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I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.
Ernest Cline
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Ernest Cline
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 29
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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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Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.
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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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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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The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.
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A river of words flowed between us.
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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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My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.
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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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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 was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.
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One person can keep a secret, but not two.
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You’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.
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Everybody has this fond association with the car from Back to the Future, but most people have never seen one. I've seen people drive off the berm trying to take pictures. It ends up being dangerous.
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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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I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.
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I never ran out of ammo, because each time I fired a round, a new round was teleported into the bottom of the clip. My bullet bill this month was going to be huge.
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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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As far as my house, I have a ton of video games and three or four old consoles.
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