It’s worth remembering the game came out in September 2016 in Japan. It’s almost three years old already.

Who doesn’t love the refs deciding the outcome of a game for not being properly held in reverence?

That’s a lot more likely. My only USB-C port is the one on my phone, and the two I’ve gotten so far with one both still came with a USB-C to USB-A charger cable.

It’s a consequence of his having nothing to say about the things he invokes. Somehow got offended earlier, arguing it was pretentious to “need” there to be something, but I think it’s what separates say, Stranger Things’ invoking of nostalgia from what Cline does.

Nah, it was cool until someone had the nerve to hold him accountable for the words he let tumble out of his mouth.

Nah, it was cool until someone had the nerve to hold him accountable for the words he let tumble out of his mouth.

Really? I’d think it’d be hard to avoid having at least one 3.0 port by now. 

It’s very much a Pokemon world, a setting so utterly consumed by the central conceit that it’s forgotten to have much of an existence outside that conceit.

What’s funny is often “what he needs to know” isn’t some skill, but like... the entire script to WarGames. The fact that Cline seems to think devotion to a particular kind of media means rote memorization is bizarre enough, but I suspect it’s just the easiest solution he could come up with.

The Family Ties stuff is just bizarre given the setting. A near post-apocalyptic 2044 and Wade is waxing nostalgic for 1980s Michael J. Fox.

I had to read it as part of my undergraduate capstop in English Education. And the teacher wasn’t really of the generation to get the references, he was just trying to tie videogames into the classroom (it was part of a broader theme about gamification in class)

I don’t know if you’ve gotten the chance to listen to it, but there’s an excellent podcast by a couple of the guys from Mystery Science Theater 3000 who read through RP1 (and Cline’s second book, Armada.)

I don’t think that works as an excuse, because it’s not applied anywhere else in the movie. If the movie were aware of memetic drifting (and had somehow still gotten the licensing necessary to portray all those properties that way) it would be an amazing piece of cinema, or at least one very aware of the culture it’s…

I’ve read the book. It’s kinda awful.

I think on the surface level it might appear to people who didn’t grow up with the references to be a book that people who did grow up with those references would like. Even if in practice it’s literally just lists of those things with zero introspection.

The thing is in saying nothing Cline says plenty. It’s far more cynical of him to simply list off major media from nearly a 30 year span of time, hoping you’ll transfer your thoughts of nostalgia from those franchises onto his.

It’s pandering nostalgia. But it’s not even good at it, because Cline has nothing interesting to say about anything he references. They’re literally at points in the novel, just lists of media and pop culture.

I think the issue with RP1 is less the notion that anything we can wax nostalgic about is bad but more that the author has nothing interesting to say about the things he references and he’s just hoping to get the same sort of reaction people have to those awful “parody” movies from the mid-2000s (Meet the Spartans,…

It’s strange to tout the feature like it’s not something Chrome already does. For a former Chrome user what were they doing previously if not autofilling passwords like they’re celebrating Safari for doing?

The nuke ending has you dragged to safety by Seed.