing. Everything here is on point. #link
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Key quote here: “…minimising the window between the premiere and the global release date is a way of controlling and minimising discourse. If critics are not allowed to reveal even the most trivial details, they cannot engage with the material in any meaningful way.” #link
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Wrestling, much like video gaming, is one of those geek cultural touchstones that runs deep among the Millennial generation, for lack of a better term. Speaking of video games and wrestling, Deadspin and Kotaku recently delved into the ‘weird world’ of wrestling video game leagues. #link
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