A middle-aged nerd from the UK. I like films and write about them, sometimes for Film Stories or my blog.

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  • I enjoyed Ready Player One at the time even though some of it was just ridiculous. Re-enacting Ferris Buellers Day Off for example.

    Armada, Cline’s next book was awful. So many references on every page, I stopped reading. I remember a line that was something like, “my mum wouldn’t let me past, like Gandelf in the mines of Moria.” Sheesh! Let it go!

    I fully read Ready Player Two but the guy has no story telling abilities. Every time the main character encounters a problem, e.g. I need a level 49 sword to get past this problem, but there’s no way to get one, it was always solved with the same solution, “oh, I own the game and all Admins have level 1000 swords because we do!”

    I think I reached my limit when he managed to shove in a Shaun of the Dead reference just because he mentioned a cricket bat!














  • Minidiscs rocked! My first model, which I loved, was unfortunately stolen. They hardly took up any room and I could carry loads of them on my travels to college. They were cheap and came in lovely bright colours.

    The replacement model I bought was a Sony NetMD which I thought was amazing. It ran for hours on it’s chewing gum battery and if that failed, I could screw on an attachment to use a single AA battery.

    The player used Sony’s new compression techniques and I could fit three or four albums on a single disc. It came with a dock and connected to my Windows 95 PC so I could rip CDs or convert mp3s and use the computer to fill in the artist and track name information.

    I found the in-line remote on eBay so I could control it via the little cylinder remote with the backlit blue LCD display, clipped to my jacket.

    I loved minidiscs.





  • I haven’t watched either version in a while, but from what I recall, the SE features more scenes where they try to discover what the aliens are. When it comes to the ending, Bud’s love for his ex is what convinces the aliens to rescue him and everyone else on Deepcore. Of course, in the SE, the aliens demonstrate their power and threaten humanity because of the threat of nuclear war with the huge waves (and bum flashing 😆) but again, Bud’s love is what convinces them that humanity is worth saving.