It's really telling when an author uses 150 pages to stage the worldbuilding, then uses less than half of that setup throughout the story.Dopamine Fasting 2....

If you thought Ready Player One was bad, it gets worse.

Yes, there's a part two. The first few seconds of it made me laugh out loud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KL7ythWXPw

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    The first book could have just been "hey remember Ghostbusters" for 300 pages and it would have the same literary significance

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I think it also required the manic pixie dream girl, eccentric billionaire worship, and other pandering elements to sell to bazinga brains the way it did.