Good one as always, Vix!

I read Ready Player One some years ago, and while I appreciated the author's attention to 80s detail, I didn't see what all the fuss was about. I obviously wasn't the target audience. :D

I began writing when playing in chat and quickly learned I was different.

Vix

I have enough fun with the character generator in my head.

(gives the Muse a poke, and ducks the riposte)

And there you have it…

Vix

I took this as a moment of you arguing with yourself.

*smiles… yes and no…

Vix

Amazing story

*smiles... thank you Werty...

*gives a hug...

Vix

Very good points. In many ways, regular people are trying to catch up to what we writers do on a regular basis.

in many cases, I just think they haven't got a clue...

Vix

No, they don't know they're trying to. But they honestly are trying to do what we do naturally.

Creative types are the whole reason AI has anything to work with. They filled the internet with their fever dreams and the machines just came in behind them and started playing with their toys.

The trouble is... they never asked first.

*laughs... and that is so very true...

*hugs...

Vix

Only a bazilliontrihillion? Huh, that's fewer than I expected to hear.

(A fun perspective to have, for sure. Thank you for sharing.)

Ty ty ty…

Vix

...And the internet is made of cats, so I'm right at home! *chuckles* But yeah, definitely a whole lot of truth right there, and that was a really cute and fun little story, too. Although I have to admit, I often (waaay too often) can't resist those yelling voices and end up adopting a bunch of the characters that are put out there by many artists. BUT! While I may let them sit in a folder unused for lo-o-ong amounts of time, I take a lot of delight from making them my own and finding ways to fit them in my world and interact with them. As a matter of fact, it's an incredibly fun and interesting process to just come up with a name and some basics, and then plop them into my world and write about them to interact with them, and let them show me exactly who and what they are and how they react to the world around them and what kind of quirks they have >^_^<

I suppose, being a cat and therefore always doing everything just a bit different from the normal expectation, makes me a bit of a weird writer as well >~_^<

you are no weirder than me... when I found out icon, Vixyy told me, 'That's me! That's who I am!

Vix

Oh, trust me though, I'm reeeally weird, haha! But I definitely get you, because that is exactly the way it tends to go! >^_^<

Mmmmmm fine whiskey. Sorry you've been in a slump, Vix :(

I have such a small collection of characters but honestly it's enough lol. I don't need to get more!

I hear that!

Vix

Ready Player One was a fun book, haven't seen the movie though.

I have no doubt the book was better, but I thought the movie was exceptional. I can go much deeper, of course, but there we are. There were a lot of really good Easter Eggs in the film.

I'm hoping all is well with you...

Vix

I'll order a copy of the movie, and doing OK, thanks!

I read the Ready Player One book -- much better than the movie, Why movies made from books never really do it for me -- artistic differences between the vision of the cinematographer and my IMAGINATION.

Back in the days BC (before computers) Theater of the Mind is what your brain performed for you when read a book or were "watching the radio" (yes, people did stare at those old cathedral sets).

Pretend used to be one of the first games we played -- in the olden days -- a stick was a multi-function prop and it could be a sword, a rifle or anything. and a box was vehicle to explore the seven seas, the skies, or space.

There were scores of Imaginary Friends and Foes, from the monster in the closet to an invisible six foot tall talking rabbit and beyond.

Smart devices are making us dumber.

you have only total agreement from my side...

Vix