• HikingVet@lemmy.ca
    32·
    9 months ago

    I’ve read some stories with questionable world building, but this is something else.

  • EndOfLine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    9 months ago

    The month is Compuary, which is a new cyber-month they added just for doing hacker stuff.

    A what now? To do what again?

    And they do sex stuff up there as well.

    Reeeeealy?

    There’s Baltimore Airport, lab-grown to be a swimsuit model but programmed to kill.

    Obviously a complex character with depth.

    There’s Crusty Silverware…

    Say no more … please.

    Infiltrate the dome and take out Harvard Pubence, the president of cops.

    You son of a bitch, I’m in!

    Tonight, Pubence is guest of honor at the 9th annual Rich Perverts’ Ball.

    OMG! Stop I already said I was in!

    My team jacked up on Tums 2

    Seriously, I need to read this book or my life may never feel complete!

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
    28·
    9 months ago

    For anyone seeing this and wishing there really was a stupidly enjoyable satire of 1980s cyberpunk tropes:

    It’s called Snow Crash.

    • skulblaka@startrek.website
      10·
      9 months ago

      Snow Crash is 100% over the top satire but also 100% enjoyable. When the first chapter of the book introduces you to your protagonist, Hiro Protagonist, you know you’re in for something a little off.

      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        9 months ago

        It is a story that knows exactly how stupid it is, and that means it can get away with anything. It’s just played so straight that half the target audience misses the joke. That’s like if Bored Of The Rings was somehow more popular and enduring than the Tolkein novels it mocked - the high-fantasy tropes are still there, and the book does function as a hero’s journey. It just stars Dildo Bugger and his son Frito.

        The measure of any adaptation - if that somehow exits development hell, one of these decades - will be the car chase in the middle. If they show it, they’ve failed.

  • Entertainmeonly
    11·
    9 months ago

    I’m so in. Where do I sign up. No, for real though, what is the name of this book. I must own a copy.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      9 months ago

      This book is made-up. Snow Crash is just the closest thing in real life, and it’s deliberately stupid in its own unique ways.

      It’s the book where Hiro Protagonist, arguably the main character, gets harpooned out of his cozy life-or-death pizza delivery job and winds up saving anarcho-capitalist North America from the most evil force in the universe: the telephone company.

      Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

      Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken.

      • Entertainmeonly
        3·
        9 months ago

        Oh, sad days. I will totally read Snow Crash still, but I was so ready for whatever nonsensical chaos OP’s book was pitching.

  • TerraRoot@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    9 months ago

    I’ve read it, only thing I remember is the first chapter pizza delivery, gonna have to dig it out now and refresh myself of the rest of the story.