Setting the bar really high right here, but I'm betting this will be better than 50 shades.

Look at it this way, if this movie does well it means there are enough people who wont be able to feed themselves without direct high resource intervention (which we can just refuse to give) that the human population will reduce dramatically.

Historically, that usually leads to a golden age.

Here is an excerpt from the book.

“I watched every episode of The Greatest American Hero, Airwolf, the A-Team, Knight Rider, Misfits of Science, and The Muppet Show. What about The Simpsons, you ask? I knew more about Springfield than I knew about my own city. Star Trek? Oh, I did my homework. TOS, TNG, DS9. Even Voyager and Enterprise. I watched them all in chronological order. The movies, too. Phasers locked on target…I learned the name of every last goddamn Gobot and Transformer. Land of the Lost. Thundarr the Barbarian, He-Man, Schoolhouse Rock! G.I. Joe – I knew them all. Because knowing is half the battle!”

I think poeTV might lose half its members once climate change gets going.

As many people have pointed out, where did the protagonist acquire all of the time to watch and read all of the various media he studied. It would take years.

And why does he like EVERYTHING?

Or does "liking" not come into it, media consumption is it's own reward?

It isn't a matter of like, it's a matter of knowing these things equals power over those who don't.

Excerpt :

"Dagorath was a word in Sindarin, the Elvish language J. R. R. Tolkien had created for The Lord of the Rings. The word dagorath meant 'battle,' but Tolkien had spelled the word with just one 'g,' not two. 'Daggorath' (with two 'g's) could refer only to one thing: an incredibly obscure computer game called Dungeons of Daggorath released in 1982. The game had been made for just one platform, the TRS-80 Color Computer.”

In the book's universe, if you don't know this, you wont win All The Money and be a nerdogarch and win over those bullies who bullied you for being a nerd forever.

The author is 45 by the way.

This is a cultural ant vortex that is too damned horrific to also not be wildly entertaining. Embrace the genocide of geek culture, RSR, and together we will walk away from the galaxy without any desire to rule it.

Not that accurate but it certainly captures the withered spirit of RPO.

Seriously, there's a segment (I cannot really call it a scene) where his online GF has rejected him for whatever reason and he tries to get her attention and win her back in the virtual realm.

“After that night in the Distracted Globe, Art3mis had cut off all contact with me. She blocked all of my e-mails, phone calls, and chat requests. She also stopped making posts to her blog. I tried everything I could think of to reach her. I sent her avatar flowers. I made multiple trips to her avatar’s stronghold, an armored palace on Benatar, the small moon she owned. I dropped mix tapes and notes on her palace from the air, like lovesick bombs. Once, in a supreme act of desperation, I stood outside her palace gates for two solid hours, with a boom box over my head, blasting "In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel at full volume."

Someone showed me a page of this in which the hero's edgy antihero buddy showed up in a spaceship designed to look like the Bebop and then they walked into the hero's living room, which was a perfect recreation of the one from Family Ties. That's about as far as I got.

These stars are for you and for my newfound desire to try Ninja Turtle Soup

Thanks for that, bro. It is a really good podcast.

I would pay good money to see someone turn Doom: Repercussions of Evil into a feature length film.

To be honest, this feels like something out of
Ben 'Gryphon' Hutchins' Eyrie Productions Unlimited .

I actually started reading this book today and I'm having difficulty getting through it. I have no idea how old the author was when he wrote it but it reads like something you'd find on a middle schooler's DA account.

He's 45 now it was released in 2011, so he was in his mid 30s.

I guess that's true, but it's just that sometimes it feels like the American version of burning books is to just saturate the market with shitty ones.

Because we're about to lose our long standing claim that Boomers were the most self absorbed generation.

You could ask the same question about half the videos on this site that people get upset over. It's a testament to how well we live.

Now I want to go see it and obnoxiously yell, "HEY, I REMEMBER THAT!" throughout the whole film.

I CLAPPED WHEN I SAW IT!: The Motion Picture.

I'm kind of jealous that you guys have so much audience participation where you live. Where I live everyone is dead silent aside of laughter during funny parts.