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I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.

Ernest Cline

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Ernest Cline
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 29
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Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.
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It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.
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I've wanted to own a DeLorean since I was 10 years old, but it always seemed like a silly daydream. Like owning the A-Team van or something.
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I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and '80s. Saturday morning cartoons like 'Star Blazers' and 'Robotech.' Live action Japanese shows like 'Ultraman' and 'The Space Giants.'
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Going outside is highly overrated.
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I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.
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I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.
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I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.
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Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.
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My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office.
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I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.
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Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.
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...now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.
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Continue your quest by taking the test. Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?
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I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.
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I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.
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I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, I don't know, I think we've played a little too much Mario.
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