Talk:Armada (novel)

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http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/11/5492708/ernest-cline-is-the-luckiest-geek-alive-interview The Verge interview
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/08/armada-and-the-geek-hero-complex-why-ernest-cline.html Paste Magazine review, also compares to Pixels
https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/24/9032841/armada-pixels-peak-geek-culture-nostalgia The Verge article on comparing the geek culture and differences in the presentation between Armada and Pixels.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2015/08/06/the-nostalgic-narcissism-of-ernest-clines-armada/ Washington post review
https://www.gamecrate.com/interview-ready-player-one-author-ernest-cline-his-new-video-game-inspired-novel-armada/11272 gamecrate interview with Cline
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-petite/ernest-clines-armada-soar_b_7789798.html huffpost review
http://https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/3/26/17148350/ready-player-one-book-backlash-controversy-gamergate-explained Vox article mainly about Cline and Ready Player One that also compares the critical reception of Armada to that of RPO

Spoiling of Ender's Game

In the See Also section, I don't think we should give away the climax/conclusion of the book Ender's Game. I think that Orson Scott Card is not a good person, but ruining a story for other people is just bad form. Cernansky (talk) 00:56, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It is wikipedia policy to not censor to avoid spoilers. The article is intended to cleary explain the novel, even if that means mentioning the ending of another novel published over 30 years ago. 85.149.13.48 (talk) 15:31, 4 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that Wikipedia must never worry about spoiling things for people. This is an encyclopedia. Its job is to be as thorough as possible by including as much information as possible. (I don't like my entertainment to be spoiled, so I'm always careful when I read about things. That's my responsibility.)

But talking about when a book was published is not a valid argument, ever.

Here's why: mentioning that something is old, and is therefore okay to spoil, is a kind of "you snooze you lose" argument. Whether it's intentional or not, that's what it is. Those types of arguments don't work because new people are arriving on earth every second of every day.

(Obviously, I mean they're being born that often. By the way, if anyone doesn't believe people are born that frequently, take a look at this website for a few minutes: https://www.worldometers.info/)

Anyway, there's a huge influx of new people every day, and eventually each of these people will discover that 30, 40, 100, 1000 year old book, movie, game, etc. for the first time. Since they weren't even here yet, they weren't actually snoozing. That's why the age of an object is irrelevant when talking about spoilers.

I apologize. I know the point I'm making here is unimportant in the grand scheme of things. I'm just saying. IIIIsongIIII (talk) 19:10, 26 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

How is this not a blatant ripoff of The Last Starfighter?

? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.148.0.212 (talk) 01:39, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I mean... yeah it is, but what's your point? Ernest Cline can barely wax-on/wax-off a sentence without 1.21 gigawatts of references to 80s pop culture. If anyone hasn't gotten wise to his nostalgia gimmick yet, I'm not sure they can be convinced he might not be the most original author in the world. 2600:8800:239F:A900:BCC0:20E5:8D0B:23B6 (talk) 16:24, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]