Ready Player One isn’t the greatest movie ever made but the book is ‘I can’t believe this is an actual published work by an adult’ level bad.

If you use -san it registers as ‘oh these people are Japanese and addressing each other with Japanese honorifics’ while if you have a character who just keeps calling their peers ‘mister’ they kind of just come across as weird Agent Smith style constructs because nobody does that in English.

I’ve always been more afraid of looking like a pretentious dickwad so I’d fold over the spine if I was reading something fancy on the train.

I’ve always been more afraid of looking like a pretentious dickwad so I’d fold over the spine if I was reading something fancy on the train.