First to the key!

I’d like to know the source of the Spartans and elites.

Charge!

THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!😆😆😆😆😆

@Background Pony #3CF3  
Do they really get the power of their avatars? They could have just cleared the movie as SCP-682 effortlessly then, surely.

This picture raises a good question:
 
why none of the users of the Oasis shapeshifted into My Little Pony characters?
 
Think about it…Celestia and Luna’s godess-like power, Pinkie’s Toon Force, Fluttershy’s control over animals, Rainbow dash’s speed, Big Mac’s strength, Spike’s fire breath, they would have been useful in the battle against IOI.
 
Did Hasbro ask for too much money?

I saw this movie two days ago AND FLIPPIN’ LOVED IT!!!

@Havock  
I did and did you know there was sonic the hedgehog and Marvin the Martian well and you know the rest right

@CHAMELEON_BREEZE  
Might be. Idk tho. I do know there was a Hello Kitty cameo.

I wonder if there was a real mlp cameo in this film?

@redweasel  
If it were a nonfiction book.

@Havock
 
you act like books don’t have seventeen eyes, nor a whole array of melifluous unctuous palpitaters. books are highly important pseudocrustaceans, not to be trifled with or belittled!

@redweasel  
Firstly, tldr. jk  
Secondly, it’s just a book…

I couldn’t possibly criticize this masterful work of literature. it’s not like the protagonist is literal trailer trash complete with abusive family living together in a shack. it’s not like he’s made out to be the good guy, when he’s doing nothing but breaking into computers and exploiting them for his own gain. and it’s not like the evil corporations legitimately own any of the systems he’s sabatoging. the book might have actually be promoting international terrorism, if the protagonist found a secret vulnerability some early pioneer software developer snuck into everything, then used it to screw everyone in the world over except for himself, for no reason other than trying to impress a hot girl. but thank goodness none of that happens.
 
no, instead the protagonist is a well paid software engineer who’s out of touch with his struggling family ever since he moved out and got a job. with his esteemed work on maintaining the world’s massive supercomputers, he discovers a secret vulnerability has been planted in the global online virtual world that everyone uses these days for all their computer needs. there’s an epic power struggle going on in the shadows, in which many factions fight to win this secret key to everything, and the protagonist discovers that the higher ups of his own corporation intend to use him to find it so they can rob billions by using their control to inflate the currency, throwing the rest of the world into an economic depression. and the triumphant conclusion is where he alone gains the power to control the entire system over the whole world, immediately patches the vulnerability, and leaves everyone standing flat footed who were trying to gain access to it. he and his team are later seen working in computer security, where in virtual martial arts cinematic fashion, they protect the world’s precious computers everyone depends on from being taken over or sabatoged.
 
yep, that’s pretty much exactly how the book goes, sure as the sky is green here on our planet zorklthwap. maybe in a strange alternate universe populated by hairless apes, the book would be unimaginably awful, but here in dimension x71.338.45b I’d bet my third tentacle eye that any of us cnidnarins would enjoy giving it a read.

@Background Pony #C5D9  
Agreed

@TexasUberAlles  

You know, it’s not like I’m asking you to like the book or anything. You are more than welcome to have an opinion on it. I just think that if you’re going to start throwing out “objectively bad” as a critique, you should actually have engaged the material beyond glancing at a snippet or two of text.
 
I mean I’ve seen enough comments from you in other places to suspect there are a number of topics you wouldn’t let me get away with treating my own personal opinion as fact on. I don’t think it’s asking too much that you extend me a little of the same courtesy.

@Background Pony #C5D9  
Well, no, I’m afraid that I am quite unwilling to read all the way through an objectively bad, mechanically incompetent book to meet the literary criticism standards of a sealioning rando on a cartoon horse image booru.

@TexasUberAlles  

Well with all due respect, I don’t think it’s fair to judge a book on the basis of a few small sections taken from it at random. I’d have understood if you had made an effort to actually read it in its entirety, concluded you didn’t like it for whatever reason, and left it unfinished. But to read parts of the story with no context or connection to the larger narrative and declare that the entire book must be bad based solely on that? It really makes it difficult to take your denouncement seriously, especially as someone who actually read the entire book.
 
 
@TexasUberAlles  

I don’t know what passage you read, but that is not what I got from this story at all.
 
 
@TexasUberAlles  

A cogent argument? Informed explanations of the problems you see it as having and why you think they are so problematic? You made an absolute statement that the book was bad… not that you thought it was bad or that you didn’t like it, but basically that it is 100% objectively terrible. And I wanted to know whether there was more to that than opinion.

@Background Pony #40BD  
Wow.
 
It has Overwatch in it?
 
Wow. I haven’t seen it but the trailer looked awesome. Don’t spoil it for me.

@TheMultiBrony21  
Ready Player One.

What’s going on here? What’s the video game charge from?

@Background Pony #F1E8  
I dunno about parts of the book, but the author is a huge creep.

@TexasUberAlles  
I agree with everything you said. Are some parts of the book really incel-ish? I also don’t get how with just pop-culture references they have made this average looking movie.

@Background Pony #C5D9  
Because I’ve read excerpts and it reads like it was written in a junior high restroom while ducking out on a pep rally. It’s pathetic, incompetently written, self-insert mary sue garbage made by an incel creeper who apparently thinks empty pop culture references are the very height of literary wit.
 
What are you looking for here? It’s an astoundingly shitty book.

@TexasUberAlles  

I did watch the video. And 57 seconds of some expressionless guy passive aggressively pointing out that the movie makes a lot of pop culture references is not exactly an argument. In any case, my original question wasn’t even about the movie. I was asking about the book, and whether you have an actual, substantive reason why you think it’s so terribly bad.