That's quite an insight you have there: how can some of us miss something if it never really went away?
There was a time period from the late 90s to the early 2000s where a lot of my internet browsing was looking for nostalgia references and jokes and fan edits of 80s media, and I even got into a weird habit of watching cartoon intro compilations (some of them were really awesome, like for Wheeled Warriors, Thundercats, and Silverhawks, and of course Ulysses31).
That said, even then, I had a deeper and more intersectional grasp of the material than the steaming pile of blue curtained bazinga trash that Ernest Cline pushed out. RPO was recommended to my by several people, including family members, because they thought I'd instantly love it. I hated it before I even know how big it'd blow up . Anything related to that garbage fire became a sort of litmus test for whether I'd get along with a fellow fan of something.
"The Iron Giant was pretty cool, huh?"
"YEAH AND IT WAS SO EPIC IN THE READYPLAYERONERINOS WHEN THE IRON GIANT WAS USED AS A WEAPON ALONGSIDE A CATEGORICAL LIST OF OTHER TREATS POURED INTO SPIELBURG'S SLOP TROUGH AMIRITE"
That's quite an insight you have there: how can some of us miss something if it never really went away?
There was a time period from the late 90s to the early 2000s where a lot of my internet browsing was looking for nostalgia references and jokes and fan edits of 80s media, and I even got into a weird habit of watching cartoon intro compilations (some of them were really awesome, like for Wheeled Warriors, Thundercats, and Silverhawks, and of course Ulysses31).
That said, even then, I had a deeper and more intersectional grasp of the material than the steaming pile of blue curtained bazinga trash that Ernest Cline pushed out. RPO was recommended to my by several people, including family members, because they thought I'd instantly love it. I hated it before I even know how big it'd blow up . Anything related to that garbage fire became a sort of litmus test for whether I'd get along with a fellow fan of something.
"The Iron Giant was pretty cool, huh?"
"YEAH AND IT WAS SO EPIC IN THE READYPLAYERONERINOS WHEN THE IRON GIANT WAS USED AS A WEAPON ALONGSIDE A CATEGORICAL LIST OF OTHER TREATS POURED INTO SPIELBURG'S SLOP TROUGH AMIRITE"