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In the book snowcrash by Neil Stephenson the main character is named "Hiro Protagonist". Yes it's a real book, and one of my favorites, by a real author.
I like it, as a person who doesn't really pay attention to most names in fiction, and primarily focuses on the story it's trying to tell.
Don't make it too obvious like "Busty LoveInterest" and "Villain McMustashface".
Die Hardman
Heartman
Fragile
Revolver Ocelott
Snake Eater
...
Kojima you beautiful bastard
Haha you know I'm a kojima fan!!
You guys ever heard of JoJo's?
If you like techno-fantasy I highly recommend snowcrash. For years I've wanted a game of the first chapter, basically a guy is delivering pizza but gas is really expensive so all he has is a skateboard and a harpoon gun with an electromagnet. He basically shoots the harpoon at cars and gave them pull him towards the destination, it sounds like a cool video game like a race but you don't control speed only which car you are connected to.
Don't worry that didn't spoil anything. The book goes into a totally different direction with technology and science.
The guy in the car getting harpooned is delivering the pizza, the skateboarder is just hitching a free ride.
Wait, are you correcting me or giving social commentary? I thought the guy on the skateboard was delivering pizzas but it has been over a decade since I read it so I may be wrong
I dont remember who was delivering the pizzas but I remember Hiro was driving the car that got harpooned.
Hiro was delivering the pizzas, he's the Deliverator.
Ok, I'm sorry I got that detail incorrect.
No worries
I guess it's time for a re-read
Just a slight correction that Hiro is driving the car and delivering the pizzas. He's trying to shake the skateboarder (who is a courier) loose and deliver the pizza on time.
Ok, it's been a decade since I read it so I remembered wrong.
I vaguely remember a skateboarding game from the 90s where the character could grab onto cars. But it was probably on something like Sega Mega and pretty primitive. Might've been one of the Simpsons games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skitchin%27
That's it! The description sounds pretty fun actually, I might need to fire the game up myself.
My nagging feeling that it was ‘Road Rash’ with a skateboard or skates didn't deceive me, as apparently the ‘RR’ engine was reused for this game.
I've said that before too, like I would love a novel that's just about the pizza delivery side of things, he crammed so much fascinating backstory into that one chapter, then the book completely changes direction and never looks back. That whole sequence with all the crazy technology and just the tone in general was just so badass.
Don't get me wrong, the rest of the book is pretty awesome too, but that first chapter is wild just on its own.
Completely agree.
The difference is that's trying to be stupid and funny. Rowling is just, I don't know, lazy, or uncreative, or racist. One, or multiple, of those at least.
Cho Chang. is so fucking wild that her editor didn't go, "Wtf?"
That was the age of "if you point out racism, you're the real racist".
It's not a direct connection to Rowling but I was just pointing out another example.
The way I imagined this being said
Have your agent call mine
Sorry, it's snowcrash and I corrected the original comment.
Snowcrash is a satire. That name is supposed to be funny
Could be, I may be wrong but still an awesome book
The protagonist from one of the mortal Kombat was Shujinko. Which means protagonist.
I just looked that up and it says Shujinko was fooled by someone named Damashi, which means trick.
Pretty much all anime names are stupid as hell too. Dragon Ball famously names all characters around foods (and sometimes other themes like underwear, for example). In other anime, every character has a name that just so happens to be related to their special ability or personality. Yusuke Urameshi from Yuyuhakusho basically is "Boo Ghost-boy".
In Dragon Ball's case, this is because Akira Toriyama would always write before dinner, so he would always have food on the brain. He was kinda quirky like that.
So he was eating bloomers, panties, briefs, and trunks (boxer briefs)?
What, you don't?
Fantastic book, line a comics but in text.
He also invented "the metaverse" that moron zuckerberg just stole, poured billions into just to get legs to the avatars.
BTW The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon are masterpieces too IMO.
I bought this book minutes before reading this comment. The AI-captured advernet is here, and they have played me like a fiddle
Nope, I'm not an Ai advert. I read the book and still have it. I hope you like the book. I also recommend a diamond age, also known as a primer for young girls.
The secondary title is; Or, A Young Ladies Illustrated Primer. The Diamond Age is one of my favorite Stephenson books.