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~ the depiction of the tech / "code" feels more like magic than science.
~ I have mixed feelings about the representation. EG: one of the secondary characters is paraplegic, but it is only mentioned in passing. On one hand, I am glad this person is depicted as more than their disability. On the other hand, I can't help but feel like it cheapens things a bit to not have it play even a slightly larger role.
— Mar 28, 2023 09:53PM
~ I have mixed feelings about the representation. EG: one of the secondary characters is paraplegic, but it is only mentioned in passing. On one hand, I am glad this person is depicted as more than their disability. On the other hand, I can't help but feel like it cheapens things a bit to not have it play even a slightly larger role.
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Quinn
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I can tell is sci-fi because the billionaire has more than one exploitable big idea. Also, the idea of hiring a servant is also casually floated. Yikes. Hideo's parents enter and subsequently exit the story as characters in less than a few pages. (You'd think the MC would reaction more to meeting them?)
Also, with only 30% of the story left, it really feels like the story is racing toward the conclusion.
— Mar 30, 2023 12:28PM
Also, with only 30% of the story left, it really feels like the story is racing toward the conclusion.
Quinn
is on page 4 of 11
(Back to the part about Hideo was distributing "free" contacts with the AR tech built in: it's not really discussed except in passing. Considering that this could be a world-changing event, it feels more like an excuse for readers to look past the exploitation behind every billionaire. Also, if they were being given out for free, why would anyone bother to steal them? The work doesn't really clarify.)
— Mar 28, 2023 10:28PM
Quinn
is on page 2 of 11
+ a sprinkling of video game references (Leroy Jenkins, Mario Kart, etc), cast is as international as one would expect given the in-universe popularity of Warcross,
- some of the team names are weak (zombie vikings? really?), Hideo shipping out AR contacts for free sounds like a way to handwave the excesses and exploitation involved with billionaires (especially because it is only mentioned in passing).
— Mar 28, 2023 09:49PM
- some of the team names are weak (zombie vikings? really?), Hideo shipping out AR contacts for free sounds like a way to handwave the excesses and exploitation involved with billionaires (especially because it is only mentioned in passing).
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It's like "Ready Player One," but w/o the 1980s obsession and w/ a likeable protagonist. The tech seems hand-wavey, but this is meant to be more of a fun romp than hard sci-fi. Also, it's hard not to be utterly suspicious of the conspicuous consumption on display by Hideo Tanaka, creator of the eponymous Warcross. (You don't get that rich without exploitation, baby.)
— Mar 25, 2023 11:48AM
It's like "Ready Player One," but w/o the 1980s obsession and w/ a likeable protagonist. The tech seems hand-wavey, but this is meant to be more of a fun romp than hard sci-fi. Also, it's hard not to be utterly suspicious of the conspicuous consumption on display by Hideo Tanaka, creator of the eponymous Warcross. (You don't get that rich without exploitation, baby.)
