big_d Inquisitor
Posts : 494 Join date : 2009-06-07
| Subject: Major Geek Moment 25th March 2012, 7:11 pm | |
| Had a major geek moment this weekend. I recently read through Ready Player One after Haren suggested it to me and I really enjoyed it. I was trolling around the web this week and saw that the author would be doing a Q&A over on io9.com and I figured I would post a question. *spoilers* - Spoiler:
Something just bothered me when the book ended. When the 6ers detonated their bomb it killed half the people in the OASIS. When you die you loose all your stuff - money, equipment, exp. It says in the book that the currency in the OASIS is the most stable in the world. My though was that if you lost half of the most stable currency in the whole world that it would just completely collapse the entire economy. We are talking rioting in the streets and people starving to death in mass here.
I figured I would post this question to the discussion and see if he would answer. Guess what - he did! I was super stoked to see that he had responded. Here is the link to the discussion if you are interested - http://io9.com/5895685/ask-ernest-cline-anything-you-want-about-ready-player-one | |
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Cpt_Tiberius Grey Space Marine with the mange
Posts : 181 Join date : 2009-06-12 Location : Bentonville
| Subject: Re: Major Geek Moment 26th March 2012, 9:59 pm | |
| The author was at a convention down in Dallas last year. I didn't get a chance to talk to him, but I got my picture taken with his DeLorean | |
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Wildeyedjester Inquisitor
Posts : 1332 Join date : 2009-06-07 Age : 45 Location : Centerton, Arkansas
| Subject: Re: Major Geek Moment 26th March 2012, 10:29 pm | |
| It's a great book. I enjoyed it immensely. | |
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