I'm gonna read a book because I'm smart like that and all
>>13017256What book?
>>13017264Your dad's diary
>>13017256read a visual novel like grisaia no kajitsu you'd enjoy it more than a bookYour fortune: Excellent Luck
>>13017515Nah tgat's gay
Read Infinite Jest
>>13017256I recently bought a book after a year of complaining and i still haven't even read the first page...So much more smerter than me..
>>13017518reading books is a more effeminate hobby than playing visual novels you knowYour fortune: Very Bad Luck
>>13017256I bet it has pop up pictures in it
>read book>feel unmoved>"d-doesn't count"is this what being smart feels like?Your fortune: Reply hazy, try again
Read Mein Kampf
Actually, if you read books because you think that makes you smart, you're dumb. You fell for a meme, that's all you achieved. It was probably true at one time though. It's like with utorrent, at one point it was good, smart people used it. Then it got adware, dumb people started using it because they finally got word of how good it was. The only problem was that it was shit at that point, and all the smart people had already moved on.
>>13017553It's poorly written /pol/slop
>>13017560No actually I read for fun because I'm smart like tgat
>>13017566forgot pic fucckkxk
>>13017519lol
>>13017515>read>vnpick one.>>13017519Overrated verbosity.>>13017521What book?>>13017525Every single man you would consider masculine has read a book, but most of them haven't played a VN.>>13017552What is this supposed to mean?>>13017560Reading causes increased cognition above day to day baseline, which is correlated with better cognitive performance.
>>13017571>Reading causes increased cognitionAnything does. You're just stating mumbo-jumbo to justify your preexisting belief.
>>13017571>Overrated verbosityt. never read itquoting an illiteralelateYour fortune: Average Luck
>>13017571>masculine men readim referring strictly to fiction here, people only read books back when there was nothing better to doThere are no masculine boys staying indoors all day reading fiction books like some girls do, its extemely effeminate
>>13017576Not really, if you read more carefully you would have understood that the point wasn't "reading causes increased cognition" but that "reading is correlated with better cognitive performance", the part about increased cognition was as an effect caused by reading.>>13017580I've read it, don't know what to tell you, different folks, different strokes.
>>13017586>reading is correlated with better cognitive performanceAs opposed to sitting in your couch doing nothing? And you think that proves something? If you want to prove that reading is a productive intellectual activity you have to compare it with other intellectual activities.
>>13017571The examiner by janice hIts a random murder flickOriginally wanted to get the silent patient but i couldnt find it in the bookstore i was in loleThe formatting from the skimming i did does remind me of fanfiction though...
>>13017586if you read it tell me why Hal stopped being able to control his facial musclesYour fortune: Good Luck
>>13017591Yes, as opposed to habits that require less cognitive effort.If, for example, you solve math problems instead of reading, I would assume a similar cognitive benefit.I was not putting reading above all other activities that require one to use their mind, I was simply making a counter argument to your initial statement that reading books has no intellectual/cognitive benefits.
>>13017256Manga doesn't count as "reading a book"
>>13017597No idea, I read it years ago.The only part that really stuck to me is the scene with the B&E at the Judge's house, and that's probably only because I have chronic sinus inflammation.
>>13017597moldBlackberryC take note
>>13017606>Yes, as opposed to habits that require less cognitive effort.So you proved absolutely nothing. All you're saying is that if you make a cognitive effort you get better at something. Hurr durr. That's called learning. Yet you conflate this with the meme that reading makes you smart. Whatever it is you're doing, it's not smart or scientific, it's just cognitive bias + coping mechanisms.
>>13017256yeah
>>13017636Yeah!Your fortune: Very Bad Luck
>>13017635Did you read the rest of my post?Because if you did and still didn't understand, maybe you should pick up a book and work on your reading comprehension.
>>13017649>Your fortune: Very Bad Luckoops let's try that againYour fortune: Godly Luck
>>13017650I did, yes. Thank you. You should take your own advice though. Try reading my first post and see if you can figure out where your reading comprehension failed you.
>>13017662I've rather have a hamster fart on my head than read that twaddle a second time mate
>>13017662If one were to only look at the first sentence, it would seem you were making a point about vanity.But then you elaborated on that sentence with an analogy to utorrent, making your entire point be about the usefulness of reading books with respect to cognition/intellect.
>>13017672Retards gonna retard.
>>13017677 I guess you didn't understand the analogy. My point is that smart people have already moved on from books, just like with utorrent. There are more effective things you can use. Dumb people rely on word of mouth, that sort of thing instead of being able to judge the value of something on their own, and so they're still on old outdated information.
>>13017682how tall are you
>>13017683Tall enough.
>>13017686for me to poop on!
>>13017256why?*sip*why anon?why must you play with my emotions?do you honestly read BOOKS???really????https://ia800609.us.archive.org/25/items/political-ponerology-full-text/Political_Ponerology_Full_Text.pdf*sip*reading books can cause you to become ./ dead/ so muerte.please reconsider your life choices.Your fortune: ｷﾀ━━━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━━━ !!!!
>>13017682Your analogy was about effectiveness.While with technology the effectiveness of an older program can decrease in the face of newer protocols and algorithms, the effectiveness of reading is not subject to such diminishment, even in the face of, allegedly, more effective methods.
>>13017708 How so? You think reading is already the peak of learning? lol
>>13017611>>13017616you guys are okthe language in infinite jest is as complex as it needs to be, and it's not overrated by anyone but literary critics that no one listens toit's genuinely an extremely good book that deserves its praisegod bless
>>13017256books reverse goycattle training.Your fortune: Average Luck
>>13017911books are a media that are at the whim of publishers just like any other medium. the only roadblock that isn't an issue is advertising like with television, online media, and to some extent, film. but I don't think the lack of that roadblock means the ideas from a book are more "pure" or that there's some universal narrative separate from other media.
>>13017920nice dubs*
>>13017911lol this guy
>>13017920>>13017925assuming you dont have trash taste and buy whatever is sold in the windows of shops, any book will be better in storytelling versus a game or show or whatever, just as poetry in art. just read something that will enrich your view of the world. there should be no more of this stigma against reading... i will never understand why people think you need to be an intellectual to enjoy a good book.
>>13017931pomagranate
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>>13017936what waht huhu lol what
>>13017933pomegranite*
>>13017931it's as good a vehicle for social conditioning as any other artform
>>13017945i think a lot of people who aren't socially conditioned read books for better reasons than trying to fit in...
>>13017762THANK you
