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TIL there's a 'Ready Player One' sequel, 'Ready Player Two'en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Player_Two

395 sats \ 11 comments \ @k00b 23h BooksAndArticles

I read Ready Player One shortly after it was released in the summer of 2012. I loved it and practically one-shotted it. I find VR fiction strangely captivating. It's like a fictional world squared, suspension of disbelief squared - a fictional world within a fictional world. Ready Player One is also a lot like a high tech version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, one of my (if not the) favorite movies.

Hankering for more Ernest Cline, I preordered Armada when it was announced. Somehow I missed Ready Player Two though. I'm certain people have mentioned Ready Player Two to me several times but I think I dismissed the suggestion as them confusing Armada with a sequel to Ready Player One.

Yesterday, I had window shades installed in my office and the installer said he installed shades at Ernest Cline's house the day before.

You know the movie Ready Player One? We installed shades at the writer guy's house yesterday.

Yeah, he lives in Austin. I think he lives in his childhood home but has another home adjacent for toys and stuff.

Really cool guy. Like a chill Jack Black if he were a writer.

He said they're working on a sequel to the movie, Ready Player Two.

Fuck me. I missed the sequel. Also yay. I missed the sequel.

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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @fishious 10h

I read Ready Player One and it was fun while I was reading it, but as soon as I finished it, I did a 180 and immediately regretted the time I spent reading it. Something about the ending just made it so cringe to me.

183 sats \ 2 replies \ @Murch 23h

I also lived Ready Player One. The Wikipedia article makes the sequel sound like a dud, though.

Just like Matrix—too bad they never made a sequel. :p

88 sats \ 1 reply \ @byzantine 22h

Yeah I listened to the sequel audiobook and it was a dud

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 21h

Bummer

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb 22h

I grew up really close to Middletown, OH (the planet of 80s Middletown ha to be easy one of the best parts of the book that the movie ignored) in the 1980s and 90s and the whole pizza place/arcade setup was one of the defining social pastimes of my early years.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 21h

Yeah, the book was definitely a trip down memory lane for 80s/90s kids.

I wonder what aspects of technology kids these days will get nostalgic for 30 years later.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 23h

I enjoyed the world building of Ready Player One but I wish they did more with it. I was more fascinated by the sociology of the real world than the adventure in the virtual world, but the focus was definitely more of the latter.

51 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 23h

I think I can recall feeling similar. I remember wanting them to pop out of the VR world to solve the mysteries of it for me. I also think that's part of what's so intriguing about VR fiction - the real world exists in a kind of quantum state being both relevant and irrelevant. The A plot is critically dependent on a simultaneous B plot.

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @astro_penguin 18h

I really enjoyed Ready Player One and Armada! The movie version of Ready Player One was something I enjoyed as well. I've never read Player Two though, but I might get to it sometime. It's a combination of me usually being disappointed by sequels and not being that excited about it to start, and then seeing all the negative reviews about it once it came out!

33 sats \ 1 reply \ @User21000000 19h

What the heck when what how

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @astro_penguin 18h

I'm pretty sure that's going to be one of those fake trailers people are always trying to get views with. Didn't try watching it, but it doesn't look right and the movie is still in the planning phase.