What irony, as he's the one who did the audio book for it.
I wonder how much it cost to get the rights to all those characters.
It makes me wonder, I mean there are games that they can't sell anymore because they have a copyrighted song or something that they only had the license for with six months or whatever. So this movie, are they gonna have to pull all the dvd/blu-ray copies some day, because their rights to one of the many hundreds of characters expired?
Do you think he jerks off to the idea of himself reading out his character in the book?
I just find the whole idea of a world that's so shit that people just spend all their lives in a glorified VR Chat where they constantly reference stuff from 50 - 60 years ago to be really depressing. It implies that not only is the world so shit that people would rather spend all their days thorugh escapism, it also implies that new creative media has pretty much stopped and the only thing people remember are old, milked to death IPs, that's all people can relate to.
Also Snow Crash did the whole VR world concept way better.
Not entirely stopped. The avatars have some range and creative interpretation which is more or less the state of media and VR right now. Wade Watt's character is somewhat original, for instance, and so is Artem1s'. They both reference stuffs but don't directly copy them. As an example, if you haven't read the book which it seems you haven't, what character is Wade Watt's character referencing (not the name, his look)? I'd expect most folks to know who it was but the face structure given, the tweaks to the model, and the lack of key signature items makes his character more 'drawn from reference OC' than 'literally my character is X'. If it was an obvious copy-paste I'm sure I would've seen big memes about it on FP and elsewhere when railing on the writing of the book and movie.
Not everybody in the Oasis is as creative or cares as much since most just wear standard avatars and gear as the book gets into. A lot of folks play Oblivion/Skyrim/etc without even touching character customization - they just go 'oh i like vikings' and pick the default Nord. Got to remember the Gunters (including the High Five who are fairly much the only people we really get to get the opinions of and so forth aside from IOI drones) are the 'hardcore nerds' in the nerdworld. They're the folks flying around in Second Life swinging their big $2000 avatar's dicks about with custom animations and particle effects and whatnot. Most folk in Second Life/Oasis simply don't care that much, or don't care to spend that much at the very least, where the Gunters (sometimes literally) go for broke.
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