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WB’s ‘Ready Player One’ Blockchain, VR, AR, AI ‘Readyverse’ Will Of Course Be A Disaster (www.forbes.com)

submitted 10 months ago by flumph@programming.dev to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago

Crazy that this involves the author... We really can't learn can we?

This is seeing the Titanic movie and saying, "yup, we're building the titanic and sailing into an iceberg! Who's coming with us?"

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

Now I'm actually wondering if the author thinks the Ready Player One world is worth living in.

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

He really does.

Ready Player One sounds, on the surface, like a searing critique of corporate capitalist bullshit, but in the end the actual upshot in the novel and movie is "We need kinder, gentler billionaires to be our feudal overlords".

[-] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nevermind that Wade in RPO doesn't give a single shit to everyone else dying in stack collapses or any other form of cyberpunk misery which that world is full of. As long as his VR theme park doesn't have too many ads.