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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8af71d4 | Soha senki nem kapja meg, amit akar, es ez gyonyoru. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 2b1d16a | A kovetkezo a helyzet, Wade. Te egy ugynevezett ,,emberi leny" vagy. Az ember egy nagyon okos allatfajta. Es mint a bolygonk osszes tobbi allata, mi is egy egysejtu organizmustol szarmazunk, amely evmilliokkal elottunk elt. Az elet kialakulasanak folyamatat evolucionak hivjuk, errol kesobb meg tanulni fogsz. Hidd csal el, fuggetlenul attol, amit eddig mondtak neked, igazabol igy jelentunk meg ezen a bolygon. Van ra egy csomo bizonyitek, a s.. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 22e2761 | Anorak's Invitation begins with the sound of trumpets, the opening of an old song called "Dead Man's Party." | Ernest Cline | ||
| 4e48a96 | Valoszinuleg foglalkoztat a kerdes, hogy mi lesz veled. Erre konnyu a valaszolni. Ugyanaz tortenik majd veled, mint minden egyes emberrel, aki valaha elt. Meg fogsz halni. Mind meghalunk. Ez van. Hogy mi tortenik velunk, amikor meghalunk? Nos, ebben sincs konszenzus. De minden jel arra utal, hogy semmi sem tortenik. Egyszeruen csak meghalunk, az agyunk leall, es aztan mar nem leszunk itt, hogy mindenfele keresztkerdeseket tegyunk fel. Ja,.. | Ernest Cline | ||
| e2f451a | Elhagyni az otthonunkat sulyosan tulertekelt cselekves. | Ernest Cline | ||
| f0b228f | As I watched them embrace, there on the front lawn, my heart was rocked by waves of unbridled joy. It occurred to me that up until this moment I'd only ever experienced the bridled kind. Having the reins slipped off my heart after a lifetime of wearing them was a bit overwhelming - in the best possible way | Ernest Cline | ||
| 7208490 | I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were no term limits, and those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade. | Ernest Cline | ||
| b313b99 | Sentia debilidad fetichista por las chicas guapas y raritas que tocaban el ukelele, una debilidad fetichista que no puedo ni quiero explicar ni defender | Ernest Cline | ||
| 0ee73ba | I'll still be sitting on my ass all day, five blocks from where I graduated, working the same crappy retail job I had when I was sixteen?" I finished for her. "Exactly." I tried to look hurt. "I find your lack of faith disturbing." | Ernest Cline | ||
| b670c48 | Lila!" she said, wincing again. "Such language, honey! Your parents don't let you swear like that around them, do they?" Whoadie folded her arms. "Well, no, they didn't used to," she said. "But they both died in a hurricane when I was little, so now I get to say whatever the fuck I want." | Ernest Cline | ||
| efbecec | Shin told me that the EDA spent decades engineering a special strain of weed that helps people focus and enhances their ability to play videogames! Once they had it perfected, that was when the government finally started legalizing it in the States." He raised his arms in victory. "This ganja is part of the war effort! I love it!" He broke into song, and Shin immediately joined him. " 'America. Fuck yeah. Comin' to save the motherfuckin' da.. | Ernest Cline | ||
| a19192a | The farther I went, the more confident I became. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 5d135ee | Finally, I want to thank all of the writers, filmmakers, actors, artists, musicians, programmers, game designers, and geeks whose work I've paid tribute to in this story. These people have all entertained and enlightened me, and I hope that--like Halliday's hunt--this book will inspire others to seek out their creations. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 5362b22 | Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable. --Anorak's Almanac, Chapter 91, Verses 1-2 | Ernest Cline | ||
| fecf7fe | Anorak" was a nickname Halliday had been given by a female British exchange student at his high school." | Ernest Cline | ||
| 7a6c9f2 | Azert hoztam letre az OASIS-t, mert soha nem talaltam a helyem a valosagban. Nem tudtam, hogyan teremtsek kapcsolatot az emberekkel. Egesz eletemben feltem. Egeszen addig, amig fel nem fogtam, hogy hamarosan vege. Akkor ertettem meg, hogy neha, barmennyire is remiszto es fajdalmas, a valosag az egyetlen hely, ahol igazi boldogsagra talalhatunk. Es a valosag valos. | Ernest Cline | ||
| cd82e5f | Without the built-in sexual release valve provided by masturbation, it's doubtful that early humans would have ever mastered the secrets of fire or discovered the wheel. And you can bet that Galileo, Newton, and Einstein never would have made their discoveries if they hadn't first been able to clear their heads by slapping the salami (or "knocking a few protons off the old hydrogen atom"). The same goes for Marie Curie. Before she discovere.. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 42a5622 | Ha lehetoseged van a boldogsagra a valosagban, akkor elj vele. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 29f2108 | Going outside is highly overrated. --Anorak's Almanac, Chapter 17, Verse 32 | Ernest Cline | ||
| be43c81 | Being human totally sucks most of the time. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 592e37b | When I reached the bar, I ordered a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster from the female Klingon bartender and downed half of it. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 7e86cfe | 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.) | Ernest Cline | ||
| c97f1a2 | Dagorath was a word in Sindarin, the Elvish language J. R. R. Tolkien had created for The Lord of the Rings. | Ernest Cline | ||
| c7ffec8 | Era demasiado raro incluso para los raros. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 1becefd | 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. | Ernest Cline | ||
| efc2ef6 | Ray was in his usual spot behind the counter, hunched over "Big Bootay," his ancient overclocked gaming PC." | Ernest Cline | ||
| 4b382fd | 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. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 24c01db | Nebraska," I said. "What's in Nebraska?" "A top-secret Earth Defense Alliance base." | Ernest Cline | ||
| 029711f | In the absence of any real progress, gunter subculture had become mired in bravado, bullshit, and pointless infighting. It was sad, really. | Ernest Cline | ||
| cc7011e | 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.. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 124b851 | 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.. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 98b54cf | 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.. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 13a22b4 | 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. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 3c08d9d | 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.. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 555ab0d | I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 7620bb3 | 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. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 5a5cece | 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." -- | Ernest Cline | ||
| d037662 | 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.)" | Ernest Cline | ||
| 0730298 | 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. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 821166b | 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." | Ernest Cline | ||
| 4d307ac | Sir, the only problem is that you're a complete fucking moron," I said." | Ernest Cline | ||
| 76faf7b | As terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 58d5103 | I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal. --Groucho Marx | Ernest Cline | ||
| deb94d0 | 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 | Ernest Cline |