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"We estimate we can sell up to 80% of a user's vision without inducing seizures." - Ernest Cline, "Ready Player One"

ch4s3 4y ago
I found that book to be nauseatingly ham-fisted and this quote is a great example. It really beats you over the head with the theme, but also begs the question would people actually put up with that?
- bo1024 4y ago
  What percent of a Google search screen is now ads?
- falcolas 4y ago
  Based off a casual perusal of almost any news site without an ad blocker, yes. Yes they will. Based off some scroll positions on Facebook, 80% might be a bit low. As a side note, it's a quote from a fictional character that's (sadly only slightly) exaggerating a real problem for effect. It's not intended to be taken as a gospel truth.
  - ch4s3 4y ago
    I’ve never seen anything that approached 80% of the screen space being ads, and plastering that much of your view in VR is preposterous. I understand that it isn’t meant to be a literal prediction about the future, but it’s still bad writing. The whole book is just so terrible tedious. Every character constantly says out loud at length what their motivations are. The villains give long speech’s like som 80s cartoon but lacking all of the flair and fun of the source material.
    - falcolas 4y ago
      I get it. You didn’t like the book. You can stop the pretentious pontification upon how little you liked it and why everyone else should despise the book and every quote from the book just as much as you do. Jesus.
      - ch4s3 4y ago
        No one else needs to dislike it as far as I'm concerned, people like what they like. Mostly I was eye rolling at using a quote from it as any form of contemporary social commentary.
- germinalphrase 4y ago
  The book is fundamentally nostalgic. There’s very little depth or “future” in it (which is not a slight; I don’t think Cline was going for anything different).
  - ch4s3 4y ago
    I find it to be nostalgic in the worst way. It seems to miss the spirit of its source material at every step, it wallows in gatekeeping, and is just in a way cringey.

I found that book to be nauseatingly ham-fisted and this quote is a great example. It really beats you over the head with the theme, but also begs the question would people actually put up with that?

bo1024 4y ago
What percent of a Google search screen is now ads?
falcolas 4y ago
Based off a casual perusal of almost any news site without an ad blocker, yes. Yes they will. Based off some scroll positions on Facebook, 80% might be a bit low. As a side note, it's a quote from a fictional character that's (sadly only slightly) exaggerating a real problem for effect. It's not intended to be taken as a gospel truth.
- ch4s3 4y ago
  I’ve never seen anything that approached 80% of the screen space being ads, and plastering that much of your view in VR is preposterous. I understand that it isn’t meant to be a literal prediction about the future, but it’s still bad writing. The whole book is just so terrible tedious. Every character constantly says out loud at length what their motivations are. The villains give long speech’s like som 80s cartoon but lacking all of the flair and fun of the source material.
  - falcolas 4y ago
    I get it. You didn’t like the book. You can stop the pretentious pontification upon how little you liked it and why everyone else should despise the book and every quote from the book just as much as you do. Jesus.
    - ch4s3 4y ago
      No one else needs to dislike it as far as I'm concerned, people like what they like. Mostly I was eye rolling at using a quote from it as any form of contemporary social commentary.
germinalphrase 4y ago
The book is fundamentally nostalgic. There’s very little depth or “future” in it (which is not a slight; I don’t think Cline was going for anything different).
- ch4s3 4y ago
  I find it to be nostalgic in the worst way. It seems to miss the spirit of its source material at every step, it wallows in gatekeeping, and is just in a way cringey.