40: Ready Player One - Thom Dunn
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English - November 03, 2021 07:00 - 26 minutes - 24.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsBooks Arts literature classic literature books reading jane austen classic lit victorian lit critical reading reviews comedy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
CW: GamerGate, Jordan Petersen/Toxic Atheism, Fatphobia, Racism, Toxic Masculinity, Neurodivergence
They had time to unpack all of it, but they didn't. Today, guest Thom Dunn (@ThomDunn, https://linktr.ee/thomdunn) discusses Ernest Cline's READY PLAYER ONE, which has helped define Geek culture and absolutely for the worse. With no desire to dissect the world he's creating and asking the ultimate "why?", RPO takes a great storyline about governments, tech, and surveillance and does nothing with it.
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SUMMARY
Wade, codename Parzifal, lives in the OASIS, an immersive VR world, trying to solve puzzles to inherit the OASIS creator's fortune. His two best friends, Aiche and Art3mis, help him on his quest to defeat the militaristic IOI organization's quest to destroy the virtual world .
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