Also of note regarding Battlegrounds’ accessibility: it requires a lot more knowledge of military weaponry, and the UI is ugly, unintuitive, and just about as unoptimized as the rest of the game. (I’m still amazed the game’s main menu is just a glorified web browser running on an HTML backend.)

The main problem with Ready Player One is that it is based off nostalgia for the eighties, so written for people my age (around 50) but written as young adult literature. Pretty much all Lund’s complaints can be explained away as “it’s YA,” since most YA suffers from the same problems. I found it to be better than…