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How the fuck does copyright law work for books? I can’t imagine Ernest Cline went to every single owner of every IP referenced in Ready Player One and made sure to get their OK before putting them in

>> No.12169844

>>12169833
I haven't read the book but I'm pretty sure it's covered under fair use

>> No.12169892

>>12169833
Wil Wheaton is mentioned by name. And depicted as part of the upper management of some company.

>> No.12169943

>>12169833
You’re allowed to use trademarked property under fair use but you can’t major plot devices (ie you can a gundam in your novel, but you can’t be basically writing a gundam book). Unless it’s Disney/Mickey mouse, you will get sued no matter what

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>>12169833
>reading Ernesto "Bugman" Klein
Yikes.

>> No.12169975

This book was written by an autistic manchild with savant syndrome except his only talent is holding the attention of gamers by translating the appeal of video games to novel format. It reads like a list of things the author liked as a kid and hasn't grown out of into his late 40s. Ernest Cline truly is a master of appeal to children, probably because it was the main selling point of every one of his hobbies for the duration of his life.

>> No.12170820
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>>12169833

>> No.12171096

>>12170820
It's like Adorno's fever dream desu

>> No.12171107

>>12170820
have i become a crotchety old man at age 21? i read this and cringed. reads like reddit vomited onto a page

>> No.12171115

>>12170820
Truly the 21st century Eliot

>> No.12171156

Reddit: The book.

>> No.12171301

>>12170820
This reads like the power rangers fan fiction my aspergers neighbor would write in elementary school

>> No.12171442

>>12171107
have you watched the movie? its cringe, the motion picture

>> No.12171468

>>12171442
>uses cringe as an adjective
you are literally (not figuratively) reddit

>> No.12171478

>>12171468
t. Ernesto Bugman Clien trying to 4chan culture
Someone get the fucking RAID.

>> No.12171486

>>12171478
>he doesn’t know where cringe comes from
>he actually thinks that saying cringe wasn’t an ironic appropriation of reddit faggotry
>he thought it was cool and not another case of chantards choking on their own bile

>> No.12171498

>>12171478
>>>/r/milliondollarextreme/

>> No.12171524

>>12171468
do you even know what an adjective is?

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>>12170820

>> No.12171704

>>12171486
>>12171498
Man. Ernie is PISSED.
Get fucked bugboy

>> No.12171793

>>12171486
>>12171498
cringe. crigne thrrads started on 4chan retard. remember rage threads?

>> No.12171855

The appeal of the book can't be just "I saw [thing] and read it in this book! I clapped!", there has to be something else surely.

>> No.12171901

>>12171693
Reminder this entire diatribe comes less than 2 pages after he main character exains how physically impossible it would be for one human to absorb this much pop culture. The entire story works better as the ravings of a madman who's brain melted because of this garbage

>> No.12171913

>>12171855
It regurgitates "geek culture" back at the reader. It makes the reader feel like the things they loved as kids mattered and is important. It's a story about a future where 80's pop culture is not only important, but saves the day.

>> No.12172049

The only dystopia more shallow than the one described in the novel Ready Player One is the one portrayed in the film Ready Player One

>> No.12172122

>>12169833
Transformative works are protected under fair use.

>> No.12172189 [DELETED] 

>>12171855
It's palpable how much more the author enjoys writing the scenes in virtual reality than out of it. It's watching a crack addict fiending for a hit in a empty gray apartment until he puts a lighter to pipe and the main character says "I'm goin' in" before putting on his bike helmet, leading to the ensuing nod towards "2001s a space odyssey"s stargate sequence and plunging him into a world of sunshine, rainbows and pants that fit. It's gamer methamphetamine in written form. If there is anything redeemable to this story it's the childlike wonder this grown man finds in writing and watching it all unfold write in front of you, even if it makes it damn near impossible to separate the story from the author.

>> No.12172206

>>12171855
It's palpable how much more the author enjoys writing the scenes in virtual reality than out of it. It's like watching a crack addict fiending for a hit in an empty gray apartment until he puts a lighter to a pipe, and the main character says "I'm goin' in" before putting on his bike helmet, leading to an ensuing nod towards 2001s a space odyssey's stargate sequence, and plunging him into a world of sunshine, rainbows and pants that fit. It's gamer methamphetamine in written form. If there is anything redeemable to this story it's the childlike wonder this grown man finds in writing, and watching it all unfold right in front of you, even if it makes it damn near impossible to separate the story from the author.

>> No.12173268

>>12171693
Is it just me or does the author seem to be way less familiar with anime than any of the other categories? It feels much less comprehensive in terms of nerd culture name-dropping than the rest; dude doesn't even mention Evangelion, which would pretty obviously be included in any actual list of significant moments for the medium

>> No.12173368

>>12171693
please tell me this is not real

>> No.12173388

>>12173268
Apparently it gets name dropped later on:

http://readyplayerone.wikia.com/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion

>> No.12173464

>>12169833
you can reference a name that's fine

the film does need to get approval because they are using the image not simply a written word

>> No.12173768

>>12171693
This just feels like a self-insert

>> No.12173771

>>12173768
The whole book is, to an anime-esque degree

>> No.12173796

>>12173771
I blame First-Person writing and present tense
It's terrible how easy they are to mess up

>> No.12173817

>>12171693
Why would someone even write this? Didn't someone try to stop him?

>> No.12173825

>>12173796
This wasn't really messed up, it was deliberate and the target audience enjoys it

>> No.12173828

>>12173817
Because it works.
It's rather easy to read, and pats you on the back when/if you recognise a reference.
I would compare it to the mass-produced Fantasy/YA books you can find in any library which are easy to read and to forget, filled with stock phrases and tropes of the genre, but those can be enjoyable if they're written carefully. RDP is just boring.

He doesn't even reference Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, or anything outside of 80's which were absolutely awful in terms of culture if you stop memeing about it

>> No.12173834

>The 80's was a long a decade (ten whole years)
Has anything more meaningless been ever written

>> No.12173872

>>12171693
Even my gf cringed reading that and she's currently watching Jenna Marbles.

>> No.12173886

>>12171693
>I watched a lot of Youtube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish which I can neither explain nor defend
why would he include this, its clear hes just talking about himself

>> No.12173898

>>12173886
If you think that's bad check out his "nerd porn auteur poem".

>> No.12173901

>>12171693
That was physically exhausting to read
How can you get through a whole book like this?

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>>12173901
There's much worse.

>> No.12173928

>>12173912
>orbiting each other like accelerated electrons
but electrons dont orbit each other

>> No.12173929

>>12173912
One of the rare works of fiction that would benefit from degenerate eroticism

>> No.12173936

>>12173928
Its very clear the author knows very little about anything he brings up in the book
Thats why all the references to stuff is literally just name dropping it with no further depth, the guy knows jack shit

>> No.12173977

>>12169833
trans-formative work, no risk of people mistaking this for the original books/movies it references

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>> No.12174248

>>12171693
>And, of course, Kevin Smith

Makes me lose every time this is posted

>> No.12174586

>>12173990
Blue Monday has a BPM of ~130, whereas Union of the Snake has a BPM of ~115. One would think his first thoughts would be that the Duran Duran song was pitched up significantly, or that it was playing at a faster speed than normal, given that it was being mixed into the much faster Blue Monday. But apparently our whizz-kid who has studied these songs 10 hours a day doesn't even notice? Pathetic