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Ready Player One (film)

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Post by Heroine of the Dragon » Wed Apr 05, 2023 3:32 am

Have you watched Ready Player One?
What did you think of it?
In a dystopian 2045, people seek to escape from reality through the virtual reality entertainment universe called the OASIS (Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation), created by James Halliday and Ogden Morrow of Gregarious Games. After Halliday's death, a pre-recorded message left by his avatar Anorak announces a game, granting ownership of the OASIS to the first to find the golden Easter egg within it, which gets locked behind a gate requiring three keys which players can obtain by accomplishing three challenges. The contest has lured several "Gunters", or egg hunters, and the interest of Nolan Sorrento, the CEO of Innovative Online Industries (IOI) who seeks to control the OASIS himself by inserting intrusive online advertising. IOI uses an army of indentured servants, and employees called "Sixers" to find the egg.

Teenage orphan Wade Watts' avatar Parzival, an avid Gunter, participates in the first challenge, an unbeatable race, along with his best friend Aech, and Art3mis, a female online streamer's avatar on whom Parzival has a crush. Parzival regularly visits Halliday's Journals, a simulated archive of Halliday's life and hobbies, run by the Curator. Wade receives the Copper Key from Anorak after he wins by driving backward, while Art3mis, Aech, and his friends Daito and Sho, all win the race afterward, later being collectively named the High-5 on the OASIS' scoreboard.
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Re: Ready Player One (film)

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Post by CaptHayfever » Wed Apr 05, 2023 9:56 am

I haven't seen it. It just looked like too much of a reference fest.

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Post by Booyakasha » Wed Apr 05, 2023 11:49 pm

^Don't waste your time. The book is weak, and the movie is exhausting.

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Post by I REALLY HATE POKEMON! » Tue Apr 25, 2023 6:41 pm

I just got the distinct feeling boomers who don't understand video games made it, I really didn't have much interest in it.

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