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I'd imagine like techno favelas, actually kind of not far off from what we have now, like bleeding edge personal treat tech while infrastructure has become utterly precarious and the people live like serfs while the .0000000000000000000000000001% are patiently waiting to fuck off to mars.
JUST LIKE THE READY PLAYER ONERINOS!
The sequel, which is somehow worse by far, even has the space treats escapist fantasy with slave harem characteristics as a happy ending.
Techno favelas like in the beginning of the novel Tulpa Uprising by Ulysses Tuggy
I admit that some of my early worldbuilding started with a reading of Ready Player One (chud relative gifted it to me) and saying "this is fucked. How else can this go besides some narcissistic asshole winning the bideo bame and becoming the new ?"
And Ready Player Two was even worse and the ending of that book was so horrifying that it basically was the basis of a lot of my villain class's motivations and goals.
spoiler
What I haven't read is ready player 1 or 2. I saw the movie, it was bad but I've heard the book is somehow even worse.
Appreciated! If you got to the end of Book 2 or Book 3, I'd love some private message feedback. I enjoy knowing how people respond to book 2's near-epilogue plot twist.
The Ready Player One/Twoerino books are even sex pestier and go off on rambling tangents about how much smarter and better than everyone else the supreme gentleman is that is really into a specific period of 1970s-1980s pop culture (minute the political or feeemale specific parts of that time which are conspicuously absent)
I finished Tulpa book 1 but haven't gotten to 2 or 3 yet.
I think I saw a picture somewhere of somebody holding a fairly thick section of pages from one of the ready player books captioned this part is literally just a list of pop culture references
Understandable. I am especially proud of books 2 and 3. I sometimes wonder if I should have started with Book 2.
That isn't wrong. And the pop culture slop references are the least offensive part of those books.
I haven't read RP1 but I have read several the zanth novels and it sounds suspiciously similar in concept. There's a game you have to play and only if you're sigma grindset enough do you get to earn your place as a rich citizen.
Very similar shit, though RP1 also requires a bunch of bazinga trivia quizzing. It's not enough to play bideo bame, you also have to guess what quirky old people trivia that the setting's left behind to find the le treasure.
Death Stranding too, even if that's more about Climate Change tho
Death Stranding, except the protagonist is a Randian Objectivist hero and says "fuck you this is my package now" and sits on a hoard of them until he dies.
Those guys are in Death Stranding they're the lesser type of enemy. The greater type is ghosts you throw jars of piss at.
Death Stranding has cutscenes of you filling the piss jars. Framed above the waist but still.