Ready Player One Notes

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The stacks; mobile homes literally stacked on top of each other

Lots of VR tech that everyone uses

Main character uses it as well, 360 treadmill for movement

The OASIS gives anyone the power to do anything or be anything, 

Respawning in the oasis is like Minecraft survival; you lose everything

James Halliday went to the church of Star Trek

Keys are essentially NFTs

Makes friends with a Sixer

Lots of pop culture involved throughout

All the 80s music is because of Halliday

The real world still exists and its shit for them

Wins the race by going backwards like bill and ted

Real world prizes bought in the OASIS

Orb of osuvox

The story is similar to Charlie and the chocolate factory

The distracted globe was inspired for Karen

The jump down the pit results in

You can have e-sex?!?!

What does finding out Wade’s real identity mean

Sorrento fakes his love for pop culture

Sorrento blows up his apartment building and kidnaps him

2nd clue is in the shining and not kissing Karen

Scene like the haunted mansion

Artemis gets sent to a Loyalty center

Atari 2600 games

Fake office like Oceans 11

“The High Five”

 

 

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