History WMG / ReadyPlayerOne

I-Rok may be a tool, but after being told by Aech that his/her action of telling people about Aech and Wade has lead to the deaths of people Wade knew, he/she realizes that they made a mistake and more than likely trying to atone for what happened. I-Rok may not be a good Gunter, but may have been a fan of Voltron, and when waiting for Wade with everyone else, he/she remembered that the Lions were weaker independently when not joined together to form Voltron, and transmitted it to everyone in hopes to stopping the IOI from getting the upper hand. Aech and Wade will never know how he/she helped and they earned the atonement they sought for the guilt of inadvertently getting people killed.

WarGames: Cold War fiction where a single insightful individual can make critical observations entire organizations cannot.\\

** If that's the case, then every single member of The High Five has it too in some degree.

** The work clarifies that the world was already in a bad state, but OASIS made things worse for this very reason.

** If that's the case, then every single member of The High Five has it too.

He spends all of his time online. Is awkward in real life interactions. Has an encyclopedic knowledge of an obscure area of interest. And he was able to play a perfect game of Pac-Man. The book has been criticized for cramming so many pop-culture references into the text, but that's pretty much how someone with Asperger's sounds when they're talking about something that interests them.

* [[spoiler: In the second book, he appears to have made a digital copy of himself and attempted to remove memories to and add subroutines to make his digital copy a better version of himself. And it backfires drastically, leading to the creation of Anorak becoming the big bad of the story.]]

* Pretty much confirmed with the second book.

* [[spoiler: In the second book, it appears they try to, but no matter how much money they throw at the problems, as well as the addition of the release of the ONI which allows realistic VR, things do not improve. Even at the end of the story, there's no indication if the world has been fixed.

* [[spoiler: In the second book, Wade and GSS eventually take over IOI. The combination of releasing the ONI, making IOI's gear obsolete, and the lawsuits filed, GSS took over IOI and even released the indents IOI had been using.]]

* [spoiler: Though would have been an excellent twist, pretty much jossed in the second book.]]