https://nitter.net/DiscussingFilm/status/1742925729355251953
I actually dont know if this is a torment nexus situation i havent read the book or seen the movie lol. But people are making that joke!
https://nitter.net/DiscussingFilm/status/1742925729355251953
I actually dont know if this is a torment nexus situation i havent read the book or seen the movie lol. But people are making that joke!
Its just dumb regardless of torment nexus status, people explore their favorite stories by consuming those stories in their intended form, and if they "explore their favorite IPs" then they are a hog, but hog status aside they usually also consume it in the form of actual media or physical spaces like a theme park or whatever.
Physicality matters! People don't generally actually like things that attempt to reproduce the experience and limitations of physical space without being actually physical, if it's not real then it should just be a website.
But on the topic of the torment nexus, if someone tells you ready player one was a cautionary tale or whatever they are dumb or lying, that shit worships IP masturbation so incredibly hard, the whole plot is about making the metaverse cool and awesome by taking it away from centralized corporations(in a dumb crypto guy way.)
I made a big entrance when I arrived in my flying DeLorean, which I’d obtained by completing a Back to the Future quest on the planet Zemeckis. The DeLorean came outfitted with a (nonfunctioning) flux capacitor, but I’d made several additions to its equipment and appearance. First, I’d installed an artificially intelligent onboard computer named KITT (purchased in an online auction) into the dashboard, along with a matching red Knight Rider scanner just above the DeLorean’s grill. Then I’d outfitted the car with an oscillation overthruster, a device that allowed it to travel through solid matter. Finally, to complete my ’80s super-vehicle theme, I’d slapped a Ghostbusters logo on each of the DeLorean’s gull-wing doors, then added personalized plates that read ECTO-88.
this is trans erasure
spoiler
the knightrider car was a trans am
The thing about "quests" in a world like this is that every single company would want the quests for their IPs to be easy as shit so as many people as possible have their IP to spread advertising around.
There would be zero challenge involved in this shit. They would all be instantly meaningless because nobody would make anything that makes owning any of it feel rewarding.
LTV applies to digital rewards. There is no "reward value" if there is no labour to achieve it.
Look the author isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. We're supposed to believe that for more than a decade, nobody, including multiple corporate peons for whom it is literally a full-time job, ever realized that a "riddle" containing the phrase "in a tomb filled with horrors" was pointing towards The Tomb of Horrors. You know, just probably the most famous D&D module there is? The first thing that I thought of the moment I read it?
eKKKto-88
Why the 88? Ghostbusters released in :19::84:, Back To The Future in 1985,
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This book captured the spirit of creating the worst, most gaudy stuff to show off in an MMO but acts like it's some deep spiritual fulfillment.
No I'm just riding around in my Gokumobile smoking a giant spliff that shoots rainbows. Also I'm Gonzo from the muppets. This is what life is truly about.