It's really telling when an author uses 150 pages to stage the worldbuilding, then uses less than half of that setup throughout the story.Dopamine Fasting 2....

If you thought Ready Player One was bad, it gets worse.

Yes, there's a part two. The first few seconds of it made me laugh out loud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KL7ythWXPw

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      fuck, thanks for saving me from The Martian. is the movie tolerable

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        The movie is fine if you just remember that almost nothing is accurate their from the duststorm up, and that the guy would be dead from perchlorate and heavy metal poisoning on like week 2.

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          the book avoids this and they caused a problem in the adaptation, or am I misunderstanding?

          • Sotalsta [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            I think the soil toxicity was discovered just after the book was released, so when it was written, it wasn’t an error. It was known when they made the movie though.

            • Mardoniush [she/her]
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              3 years ago

              Not sure, but I think the original Mars Space Cadet Zubrin talked about heavy metal contamination in the 90s, though we weren't certain.

          • Mardoniush [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            I don't remember the book avoiding it (but it's been many years), since he grows crops from the (again, too deadly from perchlorates to even grow a crop in without industrial-grade decontamination) soil. I remember diet issues, but I pegged those to nutrition.

            Also Martian dust is deadly as fuck, May as well just snort asbestos if you're tracking it into your hab. Also, he never needed to worry about water since Martian soil has fucktons, and the duststorm would have not had any effect on the lander save visibility.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Never seen the movie, but the book is actually a really good hard sci fi man vs nature narrative (it's also a fast read which I think is why it appealed to a lot of people outside of the usual hard sci fi crowd). I can understand if someone doesn't like the style but I would never put it in the same sentence as Ready Player One jesus.

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I enjoyed both the movie and book tbh so :shrug-outta-hecks:

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Reddit The Book is a genre that needs to die. :guts-rage:

      • cawsby [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Before Reddit, books were written about the stories published in the NYT and WaPo for a lot of writers.

        I can't find it right now, but there is a paper charting when certain technologies are mentioned like VR/fuzzy logic/rando tech of the day in literature, and the vast, vast majority aligned with the newspapers of record until the internet became big.