That would have bombed

And their cousin Naga Saki.

He was a fat man

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.

You'd think so, but in contrast it exploded within the general public.

Queer roommate Anola Gay.

I cast Fissio Infernus!

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

The stoner roommate Tokey O.

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.

Haha you know I'm a kojima fan!!

snowcraah

The way I imagined this being said

Sorry, it's snowcrash and I corrected the original comment.

Implying she'd even attempt to resist.

I mean, this is one where you don't have to make up an example. The only Asian character in the books is named Cho Chang.

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

And the movie portrayal was character assassination implying she was the one who ratted out Dumbledore’s Army.

I dont remember who was delivering the pizzas but I remember Hiro was driving the car that got harpooned.

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.

Fuck I forgot about that. Those movies kinda suck ass past the first two.

Order of the Phoenix is brutal but I think Half Blood Prince from a cinematography perspective is the best in the series. Prisoner of Azkaban was also really well done.

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.

Oh yeah Prisoner was great.

Going to have to disagree with you on HBP. I went through a huge Potterhead phase as a teen and I fell asleep during that movie every time I tried to watch it.

At the time, the only other movie I had ever fallen asleep during while trying to watch was After Earth. So, admittedly, I kinda wrote the HBP movie off for that reason. But I've tried to go back and revisit it, and I just can't keep my eyes open!

Snowcrash is a satire. That name is supposed to be funny

Have your agent call mine

Order of the Phoenix took the longest book and made the shortest film.

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.

Completely agree.

Ok, it's been a decade since I read it so I remembered wrong.

Could be, I may be wrong but still an awesome book

Ok, I'm sorry I got that detail incorrect.

It's not a direct connection to Rowling but I was just pointing out another example.

Cho Chang. is so fucking wild that her editor didn't go, "Wtf?"

No worries

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.

I guess it's time for a re-read

The secondary title is; Or, A Young Ladies Illustrated Primer. The Diamond Age is one of my favorite Stephenson books.

Hiro was delivering the pizzas, he's the Deliverator.

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.

Wasn't she possessed or something and that was the reason she ratted out Dumbledore's Army?

That was the age of "if you point out racism, you're the real racist".

Are you kidding? The first two films were shot in the most boring way possible, which is a bit odd considering the director Chris Columbus had previously made the two ‘Home Alones’ and ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’. I still regret that I didn't know of VLC's playback speed adjustment when I watched ‘HP’.

Then they got proper good director Alfonso Cuarón, who shown how a fantasy film could actually look and feel. After which of course he wasn't hired again, and instead in one more iteration they found David Yates, who churned out the remaining four films like it was a factory job for him.

That's the joke.

Nope, not kidding. Clearly we disagree. It seems Mr. Cuarón's look for a good fantasy film was a washed-out blue.

That said, I still think PoA is still the best non-Columbus movie - I just enjoy the coziness of the first two. It's what Hogwarts felt like to me when reading the books, so I naturally like seeing that brought to screen.

In the movie Dolores Umbridge had Snape administer truth serum to Cho.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skitchin'

The joke is that JK Rowling names her characters offensively.

I've seen this done before with multiple non-existent examples.

This one also uses a Japanese example.

My point is that JK Rowling already named an Asian character offensively. She also has an Irish kid named Seamus that loves blowing stuff up, and a black man named Shacklebolt.

All I'm saying is the joke is now distracting from the source, because there is a real example of using her naming conventions on Asian characters. I'll also say that we don't actually know Cho's nationality, yet I don't have faith in JK Rowling to distinguish between non-European nationalities.

Of course, the longer I talk about it the less funny everything becomes.