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Ha lehetoseged van a boldogsagra a valosagban, akkor elj vele.
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Going outside is highly overrated. --Anorak's Almanac, Chapter 17, Verse 32
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Being human totally sucks most of the time.
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When I reached the bar, I ordered a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster from the female Klingon bartender and downed half of it.
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During our World History lesson that morning, Mr. Avenovich loaded up a stand-alone simulation so that our class could witness the discovery of King Tut's tomb by archaeologists in Egypt in AD 1922. (The day before, we'd visited the same spot in 1334 BC and had seen Tutankhamen's empire in all its glory.)
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Dagorath was a word in Sindarin, the Elvish language J. R. R. Tolkien had created for The Lord of the Rings.
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Era demasiado raro incluso para los raros.
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There was always a trick to beating a computer-controlled opponent. At a game like this, a gifted human player could always triumph over the game's AI, because software couldn't improvise. It could either react randomly, or in a limited number of predetermined ways, based on a finite number of preprogrammed conditions. This was an axiom in videogames, and would be until humans invented true artificial intelligence.
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Ray was in his usual spot behind the counter, hunched over "Big Bootay," his ancient overclocked gaming PC."
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It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an undead king, both hunched over the controls of a classic arcade game.
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Nebraska," I said. "What's in Nebraska?" "A top-secret Earth Defense Alliance base."
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In the absence of any real progress, gunter subculture had become mired in bravado, bullshit, and pointless infighting. It was sad, really.
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When I placed the album cover side by side with the screenshot of the game screen, the two symbols matched exactly. 2112's title track is an epic seven-part song, over twenty minutes in length. The song tells the story of an anonymous rebel living in the year 2112, a time when creativity and self-expression have been outlawed. The red star on the album's cover was the symbol of the Solar Federation, the oppressive interstellar society in th..
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Your mom bought them for me," I retorted without breaking my stride. "Tell her I said thanks, the next time you stop at home to breast-feed and pick up your allowance." Childish, I know. But virtual or not, this was still high school--the more childish an insult, the more effective it was. My jab elicited laughter from a few of his friends and the other students standing nearby. Todd13 scowled and his face actually turned red--a sign that h..
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I just turned sixteen last week," she said. "But I don't have my license yet." "You sound like you're from New Orleans," Debbie told her, doing her best to pronounce it N'Awlins. Whoadie nodded. "I live in the Ninth Ward," she said. "That's actually where my nickname comes from. Whoadie is how the locals say wardie. That's a person who lives in the same ward as you," she explained. "My parents called me Whoadie ever since I was a baby. I di..
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I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.
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The ability to mute my peers was one of my favorite things about attending school online, and I took advantage of it almost daily. The best thing about it was that they could see that you'd muted them, and they couldn't do a damn thing about it. There was never any fighting on school grounds. The simulation simply didn't allow it. The entire planet of Ludus was a no-PvP zone, meaning that no player-versus-player combat was permitted. At thi..
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I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles.
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In a way, these old role-playing games had been the first virtual-reality simulations, created long before computers were powerful enough to do the job. In those days, if you wanted to escape to another world, you had to create it yourself, using your brain, some paper, pencils, dice, and a few rule books.
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It had become a self-imposed prison for humanity," he wrote. "A pleasant place for the world to hide from its problems while human civilization slowly collapses, primarily due to neglect." --
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Each enemy I vanquished dropped a pile of "Zenny coins" that I could later use to purchase armor, weapons, and potions from one of the bearded wise men scattered throughout each level. (These "wise men" apparently thought setting up a small shop in the middle of a monster-infested dungeon was a fine idea.)"
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Maybe it isn't a good idea to tell a newly arrived human being that he's been born into a world of chaos, pain, and poverty just in time to watch everything fall to pieces.
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I cleared my throat and recited my pass phrase. Each word appeared on my display as I said it. "No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful."
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Sir, the only problem is that you're a complete fucking moron," I said."
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As terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness.
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I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal. --Groucho Marx
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Art3mis also ran her own vidfeed channel, Art3mivision, and I always kept one of my monitors tuned to it. Right now, she was airing her usual Monday evening fare: an episode of Square Pegs. After that would
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My mom once told me that my dad had given me an alliterative name, Wade Watts, because he thought it sounded like the secret identity of a superhero. Like Peter Parker or Clark Kent.
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humor
secret-identity
superhero-reference
superheroes
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The hour or so after I woke up was my least favorite part of each day, because I spent it in the real world. This was when I dealt with the tedious business of cleaning and exercising my physical body. I hated this part of the day because everything about it contradicted my other life. My real life, inside the OASIS. The sight of my tiny one-room apartment, my immersion rig, or my reflection in the mirror--they all served as a harsh reminde..
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I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it.
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Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny
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recommended gunter reading list. Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny.
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Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny.
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list. Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny.
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I was too weird, even for the weirdos. And girls? Talking to girls was out of the question. To me, they were like some exotic alien species, both beautiful and terrifying.
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Wolverines!
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Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation was a big place.
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My father looked as if I'd just gutted him - but it was mingled with a twisted sense of satisfaction. It felt good to hurt his feelings.
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emotions
father
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Casi siempre, la vida del ser humano es repugnante.Los videojuegos son lo unico que la hacen soportable
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Ernest Cline |
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los cereales Cap'n Crunch.
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Tengo beicon de soja. Y estos huevos en polvo no estan tan mal, si los salas bien...
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1977--Star Wars is released on 5/25/77. Highest grossing movie in history. First wave of brainwashing in prep for invaders arrival?
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home videogame consoles had already made most coin-op games obsolete. After the OASIS went online, they stopped making
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Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton
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