It is stated at one point by some CIA guy that North Korea was able to avoid the zombie outbreak by systematically removing the teeth of all of its residence in less than 24 hours. The reasoning being that if nobody had teeth then the virus couldn’t spread because nobody could bite anyone. He states that it was “the greatest feat of social engineering ever achieved”. Like I get this is a fictitious plot but they can’t even avoid making up the most utterly deranged bullshit lmao.
Because making consumer stuff for geeks and nerds is its own type of endless cashcow grift
Ready Player One, as one example, isn't just a garbage story, it's garbage in its craftsmanship. But it does exactly that: it panders to a credulous audience that wants all the pandering slop that can be shoveled its way.
Reading through that book was like gazing on to hell and that the main characters did not use the insane power of the Oasis to absolutely burn the system and state to the ground is beyond me. Did like the vending machine dispensing guns though, that felt very on brand for a crumbling almost mad max hinted at America
Such things are beyond the imagination and especially the desires of the author. He just wants to rule the dystopia and have a harem.
Yeah I was done by the time it had the cliche boy gets the girl ending and also "don't worry reader this girl is 'traditionally' attractive and just has a widdle birthmark". I miss psychedelic sci fi so much...
Ready Player One is to scifi fiction what isekai "she looks 9 years old but is actually 900 years old" waifu creepiness is to anime/manga. It's lazy yet horrifying trash, but it makes lots of money because it panders to a paying audience and gives it exactly what it wants.
This to a T, it's also the culmination of western nostalgia drip feeding into the general populace like this modern generations version of fucking Soma
That bit definitely made clear that the entire story was the author's own wish fulfillment fantasy