Quotes About Technology

Unless your game is a just-for-fun simulation such as Super Mario Kart or Beetle Adventure Racing!, vehicle simulation is the most technologically oriented of games, so the core mechanics of the game are almost entirely about physics.

Shit!" I heard Diehl shout over the comm. "I just lost my gorram shields because I'm already out of frakkin' power!" "Dude," Cruz said. "You shouldn't mix swears from different universes.

These three words were always the last thing an OASIS user saw before leaving the real world and entering the virtual one: READY PLAYER ONE

I'd come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn't exist. Each component of my rig was a bar in the cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself.

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..

The ability to mute my peers was one of my favorite things about attending school online, and I took advantage of it almost daily. The best thing about it was that they could see that you'd muted them, and they couldn't do a damn thing about it.

Now whenever I watched a Star Wars film, I found myself wondering how the Empire had the technology to make long-distance holographic phone calls between planets light-years apart, and yet no one had figured out how to make a remote-controlled TIE Fighter or X-Wing yet.

It occurred to me then that for the first time in as long as I could remember, I had absolutely no desire to log back into the OASIS." - Wade Owen Watts Ready Player One

At the end of the day, I was still a virgin, all alone in a dark room, humping a lubed-up robot.

Before long, billions of people around the world were working and playing in the OASIS every day. Some of them met, fell in love, and got married without ever setting foot on the same continent. The lines of distinction between a person's real identity and that of their avatar began to blur. It was the dawn of new era, one where most of the human race now spent all of their free time inside a videogame.

The OASIS lets you be whoever you want to be. That's why everyone is addicted to it.

It was the dawn of new era, one where most of the human race now spent all of their free time inside a videogame.

Anonymity was one of the major perks of the OASIS.

The simulation had now become indistinguishable from real life.

These new helmets can read your thoughts, too," Ray joked. "But you have to think in Russian.

Maybe every time an intelligent species grew advanced enough to invent a global computer network, they would then develop some form of social media, which would immediately fill these beings with such an intense hatred for one another that they ended up wiping themselves out within four or five decades.

You're a fucking toaster!

How the fuck do you negotiate with a piece of software?

L33t Haxorz Warezhaus

They may have used alien technology in these things," she said. "But the software they installed to run it all was clearly created by humans—overworked, underpaid programmers like me who take all kinds of shortcuts. The security protocols on the file-sharing system are a total joke. It only took me about five minutes to jailbreak this thing.

Why would real aliens behave exactly like videogame simulations of themselves?

You know you've totally screwed up your life when your whole world turns to shit and the only person you have to talk to is your system agent software.

I'm sort of like Q in the James Bond films. Except, you know, I only get to hand out this one thing.

A mission where you have to blow up a Death Star while being attacked by two Borg Cubes inside an asteroid field?