What you’re saying is true but... wouldn’t there also be a good chance that media will continue to have this bias when it comes in the form of VR simulations in 2045 made by evil corporations as an escape from a dystopian post-apocalyptic existence?  That the OASIS would reflect the world-view of its white cishet nerd…

Stephanie Meyer has the exact same problem and yet the two of them made a bazillion dollars.

“I think you’ll find Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 came out at least 25 years too late to be one of cinema’s great masterpieces, all of which debuted in the ‘80s, obviously.”
-some secondary character that exists solely to back up our hero

SAO Abridged has no right to be as good as it is considering the source material it has to work with.

Incurious is (as Ernest Cline would say) the perfect word for it. I mean, this is a guy whose book is set in a dystopia that he never bothers to explain between excruciating, repetitive infodumps about the OASIS (which is ALSO vaguely defined, somehow). He’s also really obsessed with peak oil rather than climate…

I’m trying to figure out which is worse: that the entire plot of RP2 is just the first season of SAO and Cline refuses to acknowledge this or that he’s never seen SAO and just happened to copy its entire set-up

It’s a shit-writer tactic, cleverly writing your critics into your story as the villain.

I also find it very baffling how someone like Cline can spend years of his life, writing two novels, on 1980s culture, a subject which he presumably is very interested in, yet has nothing to say about the ways in which popular culture interacts, influences, and is influenced by politics, economics, and society. He…

Oh my god I feel like I'm in some horrible pop culture cycle......like the Matrix crossed with the Simpson's.   OH FUCK that's just Homer Cubed from Treehouse of Horror... which references Tron...

This won’t be the nail in the coffin of “nostalgia for the sake of nostalgia” entertainment, but it would be nice if it were.

This line from SAO Abridged just got extremely meta...

“Don’t you kids ever get tired of picking through the wreckage of a past generation’s nostalgia?” Ready Player One’s primary villain, Nolan Sorrento, asks this of the protagonists of Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline’s sequel to his 2011 debut novel. “The entire OASIS is like one giant graveyard, haunted by the undead…

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…

Which is worse, the two writers came up with the same idea or Cline plagiarized Paul Blart 2.

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.

Probably the most interesting up thing about RP2 is that somebody’s been doing DMCA takedowns on tweets criticizing parts of the book.

A lot of people seem to like “Hey, remember this?!” cheap, empty nostalgia ...

I’ve seen the movie, I think even the whole thing. It’s weird that I have no memory at all of the ending to a Steven Spielberg movie (and I’m 99% sure I’ve seen the whole thing) but I hated that movie. Haaaaaaated it. It baffles me that the book it was based on was even published, let alone that it was successful…

Art3mis, who dumps him after just 10 days

Ready Player Two reads like a fusion between a Wikipedia page and a video game walk-through: It makes copious references but absolutely ensures readers get the joke by having characters share the source of a quote while also making it clear that it’s shameful to not already know this.