This song is called “Night after Night”, and it’s about 2 nights in a row.

The classics never go out of style.

And in other news, Peter Dinklage has been replaced by Nolan North.

You’ve been able to reacquire shaders for two years, since Forsaken introduced Collections. Have you really not played in two years? That’s not snark, I’m genuinely curious! You’ve missed SO MUCH, almost all of which has now been vaulted...curious to hear what a very lapsed player thinks of...everything.

Seems like it will be a bright and cheery show until the twist series finale when a feline pneumonia epidemic sweeps through the cafe because Kat doesn’t believe in the FVRCP vaccine.

“Oh my God", I said out loud, after reading the Depeche Mode line.

Thank you both for Wolf in White Van. I’m going to check it out, as in, it’s already in my hot little hand. I read the first 3 pages and am hooked.

I’ve been beating the drum of the original’s terribleness since it came out. I’m glad to see threads about it are no longer filled with adulation.

RP1 really is just Snow Crash but Stupid and Badly Written.

I just want him to take a single Creative Writing class. One semester. Hell, a weekend workshop on the fundamentals of storytelling. The man cannot sustain drama without immediately undermining it. He can’t even do basic setup and payoff. Like, hacky sci fi prose is fine; not everyone is William Gibson. But when you…

I heard there weren’t any advance copies sent to critics, which was maybe the first clue this was going to be a steaming turd. Not that I had any expectations. Cline is a terrible, juvenile writer. And I can’t figure out who these books are for. I’m Generation X—Cline is just a year and change older than me—and I…

An essential read for this vein of “virtual reality MMORPG” is Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash- definitely not YA, but a fantastic read. As for YA, I don’t know if it’s tangential enough to fit what you’re looking for, but Terry Pratchett’s Only You Can Save Mankind is a great read.

I second Wolf in White Van. It’s a very good, quite nearly great, novel.

Yes, there’s plenty of problematic shit in his books but Cline’s biggest issue is that he’s just a punishingly bad writer. I’m not certain he even understands what writing is, beyond the regurgitation of trivia. Ready Player One was little more than an “I Love the 80s” novelization.

Well played

I assume HBO Max will pick it up after a massive fan outcry. RELEASE THE SCHNEIDER CUT!

Honest to blog?!

You can say that again.