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> "Quality" means nothing without privacy and comfort. > > This just feels like separating the rich from the poor even further.
Indeed, just take a standard dystopian sci-fi book and you will notice the poor people living in a container.
Have a little ambition, please.
Favorite Book (and soon to be movie): Ready Player One - this book took me on an absolute ride and I don't even like reading books. Video game references galore are in here - this book made me want to live in the OASIS. (except, not the actual real-life world in the book)
Link to the book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/0307887448
Thank you for the giveaway!
Merry Chrimbus.
I love books too, but struggle soooooo much with them. Meds seem like they are helping a little bit, as does scheduling a specific time of day (when the meds are working) to read. I'm trying to read for 15 minutes before lunch. That seems to be working, and I'm hoping that eventually I can build up to an hour.
Ready Player One has really held my interest! I might be able to finish it!! WOO!
Probably too late to this thread but relevant question:
Has anyone read Ready Player One? A friend recommended it for post-grad school applications fun reading but I made the mistake of starting it 2 days ago when apps are due this Friday and I'm so hooked I'm spending my lunch breaks reading it instead of editing my essays.
Nice! I just recently read an awesome dystopian type novel. You're right around my age and I'm not sure if you played many video games as a kid but Ready Player One by Ernist Cline is pretty awesome. Lots of old video game and pop culture references. Its a quick read too!
Sounds Ready Player One-esque. I'm personally not interested in the game within a game concept. Just gimme an efficient menu and let me play my game.
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Ready Player One
A young man accidentally starts a massive MMO scavenger hunt after solving several-years-old easter egg. Garnering the attention of a massive, multi-national corporation, he must solve the remaining clues while simultaneously avoiding capture.
Sorry. Different book. But wow what Ann amazing book it is....
In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines—puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape
Read more. There's books based on video games, like series about Warhammer, WoW, and Halo to name a few off the top of my head. You can also check out some books that some movies you like have been based on, or just browse a library/bookstore/Amazon to find one that sounds really good.
No parent can say reading is a waste of time. You still get to escape into a fantasy world, and to your dad, it'll look like you're doing something constructive.
I've been really into this book lately, and it might interest you to start: http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-A-Novel/dp/0307887448
Sigh, SecondLife. A good friend of mine plays SL nearly daily and has thus tried to get me into it. I have given it a solid try, but everything you mentioned above is precisely my experience. It is too expensive (I have spent hundreds and hardly play the game), too buggy, too slow and relatively boring. Another drawback is that combat is not a first-class citizen of the mechanics and is thus awkward and sloppy. However, I know there are some solid RP groups in SL; like Wastelands, a Fallout-inspired sim.
I read a book a couple days ago, Ready Player One. In it exists precisely what SecondLife could be if only the engine didn't suck ass.
Anyways, just my rant on SL. Good luck on the search.
Sooo these aren’t necessarily “D&D” related but they do involve the character playing a role in a video game.
First suggestion is Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
“In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days.
When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune—and control of the OASIS itself.
Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly he’s beset by rivals who’ll kill to take this prize. The race is on—and the only way to survive is to win.” (Amazon Product Description)
(I’ve heard a mixed bag about the second book—Ready Player Two—and I haven’t personally read it either, so I can’t give you my personal stance on how “good” or “bad” it was, but I’m definitely going to read it at some point and, if you enjoy this first book, there’s a chance that you might want to read it too!)
The second recommendation is You by Austin Grossman
“When Russell joins Black Arts games, brainchild of two visionary designers who were once his closest friends, he reunites with an eccentric crew of nerds hacking the frontiers of both technology and entertainment. In part, he's finally given up chasing the conventional path that has always seemed just out of reach. But mostly, he needs to know what happened to Simon, his strangest and most gifted friend, who died under mysterious circumstances soon after Black Arts' breakout hit.
As the company's revolutionary next-gen game is threatened by a software glitch, Russell finds himself in a race to save his job, Black Arts' legacy, and the people he has grown to care about. The deeper Russell digs, the more dangerous the glitch appears -- and soon, Russell comes to realize [that] there's much more…at stake than just one software company's bottom line.” (Amazon Product Description)
I kind of need to know more about that Ready Player One arcade cabinet, and I'm more than a little disappointed nobody else has asked.
Read the book (Amazon/Google Play/iTunes) before the movie comes out December 2017. (No referral links used.)
I wonder if this will work with Google Cardboard. I guess it depends on if the heavy lifting is done by the PC or the VR headset.
<em>Ready Player One</em> by Ernest Cline.
I have long thought that ebooks on Amazon are outrageously overpriced. How is it possible that sometimes an eBook costs more than the paperback, given that it's not necessary to print, warehouse, pick and prepare for shipping, and ship an eBook? All those expenses are more-or-less zero for eBooks.
I prepared a long, nasty analysis about how much Amazon was overcharging for eBooks, but then I learned that
> Amazon pays out a royalty of 70% on all Kindle titles priced between $2.99 to $9.99. For eBooks priced below $2.99 and above $9.99, Amazon pays out only 35%.
This article by a publisher says:
> Under standard royalties, an author gets roughly 20 to 30% of the publisher’s revenue for a hardcover, 15% for a trade paperback, and 25% for an eBook.
So the reason why eBooks are so expensive on Amazon is because Amazon pays authors very high royalties!!! IMO that's a good thing.
Never mind.
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline?
by Earnest Cline
I'm not sure if anyone else has recommended it on this sub yet, but I will say that if you love FireFly, then you will love this book!
I've owned about a quarter of these books since high school, and I read two to three books a week, so your math isn't far off! I'd say I'm closer to maybe two thousand books, maybe 2500. I want to get an accurate count at some point! I also want to catalog them so that I can tell what I own without having to call home and have my SO tell me if I've forgotten (I forget pretty often). Just haven't gotten around to doing that yet. But someday!
Ready Player One is set in the near future, in the year 2044. It's a dystopian novel that deals with a virtual reality world. The guy who created the world died, and whoever solves his puzzle gets ownership. The puzzle is solved through a bunch of easter eggs hidden in the world, all of which involve 80's pop-culture and video game references. The first couple of chapters are kind of slow, but by about a quarter of the way in, it just sort of hooks you. I finished most of it in one night before passing it off to the SO. He's not a big reader, but he practically inhaled the book. We've been buying copies from my store when they come in, and just handing them out to friends ever since.
Indy is surprisingly graceful. He corners on a dime! My SO actually nicknamed him "Indy 500" because of his speed, although I'd say the cornering ability is more akin to that of an F1 car. Scott, on the other hand, has some slight brain damage and is pretty derp. He doesn't know how to retract his claws all the way, so they stick to the area rug in the living room as he walks across it. And his tail throws him off balance a lot when he flails it around, so he falls off the furniture when he's excited. Aw, dog! What's his (her?) name? What kind of dog? Also, dog tax.
So jealous of your weather right now! Mid-seventies is perfect. It's been in the forties and fifties this past week. 38º right now, but that's because it's five AM. Sleep is totally important! I don't do mornings. At all. Like, if I'm awake before noon, it's because someone's paying me to be. (Side note: maybe the military isn't the best idea for someone who likes to sleep in late, dude.) Field training should be interesting, if nothing else! Accepted for what?
Pressure cookers can be fun! Slow cookers might be what you're after, in the beginning. Pressure cookers can lead to accidents like this if you're not careful though. Slow cookers don't have, y'know, pressure, so they cook slower (hah, words), but it's the same principle. I've got a slow cooker, but I'm a little nervous to pick up a pressure cooker just in case! Don't want to lose my security deposit on this apartment so spectacularly. XD You should totally ask him! I bet he'd love to teach you. What kind of food does he make?
Yeah, dude, it was a pretty sad thing to watch. The guy stole a book that we paid $100 for, which we priced at $400 (Sex, by Madonna-- unopened, still in the mylar wrapping, and in perfect shape), and he got $20 for it at a pawn shop. I checked online and it doesn't look like the guy has any more convictions after that one (this was in 2013), so there's hope. His defense attorney gave a story about how the guy was abused by his father, made to steal just so he could eat... I don't doubt it. Coming from that sort of background, it's no wonder he'd turn back to theft whenever times were tough.
Jesus, our government sounds kind of like my store. We've spent so much money replacing the broken, leaky AC units that half our computers are still running WinXP while connected to the internet. Thankfully, with PCI compliance, at least they're not the POS terminals! Those are running Win7 and have no internet access. Hooray for F-35s?
Oh man, I've heard so many good things about The Witcher series! I've been meaning to pick them up, I just haven't gotten around to it yet. I'm re-reading Discworld because SO is supposed to start them soon and I want to refresh my memory a bit. Next on my list is The Blood Mirror, by Brent Weeks. It's the fourth book in the Lightbringer series and it's a really well-done fantasy series. You should check out the Night Angel trilogy by the same author; it's good, and it's finished so you don't have to wait.
Holy crap I'm watching DS9 right now too! I'm halfway through season six! The SO and I started watching it together a few months ago, but I've been on leave because of my hysterectomy (I go back on Friday, woo!) so I powered ahead of where he last saw. Been trying to catch him up this past week. We also just finished Stranger Things, which was phenomenal. Highly recommended, especially if you liked The X-Files at all, or suspense-type stuff. After that, I don't quite know what we'll end up watching. Maybe we'll pick up Voyager? Or we might go back and actually finish TNG. I've seen lots of bits and pieces, but we never watched like, full seasons in a row. The SO grew up watching it with his dad, and has the science officer badge tattooed on his chest! I'm trying to catch up to what all he's seen, I guess.
Ready Player One is a fine choice for a young adult. Little bit of romance but nothing crazy. https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/0307887448?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0
Book: Ready Player One - A really good book about a boy looking for an Easter Egg in a virtual reality MMO to win the deceased developer's fortune. All the 'pop culture' references actually enhance the book instead of demean it.
Music: Avicii - Waiting for love - A really nice song and animation, it reminds of SU.
If you think that's depressing, you should(n't) read Ready Player One.
Read Ready Player One. http://readyplayerone.com/
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http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-A-Novel/dp/0307887448
That is the future. Right there. Oh... maybe some political stuff might be different, and I think the tech will actually be better than in the book - unless we blow ourselves up, or suffer an economic apocalypse - I am convinced that the gaming life in this book is what we will see and experience.
If you like stuff like this, I recommend reading Ready Player One! by Earnest Cline (also available in audiobook read by Wil Wheaton).
Or it could go Matrix. Or 1984. Nobody knows.
I guess this is weird to me now. But I consider myself a young man and an avid reader/writer/gamer. 23 years old and read 13 novels this year but they're all literary (Junot Diaz, McCarthy, Italo Calvino, writers like that.) So I read a lot and always have. Never much been into the YA genre and especially the young hero that ends up in a sci-fi/fantasy set of circumstances of which they weren't prepared. Which is partly what you're novel sounds like, which is similar to the YA cookie cutter genre (Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Enders Game, etc.) but it also sounds like the dude that wrote this http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-A-Novel/dp/0307887448
so maybe you oughta find out writers in this genre and see which agents publish this kind of stuff, because this dude is really successful in this genre and it's not nearly as over-saturated as the YA market. And if that means you need to go back and tweak the language for an adult audience, namely, more swear words? So be it haha. I've published a few short stories this year that I was keen on playing with the language to fit the demographic of the journal. I don't feel it compromises my voice so much if it means that people get to read what I was trying to get at with the story. Shit, I'm rambling. Point is, I've gotten about a thousand rejection letters in the last three years for every single reason a writer can think of and what I've found that works the best is researching markets more thoroughly to find EXACTLY the niche the work belongs in. There is an agent/magazine/publisher that is looking for well written work that they know how to sell, you just have to find it.
EDIT: Also, you may just need to sit on the manuscript for awhile. Maybe try to publish an excerpt in Asimov's journal or one of the ten thousand sci-fi journals out there (Shimmer comes to mind.) Or even write a piece or two that can fit in those magazines. This just keeps your mind level while your waiting for the market to balance out and also gives you a bit more credence with agents when you approach them with a CV and MS.
In regards to your comment on what will happen when we can create a virtual world that is better than the real world, I would recommend checking out Ready Player One, a fiction novel that touches on this topic.
$3.99 on Kindle? Will be checking it out... (amazon link, for whoever wants to check it out)
WTF..... It sounds like you are re-writing Ready Player One...
You don't feel like this is a total ripoff?
>but for any other activity that you normally do with other people in the same room: Wii-type multiplayer games, sports, movies, etc. I really don't see it happening because the headset cuts off your communication with everyone around you.
It doesn't have to. Small microphones are ubiquitous (e.g. built into laptops) and the ultimate headset would have integrated headphones. Current VR is just now getting enough attention and funding to play with different ideas. The Valve VR headset has front mounted pinhole cameras and two spatial recognition anchors (called lighthouses) to allow you to move in a 3D space. Imagine if watching a 3D movie with someone was less like watching a screen in a theater (even a virtual theater) and instead placed you IN the movie, letting you walk around the 3D animated people like a holodeck. Difficult? Yes. Impossible? No. Unprofitable? Absolutely not. Technology is getting even more lightweight, so bulky, awkward plastic headsets will soon be able to slim to near-earbud level portability. And, once we can meet up both in person and over distance - as easily as we make calls at home and on foot - it may replace cell phones, Google Glass, VR headsets, and others with a sort of super-combine telecommunication.
For more on virtual worlds bringing people together: Second Skin
For more on Valve's VR Headset: Valve Demonstrates the Future of VR Better Than Anyone
For one possible future where VR is as I've described: Ready Player One
Ready Player One. http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-A-Novel/dp/0307887448/
This might help ease the transition for you
As someone who just finished reading Ready Player One I was totally buying the "enhanced reality levels" as a normal feature for an upgraded rig for a second there.
> It's not much different from a movie that claimed that the Earth was flat & that people said it was round as a conspiracy
That would be a fine premise for a movie. In the right hands, it could even make for a great movie. Playing with what the audience thinks it knows and turning that on its head, even if you're doing it with bullshit, is a classic storytelling device.
> or someone playing a game like WoW just to find an in-game Walmart.
So, the inevitable film adaptation of Ready Player One, then?
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