Hello. I am James Halliday. If you're watching this, I'm dead. Before I died, I created what we in the biz call an "Easter egg." A hidden object in a game that gives special powers to whoever discovers it.
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Those were key. Halliday made sure the OASIS was littered with enough randomly powerful stuff that anyone could win if they had the skills. Death matches and artifact hunts are a good way to coin-snatch, but depending on your level of armor, they're risky. (LAUGHS) You see, everyone starts the same, but the more coin you make... -Mom! Mom! -...the more you level up. If you get killed, your avatar can come back to life... Go get your dad! ...but you lose all your stuff.
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...go anywhere.
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WADE: I was born in 2027. After the Corn Syrup Droughts, after the Bandwidth Riots. After people stopped trying to fix problems and just tried to outlive them.
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ART3MIS: Ow! (GRUNTS)
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The day the contest was announced, the Halliday Journals appeared. He told us to look in his brain. This was the next best thing. At first, it was jammed with gunters looking for answers. Now, the once-crowded halls of Halliday's memories are left to people like me. Parzival. Oh, joy! And how will you eat up my valuable search time today? Gregarious Games, 2029... Office party. Office party. Yes, you've only seen it a thousand times. Why not go back? Each entry into Halliday's Journals is meticulously assembled from personal photographs, home video recordings, surveillance, and nanny cams. All rendered into a three-dimensional virtual experience. Also, Halliday archived every film, game, book, and television program he ever saw, located on the mezzanine. No weapons or mature-themed avatars are permitted within the Journals. Please enjoy your time with us, and happy gunting! HALLIDAY: I like cleaning up. MORROW: Okay, Jim, I'm, uh... I'm going.
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James Halliday saw the future. And then he built it. He gave us a place to go. A place called the OASIS.
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First to the key. (HORN BLARES) First to the egg! (HORN BLARING)
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How the hell did they get away? Do you want the long version? Your guys suck. They failed to kill his avatar, which, if we're offering constructive criticism, was a lame idea and only would've slowed him down. Whereas my plan, which was cool because I rock, actually worked. He's still on the board. I know that, Nolan. But he won't be for long. I did a search for all the Wades who had recently bought an X1 bootsuit, cross-referenced that with public records, and voila, which is French for... "And then I found out."
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(ROARING)
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-(GRUNTS) -(GROANS)
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This is the OASIS. It's a place where the limits of reality are your own imagination.
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Pizza, guys.
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Now, that... That was when I realized that, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place that you can get a decent meal. Because reality is real. You understand what I'm saying?
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She never left. She's still here.
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You don't need a destination when you're running on an omnidirectional treadmill with quadraphonic, pressure-sensitive underlay.