Alright. Minus the spell check needed, this is pretty much complete. But Damn do i need a simpler style, this shit takes too long.

(5) they also thought forward swept wings were cool

(4) ace combat Belka Disney fight?

Disney f-15 ;) (I cant believe they canceled this for Elio.. (3)

X-29 my boooyyyyy ahhh (2)

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Fromsoft players are like... damaged. Speaking as someone who loves the games, the community is insufferable in their attitude that the game has a "right" way to be played. (Probably born from the "Its so hard!" circle jerk early coverage/marketing of DS1 spawned)

This is an economic indicator. Younger people with tons of free time have less money for games and the entire hobby is skewing more expensive and older. As incomes drop and time ALSO becomes scarce then waiting for discounts just gets more and more appealing.

Oh shit, you said heavily influenced by your religious upbringing? Are you able to elaborate? I am curious.

The idea of economic cyberpunk dystopia wasn’t new when Cline wrote this, but it was 4 years after the iphone was introduced, and 3 years after the 2008 subprime mortgage crash. In Whil Wheaton’s narration, you can practically taste the cynicism that permeates Perzival’s poverty stricken life.

Why did everything suck? 3 decades of economic stagnation. Waves of rural people escaping their dying suburban/rural towns looking for work, gas being unaffordable, people flooding the cities looking for food like the Grapes of wrath. All this written before anyone knew what AI/covid would lead to.

Its crazy how something like that works subliminally though. It got me in to see “Wreck-it-Ralph” years ago. The cross over scenes maybe comprised 5 minutes of the whole movie too. I think what I really wanted out of that flick was the mainframe world of Reboot, but with arcade classic Charecters.

One of the crazier details to me, was that the US dollar, British pound, and Yen were no longer stable currency. So everyone turned to “Oasis” credit and fake internet assets became as expensive, or more than real life assets. People paid this, because not being online as often as you could sucked.

Im sure Stephen Spielberg thought he did a good job on the flick, but “The iron giant” in a war along side Master Chief, and then making one of the key answers to the riddle “driving backwards in a Delorean” (really? Thousands of people looking for the prize never thought to do that?) was too silly.

Id never own a real tree these days, but if I did? These kick the crap out of the hallmark ornaments.

I thought this book was initially written in the late 80’s-90’s, and was trying to be prophetic about the internet (a la Neil Stephenson’s Snow crash) but it turned out to be more prophetic about the decline of North American living standards, and rich corporations poised to enshittify a public good