• • Deciding that the first thing he is going to use the USB to extract from a movie-verse is a drug to increase intelligence which he knows is addictive and deadly. And that it would be enough to just test it on a few mice for a few weeks, and that would prove safety. The only excuse he has in this case is, well, he hadn't taken the intelligence drug yet so he's an idiot.

• • Unfortunately, even after acquiring a few drug-induced brain cells, he's still an idiot. When he realizes that he will need money for an industrial amount of electricity so he can recharge the USB and extract a cure for the wonder drug that is now killing him, the only thing his MASSIVE brain power can think of is: coincidentally encountering a rich female student who will bankroll his stem cell research as long as he will give her first author credit so she can get into graduate school.

• • The above bullet point needs an additional bullet point so we can unpack that. WTF was he going to do if he didn't meet the rich lady and use Sherlock deductions to persuade her to rent a super expensive lab (and that cheating is a good idea) ? All he had been doing up until that point was read books in the library. Also, stem cell research? Why? I mean, it's a hot field, but not exactly a fast and guaranteed money maker...

• • When, due to a series of predictably s*upid events, rich lady's academic advisor decides he wants to force his way into their research and take credit... MC confronts him about the mu*der of his first wife and hypnotizes him into committing su*cide????? Two big problems here: 1) Advisor guy might be rather ethically bankrupt in his academics, but it's really f*cking convenient that he's also a mu*derer, and that MC can Sherlock-deduct this based on a photo and some google-fu. 2) Hypnotism??? Essentially killing the advisor??? Do I need to explain why that is a s*upid solution? MC is supposed to have an IQ of over 9000 at this point. He can't think of any other way to avoid letting the advisor take the credit?!?

• • Deciding to drop out of school and get a business loan instead. What was the point of the stem cell research then!?? Why didn't MC just do that from the start??

• • Tracking down and blackmailing a bunch of infamous hackers (who conveniently live nearby)... to fund and promote his new app. Because now he develops apps, ofc. Why does so much of this novel read like a get-rich-quick scam?

• • His blackmail turned business deal is successful with three of the four hackers. The fourth hacker he has to... hypnotize!!! Why is it hypnotism to death again!!!!!! (
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Rich lady, who was bankrolling his research so she could get into graduate school... decides to become his secretary. This is supposed to be a woman who has completed her undergraduate education in a scientific field, essentially spending years of her life pursuing this career in defiance of her father's wishes that she take over his company.

It was bad enough when during the research, all scientific aspects were done by the MC and his random roommate (who is a freshman) while she just did "logistics" like "fetching water." Even if she is having trouble getting into a competitive graduate program, that doesn't mean she's so incompetent that she would be worse at assisting in an experiment than his freshman roommate!!

Then, after publishing the research she just... quits. Tracks him down so she can join his company as a secretary. "Fetching water" is mentioned again (like that's all a woman is good for), as well as unnecessarily extensive descriptions of her legs.

The only saving grace is that there are not very many female characters to begin with, so you can ignore it mostly.

The nationalism/racism is pretty standard. The occasional pro-China, pro-government line thrown in there, the head hacker of the hacker group Anonymous is, of course, from Mainland China (unbeknownst to all those foreigners who would be shocked to know this... like ok buddy, if it makes you feel better to point that out. You could have just made him Chinese, I wouldn't have cared. Then you killed him off, so I'm not exactly sure what your aim was?)

Foreigners tend to be portrayed as super arrogant and anti-Chinese. I'm not saying there aren't people like that, and I don't want to downplay the discrimination that people face. But it can't be healthy to think that the entire country of Switzerland doesn't like Chinese people. My man, I promise, the people of that country have better things to do than sit around eating chocolate and saying "f*ck the Chinese!" They are not thinking about you that much.

I've seen way worse though, so you can definitely ignore it.

There are at least 2 other people who had the USB Drive before him. The one before him was responsible for the formation of the World Government. He pulled out a Quantum Computer for them that only predicts future disasters. The World Government was formed around the Quantum Computer to prevent the world from getting destroyed. Which almost happened twice since the beginning of the story.

The MC is the 3rd holder of the USB Drive. The 2nd holder turned himself into a metaphysical existence that wanted to take over the consciousness of the whoever the next holder is.
He found out some secret about the USB Drive and got scared as f*ck of the 1st holder. So he tried to hide himself from the 1st holder with this method. He was the one who put the horror movies at the beginning of the story into the USB Drive. Had the MC opened those movies first, the 2nd holder would have succeeded.

The 1st holder was revealed to be the Professor who gave the lecture when the MC found the USB Drive. The MC speculates that it was way too much of a coincidence that it was him of all people that found it. And he was chosen by the Professor for some reason to be the 3rd holder.

The USB Drive itself holds some strange secret. It wasn't always in the form of a USB Drive. Since USB was invented around 1994. The USB Drive can change shape, the reason is unknown.

Places the USB Drive accepts have to be scientifically possible. What falls under "scientifically possible" is up to the author. The movies he chose are understandable.
Another requirement is that the world background has to be detailed enough. The MC tried once a movie, but he couldn't open it. So he put the sequels and TV series into it, and then it was accepted.
It is also hinted that it could be any piece of literature like books or games.

The first feature is that stuff can be copied from movies. To get stuff out of the USB drive requires electricity of equal amount. Something small like pills doesn't require much power. But something big like a car needs a huge amount of electricity to copy.

The second feature is that it can open a portal to the specified world. The MC finds it very strange that the worlds he goes to are always destroyed or wiped out. Even though in the movies there wasn't a hint of something apocalyptic going on.
For example "Ready Player One". When he goes there to get VR technology he finds out that everyone is dead.
Another example is "Elysium" where he gets the MedPod 3000 that can heal every type of injury. He finds out that everyone is dead and only giant piles of bones remain.

The third and hidden feature is that the movies he opens affect reality. He once experimented with making movies himself and accessing the world. He financed a movie where someone made the lesser version of the "Limitless" drug that could cure Alzheimer's. The background was Earth a couple of years into the future, the fictional company and researcher who invented the drug turned up in reality in the same year the movie played out.
Another one was the same disaster that wiped out Elysium turned up on Earth and almost killed everyone if the MC hadn't intervened.