Ep 95 – Ready Player 2 – Suddenly, and Without Warning, We Finished the Book

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🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 156 minutes

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0:00.0	Whoa, Mike, whiskey at 11 a.m.?
0:10.0	That's a few minutes early for you, something wrong?
0:13.0	Oh, hey, Connor, I just... I just looked in on the simulations of our download itself.
0:19.0	Living forever on a solid state hard drive. Never eating? Never sleeping? What could be better, amigo? It's just... Making some of our digital copies read that Ernest Klein stuff? It's... It's eating at me, man. It just ain't right. Hey, hey, lock eyes with me, Captain. There you go. It's not us suffering through that garbage, right?
0:39.9	We're good.
0:41.5	I guess.
0:42.7	It's just our other cells are in real pain.
0:45.7	Hey, they're just ones and zeros.
0:48.3	Relax.
0:50.0	Besides, a nearly infinite number of our digital cells are being tortured with hot metal pitchers or slowly dying a starvation.
0:56.6	What do you care?
0:57.8	I mean, happy is one thing.
1:00.6	Dwight David Thrash, another.
1:02.0	Stephanie Meyer, that didn't break them.
1:03.7	But this just seems inhuman.
1:07.6	It is inhuman, Mike.
1:09.3	Our digital copies are not human. And the sooner you get used to that,
1:13.6	the happier will be. Now let's see what a copy of the mister does to clones, 9,932 and 9,933.
1:23.4	A ringing phone. What the? And now an avatar of a classic 80s desk phone
1:28.7	and appears before me?
1:30.5	Hello, Digital Mic and Digital Conner.
1:34.6	Would you like to read a book?
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